Linguistic Activity Research Articles

Jezikovna kulturna zavest pri pouku maternega/prvega jezika

In the article, we discuss linguistic cultural awareness as part of broader language awareness related to the identification role of language and the cultural markedness of any linguistic action. This awareness is predominantly associated only with abstract national identity, and is developed within contemporary teaching in the framework of so-called (inter)cultural awareness rather than as an essential component of communicative competence. In order to highlight the relationship between broader language awareness and linguistic cultural awareness, we first present the traditional understanding of identity and the related language roles, as well as the limitations of such an interpretation, after which we reflect on connections between language and culture, on the various levels of linguistic cultural awareness, and on possible models of integrating linguistic cultural awareness into first language teaching.

Singing Language – Integrating Second Language Learning into Choir Practice

Language and music are closely tied in singing. It has even been argued that without language there is no song. However, can music and language learning through singing also be seen as being closely tied without first highlighting the boundaries between these disciplines? This study emphasizes a nonhierarchical approach to music and language learning by intertwining musical and linguistic activities in a choir context. The study explores the extent to which singing in a language-responsive choir can encourage productive second language use and enhance the sound hearing, phonological processing, pronunciation, and spoken language skills of adult choir participants with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The research material consists of individual pre-, middle-, and post-interviews and Phonology pre- and post-tests that were conducted with volunteer choir participants during 2019–2020. The analysis encompasses both thematic and statistical approaches. The findings are reflected through a hybrid choir practice that draws on a three-way dialogue between choir participants, the choir conductor, and the second language teacher. The results suggest that active and holistic second language use in a language-aware choir context decreases phonological challenges in second language auditory processing and verbal production, including spoken language. The findings of the interviews and the Phonology tests were in line with each other.

THE SPECIFICS OF VERBAL COMMUNICATION OF YOUNG LEARNERS (BASED ON MATERIAL FROM POPULAR LITERATURE AND THEMED WEBSITES)

The paper offers a systemization of tools to study child discourse (thesaurus, text corpora, speech data and etc.). Modelling of linguistic activity involves various methods studying child speech at different stages of its development in connection with forming cognitive, social, psychological skills, and acquired gender stereotypes in communication. Establishment of a register for linguistic resources for child speech research is currently a relevant objective. In multimodal corpora, both linguistic and metalanguage material modeling children's discourse is presented; the corpus can be provided with markup to characterize prosody of speech and non-verbal means of communication. In multimodal corpora, texts are linked to other materials, which allows you to accurately reproduce the features of communication (gender, age, emotive sides of speech, etc.). The concepts of dictionaries of children's speech are diverse (content platforms, explanatory dictionaries, thesaurus dictionaries, thematic, motivational dictionaries, dictionaries of innovation, etc.). In our opinion, lexicographic sources form a new branch of lexicography, which can be associated both with the development of the theoretical foundations of a new field of research and with the creation of a new type of dictionaries.

Putopisna inskripcija Bosne i bosanskog u 19. stoljeću

The topic is romantic travelogues with the subject of Bosnia: descriptions andinsights into the perceived “reality” of the Bosnian area and people of the19th century presented through linguistic and stylistic means and on examples of selected travelogues from that period. New historical experiences of the writer opened the way for the emotional reception of collective practices of people, and this often leads to ahistorical conceptualization and long-lasting stereotypes. Considering that both linguistic activity and historical memory are mutual psychological processes, the diverse strategic character of the travel discourse through research shows that known cultural patterns can often deceive with their simplified form.

LANGUAGE REFLECTION: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND CONSCIOUSNESS ACTIVITY

The article deals with the problem of linguistic reflection and its implementation through the relationship between consciousness and linguistic activity. The problem of linguistic reflection is one of the urgent problems in modern Kazakh linguistics. Consideration of reflection in relation to language forms the basis of the concept of language reflection, and language has been shown to be an important tool in its definition. The materialization or verbalization of information that entered the human mind through language corresponds to the concept of linguistic reflection.The scientific work proposes a model of the process of language reflection. A review of the scientific understanding of the levels of linguistic consciousness was made, and the marking of information by a language unit and the transmission of the speaker's thoughts as an indicator of the connection between language and consciousness was presented by an analysis of an excerpt from A. Kunanbayev's poem. Linguistic units used in speech facts were considered from the point of view of the mental aspect. In the research work, definitions of the terms consciousness, linguistic consciousness, reflection, and reflexive are given and their meaning is revealed. The article uses methods of analysis, synthesis, description, and modeling based on the work of researchers of the concepts of language and consciousness, language, and reflection.The article aims to analyze the relationship between consciousness and language activity in the process of language reflection and present a model of language reflection. Achieving this goal includes the collection of theoretical data related to the use of the term "reflection" in various fields of science, a review of works that study the problem of language reflection, the definition of a model of the process of language reflection and the corresponding analysis of language units.

