scholarly journals THE COGNITIVE PATTERN ‘MENTAL PHENOMENA’ IN THE ENGLISH LINGUOCULTURE

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 51-59
Author(s):  
Ekaterina V. Savitskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Abstract Thinking ◽  
Material World ◽  
Historical Continuity ◽  
Cognitive Pattern ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Human Thinking ◽  
Organically Grown ◽  
Semantic Evolution ◽  
Verbal Thinking

The article contains the results of research on historical continuity and parallelism between concrete eidetic verbal thinking and abstract conceptual verbal thinking. We demonstrate how sensory images acquire a symbolic function, expressing abstract ideas, and how events of the inner (mental) world are modeled by using images of events of the outer (material) world. In the course of historical evolution, on its way to becoming abstract, human thinking inherited patterns developed at previous stages; new ideas concerning the world are based on old ones, used as a foundation. The cognitive basis of abstract thinking consists of sensory images. By way of illustration, we study the cognitive pattern ‘Mental Phenomena’ belonging to the English linguoculture, in which images of events occurring in the objective (material) world serve as models of events occurring in the subjective (mental) world. The results of this process are embodied in the meanings, the inner form, and the combinability of units of the English language. The examples given in the article show that the sensory substrate has deeply and organically grown into abstract thinking and latently influences it. Even scientific abstract thinking is not free from sensory visualization; the latter acts as its cognitive substrate. This visualization, which makes it possible to model objects by analogy, plays a useful role in scientific thinking. In many units of the English language having an abstract meaning and included into the semantic field ‘Mental Phenomena’, a concrete meaning may be found at some point of their semantic evolution. This is a manifestation of historical continuity and structural parallelism between concrete and abstract thinking.

scholarly journals MODEL COOPERATIVE SCRIPT PADA PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA INGGRIS ASPEK BERBICARA: SEBUAH HIPOTESIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-32
Author(s):  
Siti Nurhayati
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Learning Problems ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Cooperative Relationships ◽  
Passive Learning ◽  
Library Research ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
English Subject

This article aims to hypothetically reveal the cooperative script model. The cooperative script model is believed to solve passive learning problems particularly in speaking. The model aims to develop social skills, teaching students to be cooperative and collaborative. In its application, students were encouraged to bravely collaborating in pairs on expressing new ideas or material being studied, as well as providing opportunities for them to bring out new creativities so they are motivated to work harder on achieving learning goals. In addition, when cooperative relationships occured, the students could appreciate their friends’ ideas, not the other way around. This study uses library research method by concocting hypotheses related to cooperative script model applied in Speaking. The English teacher can also obtain knowledge and description for appllying the model. It is also expected that the teachers are able to develop cooperative script model in other English language skills, so that students can communicate for expressing their daily needs. Keywords: Application; Cooperative Script Model; English Subject; Speaking

SECONDARY PHENOMENA IN THE LINGUISTIC WORLDVIEW (COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE)

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
S.G. Vinogradova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
English Language ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Conceptual Structures ◽  
Secondary Meaning ◽  
Human Thinking

The article opens with a brief overview of approaches to the study of secondary phenomena in the linguistic worldview. In particular, the author indicates the main reasons for secondary meaning formation including linguistic economy based on minimum of efforts aspiration and the associative and creative nature of human thinking. The author argues that in the framework of cognitive linguistics secondary meanings result from interpretation and the accompanying conceptual derivation and metarepresentation as processes of cognition. Such processes reflect a new understanding of the previously acquired knowledge, generating secondary conceptual structures, and choosing best ways of their anchoring in language considering cognitive dominants of linguistic consciousness as certain templates for construing reality through language. In the context of the above processes, the author examines secondary phenomena of the linguistic worldview analysing the examples of lexical and grammatical units of the English language. The discussion is focused on the outcomes of word formation in lexis, secondary interjections, secondary predicative structures, composite sentences.

Liat Steir-Livny, Remaking Holocaust Memory: Documentary Cinema by Third-Generation Survivors in Israel. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2019. 376 pp.

