scholarly journals Philological analysis of the text: reception of I. A. Bunin's short fiction “The Epitaph”

2021 ◽  
pp. 71-81
Author(s):  
Marina Anatol'evna Dubova ◽  
Nadezhda Al'bertovna Larina
Keyword(s):  
Short Fiction ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Lexical Representation ◽  
Semantic Categories ◽  
Linguistic Level ◽  
The One

The object of this research is Ivan Bunin’s prose of the early period – “The Epitaph”. I. A. Bunin is a Neorealist writer of the turn of the XIX – XX centuries, publicist, a unique representative of the white émigré. The subject of this research is the reception of “The Epitaph” by modern audience based on the command of philological text analysis. Having analyzed the traditional semantic components of the literary text (that are part of the concept of “philological text analysis”), the authors offer modern approaches towards representation of the established semantic categories of the text, demonstrate their functionality on the linguistic level, analyze the methods of their lexical representation and verbalization, which determines the novelty of this article. The goal lies in philological analysis of I. A. Bunin's short fiction “The Epitaph”, taking into account the historical-cultural context of its creation, the role of extralinguistic factors in the text, and their reflection on the linguistic level, semantics of the title and keywords in the ideological-thematic content of the work and expression of the authorial position. Alongside the traditional methods of academic philology, such as historical-cultural, biographical, commentary reading, linguistic-stylistic analysis, the research employs the techniques of cognitive linguistics. This article is first to describe the experience of a commentary reading of I. A. Bunin's short fiction “The Epitaph”, which is based on cognition of the semantic components of the work through the prism of a linguostylistic approach within the framework of philological analysis. The authors reveal techniques of reading the text, placing emphasis on the lexical means of representation of the key semantic categories, which on the one hand reflect the writer’s worldview , while on the other – form his individual writing style. Such articulation of the problem determines the prospects for the study of other proses of I. A. Bunin.

scholarly journals Writer’s argumentative attitude

Pragmatics ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabrina Pounds
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The Press ◽  
Contextual Framework ◽  
Linguistic Level ◽  
Argumentative Structure ◽  
Pragmatic Dimension

This article deals with those aspects of language that can be seen to carry out a primarily “interactional function” in that they are used to “establish and maintain social relationships” (Brown and Yule 1983: 2 and 3). Such aspects have been variously referred to as performing an “expressive” (Bühler 1934), “emotive” (Jakobson 1960), “social expressive” (Lyons 1977) or “interpersonal” (Halliday 1994) function or, more recently, as performing the function by which “social roles and relationships are constructed” (White 2002: 2). In this article such aspects are referred to in very general terms as ‘attitudinal’ or as carrying ‘attitudinal meaning’ or expressing ‘attitude’. It is widely accepted that the interaction generated through language has a strong pragmatic dimension, that is, it can hardly be appreciated out of context. This article is particularly concerned with highlighting the significance and the all-pervasive nature of such pragmatic dimension in the case of the interaction engendered between writers and readers through the medium of Letters to the Editor published in the English and Italian print media. The following three questions arise: 1) At which linguistic level can specific attitudinal resources be identified and compared? 2) To what extent may the extra linguistic context play a role in the specific case of Letters to the Editor? 3) Are similar attitudinal resources and strategies used in the English and Italian letters? How may any differences be explained? In order to answer these questions the article firstly explores the nature of attitudinal meaning as outlined in previous studies. The second section focuses on the cultural context in which the letters are produced with particular reference to the role of language, argumentation, the press and the genre Letters to the Editor in England and Italy. The third section deals with the argumentative structure of the letters and the specific attitudinal meanings associated with the various components of such structure. The method of analysis is illustrated through examples from the English corpus. The main findings are presented and a comparison is drawn between the two corpora. The findings are further assessed in the light of the contextual framework set out in the preceding section.

