scholarly journals Semantic Originality of the Nest *MORK- in Russian Dialects

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-69
Author(s):  
N. V. Galinova
Keyword(s):  
Extreme Points ◽  
Intermediate Stage ◽  
Semantic Space ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Complete Darkness ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Russian North ◽  
The Subject

The article analyzes the semantic structure of the nest * mork - ‘flicker’ in Russian dialects. Extensive lexical material extracted from dialect dictionaries, as well as unpublished card indexes containing materials from field collections of the Toponymic expedition of Ural University (Russian North and Upper Volga Region). A hypothesis is proposed and proved that the values of the * mork - continuants turn out to be related to different stages of flickering, which is a return movement, when either one of the extreme points (darkness or light) comes to the fore, or the intermediate stage is actualized - movement from light to complete darkness and vice versa. A thematic and motivational classification of dialect vocabulary is carried out, during which two main semantic blocks are distinguished: “Nature” and “Man” (there is a third block - “The subject world” - but it is extremely small and contains values derived from the sphere “Man”). It is emphasized that the first block implements primarily meteorological semantics, while the second one shows a wide range of meanings (behavioral, communicative, perceptual, related to the field of physiology, mental, intellectual activity, etc.). Contamination processes are analyzed, the actants of which become elements of the nest being studied (during attraction to the extensions of mor -, smorod -, morsh -, etc.). An explanation of the phenomenon of enantiosemia observed in the semantic space of the studied nest is proposed.

scholarly journals A Lexicographic Description of the Concept “Anger”

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-127
Author(s):  
Y.V. Yarovikova
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Linguistic Expression ◽  
Cognitive Characteristics ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Inner World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Germanic Languages ◽  
Further Development

The paper seeks to outline the content of the concept “anger” as it is represented both in print and online lexicographic resources. The study is based upon the data gained directly from mono- and bilingual thesauruses, dictionaries of etymology, phraseology and idioms. The subject of the study is the semantic structure of the lexeme “anger” that names the corresponding concept in the English language. Etymological, definitional and contextual analyses revealed the lexeme’s diachronic transformations that underlie its semantics in Modern English. The data obtained in the analyses also contributed to identifying a wide range of usual cognitive characteristics that constitute the notional component of the concept. The choice of this issue is determined primarily by linguists’ continuing interest in representing a person’s interior by language means. The findings of the study make a contribution to the further development of issues relating to the linguistic expression of the human inner world in Modern Germanic languages from linguocognitive and anthropological perspectives.

scholarly journals Functional capacity of audio guides

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Vladimirovna Urazmetova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Multimedia Product ◽  
Favorable Conditions

The subject of this research is the audio guide as a relatively new multimedia product used in the sphere of tourism and education. The author determines the key advantages of using audio guide, as well as functional-linguistic peculiarities of organizing this genre of tourism discourse. Classification of audio guides is carried out based on their target audience and content. Special attention is given to examination of the prospects of using audio guides in teaching foreign languages. The author outlines the functions performed by audio guides in foreign language classes, such as entertainment, promotional, scientific-enlightening, scientific research, and educational. The scientific novelty lies in consideration of the type of educational activity that used audio guide as a modern and highly effective means of mastering foreign language skills. Audio guide not only creates favorable conditions for the implementation of educational-pedagogical activity, but also has a wide range of variations for solution of educational tasks. The use of audio guides is particularly relevant in studying the disciplines related to cultural-historical heritage of the country of origin of the language taught; they can also be used in expanding vocabulary, learning grammar, phonetics, etc. The article describes the most popular software and services for working with audio materials, as well as the examples of using a multimedia product in the classes of English phonetics.

scholarly journals Dictionary-Based Classification of Tweets About Environment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michela Cameletti ◽  
Silvia Fabris ◽  
Stephan Schlosser ◽  
Daniele Toninelli
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Unstructured Data ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Specific Topic ◽  
Social Accounts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract In the era of social media, the huge availability of digital data (e.g. posts sent through social networks or unstructured data scraped from websites) allows to develop new types of research in a wide range of fields. These types of data are characterized by some advantages such as reduced collection costs, short retrieval times and production of almost real-time outputs. Nevertheless, their collection and analysis can be challenging. For example, particular approaches are required for the selection of posts related to specific topics; moreover, retrieving the information we are interested in inside Twitter posts can be a difficult task.The main aim of this paper is to propose an unsupervised dictionary-based method to filter tweets related to a specific topic, i.e. environment. We start from the tweets sent by a selection of Official Social Accounts clearly linked with the subject of interest. Then, a list of keywords is identified in order to set a topic-oriented dictionary. We test the performance of our method by applying the dictionary to more than 54 million geolocated tweets posted in Great Britain between January and May 2019.

scholarly journals ORGANIZATIONAL MATURITY MODELS - REVIEW AND CLASSIFICATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aneta Kucińska-Landwójtowicz
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Maturity Models ◽  
Business Excellence ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Review Protocol ◽  
Organizational Maturity ◽  
The Subject

