scholarly journals The Semantic Analysis of Money-Related Proverbs in Three Linguacultures

Philologia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 127-133
Author(s):  
Ina Colenciuc ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Surrounding World ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Similarities And Differences

Proverbs, being an element of ethnoculture, reflect the mentality, basic values of people, and their idea of the surrounding world. The author of the article accounts for the necessity to study money-related proverbs and notes that money is an unalienable part of the contemporary society, and consequently, it represents the material for psychological, sociocultural and linguistic research. Our aim is to conduct a comparative semantic analysis of proverbs in English, Romanian and Russian. The material for the research was 150 proverbs in the corresponding linguacultures. The author classifies proverbs by the semantic basis, identifies similarities and differences of English, Romanian and Russian proverbs

scholarly journals Combinatorial-Semantic Analysis of Collocations as a Method of Linguistic Research (on the Example of Colour Collocations Formed by an Adjective Type)

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-57
Author(s):  
M. V. Vlavatskaya
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Complex Analysis ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Natural Languages ◽  
Linear Relations ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Mechanisms Of Formation

The article is devoted to the application of the method of complex semantic-syntagmatic analysis of collocations, or combinatorially determined lexical and phraseological units, characterized by structural-semantic integrity and having functional, idio-ethnic and other limitations. The relevance of the work is due to the importance of their study as universal units inherent in all natural languages. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the advisability of using the method of complex analysis of collocations and with its help to identify the semantic, functional, syntagmatic mechanisms of their formation, as well as to discover the universal and specific characteristics of these units. The method is developed in the framework of combinatorial lexicology, studying the linear relations of words and their combinatorial potential. The novelty of the study is in the development of a detailed analysis technique, with the help of which it will be possible to detect the mechanisms of formation of various collocations. The material for study was colour collocations, which are created by the adjective type. An algorithm for performing complex analysis is presented, and the procedure for its implementation is demonstrated. Particular attention is paid to the semantic and combinatorial-syntagmatic blocks as the most important aspects of the study of the compatibility of lexemes in the framework of the combinatorial science of words.

scholarly journals THE GENDER STEREOTYPE "MAN" IN THE GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS OF CHINESE RESPONDENTS

2018 ◽  
pp. 15-23
Author(s):  
Wang Min ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Gender Stereotype ◽  
Group Consciousness ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Similarities And Differences

This study raises the issue of the stereotype «man» in the group consciousness of Chinese native speakers. Such methods as questionnaire, comparison, and semantic analysis were used. Semantic analysis enabled to determine four semantic zones: nucleus, pre-nuclear, closest peripheral, and distant peripheral ones. As a result, similarities and differences were obtained in the stereotype «man» in the linguistic consciousness of men and women. The influence of the sociopsychological factor «gender» on the stereotype «man» was revealed.

scholarly journals “El criado pesado”: La caracterización en la serie Águila Roja

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (22) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Luisa Chierichetti
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Colloquial Language ◽  
Television Audience

This article, based on the most recent studies on telecinematic dialogue, proposes a contribution to linguistic research on television series, one of the most influential popular cultural products in contemporary society. The work is based on the complete scripts of the successful Spanish series Águila Roja, aired on Radio Televisión Española between 2009 and 2016. Combining techniques of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, this study examines the characterization of Satur, one of the main characters of this fiction, through the co-construction of the meaning, as processed by the television audience. The results suggest that Satur’s discourse is characterized by the use of contemporary colloquial language and by incongruity; such features create humor and familiarity with the audience.

Intralinguistic analysis of medical research papers and abstracts

Terminology ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Méndez-Cendón ◽  
Belén López Arroyo
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Technical Writers ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Different Levels

Studies related to ESP genres have been carried out lately focusing on different levels of analysis, such as internal ordering, lexico-grammatical patterns or terminology. However, there are not many studies combining different levels of analysis so as to observe how information is rendered in scientific genres. The present study intends to offer a description of rhetorical and phraseological patterns observed in medical research papers and abstracts using a semantic and functional approach. Our methodology is descriptively performed on a comparable corpus composed of research papers and abstracts in the field of diagnostic imaging and published in esteemed journals. We will determine composition strategies by means of the description of the authors’ favourite structures found in our corpus. Once these favourite structures have been obtained for every genre, we will proceed with semantic analysis so as to establish their similarities and differences. Our results will, primarily, help translators, technical writers and ESP students to infer discursive strategies in these genres, as well as to better understand some of the discourse aspects of rendering scientific information in general.

scholarly journals Competency profiles for lean professionals – an international perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingo Kregel ◽  
Nadine Ogonek ◽  
Benjamin Matthies
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Depth Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Selection Processes ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Project Management Competency ◽  
Compare And Contrast ◽  
And Training

Purpose Requirements for business improvement professionals depend on different job characteristics. By focussing on lean management, the purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to provide a comprehensive conceptualisation of competencies relevant for lean professionals by comparing them to an existing project management competency framework; and second, to identify their similarities and differences in three different analysed countries. Design/methodology/approach This paper investigates 2,701 online published job advertisements in the USA, UK and Germany by means of a content analysis to compare and contrast the respective job profiles. Findings Main findings are similarities and differences in the specification and perception of lean professional’s roles among the three countries. Strikingly, four out of eight considered competency categories comprise 74 per cent of the profiles’ most relevant keywords. Additionally, with the help of a latent semantic analysis, 16 specific competencies can be summarised in a lean professional’s competency taxonomy. Research limitations/implications The collected data only represent a snapshot of lean professionals’ advertisements. Also, text mining results from job profiles could largely differ from other techniques like recruiter interviews or company surveys. Further research could use different methods or combine them to construct a more complete model. Practical implications Lean education and training as well as the respective candidate selection processes can benefit from these studies’ results. Originality/value Requirements and job contents for lean professionals have not been empirically researched on a comparable in-depth level before, even though their expertise is in high demand in any kind of business sector.

