A Cognitive Research on Doctor Metaphor and Doctor-Patient Relationship Metaphor

From the perspective of "conceptual metaphor" in cognitive linguistics, 11 kinds of doctor metaphors and 6 kinds of doctor-patient relationship metaphors are reached by a tentative study. Based on nearly 300 questionnaires and interviews with 20 doctors and patients, this paper discusses and analyzes: 1) the current situation of doctor-patient relationship; 2) the understanding of "doctor metaphor" and "doctor-patient relationship metaphor" from both perspectives of doctors and patients, and finds out the similarities and differences; 3) the collection of doctor's description of doctor occupation and patient's description of medical experience, and with the combination of 1) and 2), this paper suggests the measures to alleviate the medical disputes. Medical conflict is a perpetual and intricate social issue, which involves doctor, patient, hospital, government and etc. It is not supposed to be solved in a short time, whereas requires the endeavor of generation after generation.

Hardware and projective research techniques in neuroeducation: issues and perspectives in application

Цифровая трансформация и переход от компетентностного к метапредметному подходу в обучении требуют освоения новых объективных исследовательских методов в образовании. Когнитивные исследования, в том числе использующие высокотехнологичные методики и нейротехнологии, повышают исследовательский и учебный потенциал образовательной организации. Digital transformation and the transition from a competence-based to a meta-subject approach in education require the development of new objective research techniques in education. Cognitive research done with high-tech techniques and neurotechnologies contributes to the research and educational capacity of an educational organization.

The features of the Latin grammatical system as the cognitive-communicative basis of medical terminology

В статье рассматривается проблема адекватности грамматической системы латинского языка ее использованию в медицинской терминологии. Актуальность темы обусловлена когнитивно-коммуникативным подходом к анализу материала. С появлением когнитивных исследований термин предстает не как застывшее образование, но как представляемый чувственно и мыслительно воспринимаемый объект. В его основе лежит концепт, квант структурированного знания. Научная новизна исследования заключается в анализе роли латинской грамматики в процессе формирования медицинской терминологии коллективным адресантом, гуманистами эпохи Возрождения. Сущность системы латинского склонения имен существительных состоит в присоединении к различным основам сравнительно небольшого числа падежных окончаний, сходных для ряда склонений. Номинации в процессе коммуникации осуществляются общими процессами и принципами. Склонение I и II групп имен прилагательных дифференцировано в зависимости от того, на какие типы склонения имен существительных они ориентированы. Термины-словосочетания рассматриваются в аспекте межуровневого взаимодействия морфологии и синтаксиса. Имея четкую когнитивную и коммуникативную направленность, термины-словосочетания отличаются строгой семантической, морфологической и синтаксической структурой. Особенности грамматической системы латинского языка обусловливают в медицине легкость восприятия, глубину понимания адресатом и быстроту его реакции в процессе профессиональной коммуникации. The paper discusses the problem of the adequacy of the grammatical system of the Latin language in medical terminology. The relevance of the topic is due to the cognitive-communicative approach to the analysis of the material. Anthropocentrism, with its focus on the intelligent human being, necessitated a review of the terminology and interpretation of the term as a word limited by its special purpose and an unambiguous and accurate expression of the concept. With the advent of cognitive research, the term appears not as a ‘frozen’ formation, but as a sensually and mentally perceived object. It is based on the concept, a “quantum” of structured knowledge. However, stepping from the field of a common language the language of medicine, the word presenting the concept becomes the name of the concept, expressing medical reality as a term. The scientific novelty of the study is to solve the problem of the formation of medical terminology based on the system of the Latin grammar, morphology and syntax by the collective addressee, humanists of the Renaissance. For medical terminology, two parts of speech are chiefly required for professional purposes: nouns and adjectives. The essence of the Latin declension system of the noun consists in attaching a relatively small number of case endings to various stems, with some endings shared by different declinations. The process of nomination is guarded by general principles. Adjectives are divided into two groups. The first and second declension of adjectives is differentiated depending on the declension of nouns they modify. Phrase terms are considered in the inter-layer interaction of morphology and syntax. There is special attention to psychosystematics, which puts forward the concept of linguistic virtuality — the repository in our thinking in terms of concepts (cogitative algorithms for the formation of words as parts of speech) (G. Guillaume, L. M. Skrelina) before their use in speech (small syntax). With a clear cognitive and communicative orientation, phrase terms are distinguished by a formal semantic, morphological and syntactic structure. In medicine, the peculiarities of Latin grammar facilitate perception, contribute to the depth of understanding by the addressees and the speed of their reaction in the process of professional communication

