Browsing by Author "Creanga, Oxana"

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ASPECTS OF FOCALIZATION
(CEP USM, 2007) Creanga, Oxana
Conceptul de focalizare, ce desemnează perspectiva naratorului sau a personajului în textul narativ, constituie o sursă de investigare relativ controversată, fapt ce îşi găseşte reflectare nu doar în lipsa unui sistem bine definit de termeni (centru deictic, filtru, focalizator), dar şi în existenţa unui şir de tipologii ale focalizării axate pe diferite criterii. Articolul prezent constituie un studiu contrastiv al diferitelor teorii privind fenomenul focalizării în textul narativ. Sunt expuse opiniile lingviştilor notorii ce au contribuit la definirea conceptului de focalizare şi aplicarea sa ulterioară la analiza textuală. O deosebită atenţie se acordă mijloacelor lingvistice (elemente deictice, verbe de percepţie fizică şi mintală, expresii modale) şi aspectelor focalizării (perceptual, psihologic şi ideologic) care contribuie la identificarea agentului focalizator.
COHERENCE IN LITERARY NARRATIVES
(CEP USM, 2016-03-12) Creanga, Oxana
Coherence, as a basic standard of textuality, is achieved by text linguistic factors and compositional patterns. Drawing on an interdisciplinary approach that combines text linguistics, cognitive and narrative concerns, the article reviews the principles of text coherence, i.e. the standards of time, causality, thematic unity and continuity, and focuses on literary narratives characterized by various degrees of coherence. It explores the impact of narrative aspects and categories, such as temporal organization, frequency and plot completeness on the reader’s mental contribution in perceiving local and global coherence in the course of interpreting texts. Further exploiting the challenges to text coherence, it argues that establishing unity in literary texts relies on the receiver’s background knowledge, his or her ability to draw inferences, fill in ellipsis and retrieve contextually relevant information.
COHESION IN LITERARY NARRATIVES
(CEP USM, 2020) Creanga, Oxana
Cohesion, one of the main standards of textuality advanced by Robert de Beaugrande and Wolfgang U. Dressler, is treated in the present article as a constitutive principle of textual organization. The study aims at identifying the role of cohesive categories, i.e. reference, substitution, ellipsis, junction, and lexical cohesion to the thematic organization and logical structuring of literary narratives. Analyzing the actual manifestation of lexical and grammatical cohesion elements in specific narrative contexts, the article seeks to identify the cohesive devices that enhance or preclude the logical, coherent concatenation of a given literary text with a view to evaluating their impact on the general understanding and interpretation of the narrative.
CONSTITUIREA CENTRULUI DEICTIC LA NIVELUL EXTRADIEGETIC AL TEXTULUI FICŢIONAL
(CEP USM, 2014) Creanga, Oxana
Centrul deictic reprezintă un model lingvistic de analiză a perspectivei narative are subsumeaz ă trei dimensiuni structurale de bază – categoria persoanei, a spaţialităţii şi a temporalităţii şi se manifestă în cadrul modelului complex trinivelar al comunicării narative. Articolul prezint ă analiza mecanismelor de actualizare a centrului deictic la nivelul extradiegetic al discursului ficţional. Recunoaşterea indiciilor lingvistice de actualizare a constructului vizat ne permite să urmărim constituirea punctului de vedere al autorului în orice moment al derulării cadrului referenţial narativ, fapt ce contribuie la eficientizarea înţelegerii textului.
CRITERIAL ASPECTS OF FOCALIZATION
(CEP USM, 2022-03-25) Creanga, Oxana
Conceptul de focalizare, ce desemnează perspectiva naratorului sau a perso- najului în textul narativ, constituie o sursă de investigare relativ controversată, fapt ce îşi găseşte reflectarea nu doar în lipsa unui sistem bine definit de termeni (centru deictic, filtru, focalizator), dar şi în existenţa unui şir de tipologii ale focalizării axate pe diferite criterii. Articolul dat este dedicat studiului aspecte- lor focalizării (perceptual, psihologic şi ideologic) și mijloacelor lingvistice de desemnare a focalizării în textul narativ englez (elementele deictice, tipologia circumstanțialelor, raportul temă-remă, verbele de percepție vizuală, categoria modalității, tehnicile de reprezentare a discursului, registrul verbal etc.) care contribuie la identificarea agentului focalizator în procesul de interpretare tex- tuală.
