Levels of context: how textual analysis becomes discourse analysis: the case of Internet lifestyle media
... for such analysis is a lifestyle instruction video from YouTube. Methodologically, the analysis draws on (1) the category of engagement as described in the Appraisal Model within Systemic Functional Linguistics and (2) the interpretation of discourse/text as simultaneously invoking different discourses and genres, as suggested in the Faircloughian approach to discourse analysis. When seen as a complex semiotic happening, the discourse is analyzed in terms of it being part of the YouTube media platform....
Core moral concept of ren (仁) in the Analects (Lunyu) and its translation in Rus-sian Sinology
This article examines the interrelationship among the key Confucian concepts known as the “Five Constants” (五常) in the ancient Chinese philosophical text “The Analects” (Lunyu). It focuses on the polysemy of the central moral concept ‘ren’ (仁) in different contexts and analyzes how this concept is rendered in Russian through a comparison of passages translated by Russian sinologists. The study aims ...
Non-translation and translation in Heidegger, Losev, and Ortega y Gasset
The article examines the ideas of Heidegger, Losev, and Ortega y Gasset regarding the possibility and necessity of translating philosophical texts. The concept of non-translation is an acknowledgment of the impossibility of adequately reproducing a philosophical text in another language while preserving its integrity. Particularly interesting for comparison are the concepts and practices of ...
