Областная
научно-практическая конференция «Грани творчества»
Гуманитарное
направление
Секция
«Лингвистика» (ин.яз.)
Тема научно-исследовательской
работы
«Inscriptions on clothes»
Выполнила: Куркова
Дарья
ученица
10 класса «А»
МБОУ
СОШ №3
Руководитель: Фролкина М.А.
Моршанск 2015
Content
Introduction .................................................................................
..3
Chapter 1.
1.1 The history of the
inscriptions on clothes .................. .. ............5
1.2 Functions of the
inscriptions on clothes ............................ ....... 5
1.3 News and scandals
connected with inscriptions on clothes ... ... 7
Chapter 2.
2.1 The methodology of the
study .... .......... .......... ..................... .. 8
2.2 The results of the
students’ interrogation.................... .......... ....9
2.3 Analysis of the
collected material ........................................... .13
Conclusion ………………………………………………………..14
Literature………………………………………………………….15
Introduction
Topicality
Clothes speaks without
words. Fine dress helps us to impress ourselves. Estimating a person,
we mark how his clothes appropriate to the age, social status,
fashion. Some people have a desire to look like celebrities wearing
fashionable clothes, others want to stand out in a crowd. Psychologists
have researched that we estimate a person in 40 seconds and he estimates us,
and then we reluctantly back the prevailing view down. So the impression of
clothes equipped with all sorts of fashionable inscriptions is stronger. My
attention is attracted with English inscriptions on clothes.
The idea of studying
sociolinguistic problems using English inscriptions has appeared because of
personal experience, communication with peers, observations in the streets and
at my school.
However, do the owners
understand the meaning of inscriptions on their clothes, especially if they are
written in a foreign language, mostly in English? Or do they wear clothes
because they are fashionable, beautiful, or for any other reason?
Our research has an aim to
find answers for these questions.
The
novelty of my work consists in attempt to examine English inscriptions on clothes like an express way, that helps to enrich
the student’s vocabulary.
The
hypothesis
There
is a direct connection between the language level and person’s culture.
The object of the study is English inscriptions on the clothes of students of our
school.
The subject of the study is determination of the information given by inscriptions on
clothes.
The aim of my work is to find out how the semantic load of inscriptions on
clothes depends on the language level of their owners
The tasks of the study are:
1) to collect some inscriptions on clothes;
2) to translate the inscriptions into Russian;
3) to identify the age of students and the main reasons of
buying clothes with inscriptions ;
4) to summarize the data.
The practical value of the research is the possibility to use its materials in the
process of learning English. We are far from using of primitive texts
"printed" on clothes as the teaching aids for the language study. However,
meeting English inscriptions everywhere, we cannot ignore their content like people
are interested in English . Inscriptions are often stupid, banal,
funny. Worthy and interesting inscriptions are not so frequent. Blind
following of fashion makes people of different ages, professions, social groups
wear clothes "decorated" of incomprehensible inscriptions.
During the study I used two
methods:
the searching method and the
analytic one.
Chapter 1
1.1 History of inscriptions
Inscriptions on clothes appeared many centuries ago. The
earliest ones came to us from ancient Greece. There were embroideries on
the belts that told about the names of their ancient owners, there were some
names on jewelry. On the portraits of Italian and German painters of 15th
and 16th centuries we see labels that were intertwined into the pattern of
men's shirts, into corsages of women`s dresses, where Latin mottos of noble
families or the names of the owners of these portraits or dresses were written
on them. Inscriptions of the very provocative nature were always met on
female garters. Inscriptions which were a part of the ornament were in
fashion. For example, at the beginning of the second millennium Gothic
prints were used in embroidery. The pelerines of King Otto are very
famous, they are in the museum of Bolbergue in Germany. There are amazing things
with Gothic or Roman letters as a part of the ornament of ancient
embroideries in the store of the old cathedral. They date back to 10 -11
centuries AD. A lot of ornaments we can find on jewelry, where the
letters and phrases are in intertwined into the pattern.
At first inscriptions
decorated only workers’ uniforms, pointing to their status in the workplace,
then they began to show a designer or a company of this thing, and after that inscriptions
with sense began to appear. Nobody knows who invented the first inscription
on clothes.
