scholarly journals SEMANTIC ALTERNATION FROM ANIMAL TO HUMAN UNDER SEMANTIC FIELD PERSPECTIVES

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-29
Author(s):  
Nguyen Van Tho
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Language Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Cognition And Culture

The meanings of words in particular and the linguistic aspects, in general have been studied quite a lot by scientists so far. However, determining the meanings of language units in general and words in particular has proven difficult. The study of meanings of languages has achieved different results. For this reason, research to get into the details still needs to be deeply continued. Besides, ethnic culture is deeply rooted in the subconscious of each member of an ethnic group associated with the language. Because language is a reality of thinking and a means of forming and preserving culture, national thinking and culture are only revealed through speech (language). As a result, language research in terms of cognition and culture is very necessary and urgent in the world at large and Vietnam in particular. The research results show that all words changed their meanings from the animal to the human with regards to semantic field in order to describe the human characteristics of form, personality, etc. When changing their semantic field, these words still brought their original nuances of meaning which combined with the new definitions shaping two socially linguisctic trends - positive and negative. Among them, the number of positive words is only 2 and the negative words are up to 44 cases. Thus, the majority of words were transformed from the animal semantic field to the human one in semantically negative manner. This stems were coined from the cognition about the animals of the Vietnamese people. It is quite interesting to note that whenever Vietnamese people swear profusely, they tend to apply animal-related words, which probably shape a quite special feature of Vietnamese.

scholarly journals A costume in the funeral rituals of the Mari people

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-429
Author(s):  
Anzhelika N. Pavlova
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Research Results ◽  
The World ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Burial Rites ◽  
Sacrificial Ritual ◽  
Stable Elements ◽  
Funeral Rituals

Introduction. Burial rites, which are a traditional object of research in archeology and ethnography, are one of most stable elements of ethnic culture. The costume and its individual elements took an important place in the funeral and memorial rites. The study of these rituals can reveal new aspects of the spiritual culture of the Mari people. Materials and Methods. The work is based on the comparison of archaeological and ethnographic materials, culturogical approach, methods of semantic, cultural and anthropological research. Results and Discussion. The reference of funeral and memorial rites to the passage rites determined the use of the elements of a wedding dress, including fur clothes and jewelry. The belt that served as a storage was an important part of the burial costume, as well as the sacrificial and ritual complexes of the ancient Mari tribes. Conclusion. Application of a culturological approach to the research of the funeral rituals of the Mari people allowed to conclude that the costume substituted the deceased, served as the embodiment of a generic body that went back to the totem. The funeral costume, like the wedding one, assumed the use of ancient symbolic codes. The belt that completed the symbolic human body was an important burial costume. The belt served as a defense in the ancient Mari sacrificial ritual complexes, enhancing their association with the world tree.

Concept of “tash” (stone) in the Karachay-Balkar language picture of the world

2021 ◽  
pp. 239-251
Author(s):  
M. A. Akhmatova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
Cognitive Characteristics ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Everyday Realities ◽  
Complex Words

This paper focuses on a multi-aspect study of the concept of “tash” (stone) in the KarachayBalkar language picture of the world. The analysis of the available factual material has shown that for Karachays and Balkars, “tash” is quite an important component of the ethnic culture and reflects one of the relevant segments of the naive national picture of the world, encoded in the Karachay-Balkar literature and works of folklore. This fact is also due to significant functional and semantic features of the “tash” lexeme in the Karachay-Balkar language. This word serves as the basis for the formation of a large number of complex words and phrases, giving rise to the corpus of nominations of objects of the surrounding reality: place names, various rocks, etc. In addition, the word under consideration is highly productive in the sphere of terminology associated primarily with the everyday realities of the Karachay-Balkar ethnic group. “Tash” and related concepts are represented in the phraseological fund of the Karachay-Balkar language and paroemias reflecting various anthropomorphic features, in particular: characteristics, properties, actions, states, etc. The concept under consideration has such cognitive characteristics as support, solidity, eternity, life, death, and others and represents the status and the character of a person. Also, the concept of “tash” is realized in the texts of Karachay-Balkar folklore, myths, and in the works of Karachay-Balkar writers and poets, confirming its relevance for the linguistic consciousness of the Karachay-Balkar ethnic group.

'The Proof is on My Palm': Debating Ethnicity, Islam and Ritual in a New African Diaspora

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Muslim Identity ◽  
World Religion ◽  
Guinea Bissau ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common

AbstractFor Mandinga in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal, life-course rituals are currently provoking transnational debates on ethnic and religious identity. In Guinea-Bissau, these two identities are thought to be one and the same—to be Mandinga is to 'naturally' be Muslim. For Mandinga immigrants in Portugal, however, the experience of transnationalism and the allure of 'global Islam' have thrust this long-held notion into debate. In this article, I explore the contours and consequences of this debate by focusing on the 'writing-on-the-hand' ritual, which initiates Mandinga children into Qur'anic study. Whereas some Mandinga immigrants in Portugal view the writing-on-the-hand ritual as essential for conferring both Muslim identity and 'Mandinga-ness', others feel that this Mandinga 'custom' should be abandoned for a more orthodox version of Islam. Case studies reveal an internal debate about Mandinga ethnicity, Islam and ritual, one that transcends the common 'traditionalist'/'modernist' distinction. I suggest that the internal debate, although intensified by migration, is not itself a consequence of 'modernity' but has long been central to how Mandinga imagine themselves as both members of a distinct ethnic group and as practitioners of the world religion of Islam.