Symbolic Aspects of Nutrition Vocabulary in the Turkic Languages

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-117
Author(s):  
Amantai Sh. Znilkubaeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
Semantic Categories ◽  
Spiritual Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Turkic Languages ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Age Relations

The article uses a lot of factual material to reveal the role of ethnographisms associated with cooking during the most significant moments of human life: birth, wedding, burial. The connection of symbolism with ritual is revealed.The purpose of the article is based on the specifics of the work caused by the need for a linguoculturological description of the vocabulary of nutrition, the definition of extralinguistic factors (customs, traditions and religious beliefs) in the formation, development and functioning, as well as the disclosure of the symbolic essence of this LSH.The relevance of the article is determined by the need for linguistic and cultural understanding of the food vocabulary, which is widely reflected in paremia, concepts, phraseological units, and customs as the most stable lexical and semantic categories of the Turkic languages (more than 2 000 lexical and phraseological units).The material of the study was the vocabulary of nutrition of the Turkic languages. The main methods used in the work are descriptive, comparative, and interpretive.The reception and serving of food among the Turkic peoples and their reflection in customs and traditions are symbolic relations between people connected by social, gender, and age relations. For example, the symbolism of food associated with the birth of a child has its roots in the distant past of the Turkic people and means a sacrifice for the successful birth of a woman. These rituals include: preparing special meals to speed childbirth: Garissa (lit. Competition with the cauldron, where food is cooked), preparing special dishes: sut burysh, IIT mun, burial of the bones of a 「am slaughtered for a woman in labor, gnawing the neck vertebrae of a ram without a knife, burning meat, etc. These traditions are a symbol of introducing the baby to a new life denoting the appearance of a new person. As a result of the analysis of this thematic group, it was revealed that traditional household rituals are the most stable basis of the ethnic spiritual culture of the Turkic peoples, many symbolic actions related to food are common, which once again confirms the hypothesis of genetic kinship of these peoples.The concept of linguoculturological research of customs and traditions as one of the current trends in linguistics opens up new aspects of the relationship and connection of language and spiritual culture, language and folk mentality, language and folk art. In the conceptual picture of the world and the national - cultural context, the question of the place and role of the studied LSH is very significant.The scientific novelty of the research consists in the linguistic and cultural understanding of one of the traditionally established and most stable lexical and semantic categories of the Turkic languages - the vocabulary of nutrition. Such studies in modern linguistics have not been sofer conducted. Keywords: food vocabulary, symbols, ritual, linguoculturology, ethnographism, customs, traditions, conceptual picture of the world

Role of SST for the predictability of summer atmospheric teleconnections in the Euro-Atlantic region with Self-Organising Maps

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julianna Carvalho Oliveira ◽  
Leonard Borchert ◽  
Vimal Koul ◽  
Johanna Baehr ◽  
Eduardo Zorita
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Max Planck ◽  
The North ◽  
Predictive Skill ◽  
Atmospheric Teleconnections ◽  
Machine Learning Approach ◽  
Summer Temperatures ◽  
The One

<p>We investigate the seasonal predictability of the two dominant atmospheric teleconnections associated with the North Atlantic Jet: the Summer North Atlantic Oscillation (SNAO) and East Atlantic Pattern (EAP). We go beyond standard forecast practices by combining an ensemble predictions system with a machine learning approach. Specifically, we combine on the one hand a 30-member hindcast ensemble initialised every May between 1902 and 2008 in the Max Planck Institute Earth System Model in mixed resolution (MPI-ESM-MR), with on the other hand a neural network-based classifier Self-Organising Maps (SOM) in the ERA-20C reanalysis. We use the SOM to identify a sub-ensemble in which simulated North Atlantic sea surface temperatures (SST) at the initialisation of the prediction system (i.e. April) are linked to atmospheric modes.</p><p>While we find for summer climate at 3-4 months lead time only limited predictive skill in the ensemble mean of MPI-ESM-MR, we find significant predictive skill over many areas in the SOM-based sub-ensemble. Our results suggest that the predictive skill of European summer temperatures can be linked to the predictive skill of SNAO and EAP, which stems in turn from the – with skill predictable - temperature gradient between subpolar and subtropical gyres. We also demonstrate the predictive skill is time dependent, with high skill over the late half of the time series (1955 - 2008) and low skill in the early period (1902 - 1954).</p>

Conversion and the Truth of Tolerance

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Ylli H. Doci
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Anthropological Approach ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
The One

