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Volume 9, Issue 1 - 2021 · ISSN 2534-9538 112 s. S L, 5 C FLT ISSN 2534-9538 Konstan n Preslavsky Universi of Shumen Department of English Studies Studies in Linguistics, Culture and FLT Volume 9, Issue 1 - 2021 Discourses of Change: Language and Literature Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen Department of English Studies This first issue of the ninth volume of Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT is the end result of the work of the Department of English Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen. Editorial Board*: Editor-in-chief: Prof. Roumyana Todorova, PhD (Bulgaria) Co-Editor-in-chief: Assoc. Prof. Desislava Cheshmedzhieva-Stoycheva, PhD (Bulgaria), Editors: Assoc. Prof. Carol Griffiths, PhD (UK), Prof. Dr. Habil. Anna Bączkowska (Poland), Prof. Peter Gärdenfors (Sweden), Prof. Dr. el-Sayed el-Aswad (USA), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Z. Atayurt-Fenge (Turkey), Assoc. Prof. Irina Ivanova, PhD (Bulgaria), Prof. Dr. Birsen Tütünis (Turkey), Prof. Dr. Habil Berrin Aksoy (Turkey), Prof. D. Litt. Maya Pencheva (Bulgaria), Joanna Mikosz, PhD (Poland), Assist. Prof. Mira Bekar, PhD (The Republic of North Macedonia) SILC is indexed and watched by EBSCO, Directory of Open Access Journals, Scribd, GoogleScholar, Directory of Research Journals Indexing (DRJI), ROAD – Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources, RINZ, MLA Directory of Periodicals, MLA International Bibliography, Dimensions, National Centre for Information and Documentataion (ID 2775), ResearchBib, Mendeley, and MIAR. 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Contents PREFACE .......................................................................................................5 FEATURE: A GENOLOGICAL DRAFT Natalia Kowalska-Elkader .............................................................................7 TRANSLATORS’ DILEMMAS IN TRANSLATING POETRY: THE CASE OF GANE TODOROVSKI’S POETRY IN ENGLISH Silvana Neshkovska, Sonja Kitanovska-Kimovska, Daniela Andonovska-Trajkovska .................................................................. 21 ANOREXIA MIRABILIS DECODED: REREADING FEMALE CORPOREAL CONSUMPTION IN DICKENS’S ANGELIC DAUGHTERS Hristo Boev ..................................................................................................40 RESEARCH METHODS IN LINGUISTICS: AN OVERVIEW Snejana Obeyd .............................................................................................54 TO DISTORT OR NOT TO DISTORT: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BRITISH AND BULGARIAN MEDIA DISCOURSE REPRESENTATIONS OF FIRE DISASTERS Ivaylo Gorchev .............................................................................................83 Discourses of Change: Language and Literature 5 PREFACE This first issue of volume 9 of Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT titled “Discourses of Change: Language and Literature” encompasses five papers dealing with different aspects of language, comparative linguistics, literature, and journalism. The issue opens up with a paper on a very specific genre in journalism, i.e. the feature, or artistic radio documentary. Using literary analysis and criticism as well as structural analysis, Natalia Kowalska-Elkader provides a review of the origin of this genre, its subgenres according to their structure and used sound materials. The first more theoretical part of her study is followed by presentations of the various types of feature according to the type of fiction or form. The author offers her own classification distinguishing eight different types of modern drama on the basis of various Polish and foreign radio works to exemplify them. The issue continues with a paper on the translator’s dilemmas in translating poetry. Silvana Neshkovska, Sonja Kitanovska-Kimovska, and Daniela Andonovska-Trajkovska analyse two poems by the Macedonian poet Gane Todorovski and their translation equivalents in English. The main focus of analysis is on specific poetic features such as rhyme, rhythm, sound, tropes, word choice and word order and the way they have been handled in translation. The conclusion reached is that the translators have done their best to retain the meaning and the general ideas as well as the rhythm of the original text, however, due to Gane Todorovski’s specific style some losses were inevitable. In “Anorexia Mirabilis Decoded: Rereading Female Corporeal Consumption in Dickens’s Angelic Daughters” Hristo Boev reviews three of Dickens’s novels, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield and Little Dorrit, in order to challenge the claims made by some feminists that women in Dickens are sacrificed at the expense of men. In his analysis the author compares the texts of the three novels with information from newspapers of the period, medical studies and Victorian culture reviews and comes to the conclusion that Dickens’s angelic daughters employ various strategies in order to obtain the best husband for them and thus become a successful patriarchal woman. Snejana Obeyd provides an overview of the main research methods employed in the study of language. She focuses successively on qualitative, quantitative and mixed-method research describing their characteristics and consistently referring to scholars who have contributed to the formulation of the respective research paradigms. The author also presents some accounts of interesting applications of each of the reviewed approaches by academics from the Department of English Studies at Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen. 6 Studies in Linguistics, Culture and FLT - Volume 9, Issue 1. ISSN 2534-9538 The issue finishes with a paper by Ivaylo Gorchev, a PhD student, who applies a critical discourse analysis on two catastrophic man-caused events in the UK, i.e. the Grenfell Fire disaster, and in Bulgaria, the derailment of freight train in Hitrino, which happened in 2017 and 2016, respectively. The focus of the analysis is on objectivity of presenting the information. To that goal, public inquiries and press conferences are compared to the publications which subsequently appeared in the British and the Bulgarian media. Discourses of Change: Language and Literature 7 FEATURE: A GENOLOGICAL DRAFT Natalia Kowalska-Elkader Department of Journalism and Social Communication, Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz, Poland Abstract: The genre which is the basis of my research and the subject of analysis in this text is the feature, also called artistic radio documentary. The main aim of the article is to show the variety of features and the possible way to define and understand this genre. The first section describes the origins of this type of program and how it can be defined by European, Australian and American researchers. It also provides the genre pattern of feature divided into four aspects. Later in the text I describe subgenres of contemporary feature based on their structure and used sound materials. The second part of the text focuses on representations of these categories in Polish and foreign productions and tries to classify them according to the type of fiction applied or its form. The employed methods include literary analysis and criticism as well as some elements of structural analysis. The research questions I ask myself are related to the way of creating features, their form and its relation to the content. Keywords: feature, radio documentary, radio art, narration, radio genres __________________________ About the author: Natalia Kowalska-Elkader, Ph.D. is a radio researcher at the University of Lodz, Poland. Her research is focused on artistic radio and sound art. She is interested in the experimental form of audio art. She has published essays exploring feature genre and its subgenres. Author of two books about the radio feature Forma i treść. Polski i zagraniczny feature radiowy oraz jego odmiany gatunkowe (Łódź 2019) and about the experimental radio stories Historie eksperymentalne. Szkice o gatunkach radia artystycznego (Łódź 2020). Member of the European Communication Research and Education Association (Radio and Sound Section). Copyright © 2021 Natalia Kowalska-Elkader Article history: Received: 3 November 2020; Reviewed: 5 February 2021; Revised: 18 March 2021; Accepted: 21 March 2021; Published: 19 April 2021 This open access article is published and distributed under a Creative Commons At- tribution 4.0 International License. Citation (APA): Kowalska-Elkader, N. (2021). Feature: A genological draft. Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 9(1), 7-20. doi: 10.46687/SILC.2021.v09i01.001. 8 Studies in Linguistics, Culture and FLT - Volume 9, Issue 1. ISSN 2534-9538 The genre which is the basis of my research and the subject of analysis in this text is the feature. The first section describes the origins of this type of program and how it can be defined, and then the text focuses on representations of this category in Polish and foreign productions, and tries to classify it according to the type of fiction applied. The essence of the feature is the synthesis of the documentary truth, the perspective of the author