Polynominativity of geographical objects in the linguocultural context
... into several key factors that give rise to polyonyms: 1) linguosociocultural factors: these factors play a pivotal role in shaping subsystems of names, encompassing both official and unofficial, widely used and niche terms, as well as neutral and connotatively charged expressions. 2) linguogeocultural factors: they contribute to the differentiation of objects based on culturally significant oppositions such as ‘near-far’, ‘left-right’, and subsequently transmit binary characteristics like ...
“Conservative Enlightenment” as “Heroisation of the Present”
... Gradirovksy I point out that in addition to “self-incurred immaturity” Kant writes about the historical “immaturity” of savage or backward peoples. I also argue that for Kant “maturity” carries not only biological but also socio-historical connotations. I show that in the modern world Kant’s idea of the social or even historical maturity of the modern human acquires serious problematisation which was shown to be possible and inevitable in the article “What Is Enlightenment?” (1784) ...
“I lived in Moscow, the capital of the world…”: Moscow in the poetic geography of Alexander Galich
... as a component of this poetic system, the establishment of a circle of motives associated with Moscow, and their role in the Galich plot building. According to the conclusions, the capital in the artistic world of the poet, as a rule, has a negative connotation. In the poetic subsystem of Moscow, the motives of departure and arrival are emphasized, and the metropolitan space is primarily associated with the departure (exile) of the hero, and arrival or static stay in Moscow is morally devalued as ...
Word-combinations в потоке + Genitive and быть в потоке in modern Russian speech
... verbalization of the inner state of a person using the example of a non-predicative combination в потоке + Genitive and a predicative combination быть в потоке. Attention to the semantics of the lexeme поток (flow) and to the connotative features of these combinations is due to the high frequency of metaphorical use of the word поток and combinations like “Я в потоке” in the texts of modern media and social networks. The purpose of the article is to identify ...
Image of Christ in Boris Poplavsky’s book of verses “Snowy hour”
... embodiment in his lyric. Aeon of Christ is the central concept of the work, it goes back to gnostic conception by Valentinus and to the book by D. S. Merezhkovsky “Atlantis-Europe”. This term has two senses in Poplavsky’s art, it explains basic connotations in Christ’s image in “Snowy hour” and in diaries. Firstly, it’s a god-medium between worlds of humans and God; according to Poplavsky this sense includes concepts of earth nature of Christ and His kindness, He’s prophet, who is ...
Conceptualization of prayer in the diary discourse of L. N. Tolstoy
... the conceptualization of prayer, objectified by the compatibility of the keyword, and reconstructs the primary image of “Person”: figuratively, prayer is attributed to procedural features inherent in a person. They are characterized by positive connotative evaluation. It is proved that the categorization of prayer using an anthropomorphic cultural code is a consequence of implementing a communicative cognitive strategy. Tolstoy names the following functions of prayer: it helps to achieve harmony,...
“They call the main entrance a porch”: social meaning in semantics and metapragmatics
The paper analyzes the concept of social meaning, which has been conceptualized in lexical semantics since the 1980s and has become central in modern sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. It has been used to describe pragmatic increments in the meaning of a language unit, which it receives in context. New explanatory approaches have developed from a sociolinguistic perspective in metapragmatics, where social meaning is seen as a social index that emerges in context. Social index (the...
Visual text of medieval Vladimir: the analysis of the dominant image of cathedral exteriors
... on the visual semiotics of Umberto Eco, it is shown that the external temple decoration of Vladimir acts both as an aesthetic object and as a semiotic construction. In line with the logical semantics of Gottlob Frege, the denotative (meaningful) and connotative (semantic) levels of coding and decoding of sacred visual texts of Vladimir cathedrals are defined. The basic references of the central image of the exterior plastics — the biblical David, as well as those narratives that are determined ...
To the problem of the genre repertoire transformations in the Russian art media discourse
... acquaints the audience with the work, forms a basic evaluation, and highlights the original characteristics. Then, contextual updating is carried out additionally expanding the original value judgment by authoritative opinions, to introduce the necessary connotations. At the third stage, the formed value stereotype is used to create new value judgments regarding other artworks. Each stage corresponds to a specific repertoire of speech genres. The main genre models that function in modern art journalism ...
Sootechestvenniki (compatriots) in the 19th century: semantic profile based on the data of the National Corpus of the Russian language
... synthesis, but rather about the discordance of the two meanings. In the 19th century, another meaning developed in the semantic structure of the word: ethnic Russians living abroad. Gradually, the word acquired new evaluative meanings, while negative connotations still prevailed. The basic oppositions (we — they, here — there, ours — alien) interacted in an ambiguous way, substituting each other. A variety of hybrid “compatriots” arose: we are there, they are here, etc. The heterogeneity ...
