Kant on “logical objectionv“ to ontological argument: fragment R 3706
This article is dedicated to the ideas, expressed in manuscript R 3706, where Kant criticizes traditional refutation of ontological argument, which is based on distinction of “ideal” and “real” judgments. The relation of this criticism to Kant’s argumentation in “Nova dilucidatio” and the preceding polemic over ontological argument is analyzed.
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2. Yermolaev V. K. Argumentacija Kanta...
Immanuel Kant on the features of morality and its role in the system of morals
The subject of this article is discussed with the help of an excursus into the history of morals and the perception of Kant's teaching on morals, as well as through a polemic with some of its interpretations. Kant's examples of the application of his theory of morality prove its practicality and stability.
1. Бенвенист Э. Словарь индоевропейских социальных терминов. М., 1995.
2. Гегель ...
Developing student’s critical thinking skills through project based learning: international experience
The article considers the issue of developing students’ critical thinking as an important competence in the 21st century educational context. Having analyzed the international research, the authors attempt to present approaches to interpreting the concept of “critical thinking,” its component composition, and methods of its development through the implementation of Project-Based Learning (PBL). The project serves as the core of the educational process, directing it ...
On the system classification of terminological vocabulary of modern education
... from the areas not previously associated with the studied thematic area (computer, economic, scientific and technical, medical, etc.). Analysis of the latest special lexicographic sources revealed that some new terms of education can receive ambiguous interpretations in dictionary entries, demonstrating the incompleteness of the process of forming the subsystem in question. The author comes to some certain conclusion about the conditionality of the terminological system of modern Russian education ...
Conceptual blending theory in poetry discourse analysis: the case study of Pärnu Elegies (1981) by David Samoylov
The article deals with the cognitive analysis of poetic images based on the critical approach to the conceptual blending theory (G. Fauconnier, M. Turner), taking into account the findings of the biographical analysis ensuring an in-depth interpretation of the blended spaces. The study aims to show that the semantic complexity of the poetic image goes beyond the conceptual transfer between the source and target mental spaces. Examining the case of Pärnu Elegies (1981) by David Samoylov,...
“Who are you?” or implementing the strategy of depersonalization on an autobiographical narrative
... strategy of depersonalization”. The article, therefore, is structured in three parts with a conclusion. The first two introductory sections are about the crucial importance of interdisciplinary approach in cognitive linguistic studies, and memory’s interpretative significance in constructing self-narration. Ultimately, in section 3, we offer an analysis of some extracts from the text in question which show how “the strategy of depersonalization” is being omplemented by the author.
Phraseological units as a means of information compression in the American election discourse
Phraseological units are perhaps one of the most visible manifestations of language manipulation. Although phraseology has always been regarded as a powerful source of influencing people’s minds, relatively little is known about the way one perceives and interprets a phraseological unit which has accumulated a great deal of knowledge and experience of many generations since it was first implemented. This paper attempts to classify the types of this information compression bringing the American election ...
Quantitative analysis of parts of speech functioning of in Boris Ryzhy’s poetry
... identify and present an objective “part-of-speech picture” (as applied to nouns, adjectives and verbs) of Boris Ryzhy’s poetic idiolect. Within the framework of this research work was chosen the multifaceted approach that combines quantitative, interpretive and comparison and collation types of analysis. It is worth pointing out that the methodology of standardized data processing procedures was applied, as well as the comparative analysis of statistical results. Academic novelty involves the ...
Narrative in structure of genre: A.I. Kuprin’s “Four beggars” ..... 15 Babenko N.G., Koreshkova E.K. Functional analysis of the linguistic reflection in Evgeny Vodolazkin’s “Justification of the Island”
... of events. The purpose of the article is to identify the features of various narratives in a work that reveals the syncretism of genre structures. The research methodology includes comparative and historical-genetic methods, as well as philological interpretation. A. I. Kuprin’s “Four beggars” is defined by the author as a legend, though this is not the only genre structure where the narrative is developed by the author. Significant influence here is the narrative strategies of the parable ...