Sudden Death in a Nigerian Due to Rupture of an Atherosclerotic Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

1985 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-71
Author(s):  
Wilson I. B. Onuigbo ◽  
A. Vijayalakshmi Suseelan
Keyword(s):  
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm ◽  
Aortic Aneurysm ◽  
Sudden Death ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Infrarenal Aortic Aneurysm ◽  
Abdominal Aortic ◽  
Nigerian Woman ◽  
The World ◽  
Forensic Epidemiology

ABSTRACT A case is described in which a 55-year-old Nigerian woman of the Igbo ethnic group died suddenly of a rupture of an atherosclerotic infrarenal aortic aneurysm. Necropsy revealed several features usually associated with this condition, but which occur very rarely in the African Negro. The report of its occurrence in this part of the world may facilitate further research in forensic epidemiology.

scholarly journals Formation of linguistic and cultural competencies during russian language lessons (on the example of the lexeme "rainbow")

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (Extra-B) ◽  
pp. 46-51
Author(s):  
Usmanova Liliya Abrarovna ◽  
Minakhmetova Aliya Ildarovna ◽  
Arkin Rosy Artuchi
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Competence Development ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Russian Language

This article is devoted to the linguoculturological competence development among schoolchildren in the process of teaching the Russian language. The object of scientific consideration was the lexeme "rainbow", which refers to the most ancient layer of words and has a deep national and cultural specificity. In accordance with the set tasks of our work, we used descriptive-analytical, stylistic, component, distributive methods of data analysis, the method of the semantic field. An integrated approach to the study of the lexeme "rainbow" implies a multifaceted analysis, including the analysis of dictionary definitions, collection of etymological information, consideration of word-formation relations, study of the paremiological status of a word, its discursive features, identification of traditional and individual author's meanings and, thus, reflection in the form of creative work of students, reflecting the information received about this lexeme... An upbringing approach in Russian language lessons helps students discover aesthetic ways of understanding the world, without which it is impossible to describe the Russian language picture of the world.    

scholarly journals Reclaiming Romani-ness

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioanida Costache
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Epistemic Systems ◽  
Porous Boundaries

Drawing on theories of identity postulated by cultural theorists, scholars of gender identity, and critical race theorists, I explore issues of identity politics and “Otherness” as they pertain to Romani identity, history and activism. By critiquing the latent bifurcation of identity and subjectivity in Judith Butler’s theory of performativity as well as her explicit adherence to universalism, I begin to outline a (post-Hegelian) hermeneutic in which narratives of self enable political processes of self-determination against symbolic and epistemic systems of racialization and minoritization.[1] Roma identity both serves as an oppressive social category while at the same time empowering people for whom a shared ethnic group provides a sense of solidarity and community. In re-conceptualizing, reimagining and re-claiming Romani-ness, we can make movements towards outlining a new Romani subjectivity – a subjectivity that is firmly rooted in counterhistories of Roma, with porous boundaries that both celebrate our diversity and foster solidarity. I come to the subject of Romani identity from an understanding that our racialized and gendered identities are both performed and embodied – forming part of the horizon from which we make meaning of the world. I wish to recast the discourse surrounding Romani identity as hybridized and multicultural, as well as, following Glissant, embedded into a pluritopic notion of history.

scholarly journals Level of BIM development and applying in design and engineering survey companies in the republic of Kazakhstan. Research results

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (78) ◽  
pp. 101-106
Author(s):  
A. A. Tatygulov ◽  
◽  
A. Sh. Gizatulina ◽  
A. M. Zhamankulov ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Building Information Modeling ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Design Engineers ◽  
The World ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Engineering Survey ◽  
The Republic

Relevance of the research is caused by wide spreading of Building Information Modeling throughout the world for over 20 years. BIM adoption in Kazakhstan was started relatively recently and has not yet come up to common use among design engineers as well as constructors and investors.

scholarly journals THE SYMBOLISM OF COLORS IN THE ETHNIC PICTURE OF THE WORLD OF THE ARABS

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-107
Author(s):  
E. V. Kuhareva
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Moral Code ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Color Palette ◽  
The World ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Practical Life

Te article studies symbolic meanings of colors in the Arab on the material of Arabic sacred, literary texts, dictionary editions, and folklore. Tere is considered the place of each element of the color palette in the Arab ethnic picture of the world, which expresses moral and ethical values and worldview of the Arab ethnic group, and the importance and influence of colors on the Arab mentality. Te analysis reveals the similarities and differences in the perception of colors and their symbolic meanings in the Arab and Russian languages. Arabs’ perception of a particular color is based on their fgurative system, in which all the phenomena of the surrounding world appear not in the form of philosophical abstract generalizations, but as a realistic perception of the surrounding reality. Symbolism of their perception is revealed in their practical life, the basis on which national consciousness and national mentality is formed. Color symbolism depends on the place and conditions in which an ethnic group lives. A national picture of the world, however, is not only and not so much a reflection of these conditions, it is a reflection of their moral, ethical and aesthetic conceptualization, fxed in various linguistic forms and transmitted from generation to generation as a moral code allowing people to preserve their national identity.

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