War – Writer – Text: Discursive Features (on the Material of Oksana Zabuzhko’s Essays)

The article is dedicated to a complex analysis of the “war texts”. Discursive features of the triad “war – author – text” are proposed to be researched through the prism of the holistic linguistic act of communication. Discourse analysis of “war texts” is carried out on the material of works of Oksana Zabuzhko, namely, the collection of essays “And Again I Crawl into the Tank” and “The Longest Journey”. The way the topic of the Russian-Ukrainian war is understood and interpreted in the public intellectual discourse is investigated. Such research gives a possibility to acquire data on how the author presents her/his own activity-in-the[1]world and transfers her/his attitude to the events described. It is reiterated that the topic of the Russian-Ukrainian war can be researched within the boundaries of development of the discourse portrait of language personality, as the author’s texts are the information tracks of public discourse. Models of “war texts” of Oksana Zabuzhko are characterized with the help of three types of meaning: experiential (thematic sphere of communication), interpersonal (meaning of social roles), and textual (characterizes the channel of communication). The sense structure of the corresponding respective texts was scrutinized. That helped to acquire new data about their semiotic models.

Triangle(s) of Being: Linguistic (Coserian) and Semiotic (Peircean) Perspectives

Abstract This article envisages a possible tripartite division of (types of) being, in correspondence, one the one hand, to Eugenio Coseriu’s linguistic contents (significatum, designatum, sense) and on the other hand to Charles Sanders Peirce’s ‘participants’ in the process of semiosis (sign, object and interpretant). Being as eidos/ essence, corresponding to idiomatic significata, is responsible for the constitution of stabilities and/ or iterations within the otherwise perpetual flux of cogitata/ phenomena. Being as actual existence or particular, intentional object corresponds to the linguistic designata as they are produced through and by speech in the very linguistic act(s). Finally, being as ecstasis (in the Heideggerian sense of this term) or as sense represents the individual speaker’s ‘stance’ in the world, at the same time ‘opening’ it to interpretation by the others. Also, if on the levels of significata and designata language is simply/ purely logos semantikos, on the level of sense the three possible intents of the speaker (apophantikos, poetikos, pragmatikos) can be put into correspondence to the old/ traditional naming and understanding of temporal ec-stases as past, present and future respectively.

Nothing to Say but the Unsayable: How Locke’s Linguistic Functionalism Turned into Leopardi’s Analogical Language

Abstract This article explores the so-far uncharted filiation of Leopardi’s understanding of language from Locke’s linguistic theory outlined in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. In following Kristeva’s belief that language theories are predicated upon theories of the subject and Merleau-Ponty’s emphasis on the communicative power of the body, the article looks at the reverberations that Leopardi’s teoria del piacere (understood as an anthropological system) exerts on his theory of language and builds a neck-to-neck comparison with Locke’s linguistic functionalism. In underlining Locke’s important role for Leopardi’s theory of language, this work shows how the latter distances himself from the functionalism of Locke’s Essay by theorizing a language built on semantic vagueness and indefiniteness. This language is based on the epistemological conviction that ideas do not exist as immaterial products of the mind but rather are always incarnate in the physicality of language. In defining this kind of language as analogical, the article argues that for Leopardi the linguistic act takes the shape of a bodily gesture: language, then, is not just the concrete translation of a mental process but the movement of an embodied mind. In this sense, rather than expressing the mathematical coincidence of signifier and signified of a langue des calculs, Leopardi’s language voices the leftovers of expression, the semantic excess that Locke’s functionalism generally considers to be an error of an unsuccessful communicative act.

Descartes on Immortality and Animals

ABSTRACT For Descartes, our minds are not natural causes because they are not themselves objects; rather, they are the activities that identify objects. In short, they are our challenges to the natural order of things, both in how we adapt to novel situations (as exhibited in what has been called the “rational action test”) and in how we respond in unexpected yet appropriate ways to linguistic cues (in the “language test”). Because these tests reveal ways in which our minds (as “pure,” creative, willful, and immortal substances) introduce novelty into nature, we are not determined (as animals are) by other objects. That is, our rational or linguistic activities are challenges to the order of nature precisely because they are not part of, but rather constitute, nature. Accordingly, “real” (creative) speech is logically prior to finite differentiations and is not limited by laws of nature that constrain animal behavior.

The lexicon and culture – culture and the lexicon

Abstract The article analyzes the relationship between lexicon and culture, first from a description theoretical perspective. The focus is on a conception of these two under aspects of technical language, particularly with regard to the relationship between noun and verb-based technical language. Subsequently, an attempt is made to derive culture from speech, specifically from the linguistic action within a language community, while taking into account hermeneutic problems. In closing the article explains how the unity of word usage and culture can be presented and communicated to a target audience by the FWB, a semantically-oriented dictionary. The lemma glaube in its definition 4 serves as an example.

