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In connection with the transition of the Kazakh alphabet to the Latin script, further improvement of the orthological codification of the Kazakh language becomes relevant. As you know, the system-centric object of the science of orthology is the norm / linguistic norm / literary norm. In passing, we note that there are still unresolved issues in the definition of a linguistic norm / literary norm in linguistics. In recent years, the problems of orthology have been actively developed in Kazakh linguistics, incl. special attention was paid to the study of spelling, orthoepic, lexical norms of the modern Kazakh literary language. First of all, there is a need to define the essence of the norm as an ontological category and the creation of an integral orthological theory, which will contribute to a deeper understanding of the phenomenon in general of the linguistic norm, its systemic properties and functioning features, in particular. And also the unification and codification of the language norm will have an effective impact on further improving the language culture and the development of language capital will contribute to ensuring the full activity of the Kazakh language as a state language. The article analyzes the relationship and difference between the concepts of norm – linguistic norm – literary norm and the characteristic features of norms – regulatory function, tradition and internal dynamism.
Developing communicative competence of future teachers majoring in non-linguistic specialities is a priority of the progressive educational paradigm. Nowadays in linguodidactics the perfect mastery of professional communicative skills, the skill of text creation in different discourse conditions is especially relevant. Taking into account the linguistic and didactic characteristics of higher education seekers is the basis for the development of public communication skills that correlate with the requirements of the time, the needs of society, the tasks of modern education.
 Substantiation of the phenomenon of “public communication” in terms of linguistic didactics is important for the development of guidelines, concepts and models for teaching the theory and practice of public communication, for the selection of effective methods and techniques. Speech is a necessary basis for thinking. Public communication especially foregrounds significant mental-speech operations: analysis, synthesis, abstraction, concretization, reproduction of material, text creation. The method of developing public communication skills focuses on solving problems related to the perception of educational material, awareness of the essence of rhetorical concepts, text creation. Effectiveness is ensured by synergy with psychological research on the patterns of mental operations that underlie the perception, memorization and reproduction of prepared material. Approaches to the development of public communication skills are largely based on well-known ancient theories, including those based on folk speech culture. The analysis of the basic concepts of classical rhetoric and practice of public communication (logos, ethos, pathos and topos) require innovative methodological and methodical elaboration and directing at the communicative competence of the contemporary teacher majoring in non-linguistic specialities.
 The character of the linguistic personality is determined by typical communicative national features, existing in the form of thought forms / formulas, concepts, value lexical and semantic dominants. The university should ideally mould a speaker ready for different types of public communication, to create a discourse in any time and space, who knows language norms and communicative qualities of oral and written speech as indicators of speech culture, text technology, speech etiquette. Age features, openness to the perception of information, self-expression in competitive speech situations, ambition, search for authority, the desire to overcome negative stereotypes in the perception of the teaching profession are the very linguistic and didactic aspects that should be relied on while working on communicative competence. We see the prospect of further research in the development of a system of work on the development of the idiosyncrasy of public communication which underlies the formation of a personal brand of the teacher.
The article analyzes the A. Krymskyi’s codification works in the context of the linguistic heritage of Ukrainian linguists of the late XIX – early XX centuries. The formation of Ukrainian educational institutions prompted linguists to create educational language codes. And the school was a testing area for newly created prescriptions. Theoretical and practical problems of formation of literary standard in connection with tendencies of prescriptive norm are actualized, bases of scientific proof in grammar of historical antiquity, originality of phonetic, lexical and morphological systems of Ukrainian language, evidence of its own way of formation, dialectal variety and scales of functioning are clarified. The source base of codification codes were the language of writers, ethnographic sources, journalistic practice in the projection on the living vernacular. Tendencies of normalization depended on socio-political conditions, the need to justify the status of the Ukrainian language, bringing it to a new cultural level and manifested themselves in the activation of their own internal language resources, fixation of lexical-semantic, grammatical, functional perfection. This statement was indisputable due to the united normative activity of many other linguists, who laid the theoretical foundations for the establishment of the literary norm of the Ukrainian language in all spheres of public life. Issues of Ukrainian rule-making were raised in the late XIX – early XX centuries intensified intralinguistic potential, helped to find acceptable for the whole Ukrainian space literary samples, outlined trends in language development, encouraged future generations of linguists to solve theoretical and practical problems that have not lost their relevance today.
Infectious diseases are considered to be one of the main threats to the health of the people today, as well as a significant burden on health care and society as a whole. The latter is due to the fact that most of these diseases cause temporary or permanent disability, require huge financial costs for prevention, treatment, rehabilitation (and some of them lead to lifelong therapy) and negatively affect the quality and duration of life and cause premature death. In general, the concept of “socially significant diseases” has existed since the nineteenth century, a period of rapid economic development. Unfortunately, the current course of events with the global pandemic has aroused a great interest in the medical field of “Infectology”. Our linguistic research concerns the structural and semantic analysis of the terminological sphere of this branch of medicine. The real functioning of terms in modern Ukrainian publications on medicine testifies to the incompleteness of the medical terminology normalization process, in particular, numerous violations of lexical and morphological norms. It is clear that the standardization of the medical terminology directly depends on the solution of a number of problems: coordination of national and international components, elimination of synonymy, variability, violations of lexical, morphological and syntactic norms of the Ukrainian language. The most important aspect is the development of a single concept of term formation, which uses the experience and positive accomplishments of scientists of different generations. Ensuring the linguistic normativeness of terms should take place at all the levels – both conceptual and linguistic – phonetic, orthoepic, orthographic, lexical and semantic, word-forming, morphological and syntactic. Thus, lexical and semantic study of the linguistic features of the formation and development of professional discourse is of great interest. The productivity of adjectival lexical units of the medical terminological branch of “Infectology” were analyzed in the following article. The lexical and semantic features of their construction are characterized and the attention is focused on the main word-forming types of complex adjective phrases of the terminological space of the corresponding branch. The issue of thematic grouping of terminological adjective phrases depending on the semantics of the core term-component is raised and it is found that the functioning of such terminological compounds demonstrates word-forming processes that contribute to the unification of professional language.
Purpose.To study the main elements of mining safety, as well as to formulate the definition of the concept of mining safety for its use in legal regulations of mining relations from the viewpoint of scientific literature and the norms of current legislation. Methodology.The results were obtained after applying a set of methods: a) general philosophical methods (dialectical, anthropological);b) general scientific methods (abstraction, analysis and synthesis, system analysis, classification);c) legal methods (historical and legal, comparative legal, semantic and legal). Findings.Based on the analysis of the main categories of general security theory and their application in the legislation of Ukraine, the etymology of the legal term security is studied and it is shown that the definition of this concept depends on the context of the normative legal act in which it is used. This necessitates the improvement of the conceptual apparatus of mining legislation and the development of the category mining safety. It is argued that unification of this legal category and clarification of its authentic definition will contribute to the achievement of unity and consistency of the current mining legislation, the proper regulation of public relations to ensure protection of Ukraines national interests in the field of subsoil use. The necessity of expanding the list of possible hazards of geological study and subsoil use provided for by the current legislation was substantiated. It is proposed to consolidate the authors definition of mining safety in the corresponding paragraph of Article 1 of the Mining Law of Ukraine. Originality.As a result of lexical and legal analysis, it was concluded that the definition of security depending on the context of the legal act in which it is used and the characteristics of the subject of legal regulation of certain social relations is defined as: security; security status; provision (regulatory compliance); set of measures; aggregate of nonuniform resources. Taking into account the geospheric characteristics of subsoil, as well as the peculiarities of hazard occurrence and manifestation during subsoil use, the authors put forward a classification of hazards manifestation during mining operations (geomorphological, lithospheric, geodynamic, gas-dynamic, hydrodynamic, geopathogenic, microbiological hazards, as well as the hazards of mineral nanoparticles). The additions are substantiated to the current legislation (part 1 of Article 1 of the Mining Law of Ukraine) with the following definition of the safety of mining operations: protection of vital interests of a person, society and the state from negative manifestations of geomorphological, lithospheric, geodynamic, gas-dynamic, hydrodynamic, geopathogenic, microbiological and other factors in the course of processes aimed at carrying out, securing and maintaining mine workings and withdrawing mining rocks. Practical value.The practical significance of the results is based on the fact that they can be used by the subjects of legislative initiative when improving the provisions of the current legislation of Ukraine, as well as by practical workers to organize and conduct mining operations.
