scholarly journals From Ladder and Thread to Heaven: The Symbolic Meaning of the Path in a Fragment of the Linguistic World Image

Linguistics ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 38-52
Author(s):  
Oksana Simovych ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Demarcation Line ◽  
Concrete Situation ◽  
General Semantics ◽  
The World ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
World Image

This article «From Ladder and Thread to Heaven: The Symbolic Meaning of the Path in a Fragment of the Linguistic World Image» explores the problem of the analysis of folk customs. These customs could be verbalized both in folk texts and in dialects. The specifics of this study lie in the linguistic analysis of the symbols which are usually interpreted as folk customs and folk objects. However, the symbolism of the objects in national customs causes the development of a symbolic meaning of the respective word that defines these objects. In this way, many symbols in folk customs become verbal, and the context of the custom creates a foundation for the development of the symbolic meaning. The verbal symbols analyzed are a «thread», a «ball of twine», a «ladder», a «bridge» and a «cross». In the national Ukrainian linguistic space, these words have the general semantics of the ‘connection between worlds’. It is stressed that the symbolic meaning of the (celestial) ladder has been discovered in the biblical context. This is also relevant for the clarification of the subject of continuity in the development of the symbolic meanings, which are also documented in the Ukrainian context. A concrete situation in linguistics and custom creates conditions under which arise symbolic co-meanings that develop in the framework of the same main symbolic archetypical meaning. All analyzed symbols belong to the archetypical ones. That is why they have been also discovered with the same semantics in other languages. This is the reason why the analysis of such symbols requires not only facts documented in the dictionaries and texts in Ukrainian, but also information about the respective symbol in other linguistic cultures. It is also pointed out that the thread is analyzed as an apotropaic symbol. This word has also been documented linguistically as a symbol of the demarcation line between one’s own world and the world of «others».

scholarly journals Historical and Symbolic Aspects of Linguistic Representation of the World

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-71
Author(s):  
Margarita Ganyushina
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Symbolic Language ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
The World ◽  
World Image

The article is an attempt to offer a theoretical understanding of the notion of a “Linguistic world-image” (LWI) within symbolic contexts as represented in the current literature, define the symbol’s features, its influence on LWI in historic perspective, and investigate its functioning within idioms or metaphors. We have undertaken the review of previous LWI investigations and, as the methodological basis of our research, we have used ethno-semantic and linguistic-philosophical approaches to language; specifically, the method of multiple etymology, introduced by V. N. Toporov and developed by M.M. Makovsky, which permitted us to identify the correlation of LWI with linguistic signs as a carrier of symbolic meaning. It should be noted that studying symbolic language properties and linguistic signs within the linguistic world-image, which were not taken into account before, is conductive to a more profound comprehension of the correlation between language, culture, and mutual understanding index in the intercultural communication process.The LWI concept is considered as a subjective-objective dynamic multilevel construct, which presents its primary features through a lexical-semantic language system within a world and national culture formed as a result of the reflection of sensorial perception, facts, understanding and estimation of the objective phenomena in national linguistic consciousness, in the experience of correlation of language concepts, images and symbols throughout the cultural historical development of the language. Therefore, two approaches to studying LWI are evident - cognitive and cultural-philosophical - which are not so much conflicting as mutually reinforcing.

scholarly journals До питання про основні напрями вивчення емоцій у польському, російському та українському мовознавстві

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (XXIII) ◽  
pp. 99-107
Author(s):  
Лариса Ніколаєнко
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Semantic Description ◽  
The World ◽  
Separate Fragment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
General Linguistic

The article is devoted to the main directions of studying emotions in linguistics. The subject of the study are the works of Polish, Russian and Ukrainian linguists, devoted to the description of the verbalisation of emotions. The analysis of works shows that the main linguistic directions in the study of the concepts of emotions are linguocognitivistics and linguoculturology. The main approaches to the semantic description of the verbalisation of emotions can be called semantic, metaphorical and combined. Despite the diversity of vectors of linguistic analysis, each study reconstructs a separate fragment of the general linguistic picture of the world of emotions.

