The question "Who am I? / What am I?" as a marker of identity search
... excludes a neutral attitude of the individual to the situation that has become the reason for understanding their "I". Being a tool of self-knowledge, the analyzed questions are an indicator of a person's fixation on their own social and personal identity and reflect changes in psychology against the background of socio-economic processes that transform traditional forms of interaction in society. Based on the data of the National Russian Corpus, it is shown that changes in the perception ...
The phenomenon of heterogeneity of the speech subject in German retrospective discourse
The article highlights the features of self-presentation of the subject of retrospective mental and cognitive activity recorded in the texts of memoirs of German-speaking writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. The texts of fiction, which are fictional memories of the narrator and the main character of the narrative in one person, were also used as linguistic material. The novelty of the research is determined by the linguocognitive approach to the problem of interaction of the writer’s / hero’s...
Visual language of the city: a case study of the visual perception of third places (the case of Nizhny Novgorod)
... research methods include critical discourse analysis, visual observation, and surveying. Their combined application made it possible to describe the external design of third places as a combination of verbal and nonverbal signs that construct the local identity of the space and to reveal how this visually transmitted information is perceived by audiences. The study identified the influence of both the contemporary urban context and the historical background on the visual perception of third places and ...