The article deals with the issues of understanding the terms of business tourism in lexical cognition, the largest type of cognitive linguistics, and their cognitive analysis. The cognitive aspect of understanding the terms of business tourism and complete exploration the field, the cognitive study of business tourism terms from the world experience is also an important step in the development of the industry and models of tourism language and language learning are presented. Understanding the term of business tourism, when knowledge is interpreted as a cultural phenomenon, refers to the extent which this form of knowledge conforms to the norms inherent in the culture of a particular social group. The author analyzes the theory of social comparative advantages in business tourism in England, the theories of outstanding western sociologists for the tourism analysis as social phenomenon. In this article the author analyzed the theory of social comparative advantages in business tourism in England, learning the theories of outstanding western sociologists for the tourism analysis as social phenomenon. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of study about the strategic importance of business tourism in the Southern Region of Uzbekistan (territory encompassing the cities of Andizhan and Honobod), where the presence of a qualified and diverse tourism offer combined with the existence of varied venues and quality accommodation can contribute to provide a valued tourism experience associated with the meetings Industry. This study allows a reflection on the potential of business tourism in the territories where this sector is not always given due attention by local, regional and national tourism bodies. These smaller centers (compared with the main centers of Tashkent, Bukhara, Khiva and Samarqand), relatively close to each other, may find strategic advantages in joint action, considering that these three geographic areas complement each other in the integrated supply of tourism products, experiences, support services and facilities. Primary data was collected through a study with the aim of identifying regional tourism stakeholders' perceptions of the importance and potential of business tourism development and strategies that should be put in place to this end. The results show that stakeholders identify business tourism as a strategic product that should be developed, and indicate some development strategies to be considered in this territory.
The article focuses on language norms compliance in the texts of terminological standards (on the example of DSTU 3017: 2015 «Information and documentation. Basic types. Terms and definitions»). Cases of violation of the lexical and grammatical norms of the modern Ukrainian language in the formulation of definitions of terms are analyzed. It was found that, despite the presence of clear instructions established in the national standard on compliance with the rules of the Ukrainian word usage in the formulation of definitions, in many cases the design of national terminological standards – choice of words, their change, sentence construction – does not meet the norms of Ukrainian literary language, leads to a decrease in the general culture of the publication. In the text of DSTU 3017: 2015 «Information and documentation. Edition. The main types. Terms and definitions” shows a deviation from the norms associated with the use of words that are absent in the Ukrainian language, artificial, linguistic calque of Russian words. Certain non-normative tokens fixed in the standard do not correspond to the tendency of development of the modern Ukrainian language process – conscious distance, separation from the Russian language, strengthening of positions of specific Ukrainian variants. Violation of language norms in the standard are words used without taking into account the nuances of their meaning, the rules of compatibility with other lexical language units. The analyzed standard is not without such a stylistic defect as pleonasm – semantic redundancy, which contradicts the brevity and accuracy – important communicative features of scientific and official business speech. In the formulation of explanations of certain terms, a violation of logic was revealed – a combination of words that differ in generic and specific semantics was recorded. There are linguistic errors at the grammatical level: in the text of the standard it is not always correct to choose the endings of singular forms, not in all positions the use of impersonal verb forms ending on -no, -to is motivated. Cases of non-observance of the laws of melodiousness – rules of alternation of prepositions at / in are revealed.
INTRODUCTION: The short forms of MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (MB-CDI) are widely used for assessing communicative and linguistic development in infants and toddlers. Italian norms for the Words and Gestures (WG) and Words and Sentences (WS) short forms overlap between 18 and 24 months. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the agreement between these two forms. METHODS: Parents of 104 children aged 18-24 months filled in both questionnaires. RESULTS: The two questionnaires showed high agreement in measuring expressive vocabulary size and the percentile of lexical production and good agreement in identifying children at-risk for language delay (75% of the cases were accurately identified). Both short forms include a list of 100 words and a set of questions investigating potential risk factors for communication and language disorders. Ten children with an expressive vocabulary <10th percentile were compared to 10 with typical language development. Scores for children <10th percentile were significantly lower than their peers, in addition to scores of lexical comprehension, gesture-word, and 2-word combinations, and phonological accuracy, imitation of new words, and decontextualized use of language. CONCLUSIONS: Short forms of the Italian MB-CDI can be used interchangeably for evaluating lexical production, but each one offers different quantitative and qualitative information on the behaviours related to language acquisition.
The article analyzes the problems that arise when teaching students of economic specialties, in particular: limited lexical components, ignorance of professional terminology, lack of communication skills, psychological and communicative barriers. Violation of the norms of the Ukrainian language use is outlined. The theoretical basis was the work of linguistic didactics, who emphasized that business language is a dynamic phenomenon that a specialist must constantly study, while researching and improving their own competencies. It is noted that the program in the discipline "Ukrainian for professional purposes" should acquaint students with the basics of professional language culture, the specifics of oral and written modern literary language, direct to study the terminology of the chosen specialty, develop skills in modern documentation and motivate to improve language and speech competencies. A list of tasks that can be used during practical classes to avoid errors is identified. Such tasks included: memorizing the correct accents of both professional terms and words of common vocabulary; work with texts, namely: elimination of lexical errors by choosing the right option; correction of spelling errors in the given texts; placement of missing punctuation marks in texts of official business, journalistic and scientific styles and their fragments; selection of Ukrainian equivalents to words of foreign origin; determining the correct endings in the genitive case of nouns; ability to translate narrow and interdisciplinary terminology into Ukrainian; preparation of professional documents. An important stage of language training of specialists in economic specialties is the knowledge and observance of the modern Ukrainian literary language norms in both oral and written speech. It is also pointed out that students should be aware that studying the state language is closely related to their personality and interests, and not to the methods and teaching aids used by the teacher. Keywords: norms of modern literary language, oral professional speech, professional culture, culture of professional speech, language training of students, teaching aids.
The paper discusses the role of directionality in translations from Czech to German language. Its main purpose is to detect differences in the translation process between native and non-native translations, with a special focus on the translation strategies chosen. The empiric part consists of an investigation of a sample from students‘ translations, produced during practical lessons on translation of non-literary texts into German at Charles University. Some of the examples discussed in the paper show differences between native and non-native translations on three different linguistic levels: lexical, syntactic and pragmatic. While the lexical and syntactic level show a tendency towards inhibitation of L1 structures, the pragmatic level is more likely to transfer source language norms into the target text.
