Levels of context: how textual analysis becomes discourse analysis: the case of Internet lifestyle media
... posited this, the purpose of the article is twofold. In a more theoretical sense, the purpose is to outline one possible model of context each 'tier' of which is potentially related to certain linguistic categories and linguistic analytical toolkits. The suggested model has five tiers of contextual variables and two dimensions cutting through the five tiers. These dimensions are discourse (in the most general sense — as one of the 'moments' of social practice) and individuals (theorized here in two ...
Kant’s appearance as an objective-objectual [gegenständlich] representation
... on the distinction between things-in-themselves and appearances. On the other hand, our method of cognition is representative in that is based on representations — subjective and objective (objectual) ones. A synthesis of the above considerations suggests that Kant’s transcendentalism rests on the [conceptual] triad — ‘[objective] object (thing-in-itself; Ding an sich) —appearance (Erscheinung) — and [mental] representation (Vorstellung)’. Kant’s transcendental philosophy is impossible ...
The Welfare State (Social State) in the Russian Federation as a Constitutional Principle and its Practical Implementation
... (family) capital, experience of the granting the Charge-Free Land Property for multi-child families, and also so-called project of the "Charge-Free Far Eastern Hectare". Based on the conducted analysis the authors of the article have made several suggestions regarding pragmatic realization of the constitutional principle of the Welfare State (Social State), and also regarding further modernization of the existing projects of social innovations in the Russian Federation.
The authors are investigating ...
The Buddhist concept of “Consciousness-Only” in Victor Pelevin’s novel “Omon Ra”
... Buddhist sense, empty — that is, subjectively motivated. The mirror-like and simultaneously circular composition captures the protagonist’s endless journey within the cyclical movement of the illusory world of saṃsāra, while the open ending suggests the possibility of the hero’s liberation.
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Criminological study of the prevalence of pornographic content in social networks and messengers (based on an online user survey)
... addition, other general scientific and specific scientific methods are employed. The main risks associated with the spread of pornography in social networks and messengers are identified, and measures for their minimization are proposed. The author suggests special criminological measures to combat pornographic content in social networks and messengers, including strengthening content control, developing and implementing content filters, conducting informational campaigns, improving legislative ...
On the issue of constructing a taxonomy of tasks in teaching data analysis
... to the field of data analysis is due to its multidisciplinary and multifaceted nature. A horizontal-vertical taxonomy of educational tasks is proposed, based on three core processes: thinking, communication, and activity. The complexity of tasks is suggested as the key criterion for the vertical part of the taxonomy. Using the topic of “linear regression” as an example, typical tasks corresponding to primary and secondary processes, as well as their intersections, are presented. Specific assignments ...
Russia and the Central Asian countries in the process of forming a new world order: cooperation and conflicts
... indicate that relations between Russia and the Central Asian countries are currently characterized by two main trends: cooperation and conflict. Most conflicts are functional in nature and are subject to political resolution. The conclusions of the study suggest that the relationship between Russia and the Central Asian countries contributes to the development of a polycentric world. Researchers focusing on this region should analyze the multi-vector nature of the foreign policies pursued by Central Asian ...
Speech and gesture regulations in expressing vague reference in expository dialogue
... Request communicative move was found, accounting for the Request’s role in both initiating a new act and completing the previous one by renaming the vague referent. Third, a more frequent use of pragmatic gestures with approximators was identified, suggesting that while nominations primarily evoke iconic and indexical representations in gestures, predications are strongly linked with pragmatic manifestations. Finally, the study reveals that vague reference serves as a cognitive principle regulating ...
Emotive politeness in face-threatening speech acts: cross-cultural perspectives
... into account the fact that each e-mail may have its own features, predetermined by the author’s idiostyle and psychological characteristics, as well as the context of the exchange, we have identified some culture-specific features. The findings suggest that English emails are more focused on mitigating refusal and its negative effect on the addressee’s feelings, thereby saving face, compared with the Russian ones. This can be observed in the structure of refusal, its supporting moves and politeness ...
Conceptual foundations of manipulation
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Politeness in the communication between humans and artificial intelligence
... human level of trust, human politeness towards AI is equally important as it can impact the efficiency of communication. To demonstrate this, I conducted a pilot experiment with ChatGPT 4.0, using polite and non-polite prompts in Russian. The results suggest that politeness is likely to positively impact the accuracy of responses. Furthermore, the paper examines changes in speech etiquette, highlighting how interactions with AI often omit traditional greetings and farewells, reflecting a more functional ...
Language conflict in the literary discourse: Jia Pingwa’s novel “Qin Qiang”
... Liu Zhenyun’s prose on the example of the novel “I am not Pan Jinlian”.
