Everyday Language Use Research Articles

Soviet Socio-Cultural Practices from Perspective of Genres in <i>Pioneer</i> Magazine

The article presents some results of the project that is aimed at constructing a mediatised model of the Soviet society in periodicals for children. The data has been drawn from the Pioneer magazine published in the 1970s. This paper focuses on its structure and contents, as well as typical genres that construct the representations of the Soviet society and socio-cultural practices. The degree of ideology is defined that characterises various genres. In terms of methodology, the study draws on constructivism, critical discourse analysis, theory of journalistic genres, theory of speech genres, and semiotic analysis. Genres are interpreted based on their ideological charge, types of socio-cultural practices they represent, and the semiotic resources employed. The findings show that the ideological charge can be graded from being non-existent to dominating the factual information. The ideological component is secondary in genres of popular science and general education, whereas genres that reproduce adults’ institutional socio-political practices demonstrate a high degree of ideological charge, which is conveyed through specific semiotic resources. At the same time, the magazine adapts the representations of Soviet values for adolescents through the use of everyday language and visual images of routine life.

Editors’ introduction to the Special Section: The ethics and politics of the Anthropocene

Editors’ introduction to the Special Section: The ethics and politics of the Anthropocene

LUANG ISLAND: COASTAL ECOLOGY SYSTEM IN OUTERMOST SMALL ISLANDS (ESCAOSD), MALUKU-INDONESIA

Coastal communities and their ecology are inseparable units, connected to one another. The Luang Island community is one of the coastal communities on the outermost islands in Indonesia-Maluku Province-Southwest Maluku Regency. Understanding the ecological system of the people of Luang Island is inseparable from how they live their daily lives, which then accumulates into knowledge, habits as well as patterns to regulate their life order through a long historical process of interaction with nature. This knowledge and habits depend on the geographical environment in which they live, in other words, the natural environment also influences the way they act and think. This pattern then plays a role in realizing the harmonization of their lives, to create unique social and cultural conditions which then become their spirit. This spirit can be seen in their daily lives. This study uses ethnographic research with an ecological anthropological approach. Data was collected through literature study techniques, interviews, FGDs, and participatory observation. The data analysis technique used in this research is ethnoecology. The results of this study indicate that the influence between community relations and nature on Luang Island is reflected in the use of everyday language in communication, the ability to express sea areas based on local knowledge, and presenting natural elements into the social culture of the people of Luang Island. The results of this study are useful for ecological studies in the outermost small islands in Indonesia and as a comparison among the forty-eight archipelagic countries in the world, both tropical and non-tropical.

The Influence of Language Identity on Students’ Learning Foreign Language Process

Everyone has an identity and language is a sign of that. The associations in a person's environment, with whom they hang out, and where they learn can all have an impact on their identities. This research aims to explain the extent to which language is still used as a symbol of human identity. The language used every day can be a source of pride. Evidence of this pride can be seen from the development of its use which is dynamic. Language has a very important function to express cultural treasures. However, language over time has also developed. Challenges in learning a foreign language can also be influenced by the use of a person's everyday language. Students have their challenges in learning a foreign language, therefore it can be seen whether the everyday language they use has an influence when they learn a foreign language.

ANALISIS KESALAHAN EJAAN DAN TANDA BACA PADA MEDIA SOSIAL INSTAGRAM

This study aims to analyze Indonesian spelling errors in writing social media posts. The sample was taken from Instagram social media. On each account that uploads photos containing writing. This research is a descriptive research that focuses on extracting qualitative data by looking at a detailed description of the research subject. From the results of this study, in general it can be said that Indonesian language errors in social media uploads on Instagram are still common and are not in accordance with good and correct Indonesian language rules. The forms contained in writing errors include spelling, spacing, and the writing that is conveyed is not in accordance with the rules for using good and correct Indonesian. Writing errors in Instagram uploads are caused by the influence of the use of everyday language based on written and spoken language in their environment, limited knowledge of Indonesian language rules, and the tendency to imitate. In addition, they often ignore how to use good written language.