Functional analysis of the linguistic reflection in Evgeny Vodolazkin’s “Justification of the Island”
... between the text and the reader. The purpose of this study is a multi-aspect description of the reflexives contained in Evgeny Vodolazkin’s novel “Justification of the Island”. The use of a complex research methodology that combines functional, interpretive and receptive types of analysis, allowed us to come to some conclusions. According to the main one, reflexive as a meta-statement about any element of a literary text (word, phrase, sentence, subtext) is a regulative, i.e a component of the ...
Decembrists in the novel “Journey of dilettantes” in the context of Bulat Okudzhava’s work and contemporaneity
The relevance of the topic is determined by the request of modern literary study to revise the Soviet ideological interpretations of Decembrism, as well as by the task of thorough analysis of Bulat Okudzhava’s novel “Journey of Dilettantes” (1971–1977), an iconic book of the late Soviet era. The most important artistic statement of the writer is considered ...
The terms «clinical recommendations», «clinical guidelines», «diagnostic and treatment protocol»: a comparative analysis of definitions
... recommendations, guidelines and protocol — showed that these terms can not be called either synonyms or quasi-synonyms, since they are characterized by belonging to the same part of speech, partial coincidence of valency, but do not match in their interpretation. These terms can be used in different conditions: recommendations — in case of dispositive use, guidelines — in the case of imperative compliance with the rules for using the document, protocols — in case of adaptation of the first ...
Ontology of the «new world» in the work of Friedrich Hölderlin (to his 250th anniversary)
The work raises the issue of Hölderlin’s creative secret of, interpreting its connection with the transformation of German culture into ontology of “new light”. Considering the essence of the “poet of poets” (Heidegger), the authors relate complex discourses to the hermeneutic key for understanding the ...
The formula «If there is no God, everything is allowed» in the poetic interpretation of Czeslaw Milosz
The article considers the specific perception of Dostoevsky's creativity in poetry and essays by Milos. The author studies Milosz's multiple reinterpretations of the precedent formula “If there is no God, everything is allowed” in the poems “If not”, “Meaning” and “Oeconomia divina”. It is concluded that the poems under study form a "triptych", where the leading role is played by dialectics of word and silence.
1. Гильманов В. Х., Копцев И. Д., Мальцев Л. А. Т. Манн и Ф. М. Достоевский:...
Gender and prosody: speech acts of demand
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International Conference of Speech Prosody. Dublin, 2014. P. 1144—1148
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10. Clopper ...
The image of the pilot in the eschatological vision «The Great Divorce» K. S. Lewis
The author considers the image of the guide and its artistic interpretation proposed by C. S. Lewis in his eschatological vision “The Great Divorce”. The article traces different approaches to distinguishing the genre of the book and establishes the relation between the transformation of the genre of eschatological ...
A literary image as a cognitive phenomenon
... with the subjectivity of the author’s individual mind. After the exploration of the cognitive approaches, a literary image is considered as a verbal sign representing the author’s worldview within the literary text. It is highlighted that while interpreting images it is important to pay attention to both the textual representation of the author’s intention and the readers’ perception of them, especially the emotional reaction.
1. Арнольд И. В. Стилистика. Современный ...
Prince Mikhail of Tver in Ryleev’s Duma and in the Russian Historiography: the Path to Sainthood
The author analyzes a well-known work by Ryleev in axiological aspect using historiographical sources and presents a new interpretation of its ideological structure. The article reveals a number of important details that differ the duma’s plot from the original historical source. Focusing on the antithesis between true and false values the research examines the oppositions ...
Artistic individual image of the language in P.Celan's poetry
The article represents a cognitive-discursive study of means to create an image of the language in a literary text. It involves different types of analysis such as semantic, conceptual, and interpretive. Special attention is paid to the linguistic factors that influence the creation of metalinguistic utterances, in particular, the word-formation potential of the German language (neologization). The article also stresses the importance ...
Escapism: non-constructive ways of teenage personal self-determination
... Self-concept clarity and online self-presentation in adolescents // Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 2016. Vol. 19, № 12. P. 716—720.
15. Hayes A. F. Partial, conditional, and moderated moderated mediation: Quantification, inference, and interpretation // Communication Monographs. 2018. Vol. 85. № 1. P. 4—40.
