scholarly journals Discourse and Functional Style: the Problem of the Correlation

2018 ◽  
pp. 106-122
Author(s):  
O. Kovalova
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Discursive Formation ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Comparison ◽  
Joint Application ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

The article is devoted to the problem of the correlation of the categories of discourse and functional style in modern specialists` interpretations. Attention to this problem is caused, on the one hand, by the growing popularity of the discursive analysis and the very term discourse, and, on the other hand, by the fact, that functional style remains one of the important categories in Eastern Europe linguistics. The key theories of discourse and functional style; the common features of discourse and functional style; the criteria for their separation have been singled out. The concepts of M. Foucault’s discourse, French and German-Austrian discourse analysis, schools of N. Arutyunova, T. van Dijk, as well as the understanding of the style of V. V. Vinogradov and M. N. Kozhina have been involved for the theoretical comparison of the above-mentioned categories. According to modern researchers, discourse and functional style relate to the neighbouring linguistic disciplines and have common features. One of them is extralinguistic factor, which directly determine the specificity of discourse and functional style. At the same time, researchers put borders for discourse and functional style, recognizing the complexity of the problem of their separation. The differentiation of the categories is carried out by means of the ontological criterion: the discourse is interpreted via the concept of “discursive formation”, while style is interpreted via “the form of public consciousness”. Accordingly, scholars come to the conclusion about the diversity of structure and nature of the discourse and functional style. The importance of each concept is stated and the neccessity of their joint application for a deeper linguistic analysis of the text is emphasized. The correlation of the discourse and functional style is also considered on the basis of the textocentric model of discourse. The thesis about a certain hierarchical subordination of the methods of stylistics and discourse-analysis is argued. It is said about the “embedding” of the stylistics into the subject of discourse analysis, which promotes interdisciplinary enrichment: in this case, the discourse analysis acquires the proper “linguostylistic” content, and stylistics is realized in the frames of functional parameters of the discourse.

scholarly journals On a new register-pyrometer, for measuring the expansions of solids, and determining the higher degrees of temperature upon the common thermometric scale

1833 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 404-406
Keyword(s):  
Melting Point ◽  
High Temperatures ◽  
The Other ◽  
Royal Institution ◽  
Guyton De Morveau ◽  
Higher Temperature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One ◽  
Universal Application

In the year 1821, the author published in the Journal of the Royal Institution an account of a new pyrometer, and of some determinations of high temperatures, in connexion with the scale of the mercurial thermometer, obtained by its means. The use of the instrument then described was, however, limited; and the author was subsequently led to the invention of a pyrometer of a more universal application, both to scientific researches and to various purposes of art. Fie introduces the subject by an account of the late attempt of M. Guyton de Morveau, to employ the expansions of platina for the admeasurement of high temperatures, and for connecting the indications of Wedgwood’s pyrometer with the mercurial scale, and verifying its regularity. The experiments of that philosopher were by the contraction of porcelain, and by actual comparison with those of the platina pyrometer, at no higher temperature than the melting point of antimony; but they are sufficient to establish the existence of a great error in Wedgwood’s original estimation of his degrees up to that point. This he carries on by calculation, on the hypothesis of uniform progression of expansion, up to the melting point of iron; the construction of his instrument not admitting of its application to higher temperatures than a red heat, in which platina becomes soft and ductile. Mr. Daniell shows, by an examination of M. Guyton’s results, that he has failed in establishing the point he laboured to prove; namely, the regularity of the contraction of the clay pieces. The pyrometer of the author consists of two distinct parts; the one designated the register , the other the scale .

scholarly journals XVIII. On the organization of the fossil plants of the coal-measures.—Part I. Catamites

1871 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 477-510 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
De Novo ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fossil Flora ◽  
Fossil Plants ◽  
True Nature ◽  
Inverted Position ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One ◽  
Coal Measures