1.2 Functions of the inscriptions
The inscriptions are very different. They
can tell us a lot about a person, in particular, and that this person does not
understand what is written on his clothes. Inscriptions change with
person’s age. In childhood they are just some funny phrases, in youth inscriptions
contain all sorts of phrases: the number of a football team or the name of
the street where they live. Adults, realizing that something can be
written not for their age or something banal, try to choose clothes without
labels. It is a right decision, as opposed to
teens who just look at the beautiful style and funny letters .
Essentially, clothes is
connected with their labels. Almost everywhere on T-shirts, jeans, shirts,
sweaters, there are inscriptions and labels. These letters, formulas,
abbreviations attract attention. This is a real invasion of all kinds of images
and typographic signs. Is it a advertisement trick? If it were so, it
would be too simple explanation. Often inscriptions don’t connect with the
name of the firm. Is it a desire to put an end with the faceless,
to show a belonging to any group, cultural or regional origin? I don`t
think so. No matter even what is written on the clothes. Essentially
combining the inscription with the logic, fashion has expanded its borders.
The strength of the
psychological influence of the text is determined not only by the meaning of
the inscription, but also by the graphic design of the inscription: style,
print, size, color and decoration of letters. Words should be written
beautifully, so they are read better.
The way of letters spelling and punctuation marks, numbers is called
the print. Letters of a word are usually written in the same print. Most
prints are characterized by different ways of tracing. For example, the
print can be:
A) direct
B) italics
C) bold
D) bold italic
E) underlined
The color has important influence to perception of inscriptions. Red
is a color of leadership and power. It is a strong eye stopper. Saturated
colors (crimson, brown, burgundy) convince the client in a success of a
company. Pink generates an aura of refinement around the product.
1.3 News and scandals connected with inscriptions on clothes.
Over the last couple of years
nearly twenty cases were fixed, when because of strange inscriptions on
T-shirts, some passengers were not allowed to go by plane. There were jokes
about bombs on their T-shirts . Such a case happened with 28-year-old Raed
Jarrar. He was dressed in a T-shirt with the inscription in English
"We will not be silent" on that day and he was going to sit down at
Kennedy Airport in New York on board the plane of JetBlue Airways company. As
the channel MSNBC said, he was told that "to arrive at the airport in a
such T-shirt is the same thing that to come to the bank in a T-shirt with the
inscription "I am a robber." He was offered to take off the T-shirt
and wear it in a wrong side, but Jarrar refused, then he was given another
T-shirt that he wore over the first one, because he realized that they really
will not allow him to go to the plane.
The famous inscription «don’t
worry be happy» appeared in the 80th .This hit by Bobby McFerrin
caused the frenzy, which appeared in fashion, clothes of all styles and sizes
were adorned with this optimistic inscription.
In 2011 a manufacturer of T-shirts
Topman was forced to apologize to customers for T-shirts with inscriptions degrading
women. It was written on one of them: "Nice New Girlfriend: What
breed is she?"
Girls’ T-shirts with the words
"Allergy to Algebra" caused public outcries in the United
States. Opponents said that the declared antipathy to the exact sciences damaged
schoolgirls’ education and humiliated them. Critics were angered by
the fact that there were no similar T-shirts for boys (for example
"Allergy to Geometry" ). Obviously, the clothes manufacturers
were sure of the mental abilities of the boys.
CHAPTER 2
2.1 Methodology of the study
We have made our study by the
next way:
1) we have found at our school
students, dressed in T-shirts, jeans, sweaters, jeans, caps, with English
inscriptions
2) we have photographed the
most interesting inscriptions and asked some questions:
- How old are you?
- Do you know the sense of
the inscription on your clothes or not
- Why have you bought this
thing?
- What marks have you got?