Development of quasi-symbols based on connotations of verbal units meanings
The article verifies the assumption that connotations of verbal sememes can serve as the basis for the development of a quasi-symbol meaning. A quasi-symbol is an element of an intermediate, linguocultural system, generated as a result of close interaction between language and culture. While ...
The child that is «not of this world» in Sergey Snegov’s novel Humans as Gods
The novel by the famous Soviet science fiction writer is analysed in the context of evangelical allusions and connotations. Biblical references in the text suggest a link between one of the main characters, the boy Astr, and the image of Christ. Although well in line with the anthropology of enlighten-ment, the idea of the salvation of the universe, which is ...
The title of Alexander Pushkin’s novel The captain’s daughter as the textual dominant
This article considers the functional significance of 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 Paradise theme in G. Kh. Andersen’s tales
... categories of life and death, time and eternity. The author lays a special stress on the role of Scripture text, which organizes the hierarchy of the value-semantic space of fairy tales. In view of the Paradise theme, the researcher defines the semantic connotation of the category of border, separating the mundane vain world and the other world — the world of Beauty.
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On the function of biblical anthroponyms David and Goliath in poetic texts of A. I. Polezhaeva and V. Ya. Bryusova
... Хазагеров Г. Г. Персоносфера русской культуры // Новый мир. 2002. № 1. С. 133—145.
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Steshenko M. A.
Biblical precedent anthroponym, connotation, context, personosphere of Russian culture, communication
72-78
Historical realia in teaching Russian as a foreign language
... national and historical identity of the country of the target language. Realia make it possible to reconstruct selected aspects of the national character and study the axiology of modern native speakers. The analysis of non-equivalent, background and connotative lexis in the course of language acquisition stimulates reflection on extralinguistic (historical) information and thus contributes to cultural competences.
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Wry humor as a philosophy
... aspect of philosophical discourse. The authors analyze gloomy philosophical motives including life, death, human existence, social interactions, loneliness. The article shows that comprehending these issues through the wry humor acquires pessimistic connotation.
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The resonance of a tragic sound: G. Ivanov’s poetry in B. Ryzhy’s interpretation
... 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 the 20th century.
1. Арнольд И. В. Значение сильной позиции для интерпретации художественного ...
The house in the plot structure of A. I. Podolinsky’s poem “Borsky”
... conceptual constants of Russian cultural consciousness. The au-thor identifies the function of the image of house in the poetic body of the poem. The ‘house’ is analysed as an element of the literary space and as a topos with symbolical and mythological connotations.
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Grammatical antithesis as a mean of objectifiction of emotional meaning in the discource
In the article general description of pragmatical usage of the different shape-generating suffixes are presented, the role of linguistic category of intensity and it’s influence upon the realization of the emotional axiological connotative meaning in these suffix are exposed. As an example of illustration of the declared propositions the psycholinguistic analysis of grammatical antithesis, taken from the art discourse is undertaken.
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Colour naming as a means to present the concept of ‘life’ in N. Gogol’s epic poem Dead Souls
... Фрагменты русской языковой картины мира (модели пространства, времени и восприятия). М., 1994.
Alimpiyeva R., Sotnichnenko Yu.
concept, fiction text, text function, colour designators, connotative attributes
34-40
The metaphor as a means of colour and light perception in M. Voloshin’s idiostyle
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Taran S.
metaphor, mineralogical lexis, idiostyle, colour image, light image, light and colour perception, connotation, context
51-57
Mineralogical colour-denotings as the means of the author’s perception in the world poetic picture of M. Voloshin
... школе. 2002. № 2. С. 68.
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Taran S. V.
mineralogical lexeme, colour-denotings, poetic picture of the world, idiostyle, perception, connotation, context.
87-94
The conceptualization of light and colour as a means to express the perceptive dominant in a poetic text (on the basis of the poetry of A. Blok and M. Voloshin)
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Alimpiyeva R., Taran S.
colour naming, poetic texts, perception, conceptualizing, connotation, context.
93-98
Latent Evaluation in Infinitive Writing
The article deals with the results of an experiment on modelling the reader's perception of infinitive writing modal semantics. The author argues
that the reader's interpretation of infinitive writing bases on connotation semantics of a poetic text rather than on the 'grammar of poetry'.
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Жолковский А.
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The typology of poetical neologisms of the late 20th/early 21st centuries
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poetic neologisms, typology, lexical and grammatical semantics,
connotations.
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Concept “colour” (white): based on Russian and German proverbs
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ethnic culture, concept, proverbs, connotations, metaphors
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The causes and consequences of the semantic devaluation of the words пафос and пафосный in modern Russian
... Хазагеров Г. Г. Родная речь: жизнь после нормы. URL: http://www.khazagerov.com/cultural-situation/113-nativespeech-norma.html (дата обращения: 24.10.2013).
literary lexis, usage, semantic devaluation, sememe, connotation
Babenko N.
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