scholarly journals LEXICAL MEANS OF VERBALIZATION OF THE CONCEPTOSPHERE OF THE SACRED IN THE POETIC IDIODYSTLE OF D. KREMEN

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Badenkova ◽  
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Iryna Korniienko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Image Of God ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Church Organization ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
Interpretive Analysis ◽  
Actual Material ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
The One

The article is devoted to the isolation and analysis in the poetic texts of D. Kremen, groups sacred concepts, microconceptospheres, the discovery of conceptual meanings in nature which clearly feels the spiritual, linguistic and cultural and individual-authorial components. The relevance of the chosen topic is due to the increasing attention of linguists, on the one hand, to the problems of linguoculturology and linguoconceptology, on the other - to the set concepts filled with religious, sacred meaning in general. The aim of the article is to trace how in the modern scientific paradigm one of the concepts "sacred" is interpreted, connected with the thematic concept of the conceptosphere of the sacred; demonstrate new trends in the implementation of the conceptosphere sacred, whose representatives are concepts to denote God and all that is holy in the understanding of the Divine, to identify by verbalization of microconceptospheres "biblical characters", "biblical loci", "church organization and cult", "sacred-chthonic beings". The subject of research is LEXICAL MEANS OF VERBALIZATION OF THE CONCEPTOSPHERE OF THE SACRED in poetic texts. The object is the microconceptosphere in the realization of the conceptosphere of the sacred in the poetic idiosyncrasy of D. Kremen. The methodological basis is the basic provisions of linguoconceptology, in particular the problems of interaction between language and culture. Research methods: the method of continuous sampling, which is used to collect the actual material; descriptive method, which allowed to analyze the results in a certain aspects; method of contextual and interpretive analysis associated with decoding units of secondary nomination, identification of symbolic and metaphorical and individual-authorial meanings and functional-semantic load. It was found that in the poetic idiostyle of D. Kremen the dominant of theonyms in the poetic idiostyle of D. Kremen is one of the most important cultural universals, the basis of all world religions is God. From the point of view of linguocognitology, the conceptual sphere, the conceptual image of "God", is a multifaceted, multifunctional, hierarchical structure, which is realized by multilingual connections and oppositions. The analysis of the isolated units shows that in the concept is dominated by meanings relevant to the Christian scenario, but also recorded in relation to certain pagan and ancient notions of the supreme deity. Nuclear concepts-images "Jesus Christ", "Virgin Mary" in the studied texts are characterized by a clear syncretism, due to the intersection of the manifested in its structure biblical and mythopoetic meanings. Linguistic means are singled out and characterized, which reveal both its traditional canonicity and symbolic-metaphorical representation in D. Kremen's poetic idiosyncrasy. The specificity of the linguistic representation of the concept is represented by the actual poetic semantic individual-authorial and expressive-pictorial properties in poetic speech.against the background of preserving the traditionally established means of its verbalization. The concept of God and other specified conceptual quantities are represented in the language through the corresponding tokens by a wide range of names of different linguistic nature and stylistic specificity, used with direct and figurative meaning, synonyms, paraphrases, etc.

What is a “difficult poem”? Towards a definition

2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Yaron
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Text Comprehension ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Communicative Acts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

AbstractModern poetry developed and transformed difficulty into a prominent aesthetic norm of poetry. The abundance of difficult poetic texts necessitates a study of the corpus. After differentiating between the way difficulty is perceived in poetry and in other communicative acts, I present the approach that I have adopted for the purpose of studying difficult poetry. In contrast to other studies which have examined difficulty from the author's perspective and, as a consequence, described factors that cause textual difficulty, I propose to examine the subject from the reader's point of view. The reader, after all, is the one who feels or does not feel the difficulty. The concept ‘difficult poem’ is necessarily interdisciplinary and the question of what is “difficult” involves cognitive psychology and its models of text comprehension. Following a discussion of these domains, I present the “definition” that I propose for the ‘difficult poem’.

scholarly journals ’n Kerkregtelike verkenning van die belewing van kerklike eenheid in en oor volks- en taalgrense

1990 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Le R. Du Plooy
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Church Unity ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The One

