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The article is devoted to the communicative competence of a doctor as a component of professional ethics. Knowledge of norms of the modern Russian literary language, compliance with these standards in the oral and written speech of a medical worker helps to establish contact between doctor and a patient. To identify the level of knowledge of Russian language norms, readiness for professional speech a scientific research was made, during which the most typical mistakes were revealed: orthoepic, morphological, lexical, stylistic. Following the norms of the language and ethics of communication contributes to the achievement of the main aim of a medical activity - recovering of a patient.
The article explores the strategies for nominate a person in the texts of the pre-election discourse. Nomination practices are a way of representing status-role relations in a particular discourse. The authors describe how practices of person nomination form strategies for reflecting reality, on the one hand, through the relationship with the social norm, status, on the other hand, through the deconstruction of the norm. The pre-election discourse of Internet media revealed strategies to discredit and provoke official norms. The nomination tactics are based on the use of lexical units from the discourse of marginalized communities, jargon, as well as on generalization, when the proper name (person name) becomes a sign of status-role relations, a minimized script that defines the person’s media representation. The second generalization mechanism is based on the use of an additional component determined by discourse, in combination with a neutral lexical unit of nomination. The use of such strategies indicates the expression of opposition views on all political events in the country, including elections. Status-role relations in the pre-election discourse of Internet media are deconstructed, since the norm itself is disputed as the basis of the existing political regime. This is one of the discursive ways of the presence of a “minority” in the media field, an option for exercising his right to a visible presence in the media field.
Abstract The aims of this paper are to analyse differences in the degree of lexical variation (type/token ratio and hapax/token ratio) of reporting verbs in reporting clauses placed medially or in postposition in English, French and Czech fiction and to evaluate their consequences in translation, especially in regard to explicitation/implicitation. We expect that, in translations from a language with a low degree of lexical variation of reporting verbs into a language with a high degree of lexical variation, the frequency and the degree of explicitation will be higher than in translations involving languages less different with respect to lexical variation. The analysis, relying on data extracted from the InterCorp multilingual corpus, proposes a classification of reporting verbs based on the type and amount of information conveyed, which allows evaluating the degree of explicitation operated in translations. The results show that most shifts involve only the neutral reporting verb say/dire, replaced by a stylistically more specific synonym or by a verb explicitating information obvious from the context. This suggests that modifications of reporting verbs in translation are motivated primarily by respect for the stylistic norm of the target language and the degree of acceptability of the repetition of the neutral reporting verb.
Russian speakers make up the biggest group of foreign-language speakers in Finland. Their use of Finnish words in Russian discourse can be interpreted as an example of multilingual practices, such as code-switching. It can also be viewed as an example of how loanwords are assimilated. While speakers of Russian in Finland are part of a worldwide internet community, they also represent a local community that can have a language form of its own. This article presents an analysis of about 500 cases of Finnish lexical items and word combinations usage in written Russian (260 different lemmas). The material for the research was selected from written internet discourse of a Russophone community on Facebook, a social media platform. Members of this community are Russian women who have been living in Finland for some time. The Finnish words were studied in the context of posts and replies to them. The 475 Finnish words found amounted to 4 % of the total 12,022 words used in the source. The analysis of the material took into account semantic and grammatical features of the items. Semantic features included the categories of proper nouns, terms and other words related to life in Finland. The grammatical analysis began by studying the choice of writing system, i.e. whether the units retained their original spelling which is either in Latin or in Cyrillic. After that, the Finnish words that had been transliterated were studied for the presence or lack of declension as compared to the Russian norm in similar uses. It was suggested that the tendency not to decline Finnish words written both in Cyrillic and Latin in the discourse also affected the syntactic positions in which they were used, making positions that did not require declension overrepresented. The number of examples subjected to the assimilation rules for loanwords in Russian (transliteration and using declension) was small. Therefore, most of the examples represent code-switching, a natural consequence of those living in Finland, and provide evidence for the existence of a local version of Russian.
This study aims to discuss the ethics of public communication in a digital age, based on the hadith perspective. It is based on the poor ethics of communication in society, which leads to the emerge of SARA, hoaxes, and politicization of religion. The article addresses prophetic traditions concerning ruwaybid}ah that could provide values on the norms of communication. Based on the lexical meaning, the word ruwaybid}ah means people who are weak towards noble matters. Muhammad’s description through the editorial “fools who meddled in community affairs” has a close relation to the cause of social inequality at that time. Through a socio-historical approach, it argues that anyone who does not have capabilities in a particular field and tries to impose his or her incapacity, they could belong to the ruwaybid}ah category. Further, this study attempts to formulate key important principles of today’s digital age communication based on the hadith.
This paper deals with the topic of lexical modality in Norwegian as a second language. Basing on data obtained from the ASK-corpus -The Norwegian Language Learner Corpus containing second language texts written in a language examination, the authors analyse the use of two modal particles, jo and nok, by three groups of Norwegian as a second language writers: English, Polish and German. The focus of the study is on analysing lexical patterns for co-occurrence of the modal particles. The patterns used by the learners are compared with the ones used by the native speakers of Norwegian and between the learner groups. The discrepancies found in the data are discussed within the broader framework of second language development and second language writing. The findings suggest that the second language writers' use of modal particles is influenced by several factors, such as general interlanguage tendencies, transfer from the learners' first languages and the perception of textual norms.
The article shows the importance of the competent approach to learning as a priority of the newest direction of educational activity, and also emphasizes the activation of its distance form, which served as a prerequisite for the use of various network resources, including educational platforms and services. These two most important emphases are recognized as the most important ones in the educational process, which has recently moved from the classroom to the indirect computer space due to objective reasons. Modern educational transformations caused the dynamics in the Ukrainian-speaking system, which is primarily implemented by the growing number of uses of terms-loanwords mainly from English, which require not only a clear definition but also codification. Special attention is paid to concepts characterized by orthographic diversity, which, on the one hand, shakes the norms of modern Ukrainian literary language, and on the other hand does not fully ensure the acquisition of spelling competence and the formation of oral and written skills of students. It is noted that such lexical items or term phrases are used in informative-cognitive, informative and advertising texts, they are operated mainly by educational portals, websites and mass communication, in particular industrial ones. The analyzed nominations, taking into account the degree of adaptation, are combined into three groups: 1) names, both in Latin and Cyrillic; 2) two-component nominations, one component of which is in Cyrillic and the other one is in Latin; 3) lexical items that in the Ukrainian online space have not yet shown a graphic redesign. It is found that these concepts are adapted to the phonetic and grammatical systems of the Ukrainian language in case of writing these language units in Cyrillic. It is observed that a significant part of such nominations occurred as a result of transcription and showed swings in spelling. In this regard, some recommendations are given for their writing, which will help to protect the language standard and avoid inconsistencies with established norms.
Abstract Background: Laughter is a fundamental communicative signal in our relations with other people and is used to convey a diverse repertoire of social and emotional information. It is therefore potentially a useful probe of impaired socio-emotional signal processing in neurodegenerative diseases. Here we investigated the cognitive and affective processing of laughter systematically in patients representing all major syndromes of frontotemporal dementia, a disease spectrum characterised by severe socio-emotional dysfunction, as well as typical amnestic Alzheimer’s disease in relation to healthy age-matched individuals. Methods: We assessed cognitive labelling and valence rating of samples of spontaneous (mirthful and hostile) and volitional (posed) laughter versus two auditory control conditions (a synthetic laughter-like stimulus and spoken numbers) in 47 patients with frontotemporal dementia (22 with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia, 12 with semantic variant primary progressive aphasia and 13 with nonfluent-agrammatic primary progressive aphasia), 15 patients with typical amnestic Alzheimer’s disease and 20 healthy age-matched individuals. Neuroanatomical associations of laughter processing were assessed using voxel-based morphometry of patients’ brain MR images. Results: While all dementia syndromes were associated with impaired identification of laughter subtypes relative to healthy controls, this was significantly more severe overall in frontotemporal dementia than in Alzheimer’s disease and particularly in the behavioural and semantic variants, which also showed abnormal affective evaluation of laughter. Certain striking syndromic signatures emerged, including enhanced liking for hostile laughter in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia, impaired processing of synthetic laughter in the nonfluent-agrammatic variant (consistent with a generic complex auditory perceptual deficit) and ‘numerophilia’ in the semantic variant. Across the patient cohort, overall laughter identification accuracy correlated with regional grey matter in a core network encompassing inferior frontal and cingulo-insular cortices; and more specific correlates of laughter identification accuracy were delineated in cortical regions mediating affective disambiguation (identification of hostile and posed laughter in orbitofrontal cortex) and authenticity (social intent) decoding (identification of mirthful and posed laughter in anteromedial prefrontal cortex). Conclusions: These findings reveal a rich diversity of cognitive and affective laughter phenotypes in canonical dementia syndromes and suggest that laughter is an informative probe of neural mechanisms underpinning socio-emotional dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease.
