Concept Of Sphere Research Articles

The name of educational institutions in the pedagogical discourse of F. A. Vigdorova (based on the works of 1950-1960)

The object is the prose of 1950-1960 by F. A. Vigdorova. The subject is the words representing the concept of "EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS". The aim is to identify the role of the names of educational institutions in the pedagogical discourse of F. A. Vigdorova (based on the material of the prose of 1950-1960). Methods: linguistic observation, description, interpretation, statistical calculation, elements of component analysis. It is established that the lexical and semantic field of the concept "EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS" consists of lexical and semantic groups (LSG): LSG "Secondary educational institutions", LSG "Secondary specialized educational institutions", LSG "Higher educational institutions". The first LSG is the most frequent, which indicates its special importance in the mental and linguistic complex of the linguistic personality of F. A. Vigdorova, broadcasting the pedagogical views of the writer, in particular, about the key role of school in the formation of a child's personality. However, no less important are the second and third LSGs, expressing the pragmatic, moral, ideological, and social attitudes of F. A. Vigdorova. The relevance of the article is due to the interest of scientists in considering the concept of "EDUCATION"; referring to the role of the names of educational institutions in the pedagogical discourse of the writer in forming ideas about the peculiarities of a certain fragment of the linguistic picture of the world by F. A. Vigdorova; researching the language of works F. A. Vigdorova from the point of view of the anthropocentric approach, its lack of study, makes the novelty of the work. The results of allow us to expand our understanding of the specifics of F. A. Vigdorova's worldview, the features of her conceptual sphere, and identify the leading features of the writer's idiosyncrasy in prose of the 1950s and 1960s.

Materializing the public sphere in American religious history

AbstractThis article reviews scholarship in American religious history around the concept of the public sphere. Considering that the public sphere was readily aligned with the productions of the printing press, ‘materializing’ surveys works that have relied upon, expanded, and critiqued print's centraility to early American religious public culture. Recent attention to materiality has also encouraged greater attention to contingencies, locality of circulation, and specificity of audiences in our studies of public texts that would trouble technological determinisms that readily aligned Protestant ascendance, secular modernity, and print publishing with democratization. The essay concludes with new questions regarding print culture, calls for greater multimedia approaches to our study of media objects, and posits the importance of critically evaluating what we count as public or private in our historical narratives about religious communities.

Virtual Public Sphere On Social Media (Habermas' Critical Study Of The Digital Hoax Phenomenon Whatsaap Group Alumni Iluni Menwa UI)

The present study aims to examine the phenomenon of the Virtual Public Sphere on social media, specifically focusing on the impact of digital hoaxes within the ILUNI Menwa UI Alumni WhatsApp Group. In the contemporary era of digital information, the proliferation of digital hoaxes, particularly those about the COVID-19 pandemic, has emerged as a noteworthy concern, exerting a discernible influence on public discourse. The primary objective of this study is to examine the effects of digital hoaxes on the Virtual Public Sphere. This research addresses a significant vacuum in the existing literature by integrating three critical theoretical frameworks: New Media Theory, Network Wealth Theory, and Jürgen Habermas' Concept of Virtual Public Spheres. The research inquiry examines the influence of digital hoaxes on communication and social interaction within the Virtual Public Sphere on WhatsApp and their potential ramifications on social integration within virtual groups. The existing body of research exhibits a notable deficiency in comprehending the significance of WhatsApp as a widely utilised social media platform within social communication, particularly regarding the potential risks associated with disseminating digital hoaxes. The research employed a qualitative methodology, specifically in-depth interviews with 30 ILUNI Menwa UI Alumni WhatsApp Group participants. In addition, a content analysis was conducted on the messages inside the group to gain insight into the impact of digital hoaxes on communication dynamics. The study's results indicate that digital hoaxes can impede logical discourse, generate disputes in information, and potentially undermine the integrity of communication on the WhatsApp platform. This study offers a comprehensive analysis of the function of social media, specifically WhatsApp, in forming a Virtual Public Sphere. It also examines the potential consequences of digital hoaxes on social integration within virtual communities during the COVID-19 epidemic.

КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНИЙ ОПИС ТА ДЕФІНІЦІЇ ЯК ОСНОВА МОДЕЛЮВАННЯ СТРУКТУРИ КОНЦЕПТОСФЕРИ «REHABILITATION» В АНГЛОМОВНІЙ КАРТИНІ СВІТУ

The focus of the research is the modeling of the concept sphere "rehabilitation" in the English-speaking world picture and the identification, definition and understanding of the structure of the concept and the inherent systemic connections of this concept sphere. This article examines the problem of defining the term "rehabilitation", which is understood as a field of knowledge consisting of concepts as its units, and the problem of system organization. Based on the analysis of scientific papers, the contextual corpus of the language is not homogeneous both in terms of its systematic organization and from the perspective of the laws of connectivity and ways of combining concepts with each other, therefore, within the framework of this article, the problem of their systematic organization is considered. The relevance of the study is due to the deepening of the study of the communicative and functional aspect of the language and the lack of analysis of the concept of "rehabilitation" in the English language system. The aim of the work is to develop a comprehensive analysis of the content and features of the organization of the "rehabilitation" concept sphere by identifying linguistic means that verbalize the analyzed concept sphere in the English-language medical discourse. The following general scientific and linguistic methods are used at various stages of concept research: continuous sampling method - selection of researched nominations, definitional and component analysis; etymological analysis; contextual analysis; structural-semantic analysis. The article presents a description of the concept sphere "rehabilitation" based on lexicographic sources, as well as reveals and describes the features of the components of its subconcepts and mini-concepts through lexical and phraseological means of linguistic objectification, presents a model of the structure of the concept sphere.

Digitale Öffentlichkeit(en) metapragmatisch. Zur Aushandlung und Überschreitung kommunikativer Grenzen am Beispiel des Bodyshamings auf YouTube

Abstract This paper explores the multidimensional phenomenon of digital publics from a metapragmatic perspective. The focus is on a (potentially) digital-public YouTube discourse fragment on the topic of bodyshaming (on the Internet). In particular, negotiation and violation practices of communicative boundaries (in social media) are thematized. The underlying corpus is composed of (1) a YouTube video of a female (high reach) social media actor who, among other things, recontextualizes (hurtful) comments about her weight gain as well as about a possible pregnancy, and (2) follow-up communication to this video. In the qualitative-quantitative study, special attention is paid to the following questions: (1) Which concept of digital public spheres do the users emphasize in the discussion and (2) which understanding of communicative boundaries (in a digitalized lifeworld) do these participants communicate? A media-critical community is illuminated that construes solidarity with the initial contributor and negotiates the boundaries of appropriate Internet communication.

Advancements in Ray Tracing: From Fundamentals to Neural Innovations and Practical Applications

Computer graphics are implemented in a variety of fields, such as digital art, education and training, entertainment, and user interface design. They are a vital tool for human-computer communication. Computer graphics enable people to efficiently communicate abstract thoughts and concepts in the digital sphere through visual representation. The idea of ray tracing is fundamental to this field; it is a rendering technique that is widely used in real-time and non-real-time applications, particularly in video games, television, and movies. This article offers a thorough analysis of ray tracing, covering its fundamental ideas, rendering techniques, and crucial role in the production of video games. It also explores the recently developed field of neural ray tracing, demonstrating how it may be used to further enhance computer graphics. Keywords – Ray Tracing, Rendering, Fundamentals, Computer Graphics, Neural Ray Tracing, Pipeline.

The <i>eye</i> lexeme conceptual sphere in differently structured languages: Based on paroemias

The article is devoted to the comparative typological analysis of Russian, English and Japanese paroemias with the eye lexeme глаз /eye /目[me] in terms of cognitive linguoculturology as one of the most dynamically developing areas in modern linguistics. We focus on the issues of the formation mechanism of the conceptual models within the framework of paremias in differently structured languages. The purpose of the study is to identify and describe paremias with the eye lexeme глаз /eye /目[me] as a micromodel of reality, reflecting the way of understanding, perception and conceptualization of the world by native speakers of Russian, English and Japanese. The subject of the study is the semantics and structure of paremiological units, such as proverbs, sayings and signs reflecting a certain nationally oriented way of the surrounding reality encoding. The comparative analysis, considering the paradigmatic and syntagmatic combinations of the eye lexeme глаз /eye /目[me] in differently structured languages, allows us to conclude that the paremiological units’ analysis contributes to the reconstruction of the so-called naive world picture, referring to earlier, ancient life periods of the particular people. The core of the national concept is the referential lexeme meaning, the peripheral layer is characterized by variability, since it reflects not only the territorial conditions, but also ancient traditions, customs, beliefs of the particular people. To achieve the goal of the undertaken research, we used the traditional descriptive and lexicographic methods, in addition to the comparative linguistic and cultural methods.