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies
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Analysis and translation of the Old English poem Instructions for Christians in the context of the Christian tradition
... Instructions for Christians, consisting of 265 lines, is considered through the prism of the explication of the theme of moral instructions in the Old English tradition. The poem, along with other Old English sermons and Christian poems, represents the suggestion of moral rules regarding early Christian life, being a set of orders for believers. This article provides the author's translation of the contexts of the poem Instructions for Christians. The problem of studying the phenomenon of instructions ...
“The Voice of Hotness from the Margins”. On the interaction of poetry and politics
... perspectives on the relationship between the political and the poetic. Some view poetry as a form of politics, encapsulated in the aphorism ‘the word is a weapon’, while others argue that politics itself should embody the qualities of poetry, as suggested by Andy Merrifield's assertion that "politics should be like poetry." This article seeks to explore the poetic dimensions that underpin the political necessity for poetry, namely, the attributes of poetry that establish a connection ...
On the Poetic Dispute between Paul Celan and Johannes Bobrowski
... understanding the path that leads from the text to the crematory”. Celan shared a similar sentiment. Bobrowski, while agreeing with Celan's belief that Auschwitz revealed the infernal nature of the German language, attempted to counter him by suggesting that even within the language of the underworld, a poet could serve as a synergistic participant in the manifestation of Truth from the Light of Truth in the performative "production of the presence" of God. One of those who supported ...
Digital poetry between the printed page and cinema: the difference in agency structures
... poet's creative journey from crafting 'poem-pictures' to producing 'poem-movies' sparks inquiries into the contrasting subjective frameworks of printed poems versus their digital adaptations translated into a media language akin to cinema.
The author suggests analysing the layers of media mediation in printed and digital texts as distinct material conditions of communication prompting readers to encounter a 'moment of intensity', as Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht put it, and undergo a creative experience of ...
‘Mother’, ‘wife’ and ‘friend’: semantics and pragmatics of an address
... The metaphor of family is extended into a broader social context and can transcend societal boundaries to enter the realm of abstraction.
The cluster model by George Lakoff, which allows for the coexistence of transfer models in secondary usage, is suggested as a tool to describe the pragmatics of addressing a person as a 'mother'. However, unlike Lakoff's works, this study applies the cluster model not to idealised cognitive models — those of birth, genetics, upbringing, and others — but a ...
The language of muteness: examining the work of Gazdanov and Salkazanova in Paris
... Indo-European archaic traditions, represents a manifestation of the rite of passage and allows individuals of Ossetian origin, who may have lost their native language due to external circumstances, to demonstrate their cultural identity. It is suggested that the occurrence of such speech behaviour is strongly influenced by the specific time and place, where forced emigration to Europe not only contributes to the preservation of archaic speech etiquette patterns but also involuntarily activates ...
Conceptual structure of the binary axiological opposition truth — lie
... methods — definitional, frame and conceptual analyses — makes it possible to investigate and model the structure of the frames TRUTH and LIE, identify their main slots and the type of conceptual information they encode. The results of the analyses suggest that the two frames have the same structure and the same number and type of slots. However, the conceptual content of the slots is different. From the conceptual point of view, the axiological binary opposition truth — lie is a continuum having ...
Conceptualizing emotions through discourse: a pragmatic view on the reader's interest
... simplification (N = 81), contextualization (N = 58), and concrete elaboration (N = 17). The strategies tend to present the most significant text ideas, reduce reader’s efforts for processing, and introduce the reader into the discourse-world. The findings suggest that the strategies aim to enhance the optimal relevance and conceptualize reader’s interest through the communicative dimension of relevance.
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On the functional definition of concepts and linguistic meanings: the embodied/grounded approach
The article suggests a way to overcome two well-known problems of embodied/grounded theory of cognition: the impossibility of strict differentiating modal and amodal symbols, and the difficulty in defining abstract concepts/simulators (abstract lexical meanings)....
Typographic landscape in urban space: a sociolinguistic approach
This paper suggests a sociolinguistic approach to typographic landscape analysis. Typography is discussed as a semiotic resource with meaning-making potential. The paper argues that typographic variation provides dynamic indexical links to social practice. It obtains ...
On the less obvious manifestations of the poetic function: a translator’s view
... of rhyme to induce an implicit rhymed word, in “elaborately monotonous” language, in textual opposition of synonyms, in expressly neutral and unemotional final phrases to evoke a train of emotive or intellectual reactions. The authors also suggest a functional approach to the notion of “poetic device”, which gives the translator more freedom in selecting expressive means without distorting the conceptual sphere of the original. An inter-semiotic view of literary devices borrowed ...
Literary scandal in cubo-futurism poetics and the communicative behaviour of recipients
... performances) is to describe a scandal as a communicative script, a frame, identify a potential addressee, single out reception profiles and analyse communication orientations underlying those profiles. Drawing on the understanding of a literary scandal suggested by Reitblat, we trace a connection between a scandal and the public (recipients). According to Warner, the public are people actively participating in an event. Participatory strategies of the cubo-futurists public could be narrowed down ...
