Linguistic structuralism: towards an understanding of the Linguistic Sign and its representativity in the minds of the learners

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Andrés Carrera Barragán
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Sign

The Russian Language at the Turn of the Century: Semantic Capability and Development Prospects

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 150-169
Author(s):  
Svetlana N. Perevolochanskaya
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Language Evolution ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
First Century ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Current State ◽  
Linguistic Sign ◽  
Development Prospects ◽  
The Russian Language

The article considers the current state of the Russian language. Information technologies in the twenty first century present diverse forms of linguistic knowledge and modalities of knowledge quantisation in a linguistic sign. The Russian language develops from a standard, direct expression of thoughts to a nonstandard, psychologically complex, associative deep statement of thoughts. In the early nineteenth century, during the democratisation of the Russian language, a national genius, Alexander Pushkin, emerged. Thanks to him, the unique informational, cultural, and artistic evolution of the language took place. Nowadays, while democratisation and globalisation, processes which resemble the language evolution 200 years ago, are occurring. These processes suggest some patterns: overcoming stylistic disparity, changes in linguistic sign boundaries and semantic extension.

scholarly journals Whose hearing matters? Context and regimes of perception in sociolinguistics

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (267-268) ◽  
pp. 153-162
Author(s):  
Adrienne Lo
Keyword(s):  
Ontological Status ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Linguistic Sign ◽  
Moral Certainty

Abstract This piece argues for the importance of centering regimes of perception and the dynamics of power in sociolinguistics, drawing upon cases where Chinese and Korean terms have been heard and enregistered as English slurs. It notes how different interlocutors mobilize phenomena at various scales in invocations of context. It calls for greater attention to the range of subject positions that are produced by speakers, perceivers, and institutions and a reconsideration of the moral certainty of our analyses. It challenges us to rethink the ontological status of the linguistic sign as a self-presenting entity and to develop frameworks of analysis that can look across scales.

scholarly journals PHONOSEMANTISM AS PART OF THE SIGN SYSTEM OF LANGUAGE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andriiva S. S.
Keyword(s):  
One Dimension ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Acoustic Image ◽  
Sign System ◽  
Linguistic Sign ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Powerful Means ◽  
Sound Unit ◽  
Linguistic Units ◽  
To Receive

Phonosemantics is a science with a thousand-year history, the attitude to which is ambiguous. Despite the fact that the main principle of this linguistic discipline about the motivation of the sound unit and the legitimacy of the phenomenon has been repeatedly questioned, although discussions on the universality and specificity of the phenomenon under study continue to this day. Language is the most powerful means of forming thought; social phenomenon that attest to such its main functions as informational, communicative, emotional, cognitive, epistemological, accumulative. All functions are usually implemented not in isolation, but in various combinations, because each statement in most cases is multifunctional. All functions ultimately work for communication, and that's in the sense that the communicative function is leading. Simultaneously with the acquisition of human language, it acquires knowledge about the world around, which significantly shortens and simplifies the path of cognition, protects a person from unnecessary mistakes. F. de Saussure explained the problem of the value of a linguistic sign, arguing that a linguistic sign combines a concept and an acoustic image and has two essential features: arbitrariness (unmotivated) and linearity (unfolding in time and one dimension). The sign is used to indicate an object outside it, to receive, store and transmit information. A sign acquires its meaning only in a certain system, because outside it is not a sign and means nothing. The palette of phonosemantic searches is inexhaustible, as each linguistic and literary-artistic direction in various manifestations considers the symbolism of images of phonemes, phonemes, morphemes, tokens, syntagms, texts. The scope of using linguistic units with existing phonosemantic features is different types of movement, sound, light phenomena, physiological and emotional states of both humans and animals.

A Socio-semiotic Analysis of Qat culture in Yemen

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 i (14) ◽  
pp. 68-83
Author(s):  
Nabil Salem ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Catha Edulis ◽  
Linguistic Model ◽  
Sign System ◽  
Linguistic Sign ◽  
Lexical Items

Qat, Catha edulis has become synonymous with Yemen, as the phenomenon of Qat chewing in Yemen dates back hundreds of years in history. No social, cultural, or political gathering in the afternoon time can do without Qat. Afternoon time becomes the sign of Qat sessions and socialization. Despite Yemen's openness to other cultures and the recent revolution in all kinds of social media, Yemenis do not stop the habit of chewing Qat. The purpose of the present research work is to analyze 'Qat' as a linguistic sign consisting of a signifier and a signified to understand its various social, cultural, and political signifieds that give it the semiotic power to dominate all aspects of life in Yemen and to ground the coinage of many lexical items that are culturally specific to Qat culture and Yemeni dialects. The present paper uses semiotics as a research method in which it adopts Saussure's linguistic model of sign, signifier, and signified and Barthes' concepts of denotation and connotation. Semiotically, this paper shows that the Yemeni people are not addicted to Qat as a drug, as might be assumed by some foreigners who are not familiar with the sign system of Yemeni culture. The Yemeni people are addicted to Qat as a polysemous sign that is associated with values, norms, rituals, enjoyment, relationship, and socialization at the connotative level.

A Sinister Resonance: On the Extraction of Sound and Language in Heart of Darkness

2020 ◽  
pp. 149-210
Author(s):  
Julie Beth Napolin
Keyword(s):  
Chinua Achebe ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
Linguistic Sign ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Form ◽  
Single Night

Chapter Three is a study of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, a novel narrated in single night aboard a ship when a man remembers his journey to the Congo. The chapter seeks a critical form for this novel that Chinua Achebe argues should no longer be read. Searching for a way to describe it, Conrad wrote that it was like “a sinister resonance” and “continued vibration.” These sound figures, based in his memories of music, issue a profound challenge to the transcendental signifier that supports narrative levels: “voice.” At the same time, the chapter seeks out linguistics in the material substratum of vibration. It argues that the linguistic sign and the history of telecommunications—sharing in a dream of lossless and perfect communication—cannot be thought outside of the colonial extraction of sound in its ongoing violence.

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