Oxana Andreevna Maletina, Alexander Olegovich Yakovlev
The aim of the study is to identify the lexical and grammatical characteristics of the speech of American showmen. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that the analyzed speech characteristics of American TV presenters help to understand the mechanism of influencing the audience and the formation of public opinion in American society, namely, the lexical and grammatical features of conversational speech for the purpose of having an impact on the recipients. As a result, the lexical and grammatical features of the speech of American showmen demonstrating a high focus on establishing contact with the audience were revealed. The linguistic specificity of an American showman’s speech portrait reflects the focus of the talk show on keeping the viewer’s attention, therefore, slang and colloquial vocabulary, interjections, simplification of grammatical structures (reduced forms, simple sentences, incomplete phrases, disjunctive questions) are so frequent to help the average American to perceive the main points of the conversation properly.
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The aim of the research is to characterise the transboundary dynamics of the English-language military discourse during Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. The research is carried out involving the material of the publications of leading English-language news agencies devoted to the conduct of the special military operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. It is noted that the armed conflict, being a phenomenon covering all spheres of society, affects the language, which is not only the main means of communication for representatives of an ethnic group, but also a weapon that influences and manipulates public consciousness. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that it is the first to analyse the impact of the armed conflict taking place today on the lexical structure of the English language. The paper identifies the main trends of changes in the lexical structure of the language during the transition of units of one discourse into the space of mass media discourse. It is the first time that modern mass media are considered as a kind of cross-discursive space in which lexical and phraseological units of the military discourse acquire new shades of meaning, allowing them to act as a weapon of influencing the consciousness of the mass audience. As a result of the research, it has been found that military terminology is being activated in mass media discourse, the semantics of words and phrases are changing, the vocabulary of World War II and the Cold War is being actualised, in addition, lexical and phraseological units of military slang are being introduced into media discourse.
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The aim of the research is to identify the main linguostylistic features of the spiritual epistolary works by Hieroschemamonk Macarius of Optina and their connection with extralinguistic factors. The study is novel in that it is the first to present the results of a comprehensive linguostylistic analysis of the spiritual epistolary heritage of Hieroschemamonk Macarius of Optina, outlining the main characteristics of his writing style and examining the spiritual and ideological foundations of formation of the textual field in his spiritual epistolary works. The research demonstrates that the analyzed material actively utilizes intertextemes referring to biblical and patristic texts, metaphors based on Christian cultural imagery, allegories typical of various church-religious genres, epithets that give the texts an archaic and elevated tone and stylistic figures with linguistic units denoting religious concepts, church-religious etiquette formulas.
{"title":"Linguostylistic features of Hieroschemamonk Macarius of Optina’s spiritual letters","authors":"Anna Vladimirovna Kozheko","doi":"10.30853/phil20230573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30853/phil20230573","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the research is to identify the main linguostylistic features of the spiritual epistolary works by Hieroschemamonk Macarius of Optina and their connection with extralinguistic factors. The study is novel in that it is the first to present the results of a comprehensive linguostylistic analysis of the spiritual epistolary heritage of Hieroschemamonk Macarius of Optina, outlining the main characteristics of his writing style and examining the spiritual and ideological foundations of formation of the textual field in his spiritual epistolary works. The research demonstrates that the analyzed material actively utilizes intertextemes referring to biblical and patristic texts, metaphors based on Christian cultural imagery, allegories typical of various church-religious genres, epithets that give the texts an archaic and elevated tone and stylistic figures with linguistic units denoting religious concepts, church-religious etiquette formulas.","PeriodicalId":43335,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical and Practical Issues of Journalism","volume":"8 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136018434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Olga Nikolaevna Varlamova, Alina Dmitrievna Polyakova
The article is devoted to the description of linguistic peculiarities of forming the ecological attractiveness of food products. The purpose of this study is to reveal the main strategies and tactics showing the versatility and cross-cultural specifics of Spanish and American cultures for the formation of ecological attractiveness of goods. The scientific novelty of this research lies in identifying a universal set of linguistic means – communicative strategies and tactics – used to create an environmentally attractive image of a product, as well as in describing the intercultural specifics of their manifestation, using the example of two non-cognate languages. As a result of the study, three marketing communication strategies that shape the environmental attractiveness of products have been identified: the strategy of informing, the self-presentation strategy, and the manipulation strategy. The tactics that implement these strategies and their linguistic and cultural specificity have also been described. The following tactics fulfill the influencing function: appeals to authoritative opinions, demonstrations of uniqueness, targeting core audience, and reliance on semiotic systems. The tactic of demonstrating the uniqueness of product composition is an important tool for influencing buyers, both in American and Spanish linguistic culture, as evidenced by the lexical and semantic means used to implement this tactic enriched with lexical and semantic groups of beneficial and harmful substances and their high frequency of usage.