3) we have translated the
inscriptions into Russian and entered the data into the table
2.2 The results of the students’
survey
We have fixed the answers of 63 students, which can be reflected
in the following table:
№
п/п
|
Inscriptions in origin
|
translation
|
Age of the owner
|
Does he/she know about the meaning
of the inscription?
|
What marks have you got?
|
|
1
|
Girl
princess
|
принцесса
|
11
|
+
|
good
|
|
2
|
Cotinga
|
Котинга (птица)
|
14
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
3
|
Hand
fashion style
|
Мода ручной работы
|
14
|
+
|
exc.
|
|
4
|
Frog
|
лягушка
|
11
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
5
|
It’s
show time
|
время для шоу
|
16
|
+
|
good
|
|
6
|
Money
|
деньги
|
13
|
+
|
good
|
|
7
|
Experience
|
опыт
|
14
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
8
|
Wanted
|
разыскивается
|
16
|
+
|
exc.
|
|
9
|
Sence
opposites attract sunkids
|
Ощущение
противоположного привлекает
(гр. ошибка)
|
11
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
10
|
Of wold
The same of wold
|
набор слов с ошибками
в слове WORLD
(гр. ошибка)
|
15
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
11
|
Magic
|
магия
|
15
|
+
|
good
|
|
12
|
Star
|
звезда
|
11
|
_
|
sat.
|
|
13
|
Follow
me
|
следуй за мной
|
12
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
14
|
Yes,
but not with you
|
да, но не с тобой
|
15
|
_
|
sat.
|
|
15
|
Princesses
don’t do dishes and take out garbage
|
принцессы не моют
посуду и не выносят мусор
|
16
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
16
|
Save
the earth
|
спасите землю
|
13
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
17
|
Firelli
|
Название фирмы
|
13
|
+
|
exc.
|
|
18
|
Squad
EVELOTIONE ALICLANO
|
Название группировки
|
11
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
19
|
I
love my attitude
|
я люблю свое
отношение
|
13
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
20
|
Geni
|
гений
|
11
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
21
|
Made in
USSR
|
Сделано в СССР
|
16
|
+
|
exc.
|
|
22
|
I
can to fly
|
я могу летать
(грамматическая
ошибка)
|
14
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
23
|
Let’s
go party
|
давай пойдем на
вечеринку
|
13
|
+
|
good
|
|
24
|
Baby
bird
|
птенчик
|
13
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
25
|
Do
not copy me
|
Не копируй меня
|
11
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
26
|
Mega
dance
|
мега танец
|
13
|
+
|
exc.
|
|
27
|
All you need
is rock-n-roll
|
все что тебе нужно –
это рокенролл
|
15
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
28
|
Fire
world
|
огненный мир
|
15
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
29
|
Vintage
surfing
|
крученый серфинг
|
16
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
30
|
Confetti
party
|
Вечеринка в стиле
«конфети»
|
11
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
31
|
Freeway
|
свободный путь
|
14
|
+
|
good
|
|
32
|
Spring
fashion
|
Весенняя мода
|
11
|
+
|
exc.
|
|
33
|
Best
friends
|
Лучшие друзья
|
16
|
+
|
good
|
|
34
|
Fiston
|
название фирмы
|
11
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
35
|
Hard
to handle
|
трудно справиться
|
16
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
36
|
Fare
|
цена
|
14
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
37
|
Sosrui
sport
|
Название спортивной
фирмы
|
11
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
38
|
Style
relax
|
Стильное расслабление
|
11
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
39
|
Ehh, What’s up, doc?
|
"Как дела,
док?" (Приветствие знаменитого мультипликационного героя - кролика Багс
Банни)
|
16
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
|
40
|
Nike
just do it
|
НАЙК просто сделай
это
|
14
|
+
|
exc.
|
|
41
|
Royal
rock
|
королевская скала
|
14
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
42
|
A
long speci men
|
(ошибка)
одинокий космический
люди
|
13
|
_
|
sat.
|
|
43
|
Design
by desiners
|
Дизайн от дизайнера
|
14
|
+
|
good
|
|
44
|
Red
hot chili peppers
|
(название группы)
красные горячие перцы
чили
|
16
|
+
|
exc.
|
|
45
|
Dare
to do different
|
посмей сделать
по-другому
|
14
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
46
|
Boy
|
Парень
|
16
|
+
|
good
|
|
47
|
Born
to be free
|
рожден быть свободным
|
16
|
+
|
exc.
