Textual Discourse Research Articles

Holocaust refugees’ experiences in, out of and nowhere in Africa

ABSTRACT Eppelsheimer’s article examines Holocaust refugees’ experiences in colonial Kenya. It draws attention to the autobiographical novels of German Jewish author Stefanie Zweig, as well as testimonies and memoirs of former Holocaust refugees who had fled to Kenya, and asks if and how refugees’ own experiences of racial persecution informed their responses to colonial racism. This article illustrates how Zweig responded in aesthetic terms to her experience in colonial spaces. It does so by examining autobiographical aspects of Zweig’s writings, highlighting the author’s upbringing in multiple cultures, literary traditions and languages, and discussing Zweig’s novels in the contexts of white British settler writing about Kenya, as well as the German ‘Africa-novel’­—both of which have shaped the images and perspectives of Kenya among millions of readers. It examines such European colonialist perspectives and discourses in literary texts as well as testimonies. In so doing, it questions whether a text like Nowhere in Africa, which is about the experiences of a German Jewish refugee family in Kenya, contributes to the silencing of African voices and the obscuring of African history by colonial historiography and literature.

Penerapan Reading Guide dalam Meningkatkan Kemampauan Pemahaman Isi Teks Wacana di Kelas IV SD Negeri 0119 Banjar Raja

The aim of this research is to determine the application of the reading guide strategy in improving students' ability to understanding the content of discourse texts in Indonesian language subjects in class IV of SD Negeri 0119 Banjar Raja. The research used is PTK research, namely classroom action research. The subject of this research is SD Negeri 0119 Banjar Raja and the object of this research is class IV with a total of 21 students. There are two data sources that researchers use, namely primary data sources and secondary data sources. . Primary data sources are data taken directly from the research object, namely class IV students and teachers. This primary data source comes from field data obtained from observations and interviews. Secondary data sources are data taken in the form of documents, such as books, books, dictionaries and other literature related to skills in understanding the content of discourse texts. There are three cycles in the design of this research cycle, namely Pre-Cycle, Cycle I and Cycle II. Based on the results of the research carried out by the author, it can be concluded that the application of the reading guide strategy in improving the ability to understand the content of discourse texts in class IV Indonesian language subjects at SD Negeri 0119 Banjar Raja, Barumun District, Padang Lawas Regency, namely in the pre-cycle only 2 students or 9.52 % who have the category "very good" 4 students or 19.05%, "good", 8 students or 38.10%, "fair", 6 students or 28.57%, "poor", 1 student or 4.76 % "very poor", while students' ability to understand the content of cycle I discourse texts has begun to increase, namely 4 students or 19.05% who have the "very good" category, 6 students or 28.57%, "good", 10 students or 47 .62%, "sufficient", 1 student or 4.76%, "poor", no students "very poor", and students' ability to understand the contents of cycle II discourse texts has increased, namely 11 students or 52.38%, which has a "very good" category, 9 students or 42.86%, in the "good" category, 1 student in the "fair" category, no students in the "Poor" category, no students in the "very poor" category. So it can be concluded that the reading guide strategy can improve the ability to understand the content of discourse texts in class IV Indonesian at SD Negeri 0119 Banjar Raja, Barumun District, Padang Lawas Regency.

Peculiarities of reflection of journalistic discourse in media texts, parallels with modernity

Peculiarities of reflection of journalistic discourse in media texts, parallels with modernity

Popularization of Medical Knowledge in German Journal Discourse in Perspective of Language Code

A study was conducted on the language code used in medical popular science texts in German journal discourse. Interviews, brief news texts, and articles on medical topics are used as empirical material. It is shown that the arsenal of modern German language resources is aimed at implementing communicative-pragmatic functions of popular science discourse texts as a whole. It is noted that the leading functions among them are informing, influencing, and persuading the target audience. It is established that verbal means of different linguistic levels, as well as a number of stylistic devices (inversion, parceling, allusion, metaphor, metonymy, personification), not only convey medical knowledge to wide segments of the population but also transmit information about the national-cultural specifics of Germany and its achievements in medicine, taking into account the age characteristics of the addressees, also performing an educational function and seeking to achieve emotional involvement of the reader in complex content. The relevance of the study is due to the growing interest of non-professional participants in media-medical communication in the processes of self-diagnosis and self-treatment, which require mastering various medical knowledge. The novelty of the research lies in determining the pragmatic potential of structural-compositional features, including clickable headlines, and linguistic means, thanks to which a special media-medical picture of the world is formed.

