scholarly journals THE CONCEPTUAL FIELD „GLÜCK“ IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE DISCOURSE

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Anzhela Ahapiy ◽  
Valentyna Kovalchuk ◽  
Olha Leh
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
German Language ◽  
The Core ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
Language Discourse ◽  
Structural Linguistics ◽  
Level Function ◽  
Lexical Field ◽  
Action Verbs

The present paper pays a special attention to such terms as “concept” and “conceptual field”, which play an extremely important role in understanding the processes of conceptualization of the reality in human cognition. The interpretation of the conceptual field as a fixed grouping of typologically and semantically homogeneous and hierarchically arranged concepts is substantiated in the study. The principles of modeling the conceptual field “Glück” in the German language discourse are considered. The means of verbalization of the concept “Glück”, namely a set of nominal lexemes for designating positive emotions (the lexeme “Glück” and its synonyms registered in the texts: Glück, Freude, Geschick, Heil, Hochgefühl, Schwein, Segen, Wonne) are under investigation. Based on the analysis of collocations of positively marked emotive nouns with verbs that cover certain areas in the conceptual field under study, the structure of the conceptual field “Glück” in the German language discourse is modeled. The conceptual areas constituting the core, the near and the far periphery are outlined. The degree of connection between different conceptual areas is determined and the areas exhibiting strong, medium or weak connection are found. Correlations between the conceptual areas have been established, each of which, forming figures of various configurations, is considered as a single conceptual complex. The use of methods of structural linguistics in the study of conceptual processes made it possible to obtain relevant objective data on the actualization of the emotional concept “Glück” in the German fiction of the 20th century. In summary, the author’s interpretation of the term “conceptual field” is suggested, which is defined as a set of conceptual spheres (areas) connected by systemic, interrelated and complementary relations, which is represented by the lexical field units (words) and within which units of the lexical level function and realize their meanings. The structure of the conceptual field “Glück” has been determined. The following conceptual areas constitute the core: “verbs of movement and displacement”, “verbs designating occurrence or appearance” and “verbs of spatial localization”. The near periphery is formed by: “action verbs”, “relational semantics verbs”, “stative, processual verbs”, “verbs of being”, and “verbs of mental and social actions of the subject.” The far periphery includes the following conceptual areas: “verbs of sounding and onomatopoeia”, “characterization verbs”, and “modal verbs”. Key words: concept, verbalizers, correlation analysis, conceptual field, conceptual area, core, periphery.

Software

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Assembly Language ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Basic Design ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
The Core ◽  
Alan Turing ◽  
Word Level ◽  
Digital Hardware ◽  
Logic Functions

Digital computers are “protean” in that they can become almost anything through software. Their basic design elements came from a 19th-century British tradition in logic, exemplified by Boole and Babbage. It seemed natural to have logic realized in hardware. This tradition culminated in the work of Alan Turing who proposed a universal computing machine, now called a Turing machine, based on logic. Although hardware that computes logic functions lies at the core of digital hardware, low-level practical machine operations are grouped together in “words.” Programs are based on hardware operations controlling computation at the word level. This chapter presents a detailed example of what a computer does when it actually “computes.” Because human cognition finds it hard to use such an alien device, there is a brief discussion of how programming became “humanized” with the invention of software tools like assembly language and FORTRAN.

Problem Solving and Mathematical Modelling

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Gr. Voskoglou
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Mathematical Modelling ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Human Society ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Real Goal

Problem solving is one of the most important components of the human cognition that affects for ages the progress of the human society. Mathematical modelling is a special type of problem solving concerning problems related to science or everyday life situations. The present study is a review of the author’s earlier works on problem solving and mathematical modelling from the scope of Education. Its real goal is that it presents in a systematic way and in a few pages only the results of many years research on the subject. This helps the reader to get a comprehensive idea about a very important topic belonging to the core of Mathematics Education, which is very useful to those wanting to study deeper the subject and get directions for further research in the area.

scholarly journals Shaping the Grammar of Security.

AmeriQuests ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Lynn De Silva
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Critical Hermeneutics ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Core ◽  
Language Discourse ◽  
The Social

In Australia, practices of preemptive deterrence construct the political identity of asylum seekers as the ‘illegal other’, and as a threat to national security and to national identity. At the core of the state's illegality regimes lies the endorsement of exclusionary norms through the grammar of security. Who is responsible for the endorsement of these norms and how do they (re)produce illegality regimes? How are securitization moves legitimized and sustained through illegality regimes? How may they be resisted? A case study of Sweden illustrates how the securitization discourses mobilizing illegality regimes may be resisted through norm circles in the political sphere that endorse norms of egalitarianism, justice and equality. This paper focuses on the ‘critical realism’ associated with the works of Dave Elder-Vass and Roy Bhaskar. Elder-Vass draws on the philosophy of Roy Bhaskar to examine the ontology of language, discourse, culture and knowledge and their contribute to the construction of social reality, thus synthesizing aspects of realism and constructionism. Roy Bhaskar’s philosophy of the social sciences has aimed to crystallize a transcendental realist framework incorporating a form of critical naturalism and also critical hermeneutics.

