The aim of this paper is to explore the aesthetics of multilingualism in film. We start with a discussion of translation strategy in several films and continue with two case studies based on Azur et Asmar (2006) by Michel Ocelot, on the one hand, and Nostalghia (1983) and Offret (1986) by Andrei Tarkovsky, on the other. Our analysis does not involve a comparison between the original dialogues o...

This study tested whether older speakers are ‘more dialectal’ than younger speakers, and whether men are more dialectal than women. Speech material from the Arjeplog dialect was used in a listening test and a set of durational measurements of preaspiration and VOT. In the listening test, unscripted monologues produced by 3 men and 3 women of an older generation, and 3 men and 3 women of a young...

In the 1790s, Scotsmen were involved in celebrations of French Revolution both Scotland and France. How far did those men, stemming mainly from elites, manage to relate with French? The article examines Bastille Day dinners given 1790 1792, international festivals organized by Jacobins harbour cities as well Thomas Muir’s welcome reception held Bordeaux 1797. Though look very dissimilar, each c...

This article examines the problem of using effective methods teaching grammatical aspect a second foreign language. It highlights importance skills and abilities for successful formation language communicative competence. is revealed that methodology grammar should be based on rational combination comparative communicative-cognitive approaches. The authors lay emphasis necessity relying first l...

Several studies exploring the sociology of news have identified and established a range factors that influence journalism shape media narratives. However, little has been known regarding narrative construction in English language broadcast India. Therefore, this study investigated relationship between (re)emerging right-wing nationalism television A qualitative thematic discourse analysis was c...

Abstract The urgent need to address the sustainability issues of Anthropocene requires a dialogue capable bridging different knowledge systems, values, and interests. This is considered one most crucial challenges in collaborative research approaches. With this research, we seek break with monologues by offering decolonising methodological approach that combines notion wisdom, communication the...

Danish stød is a syllable prosody, hitherto described as a kind of creaky voice with tonal side effects. One such is the well established, though not ubiquitous, abrupt lowering of F0 towards the end of the syllable. Eli Fischer-Jørgensen found, in the 1970s and 1980s, a difference also in the beginning of stressed syllables: F0 is higher in the beginning of syllables with stød. Confirming her ...

The development of a captioning system that supports the real-time understanding of monologue speech such as lectures and commentaries is required. In monologues, since a sentence tends to be long, each sentence is often displayed in multi lines on the screen. In the case, it is necessary to insert linefeeds into a text so that the text becomes easy to read. This paper proposes a rule-based tec...

The aim of the work to be reported here is to verify that pronunciation variety in German spontaneous speech appears in specific linguistic word categories (POS) while others are less affected. Additionally, the material (transliterations of spontaneous monologues of the RVG1-corpus [5]) allows a detailed view on pronunciation regarding the speakers' origin within the German-speaking regions an...