Each language has a level of usage of the words in the dictionary. Many lexemes in the Uzbek language are commonly used through layering words. Some are narrowly defined -bounded layer units. Such words are not considered literary norms. In addition to the words that exist in the language also used as passive lexical units in order to give local speech color and individualize the speech of the characters in the works. As a methodological tool, they have a unique character to the work and reflect the linguistic and cultural aspects of the language.
In the modern world, with its diversity of languages and nations, the development of a linguistic personality is one of the main factors of language education.A language personality should possess the language competence that presupposes the possession of the theoretical norms of the language and their further use in the practice of speech use.The language personality must possess the phonetic and lexical grammatical norms of the language.Syntax, which gives the language a communicative and functional significance, is the highest level of the language system.It is in the syntax that the national specificity of the language manifests itself.Possession of it indicates the formation of a language personality.Complex thoughts that reflect the intellectual level of the individual are formed in the form of complex sentences.The emotionality and expressiveness of complex sentences are created due to the way they are organized and the use of syntactic figures of speech.Conversational and expressive elements in the structure of a complex sentence, due to their unintentional and informal nature, create additional shades of imagery and expressiveness in book speech.In the Mari language, the following elements of colloquial speech are introduced in the language of fiction to give a complex sentence imagery and expressiveness: conjunctions, particles, postpositions, interjections, onomatopoeic words and various types of repetitions.Complex and compound sentences are characterized by the use of all these elements of colloquial speech.Conjunctionless complex sentences, based on their structure, use the speech elements of repetition as an expressive means.
Cognitive systems face a tension between stability and plasticity. The maintenance of long-term representations that reflect the global regularities of the environment is often at odds with pressure to flexibly adjust to short-term input regularities that may deviate from the norm. This tension is abundantly clear in speech communication when talkers with accents or dialects produce input that deviates from a listener's language community norms. Prior research demonstrates that when bottom-up acoustic information or top-down word knowledge is available to disambiguate speech input, there is short-term adaptive plasticity such that subsequent speech perception is shifted even in the absence of the disambiguating information. Although such effects are well-documented, it is not yet known whether bottom-up and top-down resolution of ambiguity may operate through common processes, or how these information sources may interact in guiding the adaptive plasticity of speech perception. The present study investigates the joint contributions of bottom-up information from the acoustic signal and top-down information from lexical knowledge in the adaptive plasticity of speech categorization according to short-term input regularities. The results implicate speech category activation, whether from top-down or bottom-up sources, in driving rapid adjustment of listeners' reliance on acoustic dimensions in speech categorization. Broadly, this pattern of perception is consistent with dynamic mapping of input to category representations that is flexibly tuned according to interactive processing accommodating both lexical knowledge and idiosyncrasies of the acoustic input.
This paper describes the system developed by the Laboratoire d'analyse\nstatistique des textes (LAST) for the Lexical Complexity Prediction shared task\nat SemEval-2021. The proposed system is made up of a LightGBM model fed with\nfeatures obtained from many word frequency lists, published lexical norms and\npsychometric data. For tackling the specificity of the multi-word task, it uses\nbigram association measures. Despite that the only contextual feature used was\nsentence length, the system achieved an honorable performance in the multi-word\ntask, but poorer in the single word task. The bigram association measures were\nfound useful, but to a limited extent.\n
The purpose of this article is to show what speech strategies and tactics are used by students with deviant behavior; what stylistic and compositional features of speech are typical for them; how they model meanings via words and what lexical and grammatical deviations are inherent in their speech.It is obvious that the phenomenon of deviant behavior in modern society conditions is getting a new sound. What was once considered as a non-norm now is increasingly seen as one of its variants, and therefore new approaches are required to assess both the very phenomenon of deviance in the educational socioenvironment and the markers that characterize its manifestation in speech and texts.We managed to combine psychological, pedagogical and linguistic methods of working with a person through his or her text. The materials for the research were transcribed notes of lectures, seminars, conferences. The available volume of texts and methods that we used allowed us to come to valid conclusions: texts with the marker "deviance" had a specific set of features, and therefore they could be described, qualified and summed up under a specific theory.
The article goal is to single out and describe verbal means of suggestive influence on the recipient of “Ofudesaki” text a translation erbatim from Japanese: “At the tip of the brush”), which is the main script of the Tenrikyo religion, one of the “oldest” among the many newest syncretic religions in Japan, founded by a simple peasant Nakayama Miki (1797-1887) in 1838. The text “Ofudesaki”, written by the founder of this religion “from the words of God the Father” in 1869-1881, consists of 17 chapters and 1711 tanka poems, which vividly reflect the Japanese language of the second half of the 19th century. This makes it possible to consider “Ofudesaki” as a valuable source of spoken and literary language of this historical era, as well as the then Kansai dialect, because, despite the poetic form, this work is saturated with colloquial vocabulary and dialectal expressions. Thus, the subject of research is the graphic, phonetic, lexical and syntactic features of “Ofudesaki” text, which reflect not only the idiolect of the author of this sacred work, but also give good reason to make assumptions about the intentional pastiche of this text by Nakayama Miki at almost all language levels. The methods of semantic, grammatical, etymological analysis, as well as historical and descriptive ones are used in the work. One of the main results and substantiated by specific examples study findings is the hypothesis put forward by the author of the article that the convergence of Japanese spoken language with literary language was bidirectional. Not only the language of fiction actively influenced the normative base of the national language through the education system, but also the spoken element had a significant impact on the then Japanese language, “eroding” the limits defined by the literary tradition: changing the pronunciation of words, lexical composition, grammar rules, stylistic norms, and so on.
The poetic unspoken is sometimes interpreted as ‘what hides behind the spoken word’. Poets, however, may also choose silence to show the limits of language itself in front of the ineffable. This is particularly true in alpine literature: throughout its history until at least the 19th century, the recurrence of lexical and descriptive choices which many authors could have considered approximative or vague, is a powerful witness to their own intense emotional encounter with mountains. This setting, in fact, was perceived as outlandish and beyond description. The present study aims to analyze some representative examples of descriptions of mountain landscapes in order to identify their analogies and limits. Through the examination of a selection of passages drawn from alpine travel accounts, I will shed light on the value of the rarefaction of language in these descriptions, as well as in the elaboration of a specific aesthetics of the Alps. I will show that silence manifests itself within a constant dialectic between a desire to speak out and the very emptiness that challenges it. In this case, silence appears not a negative gesture, but as both a fictional and concrete impossibility. This approach is translated into more or less effective attempts to express, in various ways, a topic considered as “e-norme” (enormous but also ‘beyond’ any norm), because of its form and its content.
This article analyzes the phenomenon of orthographic destabilization in the Russian language in the early XXI century. The phonic and graphic word forms compete in the process of phonetic-graphic adaptation of global lexis to the conditions of the accepting language. The spring to life of the loanword in the new orthographic conditions is associated with variability of the form. Over time, the form of the word stabilizes, resulting in formal de-barbarization of the loanword. In the early XXI century, certain lexical globalisms retain variability even after codification in the normative and specialized dictionaries. The concept of overcoming the variability of orthographic norm in the conditions of linguistic globalization is not being fully implemented, causing orthographic destabilization. On the one hand, the rollback to orthographic variability demonstrates complex vicissitudes of the formation of speech culture of the era of linguistic globalization, while on the other hand is substantiated by specificity of the mechanisms of phonetic-graphic adaptation of loanwords in the Russian language. The variability expands due to the adaptation of new words from the global English departs from the existing orthographic rules. The author demonstrates the phenomenon of orthographic destabilization using the representative examples; as well as concludes that it is of destructive nature, and should be overcome by hewing to the relevant orthographic trends and rules.