Когнитивни аспекти на метафорите в съвременните български политически речи

The development follows two sides of the manifestation of cognitive metaphors as a communicative mechanism in contemporary Bulgarian political discourse: the rhetorical aspects of Bulgarian political communication; the linguistic-communicative features of cognitive metaphors in political speech, through which they function as a mechanism for interaction between the parties of political discourse. An important direction in the course of the study is to clarify the mechanisms by which the interaction between the parties in communication is realized. In this regard, several specific features of the national political discourse can be identified: the authority of the speaker and his ability to control all levels in the structure of the context of the political message; the dominant role of individual discourse; aggressive linguistic presence in communication; the dominant presence of conversational speech at the expense of the official; manipulation of objectivity; low level of informative ness. The cognitive and semantic aspects of metaphors in contemporary Bulgarian political discourse impose the following differentiation of their features: specificity of archetypal metaphors - the possibility of the basic metaphor to be reproduced as a stable cognitive core in the contemporary political communicative act; specificity of variant metaphors - the cognitive projection of the archetypal metaphor and its inscription in a new metaphorical perspective (cognitive range of metaphors path and body); cognitive links between the source sphere, the conceptual sphere and the target sphere - the associative link between the target and the source is the specificity of the cognitive metaphor, and all variant projections between them make up the volume of the conceptual sphere. The summary affects the function of cognitive metaphorical models in Bulgarian political discourse.

ОПЫТНОСТЬ КАК ОДИН ИЗ БАЗОВЫХ ПРИЗНАКОВ КОНЦЕПТОСФЕРЫ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ АНГЛОЯЗЫЧНОГО НАУЧНО-ПОПУЛЯРНОГО ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКОГО ДИСКУРСА)

The article is devoted to the cognitive discourse analysis of the conceptual sphere of the English popular science pedagogical communication. The purpose of the analysis is to study and describe the linguistic representation of expertise as one of the key features of the conceptual sphere. On the material of English popular science pedagogical magazines, it is revealed that in the conceptual sphere of the English popular science pedagogical discourse, the feature of expertise is responsible for providing the audience with empirically defined pedagogical principles and teaching methods. In addition, the feature of expertise shows the expert knowledge and experience as well as serves as a tool for forming a trusting relationship between the professional pedagogical community and its audience. The results of the study show that in the English popular science pedagogical discourse, the feature of expertise is verbalised with the help of such speech mechanisms as so-called formula statements which represent indisputable facts about the way students should be taught; names of official documents testifying to the knowledge of teachers about educational laws; lexemes showing empiricality of information; lexemes indicating the quality and frequency of an action; stylistic enumeration. Key words: discourse, pedagogical communication, conceptual sphere, popular science discourse, popular science pedagogical discourse, the features of a conceptual sphere

Макроконцепт СВЕТ в романе С. В. Лукьяненко «Мальчик и Тьма»

The purpose of the study is to identify the content and methods of explication of the macro-concept LIGHT in the novel “The Boy and the Darkness” by S. V. Lukyanenko, interpreted as one of three macro-concepts (LIGHT :: DUSK :: DARKNESS), the opposition of which organizes the conceptual sphere of the novel, modifying the opposition of the basic concepts HOME WORLD :: ALIEN WORLD. The scientific novelty of the research consists in identifying the essence of the author’s modification of the symbolic macro-concept LIGHT recurrent in his creative heritage, the macro-concept significant for the Russian national worldview, by means of cognitive-discursive analysis. It has been determined that the macro-concept LIGHT, conceptualized as an object and subject of action, container and content, is explicated discursively at the levels of the plot, images of characters, self-reflection of the protagonist, supplemented by new cognitive features. As a result of the study, it has been established that the content of the conceptual core of the macro-concept LIGHT, formulated by the author, contradicts its perceptual-sensory and symbolic content. Such a contradiction, forming the axiological layer of the concept, serves as the driving force for the maturation of the protagonist, who proceeds from instinctive acceptance to the conscious choice of Light.