scholarly journals Personality’s Perceptions of Other People in Connection with the “World Image” and the “World Picture”

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-346
Author(s):  
Valeria D. Alperovich
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
World Picture ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
Basic Beliefs ◽  
World Image

Introduction. This article presents a study that is devoted to the problem of relationship of a subject’s perceptions of other people and the phenomenon of the “world image” of a personality. This problem is relevant for humanities scholars in different countries of the world in conditions of exacerbation of intercultural and interethnic conflicts. Materials and Methods. An empirical study was carried out with the purpose of a comparative analysis of the features of the “world image” in people who differ in metaphorical perceptions of “friends” and “foes”. The subject of the research was the metaphors of “friend” and “foe”, the basic beliefs of the person and the types of the “world image” presented in narratives. The following methods were applied: metaphor content analysis, testing, narrative analysis, methods of mathematical statistics (quartiles, Kruskal – Wallis H-test, regression analysis). Results. The scientific novelty of the conducted study is the original development of parameters for the analysis of narrative “world images” of the personality. For the first time, interconnections of different types of metaphors of “friends” and “foes” as partners in communication and various parameters of the narrative “world image” of the subject are revealed. It is concluded that the attribution of positive or negative and ambivalent socio-psychological metaphorical characteristics for “friends” and “foes” is associated with a positive or ambivalent “world image” of the “conceptual” or “perceptual” type. Conclusion. The results of the study generally indicate that the subject’s metaphorical ideas about “friends” and “foes” affect the subject’s “world image”.

scholarly journals Aistheton in the time of socio-political crisis

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-190
Author(s):  
Nebojša Vilić
Keyword(s):  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Event ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
Concrete Situation ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Republic Of Macedonia ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

The main attempt in this paper is to propose the understanding of the relations between aesthetics and the politics in the thought of Jacques Rancière as a theoretical instrument for implementation in a concrete situation of the protest. From here on, the protest is taken not only as a live social event, but, even more, as a bodily experience with the consequences and results that are occurring out of it. Starting from Rancière's position of the distribution of the sensible and the ways in which the muted subject has to attain his/her right of a speech, the paper deals with several topics across which one can conclude that only the corporeal presence during the protest itself enables the subject to sense the act sensibly. This is a rather different approach to the sensible understanding of the world and the experiences known as the relation between the art and the aesthetics, addressing the aistheton as a simultaneous carrier of denotation of the political. The case study used for this implementation is the so called Colourful Revolution and the "colouring" of the Macedonia Gate in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.

Gendering in the Ascription of Symbolic Meaning to Dance in Germany

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (S1) ◽  
pp. 175-180
Author(s):  
E. Hollister Mathis-Masury
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Dance Studies ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
The World ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Dance Companies

This presentation deals with the current status of dance studies in Germany, focusing particularly on the situation in Baden-Württemberg, the home state of the internationally renowned Stuttgart Ballet. Whereas German dance companies enjoy some of the highest subsidies in the world, and freelance dancers in Germany benefit from privileges in the German social system, dance is not an independent subject of study at any level of the German educational system. The strong discrepancies in educational, cultural, and social policy on dance are indicative of the limits to and disagreements within symbolic meaning ascribed to dance. The relevant areas of policy will be presented, as well as the historical factors in the development of these discrepancies. A discussion of the role of gendering in the ascription of symbolic meanings to dance follows, especially considering current developments regarding community building and social justice.

scholarly journals English Phraseology: Cognitive, Symbolic and Terminological Aspects (Based on Idioms with Colour Adjectives Black/White/Red)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arab World English Journal ◽  
Natalya N. Zerkina ◽  
Yekaterina A. Lomakina ◽  
Natalja V. Kozhushkova
Keyword(s):  
Data Transmission ◽  
English Language ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Implicit Representation ◽  
Linguistic Unit ◽  
The World ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Linguistic Universal

