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Beyond Philology BEYOND PHILOLOGY AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS, LITERARY STUDIES AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING 10 WYDAWNICTWO UNIWERSYTETU GDAŃSKIEGO GDAŃSK 2013 EDITORS Joanna Burzyńska-Sylwestrzak Danuta Stanulewicz SECTION EDITORS Linguistics: Olga Sokołowska Literary Studies, Culture: Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim Translation: Wojciech Kubiński Language Acquisition, Academic Teaching: Tadeusz Danilewicz Reviews, Reports, Interviews: Jadwiga Węgrodzka PROOFREADERS Martin Blaszk Jean Ward Tadeusz Z. Wolański The Editors and Proofreaders are all affiliated with the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Gdańsk, Poland. ABSTRACT TRANSLATOR Barbara Brzezicka (Institute of Romance Philology, University of Gdańsk) COVER DESIGN Andrzej Taranek COMPUTER-AIDED COMPOSITION Danuta Stanulewicz Izabela Żochowska ISSN 1732-1220 © Copyright by Uniwersytet Gdański Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego Contact address Institute of English and American Studies University of Gdańsk ul. Wita Stwosza 55 80-952 Gdańsk Poland Phone: (+48) 58 523 25 50 Fax: (+48) 58 523 25 13 Email: [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITORIAL BOARD Janusz Arabski (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland) Marta Bogdanowicz (University of Gdańsk, Poland) Ewa Dąbrowska (Northumbria University, Newcastle, U.K.) Desmond Graham (University of Newcastle, U.K.) Zoltán Kövecses (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary) Ronald W. Langacker (University of California at San Diego, U.S.A.) Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (University of Łódź, Poland) Jerzy Limon (University of Gdańsk, Poland) Irene Gilsenan Nordin (Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden) David Malcolm (University of Gdańsk, Poland) Elżbieta H. Oleksy (University of Łódź, Poland) Adam Pasicki (Pedagogical University of Kraków, Poland) Piotr Ruszkiewicz (Pedagogical University of Kraków, Poland) Bogdan Szymanek (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) Ryszard Wenzel (Akademia Polonijna, Częstochowa, Poland) Marta Wiszniowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland) BOARD OF REVIEWERS Frank Cioffi (Baruch College, City University of New York, U.S.A.) Roman Kalisz (Wyższa Szkoła Języków Obcych, Świecie, Poland) Aleksandra Kędzierska (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland) Marzenna Mioduszewska (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain) Grzegorz Moroz (University of Białystok, Poland) Kazimierz Sroka (Polonia University in Częstochowa, Poland) Krystyna Stamirowska (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) Yuri Stulov (Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus) Kamila Turewicz (University of Humanities and Economics in Lodz, Poland) Tomasz Warchoł (Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, U.S.A.) Beyond Philology is published in print and online (<http://www.fil.ug.gda.pl/ pl/instytuty--anglistyki_i_amerykanistyki--beyond_philology/>). The online version is primary. Beyond Philology is indexed by The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (CEJSH) (<http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl>) Index Copernicus (<http://www.indexcopernicus.com>) MLA International Bibliography BEYOND PHILOLOGY 10 CONTENTS LINGUISTICS Natural Neogrammarians and poussière linguistique MAŁGORZATA HAŁADEWICZ-GRZELAK 9 The concept of anti-globalisation as an object of modern discourse analysis IRYNA NEDAINOVA 39 Generic space revisited: A cognitive-pragmatic analysis of the conceptual structure in Cars 1 JOANNA REDZIMSKA 59 Systems of symbolic representations of English sounds 2: Systems of phonetic symbols LUCYNA RYNDAK 75 LITERARY STUDIES Studying Pynchonʼs horology: Orthogonal time and Luddite sorrow in Mason & Dixon ARKADIUSZ MISZTAL 115 The deity against the human: The image of God in novels by Philip K. Dick ANNA MOJSIEWICZ 129 CULTURE Edith Craig (1869-1947): Maverick Stage Pioneer SEÁN MORAN 157 ACADEMIC TEACHING Learning design of a blended course in technical writing IWONA MOKWA-TARNOWSKA 183 REVIEWS Idee religijne w literaturze fantasy: Studium fenomenologiczne [Religious Ideas in Fantasy Literature: A Phenomenological Study] by Jolanta Łaba KAROL CHOJNOWSKI 213 Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion…so Far by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs KAMIL KARAŚ 225 REPORTS The International Conference “Success in Glottodidactics”, Warsaw 2013 OLGA ALEKSANDROWSKA 235 Aspects of Irish Heritage: The National Print Museum / An Músaem Náisiúnta Cló ANNA CISŁO 251 Progress in Colour Studies, Glasgow 2012 EWA KOMOROWSKA and DANUTA STANULEWICZ 259 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS 271 LINGUISTICS Beyond Philology No. 10, 2013 ISSN 1732-1220 Natural Neogrammarians and poussière linguistique MAŁGORZATA HAŁADEWICZ-GRZELAK Abstract There seems to be a