Ideas about private space boundaries and tact in Russian communicative culture: results of a sociolinguistic experiment
... appropriateness in public communication. The survey results are divided into the following thematic blocks corresponding to communication risk zones: age, family and marriage, religion and sex. The quantitative findings provide information on the social norms intuitively classified by Russian native speakers as preventing intrusion into private space. They also give an insight into the effect of age characteristics on statement evaluations. Informants' responses tend to exhibit ambiguity in assessments,...
Modality as a basis of Kant’s philosophical system and its connection to the language structure
... thinking in general and in constructing a philosophical system where functions of consciousness are substantial elements. The system comprises ‘faculties of the mind’, as Kant calls them, namely, evaluation, cognition, and practical activity and norms. These forms of activity correlate with the world of possibilities, the actual world, and the world of necessity. Grammatical moods correspond to the modal worlds and the ‘faculties of the mind’. All this means that Kant’s system finds a reflection ...