The argumentasion and its relationship to the conceptual field

Al_Hajjaj considers argumentation an essential topic of modern linguistics، It is one of the linguistic activities on which the speaker، writer or orator depends. In modern linguistics studies، Al _Hajjaj has become an independent theory and is considered one of the deliberative investigations. It also represents a prominent and fundamental role in various sciences such as (philosophy، logic، politics and law... etc) and he has permanent presence among those sciences. In these few pages، I tried to stand on the meaning and concept of Al_Hajjaj from the linguistic and idiomatic stand points، and then stand on its relationship to his conceptual field. as it showed for Al_Hajjaj from the moral side as well as the bilateral relationship between each of the terms.

Perception and attitudes of students about politically correct speech: A case study from the spectrum of diversity education

Politically correct behavior implies the use of language and the right linguistic action. Therefore, language affects the human thought process, which determines the perception of reality and the individual’s actions. These measures of language that reform and sensitize people to justice and inclusion have raised many research questions. At the linguistic level, the concept aims to exclude any discriminatory use of language from discourse. From a sociological aspect, political correctness implies that speech that does not lead to discrimination and does not destroy a person’s identity. While, on the other methodological side, political correctness still implies the renewal of the culture of learning, that is, the redefinition of the educational paradigm. The paper aims to examine the perception of students of different fields of study about political correctness in the language and to compare the obtained data to raise awareness of the importance of using political correctness. 68 students of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Split and Libertas International University participated in the research. The work is based on the hypothesis that there are significant statistical differences in individual opinions regarding the direction of the study. Research has shown that more students of International Relations and International Business are warned about political correctness in the language because it is related to their profession, as opposed to the students in Split who study German language and literature. This was to be assumed, considering the different goals of the outcomes of the mentioned studies. The paper can be a guide for future similar research on a larger population, as well as a form for raising awareness of the importance of the concept of diversity and its implementation in higher education.

Structural Phenomena of Talafri's Poetry in Light of Semantics

This study deals with the structural Phenomena of Talafri's poetry that formed one of the most prominent stylistic features in his language in terms of its shift from the normal, this is because poetry is a transcendent linguistic act in its formation and methods of formulation, in the extent of the displacement through which the text poeticity deepens or flattens, and in the space of transcendence lies the poet’s craftsmanship. The aesthetics of the expressive language is shown through the stylistic techniques it uses, as well as the stylistic phenomena it produces and which form individual creative imprints that distinguish the poet.

Deep Learning Approaches for English-Marathi Code-Switched Detection

During a conversation, speakers in multilingual societies frequently switch between two or more spoken languages. A linguistic action known as "code-switching" particularly alters or merges two or more languages. The development of software or tools for detecting code-switching has received very little attention. This paper proposes a Deep Learning based methods for detecting code-switched English-Marathi data. These suggested methods can be applied to various applications, including phone call merging, Intelligent AI assistants, Intelligent travelling systems to assist travellers in navigation and reservations, call centres to handle customer service issues, etc. To create a system for code switch detection, our study demonstrates a detailed analysis of extracting several audio features such as the Mel-Spectrogram, Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC), and Perceptual Linear Predictive coefficients (PLP). Our team's English-Marathi code-switched dataset served as the testing ground for our methodologies. Our model's accuracy was 92.99%, with 40 MFCC coefficients having energy coefficient serving as the zeroth coefficient.

Pragmatic Competence of Children With Cochlear Implants in Linguistic Activities.

The objective of the study was to analyze the pragmatic competence of children with cochlear implants (CIs). The researchers explored whether children with CIs participated in communicative exchanges in a similar way to children with typical hearing (TH), as well as how the participation of children with CIs was regulated by the activity they performed. The sample consisted of 31 children with CIs (prelingually deaf, with a hearing age equal to or greater than 2 years) and 31 children with TH. The researchers used two activities to carry out the study: conversation and picture naming. The results showed that the children with CIs participated in longer communicative exchanges than their peers with TH and had greater difficulty providing adequate responses to their interlocutor. The type of linguistic activity and their hearing age influenced the responses of the children with CIs.

Linguistic Intervention Strategies Speech-Language Pathologists Use With Children Using Cochlear Implants.