The authors focus on idioms as means of categorization of the world and means of keeping temporal and spatial cultural-historical data transmission. Special attention is given to the symbolic meaning of idiom components. Aspects of English phraseology are analyzed by emphasizing phraseological antonymy as an important linguistic universal that is pointed out as binary structures playing an important role in cognition by participating in cognitive and structural processes. The analysis considers explicit and implicit representation of the concept of ‘white’, its semiotic and symbolic meanings and its psychical effect on a human being. The article focuses on the process of phrase-forming as a language phenomenon and an efficient means of term-formation in the English language. The authors discusses possibility of using and reproducing idioms with the phraseological model adjective + noun and forecasts further term-formation according to the phraseological model. The article is aimed at showing interaction of linguistic and extra linguistic aspects within an idiom, as a linguistic unit, and the way the linguistic aspects transform into extra linguistic ones and vice versa.

scholarly journals Od czarów nad kołyską do magii językowej usieciowionej matki — ciągłość i zmienność charakteru magii języka matek

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 245-257
Author(s):  
Julia Legomska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Linguistic Behaviour ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
World Image

From spells over the cradle to linguistic magic of a networked mother — continuity and change of the nature of mothers’ language magic The essay draws attention to the fact that, since the old days, in the case of frustration connected with the child mothers have reached out for words, they have used words to affect both internal, psychic reality and the external one. Magical acts by means of language are based on the world image shared by the sender and the recipient. Polish folk culture positively valued phenomena referring to Polish Catholic symbols, therefore these symbols constitute protective and benevolent powers evoked in folk lullabies. The author suggests looking at contemporary linguistic activities performed by mothers frustrated with staying with the child, which activities are presented in the analysed website magazine Bachor as activities which also make use of the language magic. According to the author, the difference lies in changing the cultural context of linguistic behaviour and associating them in particular with the defining technology. In contemporary mediatised society the power of “obligatory existence”, which was characteristic of magical speech activities, supports and intensifies the equation of media by recipients. Therefore, the author sees Bachor as the act of blocking the language of success which makes room only for parents who are “effective” and affirm positive feelings by introducing into reality — by means of words, words in media — incapable, frustrated parents who are full of negative feelings. The subject is discussed in adescriptive and not in an evaluative way.

scholarly journals Wayang Jawa Timuran Lakon Gandamana Luweng (Kajian Struktur Dan Makna)

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Andini Shinta Kurniawati
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Art Form ◽  
The World ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Data Source