Talking to Our Sons: The Power of the Reproductive Sphere in Agnès Agboton’s and Najat El Hachmi’s Autobiographies

Abstract In their autobiographies Más allá del mar de arena (2005) and Jo també sóc catalana (2004), Agnès Agboton and Najat El Hachmi narrate their diasporic experience of living and mothering in Catalonia. In both cases, the narrators address their sons. The close connection between the mothers (narrators) and their sons (addressees) establishes an intimate space of power which is analyzed through Irene Gedalof’s concept of the reproductive sphere. This essay proposes that the authors of both texts establish mothering in the diaspora within autobiographical narratives as a site of negotiation, creation of identity, and intervention both for the addressees and for a larger audience.

Структура медиаконцепта DIGITAL ECONOMY в дискурсе англоязычных СМИ

The purpose of the study is to find out the structure of the media concept DIGITAL ECONOMY in the media discourse of English-language media. The paper provides an overview of the theoretical and methodological approaches of researchers to the linguistic representation of the studied media concept in the scientific literature; the structure of the media concept DIGITAL ECONOMY in English-language media is given. The content of the cognitive layers of the core of the media concept DIGITAL ECONOMY is determined. The scientific novelty of the study is determined by the fact that the concept sphere of DIGITAL ECONOMY was analyzed for the first time and the components of the field organization of the DIGITAL ECONOMY concept structure were determined, considering this social phenomenon for the society. As a result of the study, the core of the media concept DIGITAL ECONOMY was identified. It includes the cognitive layers “Data”, “Technology”, “Digital skills”. The center-periphery of the media concept consists of cognitive layers: “Artificial intelligence”, “Cryptocurrencies” and “Platform companies”. The concept components of the far periphery are “Digital giants”, “Cashless payment”, “Digital Economy Act” and “Corporation tax”. Determining these components will provide an opportunity to present an objective linguistic picture of the world, functioning in the discourse of English-language media.

Concept of «Mystery» and its Realization in the Works of J. Lippard and N. Buntline

Introduction. The article is devoted to the analysis of the linguistic means expressing the concept of «mystery» in the fictional works of J. Lippard and N. Buntline, the allocation of its socio-cultural component and the field model construction of lexical units representing this concept. The relevance of the research is due to the interest of modern linguistics in the study of the conceptual sphere of artistic works of the «urban mysteries» genre by American authors.Methodology and sources. The study was conducted within the framework of a linguistic and cultural approach using methods of description, comparison, interpretative analysis, conceptual analysis, the method of dictionary definitions analyzing, structural and semantic analysis, and the method of quantitative calculations. The illustrative material of the study consisted of more than 74 lexical units representing the «mystery» concept in the language, 45 of which were found in the analyzed works. The material was obtained by the method of directed sampling from the fictional works of American authors of the 19th century.Results and discussion. This article discusses and analyzes various interpretations of the concept of «mystery» by domestic and foreign scientists; defines the role of the concept in the work of fiction as a whole and in the analyzed novels of two authors J. lippard and N. Buntline; identifies the features of the linguistic implementation of the «mystery» concept; classifies the linguistic units of the concept according to their parts of speech, semantics and stylistic coloring; analyzes the writers’ linguistic pictures of the world and the conceptual sphere of their works, the illustrative zone of which reveals the reasons for the similarity not only of the storylines of the works, but also of their lexical content.Conclusion. The study made it possible to describe and illustrate the individual style of American authors of the 19th century through a system of expressive means that correlates the inner world of the writer with the artistic reality, the artistic world of the text created by the «poetic» language. The mental world can be interpreted in cognitive terminology as an individual poetic conceptual sphere, or the conceptual system of the author, consisting of a conceptual, objective, associative, figurative and symbolic layer of the concept. The study showed that the learning of the writer's linguistic picture of the world and the conceptual sphere of the work can be carried out using a field model, analyzing the LSF forming the «mystery» concept. The analyzed LSF is distinguished by a more specific vocabulary composition, the complication of the seme structure of words, the seme expansion and the restructuring of their hierarchy, which together form the artistic worldview of the authors.