This article investigates the problem of church unity, paying special attention to unity within and across boundaries of language and culture. The problem is approached from a church canonical point of view. A synopsis is given of the resolutions and viewpoints of the three Afrikaans Churches in South Africa. The reasoning behind the different points of view of these Churches which all adhere to reformational traditions and which all function and work in the same country, is discussed critically. Finally an attempt is made to indicate a few canonical parameters which may be regarded as guidelines to address the problem of unity and diversity in the one Church of Jesus Christ our Lord.

scholarly journals Symbol of Mouse in Slavonic and Chinese Linguocultures

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-264
Author(s):  
Vladimir I. Koval
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Material Wealth ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Noticeable Increase ◽  
Comparative Aspect ◽  
The World ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Actual Material ◽  
The One

The article describes in comparative aspect the main symbolic meanings of the zoononym mouse in Slavic and Chinese linguocultures. The study of animal symbolism in Russian (wider - Slavic) and Chinese cultural traditions is one of the current trends in modern linguistics, which, on the one hand, has a pronounced anthropocentric orientation, and on the other, is characterized by a noticeable increase in interest in the Chinese language and culture of China in different countries of the world. Turning to the study of complex and ambiguous symbolism of the mouse is quite timely and taking into account the confinement of 2020 to the year of the White Rat / Mouse. The purpose of the study is to identify similar and specific for each culture features of perception and characteristics of the mouse as an animal, which has a significant impact on everyday life. The tasks of the work include identifying the sources of the appearance of a negatively connotated mouse image in culture, determining the ambivalent nature of rituals, customs and ritual actions, the object of which are mice, as well as revealing the contents of the “Mouse Wedding” custom in Chinese and South Slavic traditions. The analysis of the actual material (stable phrases, folklore texts, ethnocultural records, traditional drawings) showed, on the one hand, the mostly negative symbolism of the mouse in the Slavic spiritual culture, and on the other, the perception of the mouse as an animal, bringing material wealth and prosperity, in the traditional picture of the world the Chinese. At the same time, it was established that both the Slavs and the Chinese use a number of magic tricks aimed at fighting mice that cause considerable damage to the peasant economy. Significant for the linguoculturological analysis of the mouse image is the appeal to oriental folklore texts, as well as to traditional popular prints of Chinese and Russians, reflecting differently the symbolism of mice and their relation to the main enemy - the cat.

scholarly journals Nishida Kitaro’s Logical Theory as a Reflection of the Rationality of Japanese Language and Culture

2018 ◽  
pp. 59-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liubov Karelova
Keyword(s):  
Decisive Role ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Japanese Language ◽  
General Nature ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The One

The search for the backbone of the types of rationality inherent in different cultures keeps on to be an open problem, which remains relevant to the need of closer intercultural interaction in the global world. At the same time, the analysis of the logic of language as the basis for the study of rationality types continues to occupy an important place. Meanwhile, the studies of grammatical structures and language models from the point of view of their connection to a certain type of thinking and influence on the method of philosophizing are still quantitatively inferior to the researches of lexical aspects. Expansion of this type of research with the involvement of a diverse cultural material over time will allow us to reach the level of establishing regularities of a more general nature. This article contributes to the development of this issue. The author deals with the approaches to the defnition of the paradigm of Japanese rationality proposed by researchers of grammatical features of the Japanese language, on the one hand, and the “logic of place” concept and the “absolutely contradictory identity” principle of prominent philosopher Nishida Kitaro (1870–1945), on the other hand. A special attention is drawn to the structural similarity of the grammatical form highlighted by linguists, in which the decisive role belongs to the predicate, and to Nishida’s logical model reflecting specifcs of subject-predicate relationship as well as perception of opposition in terms of “contradictory self-identity.” In the conclusion of the article, the author demonstrates the relationship of this model with the certain idea of subject, the type of epistemology overcoming dualism, the processual and cosmocentric comprehension of the world that can be traced in Nishida’s statements.

scholarly journals Linguistic personality in culture: research areas

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (24) ◽  
pp. 152-158
Author(s):  
Oksana V. Rtishcheva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
Statics And Dynamics ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