Background and aims: Extant research indicates that children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) without an intellectual disability (ID) often experience difficulty comprehending written texts that is unexpected in comparison with their cognitive abilities. This study investigated the development of two key skills, narrative and inference abilities, that support higher level text comprehension and their relation to lexical-semantic knowledge, ASD symptomatology, and age. Three questions were addressed: 1.) What was the nature of narrative and inference skill development over time? 2.) What was the relation between narrative or inference development and lexical-semantic knowledge, ASD symptomatology, and age? 3.) Did initial narrative and inferencing skills, and the development of these skills, predict reading comprehension outcomes? Methods: Data from 81 children and adolescents with ASD without ID (FIQ ≥ 75) between the ages of 8-16-years-old at timepoint 1 were collected at 15-month intervals across three timepoints. ASD symptomatology was assessed with the ADOS-2. Standardized narrative retelling, inference, reading comprehension, lexical-semantic knowledge and cognitive assessments were administered. Latent growth curve models were conducted to examine narrative and inference skill development, and conditional growth models were fit to examine the relation between growth trajectories and covariates (lexical-semantic knowledge, ASD symptomatology, age) as well as with the reading comprehension distal outcome. Results: Narrative retelling skills followed a linear trajectory of growth and were a relative strength in this sample, while inference skills were well below average and declined over time relative to age-normed standard scores. Lexical-semantic knowledge explained significant heterogeneity in initial narrative and inference skills, whereas ASD symptomatology was only related to initial narrative retelling abilities and age was only related to initial inference abilities. Timepoint 3 reading comprehension skill (in the below average range) was significantly explained by initial narrative retelling and inference abilities. Conclusions: These findings suggest that narrative and inference skills, in addition to lexical-semantic knowledge, are important to target beginning in elementary grades to improve reading comprehension outcomes for children and adolescents with ASD without ID.
The topic of this thesis is the computational methods for measurement of authorialstyle and algorithms of authorial attribution.The first aim of the thesis was an attempt at a quantifiable separation of various layers of authorial style (in the present case the lexical and grammatical layers) in order to estimate their influence on the results of a chosen method of authorial attribution. Within the scope of these studies I compared the distance, so called Burrows's Delta, between a pair of English novels by two chosen authors and automatically generated texts, whose statistical distributions of parts of speech were borrowed from one of the authors, while the vocabulary from the other one; additionally, in the computatrificial texts I left the sets of words of the first author if they belonged to a particular part of speech. Such procedure allowed to create a hybrid text, which was attributed to the first author, even though the majority of lexical items were that of the second author.The second aim was to identify the influences of the style and language of the original on the style of the translation. This part of research involved among others adapting Polish and English part of speech tag sets to form a common translatorial tag set. Beside making a couple of simple observations concerning the distributions and coocurrences of parts of speech in the two languages, I managed to determine some features of the selected translatorial corpus, which lie on the fringes of what seems a norm for Polish.The third aim was testing the accuracy of state of the art (unsupervised) clustering methods for automatic grouping of texts according to their author. The results show that the methods recognise authorship worse than the known supervised machine learning methods.In the thesis I made use of corpora totalling around 550 digitised English language novels and 100 Polish ones, as well as a parallel corpus of 39 novels of a single English author together with their translations by a single Polish translator. The research conducted involved utilising existing part of speech taggers (both for English and Polish), authorship attribution programmes, and programmes for graph clustering.
The article is concerned with the problem of correlation of the homogeneity and the co-ordination in French that is essential to differentiate a simple sentence with the similar verb predicates of a complex sentence. The urgency of such problems is based on the similarity of these syntactic constructions due to the co-ordination link existing in both constructions. This fact doesn’t allow the grammarians to arrive at a common view on the nature of the two constructions. The author proves the influence of the verb predicate syntactic links with the other parts of the sentence on classifying the structure as a simple or a complex sentence. In the paper there have been studied the similar verb predicates in the extended and unextended sentences. In the extended sentences the author focuses on the form and place of a complement, on the presence or absence of the adverbial modifier. The verb predicate grammar form itself influences the differentiating the two structures. Thus, it has been concluded that the main distinctive feature of predicate homogeneity is the grammatical marker. There have been detected the supplementary distinctive feature of predicate homogeneity is the semantic aspect, the lexical meaning in particular. The treated analysis of the empiric material shows the dependence of determining the two syntactic units on the stylistic norms and the rhetorical mode. The most important finding of the research is that, contrary some scientists’ opinion, there is no reason to abandon the term of the similar verb predicates in French.
Bilingual children show more variation in their language development than monolingual children, a fact that has been linked to their experience with their languages. Bilingual language experience also varies more than monolingual children's, both in terms of how much they hear the language spoken around them (exposure) and how much they speak the language themselves (production). This dissertation investigates the following aspects of the relationship between bilinguals’ language experience and development which are not well-understood: how children’s language production relates to their proficiency in that language, how children’s language exposure relates to receptive versus expressive and lexical versus grammatical skill, and how factors such as social context, cognates, working memory and indirect exposure contribute to bilingual proficiency. I investigate language experience and English proficiency in young school-aged bilinguals acquiring French and English in France. I use data from parental and child interviews to estimate English exposure – how much children regularly hear English – and two facets of English production – output, or how regularly children speak in English, and inter-speaker code-switching, which refers to how regularly children respond in French when spoken to in English. Those measures are then related to English proficiency scores from a picture-identification task, a picture-naming task, and a sentence repetition task targeting grammatical structures ranging in difficulty. The first objective of this study is to better understand bilingual children’s language production as it relates to their language proficiency. I find that how much children switch to speaking in French when addressed in English (inter-speaker code-switching) is closely related to all concurrent English proficiency scores and that this relationship is independent of and stronger than proficiency’s relationship with exposure. The more children switch to French when spoken to in English, the lower they score on all proficiency measures, receptive and expressive vocabulary, and sentence repetition, even when holding their level of English exposure constant. The second objective of this study is to investigate possible limits to the general pattern found in a large body of research on bilingual exposure, which is that lesser exposure leads to lesser skill in that language. First, language exposure may affect receptive skills less than expressive skills. Second, grammatical knowledge may also be less closely related to exposure than lexical knowledge. There are conflicting findings in the literature. My findings are consistent with a weak relationship between receptive skills and language exposure in bilingual children. Despite having lesser exposure to English (34% of their total language exposure), children in this study did not show a relation between variation in exposure and their English receptive vocabulary scores. In these children, the relationship between exposure and grammatical proficiency was similar to that with lexical proficiency. The third objective is to investigate additional contributors to bilingual proficiency. Previous research suggests that children’s socioeconomic status (SES), the status of the languages they speak, and the existence of cognates in their languages make contributions to bilingual children’s proficiency, and may in turn modulate the effect of diminished language exposure (e.g. Cobo-Lewis, Pearson, Eilers, & Umbel, 2002a; 2002b; Thordardottir, 2011). My results suggest that SES and high prestige of the languages being acquired may partially mitigate – though not eliminate – the effect of diminished exposure on bilinguals’ home language proficiency. Similar to findings for other bilingual children from mid- to high-SES backgrounds, these children showed age-related growth in English proficiency, and their English receptive skill differed minimally from monolingual norms. However, the effect of lesser exposure to English can be seen more clearly in their expressive skills, which were lower than monolingual norms and were predicted by variation in their English exposure. The effect of cognates in French and English was also investigated in terms of the advantage they conferred on my measures of lexical proficiency. This effect was significant in both receptive and expressive measures; thus, I conclude that the presence of cognates may also mitigate the effect of bilingual exposure. Finally, this investigation also examines additional individual factors that can influence language proficiency, but which have rarely been taken into account in studies of bilingual proficiency and both its relationship to exposure and production. Specifically, variation in children’s working memory and their exposure to language through overhearing adult conversation have both been linked to language learning in monolingual contexts but are not well understood in the context of bilingual development. In this study, verbal and visuospatial working memory were positively related to English proficiency scores. Indirect exposure from overheard English spoken between parents was not related to proficiency scores when holding direct English exposure from parents constant. However, indirect exposure was related to how much children produce English themselves to their parents, even while holding direct exposure constant, indicating that language use between parents may influence children’s language production with parents. This study contributes to our understanding of how bilingual language exposure and production relate to bilingual language proficiency in the following ways: first and most importantly, it adds to the small but growing literature that shows a strong link between bilingual children’s own production of a language and their lexical and grammatical skill in that language. It is also the first to my knowledge to find that a measure of children’s language production, inter-speaker code-switching, is negatively related not only to expressive but also to receptive lexical skill in the language that children switch from. Secondly, the finding that children’s English exposure is unrelated to their English receptive skill (but related to age, indicating continuing growth in these children) affirms exposure’s differential relationship with receptive versus expressive skills. It also documents a limited role for exposure in a new population (French-English bilinguals in France), supporting the role of cognates, socioeconomic status of children, and high social prestige of languages being acquired in mitigating the effect of bilingual exposure. Finally, in finding an independent contribution of working memory to lexical and grammatical skill in bilinguals, it highlights that these measures should be considered when investigating variation in bilingual proficiency.