Computational Creativity

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rania A. Hodhod ◽  
Brian S. Magerko
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Computational Creativity ◽  
Conceptual Blending ◽  
Partial Matching ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cognitive Scripts ◽  
Blending Process ◽  
Mental Space ◽  
Emergent Structure

Conceptual blending (CB) is a basic mental operation that plays a fundamental role in the construction of meaning in our everyday life. The core of CB is the partial matching of two input mental spaces and the selective projection from those inputs into a novel 'blended' mental space, which then dynamically develops an emergent structure. Improvisational acting is one specialized domain in which conceptual blending is heavily used; improvisers are required to co-create stories on the stage in real time based on how they continuously perceive their environment. The Digital Improv Project has been engaged in a multi-year study of the cognitive processes involved in improvisational acting and has led to a better understanding of human cognition and creativity. In this article, the authors provide a computational model for the conceptual blending of cognitive scripts that can help digital improv agents to select the two input spaces required in the blending process. The blend is an emergent structure that provides new interesting events that the digital improv agents can adopt in their acting.

Transatlantic Religion and the Boundaries of Community

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Bryce
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
German Language ◽  
La Plata ◽  
Weimar Germany ◽  
The Core ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Catholic Organizations

This chapter argues that denominational identities influenced how German-speaking Lutherans and Catholics in Argentina understood the boundaries of community and their sense of belonging in Argentine society. It charts the efforts of Lutheran and Catholic organizations in Germany to promote German-language religion in Buenos Aires and the Río de la Plata region, and it examines how these transatlantic ties helped shape some of the core German-language institutions of Argentina. German speakers maintained relations with various religious organizations in Imperial and Weimar Germany, but they drew selectively on this support to foster both religious and linguistic pluralism in Argentina. Ultimately, support from Germany came with few strings attached, and it gave German-speaking Lutherans and Catholics access to German-speaking pastors and priests, as well as extra financial resources.

Menschenrechte als Teilhaberechte an politischen Gesellschaften

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Icking
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
German Language ◽  
Political Society ◽  
Philosophical Debate ◽  
The Core ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
Alternative Understanding

What do we mean when we talk about human rights? This is the question at the core of an ongoing philosophical debate between advocates of naturalistic and political theories on human rights. Discussing both strengths and weaknesses of these positions, the author proposes an alternative understanding of fundamental rights: Human rights should be understood as membership rights in a political society. This book thus not only offers the first profound discussion in the German language of one of the most important contemporary debates in political philosophy, but also proposes a novel interpretation of one of the defining concepts of modern normative thinking.

Emergent technologies against the background of everyday life: Discursive psychology as a technology assessment tool

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 810-825 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Veen ◽  
B. Gremmen ◽  
H. te Molder ◽  
C. van Woerkum
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Discursive Psychology ◽  
Emergent Technologies ◽  
The Core ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Everyday Talk ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Blind Spots

To understand prospective users’ reactions to emergent technologies, it is crucial to examine the interactional contexts within which these reactions take place as people’s reactions are shaped by issues that are not necessarily related to science or technology. These issues are often overshadowed or remain blind spots when descriptions or scenarios of proposed technologies are thematized as being the core objects of reference. We therefore recommend also studying prospective users’ everyday-life practices in their own right, and in naturalistic settings. Insight into the social actions people accomplish in their everyday talk, such as establishing a particular identity, can help innovators translate prospective users’ concerns into relevant technology characteristics. We propose discursive psychology as an analytic tool to do this and show its merit with a few illustrative examples.

Konzeptualisierung bildungssprachlicher Kompetenzen. Anregungen aus der pragmatischen und funktionalen Linguistik und Sprachdidaktik

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 327-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torsten Steinhoff
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Academic Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
German Language ◽  
Heuristic Model ◽  
Functional Perspective ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Language Discourse ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Linguistic Functions

Abstract Academic language has been the subject of much interdisciplinary discourse. However, a major problem arises when attempting to operationalize the construct of academic language. A common approach is to determine typical grammatical and lexical features. However, such compilations are not suitable for describing and explaining linguistic functions and actions in academic language. They are thus also not suitable for investigating academic language skills, since they neglect a central aspect of language. This problem is addressed in the present article, which considers academic language skills from a pragmatic and functional perspective. First, transdisciplinary aspects concerning structure, diagnosis, acquisition, teaching and standards of academic language skills are considered. On the basis of these findings, a heuristic model for representing different aspects of academic language skills is presented. The three fields of the model consider relevant cultural conditions (domains, functions, fields of knowledge, tasks, interactions and media), academic language actions (modes, units) and relevant individual resources (cognitive, motivational, volitional). These are then discussed with reference to three central concepts in the German-language discourse on academic language: „Alltägliche Wissenschaftssprache“, „Diskurspraktiken“ and „Textprozeduren“.

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