Browsing by Author "Teterina, Marina"

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    Analysis of the gender-conceptual structure in the modern anglo-american culture based on the cognitive metaphor "nature is woman" [Articol]
    (USARB, 2010) Teterina, Marina
    The article deals with the personification of Nature in modern English. The author attempted to carry out analysis of the cognitive metaphor Nature is Woman and the gender-conceptual structure in Anglo-American culture. Proceeding from the assumption that any personification is sexification that is cultural assumptions and beliefs underlie all kinds of personification, the writer claims that the concept of Nature comprises biological, social-cultural and psychological attributes pertaining to the feminine beginning which allows including the concept of Nature in the category of feminine gender and using ‘she’ as co-referring pronoun.
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    A comparative study of the gender in English and Romanian and its role in English teaching/learning [Articol]
    (USARB, 2012) Teterina, Marina
    The article analyses the category of gender in English and Romanian. Unusual, not motivated and even illogical use of the masculine, feminine or neuter gender in English is often related to personification, ‘upgrading’ or ‘downgrading’, as well as with generic ‘he’. In the English language, the use of the personal pronouns ‘he’ and ‘she’ with nouns denoting animals, plants or inanimate objects is more expressive than in Romanian. It is a more attention-attracting phenomenon creating a certain psychological effect and providing foregrounding. In Romanian, the gender of nouns is a morphological category; therefore, the use of the pronouns ‘he’ or ‘she’ with nouns denoting animals or things is a norm, without any deviation or connotative meanings. Although little attention is paid to the category of gender in traditional grammars of English, pragmatic and stylistic gender usage is a significant aspect of linguistic awareness and language teaching or learning.
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    Discourse analysis of the pragmatic usage of the pronoun SHE referring to A CAT [Articol]
    (USARB, 2012) Teterina, Marina
    In the article we show how the method of discourse analysis can be applied to examine pragmatic usage of the category of gender in English, its different connotative meanings. Unusual, not motivated and even illogical use of the masculine, feminine or neuter gender is often accounted for by personification, "upgrading" or "downgrading". In English, the use of the personal pronouns HE and SHE with nouns denoting animals, plants or inanimate objects is more expressive than in Romanian. It attracts reader’s attention, creates a certain psychological effect and provides foregrounding. Although little attention is paid to the category of gender in traditional grammars of English, pragmatic gender usage is an important aspect of linguistic awareness and language teaching or learning.
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    Personification or sexification of countries in English? [Articol]
    (USARB, 2012) Teterina, Marina; Crestianicov, Elena
    In the article, we analyze the metaphoric associations which are the basis for the personification of countries in English. We try to find out in what discourse types countries and cities are personalized. We identify the main factors which stand behind the use of she-reference with countries.
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    Politica demografică a ţarismului în Basarabia (ultimul sfert al sec. al XVIII-lea – prima jumătate a sec. al XIX-lea) [Articol]
    (USARB, 2016) Marşalcovschi, Teo-Teodor; Teterina, Marina
    The theme of the research has remained topical. Two opposite views have developed so far: the national historiography maintains that the tsarist carried a blamable demographic policy, whereas the tsarist and the soviet historical school emphasize the “progressive” character of the alterations in the domain. Approaching this phenomenon diachronically we ascertain an intensive colonization of Bugeac on account of the South Slavs, ethnic Turanian Gagauz, the Eastern Slavs and other nations. Romanians across the Prut were allowed to live in this region only for geopolitical reasons; for those settled in other counties there were special interdictions. Simultaneously, the oblasti and county administration was completed with officers from the internal gubernias of the Empire. Gradually, urban preponderant population was made of Russians and Ukrainians. This served as basis for the idea of the “multinational” structure of the territory between the Dniester and the Prut. Additionally, the impostor authorities permanently forged the demographic statistics disfavoring the native population component.
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    The use of gendered pronouns with animal referents in english [Articol]
    (USARB, 2012) Teterina, Marina
    Speakers and writers of English can choose whether to mark a high level of sentience in a nonhuman animal by selecting the human and gendered terms (he, she, who) rather than the inanimate and ungendered terms (it, which). This paper reports an investigation of the Anglo-American literature to explore the extent to which speakers and writers use gendered pronouns ‘he’ and ‘she’ where the antecedent is a nonhuman animal. We also attempt to identify pragmatic factors and metaphoric associations that trigger personalizing of animals in literature and everyday conversations.