Editor's Foreword (Issue III)

The third issue of the students’ journal contains 9 articles and 1 translation. 

In the article “How Emotions Affect Code-switching“, Aisel Ismailova explores how emotions affect code-switching among bilingual and multilingual speakers. The author’s research presents interesting findings and highlights the connection between strong emotions and code-switching.

Gender issues are interestingly discussed in the article “The Linguistic Analysis of Gender Stereotypes in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Short Story“The Yellow Wallpaper“ by Mariam Dodashvili and Anna Barateli. Focusing on the selected passages from the text, it analyses modality, lexical choices, transitivity patterns, hedging and narrative structure. The authors state that Gilman’s narrative "not only reflects the limitations imposed on women in patriarchal society“ but  also shows how deeply gender stereotypes are embedded in the text’s linguistic structure.

Lana Giorgadze’s article “Slang and Code-switching as Generational Practices: A Study of Gen Z and Gen Alpha in Georgia“ aims at examining the frequency and patterns of English slang and code-switching in contemporary Georgian youth communication. The study is based on qualitative and quantitave analysis of data. It has demonstrated that slang and code-switching are not random phenomena, on the contrary, they are resources through which young speakers negotiate social relationships and construct identities in a digital environment.  

In the article “The Role of Praise and Encouragement in Constructing Legitimate English use in Online English Learning in Georgia“, Nino Papunashvili has revealed two distinct learner attitudes toward praise. Some learners perceive it as motivational, while the others perceive it as odd or unclear without constructing guidance. The results of the research reveal that effective praise in online learning should be balanced including both emotional support and clear pedagogical intention.

Ani Parastashvili’s article “Concept of Emotions in Georgian Lexicography: Challenges and Approaches“ examines the challenges of defining emotions in dictionaties. The study examins dictionary entries for different emotion terms: ბედნიერება (happiness), სევდა (sadness), შიში (fear), ბრაზი (anger), გაკვირვება (surprise), ზიზღი (disgust), სიყვარული (love) და სიძულვილი (hate) taken from the Explanatory dictionary of the Georgian Language edited by Arnold Chikobava. The research revealed that the dictionary employs flexible definitional strategies. Each definition adapts to the semantic properties of each emotion, they often employ synonyms, intensity qualifiers, causal triggers, literary examples and phraseological units.

The article “Who is Afraid of the Big Grey Wolf?: Publicity and Theatricalisation of Death in 19th-Century Anglo-American Prose“ by Luka Pochkhidze explores the representation of death as a public performance and a theatrical act in 19th-century Anglo-American prose. The focus of the study is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "The Scarlet Letter“, Herman Melville’s "Mobby-Dick“ and James Fenimore Cooper’s "The Last of the Mohicans“.  The paper argues that “scaffold, the ocean and the wilderness function as specific theatrical stages for ultimate existential exposure.“

Elene Jivalagovi, in her article "Bridging the Pragmatic Gap: Represeting Georgian Discourse Markers in Lexicographic Resources.“, examines How Georgian discourse markers are represented in online dictionaries, focusing on one monolingual Georgian explanatory dictionary and one bilingual Georgian-Russian dictionary.

Anna Barateli’s article "Comparative Stylistic Analysis of the "Burnt Heart“ as National Allegory in Niko Lortkipanidze’s Miniature "The Heart“ and its English Translation“ discusses how different linguistic, stylistic and syntactic devices contribute to the creation of allegorical meaning. The analysis demonstrates that Lortkipanidze’s miniature encompasses universal human grief and values.

The article “How Teachers in Georgia Use Language to Encourage Students in Online Language Classes: A Close Examination of Feedback, Discourse, and Participation“ by Liza Khasaia examines how different forms of feedback, both corrective and encouraging, as well as carefully designed questions, influence students’ motivation and willingess to participate.

The third issue of the journal also contains Lika Guruli’s translation of „Rapunzel“.

 

Nato Peradze,

Editor-in-Chief