Ethnography in Translation Studies: an object and a research methodology
... review finally reminds us of the many dichotomies out of which TS has grown and structured itself — text vs context; translation vs. interpretation; experiential vs. scientific knowledge, hermeneutics vs. empiricism, to name but a few — and suggest the need for an interpretive move within the discipline.
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“The point of departure of peoples determines their fate”: Peter Chaadaev and Alexis de Tocqueville
... strategies to convey the meaning of the phrase in Russian, in all cases, to a greater or lesser extent, there was a threat of violation of the intentions of both authors. Based on the analysis of the word usage in the texts of both thinkers, the author suggests a number of recommendations aimed to clarify the translations of Chaadaev and Tocqueville works into Russian. The article also notes possible sources of the image “the point of departure of peoples” in the text by Tocqueville (from François ...
An early edition of Andrey Bolotov’s memoirs (from the archives and manuscripts section of the State Historical Museum)
... edition of The Life and Adventures of Andrei Bolotov. The stages of Bolotov’s work on the manuscript are considered; a comparative analysis of lexical units, stylistic preferences, and the content of the manuscript is carried out. The results obtained suggest that the undated manuscript is the earliest version of the memoirs, supposedly written in the late 1770s.
Bolotov, A. T., 1870—1873. Zhizn' i priklyucheniya Andreya Bolotova, opisannye samim im dlya svoikh potomkov [The life and adventures ...
The formation of the narrative and the performative in public communication
... answer the above question, the genesis of narratives is considered, possible narrative–performative combinations analysed, and the effects of performatives on the formation of the intentional component of the narrative established. The findings suggest that each narrative contains at least one performative and that the narrative is based on the performative and contains a manipulative component.
Ageeva, N. A., 2015. Narration and anarrativity in the monodrama J. Pulinovich "Natasha dream"....
Discursive practices of the Russian diaspora in Estonia: language contacts
In this article, I use the concept of discursive practices to consider the speech practices of the Russian diaspora of Estonia. The findings of the study suggest the existence of an invariant discourse generated by an exemplary member of the diaspora. Such a discourse has formal (borrowings, code-switching, etc.), semantic (referential shifts, semantically re-oriented vocabulary, etc.), and pragmatic features....
The problem of meaning in Social Semiotics: Max Weber today
... “meaning” is fundamental not only in linguistics amd semiotics, but also in M. Weber's theory: thesubject of sociology is the understanding of “the meaning of behavior”. Based on the Weber’s definitions and their possible modification, we suggest the transdisciplinary synthesis around the study of the problem of meanings and their manifestation. Meaning production is understood as a result of the conjunction of linguistic and extralinguistic systems in the process of social interaction ...
The rhetoric and logic of the representations of the Russian-Turkish War of 1877–1878 in Russian public discourse
... spread across the most diverse strata of the Russian Empire in 1876—1877, was indicative of an effective mobilisation rhetoric. However, the disappointment, which quickly followed, and the devaluation of the events of those years by public opinion suggest that, although sanctioned by the authorities, the language of mobilisation was not effectively controlled by them. In this article, I analyse the structure of the public language of 1876— 1877, which was shaped by different actors who used it ...
Indirect translation: Main trends in practice and research
... translation of translation, and has the aim of facilitating systematic research on this long-standing, widespread yet underexplored phenomenon. The article thus provides an overview of some of the main patterns in ITr practice and research and explores suggestions for related future studies. The overview follows the ‘Five W’s and One H’ approach. The what question concerns terminological and conceptual issues related to ITr and explores the relevance of systematic studies on ITr. The who question ...
The Concept of Soul: A Comparative Study of the Russian and the Armenian Pictures of the World
... linguistic pictures of the world. It is known that a concept contains important cultural information, harbouring its concrete meaning in a linguistic unit. The study — a combination of cultural linguistic and comparative analysis of the concept — suggests that certain Russian idioms containing the concept ‘soul’ have equivalents in the Armenian language. However, in most Armenian equivalents, the ‘soul’ component is replaced by the ‘heart’ mythologeme. In the Armenian language, the ...
The Image of the World Revealed In Words: Ludwig Wittgenstein and The Iсonic Semiotics
The article discusses an alternative version of semiotics in which the process of semiosis is based not on metonymic symbolization (substitution), when one entity stands for another, but on the metaphorical (iconic) representation. The author suggests considering iconicity as a basis for relating the signifier and the signified. This relation is understood as a construed one rather than something determined by physical similarity. The basis for such a revision of iconicity can be found in ...
The Intercessor Type of Marian Iconography: Icons from the Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Art
... painted icons, the author produces its first full description and introduces the 19th-century icon ‘Mother of God the Intercessor of the Deesis row’ from the collection of the Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Art. The results of the analysis suggest that the Intercessor type of Marian iconography is characterised by a full- or half-length image, showing Virgin Mary from a distance. She is painted without the Child and holding a scroll. The text on the scroll may vary depending on the shade ...