Over the last two decades, the literature on bilingual children has shown that children who grow up learning two languages do not typically differ in their total vocabulary size compared to their monolingual peers (Poulin-Dubois et al, 2012) though composition may be smaller compared to size with two word-forms representing one lexical concept. However, these studies often sample children from minority bilingual communities (Bialystok et al, 2010) where the languages may be used in somewhat separate contexts. By contrast, in Singapore more than 90% of young people are bi-/multilingual, and dense inter-generational community-level multilingualism is the norm. The education system has an active policy of bilingualism and the majority of children grow up in households where they hear two or more languages/dialects (forthcoming). In recent years, English has become the most frequently reported main language at home for children between ages 5-10 (2010 Singapore Census) indicating rapid language change. This language environment provides a unique opportunity to investigate individual differences in vocabulary development in a non-WEIRD massively multilingual community. \nUsing archival data from the longitudinal birth cohort ‘Growing up in Singapore Towards Healthy Outcomes’ (GUSTO), we investigated the size and linguistic composition of the expressive vocabularies of 140 24-month-olds whose parents filled out local adaptations of the MacArthur-Bates CDI in Mandarin and English. \nIn terms of composition, we find that the proportion of lexical concepts that a child can express in both their languages makes up 40% of their lexicon (Range: 5-537). The bias towards English language dominance is evident (Fig 1), but even the most extreme children are reported to have no more than 50% of their lexicon coming from only a single language. \nRegarding vocabulary size, pooled across languages, vocabulary size ranged from 8-760 (25th, 50th, 75th percentile: 67, 179, and 271 word-forms respectively). These values are notably lower than reported vocabulary sizes for age-matched samples in OECD countries like the UK, North America, and Australia (Oxford CDI, English (American), French (Quebecois), and English (Australian) versions of the Mac-Arthur Bates CDI, Wordbank, 2019). This mismatch is surprising given Singapore’s rankings in standardized educational assessments such as the PISA (OECD, 2018), and suggests that the current assessment tools may be missing an important part of children’s linguistic repertoire. \nIn response to this finding, our multilingual team has identified an entire tier of child-directed words that is not captured in vocabulary inventories adapted from monolingual materials. Many of these local-words aren’t easy to identify as belonging to one language or another (e.g., ‘pom-pom’ for ‘children’s bathing’) and likely arose from Singapore’s dense contact language environment where language mixing and translanguaging are normative. Without any national dictionaries for Singapore, this special tier of child-directed words exist mainly in oral language and have yet to be documented. In response to this finding, our current work includes collecting age of acquisition estimates for over 200 core local words, and developing a new vocabulary assessment to help discover how cheem (profound) the vocabularies of tiny Singaporeans really are.
In the 19th century, broad functional development begins in the field of styles, where there is an even greater stability of linguistic norms, the increase in national characteristics and internal capabilities of the language, as well as the widespread use of various stylistic methods in speech, which they begin to record in dictionaries. The relevance of the study is explained by the interest in the dialectal vocabulary of the Tatar language, as one of the components of the lexical fund of bilingual dictionaries of the 19th century. The purpose of the study is to determine the role of dialect words in the system of Tatar speech of the 19th century, as one of the Turkic languages. In the course of the study, the authors studied the modern works of Russian and foreign authors on linguistics, lexicography; the dialectal material recorded in the Russian-Tatar dictionaries of the 19th century is analyzed; comparisons are made between the dictionary by M. Kashgari and the modern Tatar language.
BACKGROUND/AIMS: The number of different words (NDW), an essential measure of lexical diversity, is extremely valuable towards providing data regarding children's language development. However, in Cyprus, practitioners are deprived of the opportunity to utilize NDW, as no normative data exist for toddlers who speak Cypriot Greek (CYG). METHODS: The language samples of 36 monolingual CYG-speaking toddlers (aged 36, 40, 44, and 48 months) with a typical course of language development were collected and quantitatively analyzed. Based on the language sample analysis, we ascertained typical NDW values at the aforementioned ages and tested through a linear mixed-effects model whether gender and age affected NDW. RESULTS: The results showed that age significantly predicted NDW increase; gender did not emerge as a significant predictor of NDW, but this may be due to the small statistical power. CONCLUSION: This study intends to provide the first step towards longitudinal investigation of the level of NDW for CYG-speaking children with a typical course of language development. The provided data, which could serve as preliminary norms, may be used - under some restrictions for the time being - during language assessment. Moreover, these acquired data could contribute to the development of an NDW database for diverse CYG-speaking populations of different age ranges in the future.
The color picture of the world, in our opinion, is included in the cultural and conceptual picture of the world. The distribution of a particular color in the culture, household items, costumes, and works of art of a people depended on their customs, traditions, religious beliefs, and aesthetic norms. The linguistic color worldview is realized in the form of color meanings in separate lexemes, phrases, idiomatic expressions and other verbal means.it is organically included in the lexical system of the language worldview. The article discusses the use of features chloronema black in phraseology of Russian and Mari languages. Based on the analysis of the estimated values of phraseological units with the black component, a conclusion is made about the General negative attitude to this color in the axiological picture of the world of speakers of the studied languages.
The article is a study of phonetic-morphological and semantic-stylistic features of argotic vocabulary in contemporary French language. The work is devoted to questions of structural-semantic and phonetic-morphological peculiarities of the argotic vocabulary in printed mass media. The conducted research has shown that the argotic vocabulary can be considered as a special lexical subsystem of spoken language, which is characterized by a steady tendency to penetrate into higher linguistic levels due to its phonetic-morphological and semantic features. The systematization of phonetic and semantic processes in the argotic dictionary is carried out. We have noticed that argot from a linguistic point of view is an expressive lexical subsystem of spoken language, which is characterized by a large expressive potential and rapid changes in vocabulary and penetrates into higher levels of the French language. From the point of view of modern linguistics, the French language can be viewed in vertical and horizontal sections. Horizontal division is caused by the existence of the dialectal partition of the French language. The vertical division is explained by the existence of social groups that use one or another sociolect. Analyzing the evolution of the definition of argot, we can assume that in its development argot passed the long way from the language taboo to the special lexical subsystem of the literary-spoken language. We have noticed that it is important to distinguish argot and spoken language. In spite of the both scientific and practical interest in the spoken language problem and the emergence of numerous studies that led to the creation of colloquialism as a special section of linguistics, a number of aspects of spoken language (approaches to its identification, differentiation of spoken language and related phenomena) remain insufficiently highlighted. The spoken language (vernacular), according to modern linguistic assertions, occupies an intermediate position between the spoken-literary language, dialects and sociolects. We have noticed that the democratization of the norms of the literary language led to the emergence of a literary-colloquial form of spoken language. Such a combination of literary and spoken language is caused by the nature of social development. Key words: argot; slang; French language; dialect; argotheistic vocabulary; non-normative variant elements; semantics; phonetics; morphology; mass media.
In this paper we deal with, in terms of traductology and lexical semantics, analysis of legal terminology translation of the Multilateral Agreement between the European Community and its Member States, the Republic of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Republic of Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Republic of Iceland, TheKingdom of Norway, Romania, the Republic of Serbia and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo on the establishment of a common European aviation area as well as its accompanying legal acts in the form of implementation of the European regulations contained in Annex I of the aforementioned agreement into domestic legislation from French to Serbian in order to resolve all problems that an interpreter faces and offer solutions for overcoming them. As Serbia is in process of joining the EU, it is extremely important to harmonize legal regulations with its legislation, where language, as basic legal instrument, plays a crucial role in it. Therefore, the success of application and standardization of legal norms and regulations when concluding bilateral or multilateral agreements depends on correct translation. Starting from thes ituational (denotative) theoretical translation model and the principle of functional equivalence, we will pay special attention to types of semantic relations (monosemy, polysemy, synonymy) between French and Serbian legal terms.
Abstract This paper reviews Louw’s (1993 and subsequent publications) deployment of reference corpora in the light of existing philosophical and linguistic milestones when it comes to the notion of the truthfulness of a proposition. Louw (William Ernest. 1993. Irony in the text or insincerity in the writer? The diagnostic potential of semantic prosodies. In Mona Baker, Gill Francis & Elena Tognini-Bonelli (eds.), Text and technology: In honour of John Sinclair, 152–176. Amsterdam: John Benjamins) resorts to reference corpora in order either to explicate a rhetorical device (in Louw 1993, that of irony) or to attempt to reveal the true attitude of the speaker to his/her own proposition (including instances of insincerity). Using two methods (co-selection and wildcarding), an author’s collocational patterns in context are checked against those in the reference corpus, also in context. The frequent lexical variables of grammar strings are taken to represent that string’s corpus-derived subtext. Recently, Louw’s Contextual Prosodic Theory (CPT) has revealed the mechanism of prospection, whereby the grammatical pattern in the first line of a poem anticipates by its most frequent lexical collocates the themes in the remainder of the poem (Louw, Bill & Milojkovic, Marija. 2016. Corpus stylistics as contextual prosodic theory and subtext, 176–183. Amsterdam: John Benjamins). The philosophical background of Louw’s CPT is the works of Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein (Louw, William Ernest. 2010a. Collocation as instrumentation for meaning: A scientific fact. In Willie van Peer, Vander Viana & Sonia Zyngier (eds.), Literary education and digital learning: methods and technologies for humanities studies, 79–101. Hershey, PA: IGI Global and subsequent works) and could be said to be in need of further explanation and illustration. The paper discusses Louw’s take on insincerity (1993) as the speaker’s attitude to the truthfulness of her own statement from the point of view of Frege’s Sinn/Bedeutung distinction, Russell’s logical language, and Wittgenstein’s attitude to the relationship between language and reality. Since prospection may be considered objective proof of the effectiveness of Louw’s approach, an instance of prospection from a poem by Brodsky is used to show that Wittgenstein’s concern for the truthfulness of propositions may be viewed as both the guarantor and the beneficiary of Louw’s views. Additionally, the paper presents an example of prospection in the first line of a novel, Don DeLillo’s White Noise. However, other grammatical patterns in the passage studied in this paper do not contain deviations from the corpus norm, which conforms to the existing commentary on DeLillo in the field of literary criticism. The paper concludes by stating that reference corpora used inductively (Louw, William Ernest. 2017. Uneasy humour as discovery: Collocation and empathy as Whewellian consilience. Studying Humour: International Journal 4) may shed light on the speaker’s attitude to the truthfulness of their own statement.