The continuous development of the organization and business excellence currently belongs to the most important challenges of modern management. It requires many activities aimed at the improvement of the efficiency of processes and the improvement of the product quality. This is accompanied by a wide range of performance evaluation and organizational maturity analysis in many aspects. The objective of this paper is to provide a systematic review protocol followed and the associated reasoning. The systematic review of the literature is carried out according to strictly defined four phases. The literature of the subject placed in the universal Thompson/Reuters Web of Science database was adopted as the object of exploration. The analysis of the most important articles, proceedings, books and reviews has been performed. The review covers the last 25 years. The systematic review reported in this paper was guided by the objective to classify existing organizational maturity models (OMM), in order of their application area and to indicate the latest research trends. The result of the conducted research is the classification of organizational maturity models including key categories. The main contribution of the paper is the subsequent grouping of these models into nine areas of application to allow further study and development of these. In addition, new maturity models were selected for specific areas of the organization's operations or related to new management concepts. The value of the article is a clear and detailed review of the models proposed in the literature, which may be useful for both researchers and practitioners. The main limitation is the analysis in the scope of topic organizational maturity models including only the Thompson/Reuters Web of Science. This is the first stage of literature review that are continued.

What Happened after Eusebius? Chronicles and Narrative Identities in the Fourth Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 160-179
Author(s):  
Peter Van Nuffelen
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
Biblical Exegesis ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Natural Religion ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Strong Concern

The chronicle of Eusebius, published in 325AD, was the subject of a wide range of responses by scholars of the fourth century. If a few simply adopted his framework, others sought to reintroduce the ideas of Julius Africanus and Hippolytus, whose chronicles Eusebius had brushed aside. The chapter shows that, notwithstanding a strong concern with getting Biblical chronology right, fourth-century chronography was not a merely intellectual activity in support of Biblical exegesis. Chronographic arguments were also marshalled in the exchanges with other faiths and Christian groups. In addition, by seeking to link the astronomical cycle to historical events, chronography also contributed to making Christianity the natural religion, in that its history and its cycle of feasts came to be aligned with the rhythm of nature.

scholarly journals СЕМАНТИКО-КОМУНІКАТИВНА ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКА ЛЕКСИКИ ПОЗИТИВНОЇ ОЦІНКИ В СУЧАСНІЙ АНГЛІЙСЬКІЙ МОВІ

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-25
Author(s):  
Олеся Татаровська
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Semantic Space ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Positive Assessment ◽  
Main Verb ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Contextual Environment

The article deals with the content space of positive assessment in modern English, which is formed under the infl uence of the type of assessment (moral and ethical, aesthetic, intellectual, social, emotional as well as the assessment of physical and empirical characteristics of the evaluation object), the obje ct of evaluation (person / non-person), and the nominative plane of subjects, actions and qualities that can potentially be positively assessed. The units used to positively assess moral, ethical, and emotional characteristics of the evaluation object correlate with the object of the “person” assessment, and units that correlate with a positive assessment of empirical features correlate with the object of the “non-person” assessment. The study reported in the article was conducted at the lexical and semantic levels. Semantics of the content plane of positive assessment is mainly laid down by three main verb ideas of “love”, “appreciate”, “improve”. Common for all parts of nominative thematic spheres are “love”, “friendship”, “pleasure”, “intelligence”, “harmonicity”, “respect” and others. The largest number of thematic planes can be noticed in adjectives and adverbs. Analysis at the lexemic level proved that multivalued words, in which all values would be evaluated, are rather few. In most cases, the evaluative value appears in the vocabulary of positive evaluation as the main one. Only in a small number of lexemes, semantic variants are formed in the process of development of semantic structure of lexemes. Within the semantic structure, lexemes are sometimes combined by semantic variants, which have an opposite score. All this indicates that the assessment in a number of cases is secondary: it is formed as an indication of the secondary characteristcs of the sign. If the score is at the “top” of a lexeme’s semantics, it can usually be applied to a large number of disparity characteristics of various objects. The assessment depends greatly on the situation in which it is used, that is, on the contextual environment and the nature of the speech act. Sociolinguistic aspects of communication as well as expressive stylistic color of the speech act play a special role in the variability of speech assessments. Adjectives that express the assessment and indicate any sign of the subject more often than other parts of the language are independently used to form the evaluative context. However, a signifi cant number of estimated nouns and verbs rarely appear in the context of isolation. These words require the explication of the estimated signs of the reference, which creates the possibility of sharing the evaluated words of diff erent parts of the language in the same context. Key words: vocabulary of positive semantics, register, semantic space, “plus-score”, melioration, derogativeness.

