The pragmatics of semiosis and linguisation
A hermeneutical interpretation of Goethe’s Faust’s attempt to interpret the meaning of the Gospel word λόγος, the first three verses of the Gospel of John, and the first three verses of the book of Genesis is proposed. The analysis of these hermeneutical constructions makes it possible to relate them—as well as the phenomenon of genesis itself—to ...
Neoderivatives with the suffix -ing in modern English
... structural mechanisms of neologism formation are described, based on the expansion of traditional verbal derivation through the use of appellative and proper nouns as motivating bases. The replenishment of the repertoire of derivational models of -ing word formation in English is established, manifested in the emergence of compound derivatives based on metaphorical transfer. The suffix itself undergoes changes, evolving toward an affixoid that participates in the formation of compound nouns. The ...
Pragmatics of epistemic warrants of the real, the possible and the probable in discourse
... the same time, ‘linguistic pragmatics’ is a branch of linguistics that examines linguistic units from the point of view of their use. The ‘pragmatic turn’ of the 1970s in linguistics meant an interest in using language as an action in which words acquire their actual meanings, sometimes radically different from their non — contextual dictionary meanings. The study of the contribution that linguistic means of epistemic modality make to the meaning of discourse is a subject of epistemic ...