The article deals with the definition of linguistic personality in the context of the relationship between language and culture. Language as a cultural phenomenon in determining the linguistic personality is considered in the works of J. L. Weisgerber. Speaking about language as a cultural value, the researcher evaluates the possibility for understanding it as an internal content of culture. Moreover, the author considers the linguistic personality within the context of the internal features of culture, taking into account the existential characteristics of language in its statics and dynamics. In Russian science, the first mention of the linguistic personality is found in V. V. Vinogradov’s works. In his interpretation the linguistic personality acts as an integrative formation including two sides, the collective (social) and individual. An important aspect of V. V. Vinogradov's linguistic personality reconstruction is the fact that the author focuses on the speech structure, which demonstrates real understanding of a language with regard to its functional characteristics, which overcome the closed existence in the system of set rules. Modern Russian linguistic and cultural concepts present more detailed study of linguistic personality practices in the context of culture. For example, V. I. Karasik considers the linguistic personality from the point of view of linguistic conceptology, focusing on integrative understanding of a language in its semantic and value aspects,on the one hand, and in its practical and functional aspects, on the other. Y. N. Karaulov tries to integrate the polarity of the linguistic personality with the levels of its organization, taking into account invariant and variable characteristics. The author notes that the linguistic personality can be characterized from the position of language consciousness and speech behavior. However, the focus of its study in the context of culture reveals certain aspects of human nature and life connected to the implementation of cultural forms, in which the existential foundations of human life are realised, reflecting its spiritual content.

scholarly journals Representation of the concept “money” in phraseological units of the Finnish and Erzia languages

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
Ekaterina D. Karpunina
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Semantic Feature ◽  
Lexical Analysis ◽  
Semantic Classification ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
Comparative Aspect ◽  
Actual Material ◽  
Linguistic Means

Introduction. The article examines the ways of representing the concept of “money” on the material of phraseological units of the Finnish and Erzia languages in a comparative aspect. It employs the model of conceptual analysis, which is based on the comparison of phraseological units of two distant languages. The purpose of the article is to identify the linguistic means of expression of the concept “money” on the material of phraseological units of each of the required language, and find out how the concept of “money” is represented in the linguistic, cognitive and cultural space of the nations. The study of phraseological fund of languages from the point of view of the representation of a concept is of great importance in linguistics. Materials and Methods. To achieve this goal, the article uses descriptive and comparative methods, a method of conceptual analysis developed independently in the course of the study, as well as techniques of component and etymological analysis. The actual material is obtained as a result of using the method of continuous sampling from phraseological dictionaries of the Finnish and Erzia languages. Results and Discussion. This study has allowed to identify the phraseological units that most accurately reflects the concept “money” in the Finnish and Erzia languages; select the frequency of duplicate tokens and spend a lexical analysis of their dictionary definitions; to make their own model of concept analysis to explore the identified language material taking into account semantic basis, and to submit to the lexical-semantic classification of phraseological units based on the material of the Finnish and Erzia languages. Conclusion. During the study, 62 Finnish and 35 Erzya phraseological units were identified and analyzed, 17 most frequently occurring nuclear lexemes were identified, which allowed us to conclude that the concept of “money” is similar in the minds of the Finnish and Erzia peoples. As a result of the analysis, a classification was made based on the lexical and semantic feature, including 7 groups of phraseological units.

Quintilian as a Literary Critic

2021 ◽  
pp. 218-235
Author(s):  
Francisco Chico Rico
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Complex Space ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
Moral Duties ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
The One ◽  
Rhetorical Texts

This chapter is devoted to the study of the Institutio oratoria as a complex space in which Quintilian, in addition to developing an education manual, a rhetorical treatise, and an essay on the orator’s moral duties and obligations, also includes theoretical reflections on literary criticism as well as analysis and assessments of specific literary works. In this sense, this chapter studies Quintilian as a literary critic. From a general and theoretical point of view, it reviews the relations established within the framework of the Institutio oratoria between literary criticism and poetarum enarratio, or exegesis of poetic texts, which should be practised by grammar students before continuing to the study of rhetoric. This review forces us to reconsider the question of the interdependence that exists between grammar and rhetoric as classical sciences of discourse. From an applicative and practical perspective, the chapter stresses the importance of Book 10 for a better knowledge of the literary critical analyses and evaluations that Quintilian makes of the most important works and authors of Greek and Roman literature, always in relation to its usefulness for the orator’s training through the exercise of reading and on the basis of the principle of imitation of literary models, which not only include poetic texts, but also historical, philosophical, and rhetorical texts. Finally, the chapter reviews the theory of Attic, Asianic, and Rhodian styles in Quintilian’s thinking and his defence of the one which, even defined by hybridization, best adapts itself to the pragmatic-communicative requirements of the rhetorical fact.

