Language. Speech activity. Discourse

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Burunskiy ◽  
Vyacheslav Gvozdev ◽  
Zoya Devickaya ◽  
Evgeniya Koneva ◽  
Svetlana Subbotenko
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Language Theory ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Speech Activity ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
Cultural Linguistics

This collective monograph is devoted to topical problems related to the study of language (semantic-cognitive and cultural aspects), with the study of language consciousness and speech activities and discourse (consideration of discursive practices). May be of interest to specialists in the field of General linguistics, psycholinguistics, cultural linguistics for graduate students, undergraduates, bachelors, interested in issues of language theory.

The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Forensic Linguistics ◽  
Anthropological Linguistics ◽  
Sociocultural Attitudes ◽  
Legal Sanction ◽  
Taboo Words ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
Cultural Linguistics

The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language defines taboo as a proscription of behaviour for a specifiable community of one or more persons at a specifiable time in specifiable contexts. What is in fact tabooed is the use of those words and language in certain contexts; in short, the taboo applies to instances of language behaviour. For behaviour to be proscribed it must be perceived as in some way harmful to an individual or their community but the degree of harm can fall anywhere on a scale from a breach of etiquette to out-and-out fatality. All tabooed behaviours are deprecated and they lead to social if not legal sanction. Taboos are described and the reasons and beliefs behind them are investigated. Tabooed words are typically dysphemistic, think of insults and swearing; tabooed language is avoided through various kinds of euphemism. In twenty chapters, the volume offers comprehensive coverage of tabooed language as perceived by experts in general linguistics, cultural linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, historical linguistics, linguistic philosophy, forensic linguistics, politeness research, publishing, advertising, and theology. Although the principal focus is the English language, reference is occasionally made to linguistic taboos in other languages in order to compare sociocultural attitudes. The existence of taboos and the need to manage taboo lead not only to the censoring of behaviour and the imposition of censorship but also to language change and language development.

scholarly journals Authenticity in Discursive Practices of the Online Market for Second-Hand Luxury Clothing

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronan Zampier ◽  
Rita de Cássia Farias ◽  
Marcelo Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Sociocultural Perspective ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Appraisal System ◽  
Cultural Aspects

Authenticity is a particularly sensitive and salient issue in the online market for second-hand luxury clothing, and it is still little explored in the field of consumption studies. In this study we sought to analyze how authenticity is represented in discursive practices of the Brazilian online market for second-hand luxury clothing. The corpus of the work consisted of data collected through interviews in five stores of the Brazilian online market of luxury second-hand clothing. The data were analyzed using the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), proposed by Fairclough (1992), articulated to the sociocultural perspective of consumption. From the discursive categories Subject, Interdiscursivity, Intertextuality, Transitivity System, and Appraisal System, we perceived that the process of legitimizing the stores and the representations of authenticity are overlapped and traversed significantly by historical, social, and cultural aspects. We conclude that insofar as it becomes difficult to ensure objective authenticity, an interpretative dimension emerges, elaborated from the influence of sociocultural factors that underlie the judgment on what is authentic luxury, which in the scenario investigated are indexes of expression of high luxury. In this case, the origins and trajectories that are recognized as references of elite distinction for Brazilian consumers are important elements for the interpretation of authenticity.

scholarly journals Postmodern Influence in Family Therapy Research: Reflections of Graduate Students

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Hertlin ◽  
Jennifer Lambert-Shute ◽  
Kristen Benson
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Marriage And Family Therapy ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Language Theory ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Collaborative Language ◽  
Family Therapy Research

Postmodernism has influenced family therapy in significant ways, from clinical work to family therapy research. Little has been written, however, on how to conduct postmodern research in a manner reflecting marriage and family therapy inquiries. The present study seeks to investigate doctoral students understanding of postmodern family therapy research. Using collaborative language theory and collaborative inquiry, students participated in a dialogue to answer several questions: a) what is postmodernism, b) what is postmodern research, c) what does postmodern research look like, and d) what does this mean for the field of marriage and family therapy. Students indicated that postmodern research is characterized by its flexibility in methods, translates into a new way of conducting research, and creates a natural bridge between family therapy researchers and clinicians.

