Language Of Everyday Communication Research Articles

Language planning in the process of linguistic landscape transformation of the Republic of Kazakhstan

The objective of this research is to reflect on the relationship between language policy and planning and the transformational nature of the linguistic landscape of Kazakhstan. The study focusing on primary data resources (globalization, Latinization, localization, hybridization, westernization), resulted in the rise in visibility, prestige, and everyday use of the Kazakh language and the growing influence of English in the city’s linguistic landscape. It argues that the so-called language fashion promotes a positive view of language in everyday communication. Considering language choices in the linguistic landscape emanating from the «top-down» (centralized policies) and «bottom-up» (grass-roots and local initiatives), the article presents examples found in Astana’s linguistic landscape that give visibility to the multilingual and bilingual nature of the signs. The research not only employs a qualitative approach for data collection and analysis but also incorporates visual research methods, highlighting the multidimensional nature of the study and its comprehensive exploration of the subject matter.

FORMATION OF LINGUISTIC DEMOGRAPHY ON THE NATIONAL E-GOVERNMENT PLATFORM: PROBLEMS AND THEIR SOLUTIONS

The advancing of information and communication technologies has contributed to their introduction into almost all areas of human activity, as well as the field of demography. The advent of such a field as electronic demography has become a precondition for the improvement of an electronic demographic system on the e-government platform. Demography is a multidisciplinary field of science, and along with other areas, it also includes linguistic demography. Therefore, in the electronic demographic system, along with other segments, there is a segment of linguistic demography. Each area in the data warehouse (DW) of the electronic demographic system has its own data mart (DM). This article highlights several complications in the formation of DM of linguistic demography. These complications are linked to the fact that linguists-researchers offer several approaches to the definitions of the notions of “language” and “dialect”. Moreover, when establishing a language indicator in a country, one of its three options can be approved - as a native language, as a language of everyday communication or as a language of use. In this regard, certain difficulties arise in the establishment of a segment of linguistic demography in the electronic demographic system. This article shows the complications of establishing linguistic demography and presents certain proposals for their solution.

Language as an indicator of the Ukrainian national identity and civilization choice of the Kyivans

The article has been the objective of the study of the language factor in formation of the Ukrainian national identity. Ukrainian researchers tended to reduce national identity to a civic model without taking ethnic and linguistic color into account. In circumstances of the full-scale military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine importance of the components of ethnic national self-identification in formation of the Ukrainian na­tional identity has come to be topical. Based on the results of the survey of the Kyivans in 2020 separated out were social groups with different depth of manifestations of civic, po­litical and cultural national identities. A comparison of the share of the Kyivans with the same level of civic identity but differ in language preferences (the language of everyday communication and the language that Kyivans define as their native one) showed diffe­rences in determining the civilizational future of Ukraine. The highest commonality in views on the country civilizational choice is drmonstrated by the people of Kyiv who on condition of common civic identity are Ukrainian-speaking or bilingual but, above all, recognize Ukrainian to be their native language. In addition, for the cultural component of the Ukrainian identity, the indicator of defining one’s own native language appeared to be more demonstrative and important than that of everyday communication. Bilingualism can be considered as a transitional stage in the restoration of Ukrainian national identity. At the current stage of Ukrainian statehood development efforts to limit Ukrainian na­tional identity only to the political component without taking into account cultural ele­ments seem to be short-sighted and contradictory among which language preferences have come to be the leading marker. And the indicator of defining one’s own native language is currently a system indicator in the totality of indicators of the Ukrainian national identity. Keywords: national identity, national self-identification, civilizational choice, language prefe­rences, native language, the language of everyday communication.

The war and the attitude of Ukrainians to language

This article is devoted to outlining the main trends of changes in the language and national consciousness of Ukrainians in the period of Russian-Ukrainian war. The language situation in Ukraine has changed significantly since the start of Russian aggression in February 2022. The basis of our investigation are the results of the latest sociological surveys. In order to study these changes, the materials of the following polls were involved: the poll conducted by the sociological group “Rating” (March 2022), the all-Ukrainian public opinion poll “Omnibus” conducted by KMIS (May 2022), the survey conducted by Gradus Research (October 2022), the KMIS survey (December 2022). Presented in the paper also are the opinions of Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University students regarding language issues, which were collected in the process of student questionnaires in winter 2022—2023. The results of all studies confirm the fact of changing the language situation in Ukraine in the direction of increasing the amount of the Ukrainian language. Now the process of Ukrainization has become so visible. Ukrainians became more conscious in the aspect of their national identity and more switched to the state language of communication. We can make a conclusion that the sociological data prove the obvious transformation of the language situation of Ukraine and the expansion of the functions of the Ukrainian language. The war accelerates the processes of Ukrainization of the communicative space, and therefore in the future we can predict the continuation of changes in the language situation of the country in the direction of Ukrainian monolingualism. The prospect of our study is to investigate the language behaviour of Ukrainians in the post-war period. Keywords: state language, mother tongue, language of everyday communication, language situation, language consciousness, process of Ukrainianization, language identity, sociolinguistic survey

