scholarly journals Cognitive Approach to Literary Text Interpretation

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 557-561
Author(s):  
D. Ashurova
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Information Distribution ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Text Interpretation ◽  
World Picture ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
Cognitive Principles

The research is concerned with the cognitive approach to literary text interpretation which presupposes certain models of understanding. It discusses the problems of multidimensional structure of the literary text, the basic linguistic signals put in the position of foregrounding and the role of cultural concepts in decoding authors world picture. Special attention is paid to the principles of foregrounding, linguistic iconicity, redundancy and economy, which are considered to be cognitive principles of information distribution in a literary text and perform conceptually significant functions, highlighting the most essential information. It is substantiated that in the process of literary text interpretation, attention should be paid to the representation of cultural concepts, the processes of conceptualization and distribution of information in a literary text, the distribution of conceptual features according to the field principle.

scholarly journals The Role of Foregrounding in Interpretation of Subtextual and Conceptual Information in a Fictional Text

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-526
Author(s):  
R. Mansurov
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Text Linguistics ◽  
Conceptual Information ◽  
Cognitive Principles

One of the major issues in contemporary text linguistics is the analysis of the cognitive principles of distributing information in a literary text. Literary text unlike other types of the texts holds subtextual and conceptual information which could be encoded by the readers when they identify foregrounded parts of the text. Foregrounding is the type of cognitive principles of distributing information in the text and its main function is guiding the readers in interpretation of hidden and conceptual message of the text by showing some signals (important extracts) to the readers. In this article, the types and techniques of foregrounding are discussed, and their usages are observed in the short story The Luncheon by S. Maugham.

Cognitive script experiment In the worldview of literary text (based on Douglas Adams’ novel “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the galaxy”)

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
D.A. Kozhanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Discourse Markers ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
World Picture ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Cognitive Scripts ◽  
Scientific Worldview

The article analyses the cognitive mechanisms of interpretation of the literary text viewed in the context of discourse interaction. As the article shows, being the elements of discourse, the cognitive structures determine the procedures of interpretation of the literary text. Viewed from the cognitive aspect, such interpretation consists in constituting new cognitive images in the reader’s mind on the basis of various discourse markers (scientific terms, syntactic patterns, etc.). The article demonstrates on the material of the English language the role of cognitive scripts, belonging to the scientific worldview, in arranging the plot of the literary text. The phenomenon of interpretation finds its manifestation in filling in the slots of the cognitive script in the process of reading the text. Considering the semantic potential of scientific discourse markers, the author reveals the influence of the scientific worldview on the literary world picture. The analysis of text fragments enables the author to conclude that the study of discourse interaction can prove useful in text analysis as it may help revealing the specificity of an author’s idiostyle and a reader’s interpretation of the text.

scholarly journals Methodological tools for teaching prospective teachers-philologists to interpret English poetic texts

2021 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 00010
Author(s):  
N.V. Dronyakina ◽  
A.O. Pirozhkova
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Real World ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Cognitive Poetics ◽  
Text Interpretation ◽  
World Picture ◽  
The World ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
Poetic Texts

The article deals with the results of the work with graduate students of philology. The study provides the methodological tools for interpreting the texts in relation to modern interpretative tendencies. In the context of our study a literary text is a model of reality representing the real world – its material and ideal components. The reconstruction of such components requires the use of certain methodology and contributes to the perception of the world picture of a nation. The research develops a typology of English poetic texts based on the principle of interpretativeness. The article provides methodological tools for acquainting students of philological department with these strategies and tactics. The poetic text interpretation in cognitive poetics was made by four-year students of the philological orientation of training. The study was grounded on a competence-based approach in the training of prospective philologists.

scholarly journals THE TRANSLATION OF ARABIC RELIGIOUS – CULTURAL COLLOCATIONS IN LITERARY TEXTS INTO ENGLISH: AN APPLICATION OF DOMESTICATION AND FOREIGNIZATION TRANSLATION STRATEGIES

2019 ◽  
pp. 155-165
Author(s):  
Adham Mousa Obeidat ◽  
Tengku Sepora Tengku Mahadi
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
English Translations ◽  
Effective Translation

Since the goal of translation is to bridge the gap between two cultures, translators need to pay attention to literary works. Here lies the importance of good translation to convey cultural messages. The mistranslation of cultural concepts in a literary text may cause misunderstanding of this culture by the TL readers. Therefore, to produce a well-translated literary work, translators need to investigate the expressions that relate to culture such as religious beliefs. The vital role of cultural collocations in a language requires translators to apply effective translation strategies. Domestication and foreignization are two important strategies in translating cultural collocations in a literary text. The authors of this study have applied these strategies to investigate whether religious-cultural collocations in a literary text are domesticated or foreignized. The sentences that have religious-cultural collocations are chosen from an Arabic novel. The collocations are analyzed along with two versions of translation, then the English translations are compared. As a result of the discussion, the two translators tend to apply the domestication strategy more frequently. It is found that since religious-cultural collocations are difficult to be understood by the target language readers, the translators tend to reduce their strangeness and domesticate them.