{"title":"Linguistic features of creating the environmental attractiveness of goods (based on the material of Spanish and English)","authors":"Olga Nikolaevna Varlamova, Alina Dmitrievna Polyakova","doi":"10.30853/phil20230575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30853/phil20230575","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the description of linguistic peculiarities of forming the ecological attractiveness of food products. The purpose of this study is to reveal the main strategies and tactics showing the versatility and cross-cultural specifics of Spanish and American cultures for the formation of ecological attractiveness of goods. The scientific novelty of this research lies in identifying a universal set of linguistic means – communicative strategies and tactics – used to create an environmentally attractive image of a product, as well as in describing the intercultural specifics of their manifestation, using the example of two non-cognate languages. As a result of the study, three marketing communication strategies that shape the environmental attractiveness of products have been identified: the strategy of informing, the self-presentation strategy, and the manipulation strategy. The tactics that implement these strategies and their linguistic and cultural specificity have also been described. The following tactics fulfill the influencing function: appeals to authoritative opinions, demonstrations of uniqueness, targeting core audience, and reliance on semiotic systems. The tactic of demonstrating the uniqueness of product composition is an important tool for influencing buyers, both in American and Spanish linguistic culture, as evidenced by the lexical and semantic means used to implement this tactic enriched with lexical and semantic groups of beneficial and harmful substances and their high frequency of usage.","PeriodicalId":43335,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical and Practical Issues of Journalism","volume":"12 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136017632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julia Evgenievna Ivanova, Elena Igorevna Mikhaleva
The paper presents the results of the phonopragmatic analysis of the communicative styles of BA students in teaching and CELTA candidates. The focus is made on classroom management and prosodic characteristics used in the speech of two groups of non-native informants. We aim to find the connection of speakers’ national identity and language teaching. Regarding pronunciation as part of a person’s identity, the authors carry out a comparative analysis of English and Russian cultures and examine linguistic and paralinguistic expression of national indexical features in communication. Singling out the strategies that allow teachers to carry out classroom interactions with their students, identifying the correlation of classroom interaction language and speech prosody with politeness strategies provide the novelty of the research. We clearly stated that conventionality of classroom language discourse varied at the level of prosody and reflected national specific characteristics in the speech of a foreign language teacher. Due to perceptive and analytical methods of analysis, we recognized that CELTA candidates follow standardized teaching framework requirements, whilst future language teachers demonstrate the influence of native language interference to a greater degree. The findings show that the tendencies that reveal the status inequality in classroom interactions between teachers and students are in the choice of prosodic features and language construction. University students in teaching realize strategies of positive politeness culture typical of their own Russian culture; in the group of CELTA candidates the level of phonetic competence and personal experience is higher thus they choose phonetic features characteristic of negative politeness culture.
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The research aims to substantiate the positive influence of the aesthetics of socialist realism on the creative work of the Balkar writer Zh. Zh. Zalikhanov (1917-1996), who was at the forefront of the development of written literature in the native language. The paper examines the main methodological principles of the aesthetics of socialist realism: a truthful, historically concrete reflection of reality, the assertion of new socialist ideals and relations aimed at the formation of the literature that is “national in form and socialist in content”. Using Zh. Zh Zalikhanov’s novels “Mountain Eagles”, “Burning Hearts” and “The Baksan Star” as an example, the paper explores the main ways of artistic expression that give the writer’s works national specificity and colouring (images, symbols, signs). Zh. Zh. Zalikhanov’s creative work reflects such principles of the socialist realism method as historicism, artistic truth, national spirit, which are used as means of historical truth (depiction of specific events, biographies of real historical figures), on the one hand, and as ways of reflecting national specifics (anthroponymic and toponymic units, phraseological expressions, proverbs and sayings, etc.), on the other hand. The research is original in that it is the first to examine the aesthetic principles of artistic merit in the creative work of Zh. Zh. Zalikhanov using not only a historical but also a culturological approach to a literary work as a “culture code”. The research findings have shown that the socialist realism method contributed to the development of new means of visual and artistic expression of Soviet literature and the formation of new principles of artistic merit of the literature “national in form and socialist in content”.