DEPLASAREA CENTRULUI DEICTIC ÎN TEXTE CU FOCALIZARE VARIABILĂ
(CEP USM, 2014) Creanga, Oxana
În acest studiu am urmărit scopul de a îmbina rezultatele din domeniul naratologiei asupra focalizării şi a punctului de vedere cu cele din lingvistica cognitivă dedicate deplasării deictice pentru a dezvolta un model de analiză a perspectivei narative ce ar facilita înţelegerea şi interpretarea textului. Centrul deictic, un construct lingvistic de desemnare a perspectivei narative, axat pe trei dimensiuni structurale de bază – categoria persoanei, a spaţialităţii şi a temporalităţii – este analizat în cadrul focaliză rii variabile. Întrucât actualiz area acestui tip de perspectivă presupune existenţa mai multor focalizatori/centre deictice la nivelul acţiunii, se urmăreşte repertorierea mijloacelor lingvistice de semn alizare a deplasărilor deictice şi identificarea relaţiilor dintre multiplele centre deictice care se produc drept rezultat al acestor deplasări.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THEMATIC AND INFORMATION STRUCTURES IN ENGLISH LITERARY TEXTS
(CEP USM, 2021) Creanga, Oxana
The article addresses the topic of thematic and information structures of the message in the English literary texts and the effect these arrangements have upon the reader in the cognitive and aesthetic processes of text reception. The study draws on the mechanisms that explain how the sequencing of elements in the clause contribute to the flow of information and topic development in a paragraph as a unit of text analysis. It also analyzes various patterns of thematic and information structures and seeks to evaluate the function of marked and unmarked structures of the author’s thematic choice in a number of literary excerpts with a view to identifying the pragmatic effect of these arrangement patterns in English literary fiction.
FIGURAL NARRATIVE SITUATION IN FLASH FICTION
(Editura USM, 2024) Creanga, Oxana
The present essay explores figural narrative situation in contemporary flash fiction. Drawing on the analytical framework of narrative typology proposed by Franz K. Stanzel, and redefined by Manfred Jahn, which includes the first-person narrative, authorial narrative, and figural narrative, each characterized by specific features of involvement, distance, access to knowledge, voice, narrative perspective or focalization, etc., the essay investigates the underlying linguistic features and narrative techniques of actualization of the figural narrative situation. By delineating the specific narrative categories and rhetorical means in the flash story “Before/After” by M. McCluskey, the undertaken analysis aims to determine the innovative constituting principles of the figural narrative type in contemporary fictional prose, both at the discourse and story levels.
MEDIATION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
(CEP USM, 2020) Creanga, Oxana
The present paper approaches the concept of mediation in the context of teaching English as a foreign language. Drawing on the analysis of this language activity treated by notorious authors, such as Maria Stathopoulou, Brian North,and Enrica Piccardo, it focuses on a broader view of mediation presented in CEFR(2001) and subsequently developed in CEFR Companion Volume with New Descriptors (2018). The article pursues to determine the improvements brought to this concept, the new illustrat ive descriptor scales alongside the mediation strategies with a view to devising specific mediation tasks correlated with the three macro - groups of mediation activities: mediating texts, mediating concepts, and mediating communication aimed at developing l earners’ mediation skills.
PERCEPTION OF COHERENCE IN CONTEMPORARY SHORT FICTION
(CEP USM, 2015) Creanga, Oxana
Coherence is one of the basic structural and pragmatic principles of textual organization. Contemporary literary narratives display a range of strategies and narrative techniques that defy the canons of coherence and preclude the comprehension of the text. Drawing on an interdisciplinary approach that combines text linguistics, cognitive and narrative concerns, the study reviews the principles of text coherence, i.e. the standards of time, intention, goal, causality, thematic unity and continuity, and focuses on the levels, subtypes and degrees of coherence in the flash story “Haircut” by Lydia Copeland. It explores the impact of narrative aspects and categories, such as ach rony, fragmentariness, types of discourses, and narrative situation, on the reader’s mental contribution in perceiving local and global coherence in the course of interpreting the narrative. Finally, it argues that establishing coherence in flash texts relies on the receiver’s cooperativeness and narrative implicature, his/her background knowledge and ability to detect ellipsis, retrieve contextually relevant information, and draw inferences.
