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Introduction: Translation and transformation in audiovisual and digital culture
Get PDFThe contributions to this volume of Digital Age in Semiotics and Communication deal with various translation phenomena such as intermediality, film adaptation, film colorization, remediation and various technospheric phenomena such as cinefication, audiovisual and digital mass culture, digital transformation, cyberspace, and digital image. The first group of articles shows that those phenomena are characteristics of a rich interesemiotic space. As Torop (2020: 269) states, “in intersemiotic space, the original text and all of its translations comprise a mental whole, which is all-encompassing for collective cultural memory and selective for every individual reader. In the context of culture, intersemiotic space is also a space of transmedial translation”. The new cultural texts (metatexts) resulting from intersemiosis is expected to carry additional connotations1, a characteristic of particular semiotic interest. The second group of articles reveals the advantages of the semiosphere of digital culture. As Bankov (2022: 26) highlights, “in digital culture, language is no longer the lord of semiotic phenomena; the latter is the communicative disposition of the culture holders. The language is there, together with an incredible variety of visual, audio, kinetic and other expressive forms”. A significant innovation is that other expressive forms could also be interactive.2 Τhis interaction seems to be the essential different characteristic in relation to the study of other cultural texts, an element that justifies the use of the term platfospehere in the context of the semiosphere.
A wailing wall in cyberspace: Loneliness, censorship, and collective memory – in memory of Dr. Li Wenliang, the whistle blower
Get PDFAs the whistle blower of the outbreak of Covid-19 in Wuhan, Dr. Li Wenliang was dismissed as the spreader of rumors and punished by the authorities. His later death from the coronavirus outraged the netizens in China on various social platforms. His post on Weibo, written by Dr. Li on the day he was finally diagnosed as infected, has thus become a wailing wall in cyberspace. It has invited millions of Weibo comments below, both from those who lost their loved ones in the outbreak and netizens in general. The post functions as a monument in cyberspace for people to commemorate the bereft in the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, the first place where Covid-19 was reported. Considering the transmediality of cyberspace of our modern times, the phenomenon of online mourning urges a semiotic explanation, especially when it concerns a figure who only became famous after his death. The study aims to conceptualize the dynamics of collective memory with the monument in cyberspace following the insights of Eco’s concept of “the open text”. The wailing wall in cyberspace functions as a mnemonic text for members of society, which interacts with the collective memory restored in the social sphere. Moreover, censorship also played an important role in the formation of the wailing wall. All these features are brought together to make the wailing wall in the cyberspace a unique spectacle in online culture, which paves the way for further discussions in the future
Rendering Ukrainian Historical Terminology of the Old Rus’ Period into English
No full textThe article presents a study that focuses on approaches to rendering Ukrainian historical terminology related to the Old Rus' period into English selected en masse from Ukrainian and English academic texts on history, with a special focus on culture-specific terminology. Historical terms for translation purposes are categorised into non-culture-specific historical terminology reflecting universal concepts of historical science, and culture-specific historical terminology. The purpose of the article is to determine specific methods for Ukrainian-English translation of historical terminology of the Old Rus' period. The paper discusses approaches and methods used by English-speaking academics to secondary term formation, taking place when rendering concepts denoting Ukrainian original culture-specific terminology into English. Different groups of historical terms are described with a special focus on onomastic terminology. It is demonstrated that the historical context should be taken into account for the correct designation of a historical concept. Non-culture-specific historical terminology is predominantly rendered by existing equivalents, which were formed through phonological adaptation and/or calque translation. The most appropriate technique for rendering culture-specific Ukrainian historical terminology is shown to be combined renomination, the method that uses both a transcription and a description of a historical concept
Views of Novice Pre-Service Teachers Towards the Use of L1 in the EFL Classroom
No full textThis study aimed to explore the views of pre-service teachers (freshman students) at English Language Teaching program at a state university in Turkey towards the use of L1 (mother tongue) in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms while also investigating their actual use of L1 during an extracurricular teaching event. It also aims to find out if there is a relationship between participants’ educational background in language learning, their views towards use of L1 and their actual use of L1. This study employed a qualitative approach by collecting data through semi-structured interviews and these interviews were supported with field notes taken by the researcher. The findings showed that ELT students mostly favored the use of L2 (target language) in the classroom and stated that it must be used as much as possible; however, some participants also stated that L1 could be used depending on the proficiency of students. The analysis of the interviews showed that there was no relationship between the participants’ actual use of L1 and their educational background for the participants. Finally, the study suggests some implications towards the ELT curriculum in line with the findings
Virtual sensor system for monitoring and detection of critical modes for the prevention of accidents in production
Get PDFMany enterprises with new and experimental processing plants use SCADA systems to control machinary, but these systems are not always complete, this is often due to financial or purely technological constraints or ignorance of the overall process at the time of its introduction. That is why the creation of a duplicative, elastic and scalable monitoring system for monitoring the operating parameters of heavy machines and processes significantly supports the work of the staff and their handling of tasks related to the planning repair activities, delivery of spare parts, avoidance of critical work modes leading to sudden catastrophic consequences and unexpected production shutdowns
Attempt to indirect perpetration
No full textThis article concerns issues about the responsibility of the indirect perpetrator when the crime has not been finished. First, the beginning of the phase of attempt to indirect perpetration crime is clarified. Second, the particularity of the two basic types of attempt – completed and uncompleted is analyzed. Finally, conclusion that the indirect perpetrator is not guilty of an attempt in case of voluntary abandonment of the effort to commit the crime or prevention of the crime from being committed, is made in order to distinguish the two basic types of attempt
On the right to difference and the obligation for tolerance
No full textThe exhibition analyzes values and legal categories such as tolerance, dignity, as well as the right to non-discrimination through the prism of international law, national law and the practice of the courts. Tolerance is consider as an obligation and differences as characteristics of the individuality of each human being, representing a defensible right
Constancy of the Court in the context of the current legislative amendments
No full textThis article is an attempt to interpret the proposals for amendments of the Judiciary Act, prepared by the Ministry of Justice, containing regulations related to the closure of Specialized Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Specialized Criminal Courts there. In particular, the study focuses on the regulation related to the completion of pending court proceedings of specialized courts, through the prism of strict compliance with the well-known principle of constancy of the court in penal procedures. The author’s aim is to provide a complex of arguments to prove the fundamental importance of the principles of the Bulgarian criminal process, as an important basis of knowledge for planning and assessing the quality of each legislative initiative