scholarly journals KEY WORDS IN THE UKRAINIAN PUBLIC DISCOURSE: STATISTICAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS

2019 ◽  
pp. 140-154
Author(s):  
Olena Levchenko
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Conceptual Content ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
Frequency Criterion ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Cultural Linguistics ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

The paper focuses on the theoretical issues of linguacultural studies / cultural linguistics / ethnolinguistics. The methodological aspects of revealing key cultural concepts in general and words of the year in particular are viewed. The quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the words of the year, determined within the Ukrainian linguacultural space, are analysed. Such Ukrainian words of the year as EuroMaidan, cyborg, blockade, corruption, visa-free travel are under analysis. Conclusions are made concerning the main problems of linguacultural studies / cultural linguistics / ethnolinguistics, as well as approaches to the detection of key cultural concepts and words of the year. Thus, an application of the frequency criterion allows to create a list of candidates for evaluation by experts or public; the frequency of words of the year should be compared with the frequency of neologisms, which makes it possible to predict the limits of frequency, detect candidates for the word of a year, taking into account so called important parts of the texts, as well as appearance of such words within hashtags, verbal parts of mems, cartoons. Ukrainian data shows, that the frequency of such words usage does not always correlate with announcing them words of the year. Not all words of the year have derivative potential. The conceptual content of such words increases, they are used metaphorically and become components of transformed phraseological and other types of intertext units; they are used as proper names. Creation of the new synonymic and antonymic relations is the optional characteristics of the studied words of the year.

scholarly journals Systematization of results of derivation processes in the subject area “Entrepreneurship and Business”

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (7) ◽  
pp. 89-91
Author(s):  
A.V. Zhandarova ◽  
S.N. Semenova
Keyword(s):  
Subject Area ◽  
Language Theory ◽  
Linguistic Representation ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Main Factor

The target is to systematize the results of derivation as the main factor of verbalization in language theory. The subject area “Entrepreneurship and Business” in Russian and English based on derivation, lexical / terminological units reflecting social and cultural aspects of business is explored. The authors came to the conclusion that the linguistic representation of scientific and professional concepts of the subject area “Entrepreneurship and Business” implies the availability of this sphere for other members of the society

INDICATORS FOR MEASURING DIALOGIC SPEECH AT PRE-SCHOOL AGE

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 1075-1078
Author(s):  
Delyana Chuhovska
Keyword(s):  
School Age ◽  
Language System ◽  
Speech Activity ◽  
Ferdinand De Saussure ◽  
System A ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
Main Components ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Dynamic Exchange

One of the most important achievements of child development is the learning of a language and its activation through speech. Ferdinand de Saussure believes that “people use the rules of language to produce speech” [1]. In his essay “Course in general linguistics” he distinguishes between language, speech and speech activity. In his view, language is an element of speech activity, but it itself is an integrality. He describes speech activity as heterogeneous and belonging to both the individual and the social sphere. Saussure defines speech as an individual expression of language. Language is a system; speech - its realization.As means of communication, language can be considered as a social, biological or socio-psychological phenomenon. Itsdevelopment begins with birth and continues throughout life. The most intensive processes are those of its adoption in pre-school age. Through spoken communication, children meet their natural need for self-expression, self-assertion and self-actualization. Through the adopted language knowledge they exchange information and express their needs, thoughts, desires and feelings. This dynamic exchange of personally meaningful information through verbal channels can be defined as a dialogic associated speech.In the second half of the last century ontogenetic psycholinguistics greatly expanded its knowledge of how children master the language system, focusing on the linkage of linguistic ontogenesis with the perceptual and cognitive development of children.Linguistics describes the language system as a complex set of three main components with five distinct areas of linguistic functioning, which are differentiated in accordance to the content. Bloom and Lahey (1978) define the basic components of the language system: “a form, content and use” [2].If we accept Bloom and Lahey’s theory of the basic components of language and Chomsky’s theory (speech is an individual expression of language) when looking for criteria to study the dialogue in children, we can assume that dialogue is a process of dynamic exchange of structured language units of speech united by a mutually recognizable form which is structured in accordance to content.The main problem in exploring dialogic speech is the selection of the indicators with the help of which it will be measured. The factually measurable structures - productivity, autonomy, lexical-grammatical shaping of dialogue and integrity (according to Daskalova) are selected for the purposes of the study.