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17. Murillo A. C. G., Puerta-Cortés D. ...
Functional and communicative aspects of the analysis of sentence models: model and (con) text
... context (text, discourse, communicative register, functional style etc.) it is functioning in. The importance in the primary text analysis is headlined, considering contribution in its semantic structure of semantic models. The authors also give and interpreted some results of the analysis of the representation of structural-semantic types of sentences in texts belonging to different functional-style varieties of the Russian language.
1. Бондарко А. В. Лингвистика текста ...
Compounds in Fyodor Ivanov’s texts (based on «A letter…» and «A petition…» of 1666)
... prism of diachronic linguistic personology the texts authored by the dyak Fedor Ivanov. The content of the article is a product of its methodology, namely, continuous sampling, using which 193 with several roots were obtained; context analysis; and interpretation. From the perspective of historical linguistics, preliminary results include establishing the meaning of three units that were absent in historical lexicography and revealing chronological usage of another word. From the perspective of ...
The genitive of quality as used in typological characterisation of a person
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14. Partee B. H., Borschev V. Sortal, relational, and functional interpretations of nouns and Russian container constructions // Journal of Semantics. 2012. Vol. 29. P. 445—486.
Development of quasi-symbols based on connotations of verbal units meanings
... part of the new sememe of the cultural sign. Thus, cultural knowledge is transferred to the language system, and then verbal signs are transferred to the culture system. Since the cultural intent of the quasi-symbol is modeling the behavior of the interpreter, the development of symbols is based on connotations that reflect cultural attitudes, ideologies, and norms.
The communicative and pragmatic category of tolerance as a value constant in modern German linguoculture: the case of the newspaper Die Zeit
Processes taking place in society affect how lexemes are understood and interpreted at different historical periods of a linguoculture. In this article, we use German dictionaries and today’s press to consider the notion of Toleranz as a value constant and lexical-semntic field of German linguoculture. In our study, we ...
The title of Alexander Pushkin’s novel The captain’s daughter as the textual dominant
... the attributive combination ‘captain's daughter’ as an essential and integral component of the semantic space of Alexander Pushkin’s novel. Placed in the title, it functions as the key sign of the work of fiction since it makes it possible to interpret implied meanings. Unlike the other, more frequent, lexical and grammatical units used as nominations in the text (‘Masha’, ‘Marya Ivanovna Mironova’), ‘captain’s daughter’ explicates the image of both the main character and her ...
The myth as a source of cultural legitimation: the rock and rap versions of Orpheus and Eurydice. Article 1
Using the rock opera Orpheus and Eurydice (1975) and Hip-hopera: Orpheus & Eurydice (2018), we analyse interpretations of the ancient myth in today’s popular culture. We demonstrate how the plot and motif transformations of the pre-text bridge the gap between history and modernity. In both the rock opera and the hip-hopera, the ancient theme of descent ...
Cultural codes in the toponymy of the Roslaval district of the Smolensk region
... analysed to describe relevant cultural codes, which are based on various fragments of reality. The purpose of this work is to identify and characterise the cultural codes that are embedded in the oeconyms of the study area. Proper-name creation is interpreted as a special instance of the encoding of extensive historical, cultural, and national-specific information, using onomastic markers (in particular, the stems of oeconyms). Various classifications of toponymic cultural codes are considered,...
Lexical chellenges of computer games translation
The article deals with lexical issues of game localisation based on the comparison of Enlish and Russian versions of videogames. The research is focused on typical lexical challenges in the process of translation, in particular, interpretation of context-independent and context-dependent words, non-equivalent words and neologisms, and “false friends of the translator”.
1. O’Hagan M., Mangiron C. Game Localization: Translating for the global digital entertainment industry....
Language as a person's achievement and as a self-organizing system
The article explores the basic properties of language as a person’s achievement. The author proceeds from the interpretation of language proposed by L. V. Shcherba and A. A. Zalevskaya, in which language is represented as a socio-personal continuum of linguistic phenomena of different ontology. The purpose of the article is to describe the basic properties ...
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....