Цветовая концептосфера в английском, французском и русском языках: лингвокультурологический анализ фразеологических единиц с цветовым признаком

The aim of the study is to identify the universality, diversity and uniqueness of the color conceptual sphere in English, French and Russian linguistic cultures, implemented through phraseological units with a color feature and color terms in English, French and Russian. The paper presents a linguocultural analysis of the GREEN, GRAY, YELLOW, ORANGE, PURPLE, PINK and BROWN concepts in the three languages. The study is novel in that it is the first to identify, systematize and describe peripheral and single color concepts using the material of three languages. As a result of the research, it was found that the color conceptual sphere is more relevant for French linguistic culture than for English and Russian linguistic cultures. The peripheral concepts GREEN, GRAY, and YELLOW in the linguistic cultures under comparison are widely used to reflect character traits, appearance, physical characteristics of a person and relationships between people. The single concepts ORANGE, PURPLE, PINK and BROWN mainly reflect the color characteristics of the inorganic world. Color acts as an expressor of universality, diversity and uniqueness in the construction of the color conceptual sphere in the considered linguistic cultures.

The specifics and functions of the concepts of LIFE and DEATH in V. Y. Bryusov's poetry

The object of the study are poems representing such thematic layers as love lyrics; urban lyrics, including poems dedicated to Venice; the theme of death; the theme of Vikings; great figures of the past; apocalyptic themes. The paper actualizes the importance of studying Bryusov's poetry in the aspect of cognitive linguistics, examines the essence of the concepts. The place of the concepts of LIFE and DEATH in the hierarchical structure of the conceptual sphere is analyzed, their meanings are revealed based on the lexicographic material of dictionaries, representing, along with the primary meanings, various associative lexical units, including mythologems that arose on the basis of cognitive metaphorization, which, being representatives of concepts, fill slots, form a frame structure, while the frame qualifies as the core of the concept. The analysis of poems allowing to recreate the linguistic and artistic worldview of the poet, the keys to understanding which are the basic concepts of LIFE and DEATH, and to determine their specificity and role, is carried out. The following methods were used in the research process: the method of discursive analysis, which allowed us to study the interacting denotative and conceptual structures that organize the semantic space of each lyrical work under consideration in the context of Bryusov's poetry; the cultural and historical method, which contributed to the identification of connotative meanings representing the concepts of LIFE and DEATH; the hermeneutic method, which made it possible to analyze the poetics of poems. As a result of the study, the authors came to the following conclusions. Organizing a system of poetic creativity, vividly embodying the main motive, the motive of duality, the concepts of LIFE and DEATH undergo semantic contamination based on the intersection of their frame networks and form a single bipolar concept of LIFE/DEATH. An integral phenomenon, Bryusov's concept of LIFE/DEATH is multifunctional: as a figurative means, this structural unit creates the poet's idiosyncrasy; plays a text-forming role; organizes the main motives that allow Bryusov to carry out a discourse relevant to him and his contemporaries about the problem of the meaning of life and its eternity. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the work of V. Y. Bryusov, from the point of view of the conceptual sphere and conceptualization, has not been sufficiently studied. For the first time, the comprehension of V.Y. Bryusov's linguistic picture of the world was realized through the concepts of LIFE and DEATH, which are fundamental in his work.

Новый взгляд на проблему заимствований: языковая фрустрация vs маркетинговые стратегии

The article reveals linguocognitive mechanisms as well as social reasons for active functioning of new borrowings in the modern public discourse and in commercial enterprises naming. The material for the analysis is a sample of the most frequent lexis in the micro synchrony that are not yet part of the host language lexicon, and comprises over one hundred and fifty lexical units, selected from the national corpus of the Russian language, public internet discourse, the author's collection of brand names (and names of businesses), radio and television programs. As a result of a comprehensive analysis, two main isomorphic types of borrowing functioning are identified. They are supposed to be motivated by multi-level linguistic, social, and pragmatic factors. Hence, the evidence of linguomental transformations of meaning is linked to the condition of linguistic frustration. This justifies considering it as a state of linguistic personality (at both the first and second levels, according to Yu.N. Karaulov), wherein the constraints of linguistic norms are lifted, and foreign-language word usage is motivated in specific speech act. A tendency of duplicate (native and foreign) naming in explicitly nominative and implicitly subjective-pragmatic functions has been established. It is suggested that the synergy of these functions conveys the speaker's subjective intentions and can be regarded as a marketing strategy of self-positioning in the act of foreign-language use in the nomination process, or as a commercial move, emphasizing the value of the product / service (i.e., commercialization of the nominative unit). Thus, the discourse becomes either status-oriented or conative. The linguistic phenomena under consideration introduce changes into the national concept sphere, as they contain features of a different language world view.