Project VVV and the Issue of Revitalising Valoc’

This article provides an insight into the complex issue of producing the first edition of the dictionary of Valoc’ – a variety of Lombard spoken in Val Masino, lower Valtellina (northern Italy). This new lexicographic project was initiated in 2017 and is called Vocabolär del Valoc’ de la Val Mäśen – VVV [Vocabulary of Valoc’ of Val Masino]. Our research team works on the material of an unpublished dictionary based on interviews collected in the 1960s and 1970s. Our methodological approach is both that of dialectology and sociolinguistics as we complement our study with observations and interviews among Valoc’ speakers of different ages, genders and occupations, to see how it is still used today. Moreover, our approach allowed us to observe the process of the transmission of Valoc’ from one generation to another as well as some discourses among speakers on its uses. In conclusion, this contribution brings us to reflect on how the new “global” society may influence the process of transmission of this endangered language which needs to be revitalised. Interventions at primary and secondary school have been offered in order to introduce Valoc’ as a language of everyday communication and not only as the “dialect” of pupils’ grandparents. We examine the importance of developing a dictionary in order to promote a norm of reference in writing as a way to preserve Valoc’ for the future.

Повседневная жизнь педагогов городов Центрального Казахстана в 1946 – 1970-е годы

The article is devoted to the study of the daily life of teachers in the cities of Central Kazakhstan in 1946–1970s. It is an attempt to assess the role and position of teachers in the social and cultural development of the region’s cities. At the same time, cities had a significant impact on the life of citizens. The relevance of the research topic is due to the fact that in national historiography, the plots devoted to the diversity of citizens types of Central Kazakhstan, their everyday life in the designated period have not been sufficiently studied. The study is based on a comparison of reference images and everyday practices, the public life of urban teachers in the region. Materials of teachers’ memoirs, interviews of former students, townspeople of different professions about teachers of the period 1946–1970s are analyzed according to such parameters as appearance, including clothes, hairstyle, behavior, the language of everyday communication, professional qualities, living conditions, and the influence of the ideological factor. The social status, nature and working conditions, the ideological guidelines of the state singled out teachers from the urban environment, formed their special psychology and self-awareness. The article is written within the framework of one of the modern trends in historical science - the history of everyday life. The authors conclude that teachers, in comparison with the diverse types of citizens of Central Kazakhstan (1946– 1970s), had both common and specific features and characteristics. Their analysis has not only cognitive, but also theoretical value. The materials of the article can become a conceptual basis for studying the daily life of citizens belonging to different professional or social groups.

THE LANGUAGE ATTITUDE OF GANTARANG COMMUNITY TOWARDS KONJO LANGUAGE: A CASE STUDY IN THE REALM OF FAMILY AND SCHOOL

This study aims to reveal the language attitude of the Konjo-speaking community in Gantarang sub-district towards the Konjo language, especially in the village of Benteng Gantarang. The methods used in this research are survey, observation, and interview methods. The results showed that53.3% of respondents Disagree, 16.7% chose to be Neutral, 10% of respondents Strongly Disagree; if the Konjo language must be taught/acquired by children at home; only 16.7% agree. As for the second statement, namely the Konjo language must be used as the main language in everyday communication at home, the response was not agree.as many as 56.7% of respondents, respondents who agree by 20% and 13.3% choose to be Neutral. The third statement, namely the Konjo language must be used in elementary schools (especially grades 1 to grade 3), was responded to disagree as much as70% and only 13.3% Agree, and the rest Strongly Disagree. Then, the 4th statement, namely the Konjo language needs to be taught in schools, as many as 56.7% of respondents stated Disagree and 26.7% stated Agree, and 10% of respondents chose to be Neutral.

