Textual Elements Research Articles

Despair, Hope, And Politics: A Semiotic Analysis Of Online Media Cartoons On The Turkey And Syria Earthquake 2023

The Turkey and Syria earthquake of 2023 caused widespread devastation and loss of life, resulting in widespread despair and hopelessness among the people. In the aftermath of the disaster, social media was flooded with caricatures that sought to represent the political and social realities of the affected regions. This research paper presents a semiotic analysis of online media cartoons using the Barthesian modal to understand the representation of despair, hope, and politics in the context of the Turkey and Syria earthquake of 2023. Through a qualitative analysis of purposively sampled cartoons, this study explores how dominant emotions and political messages are conveyed through visual and textual elements and how they shape public perception of the event. The findings suggest that the cartoons use a range of semiotic modalities, such as images, text, and symbolic representations, to convey political messages about the earthquake and its aftermath. The paper contributes to the growing research on semiotics and visual communication. It highlights the potential of online cartoons as a rich source of social and political insights in the context of the earthquake and how people respond to it.

Building Suspense: A Critical Examination of Foreshadowing Devices in TV Series Opening Credits

This paper explores the intricate use of foreshadowing devices within the opening credits of television series, unraveling the artful integration of visual, musical, and textual elements. Through detailed case studies of iconic shows such as Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, and Westworld, we dissect the deliberate choices made by creators to engage audiences from the very beginning. The analysis uncovers the narrative nuances embedded in symbols, musical scores, and textual clues, highlighting their role in setting the stage for complex and immersive storylines. Ethical considerations, methodological challenges, and the limitations of the study are also addressed. By contributing insights to television studies and narrative theory, this paper emphasizes the significance of opening credits as a canvas for storytelling in the evolving landscape of contemporary television.

Features of the implementation of speech strategies and tactics in the slogan of television food advertising

The article is devoted to the study of speech strategies and tactics in the slogan of television food advertising. The slogan as an element of the advertising text plays a significant role in influencing the consciousness and behavior of the addressee. Slogans implement various speech strategies and tactics to ensure the success of advertising communication. The difficulty of studying this phenomenon lies in a short formulation with great strategic potential and its uncertain relationship with the main text of television advertising. The relevance of this study is related to the importance of the slogan in the advertising text and the prospects for studying speech strategies and tactics in the slogan of television food advertising. The article aims to identify the features of speech strategies and tactics in the slogan of television food advertising. The method of linguistic and pragmatic analysis was used in the work, which makes it possible to identify speech strategies and tactics in the slogan of television advertising of food products and describe the linguistic features of their implementation. The novelty of the research lies in a comprehensive examination of speech strategies and tactics in the slogan, taking into account the main advertising text. As a result of the analysis, corporate slogan, product slogan and festive slogan were highlighted in television advertising. The slogans of television food advertising highlight presentation strategy, convincing strategy, persuading strategy and reminiscent strategy, as well as tactics and techniques within the framework of relevant strategies. The linguistic means of verbalization of techniques used within the framework of appropriate speech strategies and tactics in television advertising of food are described. The correlation of their implementation with the main advertising text has been established. The slogan of a TV advertisement usually implements several strategies and tactics at the same time. The implementation of the convincing strategy in a product slogan is relevant to the main advertising text. The implementation of other strategies in the slogan is not related to the main advertising text.

Giving Meaning To Limitations

This article analyses the functions and disciplines of the cumulative injury assessment under Article 3.3 of the Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 (‘Anti-Dumping Agreement’). Since the text calls for cumulation only if ‘appropriate’, this article refers to the treaty context, the preparatory works, the precedent dispute settlement cases, as well as the relevant practice of the WTO member countries, to understand the purpose of cumulation and to give meaning to this key element of the treaty text. The analyses lead to the interpretation of Article 3.3 that, in order to ‘determine’ that cumulation is ‘appropriate’, an investigating authority needs to identify the factual circumstances where the subject products from all of the cumulated sources compete so intensively that the market position of dumped imports from all but one of the cumulated sources can be realistically taken over by the imports from one remaining source rather than the domestic like products. This article later calls such circumstances the ‘competitive overlaps’. While Article 3.3 gives an authority a certain degree of discretion, the authority’s determination must be based on the factual elements relevant for the competitive overlap in each case. GATT, WTO, Anti-dumping Agreement, anti-dumping, cumulation, cumulative assessment, conditions of competition, competitive overlap