Rečenične osnove čuvenih filmskih replika u leksikonu korisnika jezika

This contribution focuses on ways in which popular culture affects our everyday language use. The main purpose of the present analysis is to suggest that film and mass media have created special conditions for language learning and use that were quite inconceivable before. One change brought about by current technology is rather banal: it has made it possible to reach unprecedentedly vast numbers of people. Apart from this obvious fact, modern popular culture has created special contexts through which language users come across some common expressions. This has implications for how such expressions are then stored in people's lexical memories. Under current linguistic theorizing, people's memories are assumed to be roughly equivalent in the sense that one person's definition of a word can be expected to overlap with other people's definitions. However, the overlap is not perfect, given that one person's knowledge is derived from his or her private experiences and these are different for different people. On the other hand, expressions associated with popular movies are presented in ways that are identical to all audiences.

CHILD'S NARRATIVE STRUCTURE


 At its daily used in adult individuals and children, language meet the communication function is to communicate ideas (thought) of an individual in others (Piaget, 2005: 1). This can be evident from the speech-speech or narrative generated in the use of everyday language which then becomes an interesting study for the main study in the use of language in children. In narrating the story, just as it had done by adult speakers, children will also make the selection and preparation of experience and other stories from the story of his life (life story). This explains the narrative as a genre that is universal because it narrated traditions can be found in every culture and speakers of different languages ​​(Hatch: 1992 in Brockmeier 1998). On the other hand, the narrative is also characterized as being bound by culture and language so that in the context of language and speakers of different backgrounds will have the tools possible narrative and discursive different linguistic (Labov & Waletsky: 1968, Ochs: 1998 in Berman 1998). The above facts indicate that the narrative structure generated by the speakers of a language and culture will be different from the speakers of the language with cultural and language backgrounds other.

Nyelv, kommunikáció, média

Language, Communication, MediaGábor SzécsiThe article argues that the expansion of new communication technologies leads to a globally perceptible semantic development. The essence of this is that in the environment of new media, orality and multimediality, which are gaining an increasing role in communication, lead to the image of language in the sense of meaning, and to the development of new language usage habits that determine both the process of thinking and the structure of consciousness.These language usage habits significantly contribute to the rapid changes in community roles associated with multi-channel communication, the convergence of different community languages and communication situations, the blurring of community boundaries, i.e. the mediatization of communities. What's more, the birth of the new concept of community and the creation ofnew community forms is also the source of the language that is transforming in the medium of new media, whose figurative nature leaves deep traces in the structure of the consciousness of the communicating person, in his image of himself and the community relations that determine his communicative actions. As I try to highlight in this essay, all of this presupposes the development of hitherto unknown patterns of linguistic creativity. Using language games, abbreviations, humor, picture-word combinations, which are becoming more and more common tools with the use of new communication technologies, everyday language users communicate with each other as creative designers of language meaning. Linguistic creativity becomes acommunity-forming phenomenon of everyday language use.

Comments on the term "drainage"

Use of the term "drainage" is inconsistent in clinical practice and the existing literature. The aim of this study was to clarify the meaning of the term and to raise awareness of its proper use. A selective literature search was performed. Drainage is the process of removing fluid but the term is often used interchangeably with the drain tube, which is often inserted at the same time, which is linguistically referred to as ametonymy. Atympanostomy tube is used for middle ear ventilation and pressure equalization. Lymphatic and abscess drainage are not objects. Standardized technical terminology serves to prevent vagueness and consecutive misunderstandings in ascientific context. This is particularly important in medicine, but is subject to acertain variability in everyday language use.