Generative syntacticians often assume that sentential negatives in all languages are the content of a functional head Neg. Although negatives in many languages are amenable to such an analysis, negatives in certain Polynesian languages are not. This chapter first reviews the evidence presented by Hohepa (1969) and others that sentential negatives in Māori are lexical heads, either intransitive verbs or adjectives, which are the main predicate of a clause that excludes the negated clause. It then explores the question of why Māori negatives should differ from the crosslinguistic norm. The answer that is proposed appeals to syntactic-semantic typology and Māori prosody, and engages with the larger issue of how lexical and functional heads are realized in Polynesian languages.
This article discusses the problems of translating Russian-German media texts related to culture and art. In the descriptions of artistic works and their impact, we find a large amount of emotional-expressive vocabulary, adjectives, extended metaphors and comparisons, and on the level of syntax-a large number of parallelisms or emotional reversals, which cause certain difficulties in the process of translation. However, sometimes translating special terminology is no less difficult, specially when terms are new and do not have established equivalents recognized by the scholarly community or even when, rarely though, terms are used with ironic nuances. In this case translators resort to transliteration or borrowing. However, the use of calques in the translation of new terminology leads to violations of the norms of the target language and inaccuracies in the transfer of meaning.Professional jargon acquires additional contextual meaning, which is not always detected and appropriately rendered by the translator. Translation of texts containing terms in culture and art requires consult with a specialist in the field, who will be able to interpret the terminological meaning of the lexical unit and help translate it accurately.
This study examines language use in press releases by student representatives and authorities of selected Nigerian federal universities on students’ protests, with particular emphasis on the ideological representation of self and other. Data were sourced from online newspaper reports on students’ protests in three randomly sampled federal universities in southwestern Nigeria: University of Ibadan, Obafemi Awolowo University, and University of Ilorin. Data were analysed with insights from van Dijk’s (2004) Critical Discourse Analysis. Findings reveal the discourse is characterised by ideological strategies of positive self-representation and negative other-representation that thrive on discursive moves as lexicalization, negative description of actor’s action, polarization, evidentiality, comparison, number-game, vagueness, counterfactual, categorization, implication, norm expression, and presupposition, among others. While the student representatives depict school authorities as wicked, anti-students’ welfare and oppressive, school authorities project themselves as proactive, efficient, and competent; representing the student representatives as naive, infantile and corrupt.
The article presents usage of address forms in Polish and Hungarian in requests addressed to a stranger. Addressatives are treated as linguistic manifestations of perceiving and building an interpersonal relationship, and their choice is influenced by the way of perceiving a given social context, and the way of categorizing the participants and the activated schematic linguistic and extralinguistic knowledge. The results presented in the article show the conventional use of address forms in Hungarian and Polish, and the differences in the construction of Polish and Hungarian requests (87 respondents in total, 870 requests, which constituted 35% of the entire survey). The article is based on two studies – one conducted using the DCT (discourse completion test) method among Hungarian and Polish-speaking language users, and the second examining the attitude of young, professionally active people to using T/V forms. As the results show, the biggest difference between Polish and Hungarian language users can be observed when interacting with similar aged stranger. While Polish data providers used more frequently V forms, and formal lexical elements, Hungarians commonly used T forms. The attitude test showed also, that T forms are perceived by Hungarians as common and neutral choice, while V forms are frequently used in strongly formal contexts. Social context of interaction shows strong influence on the structural choices made in each language eg.: indirectness or epistemic modality expressed in requests. The phenomenon of linguistic politeness is presented and analyzed as a linguistic manifestation of the perception of the social context, and the main motivation for the made linguistic choices is not etiquette or norms, but adequate language choices – implemented not only through addressing forms, but also the structure of the request – to the social context and goals of the participants of the interaction (Watts 2003, Watts & Locher 2005).
The present study is an attempt to examine Chomsky’s theory of movement and see if it is applicable in Arabic language. and also verbless sentences distribution by exploring their syntactic comportment and presenting two minimalist proposals to justify the motivating wh-movement in such verbless sentences as well as checking their agreement features. Although, the verbless sentence does not contain any overtly lexical copular verb in the context of present tense in modern standard Arabic, but there still an authorization of case and agreement features. Arabian verbless investigations involve a vacancy in addition to discard copula Norm hypothesis. This suggests depending on the minimalist syntax model by (Chomsky, N., 1992a, 1995b); Arabic verbless statements should have no verb as well as verb phrase, because of the two possibilities that inflected through tense for representing the present tense explanation: one without a verb another through a verb (copula).
The Audiovisual Translation (AVT) and Media Accessibility fields have found an ongoing interest in corpus research both for descriptive purposes (Matamala, 2008; Baños, 2013; Reviers, 2017) and for teaching purposes (Rica Peromingo, 2019; Baños, 2021). In an interdisciplinary fashion, Blanca Arias-Badia’s book Subtitling Television Series. A Corpus-Driven Study of Police Procedurals specifically takes on the task of describing the principal linguistic features of crime fiction television scripts and their corresponding Spanish subtitles. Its interdisciplinary nature lies on the combination of Television Studies, Linguistics and Translation Studies (TS). Notably, the author explores the notion of norms and patterns through the lens of these three disciplines, all by situating the source text and the target text in the spoken word to written language continuum. The book follows a clear structure of nine chapters including a theoretical and methodological contextualisation of the (quantitative and qualitative) morphosyntactic and lexical analysis of the Corpus of Police Procedurals [...]
Speech translation (ST) has lately received growing interest for the generation of subtitles without the need for an intermediate source language transcription and timing (i.e. captions). However, the joint generation of source captions and target subtitles does not only bring potential output quality advantages when the two decoding processes inform each other, but it is also often required in multilingual scenarios. In this work, we focus on ST models which generate consistent captions-subtitles in terms of structure and lexical content. We further introduce new metrics for evaluating subtitling consistency. Our findings show that joint decoding leads to increased performance and consistency between the generated captions and subtitles while still allowing for sufficient flexibility to produce subtitles conforming to language-specific needs and norms.
The article offers a linguosophical approach to the artistic linguistics of A. Krymskyi, historian-orientalist, writer (prose writer and poet), polyglot, philologist, translator. More than a hundred years have passed since A. Krymskyi wrote the novel “Andriy Lahovskyi”, and the author’s artistic narrative is of interest not only to historians of Ukrainian literature, but also to culturologists, psychologists, and language historians. The analysis of the artistic narrative of the Krymskyi as philologist is carried out in the following aspects: linguistic and structural characteristics of the text (vocabulary, phraseology, syntax) in comparison with the literary norm of modern Ukrainian, pragmalinguistic modeling of markers of the society represented by linguistic portraits of characters. characters. The conclusion about the interaction of colloquial and book (foreign language borrowings) sources in the modern reception of the history of the Ukrainian literary language of the end of the XIX – the beginning of the XX century is made. Numerous foreign words-terms, in particular in the field of psychiatry, are indicative of A. Krymskyi’s artistic narrative, especially when it comes to the state of the character’s psyche. foreign terminological vocabulary contrasts with the emotionally expressive content of colloquial structures, Ukrainian phraseology and interspersed foreign language mintexts. Text markers of social stratification of society include psycholinguistic evaluative statements of the author about the situational behavior of the characters. A. Krymskyi’s artistic narrative reveals signs of the author’s philological thinking, his constant attention to the explanation of the meanings of words, to the translation of foreign names. A significant number of lexical, word-forming, grammatical variants of the Ukrainian language are recorded in the individual style of the writer. Comparing them with lexicographic sources reveals the author’s preferences, time markers of the dynamic literary norm of the late nineteenth – early twentieth century.