Headlines, Pictures, Likes: Attention to Social Media Newsfeed Post Elements on Smartphones and in Public

Scrolling through a social media newsfeed has become almost ubiquitous. Yet, it remains unknown what specific post elements people pay attention to and whether this varies depending on how they access social media newsfeeds. In an eye-tracking experiment among university students ( N = 201), we compare user attention to specific post elements like source, title, or picture, in a dynamic Facebook newsfeed by device (desktop vs. mobile) and smartphone usage environment (private vs. public). Significant attentional differences occur at the level of the newsfeed post elements. Users pay less attention to visual information on the mobile newsfeed and more attention to textual post elements in a public setting.

EXPLORING THE COMPLEX NARRATIVES OF TOXIC MASCULINITY ON THE INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT @Thegentlemanrising

This research delves into the intricate narratives surrounding toxic masculinity through a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of content on the Instagram account Thegentlemanrising. The study investigates how ideas of toxic masculinity are represented in both visual and textual elements, specifically in photos and expressions shared on the platform. Thegentlemanrising actively communicates messages aimed at encouraging the younger generation to embrace masculinity, emphasizing positive attributes while avoiding toxic traits. The content consists of motivational quotes fostering a healthy masculine identity, often accompanied by images of individuals embodying positive masculine characteristics. This study positions Thegentlemanrising as an initiative to balance and juxtapose the concept of masculinity, promoting positive ideals and steering clear of toxic behaviors. The findings contribute to our understanding of how social media platforms can play a role in shaping discussions around masculinity and influencing perceptions among the audience, particularly the younger generation.

Assessing University Students’ Competence in Translating English Discourse Connectives into Kurdish

The present study sets out to assess university students’ competence in translating English discourse connectives into Kurdish. It also attempts to study the impact of teaching on students’ translation competence for rendering these elements. Discourse connectives are one of the main subcategories of textual metadiscourse elements which play a crucial role in text organization and the creation of cohesion. Their class is mainly comprised of conjunctions and adverbials which connect ideas at intrasentential, intersentential, and textual levels. Appropriate recognition, utilization, and translation of English discourse connectives are problematic and challenging for Kurdish EFL learners and translators. Moreover, some connectors are multifunctional and polysemous in nature. This paper aims at highlighting some of these translation problems and assessing students’ competence in their rendering at the pre-test and post-test. The research design is mixed method and employs a Translation Task and a Judgement Elicitation Task as two means for measuring translation competence. These tests were carried out on 40 Third-Year students at the Department of Translation, College of Languages, University of Duhok. The study concluded that students possessed enough translation competence for making judgements on the appropriate renditions of the discourse connectives. In contrast, they failed to appropriately translate besides, although, nevertheless, yet, provided that, otherwise, unless, for, thereby, and so that in the pre-test. Furthermore, holding teaching sessions on the classifications, functions, and translation of discourse connectives had a significant impact on the acquisition of translation competence in the post-test.

Comparative analysis of the poem “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” by W.B. Yeats translations in the light of M.Y. Lotman’s theory of a poetic text elements semantic correlation

Comparative analysis of the poem “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” by W.B. Yeats translations in the light of M.Y. Lotman’s theory of a poetic text elements semantic correlation

Interpretability in Sentiment Analysis: A Self-Supervised Approach to Sentiment Cue Extraction

In this paper, we present a novel self-supervised framework for Sentiment Cue Extraction (SCE) aimed at enhancing the interpretability of text sentiment analysis models. Our approach leverages self-supervised learning to identify and highlight key textual elements that significantly influence sentiment classification decisions. Central to our framework is the development of an innovative Mask Sequence Interpretation Score (MSIS), a bespoke metric designed to assess the relevance and coherence of identified sentiment cues within binary text classification tasks. By employing Monte Carlo Sampling techniques optimized for computational efficiency, our framework demonstrates exceptional effectiveness in processing large-scale text data across diverse datasets, including English and Chinese, thus proving its versatility and scalability. The effectiveness of our approach is validated through extensive experiments on several benchmark datasets, including SST-2, IMDb, Yelp, and ChnSentiCorp. The results indicate a substantial improvement in the interpretability of the sentiment analysis models without compromising their predictive accuracy. Furthermore, our method stands out for its global interpretability, offering an efficient solution for analyzing new data compared to traditional techniques focused on local explanations.