Multilingvisms latviešu diasporā Vācijā

Over the last fifteen years, the large-scale emigration from Latvia, triggered by economic crisis of 2008, has led to the emergence of “new diaspora” communities in the EU. In Germany, the number of Latvians has increased rapidly since 2011, when Germany opened its labor market for immigrants from the new EU member states, including Latvia. Since then, according to the German Federal Statistical Office, the number of Latvian citizens in Germany has grown steadily reaching 39,555 at the end of 2019. The exact number of Latvians in Germany, however, is unknown, as the statistics are based solely on the fact of Latvian citizenship. The new sociocultural environment, in which migrants find themselves, have tremendous sociolinguistic consequences on their language practices. When moving to another country, not only the level of language skills but also the linguistic behavior and attitudes of emigrants towards their mother tongue change for both objective and subjective reasons. In addition to their mother tongue, Latvians living in Germany use German, Russian, and English in their daily lives. Against the background of these very strong languages, a complex and heterogeneous situation emerges in connection with the transmission of the Latvian language to the next generation. Although, most Latvians in the diaspora (incl. those in exogamous partnerships) want their children to speak Latvian, this desire does not always get fulfilled. The main aim of this article, hence, is to explore language attitudes and language use patterns among Latvians in Germany and to assess their role in the transmission of Latvian to future generations. The empirical basis for the article comes from fifteen qualitative interviews with first-generation Latvian emigrants living in Germany. The study focuses specifically on the “new diaspora” that has emerged over the last thirty years since Latvia regained its independence. The findings of the study suggest that since the beginning of the 1990s both the motivation for Latvians to emigrate and the demographic structure of the diaspora have changed significantly. Moreover, reported linguistic socialization preferences, motivation behind language choices, and everyday language use patterns point to rather heterogenous linguistic profile of the “new Latvian diaspora” in Germany. At present, at least three very different groups or “bubbles” can be distinguished among the interviewed respondents: “the well-integrated/assimilated bubble” with German as a dominant everyday language, “the Latvian bubble”, characterized by the dominant use of Latvian, and “the East European bubble” with Russian as a dominant language of everyday interactions. In addition to these findings, the article also discusses factors that, according to the representatives of the diaspora themselves, promote and hinder the maintenance of the Latvian language in emigration.

Speaking In-Between: Vernacular Spirituality of a Woman in Late Chosǒn Korea

precis: This essay presents a transcultural and transhistorical case that exhibits the impact of everyday language use in the practice of Christian spirituality, which stems from the biblical sermo humilis of late antiquity Christians, across and throughout the history of Christian mission and evangelism. In the specific case of Yi Suni, a Korean female martyr, I argue, this manner of sermo humilis kindles such Spirit-led influence in a mission field without a Western missionary’s intervention, as the Christian message spreads through the raw language of ordinary people. Even though there has been some research on Yi Suni’s in-between identity as an ordinary Confucian woman and a Catholic individual subject, there has not been enough attention to how her manner of speech in her letters reflects her struggles in the liminal space of her transcultural context. Her letters written in the real voice of Korean vernacular ǒnmun exhibit the rawness of the impact of the appropriated Catholicism in the everyday life of a Korean Confucian woman and her family. This rawness of her language, along with the core biblical message, I suggest, is the hallmark of Christian spirituality that Yi Suni revealed without direct influence from any Western missionary.

Loomade ja inimeste suhteid tähistavad loitsud – adresseerimine, eufemismid, düsfemismid

The use of euphemisms is a characteristic of everyday language use today. However, substitute names and euphemisms were widely used in incantations, where euphemisms were tightly interwoven with taboos. In incantations euphemisms are used in various situations: healing the sick, coping with animals and natural phenomena, creating social relationships; coping with core rituals of human life (primarily birth and death); retaliating for theft, murder, and infidelity; promoting one’s work. Euphemisms represent an important pole in the use of verbal magic, and they are different from references to dysphemisms, that is, using vituperation, cursing, profanity or hexing to cut off contact or to achieve one’s goal. This article discusses general principles for the use of euphemisms and examines which euphemisms are used in which functions, using examples of certain belief rituals and values (fishing), symbolic animals (the wolf and the raven) and cockroaches. The results demonstrate that there is no direct appeal in 11% of texts concerned with wolf words, in 10.9% of texts about ravens, and 58% of texts about cockroaches; and euphemisms are used in 66% of texts concerned with the wolf, in 19,5% of texts about the raven, and 32,2% of texts about cockroaches, whereas dysphemisms are used in 32% of texts about the raven and in 3% of texts about cockroaches.