2021 ◽  
pp. 273-275
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
Holocaust Memory ◽  
Historical Film ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The One ◽  
Changing Attitudes

This chapter assesses Liat Steir-Livny's Remaking Holocaust Memory (2019). This book is the first comprehensive English-language study of the Israeli Third-Generation engagement with the history of the Shoah in documentary films. In analyzing “how Third-Generation documentaries provide new ideas and concepts to commemorate and preserve the memory for future generations,” Steir-Livny contrasts Third-Generation documentary films with the works of second-generation directors and explores an extensive number of films in five key areas. These key areas include the role of gender; the changing attitudes toward Germany; the use and exploration of historical film footage in Third-Generation documentary films; the function of testimonies that feature in Third-Generation documentaries “in more complex ways”; and the representation of perpetrators and bystanders in Third-Generation films. Throughout her study, Steir-Livny discusses the documentaries against the background of documentary film theories, on the one hand, and Israeli/Zionist Holocaust memory, on the other.

scholarly journals Unpacking Reflective Practice in the Praxis of English Language Teaching in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhamad Ahsanu ◽  
Tuti Purwati ◽  
Erna Wardani
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Classroom Practice ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Research Question ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Reflection In Action ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Reflection On Action

This paper portrays the ways Indonesian English Language Teaching (ELT) practitioners review and reflect on their practice, seek to expand new ideas and techniques they can apply in their classrooms. This study aims to enhance our understanding of what it is actually that Indonesian ELT practitioners are doing, understanding, and what they are trying to achieve in their classroom activities. This study investigates explanative answers to a single research question: In what ways are Indonesian ELT practitioners reflective in their classroom practice? This study conducted at secondary schools and universities uses a qualitative approach, utilizing observation, interviews, and documents as data collection methods, and content analysis as a means of data analysis. This research involved four participants selected purposively and voluntarily. Its findings, analysis, and interpretation are presented descriptively. The major finding of this study suggests that Indonesian ELT practitioners are reflective in three ways: being reflective within the process of their teaching, known as “reflection-in-action, being reflective in their post-teaching referred to as “reflection-on-action, ” and being reflective in their future improvement planning known as “reflection-for-action.” The practitioners’ reflexivity aims to improve the quality of their teaching, which can potentially affect the quality of their students’ learning. Thus, arguably Indonesian ELT practitioners have performed the praxis in their language teaching through reflective practice.

scholarly journals Post-graduate scholars can publish Compended-Guides to the literature of their fields using Knowledge-Step Forums

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don L Jewett
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Surgical Residents ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Senior Faculty Member ◽  
The Web

ABSTRACT "Publication forms the core structure supporting the development and transmission of scientific knowledge" (Galbraith2015). Yet, with the WorldWideWeb a dominant part of current scientific publication and information-dissemination, internet "publication" is still paper-based in its style and methods, even when it uses a digital medium. Such a paper-based publishing "model" is NOT adequate for a Web-based world. In 2006, an estimated 3,700 peer-reviewed scientific articles were published per day (Bjork2009)! This totals about 1.35 million articles per year. A similar estimate for 2011 was 1.8 million (Outsell2013), which is almost 5,000 per day. The total number of English-language scholarly documents accessible on the Web was estimated in 2014 to be at least 114 million (Khabsa2014). The methods and features described here are clearly needed now, and will be absolutely necessary in the future, when even more articles are available. In this context of an overload of information from scientific articles, described here is the idea of Knowledge-Step Forums as the basis for creating new peer-reviewed, compended "Literature-Guides", each on a very narrow topic and in a MultiLevel Format (Knowledge-Step Compendia). A multitude of Forum-Compendors, who need not be a senior faculty member (as is the case in traditional literature-reviews), but can be pre-docs, post-docs, and senior medical/surgical residents, will be aided by their mentors and online experts to create these Knowledge-Step Compendia. All participants (students and faculty) will be motivated by their own self-interest and thus each gains from the activity, it being a means to self-organize groups of like-minded scholars that can be the basis for reviews of new data, discovering new ideas, and finding jobs. The Software for Knowledge-Step Forums will also be useful to speed publication on the Web because it will easily support Publication of Preprints with automatic collection of online "peer-review" comments.

