Frame of Act of “Infidelity in Love” and Its Euphemistic Representations in Russian and English Linguocultures

Euphemisms that act as means of linguistic representation of the act of “infidelity in love relationships” in the Russian and the English are examined in the article. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that the situation of the act of “infidelity in love” is presented in the form of a frame model, in the structure of which slots are allocated that actualize various aspects of the situation under consideration. It is shown that in Russian linguoculture the slots “Agent of an act and its properties”, “Counterparty of an act”, “Patient of an act”, “Action as a manifestation of an act”, “Evaluation of an act, an agent of an act”, “Place of the act” are objectified. It was revealed that in the English linguistic culture, in addition to the indicated slots, the “Motive of Action” slot is also updated. Comparison of the semantics of the euphemistic units of the two languages showed that the euphemization of the act of “infidelity in love” is based on similar techniques: the mechanism of linguistic generalization, replacement of direct nomination with a foreign lexeme, pronominalization, meiosis, metonymic / metaphoric transfer. It is shown that the actualization of infidelity is carried out on the basis of similar metaphorical concepts MOVEMENT, RELATIONSHIP, ENTERTAINMENT / RECREATION, POLLUTION, which are identified both in Russian and in English, and the metaphorical concept of SPORT is found only in English.

Challenging career models in higher education: the influence of internal career scripts and the rise of the “concertina” career

The paper develops the metaphorical concept of the “concertina” career to describe ways in which academic staff, across a diversifying workforce, modulate their interactions with institutional career frameworks, which tend to be unilinear and to be characterised by detailed progression criteria and milestones. In doing this, they are guided by Internal career scripts, providing an additional dimension to the dichotomy of boundaried and boundaryless careers found in the literature. Drawing on a longitudinal study between 2017 and 2020, of forty-nine mid-career academic staff across eight UK universities, consideration is given to individuals’ spatial movements, for instance, between academic activities, and professional and personal commitments; and the manipulation of timescales to accelerate or decelerate career progress in relation to opportunities and constraints. The study shows ways in which the spatial parameters of a career are being stretched in order to accommodate new forms of academic work supplementing disciplinary activity, such as online learning, employability initiatives and public engagement, as well as work-life considerations. In addition, individuals are adapting timescales to accommodate professional activities such as health practice or community outreach, as well as personal commitments such as caring responsibilities. Thus, in the concertina career, individuals expand and contract activity, as well as extending and compressing timescales. As a result, it is concluded that institutional career models do not entirely reflect the reality of career-making by individuals, which is likely to involve detours (therefore a spatial dimension) and a disruption of assumed timelines (therefore a temporal dimension).

METAPHORICAL CONCEPT “BODY” IN THE SACRED PENTATEUCH TEXTS OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE

The aim of the paper is to determine the content and structure of a basic metaphorical concept BODY identified in the Pentateuch texts of the English Bible. The nature and mechanism of the metaphorical concept is considered in the light of recent linguo-metaphorological investigations with the emphasis on distinction between the notions of “metaphorical concept” and “conceptual metaphor”. The method used in the research includes procedures of the analysis of metaphorical concepts elaborated by Yu.V. Kravtsova within the semantic- cognitive approach to study of metaphors and modelling of metaphorization. As a result, first, the composition of the content of the metaphorical concept at the semantic and cognitive levels of its stratification was established; second, the identified cognitive features were structurized according to their significance within a given ethno-culture; the third, the hierarchy of senses relevant for the concept bearers was revealed. Overall, the conducted analysis has offered a fresh insight into the author-specific conception of reality as a human body, in its various forms and manifestations.

