Problems In The Implication Of The World Strategy And Its Application In Translating Poetry :, A Contrastive Linguistic Study

Some languages in the world have particles with their respective functions. One of them is Ka(h) particle which is used both in Indonesian and Japanese. Both are equally used as markers of the question sentence. In Indonesian the ka(h) particle is pronounced "Kah" while in Japanese it is pronounced "Ka.” The purpose of this study is to identify what are the similarities and differences in the use of Ka(h) particles in Indonesian and Japanese. the data is taken by a literature study in Indonesian linguistics and Japanese linguistics. These similarities and differences will be studied through aspects of characteristics, function, location, and intonation. Both particles are enclitic and arbitrary, but only Kah particle has a free distribution characteristic. On the function of point of view, both particles are question marker, but only The Ka particle functioned as a choice marker and indefinite pronoun. The results of this study indicate that in Indonesian the use of Kah particles is always pronounced with rising intonation, whereas in Japanese the "ka" particle can be pronounced with rising or falling intonation. Also both particles can be located in the middle and at the end of the sentence.

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Semantic Extension in the Colour Lexicon

Studies in Language ◽

10.1075/sl.7.1.03kik ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 25-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Atsuko Kikuchi ◽

František Lichtenberk

Keyword(s):

Linguistic Study ◽

Semantic Extension ◽

The World ◽

Universal Order ◽

Colour Terms

A cross-linguistic study of the figurative use of colour terms reveals the existence of both language-idiosyncratic developments and general tendencies. It is argued that both types of development are ultimately grounded in the experience of the world by the speakers of the languages. Furthermore, the findings contradict the claim that there exists a universal order in the development of the figurative use of colour terms.

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A translatological and forensic-linguistic study of the English translation of the German Civil Code

Babel ◽

10.1075/babel.00225.wan ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Qiang Wang

Keyword(s):

English Translation ◽

Civil Code ◽

Linguistic Study ◽

The World ◽

Civil Codes ◽

Linguistic Content

Abstract Since its promulgation in 1896, the German Civil Code, one of the most influential civil codes in the world, has been translated into English several times. Thanks to the Code’s jurisprudential quality, both its English translation and the translating process are of high value and offer various starting points for profound research. However, so far, there have been hardly any substantial studies of the Code’s English translation, neither from the comparative legal or forensic linguistic perspective nor from other angles. This paper attempts to make a substantive, interdisciplinary – i.e., forensic linguistic – content-related, and jurisprudential study of the Code’s English translation to address this research lacuna. To that end, it focuses on two aspects of the statute law’s provisions, i.e., respectively from the lexical and syntactic perspective.

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Speech, music and dehumanisation in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: a linguistic study of metaphors

Language and Literature ◽

10.1177/096394709300200301 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 157-182 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Anne Marie ◽

Simon Vandenbergen

Keyword(s):

Linguistic Analysis ◽

Broad Sense ◽

Physical Force ◽

Linguistic Study ◽

The World ◽

Individual Consciousness ◽

Central Meaning ◽

The Way

This article examines the way in which metaphorical expressions referring to speech and music in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four contribute to the elaboration of the theme of dehumanisation. The term ‘metaphor’ is used in a broad sense to refer to various types of transfer of meaning, thus including metonymy and synecdoche as well as metaphor, strictly speaking. Further, the viewpoint is that metaphor is the result of grammatical as well as lexical choices, and is therefore to be dealt with on the lexicogrammatical level. The following conclusions can be drawn from the data examined in the article. First, a linguistic analysis of clause types shows that Orwell makes very consistent selections from the grammar to express the central meaning. Second, it appears that metaphors have been drawn from a relatively small number of recurrent donor domains. These are the domains of animals, physical force and liquids. Although superficially unrelated, they are united in the more abstract domain of ‘control’ and play their roles in creating the picture of a world in which individual consciousness and liberty have no place. Third, the article shows that conventional and creative metaphors harmoniously co-operate in establishing the meaning of dehumanisation as a characteristic of the world depicted in the book.