Image of Princess Olga in K.Ryleyev’s DUMA: hagiographical reference points
The famous work by K.Ryleyev is analysed using an axiological approach that allows the authors to interpret its main conflict in a new way. K.Ryleyev pays special attention to an antithesis, showing that Prince Igor concedes to passions throughout his life whereas Princess Olga is always guided by a moral imperative. This antithesis is the main artistic ...
Enigma of magnetism in the mystery of the romantic spirit of E. T. A. Hoffmann (based on the novel «Der Magnetiseur»)
... success of imaginary parascientific concepts. In particular, the authors trace the connection of Hoffmann's artistic thought with the ideas of Mesmer and the secret knowledge of Freemasonry popular at the beginning of the XIX century, which Hoffmann interprets as a threat to the world described by Christian ontology and anthropology. In the artistic and philosophical interpretation of Hoffmann, the prevalent parapsychological practices are the components of the technology of evil in its eternal ...
Verb collocations of the semantic field «Memory» with the component ‘Vergangenheit’ in the German media
... meanings of collocations are described. The elements of linguistic and mental memory model are revealed. The author determines the regularities of the analyzed representation of memory and past in the German language, concludes about spatio-activity interpretation of memory (identification of memory operations with movement or activity, operation on an object in this space). It is demonstrated that verb collocations model mnemic situation vividly in accordance with their antropomorphic understanding....
«Only when asleep you feel alive»: life and death in the Russian linguocultural consciousness (based on Russian proverbs and sayings)
... describes the set of maxims, revealing the attitude to life and death, typical for the Russian linguistic-cultural consciousness, on the basis of Russian proverbs and sayings. The author explains the specificity of these maxims, and provides an additional interpretation of several examples. In conclusion, the author explains the reasons for the general sense of pessimism of the Russians and reveals the fundamental intellectual basis for black humor in the analyzed linguocultural tradition.
1. Берестнев ...
Ex ungue leonem: intertextual links between Nikolai Kononov’s novel Parade and Jorge Luis Borges’s story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
... “Parade” (2015). The author shows, how Kononov reproduces and, at the same time, develops the main themes from Borges’ story, resorting to geographical and anagrammatic codes, the principle of metaphorical reflection and a play upon words. The researcher interprets the hidden codes in the novel “Parade”, deciphers the names of characters, reveals allusions to the work “The City of the Sun” by Tommaso Campanella, reconstructs the semantic complex of language, philosophy and homeland, inherent in ...
Readiness for mediation among the students with the degree in Humanities: a structural-functional model
... for mediation as a professional activity in the works of Russian and international researchers, in view of the growing popularity of this social and humanitarian practice both in Russia and all over the world. The author shows the differences in the interpretation of readiness for activity as well as in the requirements for training mediators in Russia, the United Kingdom and the USA. The researcher states the need for a humanist outlook and the ability to conduct social and humanitarian practices,...
Feelings, emotions, sensations: On the representativeness of mental states in the Russian language
This article is devoted to the lexis of the Russian language denoting mental states. The study of the words and their functions rests on the psychological interpretation and classification of mental states. The author describes how a person’s mental life is expressed as a system of interacting and interdependent mental states in the language picture of the world. The semantics and history of the words ...
The professional training of a police officer in current conditions
This article analyses the public need for high-quality and effective professional training of police officers. The authors suggest the use of a systemic approach, which interprets training as a pedagogical processes aimed to contribute to the development of a police officer as a person and as a competent professional within the customer/client/student system.
1. Афанасьев В. Г. О системном подходе ...
Current processes in the stylistic system of the Russian language: style vs discourse
Current processes in the stylistic system of the Russian language are related to qualitative (changing the language functional styles) and quantitative (the emergence of new styles) transformations. The author explores the correlation of styles and different types of discourse as communicative speech formations. Special attention is given to the cognitive and awareness factors as criteria for the identification of styles and types of discourse.
1. Барг М. А. Эпохи и идеи: Становление историзма....
