Book review: Veselinov D., Angelova A. Речник на френските думи в българския език в шест тома
... of French words in the Bulgarian language in six volumes. Volume 1, A-B, Volume 2. Sofia, University Publishing House, 2015. 508 + 531 p. Sopostavitelnoe iazykoznanie [Comparative Linguistics], 1, pp. 109—113 (in Bulgarian).
Legurska, P., 2013. Semantic Systems of Languages and Ways of their Cataloging (for Comparative Purposes). In: M. Drinov, ed. 70 godini balgarska akademichna leksikografiya [70 years of Bulgarian academic lexicography]. Sofia (in Bulgarian).
Morkovkin, V. V. and Morkovkina,...
A poetic function in an expanding context: title — monoverse — polytext (on the example of Ivan Zhdanov's poetry)
The article analyses the poetic function as a mechanism for the semantic and compositional structuring of the text. The research aims to study repetition and parallelism, expanding the context from the heading to the minimal text and the textual unity within a poetic book and forming micro- and metacycles with ...
Interdiscursivity as a linguocreative appropriation of discourses: the avant-garde and Andrey Tarkovsky
... (in Russ.).
Oliz'ko, N. S., 2007. Interdiscursivity as a category of postmodern writing. Vestnik Chelyabinskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta [Bulletin of the Chelyabinsk State University], 15, pp. 95—104 (in Russ.).
Pêcheux, M., 1982. Language, semantics, and ideology. New York.
Pêcheux, M., 1999. Capital truths. Linguistics, semantics, philosophy. In: P. Sériot, ed. Kvadratura smysla. Frantsuzskaya shkola analiza diskursa [The quadrature of meaning. French school of discourse analysis]....
‘What can be described can happen too…’: describing text semantics as a model structure of transworld relationships
In this article, I explore the content-related and formal aspects of describing the multidimensional semantic organization of a text, particularly, I focus on the possibility of using the apparatus of modal semantics to identify the relationship between sentential complexes. To those ends, I employ the concepts of model, model structure, and centred ...
Lexical explicators of the modality of necessity in the Old and New Testament (the Synodal translation into Russian)
... microfield in the biblical texts and to produce a comparative analysis of modal meanings of objective-subjective and objective necessity expressed through relevant lexemes. Another objective is to assess the influence of the meanings of necessity on the semantic orientation of the biblical texts manifested in the difference between the precepts of the Old and New Testament. I employ the field approach and use both universal research methods and the methods and techniques of the functional-semantic, etymological,...
Revisiting Schleiermacher’s On the Different Methods of Translating: On the Foundations of Translation Relativity Theory
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6. Zolyan, S. T., 2016. Text-centric semantics and translation theory. Article 2: Semantics of translation as a semiotic ...
Semiotic Hybridisation as the Basis of Internet Meme Semantics
... the lack of academic research into multimodal features of internet memes. The aim of the research work is to analyse the process of semiotic hybridisation in internet memes. The authors hold that semiotic hybridisation in internet memes construes the semantics of these units, while their verbal and non-verbal components interact on the conceptual level. The theory of conceptual integration elaborated by J. Fauconnier and M. Turner can provide a theoretical foundation for the analysis of semiotic hybridization....
The causes and consequences of the semantic devaluation of the words пафос and пафосный in modern Russian
This article considers the radical changes in the functioning of literary lexis in the Russian language of the early 21st century, namely the causes and consequences of the semantic devaluation of the noun пафос and its syntactic derivate, the adjective пафосный, whose semantic transformation is explained by the speech expansion of glamorous lifestyle as an aggressive subculture.
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Semantic transformations in the secondary text (on A. Döblin’s fairy tale “Der Ritter Blaubart”)
The article examines the scope and significance of semantic transformations of the secondary text — the fairy tale Der Ritter Blaubart” by Alfred Döblin. The article reveals that the transformation of the tale, which emerged in the stream of post-modernism, is a complex formation which reveals both ...