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Historical Change in Signed Languages

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935345.013.24 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Sherman Wilcox ◽

Corrine Occhino

Keyword(s):

Written Language ◽

Historical Change ◽

Primary Language ◽

Deaf People ◽

Semantic Change ◽

Educational Approach ◽

Linguistic Study ◽

Signed Languages ◽

Signed Language ◽

The World

Signed languages are natural human languages used by deaf people around the world as their primary language. This chapter explores the linguistic study of signed language, their linguistic properties, and aspects of their genetic and historical relationships. The chapter focuses on historical change that has occurred in signed languages, showing that the same linguistic processes that contribute to historical change in spoken languages, such as lexicalization, grammaticization, and semantic change, contribute to historical change in signed languages. Historical influences unique to signed languages, such as the educational approach of borrowing and adapting signs and an effort to create a system of representing the surrounding spoken/written language and of the incorporation of lexicalized fingerspelling are also discussed.

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Truth / Falsity as Properties of Advertising Discourse: AddresseeCentered Aspect

Bulletin of Kemerovo State University ◽

10.21603/2078-8975-2021-23-1-237-246 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 237-246

Author(s):

L. G. Kim ◽

E. A. Rafikova

Keyword(s):

Reliable Information ◽

Linguistic Study ◽

The World ◽

Advertising Discourse ◽

Thesis Statement ◽

The Liar

The research featured the problem of truth / falsity as properties of advertising discourse. Advertising is described both within the linguistics of lying and the interpretive linguistics. The paper introduces a linguistic study of the phenomenon of lying from the subjectivist positions, i.e. as the interaction between two communicants: the liar and the recipient of the lies. Subjectivists interpret the text as compliant or non-compliant to one’s idea of reality, i.e. the conformity to the world of thought. Advertising discourse is the object of the recipient’s receptive and interpretive activity. The authors studied the speech behavior of the interpreter of the false discourse, i.e. how the lies affected the addressee. The research objective was to prove the thesis statement that discourse of lies is determined not only by the liar and their speech behavior, but also by the recipient of the lies. The study featured two texts that differed in the extent of false and reliable information. The lying potential of the advertising discourse was studied by the method of linguistic experiment. Each advertisement was evaluated by the recipient as containing information of various degrees of falsehood. The interpretation depended on the presumptions of the recipient and their choice of either rational-logical or emotional-sensual interpretive strategy.

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A cross-linguistic study of expletive negation

Linguistic Typology ◽

10.1515/lingty-2020-2053 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Yanwei Jin ◽

Jean-Pierre Koenig

Keyword(s):

Language Production ◽

Linguistic Study ◽

Comprehensive List ◽

Semantic Account ◽

The World

AbstractThis paper provides a typological overview of expletive negation based on a survey of 722 languages, focusing in detail on a smaller sample of five languages. Expletive negation (EN) has been discussed extensively within Romance linguistics. This paper surveys its occurrence across languages of the world and offers a comprehensive list of EN-triggering contexts collected from French and Mandarin, comparing that list with EN triggers in Januubi, English, and Zarma-Sonrai. The paper proposes a language production and semantic account of the similarity of EN-triggering contexts found in these five languages. We propose that the meaning of EN triggers entails or strongly implies ¬p and that the activation of ¬p alongside p is what leads speakers to produce EN. Four semantic licensing conditions for EN triggers are identified and each EN-triggering context is semantically analyzed.

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A pragmatist philosophy of psychological science and its implications for replication

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x18000626 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ana Gantman ◽

Robin Gomila ◽

Joel E. Martinez ◽

J. Nathan Matias ◽

Elizabeth Levy Paluck ◽

...

Keyword(s):

William James ◽

Mental Processes ◽

Psychological Science ◽

Behavioral Measurement ◽

The World ◽

Pragmatist Philosophy

AbstractA pragmatist philosophy of psychological science offers to the direct replication debate concrete recommendations and novel benefits that are not discussed in Zwaan et al. This philosophy guides our work as field experimentalists interested in behavioral measurement. Furthermore, all psychologists can relate to its ultimate aim set out by William James: to study mental processes that provide explanations for why people behave as they do in the world.

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Culture and the plasticity of perception

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19002887 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Lifshitz ◽

T. M. Luhrmann

Keyword(s):

Cultural Context ◽

Sensory Experience ◽

Cultural Learning ◽

The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

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Let's call a memory a memory, but what kind?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19000360 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nazim Keven

Keyword(s):

Episodic Memory ◽

Animal Cognition ◽

The World

Abstract Hoerl & McCormack argue that animals cannot represent past situations and subsume animals’ memory-like representations within a model of the world. I suggest calling these memory-like representations as what they are without beating around the bush. I refer to them as event memories and explain how they are different from episodic memory and how they can guide action in animal cognition.

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