|
|
48
|
Free
|
свобода
|
16
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
49
|
Angel
|
ангел
|
14
|
+
|
exc.
|
|
50
|
Poison
free
|
без яда
|
16
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
51
|
We
produce the Quality the choice of human
|
мы производим
качество, выбор человечества
|
16
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
52
|
Best
casual wear
|
Лучшая повседневная
одежда
|
15
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
53
|
Shevchenko
76
|
Фамилия и номер
спортсмена
|
14
|
+
|
exc.
|
|
54
|
ISLAND
|
остров
|
12
|
+
|
good
|
|
55
|
Minimum
|
Минимум
|
17
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
56
|
Space
|
космос
|
16
|
+
|
good
|
|
57
|
Norman
club
|
клуб Нормана
|
15
|
+
|
exc.
|
|
58
|
JMHW
JEANS
|
Марка джинсов
|
16
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
59
|
Original
design
|
Оригинальный дизайн
|
17
|
+
|
exc.
|
|
60
|
Kids
|
малыши
|
7
|
+
|
good
|
|
61
|
Spiderman
|
человек-паук
|
8
|
+
|
exc.
|
|
62
|
Sunshine
sports
|
солнечный спорт
|
14
|
+
|
exc.
|
|
63
|
Happiness
|
счастье
|
16
|
+
|
good
|
|
64
|
Qatar foundation
|
Основание Катара
|
16
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
65
|
Butterfly
|
бабочка
|
12
|
+
|
good
|
|
66
|
Summer time
|
Летнее время
|
16
|
-
|
sat.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2.3 Analysis of the
collected material
According to our research, the majority of students have clothes
containing inscriptions. There are at least seven things with English
inscriptions in every young person’s wardrobe.
Only 43% of students know the translation of the inscription,
which is on their clothes, and 57% of students have found difficulty in
translation of their inscriptions. 49% say they pay attention to the
inscription buying clothes, 51% of students never think about the meaning of
what is written on their clothes, but now they are interested in translation
of the inscriptions. 100 % of students having good and excellent marks know
the meaning of the inscriptions on the clothes they wear and there are no silly
inscriptions or inscriptions with mistakes on their clothes.
The study has revealed three inscriptions containing grammatical
or spelling mistakes, the owners of these clothes haven’t known about these
ones .
Most of the respondents as the main reasons of buying clothes
with inscriptions call "this dress is comfortable." 10% say that
the clothes with inscriptions are "fashionable" and “cool”.
The study also has shown that the older the students are, the
more attention they pay to the meaning of the inscriptions. The younger
students don’t often know what is written on their clothes. However, our
study made some students think before buying a fashionable thing with an
unknown inscription .
Conclusion
Undoubtedly, each person has a right to wear what he or she
likes. However, it seems abnormal that the majority of people who prefer
inscriptions on the clothes, do not know the meaning of the words they have on
clothes.
Nowadays English is everywhere: on goods and signboards of shops,
on the electrical goods, clothes, on the Internet. It is taught at
schools, universities, specialized courses. But how is it easier and
faster to learn English? English inscriptions can be an express way
that helps to enrich the students’ vocabulary.
Most teens do not pay much attention to the inscriptions on their
clothes, but some of them can contain indecent and offensive meaning,
grammatical and spelling mistakes. Sometimes they can contain a set of
meaningless words and phrases, sometimes indecent words, but sometimes a phrase
filled with good humor.
It is important to be responsible for the information that we
have on our clothes, we become the carrier of it to the masses, and it is
stupid to expect that others do not know a foreign language and do not understand
what is written on your clothes.
The analysis of the collected material has shown that the level
of English proficiency of only half of the students in our school allows to
navigate in the inscriptions and correctly use written information. However,
our survey encouraged my schoolmates to find out the meaning of the
inscriptions on their clothes, thus motivating students to learn English
better.
There is an inextricable link between language level and culture
of the individual. According to our survey we have come to the conclusion
that students having good marks pay much attention to the meaning of the
inscriptions, they do not wear clothes with grammatical and spelling mistakes
and stupid and offensive inscriptions.
So our hypothesis has been proved. There is a direct connection
between the language level and person’s culture.
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