“They call the main entrance a porch”: social meaning in semantics and metapragmatics
The paper analyzes the concept of social meaning, which has been conceptualized in lexical semantics since the 1980s and has become central in modern sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. It has been used to describe pragmatic increments in the meaning of a language unit, which ...
Semantics of phraseological units featuring direct kinship terms in modern media texts
This article analyses how media texts utilise phraseological units featuring family relationship vocabulary, aiming to identify the relationship between the semantics of kinship terms and the overall phraseological meaning while describing possible semantic shifts in the understanding of these phraseological units by modern Russian native speakers. Empirically, the study draws on the newspaper corpus of the National Corpus of the Russian Language. A broad understanding ...
Expressiveness in the theatre as a meaning-making technology and the role of gestures in its realization
... the two kinds of theatrical discourse. The qualitative results are obtained with the help of the parametric analysis which is a relevant tool for estimating the activity and functions of gestural modality and as such helps to reveal the specificity of meaning construal.
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Where and how meanings emerge
... worlds. At the same time, this platform is endowed with the autopoietic potential to generate new operating interfaces systems, as well as textualized structures of operations and interpretations (instructions, memory, reframing). The generation of meaning is the result of the interaction of the system platform with the platform-as-context, due to the possibility that one generates and determines the operational potential of the other, acting a recursive loop or Möbius strip. The connection between ...
The semantic potential of the lexeme ‘organ’ in Russian poetry: one’s оwn and someone else’s
The potentially inexhaustible semantic potential of the word, reflected in the full range of its conventional meanings and individual authorial reinterpretations as manifested in literary discourse, has repeatedly attracted philological attention. One such polycode sign, distinguished by a broad semantic spectrum and complex syntagmatic behaviour, is the word ...
Teacher as a transmitter of tradition, values and meanings: Features of the training strategy
... the current deficiencies in the content of teacher education regarding anthropological and axiological issues. The aim of the article is to justify the necessity of adopting a strategy for preparing teachers as transmitters of traditions, values, and meanings. The research methodology is based on axiological, anthropological, and cultural approaches. The analysis of the current educational context and associated risks — including information accessibility, the adoption of distance learning technologies,...
Affect, symbolization, and “practices of the Self”
... symbol. Affect has two sides — cognitive and non-cognitive. The latter manifests itself in unconscious reactions. Conscious affect is regulated by the communicative situation and the sociocultural environment. Sergey Zenkin describes two systems of meaning circulation. The first is sign communication, the second is working with features and symbols. Symbols can be generated unconsciously and evoke similar reactions. Disruption of the flow of information through the system of non-cognitive ...
Explication of pragmatic meanings of metacommunicative comments as a research problem
The article investigates pragmatic meanings of procedural metacommunicative comments in contemporary Russian and the methods of their objective explication in linguistic description. The focus is on the constructions ‘inache govorja’ (Eng. in other words), ‘proshche govorja’ ...