Chinese view on modern Russian literature in the context of tradition and modernity
... reception of modern Russian literature in Chinese literary criticism, the author shows that a Chinese reader has a predisposition to understand texts in the context of the urgent national problem of preserving traditions. This predisposition affects the interpretation and perception of new rustic prose, female prose, and postmodernist literature. The study’s methodological framework combines the principles of comparative literary studies, communication theory, and receptive aesthetics with certain ...
The resonance of a tragic sound: G. Ivanov’s poetry in B. Ryzhy’s interpretation
The author analyses the specific features of B. Ryzhy’s poetry, showing that G. Ivanov’s works influenced his poetic manner. The author reveals the reasons of commonality of their existentialistic worldview, which was predetermined by some biographic and sociocultural factors. Reinterpreting G. Ivanov’s key motifs and imagery, B. Ryzhy enriches his lyrics by bringing in Soviet and post-Soviet connotations. G. Ivanov’s tragic intonation gains a new sound expressing the experience of man living in...
Intelligence in the Russian linguistic consciousness
This study focuses on Russian proverbs and sayings containing judgments relating to intellectual activities. Paremiological units are described using frame semantics methods. Research results are interpreted based on the theory of evolutionary epistemology. The study makes it possible to draw conclusions about the relevance of intellectual activity for the Russian language consciousness and the presence of a naïve epistemology in the Russian ...
The biblical anthoponyms Jospeh the All-comely and Mary Magdelene in Marina Tsvetaeva’s poetic interpretation
This paper studies the informative and associative aspects of the precedent biblical anthroponyms Jospeh the All-comely and Mary Magdalene as units of Marina Tsvetaeva’s personosphere. The author characterizes the text formation and pragmatic functions of the mentioned anthroponyms in Tsevtaeva’s poetic text. The role of cultural contexts in the formation of the informative and associative field of anthropoetonyms.
1. Блох М. Я. Имена личные в парадигматике, синтагматике и прагматике. М., 2001...
Merezhkovsky and F. Sologub: Gogol's imprint in the dialogue about poshlost’
... of “poshlost’” (vulgarity, banality), which in turn had been informed by the legacy of N. V. Gogol. The author traces the analogies in the artistic depiction of poshlost’ by Sologub in his novel “The Petty Demon” (1905) and the critical interpretation of the phenomenon of poshlost’ by Merezhkovsky. The connection between Merezhkovsky’s study “Gogol and the Devil” (1906) and “The Coming Kham” (1906) is also shown. Sologub’s reaction to the article “The Coming Kham” is ...
Linguistic aspects of the treatise by Abel Mathieu «Devis de la langue francoyse» (1559)
... reflected in the first edition of Abel Matthieu’s «Devis de la langue francoyse» (1559). Author’s views on the actual for the French renaissance problems in linguistic tradition, such as the origin of language, it’s defense and illustration, interpretation of foreign texts are studied. The particular attention is paid to Abel Matthieu’s attempts to prove the self-sufficiency of French language.
1. Гуковская З. В. Из истории лингвистических воззрений ...
On the problem of semiosis in the borrowed sign
The data of empirical research of the borrowed sign evolution are ana-lyzed in the article. The study focuses on"creativity"as an Anglo-American borrowing. Reversive nature of semiotic process, typical for interpretation of borrowed words — from sign to it’s meaning, from signifiant to signifie is shown. Different ways of assimilation of "alien" cultural experience in the consciousness of a target language are described.
1. Аристова ...
Pragmatic characteristics of complex sentences with relative clauses (based on German media discourse)
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Training future teachers to perform grading
This article focuses on the development of grading skills in future teach-ers. The author presents key interpretations of the notion of ‘grading’. The principles, functions, and types of grading are considered. The author’s ap-proach to developing an algorithm of grading performance of future teachers at a seminar is proposed.
1. Батурин ...
Discursive features of intertextual elements
This paper deals with the discourse properties of quotations used in the English-language media discourse. Based on an analysis, the author comes to a conclusion that the discourse properties of quotations significantly affect the process of interpreting the media discourse.
1. Масленникова А. А. Лингвистическая интерпретация скрытых смыслов. СПб., 1999.
2. Dijk T. A. van. The Study of Discourse // Discourse as Structure and Process....