BRIDGE as a Linguistic and Cultural Symbol

The paper deals with a linguistic and cultural conceptualization of reality. A symbolic dimension of a concept is analyzed on the basis of its notional, perceptive and axiological features. The concept BRIDGE has been described in its verbal representation in the Russian and English linguistic cultures. The material of the study includes definitions from dictionaries and encyclopedias, textual samples from the Russian and English national corpuses, proverbs and aphorisms and poetic texts. Metaphorically, a bridge is understood as an opportunity to move on along the road via some natural obstacles, usually rivers. Symbolically, the following ideas come to the fore when applied to the concept BRIDGE: crossing an obstacle, raising up, possibility or impossibility of coming back, safety or insecurity. The novelty of the research consists in the description of these vectors of conceptualization of a BRIDGE as a cluster of the symbolic meanings of building or destroying a bridge and going up or falling down from it.

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Study of efficiency pedestrian bridge crossing in the road of Pangerang Antasari, Banjarmasin

MATEC Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/matecconf/201818106009 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 181 ◽

pp. 06009

Author(s):

Hari Nukta Ramadani ◽

Hudan Rahmani ◽

Akhmad Gazali

Keyword(s):

Traffic Accident ◽

Survey Method ◽

Analysis Method ◽

Pedestrian Bridge ◽

The Road ◽

Busy Time ◽

Bridge Crossing ◽

Road Crossing

You Pedestrians are one of the highest traffic accident objects. Several ways are used to reduce the number of accidents, among others by providing road crossing facilities, such as zebra cross and pedestrian bridge crossing. Unfortunately, the utilization of such facilities, especially pedestrian bridge crossing is still very less. This condition raises the need to identify efficiency use the pedestrian bridge crossing. The study location is a pedestrian bridge crossing in the road of Pangeran Antasari, Banjarmasin City. The studies method used are survey method and analysis method. The analysis shows that pedestrian percentage that doesn’t use pedestrian bridge crossing is very big, that is 87% at busy time and 88% at not busy time. The solution to increase the use of pedestrian bridge crossing is by install a curb railing fence on both sides of the road (about 200 m).

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Michael Field

Le Simplegadi ◽

10.17456/simple-158 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (20) ◽

pp. 80-91

Author(s):

Carla Tempestoso

Keyword(s):

Visual Art ◽

Human Beings ◽

Social Hierarchies ◽

Michael Field ◽

Verbal Representation ◽

Sister Arts ◽

Poetic Texts

The allure of the connection between literature, journey and the sister arts interlaces with the endeavours of human beings and with the act of writing about it, of transforming it into a story and sharing it with others (Pantini 1999). The poems included in the collection Sight and Song (1892) by Michael Field, male pseudonym of authoresses Katherine Harris Bradley and her niece Edith Emma Cooper, not only manage to celebrate the affiliation between literature and the figurative arts, but they also become a verbal representation of the visual art, namely of that ékphrasis deemed to be as an exchange between visual and textual cultures. In this analysis, the revolutionary ekphrastic inspiration of the two authoresses will validate the possibility of observing art and reality in a different way and translating it into poetic texts so as to allow the rise of that political capability of subverting Victorian identities and social hierarchies.

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Identity, lifestyle, and face-mask branding: A social semiotic multimodal discourse analysis

Multimodality & Society ◽

10.1177/26349795211014809 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 263497952110148

Author(s):

Yilei Wang ◽

Dezheng (William) Feng ◽

Wing Yee Jenifer Ho

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Face Mask ◽

Advanced Technology ◽

Multimodal Data ◽

Cultural Symbol ◽

The Past ◽

Multimodal Discourse ◽

Semiotic Approach ◽

Neoliberal Ideology ◽

Symbolic Meanings

The massive introduction of face-masks across the world after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed how they are designed and branded. Instead of merely focusing on functional qualities, face-mask producers have started to draw upon symbolic values in their branding discourse. Against this background, the present study investigates how face-masks are branded in Hong Kong by analyzing the design, packaging and websites for face-mask products, as well as the design of offline franchised stores using a social semiotic approach. Analysis of the multimodal data of four leading Hong Kong brands, with a focus on the use of verbal evaluation, iconography, typography, color, and materiality, reveals three symbolic meanings that are used in face-mask branding: (1) professionalism, which refers to the representation of face-masks as a symbol of advanced technology, (2) Hong Kong identity, which includes evoking pride in the past economy and exploiting the cultural symbol of the Lion Rock, and (3) fashion lifestyle, in which face-masks are associated with the values of stylishness, individuality, and luxuriousness. The exploitation of symbolic values and multimodal design in face-mask branding reflects the influence of the neoliberal ideology in the highly marketized Hong Kong society.