Вербализация соматики: параязык благодарности (по данным корпусной лингвистики)

The article is devoted to the study of paralinguistic means of expressing gratitude. The purpose of the article is to establish the place of body language in a number of sign languages when expressing gratitude and to describe the verbalization of its acoustic and somatic signs. The work used the methods of semantic, component, contextual and conceptual analysis, with the help of which the means of verbal embodiment of paralanguage signs of gratitude were investigated. The material for the research was the data of the National Corpus of the Russian Language. It is established that gratitude as an ethical category and moral feeling, along with verbal, also receives its bodily expression and is a semiotic phenomenon – a sign, the expression plan of which is also formed by “body language” – facial expressions and gestures, physiological manifestations, as well as behavioral acts. Paralinguistic means of expressing gratitude in a situation of real communication most often accompany verbal expressions of gratitude. Gratitude as a moral feeling is universal, but the means of its expression are specific and to a large extent ethnoculturally determined. Acoustic symbolic means of expressing gratitude are non-articulated voluntary and involuntary sounds: intonation and timbre of the voice, crying, sobbing, laughing, screaming, grunting, singing and applause. The paralanguage of gratitude in the field of kinetics is represented by facial expressions, gestures, body movements, physiological reactions and ritualized actions. Body signs of gratitude in the paralanguage of everyday communication are nonspecific: they are mostly signs of manifestation of love, sympathy, respect and reverence, interpreted as signs of gratitude exclusively situationally, and the semiotic system of sign language of everyday communication is secondary and only complements the primary, sound system. In mind and in language, gratitude exists in indissoluble unity with ingratitude, where it opposes both “simple ingratitude” – indifference, and “black ingratitude”, where indifference is replaced by hostility. The zero form of expression also extends to the kinetics of “simple ingratitude”, which is marked by the absence of any paralinguistic signs of positive emotional manifestations, while “black ingratitude” is also expressed by bodily signs of hostility.

Translation or Divination? Sacred Languages and Bilingualism in Judaism and Lucumí Traditions

I compare the status of a sacred language in two very different religious traditions. In Judaism, the Hebrew language is the language of liturgy, prayer, and the Written Law. The traditional way of reading Torah passages involved translating them into Aramaic, the everyday language of communication in the Middle East in the first half of the first millennium CE. Later, other Jewish languages, such as Yiddish, played a role similar to that of Aramaic in the Talmudic period, constituting a system referred to as the “Traditional Jewish Bilingualism”. Hebrew lexemes had denotations related to the realm of Biblical texts, while Aramaic/Yiddish lexemes had everyday references. Therefore, the act of translation connected the two realms or domains. The Lucumí (Santería) Afro-Cuban religion is a syncretic tradition combining Roman Catholicism with the Ifá tradition, which does not have a corpus of written sacred texts, however, it has its sacred language, the Lucumí (Anagó) language related to the Yoruba language of West Africa. While the Spanish-Lucumí bilingualism plays an important role in Santería rituals, the mechanisms of reference are very different from those of the Hebrew-Yiddish bilingualism in Judaism. In Santería, divinations about the meaning of Lucumí words play a role similar to the translations from Hebrew in Judaism. I further discuss the role of ritual dances in Santería for the transition from the sacred to the secular domain and a function of Hebrew epitaphs to connect the ideal world of Hebrew sacred texts to the everyday life of a Jewish community.