This article examines the German borrowings existing in the Uzbek and Russian languages, many of which have been developed in a particular language environment In particular, the condition and features of interlanguage relations were discussed, which is one of the reasons for the most significant changes and interactions in the semantic, lexical and grammatical structure of languages, as well as the influence of borrowings on the phenomena of bilingualism and polylingualism The purpose of the study The work is devoted to identify German borrowings in the Uzbek and Russian languages in the context of the sociolinguistic sphere Against the background of consideration of borrowing, it is necessary to define the scope of their value and use Tasks: 1) To find out the reasons for the transition of German borrowing words with the help of the Russian language to the Uzbek language 2) To analyze the similarities and differences of lexical borrowings in the recipient language Materials and methods The material for this study was linguistic scientific articles, abstracts and monographs In the course of the study, a descriptive method was used to establish the status of German borrowings in the Uzbek and Russian languages, which implies the interpretation and classification of the material, which makes it possible to understand and generalize the corresponding theoretical material Results The research results are as following: to identify three main periods of adaptation of borrowings in the recipient language: penetration into speech, selective borrowing, rooting in the language Determine the level of borrowing, the impact of German borrowing on the development and changes of Uzbek - German and Uzbek - Russian bilingualism The specificity of the development of the number of borrowings at all levels of the language systems of the Uzbek and Russian languages is one of the important points in the study of bilingualism Conclusions Despite different opinions and definitions of the term borrowing, most linguists agree that borrowing is the process of moving from a source language to a target language, whether in a direct or indirect form Under the influence of interference, this article examines changes in the borrowing of languages, as well as the use of the recipient language in the system Features of these stages may have an impact to the internal and external factors The impact of extra linguistic situations on bilingual speech needs to be monitored Borrowing is a process, appropriate for both bilingual and monolingual situations In many situations, the borrowed elements of the language are adapted to one stage or another at all language levels, i e are transformed in accordance with the norms of the recipient language © 2020 Ubiquity Press All rights reserved
The article deals with the features of linguo-pragmatical contents and ways of its expression in the text of the professional ethics code. It is described the main linguo-pragmatical categories of the ethical code and come to light modal meanings and means of their expression. The ethical code represents the specific genre establishing norms and rules of the office (professional) behavior based on the conventional system of moral ideals. The main objective of the ethical code creation is prevention of conflict situations and an illegal behavior. Standard code of ethics is considered as the coherent text representing a dichotomizing division of a speech product into the dynamic process of the language activity and result of this activity. The significant elements of pragmatics of Standard code of ethics are some categories of a modality and an appraisal as they form pragmatical contents of texts of the similar genres. Means of expression of the modality are the verbs with the meaning of need, the lexical and phraseological means being based on the modal meaning of approval / disapproval. It is allocated the values which became a basis for formation of a certain corporate picture of the world of public servants of the Russian Federation and municipal employees, for example, impartiality, conscientiousness, correctness, tolerance, and respect. It is come to the conclusion that the understanding of a lexical meaning of a word and its pragmatical opportunities are defined with an individual (corporate) picture of the world and cannot coincide with nationwide.
Recent work has shown that individuals vary in phonetic behaviors in ways that deviate from group norms and are not attributable to sociolinguistically relevant dimensions such as gender or social class. However, it is unknown whether these individual differences observed in the lab are stable characteristics of individuals or whether they simply reflect noise or sporadic fluctuations. This study investigates the individual-level stability in imitation of a model talker's artificially-lengthened VOT. We use a test-retest design in which the same set of participants perform the same lexical shadowing task on two separate occasions and find that degree of convergence or divergence is highly correlated on an individual basis across visits. Further, we find a strong correlation between individual VOT shifts toward a male model talker and shifts toward a female model talker. Findings contribute to a growing body of literature suggesting that averaging over groups of participants masks the complexity of phonetic behaviors, such as imitation, and suggest that individual differences in phonetic behavior are an area of promising future study.
The article studies the problem of interconnection and interpenetration of semiotic and gender discourses. The main linguistic level of gender representation is the lexical level in combination with the semantic one because the semantic parameters of the linguistic picture of the world are verbalized in the vocabulary. It is proved that with the help of feminine words the online newspaper Kolo solves a number of problems due to the institutional parameters of media discourse, which determine its context and represent four groups: social, cultural, ideological, communicative, semiotic. The general tendencies of the functioning of feminine words both in headings, and in texts are formulated: formation of public opinion (appeal to the formed stereotypes); subordination of plans of expression and content to the conditions of the mass communication environment (the question of interaction of language signs with signs of other types); establishing and maintaining trust in the sender of information by the recipient in order to ensure the reputation of mass media (compliance with the requirements of a gender-sensitive environment); preservation or violation of legal, cultural, ethical norms, worldview paradigm and picture of the world (correspondence and influence on the conceptual paradigm of the world). Gender discourse is presented in materials about the historical past, political, socio-economic, socio-domestic, cultural, sports, family life, criminal chronicle, health. Explicitly marked elements of gender form mainly the following lexical and semantic groups: names of persons by professional activity, occupation, names of persons by ethnicity, nationality, religion and belief, a territory of residence, position, rank, belonging to political groups, parties, character relationships with people of the opposite sex. Modern media realia make new demands on the online newspaper as: the publication of news in the form of a post, so it should be visible in the news feed. This task is realized by influencing through two channels of perception simultaneously: visual (image) and verbal (text). The course of all information processes takes place with the use of signs and sign systems. The visual content of the issues of the online newspaper Kolo includes illustrations – photos of men and women, as well as shared photos, gender accents are shifted to the female component. It is determined that the Ukrainian word-forming formant (-к-, -иц-, -ин-) in nouns of female names is the main feminine marker.
This article, deals with the particularities of business communication considering them from the two main perspectives: linguistic and extra linguistic. It focuses on the factors, features, cultural peculiarities, goals and means, principles, ethical norms and strategies of business communication. The article highlights, cultural aspects, psychological features, interlocutors-intentions and ethical norms that define the shape, style, and content of a business message. After a presentation of transcript analysis, undertaken with the methods of contextual and lexical analysis, the authors provide a rhetorical criticism of the communicative means—linguistic and extra linguistic—of a business presentation as part of business communication. In conclusion, the authors determine that business presentation strategies, despite being typical, may be applied with peculiar linguistic means, lexical or grammatical, and various speech acts in accordance with the communicative aim.
The purpose of this study was to find out the correlation between the level of academic background and the rules of Hangul orthography by examining the compliance of Korean spelling. To examine this, six universities were divided into three divisions by level into A, B, and C, and the status of marking by university was compared with the free bulletin board of Everytime, a college student community. As a result of the survey, A-grade K universities best observed the Hangul Hangul orthography followed by C-grade A universities. The university that did not keep the Hangul orthography well was a C-grade D university. By educational level, the grade with the lowest mislabeling rate is grade A. It can be seen that the status of compliance with the lexical norms is related to each level of education. However, it cannot be generalized because there are not many vocabulary in common from six universities, but there is some correlation between knowledge and actual notation.
Language production ultimately aims to convey meaning. Yet words differ widely in the richness and density of their semantic representations, and these differences impact conceptual and lexical processes during speech planning. Here, we replicated the recent finding that semantic richness, measured as the number of associated semantic features according to semantic feature production norms, facilitates object naming. In contrast, intercorrelational semantic feature density, measured as the degree of intercorrelation of a concept's features, presumably resulting in the coactivation of closely related concepts, has an inhibitory influence. We replicated the behavioral effects and investigated their relative time course and electrophysiological correlates. Both the facilitatory effect of high semantic richness and the inhibitory influence of high feature density were reflected in an increased posterior positivity starting at about 250 ms, in line with previous reports of posterior positivities in paradigms employing contextual manipulations to induce semantic interference during language production. Furthermore, amplitudes at the same posterior electrode sites were positively correlated with object naming times between about 230 and 380 ms. The observed effects follow naturally from the assumption of conceptual facilitation and simultaneous lexical competition and are difficult to explain by language production theories dismissing lexical competition. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
The aim of this paper is to establish aspects of the sociolinguistic profile of Nigerians, specifically Nigerian undergraduates of the University of Lagos in Southwest Nigeria regarding the use of American and British English lexis and grammatical/structural forms. The impetus for this study is the observation of an increase in the use of American English in the face of the British norm-dependency official status of Nigeria. Data was collected from a hundred Nigerian university undergraduates of the University of Lagos aged 16-30 years old. Salient sociolinguistic information such as gender, age and language familiarity were juxtaposed with the usage of the two geographical variants of English. Two major outcomes are: American lexical and grammatical norms and expressions are more frequently used than British forms; female undergraduates use these Americanisms more often than their male cohorts. Keywords: Gender, Age, Sociolinguistics, Undergraduates, Americanisms
The article is based on an understanding of the possible functional and semantic classification of lexical units of the Portuguese language according to a graded criterion, which corresponds to the operational perspective of the semantic application of the language. One of the forms of visualization of grading operations can be a grading scale, or a graduation scale, the possibility of which is supported by the existence of an intuitive perception of a certain sample, a certain point of reference, a certain norm, above and below which are certain zones of units that fall into the grading situation. The author notes that the grading operator as a minimal linguistic variable is not only a marker that specifies the degree of deviation from a certain ordinary level and provides a modification of the value (movement down or up the axiological scale), but also an element of ordering reasoning, expression of opinion, and personal attitude of the Portuguese speaker. The article analyzes operators that belong to the group of high-degree and ultimate-measure graduators. The analysis of the combinability of the operators considered by the author allowed us to distinguish two ways of grading limit features in the Portuguese language: ingerent and extensive. Extensive gain has more to do with the verb, in the amplification of which the orientation of the actants are expressed more explicitly. This allows you to select a special type of gain – actant gain. However, even when grading adjectives, some Portuguese ultimate-measure gradators or graduators are able to participate in extensive models, such as the quantifier pronoun todo, toda (all, entire, whole). In addition to differences in the method of modifying a trait (extensive or inherent) and in the modal part of the value, ultimate measure operators differ in the nature of the trait representation. Some of them represent a trait in statics, regardless of its previous development (absolutamente, inteiramente, totalmente), and others represent the ultimate measure of the trait as the result of its previous development and accumulation (completamente, todo, de todo).