scholarly journals The Linguistic Characteristics and Functions of Hashtags: #Is it a New Language?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iman Mahfouz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Information Diffusion ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Syntactic Features ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Linguistic Functions ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Everyday Communication

Defined as a form of tagging that allows social media users to embed metadata in their posts, hashtags initially served to categorize topics and make them searchable online. Originating first on Twitter in 2007, hashtags have spread to other platforms, such as Instagram, Facebook, and Youtube. In addition to functioning as topic markers, hashtags have developed more complex linguistic functions. The ubiquity of this feature in the online medium, which now occupies a significant portion of our everyday communication is thus worthy of investigation. Although this topic has been researched in different disciplines, such as information diffusion, marketing, as well as sociology and public opinion, hashtags have not yet received enough attention from linguistic research. Using a sample of hashtags from a corpus of Instagram posts by Egyptian and Arab participants, this research thus aims to examine the characteristics of hashtags from a linguistic perspective, with particular focus on hashtags in the Arabic language. The study primarily seeks to determine the morpho-syntactic features of these recently emerging linguistic items according to the taxonomy proposed by Caleffi (2015). It also explores the pragmatic functions of hashtags based on Zappavigna’s (2015) view of hashtags as technologically discursive tools. The analysis points out that most of the hashtags in the data serve the experiential function and come as suffixes. The findings reveal both similarities and differences between English and Arabic hashtags.

scholarly journals The Linguistic Research of Nonverbal Component of a Composit Verbal / Visual Text: Problems of Verbalization Sense

2016 ◽  
pp. 76-81
Author(s):  
E. L. Daylof
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Component Analysis ◽  
Forensic Assessment ◽  
Visual Texts ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Verbal Component ◽  
Visual Text ◽  
Expert Practice

The article is devoted to the methodical issues in the point of the non-verbal component analysis within the framework of linguistic research of composit verbal/ visual texts relevant to extremism prevention. The examples of expert practice functions of nonverbal components of a composit verbal/ visual text, types of semantic bounds between the visual and verbal part in different types of composit verbal/ visual texts are discussed. The algorithm for semantic analysis of composit verbal/ visual texts as an object of forensic assessment is suggested.

scholarly journals Reflecting national identity in universal concepts

2021 ◽  
Vol 127 ◽  
pp. 02013
Author(s):  
Larisa Nikolaevna Aleshina ◽  
Irina Aleksandrovna Zaytseva ◽  
Evgeniy Sergeevich Smakhtin ◽  
Elena Anatolyevna Gilovaya ◽  
Svetlana Sergeevna Lapshina
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Linguistic Unit ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Common Understanding

The issue of reflecting national mentality in the linguistic worldview continues to be relevant as each people has its own specific mindset and common mood related to moral and ethical features of its formation. The article describes a national concept as a complete combination of thought, religions, cultural traditions, folklore that form a conceptual sphere of a language. Therefore, studying the reflection of national identity in the concepts seems to be essential, as the concept itself is a key category in linguistic research of viewing the world through language. The main purpose of this study is to perform a comparative analysis of conceptual spheres of the Russian and English languages. To achieve this purpose we set several tasks: to characterize peculiarities of expressing the key concepts sovest’/conscience, dobro/good, pravda/truth, krasota/beauty in speech; to identify extralinguistic factors fostering common understanding of the conceptual spheres being analyzed in the Russian and English linguistic worldviews. The article uses a complex research methodology, which combines descriptive and analytical methods, as well as the opposition technique and structural and semantic analysis of a word. The paper concludes that only those connotations of the concepts that become a symbol referring to a certain perspective of national mentality are ethnoculturally essential. In the conceptual spheres of English and Russian, key notions defining value systems of these cultures play a significant role. Evolution of material and spiritual culture is reflected in a concept as a single linguistic unit.

scholarly journals Coda: Creativity in psychological research versus in linguistics – Same but different?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selina Weiss ◽  
Oliver Wilhelm
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Latent Semantic Analysis ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
General Process ◽  
Interdisciplinary Work ◽  
Verbal Creativity ◽  
Societal Relevance ◽  
Creativity Research ◽  
Similarities And Differences

Understanding the very nature of creativity is a hot topic in research across various disciplines and has profound societal relevance. In this contribution, we discuss verbal creativity by highlighting its definition, psy-chometric measurement, and relations with other personality dispositions. We relate psychological research with findings from linguistics presented in this issue and depict similarities and differences between both approaches. More specifically, we relate the linguistic terminology of F-creativity to flu-ency and flexibility, whereas we identify E-creativity as akin to originality. We propose latent semantic analysis as a possible approach for evaluating originality and compare this approach with more commonly applied human ratings. Based on contributions in this issue, we discuss creativity as a domain-general process that is (e.g., in applied arts) often driven by the recombination of mental elements. Lastly, we propose several intelligence and personality dispositions as determinants of individual differences in creativity. We conclude that creativity research in linguistic and psycholo-gy has many communalities and interdisciplinary work bears strong prom-ises for the future.

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