rift between historiographic studies on phono- logy and phonological studies per se as far as paradigm transmission is concerned. In particular, it seems that from a historiographic and historical linguistics perspective, the scholarly merit of Neogram- marians is indisputable and self-evident (cf. e.g. Wilbur 1975; Koerner 1989); however, contemporary phonology has practically managed completely to exorcise even the name Neogrammarian from its agenda and all the phonological merit of the school has sub- sequently been denied. The paper aims to counter and reach beyond this widespread criticism of the Neogrammarian school, showing affinities with the European version of structuralism and with Natural Phonology as a Neogrammarian base upon which sub- sequent schools have constructed their paradigms. The term poussière linguistique serves as a lantern for a guided tour of Neogrammarian achievements. It is used in two ways. The first is as was intended by de Saussure, implying those elements which are no longer active in a given synchronic state, and the other is metaphoric usage, building somewhat on the Saussurean idea, implying a ten- dency to situate Neogrammarian achievements as inactive and irrelevant for contemporary linguistics. The basis for the discussion includes elaborations by Bynon (1996), Jankowsky (1972), Bouissac (2010), Percival (1981, 2011) and Jakobson and Koerner (1999), via which I point to misapprehensions about Neogrammarian achieve- ments. 10 Beyond Philology 10 Key words Neogrammarians, natural phonology, structuralism, paradigm change, poussière linguistique Les néogrammairiens naturels et la « poussière linguistique » Résumé Il paraît qu’en ce qui concerne la transmission du paradigme, il y ait une fissure entre les études historiographiques sur la phonologie et les études phonologiques per se. Il semble en particulier que selon la perspective de l’historiographie et de la linguistique historique, le mérite académique des néogrammairiens est indisputable et évident (cf. par exemple, Wilbur 1975; Koerner 1989). La phonologie contemporaine a pourtant réussi d’éradiquer même le terme néo- grammairien de son agenda et par la suite, tout le mérite phonologique de l’école a été nié. Le présent article a pour but de contrer et de dépasser le criticisme répandu de l’école néogrammairienne, en montrant ses affinités avec la version européenne du structuralisme et avec la phonologie naturelle vue comme une base néogrammairienne sur laquelle les écoles suivantes ont construit leurs paradigmes. Le terme de la « poussière linguistique » sert de lanterne pour la visite guidée des accomplisse- ments des néogrammairiens. Il est utilisé de deux façons. La première façon est celle qu’a entendue de Saussure, désignant tous les éléments qui ne sont plus actifs dans un certain système synchronique. La seconde, c’est son usage métaphorique, construit en quelque sorte sur l’idée saussurienne, qui implique la tendance de percevoir les accomplissements des néogrammairiens comme inactifs et sans pertinence pour la linguistique contemporaine. La base de cette discussion comporte les travaux de Bynon (1996), Jankowsky (1972), Bouissac (2010), Percival (1981, 2011) et de Jakobson et Koerner (1999), à travers lesquels je montre les malentendus sur les accomplissements des néogrammairiens. Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak: Natural Neogrammarians… 11 Mots-clés néogrammairiens, phonologie naturelle, structuralisme, changement de paradigme, poussière linguistique 1. Background1 In the words of Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (2001-2002: 15), “[a]ny view that one expresses and signs his or her name underneath is bound to be ‘personal’”. Following in these footsteps, I pro- pose a personal backstage retrospective of some of Neo- grammarian achievements. Although the paper is primarily a study in defense of Neogrammarian achievements, under- taken with the help of the concept linguistic dust, its main contribution lies in a broader frame and that is taking a general view on the evolutionary and revolutionary nature of linguistic paradigms in the course of language development as such.2 To analytically capture the said dichotomy between 1 All translations in the paper from Russian, Spanish, Polish and French are mine, MHG. The paper is part of a larger project, surveying the Neogrammarian linguistic scene of the late 19th century (e.g. Haładewicz- Grzelak forthcoming 2014a and 2014b). A recurring reference Jakobson (1973) is in fact a collection of Roman Jakobson’s papers from the 1950s and 1970s (French edition). Jakobson (1971) is an English version of the paper which appeared in Polish in Biuletyn Polskiego Towarzystwa Języko- znawczego in 1960. 2 According to Pociechina, the concept of the scientific paradigm became widespread in the second half of the 20th century: “Во второй половине XX века широкое распространение получило понятие н а у ч н о й парадигмы, которое восходит к античной
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