“Enchantment for the eyes” through the eyes of foreigners: how foreign students perceive Russian verbal image in сatch phrases
... stage of the research focused on identifying the specifics of teaching foreigners to perceive verbal images as part of famous catch phrases. The article presents results of the survey, the purpose of which was to identify degree of difficulty of various semantic components of the verbal image in the catch phrase ‘Enchantment for the eyes’ (from poem ‘Autumn’ by Alexander Pushkin) for foreign students. The experimental data is analyzed from a semantic and linguo-didactic points of view. ...
The concept of WILL in the semantics of deontic modality
The article is a result of the theoretical interpretation of the conceptual component of Will in the semantics of deontic modality expressing the attitude to one's own or other people’s actions to achieve a certain state of things. Will determines the potential and voluntary nature of deontics. These semantic characteristics are to be taken into ...
Integrated approach to the event frame analysis
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Neither more nor less: the grounds for A.Skidan’s system
The author analyzes a series of verses by A.Skidan of a “Delirium” collection (1993) and establishes the equality of semantics between giving/gift and parting, breaking apart, which allows to bring the concept of “giving/ gift” to the core of the poet’s concept structure. The article defines a semantic invariant and studies the ways of its invariant development,...
The translation of colloquial and low colloquial lexis into the Russian language: The semantic and stylistic aspects
The paper deals with some peculiarities of translating colloquial and lowcolloquial vocabulary functioning in the novels of S. Maugham into Russian. The features of translation equivalents are identified at the stylistic and semantic levels. The ways of compensating for the lost components of meaning are shown. In spite of that the colloquial and low-colloquial elements belong to typologically different languages, some similarities are observed at semantic and stylistic levels....
On the application of aspect bades approach method to semantic-funktional description of complex subordinate closes
... the analysis of the
clauses in two directions. The first one is the systematic-language approach, the second one is the speech approach. The article gives seven aspects of the clause organization and functioning that reveal complex relationships of semantic and structural parameters constituting specifics of Complex clauses.
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Semantic diffusion: the bilingual aspect
This article deals with the problem of semantic diffusion on the level of polysemantic and paronymic lexical units. A hypothesis on the storage of lexical-semantic variations of a polysemantic word in the mental lexicon of native speakers in diffusive way is developed on the basis of experimental ...
On defining cultural modality and its manifestation in L. N. Tolstoy’s short story “Polikushka”
The article addresses the issue of collective reflection on various manifestations of reality. The aim of the study is to confirm the existence of cultural modality as a linguocultural category. This objective was achieved through the methods of description, componential and pragmatic analysis, and linguocultural interpretation. Using L. N. Tolstoy’s story “Polikushka” as material, the study examines the reactions of representatives of the 19th-century peasant world to different aspects of reality...
Linearity and compositionality in the semantics of binomial stable constructions
The article examines binomial stable syntactic constructions (BSSCs) as a distinct class of phraseologized expressions in Russian. The analysis focuses on the interaction between two key parameters of their semantic organisation: linearity and compositionality. Linearity is understood not merely as a formal property of syntactic word order, but also as a cognitive mechanism that shapes the perception and interpretation of meaning. Compositionality is defined ...
Motifs of “The Ladder” by St. John Climacus in the spiritual letters of St. Ambrose of Optina to the laity
The article undertakes a motif-based analysis of the semantic connections between “The Ladder” by St. John Climacus (St. John of Sinai) and the spiritual letters addressed to the laity by St. Ambrose of Optina. St. Ambrose took part in the preparation for the publication of the translation of “The ...
Functions of words-realities in S. Rushdie’s novel “midnight’s Children”
The article examines the features of the functioning of realia words in the text of Salman Rushdie's novel "Midnight’s Children." The delimitation of the term "realia words" is carried out in its comparison with the concept of "realia." The language specificity of the novel is noted, which consists of intentionally incorporating exotic vocabulary into the text without corresponding authorial commentary, the meaning of which can be understood by a non-native reader only...
Linguopoetics of A.P. Chekhov: ensemble of artistic details. Part 1
... details, symbolic details, and transposing details in each of the two narrative blocks of the story. Special attention is given to the analysis of the formation and functioning of transposing details, i. e., details in their contextually conditioned semantic and functional evolution. The application of a comprehensive research methodology, combining functional-semantic, contextual, and interpretational types of analysis, allows for the conclusion about the dominant role of diverse artistic details ...
