Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.20916/1812-3228-2022-4-125-132
A. Rubas, A. Shcherbak, A. Agmanova
The article examines the potential of the educational text as the basis for the formation of knowledge base and the possibility of identifying the specifics of cognitive projections in the individual consciousness. We made an attempt to consider the features of the manifestations of individual consciousness based on the analysis of cognitive projections of the educational text, to analyze cognitive projections depending on the type of text. The results of an experiment conducted among students of the 11th grade (Nur-Sultan, Republic of Kazakhstan), according to the method of supplement based on the material of educational text, are presented. It is established that the middle and initial filling of gaps contributes less to the understanding of the message in its entirety. The use of the supplement technique in the assimilation of textual educational information allows us to determine how accessible the educational text is for students’ perception and understanding; the use of the supplement in the educational process gives not only a correct idea of the general intelligibility of the text, but also helps achieve the acquisition of speech skills by students in the construction of coherent speech. The practical significance of the article is determined by the possibility of using the described experimental method in other research papers.
本文探讨了教育文本作为知识库形成基础的潜力，以及识别个体意识中认知投射细节的可能性。我们试图在分析教育文本的认知投射的基础上，考虑个体意识表现的特征，根据文本的类型来分析认知投射。本文介绍了在哈萨克斯坦努尔苏尔坦(nurl - sultan, Republic of Kazakhstan)高二学生中，采用基于教材材料的补充方法进行的实验结果。可以确定的是，中间和最初的空白填充对整体信息的理解贡献较小。在文本教育信息的同化过程中使用补充技术，可以确定教育文本对学生的感知和理解的可及性;在教学过程中对补语的运用，不仅使学生对语篇的总体可理解性有了正确的认识，而且有助于学生在连贯话语的建构中实现言语技能的习得。本文的实际意义是由本文所描述的实验方法在其他研究论文中使用的可能性决定的。
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.20916/1812-3228-2022-4-5-16
V. Demyankov
Ideas of “knowing” and of “being known” are traditionally ascribed to the Latin ‘gnārus’, the commonly recognized etymological source of the Latin ‘nārrō’ which normally meant “I am telling”. A prototypical narrative’s main property is cohesion, because narratives typically present chains of events and/or describe states of affairs which are not invented on the spot: prototypically, the narrator already ‘knows’ and the audience ‘learns’ them from the narration. At the same time, a prototypical discourse is coherent, consistently proving or disproving a certain line of ‘discursive’ thinking. Narrative discourses have both properties. A corpus investigation of the word ‘narrative’ and of its cognates and derivatives is here exposed, in several Romance languages (Latin, French, Italian, Spanish), in Germanic (English and German) and in Russian. It shows different tendencies of development of the meaning ‘narrative’ in the course of several centuries. There are three groups of languages, depending on which the lexeme statistically prevails in the corpus: verb-oriented Latin and Italian, narration-oriented French and Spanish, and narrative-oriented English, German, and Russian. Therefore, a critical look is necessary at the existing definitions of the terms ‘narrative’ and ‘discourse’, thus narrowing their semantic scopes and delimiting them from each other.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.20916/1812-3228-2022-4-32-44
E.B. Riabykh, S. Vinogradova
The article deals with issues related to metaphors in poetry and prose of migrants through the prism of multiculturalism. The authors argue that in cognitive perspective metaphors emerge within the framework of secondary linguistic interpretation and conceptual derivation as its underlying process. Taking into account memory peculiarities and working space of a poet or writer, possible procedural variants of metaphor production are proposed. It is stated that metaphors in poetry and prose of migrants are created being based on national / conventional and unique / individual patterns of their formation with reference to certain contextual factors that correlate with dominant constructs of poets and writers’ linguistic consciousness. Significant is the idea of integrating the accumulated contextual knowledge in the aspect of cognitive matrix, as well as possible variation in the content of the matrix model from the mundane to the expert representation of knowledge in the process of metaphorical interpretation of the world migrant poets and writers live or lived in.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.20916/1812-3228-2022-4-92-101
V. A. Maryanchik, L. Popova
The article analyzes lexemes that are used as nominations of persons in the old vernacular of the city of Arkhangelsk, Russia, and that are considered to embody the system of values of a wider community. The authors identify grounds and mechanisms for such evaluative nominations by using cognitive (scenario and prototype modeling), semantic (sememe construction, evaluative semantics analysis), stylistic and lexicographic methods of research. The authors conclude that evaluative nominations are realized in the vernacular by means of stereotype images and stereotype scenarios. Stereotype images are associated with ideas about a prototype and deviations from the norm. Stereotype scenarios are fixed ways of social practice and morals, that is to say, a precedent sequence of events and/or a set of situations fixed in a person’s mind. The authors use examples to prove that evaluative nominations of a person in the old vernacular of Arkhangelsk are most often associated with a person’ appearance, speech, attitude to work and to people. Social stereotype scenarios are represented in the “person - person”, “person - family”, “person - society” oppositions.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.20916/1812-3228-2022-4-55-64