СОЦІОПРАГМАТИЧНІ ОСОБЛИВОСТІ «ІНФОДЕМІЇ» В АРАБСЬКОМОВНОМУ ДИСКУРСІ СОЦІАЛЬНИХ МЕДІА

The term «infodemic» is nowadays used by the WHO to describe the excessive flows of inaccurate and unreliable data about the coronavirus both in the virtual and real worlds. This phenomenon is reflected in the social media posts containing the misleading information that involves fake news, rumours, nonchecked «facts», users’ thoughts, emotional reactions to different events, other online posts or messages. The previous researches include the creation of various Arabic Covid-19 misinformation datasets. However, a more in-depth analysis of the online discourse is needed due to the lack of its linguistic, sociolinguistic and communicative studies. This paper deals with the sociopragmatic aspect of the online communication in the Arab world during the Covid-19 pandemic. The communicants’ social features are presented within their Facebook and Twitter accounts. We manually collected nearly 100 online posts on Facebook and Twitter. We analysed the users’ communicative goals, and, especially, the linguistic tools utilized to achieve those goals, as well as the language variation caused by different communicative purposes of the «infodemic» posts. The key words of the data research are represented with the pandemic related lexemes of Twitter hashtags, such as kūrūnā «corona», liqāḥ «vaccine», dawāʼ «remedy», etc. We classified the studied publications according to the following topics: pharmaceutical companies’ profits; denial of the role of vaccination and the preventive measures; persuasion of the effective drugs existence; health tips. As speech acts, the studied posts involve such types as representatives (fake news, pseudofacts, etc.), directives (health advises), and expressives (attitudes, emotions, thoughts, etc.). On the other hand, the given texts are regarded as the acts of disagreement (explicit or implicit). The explicit means of negation is represented with the grammatical particles, meanwhile the implicit instruments include the lexis with the negative emotional expressivity or negative connotations. It was also noticed, that some male texts use the negative lexicon more frequently, than the female ones. The language variation reveals the relation between the post’s communicative purpose and the code choice (MSA is preferred for the representative posts (to demonstrate the credibility), ESA (Educated Spoken Arabic) is used in all types of «infodemic» posts, Colloquial Arabic as the language of everyday communication is mostly present in the expressives).

To the question about the features of the grammatic impairment of statement in children with bilingualism and speech disorders

Modern political and economic trends in the development of society have made certain adjustments to the system of domestic education, which, in turn, has led to the emergence of problems, the existence of which no one even suspected twenty years ago. One of these problems is teaching children in the state language in state schools, for whom the language of everyday communication is not Russian, but the language of one of the small peoples of the Russian Federation. When involved in the educational process, these children find themselves in a forced bilingualism system, which becomes a risk factor for learning difficulties. When two different languages are used in different situations, the dominant language system has a significant effect on the other, as a result of which they mix, the result of which is the child’s speech and language difficulties, the most noticeable of which are systemic errors in the grammatical structuring of the oral and, later, written utterance. In many respects, the grammatical problems of children with bilingualism intersect with the problems of grammatical design of speech by children with hearing and speech impairments, however, it is not possible to fully implement correctional and speech therapy approaches to overcoming grammatical disorders in the oral and written speech of children with bilingualism, since the violation is determined by other mechanisms.

Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism in Ukraine: Inside and outside perception

This article examines the main approaches to the study of Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism in Ukraine in research of Ukrainian and foreign scholars. Though Ukrainian and Russian are language codes represented by a large number of speakers, due to cognation and diffuse nature of bilingualism the number of communicative deviations between members of different language com- munities is quite low. Language situation after reestablishing Ukraine’s independence in 1991 shows a shift in status of the two languages towards Ukrainian. Nevertheless, strong support of the status of Russian from the Russian Federation cannot be excluded alongside a postcolonial mentality factor which complicates the already difficult process of nationalizing the Ukrainian language. Fragmentation of information, varying degrees of reliability and non-compliance with the historical approach, the difference in views on the function of the state language in Ukraine and Russia and minor errors in information about Ukraine may cause a distortion of the ob jective picture in one’s research. All this brings up an idea of adjusting the functional load of languages in Ukraine towards strengthening the position of the Russian language. At the same time, comprehensive studying of the language situation in Ukraine enables the most objective evaluation of the bilingual situation placing it under different parameters and tracing its dynamics in or der to determine the features of regional bilingualism. Keywords: bilingualism, native language, Ukrainian language, Russian language, language of everyday communication, functional load of languages, language situation.

Language as a means of law expressing: theoretical principles

Purpose. The purpose of the paper is to formulate the theoretical foundations of the usage of the language as the main means of the law expression. Methodics. The methodics involves a comprehensive analysis and generalization of the available regulatory material and scientific positions and the formulation of the relevant problematic aspects of the law language because, it is based on the language of everyday communication, but at the same time it serves certain business purposes. During the research the following methods of scientific cognition were used: dialectical, hermeneutic, historical-legal, systemic and formal-legal one. These methods allow form the theoretical foundations of the language as a means of the law expression. Results. In the course of the research it has been stated that the language of the law is a system in which language is a means of the realization of all spheres of the social life, including the legal one, because the legal reality as a reflection of reality is inconceivable without the language. The former is the material carrier of the subject. Without language, all the factors common in the legal literature will remain far from reality, as they will not reflect modern socio-cultural processes. It is determined that traditionally the language of law is perceived as no more than a means of communicating legal information to the addressee. However, it is a more complex phenomenon than just a means of transmitting information. In general, language is the only way to access mental processes: it captures the experience of mankind, its thinking and, as a consequence, language is a mechanism of cognition. At the same time, legal language, “serving” the legal life of society with its resources, becomes it’s kind of cognitive reflection. Scientific novelty. In the course of the research the problematic aspects of the functioning of the language of law in the general language system have been established as socially and historically conditioned system of ways and rules of verbal expression of concepts and categories, developed and used to regulate the relationship of subjects in the legal life of society. Practical importance. The results of the study can be used to improve the mechanism of the application of the language of law in law-making, law-interpreting, law enforcement spheres.

