Two Lakhota locatives and the role of introspection in linguistic analysis

2003 ◽  
pp. 255-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Rood
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis

Defaults in linguistics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolas Gisborne ◽  
Andrew Hippisley
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Language And Cognition ◽  
The Right

The notion of default and override can serve linguistic analysis in different ways. In the lexicon defaults are used for the resolution of rule competition, to capture lexical blocking, to select the right stem where there are choices, and when used in inheritance systems to provide for instances that do not meet every characteristic of their class allowing exceptionality to be expressed as semi-regularity. Defaults in syntax and semantics play a more organizational, ontological role, expressing markedness in lists of features and their possible values and resolving conflicts that may arise when two sub-systems intersect. The chapters discuss how defaults and overrides can address specific linguistic phenomena, suggest an architecture of the grammar, and assess the role of morphology in language and cognition.

scholarly journals Experiencer as quasi-agent: «from meaning to the linguistic form»

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 112-136
Author(s):  
М.А. Fomina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
Conceptual Category ◽  
Linguistic Representation ◽  
Linguistic Form ◽  
Grammatical Subject

The paper focuses on the category of semantic subject within the framework of a functional approach to linguistics. The variety of roles subject may have in a sentence accounts for the radially structured category of subject. With the agent subject being the center of the category, other members – Possessor, Experiencer, Neutral, etc. – appear to be scattered within the syntactical category of subject being more central or peripheral. The paper deals with the Experiencer subject. The author stresses the key role of a well-elaborated metalanguage in linguistic analysis and assumes that a thorough analysis of the relevant conceptual category, its structure and content, should precede the stage of developing a metalanguage. The paper 1) differentiates between similar though not interchangeable notions such as semantic subject, grammatical subject, and the bearer of predicative feature, 2) features the peripheral status of the Experiencer within the category of semantic subject, 3) reveals the means of its linguistic representation, 4) makes a structural and semantic analysis of the models with the Experiencer.

scholarly journals Branding in Urban Discourse Space: Region’s Identity as Attraction Factor

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01066
Author(s):  
Elina Novikova ◽  
Vera Mityagina ◽  
Anna Gureeva ◽  
Tatyana Makhortova
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representation ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Complex Image ◽  
Branding Strategies ◽  
Communicative Process ◽  
Urban Discourse ◽  
Text Content

The research is focused on branding as a communicative process and aimed at defining the region’s identity role in provision of its tourist attraction. Linguistic analysis of the branding process is concentrated on optimization of language means and urban semiosis quality. City’s identity is viewed as a complex of exterior and other markers, building its complex image and playing an initial role in city’s branding. The aim of territory’ branding is to present the uniqueness of a certain region and its competitiveness. A city is a complicated multilayer communicative formation that creates a special type of discourse around itself – urban discourse. The space of this discourse is determined by such textual phenomena as a text-city, an urban text and a text about a city. The authors outline the role of naming in city branding and consider a great importance of a city’s identity in creating a text content aimed at increasing attraction of a city as a tourist object. City’s identity allows one to understand its uniqueness and mental representation by a representative of its “own” and “foreign” cultures and optimize branding strategies with the aim to fix positive images of a city and attractive image of a global-centred and locally original territory.

scholarly journals Enhancing the critical apparatus for understanding metanarration: discourse deixis refined

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Macrae
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

AbstractThis article explores the deictic functioning of metanarrative expressions in fiction. Current theoretical approaches to metanarration are reviewed, and classifying terminology revised. This critique enables the development of a more nuanced typology of metanarration, exposes the lack of linguistic analysis of the functioning of metanarrative expressions, and indicates the deictic contribution to this functioning. The role of deixis within metanarration is then further explicated. The category of discourse deixis is investigated and refined, and various subtypes of discourse deixis correlated with subtypes of metanarrative expressions. The analytical value of this approach is demonstrated through the study of discourse deixis in metanarrative extracts from Beckett's (Pan Books, 1979 [1959])