A few preliminary words may he necessary to prevent misunderstanding respecting the claims and objects of the following memoir. When I entered upon the investigation of which it records the results, I found, in the writings of various British and foreign authors, a copious Calamitean literature; hut the widest discrepancies prevailed amongst them both as to facts and to inductions. I therefore determined to pursue the study of this group of fossils as if de novo, to record the facts which I observed, and to draw from those facts alone such inferences as seemed legitimate, both facts and inferences being in a certain sense, and so far as was possible under the circumstances, new and original. But it necessarily follows that some of these facts and inferences are not absolutely new, though many of them, I think, will he found to he additions to our knowledge of the subject; whilst others, though not new, have presented themselves to me in a light different to that in which they have been regarded by my able predecessors in the study. Such being the object of the memoir, I have not deemed it desirable to include in it a record of all the observations made by preceding writers. As a rule I have only referred to them when the discussion of some moot point rendered such a reference necessary. The fundamental aim of the memoir is to demonstrate the unity of type existing amongst the British Calamites. Brongniart, Dawson, and other writers believe that there exist amongst these plants two types of structure, the one Cryptogamic and Equisetaceous, the other Exogenous and Gymnospermous; on the other hand, Schimper and Carruthers regard the whole as Equiseceous, affording an example of the diversity of opinion on fundamental points to which I have already referred. Of course, before arriving at their conclusions, Brongniart, and those who adopt his views, had fully apprehended the exogenous structure of the woody zone of the Calamite, which is further illustrated in this memoir. The separation of each internode into vertical radiating plates of vascular and cellular tissues, arranged alternately, was familiar to Brongniart, Unger, and other early observers. Cotta regarded the cellular tracts (my primary medullary rays) as medullary rays ; but this interpretation was rejected by Unger, and the same divergence of view on this point has recurred amongst subsequent writers. Unger also noticed what I have designated secondary medullary rays, but at a much more recent date Mr. Carruthers disputed their existence. In their 'Fossil Flora of Great Britain,' Lindley and Hutton gave very correct illustrations of the position of the roots of Calamites relatively to the stem ; and yet for years afterwards some of their figures reappeared in geological text-books in an inverted position, the roots doing duty as leaves ; so far was even this elementary point from being settled. The true nature of the common sandstone form of Calamites, viz. that they are inorganic casts of the interior of the woody cylinder from which the pith has been removed, has been alike recognized by Germar, Corda, and Dawes; but they referred the disappearance of the cellular tissues of the pith to inorganic decay which took place subsequently to the death of the plant. It appears to me that the condition in which we find these cellular tissues affords no countenance to this conclusion. They are as perfectly preserved, when present, as any of the other tissues of the plant. Their inner surface, nearest the fistular cavity, presents no appearance of death and decay, but of rupture and absorption, which I conclude has occurred during life,—a different hypothesis from that adopted by my predecessors, and for which my reasons will be assigned in the memoir. The labours of Mr. Binney are referred to in the text. He figured the longitudinal internodal canals, but was disposed to believe that they had merely formed passages for vessels. He gave, however, excellent figures of the woody wedges, the primary medullary rays, and the cellular medulla, with its nodal septa or diaphragms .

scholarly journals Linguosemiotic peculiarities of the text in TikTok: “the word of others” in the new multimedia reality

Litera ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 127-134
Author(s):  
Anastasiya Gennad'evna Gotovtseva ◽  
Ernest Sergeevich Karpov
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Urban Folklore ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Type ◽  
Lip Sync ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

The subject of this research is the tendency towards formation of a new semiotic code of entertainment content, observed in the Russian segment of Tiktok social network. The goal of this research is to determine the new trends in recreational segment of the modern social network, the popularity of which depends on the number users’ likes and reposts. The research material contains the continuous sampling of videos for the period from February to March 2021. The analysis of videos of the Russian-speaking users allows revealing the tendency towards the emergence of a new type of recreational content at the intersection of plagiarism and parody. This implies voice-covering of the fragments of stand-up show in a different context: for example, a fragment from comedy show is lip-synced by a woman while preparing meal. In other words, the authors of such content do not claim to be original, they virtually lip-sync with synchronization of another person's speech (moreover, the TikTok format allows seeing the link to the original soundtrack). At the same time, such content is far from parodic, as there is no mimicking or gesturing of the original. This rather implies the renovation of the open text tradition, which historically accompanies the emergence of a new form of broadcasting information. Such content also indicates common features with the folklore: the author's story  is voice-covered by various users repeatedly, like an anecdote or the history of urban folklore. The conclusion is made on the emerging semiotic tendency of the polycode multimedia text, which on the one hand has deep historical roots, while on the other hand is substantiated by the modern technological capabilities and ways of broadcasting information.