English proficiency reading skills at the age of 12 in Pavlodar region, Kazakhstan

"The purpose of this paper is to explore the level of reading literacy of 12-year old students in Pavlodar because reading plays one of the important parts in the development of academic and intellectual processes of human beings. This work examined a pilot study of young language learners’ proficiency reading skills in English (L3 – compulsory foreign language) with a previous language background (L1 – Kazakh language is a mother tongue) and L2 (Russian language is a language of everyday communication) in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. The quantitative methods was used in the secondary school No.22 of Pavlodar, the participants were 57 students of the 6th grade, the instruments were presented in the form of Reading test with 4 tasks and 24 items; the questions belonged to the information retrieval and inferring item types. After analyzing a short small-scale study of reading skills in English of 12-year old children showed significantly higher ability in retrieving information from texts than from graphs. However, the findings of Cronbach’s alpha was not high at the beginning but while analyzing data further we found out that in case of deleting some items the Cronbach’s alpha became higher. This implication would let us suppose to the idea that because of little time, distance in conducting paper-and-pencil test we were not familiar with the exact language level of the students while performing the test and if the teacher instructed the students well. Therefore, we assume that these factors affected on the reliability of the test. Hence, we consider that the test further should be corrected or changed into standardized test in L3 or translated into their mother tongue. "

ФОЛЬКЛОРНЫЙ ТЕКСТ В РЕЖИМЕ ДИАЛОГА: К ВОПРОСУ О СТАТУСЕ ЯЗЫКА ФОЛЬКЛОРА

The status of the language of folklore is a theoretical problem of Folklore Studies that has a long history, but it has become even more relevant recently due to the expansion of the Folklore Studies research field. Traditionally, characteristic features of the language of folklore were defined in relation to dialect and literary language, and the researchers supposed that the language of folklore is supradialectical phenomenon, like the literary language of dialect speakers. However, observations of linguistic organization of oral prose with a focus on reliability (mythological stories, etc.) show that these theoretical approaches are not applicable to such texts. The language of these texts is the colloquial (dialect, vernacular, or literary) speech existing in a dialogic mode and possessing all the structural features of spontaneous colloquial speech. The article suggests to distinguish between “the language of folklore” and “the language of folk tradition”, that is, the language of the genres of traditional folklore (songs, epics, fairy tales, etc.) – structurally ordered, “polished” by numeroius repetitions in the process of transmission, with a clearly expressed aesthetic function, and the language of everyday communication in which texts expressing traditional knowledge emerge and exist.

AUTHORSHIP EXAMINATION OF OFFICIAL TEXTS: GENRE MODELING AS A BASIS FOR DETERMINATION OF IDENTIFYING FEATURES

The urgency of authorship examination, coupled with the absence of uniform methods of its conduct, makes researchers look for new approaches. The influence of the style and genre of the document on a certain combination of identifying features suggests a need to analyze the genre-sensitive nature of the texts under study. Genre modeling is the most efficient method of its analysis. This article suggests a model of a speech genre aimed to create a set of identifying features and a procedure of authorship examination of official texts. The model is used by the author to examine texts of interrogation reports. From the point of view of interaction in the pair “author - addressee”, the interrogation report is characterized by a complex and multilayer nature typical of the genres involving co-authorship and retelling of other person’s words. In the external communication situation, the “author” of the interrogation report (the person who writes the interrogation report down) acts as a certain “translator” from the language of everyday communication into the language of legal procedural documentation. The inner communication situation is characterized by the inequality of the roles of the participators: the role of the informer (a person possessing certain information) and of the text creator (a person who interprets the information received). From the point of view of the interrogation report structure, it is possible to single out three main parts - introduction, description and statement. The descriptive part of the interrogation report is the most variable in terms of form and content; the introduction and the statement are insignificant for authorship attribution. The language of the interrogation report is characterized by precise formulation (unambiguous interpretation) and concrete expression. This fact determines its lexical character and errors (pleonasms and tautologies), syntactical specificity (prevalence of direct word order and specifying and explanatory constructions), and pragmatic features (violations of the maxims of quantity, manner and relation).