Concreteness ratings for 62,000 English multiword expressions.

Concreteness describes the degree to which a word's meaning is understood through perception and action. Many studies use the Brysbaert et al. (2014) concreteness ratings to investigate language processing and text analysis. However, these ratings are limited to English single words and a few two-word expressions. Increasingly, attention is focused on the importance of multiword expressions, given their centrality in everyday language use and language acquisition. We present concreteness ratings for 62,889 multiword expressions and examine their relationship to the existing concreteness ratings for single words and two-word expressions. These new ratings represent the first big dataset of multiword expressions, and will be useful for researchers interested in language acquisition and language processing, as well as natural language processing and text analysis.

Questioning translanguaging creativity through Michel de Certeau

ABSTRACT This article questions theoretically the conceptualisation of creativity put forth by the translanguaging paradigm, i.e. the speakers' ability to push and break language boundaries and flout behavioural norms. It does so by considering Michel de Certeau's view of everyday language use as creative by virtue of its being able to take advantage of a space of action. De Certeau's view emphasises the existence of constraints as a key aspect of creativity in everyday practices, which challanges the idea that multilingual creativity is necessarily to be seen as transcending boundaries and being disruptive.

Theorizing as scholarly meaning-making practice: The value of a pragmatist theory of theorizing

Theorizing is widely recognized as a key activity or process in scholarly research work. In many cases, theorizing is assumed to be part of the scholar’s analytical capacity, but there is a shortage of comprehensive explanations for how theorizing as practice actually generates the intersubjective meaning that is the primary purpose of using theory to describe and explain the empirical material. Drawing on pragmatist analytical philosophy and the idea that meaning is intersubjectively constituted within the semantics of everyday language, being accessible to all humans sharing a language, this article formulates a theory of theorizing that does not stop with the affirmative account that theorizing is a process that is contingent on personal beliefs and preferences. A theory of theorizing needs to provide a plausible ground for how empirical materials are described on basis of vocabularies that gradually shift from being more closely related to an everyday use of vernacular language, to more technically oriented descriptions that include theoretical concepts and categories. Based on these premises, preferably to be further developed, a theory of theorizing that demystifies how theory is introduced when analyzing empirical data is presented.

Guram Rcheulishvili: A Georgian Hemingway?

Ernest Hemingway's works are often interpreted in the context of his biography as Hemingway stressed the significance of his own experiencefor his fiction. He explained it, “In order to write about life first you must live it” (Ernest Hemingway on Writing, 2004). The same rhetoric of thenexus of “life” and fiction is used by Guram Rcheulishvili (1934-1660) who obviously followed Hemingway’s notions of literature. Rcheulishvili’sshort fiction is a reply to Hemingway’s iconic writing style creatively worked into the Georgian literary tradition. The aim of this paper is to analyzeimportant parallels between the short stories of Ernest Hemingway and Guram Rcheulishvili to demonstrate this relationship. The use of everydaylanguage as well as short and simple sentences, a concise and sparse style, repetitions, intense dialogues are some of the essential traitscharacteristic to both writers. Themes like birth and death, war and violence, family, nature, disillusionment prove to be vitally important in theirshort stories. One of the significant similarities is also that both Hemingway and Rcheulishvili “place” their work mainly in “their time” so familiarto each of them. They both try to write what they know well about and doing so, they do not often employ the first-person narration(or, at least, as frequently as one could expect). Complex interconnections between the author, the narrator and the protagonist (oftenautobiographical) is another interesting subject to study in the short stories of both Ernest Hemingway and Guram Rcheulishvili.Keywords: Hemingway, Rcheulishvili, short fiction