Sites and parasites of meaning: Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-140
Author(s):  
Robin Melrose
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
The Right

Robert Browning’s so-called dramatic lyric ‘My Last Duchess’ has been interpreted differently by different critics, some seeing the Duke as shrewd and others seeing him as witless. This article attempts to account for these differing interpretations by analysing indeterminacies in the language of the poem. Starting out with the work of Derrida on speech act theory, and findings on the role of the right hemisphere in language processing, it goes on to propose techniques of linguistic analysis based on systemic-functional linguistics and the concept of particle-waves of language first discussed in Melrose (1996). The article then analyses a number of these so-called particle-waves in ‘My Last Duchess’, and concludes that opposing interpretations of the Duke can be traced to the indeterminacies of language in the particle-waves.

scholarly journals Words and patterns: lexico-grammatical patterns and semantic relations in domain-specific discourses

2011 ◽  
pp. 213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Concepción Orna-Montesinos
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Dual Role ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Disciplinary Knowledge ◽  
Lexical Resources ◽  
Lexical Knowledge ◽  
Underlying Assumption ◽  
Construction Engineering ◽  
Domain Specific

The underlying assumption of this study is the understanding of a specialized term as a summary of disciplinary knowledge, formalized at a textual level in the contextual relations which structure disciplinary lexical knowledge and are therefore essential for the successful interpretation of a text. With that aim this paper carries the analysis of the lexico-grammatical patterns which signal the hyponymy and meronymy relations of the term building, a key disciplinary concept in a corpus of construction engineering textbooks, using the WordNet database for reference. The linguistic analysis of the repertoire of lexico-grammatical patterns employed brings to the fore the dual role of hyponymy and meronymy as both semantic and metalinguistic discourse-organizing lexical resources, key in the rhetorical organization of the discourse of this discipline.

scholarly journals Pasażerowie w tajnym języku personelu pokładowego

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (XXII) ◽  
pp. 29-40
Author(s):  
Beata Marta Kopecka
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Flight Attendants ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Metaphor And Metonymy

This article is devoted to the linguistic analysis of terms referring to air passengers in the language of flight attendants. The term secret language denotes a subsection of the aviation slang used by cabin crews to communicate information meant not to be understood by passengers. The analysis, aiming at discovering the motivation for the creation of such terms, focuses on the role of metaphor and metonymy. Metaphor and metonymy are treated in accordance with the assumptions of cognitive linguistics.

scholarly journals L’écriture biblique dans la littérature du XIXe siècle finissant : le cas de Strindberg

1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mickaëlle Cedergren
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Xixe Siecle ◽  
Religious Evolution ◽  
Xixe Siècle

Inferno constitue une plaque tournante dans la production littéraire de Strindberg. Les citations bibliques apparaissent plus fréquemment et créent un nouveau style d’écriture. Cet article présente les caractéristiques textuelles du discours biblique dans Inferno (1897) et Jacob lutte (fragment écrit à la suite de Légendes en français et en suédois en 1898). L’analyse linguistique, dans laquelle sont incluses des approches comparative, discursive, textuelle et intertextuelle, va définir la place et le rôle stratégique de la citation biblique dans ce corpus littéraire. Finalement, trois jeux d’écriture biblique ressortent de cette étude et dévoilent à tour de rôle la disposition et l’évolution spirituelle du narrateur dans chaque texte.AbstractInferno constitutes a turning point in Strindberg’s literary production in that scriptural quotations appear more frequently and a new style emerges. This article presents the characteristics of the scriptural quotations appearing in Inferno (1897) and Jacob Wrestles (a fragment following Légendes, written in French and in Swedish in 1898). The linguistic analysis — with includes comparative, discourse, textual and intertextual approaches — is used to define the place and role of scriptural quotations in this literary corpus. This study has revealed three different types of biblical writings which show the spiritual disposition and the religious evolution of the narrator in each text.

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