Un mismo concepto metafórico. Fraseología e interculturalidad en las aulas / The same metaphorical concept. Phraseology and interculturality in the classroom

Desarrollar instrumentos que permitan contribuir a una educación intercultural, se vuelve cada vez más importante, sobre todo por los flujos migratorios que se experimentan en el mundo globalizado del siglo XXI. Históricamente las sociedades, sobre todo latinoamericanas, no han sido capaces de incluir al otro, al contrario, los migrantes han sido objeto del rechazo mayoritario, de ahí la necesidad de construir sociedades incluyentes, tolerantes. Como cada vez es más común encontrar aulas en las que comparten clases estudiantes procedentes de distintos países y regiones, este artículo se propone destacar a la enseñanza de la fraseología como recurso integrador en los procesos migratorios en la región andina, sobre todo en Ecuador. Se encuentra que la fraseodidáctica puede ayudar a desarrollar otras competencias no lingüísticas, como la conciencia y expresiones culturales de quienes comparten un aula de clases.

ORIENTAL SYMBOLISM OF THE BALLET “SEVEN BEAUTIES” BASED ON THE POEM BY NIZAMI GANJAVI

The author explores creative interpretations of the work “Seven Beauties” written by a humanist poet Nizami Ganjavi (7th century) from the “Hamse” cycle. The poet was a genuine erudite, connoisseur of not only Koranic texts, history, ancient and Muslim philosophy, but astronomy as well. This article is an attempt to trace the oriental symbolism in the images of Ganjavi in one of the creative interpretations of the poem “Seven Beauties” through the prism of choreographic and scenographic art. The method of research is a semiological analysis, the object of study is the ballet “Seven Beauties”, combining the achievements of modern European choreography and medieval Eastern poetry with its inherent imagery, set to the music of Azerbaijani composer Kara Karayev. The composer K. Karayev actively used authentic musical traditions of Azerbaijan (musical harmonies, Ashug melodics and elements of Azerbaijani folk modes), combining them with European melodies and rhythms. Analyzing the film-ballet “Seven Beauties” (1982, directed by Felix Slidovker) and the new production of the Theater of Opera and Ballet named after M.F. Akhundov (2011), the author traces the transformation of the libretto and offers his own rendition of symbolism in the metaphorical work of the classic Nizami Ganjavi. The search for truth, beauty, and justice has always been a part of a thinking person. Eastern poets chanted this search, this long and difficult road to the truth, the ideal world. Court intrigues, the luxury of the palace and the daily life of the common people, nobility, guile and love intertwined in this metaphorical Eastern parable, which formed the basis for several interpretations of the ballet “Seven Beauties”. Despite the great degree of conventionality inherent in this genre of stage art, the film ballet is characterized by dramaturgical diversity, organic entwinement of developing storylines, dynamic interrelation of social and lyrical-psychological conflicts. The transformation of the libretto to the ballet “Seven Beauties” testifies to a new, deeper reading, its coming closer to the ideological and philosophical metaphorical concept of the original poem by Nizami Ganjavi, to eternal search for the truth, love and justice sung by the poet with oriental imagery characteristic for him.

Construction of the concept of pairability in comparing infinite sets in the individuals’ mind: an APOS approach

This study focuses on the concept of pairability as a fundamental metaphorical concept in the Cantorian set theory regarding comparison of infinite sets. In this theory, pairability appears in a hierarchical manner of generating and developing as a one-to-one correspondence by arrows in finite, and then in infinite states, a bijection map through an explicit formula and the concept of cardinality. Adapting these hierarchical components of pairability and the APOS theory, about description of constructing and understanding a mathematical concept in a hierarchical manner, this study examines the construction of the concept of pairability in the individuals’ mind. In this way, their imaginations of pairability and practical performances in different situations will also be surveyed. In so doing, a total of 20 mathematics teachers and university lecturers holding at least an M.Sc. degree in mathematics were chosen. To collect the data, interviews were conducted in which the participants not only answered questions about the concept of the various types of pairability but also compared infinite countable sets in different situations. Our findings revealed that a bijection map via an explicit formula was the individuals’ dominant conception of pairability and most of the incorrect answers were related to unsuccessful attempts to recall a formula or method as the only possible way, and the encapsulated concept of cardinality was used less frequently in practice. Therefore, there was not a total schema of actions, processes and objects of the concept of pairability in the individuals’ mind.