Genres sports discourse: linguistic and cognitive aspect

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natal'ya Kislicyna ◽  
Ekaterina Novikova
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Frame Analysis ◽  
Research Interest ◽  
Language Theory ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Conversational Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Space ◽  
Cognitive Aspect ◽  
Sports Commentary

The monograph is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of "discourse" from the perspective of its institutionality. The focus of research interest is sports discourse, presented in the form of a complex conceptual space with a particular genre-stylistic and pragmatic characteristics. As a material of study are sports articles, sports interviews and sports commentary, considered as genres of sports discourse, allocated according to criteria focus of the text and its function. The use of frame analysis, content analysis and conversational analysis have shown the peculiarities of representation of speech and thoughts of individuals, operating in the conditions of specific discursive practices. Addressed to specialists in the field of language theory, cognitive linguistics, decorology, pragmatics, teachers, postgraduates and students.

scholarly journals Main Values of Wedding Traditions and Representation of Wedding Concept by Language Means

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 321-328
Author(s):  
Zh. Zhalieva ◽  
S. Abdykadyrova
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Universal Category ◽  
Linguistic Units ◽  
Cultural Linguistics ◽  
Comprehensive Study

This work is devoted to the linguo-cognitive and linguocultural study of the concept of "wedding". The concept as a universal category plays a very important role in the culture of every nation; in all languages they reflect not only universal concepts, but also completely different meanings and properties of the objective world, which explains their different manifestations in language. The linguistic picture of the world influences people and forms their linguistic consciousness, and with them their cultural and national identity. The influence of cultural and human factors on the formation and functioning of various linguistic units (lexemes, free and non-free phrases or idioms, and even texts) are culturally marked in the content, which is embodied in national connotations. This study illustrates a comparative study of wedding traditions reflected in English, Russian and Kyrgyz cultural linguistics. Marriage, being a universal human “universal” - the only possible form of social life, although extremely variable, has a national specificity. Marriage is a mirror that reflects the social, legal, demographic and cultural aspects of the life of peoples. It shows the complex palette of the social relations system. The relevance of this study is due to a number of factors: the high importance of the linguocultural concept "wedding" for the Russian, English and Kyrgyz cultures; the lack of existing research approaches to the description of the highlighted concept; the need for a detailed and comprehensive study of this concept, which is a fragment of a separate concept sphere. The aim of the research is a linguo-cognitive and linguocultural analysis of the universal concept “wedding”, which is actualized in correlated fragments of Russian, English and Kyrgyz cultures.

The Parallel Circulation of Portuguese Modern Art during Salazar's Dictatorship (1956–61)

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-80
Author(s):  
Jani Maurício
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Parallel Distribution

Researching the subject of art's distribution under the New State dictatorship of the 1950s, this article focuses on the practices developed by two informal organizations of artists that carried out innovatory activities of modern art's socialization, which resulted in the creation of a parallel distribution system. Through an approach centred in the social and cultural aspects of the parallel distribution, the phenomenon's interpretation emphasizes the facilitating role of social relations and ethical values. Considering the exhibition and discursive practices developed by the artists’ collectives, this study defends that the existence of shared values and solidarity relationships, established within and outside the artistic sector, were deciding factors for the emergence and maintenance of a participatory behaviour attached to an important faction of the modern artistic sector.

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