scholarly journals Instagram As Medium of Promoting English Speaking Skill: English Edupreneurship

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Pramudana Ihsan ◽  
Eryna Rista Aulia
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
Negative Comments ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Right ◽  
English Students ◽  
Speaking Skills

Public speaking has become an integral part of many professions and is at the center of career development opportunities. Therefore, the change in the education system from offline to online has led to new ideas in the implementation of public speaking learning, namely by using Instagram as a learning medium for collecting assignments intended to introduce or sell English language skills which are usually called Edupreneurship. That way, it is hoped that not only carry out learning and collect assignments but also something is obtained. However, learning still prioritizes output. Therefore, in this study, we refer to the personal branding theory. The purpose of this study is to determine how effective the use of Instagram is as a medium to promote English speaking skills, to find out the followers' responses regarding the skills possessed by English students, and also what was gained from promoting English speaking skills. The subjects in this study were students in the 5th semester. The number of respondents was 25 students. This research was conducted using data collection methods through Google forms. The results showed that Instagram provided effects and benefits to students, most of them stated that: (1) Students felt more confident in speaking English, (2) Students felt an improvement in their abilities, (3) Students felt more enthusiastic about positive comments and motivated by negative comments, (4) Students feel that Instagram is the right medium for promoting English speaking skills, (5) Students get input in the form of work.

God & the Gothic

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Milbank
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Glorious Revolution ◽  
Ghost Story ◽  
Material World ◽  
Historical Continuity ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Gothic Novels ◽  
The Glorious Revolution

God and the Gothic undertakes a complete reimagining of the Gothic literary canon to examine its engagement with theological ideas, tracing its origins to the apocalyptic critique of the Reformation female martyrs, and to the Dissolution of the Monasteries, now seen as usurpation of power by the authorities. A double gesture of repudiation and regret is evident in the consequent search for political, aesthetic, and religious mediation, which characterizes the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution and Whig Providential discourse. Part I interprets eighteenth-century Gothic novels in terms of this Whig debate about the true heir, culminating in Ann Radcliffe’s melancholic theology which uses distance and loss to enable a new mediation. Part II traces the origins of the doppelgänger in Calvinist anthropology and establishes that its employment by a range of Scottish writers offers a productive mode of subjectivity, necessary in a culture equally concerned with historical continuity. In Part III, Irish Gothic is shown to be seeking ways to mediate between Catholic and Protestant identities through models of sacrifice and ecumenism, while in Part IV, nineteenth-century Gothic is read as increasingly theological, responding to materialism by a project of re-enchantment. Ghost-story writers assert the metaphysical priority of the supernatural to establish the material world. Arthur Machen and other Order of the Golden Dawn members explore the double and other Gothic tropes as modes of mystical ascent, while raising the physical to the spiritual through magical control, and the M. R. James circle restores the sacramental and psychical efficacy of objects.

scholarly journals THE RETROSPECTIVE OF THE PHONOSEMANTISM FORMATION AND PHONOSEMANTIC REALITIES IN ENGLISH

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (11(79)) ◽  
pp. 38-41
Author(s):  
Tetiana Savchuk
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Object Perception ◽  
Sound Symbolism ◽  
Language Functions ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Thinking Process ◽  
Human Thinking