scholarly journals Dictionary-based Classification of Tweets About Environment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michela Cameletti ◽  
Silvia Fabris ◽  
Stephan Schlosser ◽  
Daniele Toninelli
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Unstructured Data ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Specific Topic ◽  
Social Accounts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract In the era of social media, the huge availability of digital data (e.g. posts sent through social networks or unstructured data scraped from websites) allows to develop new types of research in a wide range of fields. These types of data are characterized by some advantages such as reduced collection costs, short retrieval times and production of almost real-time outputs. Nevertheless, their collection and analysis can be challenging. For example, particular approaches are required for the selection of posts related to specific topics; moreover, retrieving the information we are interested in inside Twitter posts can be a difficult task.The main aim of this paper is to propose an unsupervised dictionary-based method to filter tweets related to a specific topic, i.e. environment. We start from the tweets sent by a selection of Official Social Accounts clearly linked with the subject of interest. Then, a list of keywords is identified in order to set a topic-oriented dictionary. We test the performance of our method by applying the dictionary to more than 54 million geolocated tweets posted in Great Britain between January and May 2019.

scholarly journals Civil process and the Rome law in Russia at XIX-beginning of the XXth centuries: the experience of the dissertation working-out

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Евгений Апольский ◽  
Evgeny Apolsky ◽  
Андрей Мордовцев ◽  
Andrey Mordovtsev ◽  
Артур Исрапилов ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Civil Procedure ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Civil Process ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Working Out

The monograph contains the analysis of the content and classification of the results of master's and doctor's theses in the specialty "Civil law", defended in the leading universities of the Russian Empire, the subject of which were the institutions and norms of civil judicial system and justice, as well as Roman law. The theses are considered in blocks grouped according to the basic elements of the science of Roman law and civil procedure. The main purpose of the authors is to identify the main areas of research of domestic legal scholars of the XIX-early XX centuries., to trace the goals, objectives and nature of the work, to present a set of forms of theoretical knowledge obtained in them. The content of key ideas, hypotheses, concepts, theories obtained in the course of pre-revolutionary studies on Roman law and civil procedure is disclosed in the appendices to the monograph. The book is addressed to a wide range of researchers, teachers, doctoral students, graduate students and University students interested in the development of science of Roman law and civil procedure in Russia.

scholarly journals Types of Words Meanings that Define the Cardinal Points

2020 ◽  
pp. 174-187
Author(s):  
R. Ye. Telpov
Keyword(s):  
Proper Names ◽  
The Other ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Special Position ◽  
North East ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Russian North ◽  
The One

The semantic structure of words that define the cardinal points is considered. Words of this type are of interest, on the one hand, as words embodying the most archetypal ideas about space, on the other hand, as lexemes in the structure of compound names of territories that have not received an official administrative status, but have distinct historical, cultural or socio-political characteristics (Russian North, East of Ukraine, etc.). The author proposes the classification of the components of the semantic structure of such words, developed by him, concludes that this structure is heterogeneous, that it is consistently realized in two meanings that are reflected in their lexicographic description: vector and territorial. The author draws attention to the fact that the territorial significance, in turn, is also subdivided into two types - general territorial and private territorial. The author emphasizes that the meaning of the names of the cardinal points should be considered private-territorial if they serve as a nomination for completely certain territorial entities that have a socio-political or cultural-historical originality. The author comes to the conclusion that, functioning in particular-territorial meanings, the names of the cardinal points are close to proper names: macrotoponyms and khoronyms, but they retain a special position among khoronyms and toponyms.

scholarly journals Semantics and functioning of epithets for the designation of the wreath in Ukrainian calendar ritual poetry

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
Folk Tradition ◽  
Folk Poetry

Considerable attention to the study of specific Ukrainian folk oral literature, observed recently led to the need for linguistic exploration of calendar ritual songs, because they most clearly record the echoes of the past and at the same time fix the peculiar changes caused by modern civilization processes. The folk poetry epithets are a conceptually important component of the artistic structure of folk works, including calendar-ritual poetry, as they relate to all the main images depicted in the songs. In the attributive space of calendar-ritual texts, the basic features of the outlook of the people are coded, as well as the meanings necessary for understanding the reconstruction of the mythological model of the Ukrainian world. Wreath is a ritual object that appears in all calendar ritual genres and has a wide range of epithets. It is determined that the names of plants are the most productive attributives for the designation of the wreath. This is due to the ritual practice of making wreaths from certain plants, endowed with symbolic semantics. Instead, epithets related to the names of jewels and express the idea of value are later in origin. It is observed that among the analyzed attributives, those whose have the positive evaluative component in the semantic structure are predominant. This is due to pragmatic studied texts, the purpose of ritual practices, mainly to the preservation, enhancement and production of important and useful things for person, and an overall positive reflection of the symbol of the wreath in the folk tradition. Attention is drawn to rarely used, but symbolically spacious epithets, the analysis of which contributes to the conceptualization of individual fragments of the world's mythological model. Consequently, the epithet characteristic of the wreath as a ritual object depends on the subject of the text, the speaker's orientation on the appropriate speech strategy to achieve the desired goal, as well as on the peculiarities of the mythopoetic model of the world. Epithets of the autumn-winter cycle are mostly secondary, transposed both from texts of spring-summer songs, and borrowed from the wedding ritualism of Ukrainians.

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