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PECULIARITIES OF A VERBAL REPRESENTATION OF A CONCEPTUAL LANGUAGE IMAGE “NIGHT” IN THE POETIC TEXTS OF AFANASY AFANASYEVICH FET

Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews ◽

10.18510/hssr.2019.7674 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (6) ◽

pp. 481-485

Author(s):

Ilvira R. Galiulina ◽

Alexandr V. Spiridonov ◽

Iana A. Byiyk

Keyword(s):

Russian Language ◽

Cognitive Approach ◽

Discursive Space ◽

Continuous Sampling ◽

Verbal Representation ◽

The World ◽

Poetic Texts ◽

The Individual ◽

Conceptual Language ◽

The Russian Language

Purpose: This study was conducted in the framework of the anthropocentric direction with elements of the cognitive approach. Based on the concept of Yuriy M. Lotman, who asserts that a literary text is a model of reality, it verbally represents real components that structure the real world and ideal components. The purpose of this article is to identify the characteristics of the representation of the linguistic image of the concept “night” in the poetry of Afanasy A. Feta as a fragment of the Russian language picture of the world. Methodology: For this purpose, the extralinguistic conditions of the formation of the discursive space of Afanasy A. Fet's poetic texts are analyzed. The theoretical literature on the picture of the world and the poetic text are studied. The peculiarities of the linguistic concept image as a complex and multidimensional education are revealed. The paper also reveals the method of continuous sampling on the material of collections of poems by Afanasy A. Fet compiled a card index of poems about the night (187 poetic texts). Result: The rating of the frequency of language units is determined: night, moon, star, dawn; the ways of representing the linguistic image-concept “night” through the prism of the author purely individual consciousness have been revealed. The peculiarities of the verbalization of the linguistic image of the concept “night” in the composition of graphic-expressive means are determined. The study made it possible to conclude the picture of the world of the poet Afanasy A. Fet is a unique version of the individual picture of the world that has enriched the “concept-sphere” of the Russian language. The individual picture of the world of the lyrics is presented in his poetic texts, the complexity of the study of which lies in the fact that they are pointed out such features as emotionality, fragmentation, phatic imagery. Applications: This research can be used for universities, teachers, and students. Novelty/Originality: In this research, the model of Peculiarities of a Verbal Representation of a Conceptual Language Image “Night” in the Poetic Texts of Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet is presented in a comprehensive and complete manner.

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I.A. Bunin’s poetic mythonymicon: connotative aspect

Russian language studies ◽

10.22363/2618-8163-2021-19-3-285-297 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. 285-297

Author(s):

Olga A. Selemeneva

Keyword(s):

Word Formation ◽

Primary Sources ◽

Main Research ◽

Frequency Of Use ◽

Symbolic Meanings ◽

Actual Material ◽

To Come ◽

Quantitative Changes ◽

Poetic Texts ◽

The Individual

The article studies the system of mythological names in I.A. Bunins poetic heritage. The relevance of the topic is due to the unexplored problems of word-formation motivation, semantics, structure, and the role of mythological names in I.A. Bunins prose and poetic texts. The aim of the paper is to analyze the connotative potential of different-structured mythological names which are significant for the artistic system of I.A. Bunin. The actual material of the study contains I.A. Bunins poetic texts written in 1888-1952. The main research methods are descriptive, etymological, contextual, semantic methods, and structural analysis. The inventory of more than 700 poetic contexts of I.A. Bunin made it possible to identify 152 mythological names from various sources. The selected units were systematized on four features: semantics, etymology, structure, and frequency of use. The analysis of the connotative potential of some simple, composite and complex mythological names allowed to come to the conclusion that they accumulate additional emotional-evaluative, symbolic meanings. New combinations of meanings, qualitative and quantitative changes in the connotative content of mythological names are provided by the individual authors reinterpretation of primary sources, the complexity of motivational relations between producing units and derivatives, and the semantic environment of a particular unit. Mythological names are associated with the key motifs, themes, ideas, and value oppositions of I.A. Bunins picture of the world. The study of the features of the system of I.A. Bunins mythological names with the tools of linguistics and literary studies, philosophy, and cultural studies is one of the undoubted prospects of research.

