Industrialization and Kinship: A Comparative Study of Some Nigerian Ethnic Group

This article describes certain fragments of verbal-lexical and linguistic-cognitive levels of linguistic personality of the bilinguals with alexithymia. The goal lies in their determination, description, and comparison with the corresponding fragments of linguistic personality of the Russians with alexithymia for outlining the parameters that correlate or do not correlate with nationality and alexithymia status of the respondent. The research leans on the linguistic, quantitative and qualitative content analysis of autobiographical texts. The essential condition for including in the number of respondents was a pronounced alexithymia status (diagnosed in accordance with the Toronto Alexithymia Scale), affiliation to Altai or Yakut ethnic group, and command of the corresponding language (bilingualism). The following conclusions were made: certain cognitive and lexical-semantic parameters remain constant, while morphological and punctuation parameters among Altai and Yakut people cease to be the criterion of the pronounced alexithymia status of a person. The acquired results can be used as a complementary instrument for the diagnosis of alexithymia and its correction. The relevance of this research is substantiated by incidence of the phenomenon of alexithymia and the need for conducting comparative study of the texts of persons with alexithymia who belong to different ethnic groups, which allows determining the framework of such supplementary instrument of diagnosis as text analysis.

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Occasional vocabulary and word play of the coronavirus period as a way to reflect new elements of the picture of the world (using the example of French)

Вестник Адыгейского государственного университета, серия «Филология и искусствоведение» ◽

10.53598/2410-3489-2021-2-277-30-35 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 30-35

Author(s):

Елена Александровна Богданова

Keyword(s):

Comparative Study ◽

Ethnic Group ◽

Semantic Analysis ◽

Publishing House ◽

Word Play ◽

Current State ◽

The World ◽

Sociocultural Development ◽

French Speaking ◽

Study Methodology

Выявляются и рассматриваются французские окказионализмы на тему пандемии коронавируса. Данные, полученные из франкоязычных источников, позволяют проанализировать актуальное состояние картины мира французской лингвокультуры и определить влияние экстралингвистических факторов на образование окказиональной лексики. Материалом послужили авторские словообразования открытых интернет- источников французского издательства «Le Robert» и французского периодического издания «Le Monde». Методика исследования основана на семантическом анализе новых французских лексических единиц на тему пандемии с целью описания этих элементов картины миры французского лингвокультурного сообщества. Изучение способов вербализации мировосприятия представителей той или иной лингвокультуры является одним из современных направлений лингвистики и позволяет не только описать мировосприятие этноса на определенном этапе социокультурного развития, но и выявить динамику и закономерность изменения общественных ориентиров, и их отражение в языке. Результаты исследования могут быть использованы в сравнительно-сопоставительном изучении способов вербализации элементов структуры картин мира разных лингвокультур. The article identifies and analyzes French occasionalisms on the topic of the Coronavirus pandemic. Data from French-speaking sources make it possible to analyze the current state of the picture of the world of French linguistic culture and determine the influence of extralinguistic factors on the formation of the occasional vocabulary. The material was the author's words formations of open Internet sources of the French publishing house Le Robert and the French periodical Le Monde. The study methodology is based on a semantic analysis of the new French lexical units on the topic of the pandemic in order to describe the elements of a new picture of the world. The study of ways to verbalize the worldview of representatives of a particular linguistic culture is one of the modern trends in linguistics. Such a study allows us not only to describe the worldview of the ethnic group at a certain stage of sociocultural development, but also to reveal the dynamics and regularity of changes in social orientations and their reflection in the language. The results of the research can be used in comparative study of ways to verbalize elements of different linguistic cultures.

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