The aim of this study was to explore the strategies that speech-language pathologists (SLPs) use during their linguistic interventions on children with cochlear implants (CIs). The sample comprised 7 SLPs in interactions with 62 children, 31 with CIs and 31 with typical hearing (TH), from 5 to 7years of age. Two linguistic activities were used: conversation and naming. With children with CIs, the SLPs used 3.8 times more adaptation strategies and 5 times more educational strategies in the conversation activity, and 1.4 times more educational strategies in the naming activity than with children with TH. Communication strategies were significantly more frequent in the conversation activity than in the naming activity while educational strategies were more frequent in the naming activity than in the conversation activity. The auditory age of children with CIs also influenced the use of these two types of strategies, increasing the use of communication strategies by 0.6% and decreasing the use of educational strategies by 1.2% for each month of increase in the auditory age. In order to foster linguistic development, the SLPs used a wide variety of strategies with the children with CIs, adjusting them to the activity and the auditory age.

Linguistic picture of the world on the example of the diplomatic discourse of the Russian and Arabic languages

Cultural differences are exacerbated when relations between ethnic groups are not uniform and ideal. In today's uncertain political environment, especially taking into account the Middle East, it is usual to use various methods and strategies to create clarity and confidence to exit the "emergency" in communication processes, regardless of specific political events and circumstances. The author notes that the genre of political discourse has its own vocabulary, which includes certain routine lexical devices and clichés. However, in modern languages (including Arabic), words lose their uniqueness and become polysemic, given the globalized environment and the world in which modern man lives. The study of some languages used in political discourse and the identification of linguistic features in this area are important for linguistics due to the small number of scientific studies in the field of political discourse in Arabic and Russian. It is also noted that today there are few scientific works devoted to some aspects of modern diplomatic issues. The study notes that some linguistic activities aimed at studying and clarifying the meaning of the form of political discourse are important, especially those related to the linguistic picture of the world, Arabic and Russian languages and methods of studying political discourse.

Деривационный потенциал латинской лексики: диалог сквозь пространство и время (на материале новолатинских текстов в сфере медиакоммуникаций)

Creating actual texts is a sort of a longterm linguistic experiment, whose product is a source of material, primarily, lexical and word-formational innovations, to be analyzed for understanding the developments occurring within a “revived” language system and for identifying the role of systemic factors and individual creativity within the given inventory of forms and norms of a language system. The linguistic material from new Latin texts were compared with the results development of Latin borrowings in English. At the same time the number of users of this revived language and artificial nature of the examined linguistic activity impose a critical limitation on possible conslusions. Obviously, vocabulary choice and coinage of new terms to denote modern realia in these new Latin news texts are subject to individual authors’ preference and are sometimes arbitrary. Furthermore, in coining innovations the authors of texts in question are inevitably guided by their native language. As a result, the innovations in “New Latin” show some features more typical for Modern European languages, besides, the basic trends of development within the group of Latin borrowings in English were found to differ from those occurring in the examined lexicon of new Latin texts.

History as translation / anachronism as synchronism

ABSTRACT When we speak and write, when we use language, we perform a temporal act which connects past, present and future. If we assume that the act of translating is the means through which we are linguistically able to connect past, present and future, then we can discern how, cognitively, every translation is intimately related to the problem of anachronism and to the presence of different temporalities at one and the same time. My interest in the concept of anachronism in history and historiography lies at the linguistic and cognitive levels. When we use a present word/concept with reference to a word/concept of the past (recent or distant), we perform a linguistic act that is unavoidably anachronistic, an act of translation. The idea of anachronism as synchronism implied by using language in respect of historians can be completely understood only if we think of it in cognitive terms. I wish to emphasize that the act of understanding past words and concepts is cognitively anachronistic, also in consequence of the fact that words are themselves things-objects and are apprehended by men and women as a concrete form. If we think of words as things-objects, similar perspectives and similar methodological issues are open to the investigation of historians. Words are as things-objects, materially and cognitively: they have emerged in a precise moment and place and have been reinterpreted through multiple receptions in different times and places, bearing in their existence the signs of their history. The notion of anachronism as synchronism must be related to the fact that words and things-objects coming from different times are all contemporarily present, and the task of the historian as a translator of the past consists exactly in unrolling and synchronizing their different temporalities.

Investigating Innovative Activities for Teaching Arabic in Secondary School

Language activities are part of the linguistic environment as means of teaching Arabic. As for the linguistic environment, it has an important role in the acquisition of language by linguistic activities in it. This language activity program in an innovative way is a solution for educational institutions that have difficulty in making students able to achieve four language skills and stimulate students to think flexibly, fluently and innovatively. The approach used in this research is the qualitative approach. The results of this research are the things that need attention and improvement in the implementation of innovative language activities, which are the innovation of the teacher, the innovation of the teacher is the main requirement in the development of students' motivation and innovation. The innovative teacher will provide innovative inspiration to students with different stimuli to train students' innovation. If the teacher is good at motivating students to study seriously. Students who are already motivated, will develop their innovation during the classroom learning process. Teacher innovation is required during the education process. Innovative education will make students more attention and ability to better develop their material.