PRESENTATIONAL MODES IN LITERARY NARRATIVES
(CEP USM, 2020) Creanga, Oxana
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH ACTION RESEARCH
(Editura USM, 2024) Creanga, Oxana
Professional development through action research design is a method used by educators to improve teaching practices and enhance learning outcomes. It involves a cyclical process of identifying a problem or area for improvement, developing a plan of action, implementing interventions, collecting and analysing data, reflecting on the outcomes, and making adjustments based on findings. The present study defines action research, identifies areas to use it, assesses the key characteristics of it, and advances the steps in conducting and evaluating the design. Professional development through action research helps educators to take an active role in improving their teaching practice and fostering student success. It encourages a reflective and evidence-based approach to professional growth, ultimately leading to more effective teaching and enhanced learning experiences for students.
SOLVING TEXTUAL INCONSISTENCIES: A CASE STUDY OF COHERENCE IN THE SHORT STORY “CLAP HANDS, HERE COMES CHARLIE” BY BERYL BAINBRIDGE
(CEP USM, 2023) Creanga, Oxana
The present article deals with the concept of coherence as a pragmatically determined quality of text production and reception. It presents the analysis of coherence manifestation in the short story “Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie” by B. Bainbridge focusing on the structural and discoursal elements that preclude the unity of the narrative. It considers the peculiarities of the etic opening, the interference of the main line and subsidiary lines of the narrative, and the dramatic irony and their impact on the linear development of the narrative. In addition, the manifestations of different forms of discourse which function as markers of distinct narratorial or character viewpoints are commented on with a view to determining the reader’s degree of interpretative cooperation in completing the blanks and solving the indeterminacies.
TEXT LINGUISTICS AND NARRATOLOGY
(CEP USM, 2019) Creanga, Oxana
In search of a deeper understanding of elements underlying the formal organization of literary narratives and their impact on the textual meaning, the paper aims at correlating text linguistics to narratology. Based on the assumption that the literary narrative relies on the binary opposition of story vs. discourse, the paper seeks to elucidate how each of the seven standards of textuality,advanced by Robert de Beaugrande and Wolfgang U. Dressler,are autualized in literary texts by means of particular narratological concepts, such as fictional communicative situation, text architectonics, narrative perspective, the truth of the text world, implicitness, presentational modes etc. The revealed mutual dependence of the constitutive properties of literary texts on elements of textual content leads to a fine-grained linguistic analysis and interpretation of diverse aspects of textual organization and reception with a view to uncovering the overall meaning of the text .
USING THE CONCEPT OF CONSTRUAL TO ENHANCE STUDENTS’ UNDERSTANDING OF NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE
(CEP USM, 2018-10-26) Creanga, Oxana
Studiul dat poartă un caracter interdisciplinar ce combină rezultate din domeniul naratologiei, al gramaticii cognitive şi al pedagogiei stilisticii şi are drept scop elaborarea unui model de analiză a perspectivei narative în baza conceptului de construal/conceptualizare, pe larg utilizat în lingvistica cognitivă pentru a desemna capacitatea de a percepe, a înțelege, a interpreta și a reprezenta lingvistic lumea înconjurătoare. Utilizând aspectele conceptualizării la explicarea procesului de actualizare a perspectivei narative, în baza studiului textului literar axat pe dimensiunea lingvistică, obţinem o abordare integrativă și o analiză mai detaliată a categoriei vizate ce cuprinde atât nivelul conţinutului, cât şi cel discursiv, care, totodată, contribuie la dezvoltarea unei sensibilităţi a subiectivismului textual la studenţi în cadrul cursurilor universitare de analiză textuală.