A Pragmatic Analysis of Vague Language in the News Articles on the Iraqi Security Crisis

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huda H. Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Political Language ◽  
Cooperative Principle ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One ◽  
Vague Language

There is a well-known belief among linguists and discourse analysts saying that vague language is one of the common features of political language. In order for the linguists to include vague language within the domain of linguistic analysis, they started formulating vagueness within the principles of the pragmalinguistic theory.  However, the pragmatic perspective had not been paid much attention yet. With the accelerated events in the Middle East, the best way to get information is to appreciate some news items because they are objective facts that are accessible and easy to comprehend for everybody (Pan, 2012, p. 2530). Iraq has witnessed many periods of serious escalation among which is the one started in April 2014 in which, the ISIS influence started expanding suddenly and rapidly causing infrastructure damage and causalities. The present paper aims at investigating vague expressions in news articles on the security situation in Iraq in the period mentioned above by means of Grice’s cooperative principle to find out the purposes vague language serves and its effects on these news articles.

scholarly journals The Quest for the Spiritual Self: Anti-Capitalist and Neo-Liberal Forms of Spirituality in Contemporary Romania

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristine Palaga
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Spirituality And Religion ◽  
Spiritual Self ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One ◽  
Optimization Efficiency

Abstract In line with socio-anthropological theories meant to deconstruct the secularization teleology (Berger, 1997; Luckmann, 1967; Shah, 2015), this paper aims to document recent transformations in the field of Spirituality and Religion. Inheriting the analytical dichotomy between neo-liberal and anti-capitalist forms of spirituality, introduced by Carette and King (2005), I aim to emphasize both the common points and the ruptures between the subjectification technologies used within transformative self-development and self-help programmes, on the one hand, and a form of alternative Neo-Pagan spirituality, which opposes the capitalist way of organizing social, economic, political and cultural life, on the other hand. The rupture between anti-capitalist and neo-liberal forms of spirituality rests on identifying the extent to which the spiritual domain is colonized by an economically mundane ideology, in which the subject is invited to look upon spirituality as an internal resource meant to satisfy all the tropes of the neo-liberal economic imagery: optimization, efficiency, amplified productivity, abundance and prosperity. In addition to the ethnographic justification of this theoretical construct that supports the existence of two opposed poles of constituting a spiritual self, I will adjoin the cultural relationship between spirituality and capitalism to the wider problem of secularization, by arguing that spirituality is a byproduct of late modernity and a leitmotif of the power technologies through which the neo-liberal subject is produced. 2

scholarly journals The potato virus "X": Its strains and reactions

1938 ◽  
Vol 229 (559) ◽  
pp. 137-217 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Virus Infection ◽  
Potato Virus ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Potato Virus X ◽  
Distinct Virus ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

The virus, the subject-matter of the following study, is known under several names: the X virus of Dr Kenneth M. Smith (1931), the common mosaic of Quanjer (1923), the healthy potato virus of Johnson (1925), which he also called tobacco ringspot (a name now given to a quite distinct virus, viz. that described by Wingard (1928) and others (Thung, 1936), and potato virus 1, the name now given by Smith (1937). The extensive work which Smith, the writer and his colleagues, have done on this virus during the last four years has led to the appellation of the X virus being generally adopted as the most convenient, as well as the least committal, of its synonyms, and it is the one which will be adhered to in this paper. Smith drew attention to the variation in virulence of the symptoms exhibited by the virus infection he then called tobacco ringspot, induced by the inoculation of the juice of a potato suffering from what appeared to be simple mosaic.

scholarly journals Colonization and Decolonization of the Indian Subcontinent: A Colonial Discourse Analysis of 'A God in Every Stone'

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 282-292
Author(s):  
Inam Ullah ◽  
Gul Andama ◽  
Abid Nawaz
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political System ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
British Raj ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Military ◽  
Common Perception

The British Raj in the Indian subcontinent has been an area of academic and scholarly inquiries. The period has deeply impacted the indigenous culture and political system. Studies have highlighted a plethora of political, military and economic reasons accounting for the establishment and collapse of the Empire. However, Kamila Shamie’s novel A God in Every Stone (2014) adds another dimension to the subject, which is not power rather the colonial discourses which settled and unsettled the Empire in India. The study examines that how the colonial discourses helped the colonizers in the establishment of Empire in the subcontinent. The study contends that it is not the military might but the colonial discourses which helped the Empire take its roots. Ironically the same discourses also resulted into anticolonial resistance and the final collapse of the Empire due to its being endlessly split and anxiously repetitive in nature. The study is based on Shamsie’s novel. The analysis is developed round Homi K. Bhaba’s theory of "Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse”. The study, unlike the common perception, concludes that it was not military might alone, but the colonial discourses which settled and unsettled the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent.

scholarly journals Релевантность понятий «гештальт», «фигура», «фон», «фокус» для анализа концептуальной области «кажимости»