Лингво- и социокультурное своеобразие диалектной фразеологии немецкого языка Швейцарии

The study aims to identify and typologize the distinctive features of the dialect phraseology of Swiss German in accordance with the factors of their linguistic and socio-cultural conditionality. The main factors considered are: the specificity of the socio-cultural “background” of a dialect; the identifying and connotative properties of a dialect; formation of special “phraseological symbols” in a dialect; concreteness of dialect images and a dialect’s “aversion” to abstraction; the desire to update figurative foundations; special phraseological creativity of dialect speakers. Scientific novelty of the study lies in the following: the paper is the first to show and substantiate that dialectal phraseology in Switzerland is a separate phraseological subsystem that has significant differences from the phraseology of the literary level due to the special nature of the socio-cultural context of Swiss German dialects. As a result of the study, it has been found that the formation and preservation of an original phraseological subsystem is ensured by the fact that dialectal phraseology draws its images and metaphors from a special conceptual sphere the basis of which is formed by the features of life and worldview that are relevant for speakers of the dialects.

The Caring Public Sphere: Reframing the Concept in an Era of Care Crises

This article reframes the public sphere concept by bringing it dialogue with feminist theories of care. Care ethics foreground vulnerability and interdependence, suggesting that vulnerability is a shared condition and that we are all dependent on each other in order to survive. This helps to rethink the role of the public sphere within the democratic system, as a space not only for opinion formation, but also for the development of citizens with the necessary skills and dispositions to take care of the issues discussed in public. A focus on care also aids in reconsidering public affairs as issues that are intimately connected with needs and vulnerabilities; listening as an act of care; the processing of emotions as a key function of the deliberative process; and personal testimony as an important type of argumentation. The concept of care further helps in refinining the universal access principle by highlighting the importance of intimate spaces, where participants feel safe to be vulnerable, and of how these multiple publics can be interconnected through mobilising relationships of interdependence. Finally, it allows us to consider “care work” for communication infrastructure, including both media technologies and people’s bodies, as a constitutive part of the public sphere.

Theorising the Public Sphere

This paper examines the criticism of Jürgen Habermas's idea of the public sphere, which is essential for sociology to comprehend the possibility for consensus in the communication processes of modern society. The main objective of this paper is to examine the evolution of the notion of the public sphere. This will be achieved by investigating the traditional concept of the public sphere and scrutinising its mechanisms. The public sphere is crucial in providing a platform for thoughtful discussions that strive to involve society in the process of constructing society itself. Undoubtedly, the evolution of social interactions in contemporary times is influenced by the standard possibilities and limitations imposed by public discussions. Amidst the era of digital advancements, the discussion around the public sphere has gained significant significance and complexity. Given the abundance and variety of public areas. This paper aims to elucidate the evolution of the traditional notion of the public sphere and analyse its defining features.

Habermas and the mutations of the public sphere

In this article, I argue that concern with the public sphere and the necessary conditions for a genuine democracy can be seen as a central theme of Jurgen Habermas's work that deserves respect and critical scrutiny in the contemporary moment, when throughout the world liberal democracies are in crisis. My study intends to point to the continuing importance of Habermas' problematic of the public sphere and its relevance for debates over democratic politics and social and cultural life in the present age, in an era in which the Occupy Movements, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, the Trump Resistance Movement, and Ukraine and Palestine Solidarity groups use social media to struggle against multiple forms of oppression. At stake is delineating a concept of the public sphere which facilitates maximum public participation and debate over the key issues of the contemporary era and which consequently promotes the cause of radical democracy and social transformation.