A European Viewpoint Reflected in Linguistic Description in Modern Korea

HAN-GEUL ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 283 ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Min Jeong Seo ◽  
Jin Young Jung ◽  
In Taek Kim
Author(s):  
Martin Maiden

The chapter discusses in further detail the nature of morphomes and of morphomic structure, demonstrating the crucial role played by diachronic data in diagnosing the psychological reality of putative morphomic structures and addressing some serious misapprehensions in the literature with regard to the kind of criteria adopted in this book. It is also argued here that the identification of morphomic structures is a necessary part of linguistic description, independently of theoretical considerations. It is stressed that the crucial problem is to explain why morphomic structures persist in diachrony.


2007 ◽  
pp. 169-183
Author(s):  
Irena Szczepankowska

In the article the Author poses a question concerning the understanding of the term "concept" (syn. "notion") in linguistics - its status as a subject of a semantic description ("concept" in relation to "meaning") and as an element of metalanguage. She confronts the earlier structuralist perspective originating from logic with more recent ones used in psychology and cognitive linguistics, in which the meaning of linguistic units is equated directly with a notion as a mental conceptualisation and in fact as a conceptualisation process. The most important novum in the cognitive understanding of a "concept" as a subject of linguistic description is, according to the Author, the renunciation of the classical perspective (a conceptual category as "a set of features reserved for a class of items") and demystification - especially with reference to popular categories - its ostensibly objective static nature. A notion is treated as an area of knowledge organised (profiled) in a special manner at the background of the whole network of cognitive relations, that is embracing also elements of emotions, valuation, perspective and interaction of conceptualisers. Creating notions and encoding them in language thus requires other methods of representing the meaning of linguistic units than those well-grounded in linguistics under the influence of logical semantics - so that the descriptions refer not only to the designatum but also to the cognising entity.


2019 ◽  
pp. 65-77
Author(s):  
Iryna Hotsynets

In the article on the material of L. Daien’s documentary story “Chornobyl is a bitter grass” the actualization and dynamics of language signs of the Chornobyl era in the context of the development of a specific “Chornobyl” dictionary is traced. This is in line with the needs of the verbalization of the topic of the technogenic accident at the Chornobyl nuclear power station, relevant to Ukrainian society. The mechanisms of the expressive development of Chornobyl’s own name are highlighted. The types of substantive-evaluative transformation of traditional images that fall into the semantic action of the Chornobyl nomination are noted. The objects of analysis were temporally and thematically marked vocabulary and phraseology, as well as stylistic methods of creating the image of the Chornobyl disaster. In particular, it emphasizes the peculiarities of contextual development of terminological units – zone, atom, radiation, radiation, etc. The types of their semantic-evaluative transformation as they enter the documentary text are clarified. The journalistic rhetoric of the linguistic description of the Chornobyl events, especially the linguistic portrayal of the liquidators of the consequences of the Chоrnobyl accident, was emphasized. Thus, the language of L. Daien’s documentary story “Chornobyl is a bitter grass” illustrates the social and psychological situation at the Chornobyl nuclear power station on the night of a man-made disaster. The verbalization of this topic is subordinated to the specific Chоrnobyl vocabulary, which reflects the entry into the common practice of narrowly specialized terms (atom, atomic, radiation, radioactive), and also attests to the expansion of the semantic volume of units, “involved”. Understood in the context of contemporary reading of documentary prose, they are perceived as linguistic signs of the Chоrnobyl era.


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