The following article presents a linguistic and stylistic analysis of A. S. Pushkin’s poem The hermit Fathers and the immaculate wives... in comparison with the Greek text of the prayer of St. Ephrem the Syrian and its Church Slavonic translation, which was the source of the Poet’s poem. The similarities of the text content and the existing differences are shown. The outstanding role of Pushkin’s text, which essentially performs the ‘transliterating’ function of transmitting Church Slavonic literature to the system of Russian verbal culture, is acknowledged. For Alexander Pushkin, the Church Slavonic language was very important as a source (or one of the sources) of formation of the Russian literary language. The poet introduced many Church Slavonic words into Russian literary speech, for which he was often criticized. Indeed, from the point of view of a native speaker of an exquisite literary language, many lexical introductions of Church Slavonisms to the text of Eugene Onegin were a stylistic challenge. Russian lexical field was regularly expanded by the poet by the means of the Church Slavonic dictionary. This is clearly confirmed by works where the Church Slavonic words fit the theme logically, without causing complaints from adherents of literary norms, but also serve the purpose of lexical enrichment of the Russian language. The analyzed poem is among such works. A comparison of the two texts (the Church Slavonic translation of the prayer of St. Ephrem the Syrian and the poem of Alexander Pushkin) shows a very important difference between them. There is humility as the highest Christian virtue and Evangelical hope in Ephrem the Syrian’s work. And there is Evangelical love as a goal and the most cherished, necessary value for a person who has fallen, but lives in hope, in A. S. Pushkin. Each of these ascetics (St. Ephrem the Syrian and Alexander Pushkin) has his own vision of the outcome of earthly life. For all its signs of Lenten prayer, the poet’s requests have a different sound. More general, more generalized. The text goes beyond the category of calendar-timed (within the Church year) prayers, it pushes the boundaries of its use. This is its further development, its further life. And this is quite natural. Having left the liturgical, prayerful, more secluded and more strict sphere for the sphere of literature (resp. in the sphere of public perception and worldview, addressed to contemporaries who are not always aware of the significance of the presence of God in their lives), the text has already changed, it has spread out. A shift in internal emphasis changes its content. It is a fundamentally independent work.
The article defines the peculiarities of the scientific style and its historical development to the present stage. The thesis is aimed to determine the place and role of the graphic symbols in the formation of the scientific style of modern Ukrainian, to identify the main areas of application of graphic symbols of the Ukrainian language in the scientific style. Besides, the formation and development of the scientific style has been analyzed. So its chronological process has been traced. The modern Ukrainian scientific style has been analyzed to establish the operation of graphemes as a separate phenomenon and as part of abbreviation or nomenclature; the regularities of the use of graph names in the modern Ukrainian scientific discourse have been clarified. The article also mentions that the scientific style is characterized by peculiar features (e.g. a logic plot of the scientific information), which is caused by strict requirements to follow certain norms. It is also known that this style has distinct nominal expressions. It is due to the fact that linguistic techniques of the scientific style include different terms from different fields, which are expressed by nouns or other substantivized parts of speech. The sententences that are commonly used in this style have an elaborate construction. It helps to express complicated thoughts. The syntax of the scientific style is known to be bookish and it is characterized by complete, extended or complex sentences. The scientific style has also to do with emotional lexical units especially in social and political articles. So, demand for emotional and expressive connotation of the scientific language has increased sharply as a result of author's personal treatment of an object he analyzes. Authors keen to exspress their impressions they get from the process of analyzing. Besides, in the scientific text we often come across abstract lexical units as scientists prefer using notions to images. Commonly used words bear only one of their meanings in the scientific texts. The object of the research is a system of graphic signs of Ukrainian linguoculture (alphabet, letters), which are used in the modern Ukrainian scientific style, etc.
A New Bilingual Phraseological Dictionary: A Polemical ReflectionThis article presents a critical analysis of the bilingual publication entitled A Lexicon of Polish and Ukrainian Active Phraseology (Leksykon aktywnej frazeologii polskiej i ukraińskiej / Leksykon pol′s′koï ta ukraïns′koï aktyvnoï frazeolohiï), compiled by Roman Tymoshuk, Wojciech Sosnowski, Maciej Jaskot and Yurii Ganoshenko. In the history of Ukrainian-Polish and Polish-Ukrainian phraseography of the twenty-first century, this is the second attempt at creating a bilingual phraseological dictionary, following the publication of A Concise Ukrainian-Polish Dictionary of Set Expressions: Lexical Equivalents, Phraseologisms, Proverbs and Sayings (Korotkyĭ ukraïns′ko-pol′s′kyĭ slovnyk ustalenykh vyraziv: Ekvivalenty slova, frazeolohizmy, prysliv′ia ta prykazky, Poznań and Kharkiv, 2017), compiled by Tetiana Kosmeda, Olena Homeniuk and Tetiana Osipova.The distinctive feature of the reviewed dictionary is that it contains phraseologisms which are most widely used in everyday speech. The compilers developed an original conception: (1) Polish-Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Polish parts differ in content, as they were compiled independently, yet most popular phraseologisms are included in both parts; (2) the most representative set expressions in active use in both languages were selected on the basis of questionnaires and mass media material; (3) entries include illustrative material; (4) it has an optimal size – about 1,000 phraseological units.On the other hand, the dictionary also has some drawbacks, such as: (1) it lacks key criteria for determining the status of the notion “active” phraseology; (2) it does not include slang phraseologisms which do not belong to literary language; (3) the meanings of phraseological units are described by means of simple syntactic structures which lack consistent criteria of clarity and comprehensibility of interpretation, and the dictionary does not cover all semantic potential and pragmatic information of the listed units; (4) excessively categorical interpretation of the notion zero equivalence; (5) not all entries contain stylistic labels, and those used are only of three types: slang, colloquial, vulgar; the label przyslowie/приказка (proverb) seems incorrect, as the compilers do not provide criteria of its separate status; (6) metalanguage of the dictionary is marked with some violations of orthographic and stylistic norms. Nevertheless, the dictionary has undoubtedly enriched the theory of phraseography, phraseographic practice and found its users. Polemiczna refleksja na temat nowego dwujęzycznego słownika frazeologicznegoNiniejszy artykuł przedstawia analizę krytyczną dwujęzycznego Leksykonu aktywnej frazeologii polskiej i ukraińskiej (Лексикон польської та української активної фразеології), autorstwa Romana Tymoshuka, Wojciecha Sosnowskiego, Macieja Jaskota i Yuriia Ganoshenki. Jest to drugi dwujęzyczny słownik frazeologiczny w historii ukraińsko-polskiej i polsko-ukraińskiej frazeografii XXI wieku, po Małym ukraińsko-polskim słowniku utrwalonych wyrażeń językowych: Ekwiwalenty, frazeologizmy, powiedzenia i przysłowia (Короткий українсько-польський словник усталених виразів: еквіваленти слова, фразеологізми, прислів’я та приказки, Poznań–Charków 2017) Tetiany Kosmedy, Oleny Homeniuk i Tetiany Osipovej.Cechą wyróżniającą recenzowany słownik jest jego zawartość – frazeologizmy powszechnie używane ca co dzień. Autorzy zastosowali oryginalną koncepcję, w myśl której: (1) pomimo że część polsko-ukraińska i ukraińsko-polska mają różną zawartość, powstawały bowiem niezależnie, każda z nich zawiera najbardziej popularne frazeologizmy; (2) najbardziej reprezentatywne wyrażenia wybrano na podstawie badań kwestionariuszowych i materiałów ze środków masowego przekazu; (3) hasła zawierają przykłady ilustrujące ich użycie; (4) słownik ma optymalną wielkość: zawiera około tysiąca jednostek frazeologicznych.Z drugiej zaś strony, słownik ma również pewne niedociągnięcia, wśród których należy wymienić: (1) brak określenia kluczowych elementów pojęcia „aktywna” frazeologia; (2) nieuwzględnienie wyrażeń slangowych nienależących do języka literackiego; (3) opis znaczeń frazeologizmów za pomocą prostych struktur syntaktycznych, którym brak spójnych kryteriów jasności i zrozumiałości interpretacyjnej, co sprawia, że słownik nie w pełni uwzględnia potencjał semantyczny i informację pragmatyczną przedstawianych wyrażeń; (4) zbyt kategoryczna interpretacja pojęcia brak ekwiwalencji; (5) nie wszystkie hasła są opatrzone kwalifikatorami stylistycznymi, a lista tych ostatnich ogranicza się jedynie do trzech: slang, potoczne, wulgarne; kwalifikator przysłowie/приказка wydaje się niepoprawny, jako że autorzy nie podają kryteriów, na podstawie których go wyodrębniono; (6) metajęzyk słownika cechuje się pewnymi naruszeniami norm ortograficznych i stylistycznych. Niemniej jednak słownik z pewnością wzbogacił teorię frazeografii i praktykę frazeograficzną, oraz spotkał się z zainteresowaniem ze strony użytkowników.
