Artistic Image Depiction Elements in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

The article examines the elements of the representation of the artistic image in a literary work, individual speech features, phonetic devices, morphological categories and expressions of the character's speech. The literary device of stanzas of Edgar Allan's works is analyzed and examined, the semantic features of the features of images and all kinds of reproduced linguistic means are traced. Keywords: reproducible linguistic means, element of artistic image, phonetic devices, individuality, expressiveness, versatility, vivid and expressive meaning, disgusting abomination, deep feeling of loneliness, personification, inanimate objects, human qualities.

A morphosyntactic analysis of nominal expressive suffixes in Russian and Greek

This work investigates and compares nominal expressive suffixes in Russian and Greek within the framework of Distributed Morphology. It shows that, although the suffixes under investigation share the same expressive meaning, they differ significantly in their syntactic structure, namely in the manner and place of attachment in the syntactic tree. More specifically, in both languages expressive suffixes can attach either as heads or as modifiers and, furthermore, they may occupy various syntactic positions. This illustrates that, despite their uniformity at semantic level, expressive suffixes exhibit variation with respect to their syntactic structuring both within and across languages.

Expressive Meaning Across Linguistic Levels and Frameworks

The study of the language-emotion interface has so far mainly concentrated on the conceptual dimension of emotions as expressed via language. This volume is the first to exclusively focus on the exploration of the formal linguistic expressions of emotions at different linguistic complexity levels—and it does so by integrating work from different linguistic frameworks: generative syntax, functional and usage-based linguistics, formal semantics/pragmatics, and experimental phonology. This collection is both a timely and an original contribution to the growing field of research on the interaction between linguistic expressions and the so-called ‘expressive dimension’ of language. The contributions to this volume are thus of interest to researchers and graduate students who would like to learn more about state-of-the-art approaches to the language-emotion interface.

Expressive meaning across linguistic levels and frameworks

This chapter summarizes recent work on expressive meaning within a variety of linguistic frameworks and concludes that linguistic research on the formal means of expressing emotions is still understudied across different linguistic complexity levels. Based on this thematic introduction, the chapter provides an overview of the present volume, highlighting common concepts and ideas of the individual chapters, but also stressing important differences in how expressive meaning is investigated.

ENGLISH HYPERBOLE IN CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S FICTION PROSE (A STUDY OF SOPHIE KINSELLA’S NOVELS)

The article presents findings of the ongoing project on the use of hyperbole in contemporary women’s fiction prose, as one of the peculiarities of this genre. The novelty of our study consists in the fact that the genre characteristics and plot devices of romance novels have been abundantly dwelt upon in scholarly researches while the stylistic aspects of the genre have not been explicated enough. The texts constituting the empirical material for the research are the novels “Twenties Girl” and “Can You Keep a Secret?” by Sophie Kinsella, one of the bestselling contemporary English writers. The theoretical background of the research is based on the studies that were carried out by scholars whose field of expertise combines the issues related to literary criticism, context and rhetorical devices. Hyperbole being a typical feature of female writing, and there existing multiple taxonomies of hyperboles, the present study aims at defining peculiarities of the target trope, which is typical of female romance novel. Therefore, the focus in the given study is on the types of hyperbolic expressions, which prevail in the analysed text, i.e. quantitative hyperboles and adjectives-in-thesuperlative-degree hyperboles. The research confirms that hyperbole is a context-dependent linguistic phenomenon. The results of the study are reflected in the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the hyperbolic occurrences. The former shows that among hyperboles-numerals, million is most frequently used in the female writing by contrast with the numerals fifty, ten thousand, bazillion, which are least frequently used. Qualitative analysis presents the taxonomy of semantic fields formed by adjectives-in-the-superlative-degree hyperboles (e.g. inanimate objects, behavior, relationships) and displays a high prevalence of occurrences of those from anthropological domain. Moreover, the study demonstrates that the numerical hyperbole’s literal, objective-logical meaning denoting quantity becomes an intensifier and merges with the acquired in the context subjectiveevaluative, more expressive meaning, with a positive or negative connotation.

STYLISTIC DEVICES AS BASIC ELEMENTS OF ENRICHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE

The article deals with the study of stylistic techniques and means of expression characteristic of English speech expression, the study of means and methods of communication of independent sentences, as well as phrasal units, ways to combine them into fragments and whole speech texts. The paper identifies and generalizes scientific approaches to the study of stylistic syntax techniques, analyzes syntactic constructions that have expressive potential and pragmatic orientation. It is established that the subject of syntactic stylistics is also the study of the specifics of the functioning of expressive means and techniques in complex linguistic texts. It is found that the stylistic technique is realized, as a rule, in the context of phrasal units, paragraph and whole text, and the interaction of sentence models in these contexts gives emotional and expressive meaning to the segments of speech that they form. Thus, stylistic devices based on formal and semantic interactions of several syntactic constructions or sentences in a particular context, is one of the richest sources of speech expression. These stylistic devices serve as a means of poetic syntax, and are widely used in fiction, journalism and are found in scientific language. Despite the fact that each stylistic device individually contributes to the overall expressiveness of the text, a greater effect is achieved through their interaction, and with the help of these stylistic devices, contact with the addressee is established, the emotional background and emphaticity of the text are enhanced. Therefore, expressive means and stylistic techniques of syntax, which are created both with the use of stylistically marked constructions and without their participation, are one of the richest means of stylistics of the English language. The considered cases of violation of the usual logic of syntactic connection of parts of a complex sentence, semantic differences between their usual and occasional use bring subjective motives into the text and are used with certain stylistic purposes, which due to functioning together have a greater effect.