THE LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL NATURE OF DIALOGUE IN A LITERARY TEXT

The article analyzes the linguistic and cultural nature of dialogic discourse in a literary text. The research work provided for the consideration of linguistic and cultural criteria of dialogue at the semantic level. Having studied the speech ethics of a person through language, we can trace the mentality of the nation, religious views, customs, national culture. For this reason, language researchers have recently been particularly interested in the language of the addressee, the relationship between the addressee and the addressee. This conclusion underlines the main relevance of the research work. Learning the language of works of art can answer many questions of today. The use of the hero's language in the work, the artistic means and proverbs found in it, reflecting national knowledge, the use of ritual names and concepts, occasional words successfully reaches the reader through dialogic discourse. Thanks to the successfully selected dialogic language, it becomes possible to determine the style of the writer. In the research work, an analysis of the linguistic and cultural nature of the Kazakh dialogue was carried out, based on works on dialogue in foreign and domestic linguistics. The article reveals the surface and internal structures of dialogic discourse in a literary text. The surface structure refers to information about the characters involved in the dialogue, his knowledge and skills, social status, description of his relationship with another character. And in the internal structure we see linguistic units, cultural markers that give a national code in which speech and actions, cognition and character of the hero are manifested. In the research work, through cultural markers in the text of the artwork, dialogues were obtained in which the specifics of the ethnos, culture, cognition, and image of the world are clearly expressed. The research work has established that the semantic level of the linguistic and cultural nature of dialogic discourse in a literary text is manifested in cultural codes, cultural markers, symbols, their meanings in surface and internal structures. The article takes into account the fact that in literary works the speech act is linguistically analyzed and the speech act of the characters corresponds to speech ethics, the communicative units of the language are clearly expressed in the national-cultural aspect, the descriptive method, the structural-semantic method of analyzing the content and composition of dialogical conversations, contextual methods and methods of linguoculturology are used for contextual and pragmatic analysis to identify national features in the dialogical received.

Семантическая структура лексемы «Толерантность» в современной русской языковой картине мира

This article is aimed to analyze a semantic structure of the lexeme ‘tolerantnost’’ [tolerance] that functions in the Russian linguistic world-image. The material was collected from the Russian National Corpus, associative dictionaries, texts of the modern Internet discourse: posts from social networks and forums with such requests as ‘Kak vy ponimayete tolerantnost’? [What do you understand under tolerance?], ‘Kak Vy ob”yasnyayete detyam, chto takoye tolerantnost’?’ [How do you explain to children what tolerance is?], ‘Kak vesti sebya tolerantno’ [How to behave tolerantly], etc. The choice of the material is conditioned by the research agenda to identify interpretation patterns of this unit given by modern native bearers of the simple Russian linguistic consciousness. The following approaches have been applied within the framework of this research work: semantic analysis of texts, a psycholinguistic method, the method of interpretation of semantic dominants, and a contextual method. The following results have been obtained during the course of the analysis. The obtained associate show that the unit ‘tolerantnost’’ [tolerance] is interpreted through ‘terpimost’’ [lenience], ‘delikatnost’’ [delicacy], ‘sderzhannost’’ [restraint]; native speakers of Russian associate tolerance with the processes of globalization, democratization of the society, and humanism. However, the analysis of the modern Internet users’ texts allows for the conclusion that the concept under investigation has a more complicated structure. Tolerance in these texts is characterized both as an attitude with a strong axiological component and as a behavior, an external manifestation. Tolerance as an attitude is divided by the authors into positive (‘terpimoye’ [tolerable] in relation to other people) and negative one (‘molchalivoye’ [silent] behaviour towards negative socially significant phenomena). Tolerant behavior manifests itself as complete indifference to what is happening. The analysis of the texts of the last two years indicates transformation of the original meaning of the unit ‘tolerantnost’’ [tolerance] due to the currently changing ideology in the Russian society: a negative connotation has been recorded with the predominant components of the meaning ‘ravnodushiye’ [indifference], ‘drugoy’ [other], ‘chuzhdyy’ [alien], ‘zapret/ tabu’ [prohibition/ taboo], ‘privnesennyi’ [foreign], ‘Zapad’ [West], ‘bolezn’’ [disease], etc.