The lexical units connected with religion in Uzbek are borrowed from Arabic. In the process of assimilation, phonemes that do not exist in the Uzbek language are replaced by similar alternatives, and this is the norm for the speakers of the Uzbek language. However, in the speeches of religious preachers, we see that Arabic phonemes are pronounced in accordance with the rules of the Arabic language, not Uzbek alternatives. This is a feature peculiar only to the religious texts.
1. Introduction One of the grounds of changing contemporary literature in Iran is translation or interpretation of foreign literary works which studying that can express the necessities, the creativities and the harms of this category well. Sometimes Contemporary poets have conformed or idiomatically domesticated the component parts of original context to literary and cultural requirements of Persian speaking community by displacing, increasing and decreasing them. The present article is based on expressing domestication methods in moving from "extra - system" (original context) to "system" (target context) and understanding the poets success or unsuccess in translating foreign literary works to Persian poem according to Yuri Lotman's theory and here we just study poetic translations of an fable entitled "The Fox and the Crow" by Lafontaine as example. 2. Methodology This research has been performed by a descriptive method and content analysis & the relationship quality among the culture elements with the context and extra – context background of the original work compared to its translations has been expressed by Lotman's semiotic theory of culture. It has been tried to show the creativities and deficiencies of the new texts against the original text while referring to different methods and ways of domestication and brief comparison of contemporary poets translations from "The Crow and the Fox" story by Lafontaine. 3. Discussion Nasim Shomal, Iraj Mirza, Nayyere Saeidi and Habib Yaghmayi have versified "The Crow and Fox" story chronologically. These versifiers mainly aim to put unfamiliar culture elements in native culture forms according to the present times aesthetics culture. Iranian culture system hasn't accepted the entered content from extra – system in the same existing form and has made it similar to fixed norms of its memory and since literal type of the source text is didactic and adjustable with those norms has organized system and traditional poem form because traditional form is an element that has been located in the center of semiospher of Iran's literal culture and any disagreement with that has been considered a riot. The reality of focusing on the type of expression is the result of a one – to – one correlation between the level of expression and content and the effect of expression on content (Lotman & Ospenski, 1390: 52). Decreasing, increasing, changing & moving that these poets have performed, show socio cultural features of that age and any way in most cases in order to guarantee the necessary consistency, are directly associated with the orientation to the past; for example, Iraj Mirza has changed a western story in to the form of classic Persian poems by choosing traditional measure and form, using ancient words and grammar and direct conclusion at the end of poetry. This approach can be considered one of the harms of domestication; because translation that is a means to introduce new ideas and methods will become a tool for maintaining traditional taste. Certainly in these versified translations, didactic &critical aspect has been dominated the satire aspect of the original work. Iraj Mirza has made the text critical by changing the symbol (salamander instead of phoenix) and Nasim Shomal has changed not only the tone & style of a foreign work, but also its direction and aim and has created a text with his own intended critical purpose by decreasing and increasing the elements, lexical reviews and speeding up the language. Nasim Shomal poem it at the service of society not ethics and it can be said that the intended meanings of the original author have been dominated by the author's ideas and beliefs and the target language words. In Nayyere Saeidi's poem Intertextuality & musical and Gnostic terms and word selection related to Iran's culture sign system have made the text strong but insisting on bringing same synonyms in the manner of some ancient Persian works has added redundancies to his poem. We can also observe encountering two different cultures in La Fontaine and Nayyere Saeidi's treatment with fox trickery and flattery. Each of them considers himself far from this forbidden phenomenon by a different method; La Fontaine does that by mock in and scorning and Iranian poet by adding adjectives that can be interpreted ethically and permit a connection with the focus of Iranian traditions. Habib Yaghmayi has selected fluent words in his translation and cared about the intimacy of poem language and word flexibility phonetically. Although Yaghmayi tries to define every innovation in terms of traditional Persian literature, language naturalness along with the application of old word makes his poem like a city in which old buildings are next to new buildings These applications are an effort for transferring language from "diachronic" limitation to "synchronic" range; also the existence of movement and cinematic pictures have shown his work newer and more modern. In Yaghmayi's method, the present traditional relationship between expression and content that can be seen in other translations of the story, is not known as the only possible relationship; although this works expression affects content more than other translations. The expression type is not naturalized except in some rare examples and utilizes dramatic art. This method of extra – system has been absorbed and the poet invalidates the last translations of this story by a new movement with creativity so that Habib Yaghmayi's poem is replaced by Iraj Mirza work in textbooks. Reticence and word choice or selectivity in words has also been from old & bright favorite traditions of Iranian and is located in the center of semiospher & the texts which have had this feature like Yaghmayi translation, have had the most life & longevity in Iranian culture. This work is the only translation which has become strong in dispute with other systems and domestication in interaction with creative methods of imagery has resulted in its richness; since besides employing the elements of culture which are located in the center of semiospher, hasn’t paid any attention to the marginal elements of the culture which are being forgotten. His way of expression is a combination of modernity & tradition. Yaghmayi has used Nezami's poem that itself is very organized and its mixture with the original text has created a more valuable text. To compare the ways of addressing "The Crow and the Fox" story by the translators shows gradual development of domestication & poets interaction in moving from extra – system to system. 4. Conclusion The results of the study show that the poets have conformed the texts with literal traditions and Islamic – Iranian culture symbols in this process and this domestication has been performed in three systems including lingual, literal and mental in images, thoughts, expression methods and language processes. Decreasing, increasing, changing and moving that these poets have performed, express social and cultural features of its own age. Adding measure& rhyme has been performed for preserving the spirit of Persian classical poetry and its traditional form and didactic and critical aspect has been dominated the satire aspect of the original work. In versified translation of Habib Yaghmayi, the movement and Cinematic pictures and language simplicity and intimacy have shown the work newer and more modern. This work is the only translation that has become strong in dispute with other systems and domestication in interaction with creative methods of imagery has resulted in its richness Yaghmayi poetry has more validity & stability in the memory of the culture of Iranian society; since besides employing the elements of culture which are located in the center of semiospher, has paid no attention to marginal elements of culture which are being forgotten. His expression style is a combination of modernity & tradition. His imajic &dramatic expression has been observed from extra – system & has combined traditional values located in the center of culture system with that. Also analyzing domestication techniques & aesthetics elements in this research show that the poetries have become more complete in order of composition time & Habib Yaghmayi translation is the result of the perfection of poetry language towards more brevity. It seems that at the rest of this research direction, we can also address analyzing domestication in the story works obtained from translation.
The article is devoted to the analysis of a fragment of Kyiv Rus’ linguistic picture of the world and to the reconstruction of human ethic orientations of the Early Middle Age. The aim of this scientific research is to highlight the semantic scope and functions of language units in the Kyiv-Pechersk Patericon are to describe the moral and ethic portrait of a monk. The proposed theme of a study allows updating the analysis aimed at the reconstruction of the Old Ruthenians ethical ideals. The Kyiv-Pechersk Patericon is the first original collection of lives of the Old East Slavic saints of the 13th century. It does not only fully describe the images of the first Rus’ ascetics, but thanks to its unique structure it is the only one among the East Slavic written papers, which gives a valuable possibility to unite different materials into a holistic picture of the moral life in ancient Kyiv. The linguistic means of depicting the moral and ethical characteristics of the inhabitants of the monastery became the subject of the study. It is concluded that in the selection of the characteristics of the monks in the text under consideration there is a tendency to idealize, focus on the literary etiquette norms and highlight the concept of the honor of the clergy. A special attention is paid to such qualities as the allegiance to Christian teaching, humbleness, restraint, mercy, expressed through about 40 positively connotated substantive and adjective lexemes (some negative characteristics are isolated and, therefore, are not involved in the analysis). The selected names don’t perform any terminological functions (they are not components of the titles of the highest ranks of the clergy or namings of the faces of holiness) but rather represent moral and ethical characteristics. In the use of most part of laudatory epithets-definitions there is a tendency to associate them with a specific person, which in the process of further canonization will be the basis for the inclusion of each of them in the certain category of sainthood. According to the origin and character of their use, these lexemes pertain to the church-bookish element. The consistency in refusing to borrow Greek or Latin words to denote the holiness idea indicates a high level of language and cultural-religion consciousness and can be regarded as the main feature of the Slavic choice in denoting this idea. The proposed article considers one of the fragments of the lexical originality of the Kyiv-Pechersk Patericon, which opens us prospects for further studies of this ancient text at different language levels.