The Context of CALM

This chapter provides an overview of the range of psychotherapeutic interventions that have been applied to patients with advanced and metastatic cancer and the relationship of Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully (CALM) to the field. Approaches to alleviate distress at the time of diagnosis of advanced or life-threatening cancer, those for patients near the end of life, and those for patients living with metastatic and advanced cancer are discussed. The latter include supportive-expressive, meaning-centered, cognitive-behavioural, mindfulness-based, and grief therapies tailored for individuals, groups, and families. Interventions tailored for the end of life, including Dignity Therapy, Short-Term Life Review, and narrative interventions, are reviewed. The barriers to the optimal delivery of psychosocial interventions for patients with advanced disease are also explored.

Describing, listening and teaching questions and orders´ intonation in mexican, caribbean and castilian spanish to brazilian learners

The study intends to present results obtained from a methodology of intonation teaching, based on metacognition assumptions (Flavell, 1976; Gombert, 1992; Ribeiro, 2003). The methodology has five stages labelled as: 1 - learner's awareness of the transfering their mother tongue (LM) into the target foreign language (LEA); 2 - description of the intonational contour of total and partial interrogative utterances; 3-perception; 4-mimetic repetition; 5 - oral production based on careful listening. According to Cortés (2002), intonation is essential to convey messages in an appropriate way, showing an expressive meaning - besides syntactic-semantic aspects- and the meaning of the utterances. According to PINTO (2009), the E / LE learner transfers the intonational pattern of the LM when he or she in he/her LEA. How to teach intonation? This author proposed and applied a methodology of describing and teaching Spanish intonation to undergraduate students of Letras - Portuguese / Spanish, from a public university in Rio de Janeiro. For this study, 18 utterances were written in Spanish as a foreign language, based on the Interactive Atlas of the Spanish intonation. The corpus is composed of 9 utterances in Brazilian Portuguese as L1, both compared to 9 utterances in Spanish as L1, totaling 36 statements. For such data collection, the informants received CD's composed of yes/no questions, confirmatory questions and declarative imperatives of request in the dialect chosen by each student- the Castilian, the Caribbean and the Mexican. Recordings were made at two specific moments: before and after exposure to our methodology of description and intonation teaching. After teaching, we described the utterances phonetically and analyzed them with the aid of PRAAT software and following the Autosegmental Metric (AM) model. After this analysis, we compared the implementation of F0 and the tonal accent of these utterances, in order to check if the learner's accomplishment of the prosodic system undergoes alteration after the work of awareness, description, perception, mimetic repetition and production stuck in attention. We observed in our results that learners, before being submitted to our methodological proposal of intonation description and teaching, transfer characteristic of Brazilian Portuguese contours into the production of Spanish as a foreign language for all listed varieties. This fact confirmed the transfer process. However, when learners are submitted to our methodological proposal, they mostly implement the expected outlines according to the chosen varieties.

COMPARATIVE STUDY ON DISCOURSE ANALYSIS BASED ON SCHOOL’S SLOGAN

The research was aimed to describe and to analyze the meanings of each slogan used in schools. To conduct the research, the researchers used descriptive qualitative method. The subjects of this research were the slogans from 4 different schools were SMP 19, SMK 2, SMK 6 and SMK 7 in Ambon city. The data was taken in the form of phrase, clause and sentence. In collecting the data, the researchers used a documentation technique by taking the pictures of the schools’ slogans from those schools above. To analyze the meaning of each slogan, the researchers used pragmatic analysis especially speech act theory. The result showed that there were 5 types of slogan which applied into 14 slogans. From the total number of schools’ slogans, 7 slogans were written in English and 7 slogans too were written in Bahasa Indonesia. 5 slogans contained representative meaning, 5 slogans contained directive meaning, 2 slogans contained commissive meaning, 1 slogan contained expressive meaning and 1 last slogan contained declarative meaning. Types of slogan that most used in the schools were representative and directive meanings

THE ANALYSIS OF KURT SCHWITTERS' "THE HITLER GANG" BASED ON ICONOGRAPHIC AND ICONOLOGICAL CRITICISM METHOD OF ERWIN PANOFSKY

In this study, the collage "The Hitler Gang" dated 1944 by Kurt Schwitters who is one of the Dadaism artists has been analyzed based on "iconographic and iconological criticism method" which was developed by an art historian, Erwin Panofsky, in 20th century. The said work has been examined under three stages which are natural subject matter (factual and expressive meaning), conventional subject matter (secondary meaning) and intrinsic subject matter (content) according to this method of Panofsky; it has been aimed to make the work more understandable by the viewer with this method. The positions and expressions of the visuals within the composition have been examined to find the natural subject matter; the relationships of the visuals with one another have been examined by addressing the points at which the work points to find the conventional subject matter and various resources have been employed to reveal this relationship; the life of the artist and the conditions of the period have been examined to find the intrinsic subject matter. Panofsky states that intrinsic subject matter provides the real meaning of the work. It can also be stated that the technique of the work is effective for expressing the period in which it was made. The collage technique employed by Schwitters corresponds to the destruction of the war. The collage "The Hitler Gang" emphasizes the dictator Adolf Hitler and his gang as can be understood from its name. In this regard, the study focuses on how policies applied by Hitler during First and Second World Wars changed the art and artistic perception through the work of Schwitters. Keywords: Erwin Panofsky, Art Criticism, Iconography, Iconology, Kurt Schwitters, The Hitler Gang