Interference Errors in Numerical Expression by Vietnamese EFL Speakers

This paper aims to investigate numerical expression by Vietnamese speakers of English as a foreign language (EFL). The study identifies and explains the causes of interference errors in expressing number of nouns. A descriptive-cognitive research design was conducted error-oriented investigation of 62 high-school students and 30 employees working in English-speaking companies participating in writing a 45-minute essay for numerical errors from the essays collected. The findings revealed that Vietnamese EFL speakers had difficulty in expressing the number of the entities represented by the nouns due to differences in means and manner of numerical expression in English whose sentences are numerically compulsory and grammatically relevant as opposed to those in Vietnamese whose numerical category is grammatically unimportant, but lexically relevant, and seen with number-neutral nouns or general numbers. Errors also occurred as Vietnamese EFL speakers failed to acquire the count-uncount distinction due in part to differences in perceptualizing the numerical meaning of the entities represented by nouns, ascribing the countability wrong and keeping the same property of countable/uncountable nouns despite having referred to different referents. The paper ended with some pedagogical implications to help Vietnamese EFL speakers improve numerical errors when using English.

Boltanski’s dilemma: Mimetics, distance and spectating suffering

Working from the Crucifixion episode or pageant from the York Corpus Christi Play, two questions were asked of the spectator: <list list-type="simple"> <list-item><label>1.</label>How do they look at such a theatre (scene) from their own time and culture and experiences?</list-item> <list-item><label>2.</label>How do we look at such a theatre (scene) from our own time and culture and experiences?</list-item></list>A third question may now be asked by following what we may call ‘Boltanski’s dilemma’: what sort of pity can we really feel for an imaginary scene on the stage? This article will revisit the earlier piece (2010) as archive material to develop key themes now encapsulated by Boltanski’s question and challenge. The article will draw on current neuro-cognitive research that challenges and re-grounds our understanding of empathy and projection of self in the embodied mind. This informs the spectatorial experience, the spectator’s ability to see and accept the ‘double reality’ of the theatre and other visual (mimetic) experience, and the issues of ‘moral distance’ represented by Boltanski, Bandura and others. Boltanski’s dilemma confronts us as knowing spectators with the inherent ethical paradox of any and all representations of suffering in any given cultural and social context. The article will draw on case studies from theatre(s), film and art to illustrate and exemplify the position of the spectator: in the spirit of ethos, a series of musings, of questions and signposts as well as arguments.

A Brain Listening to Itself

The ubiquitous presence of ambiguous voices in Beckett’s work remains an enduring mystery. The narrative work is no exception, to the point that Beckett’s fiction after Murphy (1938) can be read as, to quote The Unnamable (1953), “entirely a matter of voices; no other metaphor is appropriate” (319). Given the alien qualities of these voices, their intrusive independent agency, and their sometimes tormenting phenomenology, two frameworks of interpretation have so far prevailed. On the one hand, there are narratologists such as Brian Richardson (2006) who have proposed an “unnatural” reading of these voices, by arguing that these alien, multiple, sourceless voices cannot be traced back or ascribed to any actual experience within the human domain; that they cannot be “naturalized” (Culler 1975; 2018; see also Fludernik 1996) by the reader. On the other hand, there is a long-standing “pathological” framework, which sees voices in Beckett’s work as a fictional rendering of a wide range of experiences associated with mental illnesses, mostly of auditory-verbal hallucinations (AVHs) typical of schizophrenia. This chapter suggests that an alternative, natural, and non-pathological experience is the target of Beckett’s fictional cognitive models having voices as core modeling elements. By drawing on contemporary cognitive research on inner speech (roughly speaking, the activity of silently talking to, with and within oneself), it is advocated that voices in Beckett’s models target the working of inner speech, only defamiliarized or, as we shall see, “detuned” as a modeling alteration to explore its functioning within human cognition.