The article examines the local level of national-territorial self-identification. Interest in this issue is due to extralinguistic and linguistic factors. Extralinguistic factors are associated with increased migration and globalization in the modern world, which leads to a smearing of the territorial and national identity. The relevance of the stated problem is due to its inclusion in the paradigm of modern linguistics that studies the issues of the relationship between language and thinking thus revealing the linguistic potential of the modeling of cognitive processes. The aim of the article is to determine factors on which local self-identification is based. Research materials are autobiographical short stories of people living in the villages of Tomsk Oblast. Local self-identification is understood as the awareness of one's belonging to a certain territory and its community, history and events, which manifests itself in the linguistic picture of the world, in the system of values, ideas, stereotypes and norms, and is reflected in the language. The main source of the material is the texts of the Tomsk dialect corpus, recorded during dialectological expeditions from 1946 to the present in the areas of distribution of Russian old-resident dialects of the Middle Ob region. As an additional source, recollections and oral autobiographical short stories of witnesses of dispossession and exile to the Narym region are used. Local self-identification is expressed most clearly by lexical units with the semantics of belonging to a territory, to a place of residence: mestnyy [local], zdeshniy/izdeshniy [of this place], privezennyy [brought/imported], derevenskiy [rural], korennoy [indigenous]. The analysis of autobiographical stories reveals the actualization of such criteria as birth and permanent residence in a certain area; the presence of ancestors who were born and lived in the same locus as the speaker; emotional attachment to the area, knowledge of the local language, and some others. Local self-identification is expressed in the nominations selo [village]/derevnya [country] and gorod [city], which are endowed with the attributive properties of “ours” (svoy [one's], nash [our], derevenskiy [rural], mestnyy [local], zdeshniy/izdeshniy [of this place], korennoy [indigenous]) and “theirs” (ne nash [not ours], chuzhoy [strange], priyezzhiy [newcomer]). The analysis of the autobiographical short stories of rural residents shows that local self-identification is determined not only by living in a certain territory, but also by the way of life of people, the system of norms, ideas and values. It is inseparable from self-presentation and characteristics of people living in a particular territory. The stereotypical image of a villager reflects, first of all, the specifics of rural existence, which is based on labor and closeness to nature. The local identity of the inhabitants of the Siberian village is formed through the system of oppositions “city-village”, “old-resident-migrant”, “Siberia-European part of Russia”.
Вопрос изучения имени личного представляет очень большой интерес как для науки, так и для общества в целом. Вся совокупность имен личных (и шире – собственных) относится, как известно, к той части лексической системы языка, исследования которой представляют огромную ценность. В научном языкознании для изучения имени определена отдельная отрасль – ономастика. Деэтимологизация ономастических единиц является важнымне только для языкознания, но и для различных отраслей знания, в частности, для исторической науки в деле изучения древнейшей истории народов (реконструкции архаичных социальных систем, верований, религий, быта), мест их расселения в различные периоды. В настоящей статье нами рассмотрены имена людей – антропонимы в социально-историческом аспекте нового и новейшего времени, времени тотальной глобализации и демократизации. Исторически сложившаяся система наименования людей уходит в глубокую древность, но она не была консервативна и с течением времени, со сменой эпох, постепенно менялась. Когда-то закрытые национальные именные системы (именники), под влиянием все более усиливающихся социальных и культурных взаимодействий народов мира, медленно, но верно «сдавали свои позиции». Началось активное взаимозаимствование личных имен среди различных по этнической принадлежности групп. В современных национальных именных системах вполне мирно уживаются исконные и заимствованные (чужестранные) имена. В то же время между ними наблюдается некий антагонизм, вызванный к жизни понятием исконности/неисконности, который, в свою очередь, основан на значении слова (апеллятива), из которого произошло имя. Есть имена пришлые (заимствованные), которые на чужой почве принимающего языка получают облик, соответствующий нормам последнего. Транснациональными именами, по нашему мнению, следует считать ономастические единицы, не знающие этнических и государственных преград, легко преодолевающие географические барьеры. Именно они служат одним из действенных инструментов глобализации. The question of studying the personal name is of very great interest both for the researchers and for the society as a whole. The entire set of personal (and more broadly - proper) names refers to that part of the lexical system of any language, the research of which is of great value. In linguistics a separate branch is defined for the study of a name - onomastics. De-etymologization of onomastic units is important not only for linguistics, but also for various branches of knowledge, in particular, for historical science in the study of the ancient history of peoples (reconstruction of archaic social systems, beliefs, religions, everyday life), places of their settlement in different periods. In this article, we examined the names of persons - anthroponyms in the socio-historical aspect of the new and modern times, the time of total globalization and democratization. The historically established system of naming people goes back to antiquity, but it was not conservative and gradually changed over time, with the change of eras. Once closed national nominal systems (names), under the influence of ever-increasing social and cultural interactions of the peoples of the world, slowly but surely "gave up their positions." An active inter-borrowing of personal names began among groups of different ethnicity. In modern national naming systems, primordial and borrowed (foreign) names coexist quite peacefully. At the same time, there is a certain antagonism between them, brought to life by the concept of originality / non-originality, which, in turn, is based on the meaning of the word (appellative) from which the name originated. There are new names (borrowed), which, on the basis of the foreign soil of the receiving language, acquire an appearance that corresponds to the norms of the latter. In our opinion, transnational names should be considered onomastic units that do not know ethnic and state barriers, easily overcome geographic barriers. They serve as one of the most effective tools for globalization.
This research paper looks at the language use to exploit and propagate certain stereotypes imposing on the parties involved in the institution of marriage. A critical discourse analysis with a field, tenor, mode approach uncovers how bride and bridegroom are deprived of their consents on various issues and are socially forced to accept the assumptions created by prevalent social norms. The study exposes how the use of certain discourses and lexical choices restrict the participants to overlook or discard other options which could be otherwise legally and religiously granted to them. The study emphasizes that the current marriage certificate (Nikah Nama) needs to be thoroughly revised in order to eliminate language exploitation and allow both parties to be well aware and exercise their rights before giving their consent in good faith, predetermined by the social taboos.
The urgency of the article is due to new requirements for the structure and content of a dictionary entry in the theory of modern lexicography and the need to increase the semantic capacity of the interpretation of meaning by including restrictive information. At the same time, the issue of restrictive components in lexicographic practice has not been finally resolved; however, many modern ideas can already be traced in the “Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language” by V. I. Dahl. The methodology of the study is based on the analysis of various types of fragments of a dictionary entry, presenting lexicographically significant information that cannot be deduced directly from the lexical semantics, but is significant for the correct use of the word. The article highlights the types of restrictive components presented in the dictionary. Language restrictions can be due to the language system, norm or usus. Restrictions by the system fix special types of bound meanings and reflect the reasons for the appearance of such meanings as means of secondary nomination. Restrictions by the norm fix the existence of stylistically colored meanings and set the conditions for their use. Among the systemic restrictions of Dahl’s dictionary, there are morphological restrictions, which fix the obligatory forms of syntagmatically related words by means of generalizing pronouns; syntactic restrictions accompanying syntactically bound meanings with an indication of the corresponding conditions of use; lexical restrictions outlining a list of context partners, in combination with which the interpreted meaning is realized. Restrictions of the object-logical content of a word do not affect the change in meaning in terms of marking or dependence; they fully depend on the process of categorization, by the peculiarities of delimitating certain areas of reality by this language. The extra-linguistic factor underlies the restrictions of the situational context, which verbalize information of an encyclopedic nature in the dictionary: historical, social, cultural, ideological. Restrictions of pragmatic nature are represented in the dictionary by a wide variety of emotional-expressive and functional-stylistic marks, as well as marks and comments that characterize the social differentiation of the language. A special place is occupied by restrictions that translate communicatively meaningful information about the asymmetry of social roles. © 2021 Authors. All rights reserved.