The role of the concorded renaming in the formation of the oikonymy in the Kaliningrad Region
The article examines the ways in which the original East Prussian and new Soviet oikonyms were concorded during the post-war renaming of some settlements in the Kaliningrad region. A comparative phonetic and semantic analysis of the respective names revealed that the same thematic correlation (with a predominance of references to the flora, fauna and water bodies of the area) and ideological antonymy, usually manifested in an indirect form, prevail among ...
Artistic implementation of the concept «unity in diversity» in the poem by P.B. Shelley «Love’s philosophy»
... contextual and interpretive methods.
Having studied the verbal content of frame structures representing the concept of «unity in diversity» within the framework of the individual author’s concept sphere, the author made a conclusion about the special semantic function of the analyzed concept , which represents the cognitive dominant of the poem «Love’s philosophy».
unity, diversity, poetry, frame, concept, Shelley
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Word-combinations в потоке + Genitive and быть в потоке in modern Russian speech
The article deals with the problem of metaphorical verbalization of the inner state of a person using the example of a non-predicative combination в потоке + Genitive and a predicative combination быть в потоке. Attention to the semantics of the lexeme поток (flow) and to the connotative features of these combinations is due to the high frequency of metaphorical use of the word поток and combinations like “Я в потоке” in the texts of modern media and social ...
Semantic potential of the lexeme twilight in Russian poetry
... in cases of personification and periphrastic renamings like 'twilight witch' or 'twilight monk.' 2) Figurative and symbolic meanings in poetry become notably prominent during the Silver Age. This period witnesses an enrichment of the conventional semantics, with various "extensions" and transformations occurring when the term is used figuratively to characterize transitional states in the realms of the world, history, and consciousness. 3) Tropic contexts prevail, showcasing the ...
Technological Metaphor and Communicative Models in Contemporary Russian Poetry
... which affects the communication structure of poetic discourse. The key parameters of the new communication models in poetic discourse include the transformation of the prototypical space of the poetic text, changes in the principles of poetic framing, semantic and syntactic compression, multiple integration of mental spaces, referential uncertainty, the functioning of computer terms as metaphors in poetic discourse, and their secondary metaphorization/demetaphorization. The active interaction ...
Speech acts and speech genres: the case of the compliment
... rech' kak yavlenie gorodskoi kul'tury
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Russian folk verse and the main approaches to its study
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[Three Russian Lyric Folk Song Meters]. Moscow (in Russ.).
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Hieroglyphic sign weakening mechanisms
... Vygotsky, Xue Jin, Li Feng, and others. The analysis of 214 characters has revealed the basic mechanisms of weakening. The general scientific methods are as follows: grapheme analysis to study the structural components of the hieroglyphic sign, semantic and etymological analysis to trace the evolution of the form and meaning of a character. The research has revealed the following weakening mechanisms: simplification, complication, preservation. These changes in form trigger semantic variations ...
Verbalization of communicative strategies in foreign policy discourse: a case study of the Russian President’s addresses to the international audience
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Emotive politeness in face-threatening speech acts: cross-cultural perspectives
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Innovative meaning-generating structures in the early formation of a literary tradition: the case of Kosta Khetagurov
... innovative meaning of the word and its context. The translation of the title of Kosta Khetagurov‘s program verse “Nystwan”, which opens his poetic collection “Iron fændyr” (“Ossetian Lyre”), shows the fundamental differences between the semantics of this word in the ethnographic era and its modern interpretation. Further on, following Buslaev‘s fundamental idea that at its initial stage literature assumes not only secular, but also spiritual social obligations, it is possible to show ...
"Athletes of faith, athletes of the stage...": linguistic and discursive analysis of the derivational family in Russian from the 18th to the early 20th centuries
This article delves into the dynamics of the semantic field surrounding the word ‘atlet’ (athlete) and its derivatives in the Russian language from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Drawing upon theoretical frameworks of linguistic portraiture and discourse analysis, this study provides ...