VOCABULARY INPUT IN ESL TEXTBOOKS: A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS

Although textbooks are a major source in language learning, few research studies explored to what extent vocabulary input in ESL textbooks supports English language learning. The present study compares the vocabulary input of two English textbooks prescribed for Indian university undergraduate students. A corpus is constructed using online software based on the words in the textbooks. Comparison of frequency against different corpora reveals the differences in the order of words. The results are discussed both from a quantitative and a qualitative perspective. The analysis reveals that many words in the textbooks occasionally occur in common everyday language use and vocabulary selection in these textbooks demonstrates great variation in the number and selection of vocabulary. Therefore, the study confirms that the communication needs of learners are afforded greater weight than frequency criteria.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0969/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

УЯВЛЕННЯ ПРО ДОЛЮ В ТРАДИЦІЙНІЙ КУЛЬТУРІ УКРАЇНЦІВ

Understanding the concept of «fate» for representatives of traditional Ukrainian society had several options. For the average person, this word can mean the course of events, coincidences, the direction of life, which are completely independent of the desires and will of a man. The article considers aspects of the semantic meaning of the concept of destiny for Ukrainians in the linguistic and mythological aspect. This topic cannot be considered fully disclosed in the scientific literature. Studies on this phenomenon are often descriptive works, containing accumulations of rich folklore material, mainly in the form of fairy tales and songs. Theoretical elaboration of folklore materials, which creates a full picture of a variety of meanings, that give them a phenomenon, we can meet quite rarely. The article is based on the analysis of folklore material in the form of fairy tales, lyrics and paremias, collected in different times: from the end of the XIX century up to the beginning of the XXI century, and, as well, at the works of individual ethnographers, where fate is described as a strong part of a construct of mythological beliefs. In the course of the research, the authors find out that the idea of destiny has various factors of formation. Perceptions of destiny as a structural part of the traditional worldview are binary in nature, expressed in a clear distinction between «good» and «bad» in this area, but the word itself does not have a clear negative or positive meaning. Meanings often depend on circumstances and epithets, provided in a given situation. The ideas about the peculiarities of the formation of human destiny and the factors that were perceived as able to influence it are considered. The ambivalent attitude of the people to the immutability of human destiny is traced. In folklore we can find many examples of how fate can be changed. Researchers have paid special attention to the characteristics of destiny as a character that brings it closer and combines it, in a sense, with other mythological creatures, such as Friday, ancestral spirits, house spirit «domovyk» and relative to it «hodovanets». In conclusion, the authors made an attempt to systematize the available data and to create a definition of the concept of «fate», which would reflect a generalized version of the ideas that existed in Ukrainian society. There are two definitions, according to such aspects as mythological meaning and everyday language use.

An Expert Roundtable Discussion on Experiences of Autistic Autism Researchers.

An Expert Roundtable Discussion on Experiences of Autistic Autism Researchers.

Making space: the natural, cultural, cognitive and social niches of human activity.

This paper is in two parts. Part 1 examines the phenomenon of making space as a process involving one or other kind of legal decision-making, for example when a state authority authorizes the creation of a new highway along a certain route or of a new park in a certain location. In cases such as this, a new abstract spatial entity comes into existence - the route, theboundaries of the area to beset aside for the park - followed only later by concordant changes in physical reality. In Part 2, we show that features identified in studying this phenomenon of legal spacemaking can be detected in other spheres of human activity, for example in planning (where spacemaking is projected into the future), and in reasoning about history (where spacemaking is projected back through time). We shall see that these features display themselves in especially complex ways in our everyday use of language, and we conclude by examining the implications of this complexity for attempts to create an artificial intelligence that would enjoy a mastery of language that would be equivalent to that of human beings.