The article is devoted to English legal terminology in the context of literary translation.The choice of this topic is due to the fact that the main problems in the translation of works of art and films in which there is a legal discourse, may be associated not so much with limited knowledge of the translator in legal terminology, but with the preservation of the author and stylistic functions of the term.Thanks to the concepts developed in this article, the peculiarities of the ways of translation and reproduction of the problems that arose during the translation of legal terminology were revealed.The article focuses on the terminology used in the legal field and on examples of their use in fiction and film.Before proceeding to the formation of the main results of this work, it was necessary to correctly delineate the concept of "legal term", so a definition was formed, which stated that the legal term is a linguistic definition of state and legal concepts, which expresses and the content of normative legal orders of the state is fixed.This paper considers the peculiarities of the translation of legal terminology, as the main role in the translation of legal texts is played not only by knowledge of legal norms, legal terminology, judicial systems, but also the personal qualities of the translator, as the translation of any text allows interaction of two sovereign national languages, as well as intercultural aspects.First of all, the specifics of educational technical and artistic translation are considered, which provides special literature in the field of law.The analysis of sources and types of legal terms of English is carried out.The main translation difficulties that may arise when working with English-language literary text, which includes legal terminology, are outlined.The lexical and grammatical transformations used during the translation of a legal text are analyzed.
AbstractCoverage of terminology in Uzbek linguistics on the basis of methods of system-structural analysis is one of the current issues. This has led to the need to conduct research on the formation of terms in Turkish terminology, the criteria for the selection of terms, their effectiveness, compliance and active use of the terms in accordance with the norms of literary language, the structural features of terms. In this sense, the terminology pays special attention to revealing the lexical-semantic, derivational and lexicographic features of aviation terms. This article highlights the scientific significance of the lexical-semantic, lexicographic description of aviation terms, as well as the need to conduct office work, reading and teaching in the Uzbek language.
The article examines the semantic nature of the word “Sufi”, widely used in the history of language. The based linguistic materials are differentiated by scientific data. The analysis looks at terminological, religious, linguistic concepts of the word, its semantic use and changes in historical periods, lexical and semantic concepts and functions of our language. It is also the foundations of the formation of the word Sufi in accordance with the norms of public speech, its entry into circulation, the period of its activity, etc. The definition of the word as a character, the conclusions of those who have completely sacrificed themselves to religion and accepted it as a way of life, are well presented in the historical data. Periodic and systematic lines of work are consistently offered. The life principles of those who have glorified and promoted Sufism, paved a particular path, and formed a school of Sufism are also presented with compelling facts. The information that these famous schools had their own principles, ways, and structure is based on the opinions and conclusions of scholars. In fact, if the cognitive characteristics of the worshipper, worship, action, and piety, which have special significance in human life, are subjected to special analysis, the method, purpose, and mission of those who follow this path are considered very important. At the same time, such actions of those who make Sufism their pillar, aim at it, and set as a principle to live only by love to the Creator alone, inevitably requires special study. Therefore, the importance of this work is reflected here, and special attention is paid to the etymological study of the history and semantic nature of the word. The first meaning of the word Sufi, the second name, the official meaning, has been scientifically established. The fact that from the first appearance of the word such issues as submission to the Creator's will, directing all thoughts and actions to the Creator, have influenced the history of the word's origin cannot be overlooked. The author reveals the basic principles and pillars of the word, its concepts, and therefore its status in worship. In a word, the official nature of the word Sufi was defined, which determined the role and place in the formation of values in the spiritual cognition of the peoples of the Kazakh steppes.
The paper is dedicated to the analysis of irregular intensifying constructions in Fyodor Dostoevskys individual style, more specifically of irregular lexical combinations including an intensifier and a main word. The meaning of intensifies is completely focused on expressing the intensity of an attribute, action or state denominated by the main word. Fyodor Dostoevskys writing style tends to form certain types of irregular lexical combinations including intensifiers. Through a case study of intensifiers ochen, goryachii / goryacho, izo vsekh sil, etc. the article describes several main types of irregular combinations with the view to find out semantic effects of irregular combinability. The analysis has covered the complete corpus of Fyodor Doestoevskys texts (fiction, journalism, private correspondence, business correspondence and documents). The first discriminant mark of irregular combinations is the semantic contradiction between the terms, the violation of idiomatic compatibility rules is the second feature taken into account. Whereas collocational rules in modern Russian differ a lot from the language norms of the 19th century, the subcorpus of 19th century texts of the National Russian Corpus serves to test the irregular idiomatic combinability. The article shows how the irregular combinability causes context meaning shifts profiling peripheral semantic features of the main word or imposing on it an untypical and contradictory semantics. In irregular lexical combinations, the language representation changes due to the original authors reinterpretation of the referential situation. The irregular lexical combinations with intensifiers are thereafter a distinctive feature of Fyodor Dostoevskys individual writing style that reveals his original conceptualization of the world.
This article is structured on the intersection of two paradigms, namely, two basic ideas &ndash; linguoecology and optimal teaching of Russian as a foreign language, which is dictated by the peculiarities of communicative and speech situation in Russia of the XXI century, a fundamental change in the category of normativity and expansion of the boundaries of usage, which actively includes all elements of the substandard. Thus, the development of lexical competence among foreign students becomes a pressing issue. The methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language advances by deepening links with linguistics, at the current stage &ndash; with such important area of linguistic science as linguoecology. Over the past decade, linguistic ecology turned into an independent branch and clearly formulated its difference from cognate disciplines, such as rhetoric, stylistics, and speech culture. If the category of norm revolves around the concepts of &ldquo;appropriate&rdquo; / &ldquo;inappropriate&rdquo;, the ecology of language, or ecological linguistics, is concerned with the question of usefulness or harmfulness of a particular phenomenon for the language, its development and prosperity, in other words,&nbsp; its &ldquo;eco-friendliness&rdquo;. Considering the fact that this direction is a new direction in linguistics, and even its basic terminology is yet to be established: the terms ecological linguistics, language ecology, linguoecology, and ecolinguistics are used in a close sense. However, the sphere of interests of the new direction is clearly outlines: on the global scale, this is the problem of endangered languages and cultures of indigenous small-numbered peoples, and within the framework of a living functioning language, these processes are destructive specifically for it.
The article presents the results of a comparative study of grammatical structuring and the construction of a coherent utterance in younger schoolchildren with general speech underdevelopment and mental retardation in comparison with the norm. A significant similarity in manifestations and the presence of specific features are shown. The predominance of the deficit of semantic programming in the case of mental retardation and the difficulties of semantic programming, serial organization and lexical formulation of the utterance in the general speech underdevelopment was revealed.
