Signs and senses as an epistemological problem
... – sense” is discussed as a methodological problem caused by philosophy of external realism and the representational theory of cognition based on it. Reification of linguistic signs, along with the erroneous view of the nature and function of language as a communication tool rather than the mode of existence of humans as living (cognitive) systems, impedes scientific explanation of both language and linguistic signs. As an alternative, the core problem of semiotics is approached within ...
Really: syntactics without semiotics?
... semiotics on the basis of the Old Russian discourse particle TI1 ‘indeed’, ‘verily’, ‘truly’ discovered by Andrej A. Zaliznjak in 1993. Linguistics and semiotics are different research programmes: the first one deals with specific features of language structures, while the second one discusses general characteristics of all sign systems, from a perspective of interpreting most or all of them as secondary respective to natural language. Formal models of language deal with classes of elements ...
The dialogue between linguistics and the poetic avant-garde in Russia in the 1920—1930s: experiments with a universal language
The article explores the concept of a ‘universal language’, which was prevalent in both linguistics and the poetic Avant-garde in Russia during the 1910s-1920s. This period was marked by socio-political reforms that led to new realities and concepts. As a result, societies studying international languages,...
Kantian and Anti-Kantian Philosophy of Language
This paper examines two models of language philosophy. The first is the Kantian philosophy which sees language as an instrument of conveying mental content. I have selected Immanuel Kant and Edmund Husserl from amongst its numerous representatives. In this tradition, a language expression,...
Functioning of the frame environment in various conceptual knowledge domains in the English language
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Boldyrev, N. N., 2006. Language categories as a format of knowledge.
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Boldyrev, N. N., 2014. The role of cognitive context in interpretation of the world and knowledge about the ...
Pragmatics in the digital age: the Routinicon database
... different type than these databases, and their description requires a fundamentally different annotation structure. The article discusses the principles and features of this annotation, as well as its potential for the intralingual classification of Russian language routines and its applicability to the corresponding material of other languages — laying the groundwork for future typological studies. Italian language examples collected by the authors are used for illustrations.
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Technological Metaphor and Communicative Models in Contemporary Russian Poetry
... communication aesthetics, with a key parameter being the formation of hybrid cognitive-communicative zones in poetic discourse.
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The language of philosophy and the language of poetry
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Language policy of Estonia: achievements and the future of education in the Russian language
Estonia’s language policy sparks serious debates in the academic community, further complicated by the politically charged nature of the topic. In the works of Estonian authors, there is unequivocal postulation of Russia’s influence on Estonian society, while ...
New Technologies and Pragmatic Techniques in Contemporary Poetry
... discourse under the influence of new media. The digital interface (blogs, social networks, applications) affects the transformation of all the parameters of communication, due to the dominance of information channels and codes. The interaction of poetic language with colloquial speech and the influence of digital technologies lead to the creation of new strategies of subjectivation and addressing in contemporary poetry, as well as to an increase in the role of poetic pragmatics. In addition, the process ...
‘Mother’, ‘wife’ and ‘friend’: semantics and pragmatics of an address
... others — but a system of the usage of the word 'mother' as a term of address encompassing diverse metaphorical transfer.
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Balakai, A. А., 2005. Etiketnye obrashcheniya: funktsional'no-semanticheskii ...