A Unified Visual and Linguistic Semantics Method for Enhanced Image Captioning

Image captioning, also recognized as the challenge of transforming visual data into coherent natural language descriptions, has persisted as a complex problem. Traditional approaches often suffer from semantic gaps, wherein the generated textual descriptions lack depth, context, or the nuanced relationships contained within the images. In an effort to overcome these limitations, we introduce a novel encoder–decoder framework called A Unified Visual and Linguistic Semantics Method. Our method comprises three key components: an encoder, a mapping network, and a decoder. The encoder employs a fusion of CLIP (Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training) and SegmentCLIP to process and extract salient image features. SegmentCLIP builds upon CLIP’s foundational architecture by employing a clustering mechanism, thereby enhancing the semantic relationships between textual and visual elements in the image. The extracted features are then transformed by a mapping network into a fixed-length prefix. A GPT-2-based decoder subsequently generates a corresponding Chinese language description for the image. This framework aims to harmonize feature extraction and semantic enrichment, thereby producing more contextually accurate and comprehensive image descriptions. Our quantitative assessment reveals that our model exhibits notable enhancements across the intricate AIC-ICC, Flickr8k-CN, and COCO-CN datasets, evidenced by a 2% improvement in BLEU@4 and a 10% uplift in CIDEr scores. Additionally, it demonstrates acceptable efficiency in terms of simplicity, speed, and reduction in computational burden.

The Representation of Environmental Issues in an EFL Module for Primary School: A Multimodal Analysis

By using a qualitative textual analysis with a multimodal approach, this study explores how environmental issues are depicted in the relations of verbal and visual texts of an EFL module for primary school. The data were obtained from an EFL module for the fifth grade made by the EYL Course Design course students at one university in Bandung. In analysing the data, this study utilized three frameworks: Halliday and Mathiessen’s (2014) Transitivity system, Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2006) Visual Grammar, and Royce’s (1998) Intersemiotic Complementarity. The findings show that, by using a story, the module represents three points of drought-related environmental issues: the causes, the effects, and the solutions. The causes are mostly depicted visually by Transactional Action processes in which the Actors use water as the Goal or the Means in excess. The effects are mostly depicted verbally by Mental, Existential, and Relational processes that indicate human need for water. Meanwhile, the solutions are mostly depicted verbally by Material processes in which water (Goal) becomes an element to be saved by the Actors. In terms of complementarity, most of the elements of verbal and visual texts are completed by each other. Hence, encouraging students’ comprehension of the module, especially related to environmental issues, could be expanded by identifying both texts as a single whole.

The lake’s image in the artistic worldview of the Northern text of Russian literature for children

INTRODUCTION. For the first time, the works of the Northern Text of Russian literature for children, in which the lake’s image arises, are systematized. The purpose of the study is to consider the artistic and semantic features of the leitmotif image of the lake in the context of the specifics of the artistic world of the North. The objectives of the research are to identify the main mythopoetic and realistic characteristics of the lake’s image in the works of the Northern text for children; to determine the motives and images with which it interacts as a structural element of the Northern text, to identify the place of the lake’s image in the artistic worldview of the North.MATERIALS AND METHODS. Using a systematic approach to the literary text, which is a set of methods (chronotopic, motivic, mythopoetic, systemic-semantic) that reveal the object as a single system, the lake’s image in the works of writers of the second half of the 20th century is considered: A. Linevsky, A. Petukhov, V. Pikul, M. Skorokhodov, A. Chlenov.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. After analyzing the artistic material, it is concluded that there are two variants of the lake ’s image: tundra and forest lakes. The first is realized through the mythologeme of the circle and the personification method, the second through the motives of the two worlds, secrets, boundaries, changes of the hero. The lake’s image in the Northern text of Russian literature for children also approaches the images of the sea and the river and actualizes the motif of the unity of the world.CONCLUSION. This study is a particular stage in the study of the figurative-semantic structure of the Northern text of Russian literature for children as a supertext and indicates broad prospects for its further study.