So far and yet so near: The emerging characteristics, forms and configurations of organizational proximity in the context of digitalization

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Hongxia Peng
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
Organizational Proximity ◽  
Conceptual Study ◽  
Management Cognition

BACKGROUND: The current pandemic crisis evidences the importance of questioning and reconsidering the evolution of organizational proximity and the crucial role of digitalization in the emergence of new characteristics, forms and configurations of organizational proximity. OBJECTIVE: This article presents a conceptual study aimed at analyzing the evolution of organizational proximity in the context of digitalization. METHODS: Adopting a systemic-cognitive approach inspired by existing studies on management cognition and the biology of cognition, this article first presents an analytical review of existing research in organizational studies and proposes a taxonomy of proximity based on the forms and characteristics identified in the organizational context. Second, it introduces the notion of a proximity unit, based on which a conceptual framework for analyzing organizational proximity is conceived. RESULTS: Based on the proposed framework, this article analyzes the new characteristics and forms of organizational proximity and identifies possible configurations of organizational proximity by pointing out the emergence of substituted proximity propelled by digitalization and formulating six propositions. CONCLUSIONS: The article ends by arguing that it is important for organizations to conceive a composite proximity strategy by taking into account the effect of substituted proximity, driven by digitalization, in the configuration of organizational proximity.

scholarly journals Lights and Shadows in the Genetics of Syndromic and Non-Syndromic Hearing Loss in the Italian Population

Genes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1237
Author(s):  
Anna Morgan ◽  
Stefania Lenarduzzi ◽  
Beatrice Spedicati ◽  
Elisabetta Cattaruzzi ◽  
Flora Maria Murru ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Disease Genes ◽  
Italian Population ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Whole Exome ◽  
Relevant Role ◽  
Multiplex Ligation Probe Amplification ◽  
Syndromic Hearing Loss

Hearing loss (HL), both syndromic (SHL) and non-syndromic (NSHL), is the most common sensory disorder, affecting ~460 million people worldwide. More than 50% of the congenital/childhood cases are attributable to genetic causes, highlighting the importance of genetic testing in this class of disorders. Here we applied a multi-step strategy for the molecular diagnosis of HL in 125 patients, which included: (1) an accurate clinical evaluation, (2) the analysis of GJB2, GJB6, and MT-RNR1 genes, (3) the evaluation STRC-CATSPER2 and OTOA deletions via Multiplex Ligation Probe Amplification (MLPA), (4) Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) in patients negative to steps 2 and 3. Our approach led to the characterization of 50% of the NSHL cases, confirming both the relevant role of the GJB2 (20% of cases) and STRC deletions (6% of cases), and the high genetic heterogeneity of NSHL. Moreover, due to the genetic findings, 4% of apparent NSHL patients have been re-diagnosed as SHL. Finally, WES characterized 86% of SHL patients, supporting the role of already know disease-genes. Overall, our approach proved to be efficient in identifying the molecular cause of HL, providing essential information for the patients’ future management.

scholarly journals Cultural concept in cognitive dimension

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-93
Author(s):  
Elena Mikhailovna Severina
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Digital Text ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
Text Corpora ◽  
Specific Culture ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
Ordinary Consciousness

This article reviews the methodological principles of studying cultural concepts in the context of cognitive approach, possibilities for conducting reconstruction of certain fragments of linguistic worldview based on the material of digital text corpora. Leaning on the cognitive approach towards concept as a unit of structured and unstructured knowledge that forms cognition of a separate individual and culture as a whole, results of conceptual research of the texts of philosophers who view culture as symbolic creativity of a person associated with freedom (concepts of I. Kant, E. Cassirer, N. A. Berdyaev), the authors conducted reconstruction of certain fragments of the linguistic worldview and ordinary consciousness, correlated with the concept of “culture” in digital text corpora in the Russian and Anglo-Saxon cultures. Examination of the contexts of usage of verbal representations of the concept of “culture” in the digital text corpora of Russian language and different varieties of English language demonstrates that the crucial ideological values of Anglo-Saxon linguistic worldview are the following representations: culture is of instrumental nature; civilization is considered as the path development of humanity; freedom is viewed as an intrinsic right to freedom that should be protected, i.e. initial and inherent to a human. In the Russian-language texts, culture implies the value-based attitude towards world, mostly associated with the national culture; civilization is viewed in the context of a value-based attitude towards world, but as the path of development of humanity as a whole; freedom has value-based individual, personalistic connotation, supposed to be full, absolute, which is often understood as the liberty of action and choice. It is underlines that utilization of corpus methods allows reconstructing the techniques of formation of worldview, choice of value priorities, mechanisms of perception of surrounding reality in a specific culture from contexts of practical usage of the verbal manifestations of cultural concepts.

scholarly journals COGNITIVE APPROACH TO DISTANCE LEARNING MATERIALS PREPARATION ADAPTED TO ASYNCHRONOUS MODE

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 222-227
Author(s):  
Oleg Zaikine ◽  
Emma Kushtina ◽  
Przemyslaw Rozewski
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Knowledge Representation ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
Modular Structure ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Asynchronous Mode ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Fundamental Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Presentation

The authors discuss the method of designing the distance learning didactic materials for the asynchronous mode. The approach is based on the modular structure of the fundamental knowledge. The new role of the teacher is being discussed as well as its impact on the didactic materials’ structure and content. The paper introduces the knowledge representation model designed to meet the requirements of theoretical knowledge presentation in a selected domain using the Learning Object concept.

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