Philologia
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Philologia is a peer-reviewed academic journal established by scholars at Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, in 2003. The journal welcomes articles, critical and theoretical essays, empirically-based analyses, book reviews, conference reports and translations related to the studies of language, linguistics, applied linguistics, literature, culture, translatology, social science. Various subfields of the said sciences may also be analyzed.
All papers are evaluated in a double-blind fashion by two external reviewers who are experts in the relevant field. The contributions are required to be solidly anchored in theory and methodology (qualitative or quantitative). They may be of interdisciplinary nature.
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- Herculean Ambivalence in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great
- Marlowe, the author of the Tamburlaine Plays, is hardly an elegist, but these plays can certainly be regarded as his critical examination of the Herculean mind, and a warning against the nascent colonialism. Although many critics observe that Tamburlaine dies a natural death, i.e. suffers no retribution, Marlowe makes it prophetically clear that the price to be paid for military omnipotence and colonial success is loss of the soul – the fate of Dr. Faustus, and of all Marlowe’s tragic heroes. Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, a prototype of the Renaissance heroic ideal, has been frequently identified with Seneca’s Hercules. However, I do not believe that Marlowe was interested in merely adding another example to the tradition of the Renaissance Heroic Man. His main interest was not to endorse but to explore and problematize that tradition: male virtue that depends on cruelty towards the weak ones is critically examined here. Thus these plays can certainly be regarded as Marlowe’s critical examination of the Herculean mind, and a warning against the nascent colonialism. Although many critics observe that Tamburlaine dies a natural death, i.e. suffers no retribution, Marlowe makes it prophetically clear that the price to be paid for military omnipotence and colonial success is loss of the soul – the fate of Dr. Faustus, and of all Marlowe’s tragic heroes.
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- Honesty vs Greed, Macca vs Mucca
- Feminists have long condemned the trivialisation and sexualisation of women in British newspapers but have perhaps focused too little on what sometimes appears to be a veritable demonisation of high-profile women. For example, the death of Amy Winehouse in summer 2011 seems prima facie not entirely unrelated to the years of vilification she was subjected to, especially in The Sun. This study therefore conducts a comparative examination into the Othering of Heather Mills, ex-wife of Paul McCartney, in parallel articles from The Sun and The Guardian. To produce a multilayered linguistic analysis we employ a range of functional-grammatical tools: transitivity to compare the roles allotted to Mills and McCartney; nomination to see how they are named; categorisation regarding the stereotypes with which they are associated; and appraisement to show whether they are depicted positively or negatively. The results suggest that there is a serious imbalance in the portrayal of these two celebrities. We ask why this might be. Is Mills that monstrous, McCartney that angelic? Or is it that a divorce scenario, pitting hero against villain, provides a perfect vehicle for indirect dissemination of the newspaper’s ideology and the expression of a pre-existing message?
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- How to Help Learners to Improve their English Pronunciation. What Rioplatense Spanish Speaking EFL Teachers Need to Know.
- We cannot deny the need for teaching pronunciation in EFL courses. Still, there is much discussion as regards whether to include phonetics and phonology in the EFL primary and secondary classrooms. The issue seems to be not whether to teach pronunciation, or what to teach, but rather how to teach it. From my teaching experience of over 40 years, I can claim that teachers need to have the expertise in the subject and the methodology knowledge that enable them to choose adequate strategies. This implies having knowledge of the phonological systems of both their L1 (in this case, Rioplatense Spanish) and the English accent they are expected to teach, together with the skills to activate in learners “new ways of thinking about or conceptualizing words and sentences in the new language” (Fraser 1999: 5). In this work I will compare both phonological systems and comment on some useful strategies that can be implemented to help students develop phonological concepts that can foster improvement of their English pronunciation.
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- Human Condition in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
- The purpose of this paper is to highlight, through a comprehensive psychological and sociological analysis of characters in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, how roles, rules, habits, and routines, imposed either externally or internally, ultimately take the better of us, making our lives empty and superficial. Ishiguro’s characters – parentless clones with a “higher” purpose in life, stand as perfect examples of how easy it is to forget what human existence is all about, how easy it is to sink into the bottomless sea of human tragedy, or, as Ishiguro himself once put it – “the sadness of the human condition”. The paper utilizes john Dewey’s Human Nature and Conduct, and the so-called “role theory”, to argue social role versus private life, passivity and suppression of feelings, while trying to provide answers to the key questions: why don’t the clones rebel and why can’t they be human.
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- Hybridity in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians
- In the colonial world, the dividing line between the space of the oppressor and that of the oppressed is clearly visible. In such a setting, there is at times emergence of a no man’s land inhabited by hybrids. This paper investigates the possibilities of an ongoing hybridisation process in j. M. Coetzee’s 1980 novel Waiting for the Barbarians. It gives an overview of the definitions and the use of the term hybrid and presents the possible application of such a term to the Magistrate’s character in the aforementioned novel. Different questionable and ambiguous aspects of the character’s behaviour are taken into consideration, and the conclusion is reached that these indicate that by the end of the novel there are doubtless signs of hybridity in the Magistrate’s character.