scholarly journals FUNCTIONS OF PERSONAL NAMES IN LATEST LATVIAN POETRY

Via Latgalica ◽  
2008 ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Ilga Šuplinska
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
To Come ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
The One

In the period of postmodern culture, a lot of importance is attributed to mythological thinking and to the decoding of myths and current cultural signs. Therefore, the use of „talking” personal names which are perceived symbolically becomes relevant. As semiotic research points out: „For the mythological conscience it is common to see the world as a book, where cognition equals reading, which is based on the mechanisms of decoding and identification”. (Lotmans, Uspenskis 1993: 35) That means that for a better comprehension of prose, also in postmodern texts one has to pay attention to the choice of personal names, their frequency, and the presence and characteristics of cultural connotations. Bearing in mind that features of postmodern texts are the disregard of genre borders and marginalism, it can hypothetically be assumed that similar attitudes towards the use of personal names can be found in poetry. However, considering both recent studies of personal names and of poetry, it is possible to conclude that poetry pays little attention to the studies of personal names. Personal names are not very common in poetic texts, and poets use them quite precautiously (unless they link it to the tendencies within postmodernism as mentioned above). The objective of this article is to describe the functionality of personal names in latest Latvian poetry. The methodological basis of the work was obtained by studying the works of semioticians (R. Jakobson, Y. Lotman, B. Uspenskiy, Y. Levin, etc,), using the practical experience of philological text analysis (O. Nikolina, J. Kazarin), as well as by studying the attitudes of particular authors towards personal names (V. Rudnev, P. Florensky, A. Losev, G. Frege). The sources for the research for this article were anthologies of four young poetesses who were born in the 1970s and made their debut at the turn of the century, from which anthroponyms where taken for description: Inga Gaile’s „Laiks bija iemīlējies” (Time was in love, 1999) and „Kūku Marija” (Pastry Maria, 2007), Andra Menfelde’s „tranšejas dievi rok” (Gods dig trenches, 2005), Liga Rundane’s „Leluos atlaidys” (Great absolution, 2004), and Agita Draguna’s „prāts” (Mind, 2004). When analyzing the expressions of personal name in these anthologies, and thereby looking for mutual interconnections both within one anthology and from a comparative angle, a cultural sight of the generation born in the 70s (or at least of the „reading” intellectual part of that generation) could be identified. It turns out that the frequency and the uniformity/diversity of the usage of personal names can reveal tendencies of a particular trend. Clear spatial and associative semantic borders are revealed in the poetry of Agita Draguna and Liga Rundane, although it should be mentioned that personal names are very rarely used in the poetry. In contrast, the poetry of Inga Gaile and Andra Manfelde features a diversity of personal names, a tendency of appellativization, and a variety of interpretations of personal names. In the poetry of L. Rundane and A. Draguna it is possible to distinguish groups of personal names which unequivocally reveal the existence of their worlds, and mark the values of the lyrics. In the poetry of these authors two groups of personal names can be distinguished: 1) Poets: Andryvs Yurdzhs, Rainis, Oskars Seiksts (in the poetry of L. Rundane), Anthony McCann, Fjodor Tjutchev, Omar Hayam, Arseny Tarkovsky (in the poetry of A. Draguna) 2) Mythical characters: Shiva, Isida, Zuhra, Djemshid (in the poetry of A. Draguna), Virgin Mary (Jumprova Marija, in the poetry of L. Rundane). In the poetry of L. Rundane, one’s world has a Latgalian identity. In contrast, in the poetry of A. Draguna the world is more sought for, whereas one’s values seem to come from Eastern concepts of the mind and the meaning of a human life. In the poetry of I. Gaile and A. Manfelde the use of a personal name is aimed at: - marking one’s space, but unlike in the poetry of the authors mentioned above, it is full of doubts and controversies not only on the emotional level, but also regarding the values that one is looking for. Therefore personal names serve to reveal these controversies, not just to acknowledge one’s space; - a self-extinguishment of personal names and their change into simulacra, - or the process of mythologization of everyday life. It can be concluded that the limited use of personal names, of separate names, and of phrases which start with a capital letter, such as the lack of persistence in changing pronouns and generic names into the status of personal names (Miracle, You, Father of Noise, etc), proves the intensity of the perception of the mythical world, an expression paradigm common for postmodernism. (L. Rundane, A. Draguna). The relatively free and manifold use of personal names, their changes into generic names (contextual appellativization), the quest for general notions (lexical meanings), and the desire to create them (Barbie, harlequin, Aivazovsky, Lennon, Tanya, etc.) on the one hand create sumulacra, and on the other hand emphasize a mythologization of everyday life and the possibilities of its use in literary texts (through the use of figures or palimpsests).

PRAGMALINGUISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PEDAGOGICAL STYLES OF COMMUNICATION (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE ENGLISH PEDAGOGICAL DISCOURSE)

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-37
Author(s):  
ELENA N. GORBACHEVA ◽  
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JULIA M. FOKINA ◽  
ALLA A. KALENDR ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Pedagogical Discourse ◽  
Interpretive Analysis ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Directive Speech Acts ◽  
The One ◽  
Directive Speech

The analysis of pragmatic characteristics of linguistic means, manifesting democratic and authoritarian styles of pedagogical communication, is carried out. The material of the research was the original scripts of the feature films "Dead Poets Society" ("Society of Dead Poets", 1989) and "Mona Lisa Smile" ("Mona Lisa's smile", 2003). The following research methods such as conceptual analysis, interpretive analysis and pragmassemantic analysis were used. The aim of the work is to study the pragmalinguistic characteristics of pedagogical communication styles. The topic of the work seems to be relevant, since, on the one hand, there is an increased interest of linguists in the study of various aspects of pedagogical discourse, and on the other hand, pedagogical communication styles have not been sufficiently studied from a pragmalinguistic point of view. The democratic and authoritarian styles of pedagogical communication are considered. It has been established that each of them is characterized by a certain set of means, manifesting democracy and authoritarianism at the pragmalinguistic level. The revealed speech acts allow to characterize the communication styles of teachers as democratic or authoritarian. As a result of the analysis of the factual material, markers of the democratic and authoritarian styles of pedagogical communication were revealed. It was found that the democratic style of communication is manifested with the help of speech acts that perform an inspirational (inspirational) function, such as praise, imperatives (calls for value-related actions), declarative (proclamation of certain values); through a speech act of advice as well as a joke. The markers of the authoritarian style of communication include directive speech acts (warnings about punishment, bordering on a threat, requirements for compliance with established rules, orders, prohibitions, recommendations) and a speech act of teaching.

Understanding functional illiteracy from a policy, adult education, and cognition point of view: Towards a joint referent framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Bulajić ◽  
Miomir Despotović ◽  
Thomas Lachmann
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Operational Definition ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Functional Illiteracy ◽  
Scale Levels ◽  
Components Of Reading ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract. The article discusses the emergence of a functional literacy construct and the rediscovery of illiteracy in industrialized countries during the second half of the 20th century. It offers a short explanation of how the construct evolved over time. In addition, it explores how functional (il)literacy is conceived differently by research discourses of cognitive and neural studies, on the one hand, and by prescriptive and normative international policy documents and adult education, on the other hand. Furthermore, it analyses how literacy skills surveys such as the Level One Study (leo.) or the PIAAC may help to bridge the gap between cognitive and more practical and educational approaches to literacy, the goal being to place the functional illiteracy (FI) construct within its existing scale levels. It also sheds more light on the way in which FI can be perceived in terms of different cognitive processes and underlying components of reading. By building on the previous work of other authors and previous definitions, the article brings together different views of FI and offers a perspective for a needed operational definition of the concept, which would be an appropriate reference point for future educational, political, and scientific utilization.

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