UI semantic component group detection: Grouping UI elements with similar semantics in mobile graphical user interface

Texts, widgets, and images on a UI page do not work separately. Instead, they are partitioned into groups to achieve certain interaction functions or visual information. Existing studies on UI elements grouping mainly focus on a specific single UI-related software engineering task, and their groups vary in appearance and function. In this case, we propose our semantic component groups that pack adjacent text and non-text elements with similar semantics. In contrast to those task-oriented grouping methods, our semantic component group can be adopted for multiple UI-related software tasks, such as retrieving UI perceptual groups, improving code structure for automatic UI-to-code generation, and generating accessibility data for screen readers. To recognize semantic component groups on a UI page, we propose a robust, deep learning-based vision detector, UISCGD, which extends the SOTA deformable-DETR by incorporating UI element color representation and a learned prior on group distribution. The model is trained on our UI screenshots dataset of 1988 mobile GUIs from more than 200 apps in both iOS and Android platforms. The evaluation shows that our UISCGD achieves 6.1% better than the best baseline algorithm and 5.4 % better than deformable-DETR in which it is based.

Creating Product Profile Website For Jersey Online Figures

In the current digital era, websites have become an important means of promoting products to potential consumers. Online jersey figures are a product that is popular among sports fans. This product usually displays pictures or names of sports figures admired by fans. This research aims to develop a product profile website which is an important means of promoting products to potential consumers. A product profile website is a website that displays information about the products offered by a company. This website usually contains information about product specifications, prices, how to order, and other features. An effective product profile website can help companies increase product sales. This research also aims to prove that product profile websites are created using The waterfall method is suitable for creating websites with basic features because this method is easy to understand and apply. These elements can be text, images, videos and other elements. Which can be an effective means of promoting products. This evidence will be obtained by conducting research that measures the effectiveness of product profile websites in increasing product sales. The results of this research show that product profile websites created using the Waterfall method are more effective in attracting the attention of potential consumers and encouraging them to take action, such as buying a product.

Psycholinguistic underpinnings of image formation: Suggestion and manipulation in the educational network discourse

This study delves into the intricate psycholinguistic mechanisms that underpin image formation within the educational network discourse, with a specific focus on the dynamics of suggestion and manipulation. In an era where digital communication reigns supreme, understanding how language shapes perceptions and influences behavior is paramount. This research seeks to unravel the complex interplay between suggestion, manipulation, and the formation of images within educational networks. Drawing from insights across disciplines such as psychology, linguistics, and communication studies, this study examines how linguistic cues and contextual factors interact to shape individuals' perceptions and responses within educational settings. Acknowledging the transformative power of language in shaping attitudes, beliefs, and actions, this study aims to shed light on the subtle yet profound ways in which educators employ linguistic strategies to influence discourse within educational networks. By employing a multifaceted approach that integrates theoretical frameworks with empirical analysis, this research endeavors to uncover the underlying mechanisms driving suggestion and manipulation within educational discourse. Through a meticulous examination of textual elements, discourse patterns, and communicative strategies employed by educators in digital environments, this study seeks to elucidate the intricate processes involved in image formation. By exploring the role of suggestion and manipulation in shaping perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors, this research contributes to a deeper understanding of the psycholinguistic underpinnings of educational network discourse. Furthermore, this study not only offers theoretical insights but also practical implications for educators, policymakers, and practitioners involved in educational communication. By highlighting the ethical considerations and implications of linguistic manipulation within educational networks, this research aims to empower stakeholders to navigate digital discourse with greater awareness and discernment. In conclusion, this study represents a significant contribution to the field of thinking skills and creativity by offering new insights into the psycholinguistic dynamics of image formation within educational networks. By unraveling the complexities of suggestion and manipulation, this research opens avenues for further inquiry and underscores the importance of critical thinking and creativity in navigating contemporary digital landscapes.

Construction of teaching system of public art major using CMOS image sensor technology

The traditional public art education model has many drawbacks. After all, this teaching model is the most common teaching model. Most colleges and universities still rely on the traditional teaching mode. This teaching mode is not attractive, boring, and low cost, so the popularity rate is high. The digital interactive design with multimedia courseware as the main body has played a great role in promoting the teaching of public art education in colleges and universities. In this paper, when teachers use multimedia courseware for teaching, because the computer cannot process physical signals, part of the hardware is a converter that converts physical signals such as light and pictures received by the CMOS sensor into digital signals and inputs them to digital signals and analog signals. Through the converter, the two-way transmission of teacher and student information in the teaching process of public art majors from the perspective of diversified public art was realized. At the same time, the information elements of sound, image and text were integrated into the interactive works of public art majors from the perspective of diverse public art, so as to stimulate students’ interest in public art learning. Combined with the application of CMOS image sensor technology in diversified public art teaching, a questionnaire survey was conducted to explore the satisfaction of students in public art education and teaching of colleges and universities by CMOS image sensor technology, 50% of the students agreed with the proposal in this article. In this paper, the diversified public art teaching based on CMOS image sensor technology was derived outside the classroom, and the teaching was related to students’ life, so as to improve the artistic atmosphere of the campus and truly improve the teaching effect of public art education in colleges and universities.