Психолингвистические аспекты китайского иероглифического письма

<p>The work is aimed at clarifying the psycholinguistic mechanism of Chinese hieroglyphic writing acquisition. The psycholinguistic experiment involved a survey and questionnaire among native and non-native speakers of Chinese regarding the perception of texts in two types of writing - hieroglyphic and transcriptional — according to four criteria: 1) speed of reading texts (subjective evaluation of respondents); 2) time taken to read texts in two different types of recording (objective evaluation); 3) degree of difficulty in perceiving transcribed texts (subjective evaluation of respondents); 4) number of times reading texts in pinyin transcription required to fully understand the content of the text (objective evaluation). Eight different authentic Chinese texts of different discourses with a total of 344 words were selected for the study, with the main group of respondents being native Chinese speakers of different professions, ages and gender, with different levels of English proficiency. A total of 128 respondents took part in the survey, of whom 55 respondents were native speakers of Chinese and 73 respondents were from different nationalities learning Chinese as a foreign language. The second part of the experiment was aimed at investigating the psycholinguistic mechanism of text transcoding from pinyin transcriptional recording to hieroglyphic recording by native speakers of Chinese. The results obtained allow us to say that, on average, reading texts of different discourses in pinyin transcription is 1.7 times longer than reading texts in hieroglyphic recording, reading and understanding texts written in pinyin transcription is more difficult for native speakers than reading and understanding hieroglyphic texts, especially texts of literary (poetic), folklore and ironic discourse, and when writing hieroglyphs, semantic and graphical errors are possible.</p>

Communicating climate change induced migration: the role of NGOs

This study addresses the underexplored issue of climate migration in non-governmental organisations (NGOs) communication, which is particularly relevant given the anticipated effects of climate change on migratory patterns. It paints a richer picture of NGOs’ visual and textual discourses on climate migration and delves into the ways in which NGOs' depictions of climate migrants reinforce the 'us' and 'them' dichotomy that characterises policy and media circuits' wider debate on this issue. NGOs visual practises and textual narratives depoliticize climate migrants by underlining their otherness and propensity to bring social instability and disturbance. This raises doubts about the efficacy of climate migration-related online public education and policy advocacy efforts run by NGOs. This paper innovates as it encourages NGOs to create new ways of depicting climate refugees. It provides a framework for thinking about the role that NGOs could play in creating new ways of discussing climate migration.

“The Whore That Lost Everything”: The Tyranny of Law and the Queer Feminisation of Soft Power as Explored in Black Sails

Abstract Black Sails is an historical drama written as a prequel to Treasure Island. It did this by weaving the history surrounding the Pirate Republic of New Providence Island around fiction to create a compelling narrative exploring the force and evils of law and empire, and the lengths that some will go to in order to resist and be free. This paper will examine Black Sails as a social discourse text in order to critique the impact and tyranny, yet inevitability, of the law, and how soft power is feminised but requires queerness to be effective.