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TITLE AS A FIGURATIVE AND SYMBOLIC CENTER OF BORIS PASTERNAK’S POETRY COLLECTION “OVER THE BARRIERS”

Tyumen State University Herald Humanities Research Humanitates ◽

10.21684/2411-197x-2021-7-2-60-76 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 60-76

Author(s):

Nadezhda V. RAZUMKOVA

Keyword(s):

Urban Space ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Weather Conditions ◽

World Picture ◽

Entire Collection ◽

Symbolic Meanings ◽

Poetic Texts ◽

Home Space ◽

Psychological Sense ◽

Global And Local

This article, based on my report at the international conference dedicated to the 130th anniversary of B. L. Pasternak (China, Hangzhou, Zhejiang University, 8-10 November 2020), is aimed at studying the nature of the relationship between the title of the collection and the texts of the poems included in it. The relevance of the work is determined by the anthropocentric orientation of modern linguistics, which focuses on the linguistic personality and the world picture of the creative individual. The theoretical section discusses the methodological foundations of the research, reveals conceptual categories, highlights a complex of factors that affect the perception and understanding of Pasternak’s lyrics. The practical part of this article contains the results of a contextual analysis of the lyric works titles. The symbolic meanings of the title-trope are presented, the associative features of which correlate with the idea of overcoming limitations in the broad sense of the word. In poetic texts, the referent of the key sign is manifested by lexemes: body (intimate space), courtyard (home space), sleep (border space), street and canals (segments of urban space), railway (technogenic space), weather conditions (obstacles in the perception of the environment), ice (natural shackles that are temporary) etc. The conclusions are formulated in the following judgments: 1) the title, which is considered to be global and local “ad hoc” connectivity, makes the entire collection complete, strengthens its internal unity due to the motive of overcoming space-time boundaries; 2) the formula “over the barriers” symbolizes the boundaries both in personal and biographical terms and in the philosophical and psychological sense, emphasizes the complexity and significance of the poet’s creative quests.

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Infrastructural Breaks on the Road from Birth to Death in Contemporary Russia

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel12121115 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (12) ◽

pp. 1115

Author(s):

Sergei Mokhov ◽

Anastasia Andreevna Novkunskaya

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Empirical Data ◽

Maternity Care ◽

Rite Of Passage ◽

Expert Interviews ◽

Remote Areas ◽

The Road ◽

Ethnographic Studies ◽

Symbolic Meanings ◽

On The Road

This paper addresses the problem of infrastructural breaks in two systems—the funeral market and maternity care. The authors analytically problematize how dysfunctions in the operation of these infrastructures shape the experiences of funeral and childbirth in contemporary Russia. The authors propose the conceptual model of the ‘rite of passage’, supplemented with the sociology of repair joint with the anthropology of infrastructures. Based on the ethnographic studies of the funeral market and maternity care (2015–2019), the authors uncover multiple infrastructural gaps and challenges that Russian families face while preparing for childbirth and funeral, especially in remote areas of the country. Empirical data of participant observations, in-depth and expert interviews demonstrated that continuous infrastructural failures can be considered to be an integral part of these life-cycle rituals, as both burial and maternity care arrangements never happen smoothly and unproblematically. In conclusion, the authors argue that necessity of “repairing” or patching the infrastructural gaps obtains self-sufficient symbolic meanings that possess ontological features.

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Seeking to uncover biology's chemical roots

Emerging Topics in Life Sciences ◽

10.1042/etls20190012 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (5) ◽

pp. 435-443 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Addy Pross

Keyword(s):

Environmental Changes ◽

Biological Systems ◽

Significant Development ◽

The Road ◽

Physical Chemical ◽

Systems Chemistry ◽

Biological World ◽

Inanimate Matter ◽

The Origin Of Life ◽

Opening Up

Despite the considerable advances in molecular biology over the past several decades, the nature of the physical–chemical process by which inanimate matter become transformed into simplest life remains elusive. In this review, we describe recent advances in a relatively new area of chemistry, systems chemistry, which attempts to uncover the physical–chemical principles underlying that remarkable transformation. A significant development has been the discovery that within the space of chemical potentiality there exists a largely unexplored kinetic domain which could be termed dynamic kinetic chemistry. Our analysis suggests that all biological systems and associated sub-systems belong to this distinct domain, thereby facilitating the placement of biological systems within a coherent physical/chemical framework. That discovery offers new insights into the origin of life process, as well as opening the door toward the preparation of active materials able to self-heal, adapt to environmental changes, even communicate, mimicking what transpires routinely in the biological world. The road to simplest proto-life appears to be opening up.

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