:Exploring the environment of inter-religious interactions to find out about its nature and meaning, is done with many presuppositions in mind, which should be clear before we engage the subject. In this study we come with a certain view of what tolerance means and argue for the importance of distinguishing the view which allows for tolerance from the one that dissolves tolerance. We also seek to present the arguments for the needed ingredients which constitute a tolerant attitude and we cannot emphasize enough the role of conversion in determining the level of tolerance present in the environment of conversion. The element of conversion is crucial in defining as tolerant a certain inter-religious environment. Depending on the cultural context where conversion happens the consequences of conversion are felt in different ways. The anthropological approach seeks to understand the nature and the meaning of this phenomenon in its cultural context, where social and political dimensions are considered, employing ethnographic description and theoretical analysis.Keywords: Conversion, inter-religious tolerance, interview, correspondence view of truth.

scholarly journals Encompassing the Horse: Analogy, Category, and Scale in the Yijing

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-61
Author(s):  
William Matthews
Keyword(s):  
British Journal ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Natural Kinds ◽  
The Other ◽  
Exact Nature ◽  
Symbolic Manipulation ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
Chinese Studies ◽  
The One

The canonised Yijing had a decisive influence over the development of so-called “correlative cosmology” in China’s early imperial period, presenting the cosmos as knowable through sixty-four hexagrams and classifiable according to eight trigrams. The exact nature of these correlative categories continues to inspire debate. On the one hand, they appear to be defined relationally, but on the other they purport to describe everything in the cosmos in terms of fixed principles. These apparently discordant properties can be reconciled by paying due attention to the role of scale. This is revealed through a focus on the hexagram images as two distinct but interrelated forms of analogy, as human constructs for symbolic manipulation and as empirical descriptors of cosmic circumstances. Adopting perspectives from cognitive linguistics and anthropology, this symbolic manipulation allows unknown situations to be understood metaphorically via the hexagrams, and then metonymically incorporated into a natural category of cosmic circumstances. This transition between metaphoric and metonymic relations is a function of scale, and is reflected in the Yijing’s correlative categories. These correspond to perceived absolute natural kinds, but maintain a relational character dependant on the salience of metaphorical and metonymic relations at different scales. At time of publication, the journal operated under the old name. When quoting please refer to the citation on the left using British Journal of Chinese Studies. The pdf of the article still reflects the old journal name; issue number and page range are consistent.

Simile and dissimilarity

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosamund Moon
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
The One ◽  
Explicit Comparison

AbstractSimile is generally explained as an explicit comparison between two things, which presupposes they have features or qualities in common – but equally, there must be essential differences too. This paper pursues these differences, and explores ideas of dissimilarity in simile, here considered as a separate device from metaphor. It then looks at implications for text analysis, in particular the role of simile in articulating the experience of the unknown and the new in narrations of travel. Drawing on texts by three 19th-century explorers (Livingstone, Stanley, Kingsley) and contrasting them with fiction (Conrad), I argue that the dissimilarities within similes reveal much, particularly with respect to ideological meanings on the one hand, and the expression of certainty and uncertainty on the other.

scholarly journals Can HRM Utilize Hero Analyses in Identifying Employees’ Profiles? The Case of the Slovak and Czech Republics

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-71
Author(s):  
Helena Šajgalíková ◽  
Lukáš Copuš
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Value System ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
Selection Processes ◽  
The One ◽  
Recruitment And Selection

Finding feasible ways to predict the behaviour of organizations’ current and future employees is one of the most crucial HRM roles. The identification of heroes is a potential and innovative technique. The objective of the study is to identify heroes recognized by university students (to-be employees) and the values the students attach to them, as the grounds for establishing an employee profile useful in recruitment and selection processes. Simultaneously, the study pays attention to the respondents’ cultural context, namely the one of national culture (students of Slovak and Czech universities). The sample employee profiles open new opportunities for further exploration of the approach on the academic level as well as in the HRM practice. The differences identified in applicants’ hero categories significantly enhance understanding of their behavioural tendencies. The findings open several questions about the role of companies as well as educational systems in future employees’ value system evolution.

scholarly journals LITERARY AND ART TEXTS AS COMPLEMENTARY DISCOURSE OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE (BASED ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE NOVEL G. DE MAUPASSANT “MONT-ORIOLE”)

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-145
Author(s):  
Irina K. Cheremushnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
Health Resorts ◽  
Cultural Component