SPEECH MODELS AS A MEANS OF TEACHING ACADEMIC READING

The concept of speech patterns of police discourse, representing language stable formulas, can be considered as an auxiliary means of teaching academic reading of texts of police discourse. The present article describes the characteristics of speech patterns, their structure and signifi cance within the process of working with academic reading. The importance of eff ective formation of academic reading skills when working with institutional discourse is emphasized. It should be noted that the police discourse and its structural speech patterns should be associated with the ways of interpretation, perception and systematization of textual information for composing own utterance on this basis. The article describes speech patterns in connection with their application in the process of eff ective teachin g of academic reading as a way of explication of meaning to create their own statements of police offi cers.

Repositioning Environmental NGOs: Either as non-Governmental or Private Sector Organizations

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are an organization supported by an independent community, a voluntary and non-profit association. Their activities involve voicing the community and being a third party between the government and the private sector. With environmental issues starting to change and being damaged due to inappropriate government policies, environmental NGOs play an essential role in balancing this condition. This article will discuss the position of NGOs during environmental issues that hit Indonesia observed by two environmental organizations, WALHI and KruHA, taking official information published on their websites and social media. The analysis uses discourse text analysis, deconstruction of meaning or communication messages on official information. This paper argues that not all non-profit organizations act of WALHI and KruHA are NGOs in non-profit organizations. They are outside the government and private sector, the so-called “third sector” that plays a role in the right to water and environmental sustainability. Though they are the same as non-profit NGOs, their movement mechanism is different.

The role of authentic materials in teaching RCT: from literary texts to media resources

The subject of the study is a corpus of authentic materials used in the process of teaching languages. The object of research is the varieties of authentic materials used in RCT classes. The purpose of the study is to analyze in detail the types of authentic materials, the concept of "authenticity", the pros and cons of using authentic materials, the criteria for selecting authentic texts in the process of teaching RCT. To achieve this goal, foreign and Russian works of well-known methodologists in the field of language teaching were analyzed, as well as studies devoted to the peculiarities of working with authentic material in RCT classes. The main research methods are comparative analysis, observation, and survey research methods. The study concluded that the concept of "authentic materials" is controversial in modern linguodidactics. Researchers classify authentic texts, depending on the goals and objectives of the learning process. Despite this, methodologists identify criteria, following which it is necessary to select authentic material for RCT classes and make the content of the lesson close to the situation of live communication. At the same time, the texts of Internet discourse have proven themselves most effectively in the framework of teaching RCT, since with their help the language competence of a foreign student is formed quite quickly. The novelty of the research lies in the possibility of applying its results in practice in the process of using authentic materials in RCT classes.

Channels Through the Humane The Exiled Body in Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern

Abstract: This article examines contemporary choreographer Crystal Pite’s celebrated work Flight Pattern (2017), created for the Royal Ballet, which depicts an unspecified group of refugees as allegory for the “human” condition. In striving to choreograph exile outside of place and time, Pite rewrites the refugee as a purely bodied condition of transience, and thus corporealizes what Alexander Weheliye calls a “travelling theory.” The work thus strategically obfuscates the political in the image of the refugee, serving a State-run stage; moreover, it downplays the significance of race to the refugee crisis in complement to a predominantly white company. Reading this dance against key texts of biopolitical discourse, I show how the refugee figures as a symbol of the magnitude of biopower and as such is ontologically tied to the notion of the population—yet the refugee is never engaged at the level of embodiment. Flight Pattern thus offers a critical intervention: how does the West envision the refugee as an individual body? On the dancerly body, this entails citations of Western concert dance’s conventions of aestheticized alterity, raising the specter of the “relatable abject”: a figure that is Other to its audience and yet invites their empathic projection. Flight Pattern thus raises important questions for researchers about the implications of aesthetic inquiry into biopolitical crises: what dance can capture—and what it erases—of the experience of refugitude and the struggle for recognition and legibility on the stage of international politics.