“I Don’t Want Them to Be like Me”: Discourses of Inferiority and Language Shift in Upper Necaxa Totonac

This study examines the language ideologies behind the shift away from the use of Upper Necaxa Totonac, an indigenous language of Mexico. Five themes characterize the discourses of the first generation of parents who socialized their children to use Spanish, the majority language, as the everyday language of communication: preoccupation with their children’s future, an unfavorable view of indigenous identity, the association of the past with suffering, concern about their children’s proficiency in Spanish, and the inability to force children to learn the indigenous language. These discourses reveal an ideology that views being indigenous as inferior, leading parents to eschew the transmission of their language.

НЕМЕЦКИЙ МОЛОДЕЖНЫЙ СЛЕНГ

Young people react most vividly to all events in life. New forms of social relations to a certain extent affect it, as the socially most promising stratum of society, whose linguistic competence and speech behavior largely determines the direction of development of other social subsystems of language, including the spoken and literary language. Youth slang as an everyday language of communication among young people is a kind of indicator of their level of development, interests, tastes and needs. Students' speech is most influenced and changed

ДО ПИТАННЯ ПРО МОВНУ ПОВЕДІНКУ КИЯН У СОЦІОЛІНГВІСТИЧНИХ ВИМІРАХ

The article presents the results of a survey conducted within the project under the grant of the President of Ukraine F82 "Linguo-sociological monitoring of the dynamics of the structure and status of the Ukrainian language in modern times" (2019). The study involved 400 Kyivans 18 to 65 years old. The main goal was to supplement the sociolinguistic studies of the language situation of Ukraine of recent years with new data, but not to duplicate them. Till now, researchers focus on the language of everyday communication of respondents, on the native language of their parents, on the language of communication in the family, with friends and in professional life. Therefore, 10 questions were selected for the questionnaire, which should reveal the status perception of language and language guidelines of the respondents. The obtained data show, that the native language self-determination of Kyivans not always determines their language behavior. 73.25% of respondents called Ukrainian their native language, but the informational and cultural space in which they live remains mostly bilingual or Russian-language. 79.75% of respondents said, that the state should support functioning of the Ukrainian language, which should indicate a fairly high value attitude to the language. However, 32% consider the measures, that were taken by the state to ensure the functioning of the Ukrainian language, for example, in media, which so far were predominantly Russian- language, needless and 22% say, that the quota did not affect the situation in any way. More than 32% of Ukrainians six months after the adoption of the new version of the spelling standard did not acquaint with it or even did not hear about it at all, which indicates indifference to language development. There is significant percentage of those, who do not see value in the national language and are not aware of the need for public language policy aimed at supporting it. This indicates an insufficient level of language consciousness of Ukrainians. Reflections on the Ukrainian language are mostly caused by the fact, that it is a frequent subject of political debate, rather than by awareness of its essence as a cultural and nation-building factor. Therefore, there is an urgent need to shift the emphasis in its perception from its purely political role to cultural and value essence.

Léxico e cultura: a visão amazônica na obra poética de João de Jesus Paes Loureiro

Neste artigo, no qual estabelecemos uma interface entre a lexicologia, a estilística e a sociolinguística, pretendemos mostrar de que forma as escolhas e criações lexicais de João de Jesus Paes Loureiro revelam a visão de seu “mundamazônico”. Por meio de uma amostragem de sua obra poética, verificamos como o escritor apresenta a cultura amazônica, valorizando tanto os costumes e as lendas, como a força da natureza, principalmente das águas, presentes na vida e na linguagem do homem dessa região, mas também criticando seus principais problemas, tais como a exploração predatória do solo e do homem. Transcendendo a linguagem banal e cotidiana da comunicação rumo a uma dimensão simbólica do homem amazônico, Paes Loureiro cria com sua poesia um espaço reflexivo, expondo a seu leitor elementos constitutivos do contexto amazônico (linguagem e temas sociais, históricos e culturais), na medida em que apresenta seu locus.