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This study pertains to stylometry. There are cases when a writer who has achieved fame, for various reasons, begins to create under a different name, attempts to write in a different manner and sometimes achieves success again in a new incarnation. The aim of the study is to test the feasibility of intentionally making significant changes to an author’s literary style. Numerals present in the texts by a particular author are used as a style marker. Examples from English, French and Russian literature demonstrate that the use of numerals is a literary ‘fingerprint’ that manifests in all or most of sufficiently long texts by that author. The obtained results show that, contrary to an author’s attempts to write in a ‘new’ way, the usage of numerals is conservative and allows for the recognition of fictitious authorship. This conclusion is drawn based on the analysis of works by R. Gary and B. Akunin (G. Chkhartishvili), who are known for their literary hoaxes. The analysis of numerals usage is also applied to the issue of authorship regarding Harper Lee’s novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. Conclusions about the similarity/difference of literary styles are made based on hierarchical cluster analysis and are supported by the Pearson chi-squared test. The scientific originality of the paper lies in taking a new approach to the search for a literary ‘fingerprint’ and text attribution.
这项研究与文体学有关。有些情况下，一个已经成名的作家，由于各种原因，开始以不同的名字创作，试图以不同的方式写作，有时又以新的化身获得成功。本研究的目的是测试有意对作者的文学风格做出重大改变的可行性。特定作者在文本中出现的数字用作样式标记。来自英语、法语和俄语文学的例子表明，数字的使用是一种文学“指纹”，在作者的所有或大部分足够长的文本中都表现出来。所获得的结果表明，与作者试图以“新”方式写作相反，数字的使用是保守的，并且允许虚构作者的认可。这一结论是通过对R. Gary和B. Akunin (G. Chkhartishvili)的作品的分析得出的，他们以文学骗局而闻名。数字用法的分析也适用于哈珀·李的小说《杀死一只知更鸟》的作者身份问题。文学风格相似/差异的结论是基于层次聚类分析得出的，并得到Pearson卡方检验的支持。这篇论文的科学独创性在于采用了一种新的方法来寻找文学“指纹”和文本归因。
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The aim of the study is to determine the functions that quoted and reported speech can perform in scientific discourse. The paper presents the results of analysing quoted and reported speech in written genres of scientific communication using the material of the Russian National Corpus. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that the pragmatic functions of entering quoted and reported speech into a scientific text have been identified. As a result, it has been found that the main functions of quoted and reported speech in scientific discourse include the informative, argumentative, nominative and constructive functions. Among the described functions, the dominant position is occupied by the informative and the argumentative functions, which is due to the key tasks that a scientific work is designed to solve as a tool for communication and transmission of scientific knowledge. In addition to the main functions, the expressive one has been also highlighted, which may be characteristic of verbatim quotations that preserve the stylistic originality and distinctness of the original text. Similarities in the functioning of quoted and reported speech in scientific, popular science and news types of discourse, as well as significant differences between the functions of quoted and reported speech in scientific texts and in literary texts have been revealed.
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The aim of the research is to identify the role of language and speech behavior of characters in revealing the author’s philosophical intent in the novels by Walker Percy, namely “Lancelot”, “The Second Coming” and “The Thanatos Syndrome”. The paper is original in that it is the first to substantiate the connection between Percy’s theoretical inquiries in the philosophy of language and the principles of construction of plots and characters’ images in his later novels. Percy finds that the main function of language is not in naming facts of reality or establishing abstract connections between them, but in a person’s realization of the ontological meaning of what is happening through an awareness of the social and vital significance of what is being uttered. Mechanical manipulation of clichéd expressions and the dominance of form over content in speech become indicators of the characters’ internal emptiness and their loss of human essence. The return of individual meaning to spoken words is closely linked to the internal spiritual transformation of the characters. As a result, the research demonstrates that the characters’ speech in Percy’s novels serves an important function in characterizing their existential status: changes in speech signify essential changes in the characters’ nature, their proximity or distance from the understanding of the meaning of life.
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Anastasiya Sergeevna Komkova, Anna Aleksandrovna Anikina
The research aims to reconstruct the EXILE concept in the Old English linguocultural tradition. The research is novel in that it is the first to study the EXILE concept using the material of legal vocabulary of Anglo-Saxon culture during its formation, to reveal its notional content by the systematization of characteristics: punishment, deprivation of rights and freedoms, loss of human appearance, suffering, loneliness, wanderings, miserable existence. As a result, the process of conceptualization of exile taking into account a wide philological and ethno-cultural context has been presented. The authors have identified and described the cultural patterns of behavior deviation from which could lead to the relegation of a representative of any class of Anglo-Saxon society in the 7th-11th centuries to the position of an outcast. The paper studies the linguistic means of expressing all components of the practice of exile, including the naming units for the action itself, the outlaws, their distinctive features, places and circumstances of exile. The analysis of the semantic content of the selected lexemes, their contextual connections has been carried out and the notional content of the EXILE concept has been determined.
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