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Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

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Guilt-Tripping in Gaslighting Discourse: From Self-Trust to “I’m Sorry”
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University / English Teachers' Association of Georgia, 2026) Purtseladze, Valeria
This study examines guilt-tripping as a pragmatic technique used in gaslighting discourse, emphasising how emotional responsibility is linguistically constructed and interpreted. The analysis employs Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson, 1986/95a; Wilson and Sperber, 2004; Carston & Powell, 2009), critical discourse analysis (Fairclough, 1989; Van Dijk, 2006; Maillat & Oswald, 2011), and perspectives from truth-conditional semantics (Vanderveken, 1990; Seuren, 1998; Nordquist, 2025). The empirical data include dialogue extracts from contemporary film and television, such as No One Would Tell (1996), Before I Go to Sleep (2014), Alice, Darling(2022), Resurrection (2022), Priscilla'(2023), and Fake (2024). A qualitative analysis of fifteen dialogue segments explores how explicitly encoded content interacts with pragmatically inferred meaning. The findings identify three types of guilt-tripping – speaker-referential, hearer-referential, and dual-referential – each representing distinct patterns of responsibility attribution. In all instances, guilt-tripping functions throughthe interaction of entailment and implicature, whereby ostensibly factual propositions serve as cognitive anchorsfor evaluative inferences. This mechanism facilitates the internalisation of responsibility while preservingplausible deniability. The study views guilt-tripping as a linguistically mediated and cognitively rooted strategy, enhancing research on manipulative discourse and providing a structured understanding of guilt induction in gaslighting.
A Linguistic Comparison of Wine Evaluation in Georgian and Western Technical Sheets
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University / English Teachers' Association of Georgia, 2026) Kuratishvili, Nino
This study explores how language shapes wine evaluation within the framework of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). It examines 100 technical sheets – 50 Georgian and 50 Western (American, French, Spanish, and Italian) – sampled from winery websites and online wine shops, focusing on how writers use word choice, repetition, and sentence structure to construct evaluative meaning. Although producers label these documents uniformly as technical sheets, the genre is realised in markedly different ways across the two sub-corpora. The analysis reveals clear differences in how evaluations are constructed. Writers in the Western corpus consistently integrate technical, sensorial, and market-oriented meanings into a stable, highly structured evaluative register. Georgian texts display a more variable pattern: some closely resemble Western descriptions, while others emphasise production-focused or more generic evaluative language. To account for this variability, the study introduces the concept of frame friction – competing evaluative logics that do not fully integrate into a cohesive system. From an ESP perspective, these findings point to uneven alignment with established evaluative norms, particularly in the use of conventionalised expressions and syntactic density, while also suggesting the potential for a corpus-informed wine descriptor lexicon reflecting both emerging patterns and existing variation.
The Conceptual Metaphor UNDERSTANDING/KNOWING IS HEARING in Georgian Language and Culture
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University / English Teachers' Association of Georgia, 2026) Nino Daraselia
This paper, which is part of the ongoing research, deals with one of the instantiations of the generic-level conceptual metaphor COGNITION IS PERCEPTION, namely, UNDERSTANDING/KNOWING IS HEARING in the Georgian language and culture (the issue almost unexplored in Georgian). In order to reveal the significance of the mentioned metaphor for the Georgian language community, intrafield (i.e., across sensory modalities) as well as transfield (i.e., across different domains) semantic extensions reflected in Georgian lexemes for the hearing modality were studied and compared with metonymic and metaphoric extensions linked to the vision and intellection domains. The research was conducted within the framework of cognitive linguistics, lexical semantics, cultural studies and Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. The results of the study show that for intrafield semantic extensions across sensory modalities in Georgian, the hearing modality is at the top of the hierarchy. Regarding patterns of transfield semantic extensions, alongside widely accepted image-schemas associated with hearing (hear>heed>understand>obey), Georgian lexical units tend to develop meanings of considering, getting the message, grasping the idea, believing, learning something, realizing and knowing. The paper argues that the importance of hearing to the Georgian language and culture stems from the primacy of musical and interpersonal intelligences within the community.
Mapping the Modernist Urban Chronotope in James Joyce’s Ulysses
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University / English Teachers' Association of Georgia, 2026) Tsurtsumia, Nino
In James Joyce’s modernist novel Ulysses, the city and consciousness merge into a single narrative syntax through the stream of consciousness: the protagonist’s physical movement through Dublin intertwines with his subjective associations, memories, and premonitions. The novel sharply reveals the ambivalence, labyrinthine structure, and internal constraints of urban space, which consistently challenge its characters. Dublin functions simultaneously as a concrete, historical city, a universal mythic space, and a medium for stream of consciousness narration, synthesising three distinct chronotopes. At least three temporal registers operate concurrently: subjective/epiphanic (Bloom’s consciousness), historical/colonial (British-ruled Ireland in 1904), and mythological/cyclical (Homeric parallels). For Joyce, the modernist city embodies dual symbolic significance: itis both a realm of decline and a site of potential salvation, juxtaposing mechanised urban life with mythic metamorphosis. The theoretical and methodological framework of the present study is grounded in Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope (Bakhtin, 1981), together with key contributions to literary urbanism by Edward Soja (Soja, 1996), Lieven Ameel (Ameel, 2017; 2023), Robert Alter (Alter, 2005), and Richard Lehan (Lehan, 1998).
The Individual-Society Conflict Between Modernism and Postmodernism (A Comparison of Oğuz Atay’s The Disconnected and Aka Morchiladze’s Santa Esperanza)
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University / English Teachers' Association of Georgia, 2026) Altun, Sudan
This study aims to examine the impact of modernism and postmodernism on the individual-society relationship and identity themes in Turkish and Georgian literature. Specifically, Oğuz Atay’s The Disconnected(1972) and Aka Morchiladze’s Santa Esperanza (2004) novels explore the individual’s conflict with social structures and their search for identity while employing modernist and postmodernist narrative techniques in different cultural contexts. The Disconnected focuses on the internal conflict of the individual with the external world, particularly highlighting alienation, identity crises, and the struggle to fit into societal norms. On the other hand, Santa Esperanza, adopting the postmodern emphasis on multiple perspectives and ambiguity, presents the individual’s search for identity in a more flexible and layered manner. Employing qualitative content analysis within a comparative literary framework, this study examines how modernist and postmodernist narrative strategies represent individual identity and social conflict in different cultural contexts. As a result, both novels question the individual’s position in society, illustrating that modernist and postmodernist techniques serve different aesthetic and thematic functions, exploring the individual’s quest for identity and the impact of societal structures on the individual from different angles. The role of modernism and postmodernism in this context becomes clearer through a deep analysis of the texts.