Editor-in-Chief’s Foreword
Abstract
It is a privilege to present the 2026 issue of the Online Journal of Humanities ETAGTSU, which brings together a diverse and engaging collection of scholarship exploring the intersections of linguistics and AI technology, literary narrative, and education. The contributions in this issue examine how meaning is constructed, transmitted, and reinterpreted across languages, artistic media, and educational contexts. A central thread across several papers is the dynamic relationship between text, visual narrative, and semiotics. Tata Tevzadze (Georgia) investigates the semiotic shifts in adapting Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code from page to screen, highlighting how visual logic reshapes spectator engagement. Aura Caro Sampedro (Spain) analyses the visual construction of cognitive conceptual metaphors through colour symbolism in La La Land. Exploring narrative structures, Erika Lucia Silipo (Italy) introduces a feminist fabulation framework by contrasting Christopher Vogler¶s Hero¶s Journey with Maureen Murdock¶s Heroine¶s Journey through an intersectional lens. In literary studies, Sudan Altun (Turkey) provides a comparative analysis of individual-society conflicts in modernist and postmodernist contexts, drawing on O÷uz Atay's The Disconnected and Aka Morchiladze's Santa Esperanza, while Nino Tsurtsumia (Georgia) investigates the urban chronotope and stream of consciousness in James Joyce¶s Ulysses. Another key theme of the issue is the evolving landscape of translation of linguistic structures, particularly in the era of artificial intelligence at the intersection of linguistics, translation studies, and AI technology. Manana Khvingia (Georgia) evaluates Neural Machine Translation and Large Language Models for translating English idioms from George Orwell¶s Animal Farm into Georgian and Russian. Addressing a similar challenge, Shorena Tsabadze (Georgia) examines phraseological transposition issues when using AI systems, drawing on examples from Mikhail Javakhishvili¶s Arsena Marabdeli and detailing the complications introduced by English as an intermediary language. Complementing these computational approaches, Tibor M. Pintér (Hungary) traces the broader theoretical evolution of Bible translation from historical equivalence and Sociolinguistics to modern functionalism.