The article raises the issue of the formation of professional translation competence by studying the main methods of translation of English attributive word combinations, which are one of the most characteristic phenomena of English syntax. Translation competence is characterized by a person’s ability to communicate effectively in various spheres of life, knowledge of language norms, knowledge of etiquette, understanding of cultural characteristics and the ability to use this knowledge depending on the situation. The article focuses on the linguistic component of translation competence, which involves knowledge of the language system and its rules of functioning during foreign language communication, in particular, the grammatical aspect is considered. Compared to the Ukrainian language, the structural and semantic features of attributive groups in modern English have a wider range of semantic and grammatical connections between members of word combination, which leads to translation difficulties and requires the use of various grammatical and lexical transformations. The study highlights and characterizes the main methods and techniques of reproduction of selected grammatical phenomena in the Ukrainian language, clarifies which structural models of the studied constructions are the most productive, also performed contrastive translation analysis of the transfer of attributive word combinations. It was found that one of the main ways to translate attributive constructions with a noun attribute is to rearrange the members of a phrase, and grammatical transformations such as replacing a noun with an adjective or a verb phrase are also often used. Another technique used in translating attributive prepositional constructions with a noun attribute is descriptive translation, in which the word, phrase, term, or phraseology of the source language is replaced in the target language by a phrase that adequately conveys the meaning of the word or phrase. Mastering these techniques will increase the translation competence of students and improve interlingual communication skills. Keywords: translation competence, attributive word combination, lexical transformation, grammatical transformation, translation studies.
From a simplified analysis of adaptive methods, we derive AvaGrad, a new optimizer which outperforms SGD on vision tasks when its adaptability is properly tuned. We observe that the power of our method is partially explained by a decoupling of learning rate and adaptability, greatly simplifying hyperparameter search. In light of this observation, we demonstrate that, against conventional wisdom, Adam can also outperform SGD on vision tasks, as long as the coupling between its learning rate and adaptability is taken into account. In practice, AvaGrad matches the best results, as measured by generalization accuracy, delivered by any existing optimizer (SGD or adaptive) across image classification (CIFAR, ImageNet) and character-level language modelling (Penn Treebank) tasks. When training GANs, AvaGrad improves upon existing optimizers. <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">1</sup>
Background: Limited research has investigated whether replacing psychiatric diagnosis with psychological formulation-based approaches has implications for lay attitudes to mental health. The present study investigates experimentally whether presenting psychosis in terms of a schizophrenia diagnosis vs. formulation narrative affects stigma and treatment attitudes in the general public.Method: The study employed a between-groups experimental vignette design, with data collected online. 351 participants (64.1% female, aged 18–66, ) read a vignette about a person experiencing psychosis, defined with either a diagnosis of schizophrenia or a narrative-based formulation. Participants completed a battery of scales measuring their attitudes to the vignette character (social distance, attribution, recommended treatment options, mental help-seeking attitudes).Results: Desired social distance was significantly greater in participants exposed to the diagnostic label of schizophrenia. The schizophrenia label led participants to rate medical care as significantly more helpful relative to the formulation condition but did not affect ratings of specialist or community care or mental help-seeking attitudes.Conclusions: These findings suggest that a psychological formulation approach may slightly lessen stigma-related attitudes, relative to traditional diagnostic systems. Popularisation of formulation models need not compromise general orientations to help-seeking or perceived helpfulness of specialist care but may lead to less medicalised treatment preferences.
Accurate recovery of predicate-argument structure from a Universal Dependency (UD) parse is central to downstream tasks such as extraction of semantic roles or event representations. This study introduces compchains, a categorization of the hierarchy of predicate dependency relations present within a UD parse. Accuracy of compchain classification serves as a proxy for measuring accurate recovery of predicate-argument structure from sentences with embedding. We analyzed the distribution of compchains in three UD English treebanks, EWT, GUM and LinES, revealing that these treebanks are sparse with respect to sentences with predicate-argument structure that includes predicate-argument embedding. We evaluated the CoNLL 2018 Shared Task UDPipe (v1.2) baseline (dependency parsing) models as compchain classifiers for the EWT, GUMS and LinES UD treebanks. Our results indicate that these three baseline models exhibit poorer performance on sentences with predicate-argument structure with more than one level of embedding; we used compchains to characterize the errors made by these parsers and present examples of erroneous parses produced by the parser that were identified using compchains. We also analyzed the distribution of compchains in 58 non-English UD treebanks and then used compchains to evaluate the CoNLL'18 Shared Task baseline model for each of these treebanks. Our analysis shows that performance with respect to compchain classification is only weakly correlated with the official evaluation metrics (LAS, MLAS and BLEX). We identify gaps in the distribution of compchains in several of the UD treebanks, thus providing a roadmap for how these treebanks may be supplemented. We conclude by discussing how compchains provide a new perspective on the sparsity of training data for UD parsers, as well as the accuracy of the resulting UD parses.
Morphological tagging of code-switching (CS) data becomes more challenging especially when language pairs composing the CS data have different morphological representations. In this paper, we explore a number of ways of implementing a language-aware morphological tagging method and present our approach for integrating language IDs into a transformerbased framework for CS morphological tagging. We perform our set of experiments on the Turkish-German SAGT Treebank. Experimental results show that including language IDs to the learning model significantly improves accuracy over other approaches.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate remote testing as a tool for measuring emotional responses to non-speech sounds. DESIGN: Participants self-reported their hearing status and rated valence and arousal in response to non-speech sounds on an Internet crowdsourcing platform. These ratings were compared to data obtained in a laboratory setting with participants who had confirmed normal or impaired hearing. STUDY SAMPLE: Adults with normal and impaired hearing. RESULTS: In both settings, participants with hearing loss rated pleasant sounds as less pleasant than did their peers with normal hearing. The difference in valence ratings between groups was generally smaller when measured in the remote setting than in the laboratory setting. This difference was the result of participants with normal hearing rating sounds as less extreme (less pleasant, less unpleasant) in the remote setting than did their peers in the laboratory setting, whereas no such difference was noted for participants with hearing loss. Ratings of arousal were similar from participants with normal and impaired hearing; the similarity persisted in both settings. CONCLUSIONS: In both test settings, participants with hearing loss rated pleasant sounds as less pleasant than did their normal hearing counterparts. Future work is warranted to explain the ratings of participants with normal hearing.
OBJECTIVES: Age differences in affective experience across adulthood are widely documented. According to the circumplex model of affect consists of 2 aspects-valence (positive vs negative) and arousal (low activation vs high activation). Prior research on age differences has primarily focused on the valence aspect. However, little is known about age differences in daily affect of high and low arousal. METHOD: The present study examined age differences in daily dynamics (i.e., mean levels, variability, and inertia) of negative affect (NA) and positive affect (PA) of high and low arousal in a sample of 492 adults aged 21-91. Participants completed daily affect ratings for 21 consecutive days. RESULTS: Age was negatively and linearly related to mean levels of both high-arousal and low-arousal NA. Both high-arousal and low-arousal PA mean levels showed increases after middle age. Further, age was related to lower variability in both NA and PA regardless of arousal. Additionally, high-arousal NA inertia showed a linear decrease with age, whereas low-arousal PA inertia showed an inverted-U pattern with age. After controlling for mean levels of affect, the associations between age and affect variability remained significant, whereas the associations between age and affect inertia did not. DISCUSSION: The affective profile of older age is characterized by lower mean levels of NA, higher mean levels of PA, lower affect variability, and less persistence in high-arousal NA and low-arousal PA in daily life. Our results contribute to a nuanced understanding of which affective processes improve with age and which do not.
