The lexis of Leo Tolstoy’s novella “Boyhood” in the context of the evolution of the Russian literary language
... makes it possible to identify Tolstoy’s linguistic innovations and determine their role in the evolution of the Russian literary language. The study identifies words and word forms first recorded in a literary text, which are instances of occasional neology, as well as semantic shifts within the polysemous structures of established lexemes and the acquisition of new connotative meanings. Corpus analysis, based on concordance data and statistical summaries provided by the Russian National Corpus, ...
Johann Joachim Spalding and Immanuel Kant’s Revolution in Disposition
... issue, and that is the philosophical-theological views of Johann Joachim Spalding on conversion and the related radical change of heart, most clearly observed in Thoughts on the Value of Feelings in Christianity (1761). An outstanding representative of neology, Spalding stresses the moral significance of religion and seeks opportunities for a moral interpretation of the foundations of the Christian faith, an approach that is much closer to Kant’s. Furthermore in this work the concept of Gesinnung is ...