Quantitative corpus analysis of implicit evaluativeness: the case of ‘sovershit’sya’ and ‘svershit’sya’ in Russian internet discourse
... empirical level of the study, according to the dictionary data, it was found that the meanings of the verbs ‘sovershit’sya’ and ‘svershit’sya’ cannot be distinguished, while the analysis of a large block of corpus data showed significant semantic and stylistic discrepancies between these lexemes. The lexeme ‘sovershit’sya’ mainly denotes standard, everyday situations. The lexeme
‘svershit’sya’, in turn, tends to denote situations that have some significance for the conceptualizer ...
The phenomenon of heterogeneity of the speech subject in German retrospective discourse
... prose. The types of autobiographical SELF mentioned in the relevant literary sources are considered. The forms of explication of the heterogeneity of the speech subject in German-language autobiographical texts are revealed, the main of which is the semantic opposition ‘present SELF — past SELF’, or ‘subject-reconstructor — subject-reconstruct’. The variability of the eventual plurality of the subject-reconstruct and the opposition ‘conscious SELF — unconscious SELF’ are interpreted ...
Idiolect of a piece of litterature in the mirror of translation (based on the novel of E. Vodolazkin “Laurus”)
... foreign-language reader. The aim of the research is to study the influence of the interpretation of the idiostylistic aspect of a literary work on the translator’s work. The methodology of the study is based on the postulates of F. Rastier’s interpretive semantics as a descriptive model of text interpretation. The study identifies and interprets the features of the idiolect and idiostyle as artistic tools of the author, as well as analyzes their reflection in the mirror of the French-language translation....
Cities, mountains, roads... (the image of a city in formulaic paronymic collocations)
... centuries. The research is based on the material of the poetic subcorpus of the National Corpus of the Russian language and the Card Index of the Dictionary of Russian Poetry of the 20th century. The study employs a variety of methods — corpus, semantic, syntactic and textual analyses.
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Visual text of medieval Vladimir: the analysis of the dominant image of cathedral exteriors
... sacred space. The study aims to use the example of Vladimir during the reign of Andrei Bogolyubsky and Vsevolod III to substantiate the city-forming significance of exterior sculptural programs as a visual text that encodes the key parameters of the semantic organisation of urban environment. Hermeneutic presuppositions and initial cultural conditions for such an analysis are formulated. Based on the visual semiotics of Umberto Eco, it is shown that the external temple decoration of Vladimir acts ...
Translation of new sociological terminology: challenges and solutions
... issues, 7—1 (85), pp. 102—106 (in Russ.).
Bursina, O., 2014. Terminologiya sotsial'noi raboty: struktura, semantika i funktsionirovanie (na materiale angloyazychnoi literatury dlya sotsial'nykh rabotnikov) [Terminology of social work: structure, semantics and functioning (the case of English-language publications for social workers)]. Ph. D. Saint Petersburg (in Russ.).
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On poetic emotiology in poetry and beyond
... multiple aspects: in the aspect of the grammar of poetic language and in their figurative representation. Within the frames of such grammatical categories as the imperative and subjunctive moods, emotives acquire typologically significant cognitive and semantic characteristics: a drive to display emotions, desire and the unattainability of the desired. The semantic features of emotives are revealed in the structures of the 'inner speech': in interrogative structures and pseudo-dialogical reflexions....
Theatrical interpretation of a literary work from the standpoint of semiotic creativity
... that can help to deepen the analysis of the meaning construction in the heterogeneous discourse of drama. Semiotic resonance is understood as the correlations of recurrently used signs accompanied by the amplification of meaning and emergence of new semantic projections. The investigation of the play — theatrical performance transformations made it possible to identify the specific levels of semiotic creativity, which correspond to the degree of pragmatic identity of the original content and its ...