We propose two fast neural combinatory models for constituency parsing: binary and multibranching. Our models decompose the bottomup parsing process into 1) classification of tags, labels, and binary orientations or chunks and 2) vector composition based on the computed orientations or chunks. These models have theoretical sub-quadratic complexity and empirical linear complexity. The binary model achieves an F1 score of 92.54 on Penn Treebank, speeding at 1327.2 sents/sec. Both the models with XLNet provide near state-of-theart accuracies for English. Syntactic branching tendency and headedness of a language are observed during the training and inference processes for Penn Treebank, Chinese Treebank, and Keyaki Treebank (Japanese).
In this study, the affective explicit and implicit attitudes toward electric and gasoline cars are investigated. One hundred sixty-five participants (103 cisgender women, 62 cisgender men) completed an explicit and implicit affective rating task toward pictures of electric and gasoline cars, measurements of sustainability, future and past behaviors, and mindfulness. The results showed a positive emotional attitude for the electric cars compared with the gasoline cars only for the explicit rating but not for the implicit one. Furthermore, factors that correlated to the attitudes were investigated: explicit ratings in car owners correlated with age, degree, sustainability in general, and the expressed intention to purchase an electric car in the future. Implicit attitudes in car owners correlated with the overall score of mindfulness and the dimension of "non-reactivity." For the non-car owners, explicit attitudes correlated with the expressed intention to purchase an electric car in the future and the mindfulness dimension of "describing". In this group, the implicit attitude correlated negatively with the mindfulness intention of acting with awareness. This indicates that several different factors should be considered in the development of promotion campaigns for the advantage of sustainable mobility behavior.
People use their previous experience to predict present affective events. Since we live in ever-changing environments, affective predictions must generalize from past contexts (from which they are implicitly learned) to new, potentially ambiguous contexts. This study investigated how past (un)certain relationships influence subjective experience following new ambiguous cues, and whether past relationships can be learned implicitly. Two S1-S2 paradigms were employed as learning and test phases in two experiments. S1s were colored circles, S2s negative or neutral affective pictures. Participants (N = 121, 116) were assigned to the certain (CG) or uncertain group (UG), and they were presented with 100% (CG) or 50% (UG) S1-S2 congruency during an uninstructed (Experiment 1) or implicit (Experiment 2) learning phase. During the test phase both groups were presented with a new 75% S1-S2 paradigm, and ambiguous (Experiment 1) or unambiguous (Experiment 2) S1s. Participants were asked to rate the expected valence of upcoming S2s (expectancy ratings), or their experienced valence and arousal (valence and arousal ratings). In Experiment 1 ambiguous cues elicited less negative expectancy ratings, and less unpleasant valence ratings, independently from prior experience. In Experiment 2, participants in the CG reported more negative expectancy ratings after the S1s previously paired with negative stimuli. Overall, we found that in the presence of ambiguous cues subjective affective experience is dampened, and we confirmed that people are able to infer probabilistic relationships from the environment (and to use them later) at an implicit level.
STUDY OBJECTIVES: Sleep plays a pivotal role in the off-line processing of emotional memory. However, much remains unknown for its immediate vs. long-term influences. We employed behavioral and electrophysiological measures to investigate the short- and long-term impacts of sleep vs. sleep deprivation on emotional memory. METHODS: Fifty-nine participants incidentally learned 60 negative and 60 neutral pictures in the evening and were randomly assigned to either sleep or sleep deprivation conditions. We measured memory recognition and subjective affective ratings in 12- and 60-h post-encoding tests, with EEGs in the delayed test. RESULTS: In a 12-h post-encoding test, compared to sleep deprivation, sleep equally preserved both negative and neutral memory, and their affective tones. In the 60-h post-encoding test, negative and neutral memories declined significantly in the sleep group, with attenuated emotional responses to negative memories over time. Furthermore, two groups showed spatial-temporally distinguishable ERPs at the delayed test: while both groups showed the old-new frontal negativity (300-500 ms, FN400), sleep-deprived participants additionally showed an old-new parietal, Late Positive Component effect (600-1000 ms, LPC). Multivariate whole-brain ERPs analyses further suggested that sleep prioritized neural representation of emotion over memory processing, while they were less distinguishable in the sleep deprivation group. CONCLUSIONS: These data suggested that sleep's impact on emotional memory and affective responses is time-dependent: sleep preserved memories and affective tones in the short term, while ameliorating affective tones in the long term. Univariate and multivariate EEG analyses revealed different neurocognitive processing of remote, emotional memories between sleep and sleep deprivation groups.
Recurrent neural networks are efficient ways of training language models, and various RNN networks have been proposed to improve performance. However, with the increase of network scales, the overfitting problem becomes more urgent. In this paper, we propose a framework-G2Basy-to speed up the training process and ease the overfitting problem. Instead of using predefined hyperparameters, we devise a gradient increasing and decreasing technique that changes the parameters training batch size and input dropout simultaneously by a user-defined step size. Together with a pretrained word embedding initialization procedure and the introduction of different optimizers at different learning rates, our framework speeds up the training process dramatically and improves performance compared with a benchmark model of the same scale. For the word embedding initialization, we propose the concept of "artificial features" to describe the characteristics of the obtained word embeddings. We experiment on two of the most often used corpora-the Penn Treebank and WikiText-2 datasets-and both outperform the benchmark results and show potential towards further improvement. Furthermore, our framework shows better results with the larger and more complicated WikiText-2 corpus than with the Penn Treebank. Compared with other state-of-the-art results, we achieve comparable results with network scales hundreds of times smaller and within fewer training epochs.
BACKGROUND: Youth with anxiety disorders struggle with managing emotions relative to peers, but the neural basis of this difference has not been examined. METHODS: = 13.6; range = 8-17) with (n = 37) and without (n = 24) anxiety disorders completed a cognitive reappraisal task while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging. Emotional reactivity and regulation, functional activation, and beta-series connectivity were compared across groups. RESULTS: Groups did not differ on emotional reactivity or regulation. However, fronto-limbic activation after viewing aversive imagery with and without regulation, as well as affect ratings without regulation, were higher for anxious youth. Neither group demonstrated age-related changes in regulation, though anxious youth became less reactive with age. Stronger amygdala-ventromedial prefrontal cortex connectivity related to greater anxiety in control youth, but less anxiety in anxious youth. CONCLUSION: Anxious youth regulated when instructed, but regulation ability did not relate to age. Viewing aversive imagery related to heightened fronto-limbic activation even after reappraisal. Emotion dysregulation in youth anxiety disorders may stem from heightened emotionality and potent bottom-up neurobiological responses to aversive stimuli. Findings suggest the importance of treatments focused on both reducing initial emotional reactivity and bolstering regulatory capacity.
Affective experiences occur across the wake-sleep cycle-from active wakefulness to resting wakefulness (i.e., mind-wandering) to sleep (i.e., dreaming). Yet, we know little about the dynamics of affect across these states. We compared the affective ratings of waking, mind-wandering, and dream episodes. Results showed that mind-wandering was more positively valenced than dreaming, and that both mind-wandering and dreaming were more negatively valenced than active wakefulness. We also compared participants' self-ratings of affect with external ratings of affect (i.e., analysis of affect in verbal reports). With self-ratings all episodes were predominated by positive affect. However, the affective valence of reports changed from positively valenced waking reports to affectively balanced mind-wandering reports to negatively valenced dream reports. These findings show that (1) the positivity bias characteristic to waking experiences decreases across the wake-sleep continuum, and (2) conclusions regarding affective experiences depend on whether self-ratings or verbal reports describing these experiences are analysed.