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Е. В. ЧЕРНЦОВА
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Semantics ◽  
Language Semantics ◽  
First Impression ◽  
The Subject ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One ◽  
Potential Opportunity

The paper suggests the metacognitive representation of the conceptual framework of кажимость gestalt. The metacognitive representation is based on the inferential conclusions obtained by cognitive-discursive analysis of the functioning contexts of polysemous verbal predicates казаться, показаться. The Gestalt script includes native speakers’ experience conceptualized in the semantics of contexts. This experience can be presented by the following meta-utterances: The speaker knows that it is not possible to see an object being observed properly from afar, i.e. the first impression of it could turn out to be mistaken. The speaker also knows that it is possible to come closer to the object afterwards and observe it, i.e. to re-verify the results of perception empirically. This allows them to form a more complete idea / knowledge about the object. Subsequently, the speaker reflects on his first visual impression based on the received idea / knowledge, evaluates it as “true” or “false”. In addition, the speaker is aware that there are particular circumstances under which effect the visual images of objects in the real world are distorted and the recipient receives visual illusions. In the paper, a cognitive Gestalt script was formed. Based on it, all contexts with the words казаться, показаться are built. Due to the dialectical combination of perceptual and epistemic modes, a single /unified Gestalt script consists of two parts. On the one hand, there is supposed to be a subject-experiencer as well as his perceptual act, the object he observes, the first, potentially erroneous /distorted image of the object. There should also be a potential opportunity to implement an act of reflexive verification of the first impression and establish the truth. On the other hand, there is supposed to be the subject as a bearer of knowledge, his knowledge of the distorted character of the subject-experiencer's perception as well as his knowledge of the inconsistency between the subject-experiencer's first impression and what exists in reality. In addition, there should be implicit / explicit awareness of the reasons that led to the distortion of the perception results. The author demonstrates the integrity of the conceptual semantics of the Gestalt script. The correlation between the conceptual level and the level of language semantics is shown in a sketchy way in terms of figure, background, and focus. The author also describes focus shifts which underlie the construction of different contexts - background and figure.

scholarly journals Aktivnyye russkiye poslovitsytematicheskoy gruppy «Sud'ba»i ikh serbskiye poslovichnyye sootvet·stviya (na fone kitayskogo yazyka)

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-198
Author(s):  
Hsin-Yun Lee ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Language ◽  
Common Features ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Definition Of

Active Russian proverbs of the thematic group “Destiny” and their Serbian proverbial equivalents (in comparison with the Chinese language). The article is devoted to the comparison of proverbs in three languages (Russian, Serbian and Chinese) based on the multilingual dictionary of M. Yu. Kotova “Russian-Slavic dictionary of proverbs with English equivalents.” As a result of this analysis, the linguistic pictures of the world of the three nations are compared. The object of the research is the proverb as a linguocultural phenomenon, the subject is proverbs about fate in the Russian, Serbian and Chinese languages. The study reveals the common features of Russian, Serbian and Chinese proverbs about fate (thematic group “Destiny”), and also points out the differences. The work provides a definition of a proverb considered as the object of research in three languages; compares trilingual proverbs about fate in parallels, and also explores full proverbial parallels, proverbial parallels with another internal form (analogs) and lacunae. Keywords: proverb, paremiology, thematic group, destiny, Russian, Serbian, Chinese

scholarly journals Потенциал иронии в творчестве Людмилы Петрушевской (на примере романа Нас украли. История преступлений)

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Юлия Брюханова
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Significant Element ◽  
Philosophical Aspect ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

Many researchers of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya’s works draw attention to the irony which is the significant element of her prose, drama and poetry. It is important that the ironic principle manifests itself not only as an artistic technique but also as a philosophical aspect. Irony demonstrates the ambivalence of reality. On the one hand, it ridicules and profanes everything. On the other hand, irony gives the certitude of the ontological status of reality. We can see a good example of this function of irony in the novel Nas ukrali. Istoriya prestupleniy (2017). This novel shows the common features of Petrushevskaya’s works – the unity of ironic potential and language. In this case, language is not only the style but first of all the ontological element. This is why the language becomes almost a character in Petrushevskaya’s novel. Irony opens the vital potential of the linguistic personality. As a result, one of the heroes imitates foreign speech but doesn’t speak a foreign language. Irony also helps to reveal the ambivalent nature of life. It shows that our “umora” in Sanskrit and in ancient Indian is “humour” and “death”. So, the game and profanity not only reduce the status of the hero, the image, or the reader’s expectations but, first of all, fill the gap between words, ideas, feelings, and people.

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