V. Zabotkina, E. Pozdnyakova
The article discusses the cognitive mechanisms underlying the creation of manipulative euphemisms; it presents the essence of those cognitive tools that are used by the media to manipulate the recipients, consuming their content. The research tasks are: identification of the parameters enhancing the cognitive mechanism of reframing in relation to euphemisms; determining what part of the original meaning structure is inherited in a new creative meaning of the euphemism formation. The methods used are: conceptual analysis, frame analysis, analysis of socio-cultural interpretant, principle of dynamic conceptual semantics. As a result of the study, we obtained the data on how the process of reframing is carried out with euphemisms used for manipulation purposes. For its implementation, the cognitive mechanisms of analogy, conceptual deviation and conceptual blending are used, backstage cognition is activated. During reframing, the slots of the source frame are mapped onto the slots of the construed frame. Word or phrase representing the source frame profiles the conceptualization and triggers the set of target frame slots. In the case of using a euphemism for reframing, a contextually justified, but more neutral expression that does not carry negative conceptual attributes is chosen. The results can be used in cognitive linguistics and journalism studies.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.20916/1812-3228-2021-1-17-25
G. I. Berestnev, L. Boyko
The article maintains the general theoretical position that modern science finds itself on the verge of a new revolutionary quantum paradigm. Such a paradigmatic shift has effected changes in language scholarship too - through expanding its subject area, among other things. The paper shows that new subjects in linguistics include coincidences - pairs of events or phenomena that are close in meaning without being brought about by cause-and-effect relationships. In analytical psychology, the phenomenon is called synchronicity. The aim of the study is to solve the problem of the initial cognitive realization of the idea of coincidence in different linguistic mentalities and thereby to clarify its cognitive foundations. The onomasiological, structural-semantic and comparative analysis of words with the semantics of coincidence in the languages of different families made it possible to identify regular features that recreate a general cognitive portrait of such synchronistic thinking in Russian and, effectively, in Indo-European linguistic consciousness. It is assumed that the totality of such properties constitutes a cognitive universal. It is noteworthy that the revealed features are incompatible from the point of view of classical logic. In particular, they are as follows: “duality”, “singularity”, “causal autonomy and uncontrollability”, “belonging to a different space-time structure”. All this shows that the phenomenon conceptually defined as coincidence is deeply rooted in cognition; it carries an idea of the inner reality lying beyond the scope of human conceptual thinking. The authors sum up the results of the study in Conclusion section of the paper. In particular, it is asserted that the concept of COINCIDENCE proves extremely productive in terms of reconstructing a person’s deep-seated cognitive attitudes. Besides, coincidence is regarded as a most significant phenomenon in physical reality since it is directly related to its foundations and core principles. Finally, the revealed cognitive characteristics of the COINCIDENCE concept allow us to draw cautious conclusions regarding the proximity of the phenomenon of coincidence to the special type of reality defined as quantum reality in physics. Considering coincidences from this point of view provides a unique research perspective.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.20916/1812-3228-2021-3-59-66
A. Leonteva, O. Agafonova, A. Petrov
The article presents the results of an empirical research dedicated to the co-occurrence of gestures and self-repairs in simultaneous interpreting. Self-repairs, viewed as a type of disfluencies, are divided into three categories: 1) a disfluency followed by a resolution (“positive” self-repair), 2) a disfluency consisting of repetition of the same lexical unit (“zero” self-repair); 3) an utterance truncated without a restart, which means that such a disfluency is not resolved. The study is based on the assumption that in simultaneous interpreting statistically significant correlation will be observed between various types of self-repair and various types of gestures, such as pragmatic, representational, deictic gestures and adapters. The data was obtained from 18 interpreters who were asked to interpret a popular science lecture from Russian into English. The material was analysed in ELAN and JAMOVI, and quantitative and statistical methods (T-test and ANOVA) were used to check on the hypotheses. The study revealed a strong correlation between self-repairs and gesture usage, which suggests that in moments of disfluency gestures facilitate speech. Concerning the relation between various types of self-repair and functional types of gestures, the hypothesis was not confirmed, although the statistics points to the fact that the simultaneous interpreters tend to use particular types of gestures with certain self-repairs.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.20916/1812-3228-2021-3-21-31