The reliable reconstruction of the historical cultural past and the search for sources for such reconstructions remains important methodological task. This task becomes even more complex, if we deal with the reconstruction of the special spheres of human activity, such as Medicine. Culture science, historical psychology, cultural anthropology pay more and more attention to the analysis of complementary discourse. The author considers that the literary and art texts can prove to be incomparable sources on the value of information. When we study texts on the History of Medicine replacement of historical and cultural context by clinical one inevitably occur. Researcher moves from the field of culture into the space of the professional constructions, which reduce our thoughts about the investigated object. Thus medicine is to be considered not as the separate element of culture, taken out from the context, but as complex cultural configuration. During the late 30–40 years History of Medicine noticeably changed, it left beyond the framework of narrow medical themes and recognized historical and cultural contexts as really actual. The authentic narrations describe actions of concrete persons, and acts themselves cannot be separated from the cultural environment. Many themes of the History of Medicine become clear for us in their literary and artistic reflection and in correlation with the cultural experience. A. Chekhov, L. Tolstoy, M. Bulgakov are authors, for whom medical questions existed in the historical cultural and moral-philosophical context. The hermeneutic method of the considerate of the texts through comments and criticism can be described as the method, close to phenomenological description. Article demonstrates an ability of art text to penetrate directly to the cultural context of epoch. In the center of attention is the novel of Maupassant “Mont-Oriole” and the reconstructions, which can be made on the basis of the text analysis. In the novel in detail the picture of treatment on the waters is restored, that proved by the numerous revealed in the novel topics: the popular methods of treatment; the relation between the doctors and the patients; the types of doctors, medical ethics; fashion in medicine, the current theories of the origin of diseases; the methods of observation and inspection of patients; the role of advertisement in the popularization of health resorts, the first training equipment. The general conclusion that text analysis can be represented as a method of detecting of the general historical cultural component in the vital space of individual is made.

scholarly journals Revisiting reviewing: The need for a debate on the role of arts journalism in South Africa

Literator ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Wasserman
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
South African Society ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
Arts Festival ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

The assault on the editor of a publication at a South African arts festival by an artist who disliked a review of his concert again highlighted an age-old rift between artists and critics. However, the response that this incident elicited among readers of this and other publications, showed surprising support for the artist rather than for the journalist. If this is read as an indication of a disillusionment among readers with regard to the standards of arts journalism in South Africa, the relationship between arts journalists and society should be re-examined. Ethical journalism rests upon a relationship between journalist and audience, and a sensitivity for the context in which journalism is practised. This article examines arts journalism within changing societal contexts, with a specific focus on the South African situation, where artistic production still bears witness to cultural and ethnic divisions of the past. Against the background of the changes that have occurred in society on a local and global level, it is argued that a re-evaluation of the roles and responsibilities of arts journalists is needed – especially in the light of the formation of new cultural identities after apartheid. In conclusion, an ongoing and indepth debate about the ethical responsibility of arts journalism is suggested in order to ensure its continued relevance within an increasingly commercialised cultural context on the one hand, and within a changing South African society on the other.

scholarly journals Visus iste non a carne trahebatur. Rola zmysłów w kontemplacji w księdze VII i IX "Wyznań" Augustyna

Vox Patrum ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 337-358
Author(s):  
Mateusz Stróżyński
Keyword(s):  
Early Period ◽  
The Body ◽  
Paradoxical Situation ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The One

The purpose of the paper is to examine the role of the senses in contempla­tion in Book Seven and Nine of Augustine’s Confessions. The bishop of Hippo’s conception of contemplation is deeply influenced by Plotinus, especially in the early period, and this influence is present e.g. in the distiniguishing of two forms of contemplation: the one in which all sensible objects are eliminated from aware­ness and the one in which they are present or used as a medium of contempla­tion. A method which leads to contemplation in which the senses are completely absent is the Plotinian method of „agnoetic meditation”. The method appears in Augustine as well, both in Book Seven and Book Nine. The forms of the contem­plation of God, which are described there, do not involve the senses, and their sole object is God. It generates a paradoxical situation especially in the vision of Ostia, where the „beyond body” contemplation is impossible to reconcile with the resurrection of the body and seeing God in the body. Augustine does not solve the paradox which is of a great importance, since it shows the tension between Platonic philosophy and Christian revelation.

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