Wayang, sebagai salah satu bentuk kesenian klasik tradisional yang oleh pecintanya dikatakan mempunyai nilai adiluhung, banyak mempengaruhi tata nilai kehidupan Jawa khususnya dan masyarakat pada umumnya.Orang Jawa begitu percaya adanya perlambang, simbolisasi ataupun filsafat hidup yang berupa mitos pada satu lakon wayang.Salah satu lakon wayang yang cukup menarik perhatian adalah lakon wayang dengan judul “Gandamana Luweng”. Pokok permasalahan yang dikaji dalam penulisan ini adalah (1) Bagaimana struktur lakon Gandamana Luweng, (2) Bagaimana makna simbolik lakon Gandamana Luweng. Tujuan penulisan ini yaitu menganalisa dan mendeskripsikan struktur lakon dan makna simbolik lakon Gandamana Luweng. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan fenomnologis empiris. Subjek utama dalam penelitian ini adalah Ki Pringgo Jati Rahmanu, sedangkan pengumpulan data diperoleh dengan pengamatan, wawancara, studi dokumen, dokumentasi. Analisis data dilakukan melalui reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan. Pemerksaan keabsahan data menggunakan informan review dan triangulasi data (sumber dan teknik). Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa struktur lakon Gandamana Luweng terdiri atas sinopsis, penjabaran lakon, penokohan, alur, setting, dan tema cerita.Lakon Gandamana Luweng ini memiliki makna bahwa jika dalam suatu Negara para rakyatnya bermoral lemah tidak mempunyai kekuatan dan keberanian apalagi kesadaran apa arti hidup ini maka hancurlah Negara itu. Dari data tersebut dapat disimpulkan bahwa Lakon Gandamana Luweng memiliki struktur lakon cukup menarik yang dikemas dalam durasi tampilan 60 menit, sedangkan dengan adanya makna simbolik yang terkandung diharapkan para pelaku hidup ini akan sadar tentang pentingnya saling mengerti, menyadari tentang hidup dan kehidupan di dunia.Shadow Puppettry, as one of the traditional classical art form that by the lover is said to hold in high value, hold much affect to the values of life of Java in particular and its society in general. The Javanese are very confident in the use of symbols. Symbols and philosophies of life that are manifest in one myth in one puppet play. One of the puppet plays that attract attention is the wayang play entitled "Gandamana Luweng". The main issues studied in this book are (1) How Gandamana Luweng play is structured, (2) The symbolic meaning of Gadamana Luweng play. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and describe the structure of the play and the symbolic implications of the play Gandamana Luweng. This research uses qualitative research design with empirical phenomenological approach. The main subject in this study is Ki Pringgo Jati Rahmanu, while data collection is obtained with observation, interview, document study, documentation. Data analysis is done through by data reduction, presentation data, and conclusion. The validity of data is checked using using informant review and triangulation of data (source and technique). The results of this study indicate the structure of the Gandamana Luweng play consists of synopsis, description of the play, characterization, plot, setting, and theme of the story. This Gandamana Luweng play has the meaning if country’s people possess weak moral, no strength and courage let alone awareness as to what this life means, then the country is destroyed. From these data can be concluded Gandamana Luweng shadow puppet play holdss a fascinating  structure that comprises a 60 minute view duration, where the symbolic meanings intentions are expected that these actors will be aware of understanding each other, conscious about life and life in the world.

scholarly journals Róża bez kolców Zofii Urbanowskiej — między „reklamą” a idealizacją Tatr

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 193-207
Author(s):  
Jolanta Ługowska
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Natural Images ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
Real People ◽  
The World ◽  
Unique Model ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Source Of Information

Zofia Urbanowska’s Róża bez kolców [Rose Without Thorns] planned and written by the author as a “fictionalised encyclopaedia of the Tatras” is a valuable source of information, which had its roots both in the Urbanowska’s own experiences associated with her visits to Zakopane filled with field studies, as it were, and meticulous note-taking, and in the literature on the subject, particularly Stanisław Witkiewicz’s Na przełęczy. It is possible to distinguish two levels of meanings in the image of the Tatras created by the author, meanings highlighted primarily in the dialogues of the protagonists, both fictional, belonging to the world presented in Róża bez kolców, and those modelled on real people (Witkiewicz, Matlakowski and others). The first of these levels of meanings is associated with an idea — journalistic in its origin — of popularising the Tatras and highland folklore, an idea defined as a “civic duty” leading, as it turns out in Urbanowska’s novel, to a kind of publicity for the (highest and most beautiful) Polish mountains. The second level is associated with a unique model — firmly established in the literary tradition — of “reading” the Tatra landscape with the help of the language of culture, for example by looking for similarities between natural objects and works of art, or in the writer’s attempts to interpret the symbolic meanings of natural images.

Alignment

2016 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Pier Giuseppe Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Enactive Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Current Context ◽  
The Subject

The subject of alignment is not new to the world of education. Today however, it has come to mean different things and to have a heuristic value in education according to research in different areas, not least for neuroscience, and to attention to skills and to the alternation framework.This paper, after looking at the classic references that already attributed an important role to alignment in education processes, looks at the strategic role of alignment in the current context, outlining the shared construction processes and focusing on some of the ways in which this is put into effect.Alignment is part of a participatory, enactive approach that gives a central role to the interaction between teaching and learning, avoiding the limits of behaviourism, which has a greater bias towards teaching, and cognitivism/constructivism, which focus their attention on learning and in any case, on that which separates a teacher preparing the environment and a student working in it.

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