Идеологический компонент военного дискурса

This article analyses the ideological component in the Georgian-language military discourse. It should be noted that the concept of discourse in modern Russian and foreign linguistics is interpreted in different ways, and the range of scientific approaches applicable to it is rather diverse, including linguocognitive, pragmastylistic, linguoculturological and others. The scientific description of the phenomenon of military discourse is limited to a few works. One of the key characteristics of this phenomenon is that its function is to organize communication between the subjects of professional communication, in the particular case, in the armed forces. The subject of research in this paper is the functioning and implementation of the language structures that contribute to the formation of the desired ideological attitudes and values in the addressee. The choice of texts of the military discourse of contemporary Georgia is determined by their accessibility to a wide range of readers (open access), as well as by the fact that to date there are no works related to the study of Georgian-language military texts within the framework of linguistics. Based on the works of Russian and foreign linguists, the main components that characterize military discourse as a separate category are identified. The ideological constituents of military discourse are determined, reflecting the communicative organization of the worldview of its subjects. In addition, lexical characteristics inherent in military discourse are highlighted. We believe that the materials reflected in this paper can be of interest and use to linguists, linguoconflictologists, specialists in intercultural communication and political linguistics as well as in Kartvelian studies.

Formation of a Positive Image Through FIFA Policy in Qatar 2022 on Online News Media (Model Teun A Van Dijk)

This study aims to describe the text dimensions of Teun A Van Dijk's model in several online news texts such as (CNBC Indonesia) 5 Aturan Nonton Piala Dunia Qatar dari Alkohol sampai Busana, then online news from (14Kompasiana) Controversy and Positive Impacts of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and latest online news from (Hidayatullah.com) World Cup 2022: Islamophobia and Solidarity in Qatar. This research exists to describe Van Dijk's model in three dimensions of discourse: discourse text, social understanding, and social context. The results of research on online news discourse texts on the world cup case in Qatar are as a form of understanding social tolerance in eliminating irrationality to show the condition of unity that wants to be conveyed through the World Cup bond in Qatar between western and middle eastern countries that can occur and some participation and cup policies world in Qatar is also a special effort of the government to introduce the country's development to the eyes of the world.

БИБЛЕЙСКАЯ ФРАЗЕОЛОГИЯ В ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ КОММУНИКАЦИИ

The multifaceted nature of the study of biblical phraseology today is due, on the one hand, to the ambiguity and insufficient study of biblical phraseological units, on the other hand, to their active use and frequent reproducibility in different types of discourse. Moreover, their study requires the involvement of several approaches, such as structural-semantic, linguocognitive and cognitive-discursive, linguocultural, and finally, functional. In this respect, the relevance of the presented problem is beyond any doubt. Designating the study of functional specificity of the phraseological units of biblical etymology, presented in the contexts of political communication as the aim of this study, we offer a comprehensive coverage of issues related to the specifics of communication in the political sphere, in particular the analysis of approaches to the definition of the notion of publicistic discourse, its key characteristics and ingredient features, consideration of the functioning of phraseological units of biblical origin and their usual and occasional variants. The methodology of this study is determined by the purpose and scientific hypothesis, which implies the identification of a representative corpus of examples of political discourse contexts, containing biblical phraseological units, performing the leading persuasive function. The research methods are as follows: the method of phraseological identification and phraseological description proposed by prof. A.V. Kunin, the contextual method, the method of lexico-semantic analysis, the search corpus method. The results of the research allow concluding the following: biblical phraseological units are a separate microsystem, biblical phraseological units are actively used in oral and written speech of native speakers in different types of discourse due to their polyfunctionality and variability, in political discourse biblical phraseological units are used in the function of persuasion. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time a systematic study of biblical phraseology in English and Russian on the example of their functioning in the texts of political discourse. The currently available works are few and sporadic. The practical significance of the study is determined by the possibility of using the data obtained in the classroom as part of the disciplines Fundamentals of First Foreign Language Theory, English Language Stylistics, special course English Language Phraseology.