Croatian accentual norm is in a constant state of flux. Its stability is impeded, first of all, by two mutually intertwined forces: the nature of the accentual norm, which belongs to speech (dynamic dimension, individual realisation), and the disagreement amongst linguists as to what to record and prescribe (in constant interaction between the stress accent and pitch accent systems). The modern accentual norm is obtained from non-orthoepical manuals, i.e. grammar books, dictionaries, handbooks (which further complicates the clarification of the orthoepical reality). We will conduct a comparative analysis of the approach, in modern handbooks, to accent alternations in morphology, falling accent in non-initial syllables in word formation, post-tonic length, uncertainties regarding lexical stress, etc. Grammar books and dictionaries approach the open questions in different ways and this paper gives an overview of the (systematic and non-systematic) solutions offered by linguists today, with the aim of presenting the dynamics of the codified norm (which carries the label of being “conservative” and “hidebound”). The changes in the modern norm are compared then to usus occurrences, illustrated by a narrower speech corpus – the speech of actors. In their orthoepical research, linguists resort to the speech of radio and television presenters, linguists in specialised radio and television programmes, students of the Croatian language or phonetics, Croatian language teachers, etc., and, more recently, to the speech of actors reading audio books (MP3 files are available at www.lektire.skole.hr). Presenters, teachers and actors have always been perceived as quintessential competent speakers of the standard language, so close observation of their speech as one of the steps in the process of describing and prescribing is the basis of every orthoepical research. Since the modern speech/pronunciation (e-lektira, audio versions of school reading list books available online) has still not been analysed and valorised linguistically/orthoepically, and since it is available to those learning and listening to speech values in this type of material, the paper turns to the corpus with the intention of determining the basic features of pronunciation. Prose texts whose pronunciation has been analysed are those written in or translated into the standard language. Special attention has been given to accent (stress placement and stress shift) and to the prosodic word. Specific pronunciation traits (especially those related to the accentual norm) have been compared to those prescribed in handbooks. Finally, the accentual traits acknowledged by the modern conception of accentual norm and codification were clarified as well as those that are systematically ignored in modern prescription.
Анализируется дисциплинарная практика региональных адвокатских палат субъектов Российской Федерации. При этом основное внимание уделяется проблемам соблюдения адвокатами России норм русского литературного языка, связанных с речевым этикетом: далеко не всегда профессиональный защитник являет своей речью образец нравственности, интеллектуальности, лаконичности, легкости и изящества. Анализ деятельности адвокатских палат в отношении дисциплинарных проступков профессиональных защитников показывает, что при рассмотрении аналогичных ситуаций выносятся разные решения. Это относится прежде всего к замечанию и предупреждению. При выборе дисциплинарной комиссией одной из двух указанных мер взыскания сложной задачей оказывается определение степени тяжести совершенного проступка. Юрислингвистический анализ конкретных адвокатских высказываний, в которых имеет место нарушение норм профессионального речевого этикета и которые стали вследствие этого предметом дисциплинарного разбирательства, показывает, что на степень инвективности вербального выражения влияет множество факторов, как лингвистических, так и экстралингвистических. Выдвигается идея о необходимости внедрения единой шкалы инвективных слов (со стороны Федеральной палаты адвокатов) как одного из важных, входящих в комплекс лексических, грамматических, орфоэпических, изобразительно-выразительных средств языка, оснований разграничения мер дисциплинарной ответственности адвокатов за нарушение Кодекса профессиональной этики в части, касающейся проявления уважения к суду и лицам, участвующим в деле (ст. 12), а также обязанности адвоката сохранять честь и достоинство в любой ситуации (ст. 9). Помимо создания единой шкалы инвективности слов и выражений, для комплексного анализа спорных речевых высказываний адвокатов в отдельных случаях предлагается привлекать специалистов-лингвистов и психологов в целях определения конкретной меры дисциплинарной ответственности. The disciplinary practice of the regional law chambers of the entities of the Russian Federation is being analyzed. At the same time, the main focus is on the problems of the Russian lawyers’ compliance with the norms of the Russian literary language related to speech etiquette: it is not always a professional advocate who is a model of morality, intellectuality, brevity, lightness and grace. An analysis of the activities of the bar in relation to the disciplinary misconduct of professional defense lawyers shows that different decisions are made in similar situations. This applies primarily to observation and prevention. In selecting a disciplinary commission as one of these two penalties, it is difficult to determine the severity of the offence committed. The jurislingistic analysis of specific legal statements, in which there is a violation of the norms of professional speech etiquette and which have become the subject of disciplinary proceedings as a result, shows that the degree of invectiveness of verbal expression is influenced by many factors, both linguistic and extralinguistic. The idea is to introduce a single scale of invective words (on the part of the Federal Chamber of Advocates) as one of the important part of the complex of lexical, grammatical, orthopedic, visually expressive means of language, grounds for delineating the disciplinary measures of lawyers for violation of the Code of Professional Ethics in respect of the court and persons involved in the case (v. 12), and the duty of counsel to maintain honor and dignity in any situation (art. 9). In addition to creating a single scale of invective words and expressions, it is proposed in some cases to involve linguistic specialists and psychologists to determine a specific measure of disciplinary responsibility for a comprehensive analysis of the controversial speech statements of lawyers.
Для преодоления интерференции в переводе используются переводческие трансформации. В данной статье рассматривается один из видов таких трансформаций, а именно, лексические, суть которых заключается в замене переводимой лексической единицы словом или словосочетанием, которое реализует сему данной единицы исходного языка (ИЯ). Приемы лексических трансформаций рассматриваются на примере научных текстов по математике. Упомянутый вид текстов не использовался ранее \nв качестве материала для анализа интерференции в переводе. Опытный переводчик постарается сделать так, чтобы текст перевода (ТП) соответствовал нормам языка перевода (ПЯ), и при этом сохранил коммуникативное задание ИТ (исходный текст) (то, ради чего был создан оригинал), и, следовательно, снизить или преодолеть влияние интерференции.= To overcome the interference in translation, we use translation transformations. This article discusses \none of the types of such transformations, namely, lexical ones, the essence of which is to replace the translated \nlexical unit with a word or phrase that implements this unit sema of the original language (OL). The techniques \nof lexical transformations are considered on the example of scientific texts in mathematics. The mentioned type \nof texts was not used earlier as a material for the analysis of interference in translation. A professional translator \nwill try to make the text of the translation (TT) comply with the norms of the translation language (TL), while \npreserving the communicative task of the source text (ST) (for which the original was created), and, therefore, \nreduce or overcome the influence of interference.
The article clarifies the functional and stylistic parameters of evaluation as a linguistic category, which covers different levels of language units with evaluative semantics and conveys the positive or negative attitude of the speaker to the named subject, phenomenon, concept. Positive or negative semantic scale of evaluation is formed in accordance with certain social, national-cultural, moral values. Logical (rational) and emotional (irrational) assessment in the text interact. Logical evaluation is motivated by objective thoughts, and emotional – the feelings of the subject to the object (person, object, phenomenon, event, etc.). Units of logical evaluation are words and phrases with positive and negative semantics from the intellectual sphere of linguistic thinking, and units of emotional – expressive-connotative linguistic means. Evaluation is done through the use of language units registered in dictionaries or in the memory of native speakers in terms of their values: good and evil, truth and falsehood, justice and injustice, benefit and harm, beauty and ugliness, allowed and forbidden. Evaluative semantics is revealed in the appropriate contextual conditions, in particular in updating the structure and semantics of components, stylistic marking of syntactic units. The combination of logical and emotional assessment allows closely related to the communication situation pragmatic evaluation of the text as a whole, in particular verbal acts of approval, encouragement, commitment (plus on the scale) or vice versa condemnation, contempt (minus on the scale), which are based on a common fund knowledge and norms of interlocutors. The stylistic potential of evaluation in the text is revealed on lexical, phraseological, syntactic levels. Texts differ in style and content differ in the way they express verbal axiology.
The article is devoted to the theoretical justification of a linguacultural competence of future specialists as a key competence in current educational environment. The author determined the essence of the key concept of “linguocultural competence” as a key competence, which involves knowledge of the historical, cultural, regional geographic features, ethnocultural background of the country, expressing the tolerance, respect and understanding of the sociocultural characteristics of representatives of other cultures; identification of social responsibility regarding their own behavior as a citizen of the Ukrainian state. It has been revealed that in the conditions of intercultural communication, future specialists should not only interpret another culture, but also be aware of themselves as part of Ukrainian culture, be true representatives of their native culture. The basis of worldview and understanding of each nation is its own system of subject values and social stereotypes. It has been studied that norms based on a moral code contribute to the formation of cultural values in the form of generally accepted, standard patterns of human behavior and actions in a particular society, that is, they are a kind of standards of expected behavior in typified situations and, subject to acceptance by the individual, is its regulator behavior. In fact, it is impossible to see the culture itself, its manifestations are noticeable only in behavior, actions, judgments, reactions or in a clothing style. It is proved that the linguacultural competence of future specialists as key in the current educational sphere involves: knowledge of historical and cultural material (historical and cultural heritage, ethnocultural background) knowledge of lexical units with national and cultural semantics; knowledge of the features of writing; ability to navigate in a multicultural world, while showing tolerance and respect for representatives of other cultures; knowledge of behavioral interlocutors of other cultures and the ability to adequately assess behavior, put oneself in the place of others; knowledge of the linguistic features of another sociocultural environment and the ability to build relationships with people of other sociocultural spheres and to exercise diplomacy in order to maintain a dialogue of cultures.
Abstract While corpus studies on academic writing have improved instructional materials for writing in the hard sciences, humanities and social sciences world language writing pedagogy remains open to development. In the interest of data-driven Spanish for academic purposes curricula, using English and Spanish corpora of psychology, history and literary criticism articles, we analyzed nouns occurring in sentence-subject position in 100 randomly-sampled sentences. In both languages, psychology had significantly more epistemic, and fewer phenomenal, sentence subject nouns than the other two fields. We extended our analysis to lexical bundles containing Spanish-English equivalent noun phrases in sentence-subject position which occurred significantly more often in psychology in both languages. The results are discussed in terms of scientific and humanities writing pedagogy for both languages.