E. Troshchenkova
The article is aimed at identifying and analyzing the main frames for conceptualizing the socio-political role of memes and the models of their linguistic representation in the newspaper articles (16 articles, mainly 2019-2020, in English) on the relevant topic. In other words, this is an attempt from a scientific standpoint to represent how modern media, which are becoming the source and means of the viral spread of Internet memes, meta-represent an element of their own communication processes. Methodologically, the study is based on examining media texts about Internet memes in the broad context of socio-political transformations emerging from the active development of forums, social networks, instant messengers, and other tools. It proceeds from analyzing the thematic grid in each article, identifying the key, repetitive lexical elements, including metaphors, associated with interpreting memes popularity and their functions, as well as taking into account some iconic components of these multimodal texts. Then I review the entire article mini-corpus to identify repetitive patterns of meme representation and study their evaluative component. These models that can be viewed as coordination patterns are further compared with the way Internet memes are considered in academic studies. As a result, it is shown that although in modern journalism the conceptualization of memes in many respects correlates with what the experts of technologically mediated communication say, the article’s appraisal of the importance for various aspects meme usage is different. Journalists are less concerned with the precise definition of the phenomenon, meme classification in terms of structural types or according to component relations in them. They do recognize that going viral is an important feature for memes, but journalists, as opposed to scholars, are less interested in what makes these information products popular and widely shared, often taking it for granted. At the same time, journalists (compared to ordinary users) nowadays are less inclined to view memes just as an entertainment. However, it should be borne in mind that changes in the functionality of memes, apparently, occur unevenly around the world and in a number of countries are less noticeable for objective reasons, and journalists may be well aware of the differences between the English-language socio-political discourse, especially in the United States, and the European one “lagging behind”. The more indicative is the desire to anticipate the inevitable future transformations and take into account the experience of the countries that are more “advanced” in terms of using memes for public and political purposes. Thus, the focus of attention in newspapers is shifted towards two frames, both of which are viewed as reflecting situations that are potentially problematic for society. One is associated with the ideas of domestic alt-right radicalism and international “information terrorism”. The second frame
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.20916/1812-3228-2021-3-96-102
O. Sapunova
The article considers the role of punctuation marks in delivering and perceiving the purport in fiction discourse. The core of the study is the interrelation between the punctuation arrangement of the text and its prosodic embodiment. Contemporary English fiction in both written and audio forms is exploited as the material for the investigation. The key goal of the study is to demonstrate the so-called ‘highlighting function’ of the semicolon (the stop of inner controversy) and to analyse its role in emphasising the text fragments of special prominence. Three major types of the function are discussed: bringing out particularization to follow, which appears to be vital for interpreting the purport; marking off the afterthought; bringing out the ‘effective’ conclusion - a concise and catchy phrase summing up the previous statement. The results show that in all the three contexts in which the semicolon signals the information significance, its typical prosody gets modified. Namely, the part of the sentence after the stop is largely produced in the higher section of the diapason as compared to the recommended parameter. Among other prosodic characteristics to be altered are timbre and tempo. Adding more expressivity not infrequently may enable the performer to highlight the clause to follow.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.20916/1812-3228-2021-3-67-74
A. Gurochkina, D. A. Makurova
The paper explores the grave issue for modern-day research of mass media communication - fake news. The study aims at identifying cognitive bases and mechanisms of formation of media fakes about coronavirus. The first part of the article defines fake news and delineates salient characteristics of fake news. The second part of the article reveals some common semantic macrostructures of media fakes about the virus based on the analysis of social media posts and news articles. The third part of the article presents and describes the key strategies and tactics of manipulation and information distortion typical of fake news about the virus. The analysis reveals essential cognitive and pragmalinguistic components of coronavirus media fakes. The results of the undertaken research are relevant to further exploring other features of fake news and can be implemented as a guide for identifying fake news in order to reduce the mass addressee’s susceptibility to fakes.
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