Legal socialisation through literature in Israel’s education system

ABSTRACT This article offers a preliminary characterization of the legal discourse in literary texts written for children and taught by the Israeli general secular (Mamlakhti) education system since the 1950s. It shows that while for quite some time this discourse did not receive proper attention in educational curricula and textbooks, pupils today can be exposed to texts involving prominent legal elements and a deep-seated and critical perception of the rule of law as part of special enrichment programmes in the state education system. These paths give voice to those who call for local legal education and see a need to look current legal reality in the eye.

“Sculptress Interprets Land’s Spirit”: Elizabeth Wyn Wood, the Group of Seven, and analogy as equivalence

Canadian sculptor Elizabeth Wyn Wood (1903–66), best known for her modernist landscape sculptures, has since the inception of her artistic career been compared, through analogy, with the Group of Seven (fl. 1920–33), Canada’s enduringly famous and overtly nationalistic collective of modernist landscape painters. Critics claimed that Wood “achieved for sculpture what the Group of Seven achieved for painting” and, occasionally, invoked specific Group artists, dubbing Wood the “Lawren Harris of sculpture.” Analogizing across disciplines, the Wood/Group likening appears to posit a formal comparison in gendered language: the Group’s bold, decorative portrayals of the northern Ontario “wilderness” find clear visual comparands in Wood’s abstracted compositions of the same region. In this article, however, I demonstrate that the apparently visual basis for the comparison is inextricable from the textual discourse fundamental to Canadian art in the early twentieth century and beyond; it is only through analyzing this discourse that an understanding of the Wood/Group analogy can be reached. The Group ostensibly pioneered the first genuine Canadian landscape aesthetic; through immersing himself in the land, the mythology went, the Canadian artist learned to paint Canada on its own terms. This landscape artist-as-woodsman myth was a form of settler indigenization by which Canada laid cultural claim to colonized land. Analogy frames Wood as not an epigone but an equal of the Group: in producing organically, anew, a genuine Canadian landscape aesthetic for sculpture, Wood “achieved for sculpture what the Group of Seven achieved for painting”—its deployment as a medium in the service of Canada’s land claim.

Functional discourses of contemporary multilingualism in urban texts: A case study of three capital cities: Warsaw, Berlin, and Luxembourg

Multilingualism plays an increasingly significant role in the urban landscapes of contemporary cities. A city does not speak just one language; instead, it speaks the languages of its users, i.e. residents, visitors, companies, organisations etc. By producing urban texts, they simultaneously contribute to the communicative community that is also open to the needs and expectations of individuals who remain there only temporarily. From this perspective, a city gradually becomes a linguistic melting pot, in which the linguistic needs of a society are manifested but which also acknowledges and generates these needs. These processes result in the growing scientific interest in different aspects of textualisation of the contemporary urban space. In this paper, we attempt to describe functional discourses in multilingual texts appearing in contemporary public space. The researched corpus comprises urban texts from three European capital cities: Warsaw, Berlin, and Luxembourg. The applied research method is based on the functional discourses and supplemented with the basic criteria of multimodal analysis carried out depending on the language or languages used in the urban text, the genre and multimodal form of the urban text, its content and function, and communicative practice. As a result of combining and interpreting the available typologies of text types, we propose in the theoretical section 10 types of functional discourses. In the analytical part, we relate these discourse types to multilingual urban texts. Thus, we identify and analyse orientation, regulatory, commemorative, commercial, educational, artistic, protest, political, identity and alerting discourses.

Cultural Technique-al Cues and Performative acts in Online Filipino Communities drawn from Korean Drama Series

This study examines the evolving culture of performatives in online Filipino communities through the analysis of Korean drama series, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The primary objectives include investigating cultural textual discourses in K-drama series, synthesizing the operations of film language within these discourses, examining K-drama-related performative acts in online Filipino communities, and analyzing the residents’ recognition and sense-making processes of K-drama discourses. The findings highlight recurring themes and film variants in K-dramas and the resident-informants’ lived experiences. Using the IPLC model and method design, value adding cultural technique cues and illustrative performative acts were generated in this scholarship.