Poetical reduplications in Alexander Vvedensky’s fiction
... poetic communication. On the grammatical level, reduplication creates tension between repeated grammar patterns and their lexical realisations, which allows Vvedensky to demonstrate the potential extensibility of syntactic models and make grammatical semantics a compensatory mechanism that fills the semantic void of the poetic utterance. Vvedensky's thematization of reduplication as the "doubling of the world" is a mirror, which deforms and transforms reality. Mirror semiosis illustrates ...
Ironic assessment in Saltykov-Shchedrin’s novel The Golovlyovs
... of printing and publishing], 4, pp. 86—92 (in Russ.).
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Shilikhina, K. M., 2014. Semantika i pragmatika verbal'noi ironii [Semantics and pragmatics of verbal irony]. Voronezh (in Russ.).
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The noun visilka: a semantic portrait and a system of multiple meanings (based on police search documentation of the second half of the 19th century)
... distribution of the noun visilka determined the necessity of abstract or concrete-abstract vector locatives, which expanded the lexical meaning of this lexeme in the business texts of the second half of the 19th century. The authors identified the main semantic features of the noun visilka (the dominance of the archiseme — 'process', the existence of the differential semes 'result', 'actions of people involved in a police search'). Further research is aimed at examining business writings from Western ...
Imposture as a problem of reference: semiotics of the name in Boris Godunov
In this article, we continue to address the mechanisms of presenting oneself as another and another as oneself. In this regard, non-trivial features of the semantics of a proper name are described. Based on the analysis of contexts of inappropriate use of a name in a situation of imposture, described in Pushkin's tragedy Boris Godunov, the author considers semiotic mechanisms of transformation and assignment ...
Pushkin as a personal myth of the Russian avantgarde
... position made it possible to move from dismissing him as ‘a deaf singer’ to the avant-gardist glorification of Pushkin as a genius who worked with the sound texture of the poem. Kruchyonykh demonstrates that for Pushkin the shift is a powerful semantic generator of poetry, a tool that makes an error ‘the rule of breaking rules’: semantic deviations turn into neologisms, whereas the shift itself enters the realm of productive poetic techniques.
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“Russian people” in the literature and documents of the 19th century: an experience of linguistic portraiture
... concluded that the concept “Russian people” is composed of two parts — ‘ordinary people’ and ‘society’. The latter behaves in a fatherly way, taking upon itself the mission of enlightenment of ordinary people and their liberation. In the semantic field “Russian people” there are numerous semantic components directly related to the concept analysed: faith, faithfulness, patience, tolerance, understanding, receptivity, openness, simple-mindedness, juvenility, etc. The authors consider ...
Sootechestvenniki (compatriots) in the 19th century: semantic profile based on the data of the National Corpus of the Russian language
..., the first meaning was bound to dominate and it did at the beginning of the 19th century. However, one should speak not about the synthesis, but rather about the discordance of the two meanings. In the 19th century, another meaning developed in the semantic structure of the word: ethnic Russians living abroad. Gradually, the word acquired new evaluative meanings, while negative connotations still prevailed. The basic oppositions (we — they, here — there, ours — alien) interacted in an ambiguous ...
Verbal aggression in modern poetry: conventional and unconventional functioning of discourse markers
... lingvistike. Vyp. 17: Teoriya rechevykh aktov [New in foreign linguistics. Vol. 17: Theory of speech acts]. Moscow. pp. 22—129 (in Russ.).
Paducheva, E., 2010. Semanticheskie issledovaniya: semantika vremeni i vida v russkom yazyke. Semantika narrative [Semantic Research: Semantics of Time and View in Russian. Narrative semantics]. Moscow (in Russ.).
Kibrik, A. A. and Podlesskaya, V. I., eds., 2009. Rasskazy o snovideniyakh. Korpusnoe issledovanie ustnogo russkogo diskursa [Dream stories. Corpus research ...
Textonics: an introduction to electronic philology
... rethink and reorganize existing textual formations. This article introduces a number of theoretical concepts, denoting different configurations of digital texts: megatext — a collection of texts that are perceived and studied as a single thematic or semantic whole; unitext — the totality of all megatexts; supratext — the text of a higher order in relation to the given one; syntexts united by a common supratext and functioning as synonyms with respect to each other; peritext — a list of syntexts,...