Development of BeBa (News Learning) Learning Media in News Text Learning

Learning news texts is one of the compulsory learning that students need to master. There are various factors that can affect the success of learning news texts. One of them is the use of learning media. This research and development aims to (1) develop BeBa (Belajar Berita) learning media in the material identifying elements of news texts for grade VIII students of SMPN 2 Sumbergempol, (2) testing the feasibility of BeBa (Belajar Berita) learning media in the material identifying elements of news texts for grade VIII students of SMPN 2 Sumbergempol. The ADDIE model is used in research and development of Beba learning media. There are two types of data obtained in this study. Qualitative data is obtained from interviews and comments or suggestions for improvement from students and validators. Quantitative data was obtained from the results of needs analysis questionnaires, material validator assessments, media validators, teacher practitioners, and student responses. The results of material validation by material experts obtained a percentage of 93.33% with the category "very feasible", the results of validation by media experts obtained a percentage of 96.88% with the category "very feasible", and the results of teacher assessment Indonesian obtained a percentage of 100% with the category "very feasible". The trials in this study were conducted twice, namely small group trials with 10 students obtaining a percentage of 98.45% with the category "very feasible" and large group trials with 25 students obtaining a percentage of 95.7% with the category "very feasible". Based on these results, the BeBa (Belajar Berita) learning media that has been developed has been tested for feasibility and is ready to be implemented in learning Indonesian class VIII news text materials.

The Rebirth of People and Earth: COVID-19 as a “Healer” in Kitty O’Meara’s Picturebook and the People Stayed Home

Kitty O’Meara’s picturebook And the People Stayed Home (2020) presents COVID-19 as a potential “healer” that fosters the rebirth of people and earth. O’Meara’s poem, “In the Time of Pandemic,” conveys a message of hope, resilience, and reflection in the face of the pandemic. When accompanied by the illustrations of Stefano Di Cristofaro and Paul Pereda, the poem takes on a new dimension as a picturebook. The article examines O’Meara’s picturebook, exploring how the visual elements enhance the emotional impact and deepen the interpretation of the text. O’Meara’s picturebook is examined through the lens of both ecocriticism and picturebook theory. Leaning on both theories, the article reveals deeper meanings and implications regarding the relationship between the pandemic, the environment, and human society. By analyzing the visual and textual elements of the picturebook, the article uncovers the ways in which these illustrations highlight the interconnections between humanity and the natural world.

The Paratextual Functions of the Early Chinese Anecdote – with *Tang zai Chimen 湯在啻門 and *Tang chu yu Tangqiu 湯處於湯丘 as Examples

Abstract This article proposes a set of function-based criteria for identifying paratextual elements in manuscript texts. With *Tang zai Chimen and *Tang chu yu Tangqiu as examples, I show how their narrative frames perform functions akin to titles, authors’ names, and prefaces. This approach offers a new explanation for the prevalence of the anecdote genre as well as a renewed understanding of the functions of the paratext.

Синтаксические средства экспрессивности (на материале заголовков удмуртских публицистических текстов)

The study aims to describe the features of the structural-semantic organization of the titles of journalistic texts in Udmurt within the framework of expressive syntax. The scientific novelty lies in identifying the expressive-evaluative potential of the title as a structural element of mass media texts; in determining syntactic redundancy and syntactic insufficiency in the lexico-grammatical structures of the Udmurt language. The results suggest that syntactic heterogeneity is peculiar to the titles of journalistic texts in Udmurt. Based on the analysis of the title structure of the “Udmurt dunne” newspaper for 2020-2023, it was found that the authors of the articles prefer such stylistic devices as inversion, elliptical sentences, rhetorical exclamations, which are primarily used to express the emotive, attractive and appellative functions. Various kinds of repetitions, gradation, parcelling and polysyndeton are characterized by low frequency, accounted for by the internal specifics of the newspaper title, which tends to brevity of expression. The use of various means and devices in the titles of journalistic texts makes it possible to perform the influencing, expressive, attractive, appellative, narrative functions of a newspaper text.