The scientific search for phonosemantic realities, carried out in modern promising areas of linguistic research, contributes to the determination of language cognitive capabilities. In the study of language, linguists actively use new principles, which require integration from different sciences to understand language carrier and diverse aspects of the human thinking process, to extensively analyse a wide range of language functions, and to profoundly explain linguistic phenomena. Phonosemantics is now a certain linguistic branch of psycholinguistics, which has gone through several stages of its formation. In practice, its foundation and principles have become the cornerstone of linguistic reasoned searches for the connection between sound and meaning in a multi-genre discourse. There are two approaches to the study of phonosemantism. Researchers' experiments confirm the existence of primary or elementary phonosemantism, showing the dependence of symbolic meaning on the acoustic-articulatory characteristics of sound. Secondary sound-symbolism arises as a result of the speaker's desire to reveal the correlation between the sonority of a word, develops in accordance with the phonetic laws of a particular language and its meaning. Both points of view need to be analyzed only in conjunction, since secondary, or contextually, phonosymbolism is possible due to the existence of the so-called primary, or elementary phonosymbolism. This phenomenon is due to the ability of the human brain to establish an associative relationship between sound and meaning, between objectivity and polymodality of human perception. Experiments have shown that the subject image is polymodal. The polymodal nature of object perception, in turn, presupposes the emergence of auditory images based on the action of only visual stimuli, and vice versa: visual images are born on the basis of auditory stimuli. The results of this study are well-argued evidence of the constancy of the associative meanings of the phonemes of the modern English language.

scholarly journals Unpacking Reflective Practice in the Praxis of English Language Teaching in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 272-290
Author(s):  
Muhamad Ahsanu ◽  
Tuti Purwati ◽  
Erna Wardani
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Classroom Practice ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Research Question ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Reflection In Action ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Reflection On Action

This paper portrays the ways Indonesian English Language Teaching (ELT) practitioners review and reflect on their practice, seek to expand new ideas and techniques they can apply in their classrooms. This study aims to enhance our understanding of what it is actually that Indonesian ELT practitioners are doing, understanding, and what they are trying to achieve in their classroom activities. This study investigates explanative answers to a single research question: In what ways are Indonesian ELT practitioners reflective in their classroom practice? This study conducted at secondary schools and universities uses a qualitative approach, utilizing observation, interviews, and documents as data collection methods, and content analysis as a means of data analysis. This research involved four participants selected purposively and voluntarily. Its findings, analysis, and interpretation are presented descriptively. The major finding of this study suggests that Indonesian ELT practitioners are reflective in three ways: being reflective within the process of their teaching, known as “reflection-in-action, being reflective in their post-teaching referred to as “reflection-on-action, ” and being reflective in their future improvement planning known as “reflection-for-action.” The practitioners’ reflexivity aims to improve the quality of their teaching, which can potentially affect the quality of their students’ learning. Thus, arguably Indonesian ELT practitioners have performed the praxis in their language teaching through reflective practice.

scholarly journals Post-graduate scholars can publish Compended-Guides to the literature of their fields using Knowledge-Step Forums

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don L Jewett
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Surgical Residents ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Senior Faculty Member ◽  
The Web

ABSTRACT "Publication forms the core structure supporting the development and transmission of scientific knowledge" (Galbraith2015). Yet, with the WorldWideWeb a dominant part of current scientific publication and information-dissemination, internet "publication" is still paper-based in its style and methods, even when it uses a digital medium. Such a paper-based publishing "model" is NOT adequate for a Web-based world. In 2006, an estimated 3,700 peer-reviewed scientific articles were published per day (Bjork2009)! This totals about 1.35 million articles per year. A similar estimate for 2011 was 1.8 million (Outsell2013), which is almost 5,000 per day. The total number of English-language scholarly documents accessible on the Web was estimated in 2014 to be at least 114 million (Khabsa2014). The methods and features described here are clearly needed now, and will be absolutely necessary in the future, when even more articles are available. In this context of an overload of information from scientific articles, described here is the idea of Knowledge-Step Forums as the basis for creating new peer-reviewed, compended "Literature-Guides", each on a very narrow topic and in a MultiLevel Format (Knowledge-Step Compendia). A multitude of Forum-Compendors, who need not be a senior faculty member (as is the case in traditional literature-reviews), but can be pre-docs, post-docs, and senior medical/surgical residents, will be aided by their mentors and online experts to create these Knowledge-Step Compendia. All participants (students and faculty) will be motivated by their own self-interest and thus each gains from the activity, it being a means to self-organize groups of like-minded scholars that can be the basis for reviews of new data, discovering new ideas, and finding jobs. The Software for Knowledge-Step Forums will also be useful to speed publication on the Web because it will easily support Publication of Preprints with automatic collection of online "peer-review" comments.

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