The problem of language interference being a process which retards the mastering of a second language, having appeared as a result of transference of speech skills from one contact language into another (from the native language into the foreign language, from the first foreign language into the second one), has concerned researchers for decades. This phenomenon has a direct influence on the success of an individual’s mastery of a foreign language and its use—involving both receptive and productive types of speech activities. Interference resulting from the negative impact of one language on another covers all linguistic levels of the language being studied, including lexical, which leads to deviations from the language norm and numerous lexical errors of students. Linguists and methodologists are trying to find ways to reduce the interference of the language being studied at the lexical level in order to optimize the process of mastering a foreign language and minimize lexical errors of students. The purpose of the current study is to investigate ways to overcome intra-language and inter-language lexical interference in junior courses of the Azerbaijan University of Languages and to verify the validity of these methods in the course of a practical experiment.
Lexical normalization is the task of translating non-standard social media data to a standard form.Previous work has shown that this is beneficial for many downstream tasks in multiple languages.However, for Italian, there is no benchmark available for lexical normalization, despite the presence of many benchmarks for other tasks involving social media data.In this paper, we discuss the creation of a lexical normalization dataset for Italian.After two rounds of annotation, a Cohen's kappa score of 78.64 is obtained.During this process, we also analyze the inter-annotator agreement for this task, which is only rarely done on datasets for lexical normalization, and when it is reported, the analysis usually remains shallow.Furthermore, we utilize this dataset to train a lexical normalization model and show that it can be used to improve dependency parsing of social media data.
New language phenomena are driven by social and political shifts at the global level. Even though the traditional literary norm is being destroyed, these linguistic innovations fulfil a language compensatory function. Internet communication and the new speech processes found in it provoke a keen research interest and are extensively explored by linguists. Major global changes in our life (cloud-based technologies, ecology, post-truth, the problem of generations, Big Data, etc.) were bound to transform communication itself. Therefore, we see changes in genres, functional styles, texts and our traditional ideas of various forms of the Russian national language usage. The Russian Internet (Runet) reveals language potential, fulfils the compensatory function of the language filling in all the elements missing so far and language shortcomings (neologisms denoting feminine gender-specific job titles, deviant verbal forms, new structures in comparative forms of adverbs and adjectives, etc.). The speech system of the Internet communication should be considered not as a double-sided one (oral and written) but as a conceptually new digital form of language use. In the democratic environment of pluralism, tolerance and the freedom of language use, lexical and lexical-grammatical innovations, “the new vernacular”, irregular grammar and lexical collocability, as well as the direct and conscious intention to break the norm of the literary language, should be justified and deemed a manifestation of the compensatory language function. Special attention is given to the acute problem of fundamental transformations in teaching practice.
The United States with its presidents stepping into power from either the Democratic or Republican parties influences global affairs in one way or another. These two main political parties have long been struggling for power and the significance of tapping into the ideological inclinations of the two parties underscores scholars’ accountability toward raising the critical language awareness of the public which could be an initial step toward a change for the better. The presidential inaugural speeches, due to their programmatic and strategic nature, are of significance to researchers. This study employed van Dijk’s (2006b) socio-cognitive framework where he defined two levels of analyses for a political discourse including the micro-level and macro-level text analyses. The former included 25 discursive devices such as polarization, generalization, hyperbole, etc. The latter drew on the dichotomy of ‘positive self-representation’ and ‘negative other-representation’. In the present study, the linguistic features in 16 inaugural speeches delivered by American Democratic and Republican presidents from 1961 to 2017 were examined at both levels. The overall data analysis revealed that Democrats employed ‘norm expression’ and ‘presupposition’ significantly more than Republicans, while Republicans made more use of ‘categorization’, ‘lexicalization’, and ‘populism’. The macro-level comparison of the two parties indicated that both Democrats and Republicans resorted to using ‘positive self-representation’ significantly more than ‘negative other-representation’ while the deployment of ‘negative other-representation’ by Republicans was significantly more than that by Democrats. The findings of this study have some implications for English for political purposes, political studies, as well as attempts in discourse studies.
The article analyzes the concept of comic as linguistic category.The article focuses attention on such aspects of the category of comic as classification, parameters of comic and the difficulties of translation of comic.It is singled out that the notion of concept comic goes beyond the linguistic aspect.That is why this language phenomenon is also studied from the point of view of socio-cultural aspect and the norms of human behavior in society.The category of comic is complex and ambiguous.In general, within this notion we understand the influence of jokes, for example, causing laughter.There are several methods that help to achieve laughter.Among them we distinguish irony, sarcasm, pun, allusion, periphrases, oxymoron, metaphor etc.Because of the multiaspect character of comic, this term is often used simultaneously with its similar synonymous humor, laughter, comic, funny, meaningless, cute, witty, joke, absurdity, irony, sarcasm, satire, etc.As for the categories of comic, scholars single out: analysis of style of a certain comic text, allocation and description of special features of comic text style of the specific authors; defining and studying the language and methods of realization of the category of comic on the example of a particular language; characteristics of the language parameters of specific subspecies of the category of comic.The category of comic is also subdivided into three groups.The first group is represented by understandable and easily recognizable humor based on the comic situation.The second type is presented by jokes based on the cultural base of the source language.And to the third type we refer linguistic humor.This type of humor in its structure is the most difficult to decode into a different language, because it is based on a game of words (pun), which, unfortunately, is usually considered to be not subject to translation.And, as for the translation aspect, it is necessary for translators to find a situational equivalent, an equivalent with an increased level of emotionality; to use transcoding or the combination of transcription and transliteration with the addition of word-forming morpheme; and to apply lexical and semantic and phonetically-imitating transformations.
The article considers text in terms of Daniil Harms's peculiarly normative poetics. Attention is paid to the domineering factor of the writer's work -the category of zaum, on the basis of which the characters' world is built. The author-character-reader relationships are extremely specific. Harms's works are filled with phantasmagoria and destruction, both in terms of phonetic-graphic, lexical-semantic, and situational aspects. Through desemantization, illogism and absurdity of everything and everyone, Harms brings his character and the world around him to liberation from the "mundane husk" and closer to God, to selfknowledge. Deconstruction (destruction), which characterizes an abstruse text, is the basic principle of Daniil Harms's texts. Harms's striving for zaum at the language level is reflected, in particular, in the use of onomastic vocabulary, anthroponyms, a large number of neologisms (even within the same text), semantic and syntactic nonsense, spelling and punctuation deviations; at the level of plotit is the use of completely ridiculous situations, caricature and de-individualization. In Harms's works, all sorts of deviations from linguistic norms and rules do not destroy the text, do not lead to the system destruction, but reveal the creative potential of the linguistic artist.
Pantun merupakan seni pengucapan lisan masyarakat Melayu dahulu yang dicipta dengan penuh ketertiban dan berhati-hati. Segala yang dilahirkan melalui pantun adalah berupa nasihat, dengan berbagai-bagai ragam bahasa yang tinggi dan bernilai sastera. Penggunaan pantun sebagai salah satu cara halus dan sopan dalam menyampaikan sesuatu hasrat yang terbuku di hati telah menjadikan pantun sebagai suatu bentuk bahasa yang indah dan unik. Pemilihan dan penggunaan bentuk kata dalam pantun amat berkait rapat dengan pemikiran masyarakat Melayu yang sentiasa menggunakan unsur alam sebagai perlambangan dalam memperkatakan sesuatu. Oleh itu, fokus utama kajian ini adalah untuk mengenal pasti dan menganalisis simbol ‘bunga’ yang terdapat dalam pantun kategori nasihat berdasarkan buku Kurik Kundi Merah Saga (KKMS). Kajian berbentuk kualitatif ini mengaplikasikan teori semantik dengan kaedah inkuisitif yang merupakan gabungan di antara teori relevan dengan maklumat baru budaya setempat. Gabungan Rangka Rujuk Silang (RRS) dengan maklumat budaya mendalam mampu menghasilkan penghuraian makna kiasan Melayu sehingga ke akal budi penuturnya. Dapatan kajian yang diperoleh menunjukkan bahawa simbol bunga dalam penciptaan pantun mendukung makna tersirat yang lazimnya berfungsi sebagai nasihat dan teguran kepada masyarakat. Simbol “bunga” bukan sahaja mempunyai pelbagai maksud yang tersendiri, namun mampu memperlihatkan daya kreativiti masyarakat Melayu mengaplikasikan konsep “bunga” dengan perilaku, benda, perkara dan peristiwa yang berlaku di sekitar kehidupan manusia. The pantun is a classical Malay poetry form that created with full of etiquette and norms. All was born through ‘pantun’ is in the advice, with the range of high diversity of languages and literary value. Pantun is one of very fine ways to express feeling which make the pantun language unique and beautiful. Every words chosen in Pantun phrases has its own aesthetical and lexical functions, which are very much related to the way thinking among the Malay people, who always refer to surrounding world as a symbolic way to express their own feeling. Therefore, the objective of this study is to identify the symbol of “bunga” in the Malay pantun based on book Kurik Kundi Merah Saga (KKMS). This qualitative research applied semantic theory with inquisitive method which is a combination between relevance theories of local culture with new information. A combination between the applications of Bridging Cross Reference (RRS) along with the broad cultural information will be able to produce various interpretation of Malay proverbs up to its ingenuity. The findings obtained indicated that, the symbol of “bunga” in pantun has its own meaning that are used to express feeling. The symbol “bunga” does not carry its own lexical meaning, but also reveal the creativity of Malay people in applying the concept of “bunga” with people’s behaviors or attitude, things, matters and events revolved around their life.