This article highlights the little-known theoretical foundations and background of Luria's theory of aphasia and the various aphasia types. Certain aphasia types, such as dynamic aphasia and semantic aphasia, are unique. Dynamic aphasia is based on the linguistic theory of "linear schema," while semantic aphasia is based on the theory of higher neural activity in the semantic field, known as the "equal phase." I would like to emphasize that Luria's theory of aphasia draws on the Russian psychology of Vygotsky and others, as well as Pavlov's theory of higher neural activity.

Based on eyewitness accounts of forced resettlement from the Polish-Ukrainian borderland between 1947 and 1951, the article traces reflections on the abandoned “small homelands” and their place in the further life strategies of the evicted persons. Special attention is paid to the definition of the abandoned land in the narratives of displaced persons from Western Boykivshchyna, Lemkivshchyna, and Nadsiannia. Such concepts as “Bieszczady”, “homeland”, “home”, and “hut” are examined, as well as other words in the semantic field of the “small homeland”. The aim is to trace how the memory of the land of origin and the search for a familiar socio-cultural and natural geographical space influenced the making of important life decisions, especially for those who experienced the trauma of expulsion as teenagers or young adults. In some memory narratives of those who directly experienced resettlement during Operation Vistula in 1947 and the so-called territorial exchange between Poland and the USSR in 1951, a sense of nostalgia, and for the abandoned home, land and household are prominent. The article also analyses the visits to places of birth in the Polish-Ukrainian border, as a strategy to come to terms with the own traumatic past.

Objective: Nowadays, companies seek to implement management models where corporate communication plays a central place within the business strategy in order to generate credibility, trust, and a positive reputation around their brand. Within this theoretical framework, a comparative case study is proposed to analyse the corporate narratives of two large companies in the energy sector: Iberdrola and Endesa, with the aim of examining how, within the same industrial field, each organisation constructs and projects its strategic narrative and generates its own discursive axes. Methodology: To this end, the contents of their corporate websites have been studied, analysing the main messages that express their positioning on the energy transition, as well as the words with the greatest presence and the relationship between them, as the main ideas of their narrative. Results: The results of the study show that Iberdrola’s discursive narrative focuses on the semantic fields surrounding “innovation” and “sustainability” as keywords, along with ethics and social responsibility. The company promotes a culture based on values such as integrity, transparency, and equality. Endesa, for its part, focuses its corporate narrative around the idea of Open Power, which seeks to reflect two ideas: commitment to sustainable and accessible energy to build an open and participatory society. Its core concepts are “renewable” and “sustainable.” Limitations: For a complete overview, this study would need to be extended to include other public company content, such as annual reports, press releases, etc. Contribution: This study contributes to our understanding of corporate communication in the energy sector, which has shifted from being merely informative to playing a fundamental role in the symbolic construction of corporate commitment to sustainability, a concept in which both corporate narratives converge.

This study aims to determine and explicate displacement lexico-semantic patterns in Madeline Miller’s Circe (2018) and classical sources, such as The Odyssey by Homer, Theogony by Hesiod, Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius, and Metamorphoses by Ovid. We utilized semantic field theory and digital corpus stylistics. By applying Voyant Tools, we identified 847 lexical cases related to displacement in Circe and 126 in the classical texts. The following semantic fields were identified: social alienation, spatial displacement, psychological interiority, vulnerability and violence, and agency and power. In classical texts, spatial displacement (43%) and power (31%) were presented only through male characters. The first-person narration in Circe significantly changed the above-indicated figures. Psychological interiority (39%), social alienation (24%), and vulnerability and violence (19%) were prominent for Madeline Miller. By combining feminist views and trauma theory, the study revealed original choices of lexical units made by Miller to name sexual types of violence in an explicit way, which contradicts classical masterpieces. Miller made a female the leading character in her novel and presented exile as a multi-layered trauma. This feminist influence demonstrated how classical texts were transformed and interpreted at the lexico-semantic level in modern works, including Circe.

Aim. The goal of this study is to identify the frequency of use of verbalizers of the concept “Russophobia” on the basis of a review of contemporary political discourse. The concept labeled by the word “Russophobia” is currently becoming linguocultural, reflecting changes in the linguistic pictures of the world, as it is present in texts in English, German, French, Spanish and many other languages. Metodology. The main content of the study is the analysis of semantic filling of the concept of “Russophobia” with verbal means of the Russian language for further study of this concept in foreign languages. The descriptive method for depicting the Russian mass media texts was used in order to select verbalizers to create a methodology for the study of this concept in foreign languages. Results. A methodology for analyzing new, emerging linguocultural concepts is provided. It is assumed that this methodology can be applied for similar analysis in other languages. Research implications. The theoretical significance of the conducted research can be evaluated as a certain contribution to the theory of semantic field, to the theory of general lexicology, to the theory of neologisms. The practical value of the conducted research is determined by the possibility of using the created methodology to analyze new semantic fields, as well as the possibility of applying the theoretical and linguistic material and the obtained results of its analysis in the courses of Language Theory, General Lexicology, Sociolinguistics, Pragmalinguistics, Theory of Intercultural Communication.

This study aims to describe the phonological and lexical differences between the Sambori and Tarlawi isolects. The type of research used is quantitative descriptive with a diachronic perspective. Data were collected using a research instrument that provided 200 basic Swadesh?Morish vocabulary items and 867 cultural and non-basic vocabulary items classified according to their semantic fields, employing the “cakap” method and the “simak” method. Data collection was conducted by selecting three informants from each village according to certain criteria. The data collection methods used were the “cakap” method and the “simak” method. The data analysis method employed intralingual matching with the basic technique of intralingual comparison. Further analysis calculated the percentage similarity (status) of isolects in the research area using a dialectometry method. Based on the results conducted, two phonological differences were found, namely vowel differences and consonant differences. Meanwhile, based on the calculated percentage determination of phonological differences in the research area (Sambori village and Tarlawi village) using dialectometry, a difference value of 12.5% was found, indicating a dialect difference between Tarlawi village and Sambori village at the phonological level. Then, at the lexical level, a difference value of 36.5% was found, meaning there is a sub-dialect difference between the Sambori isolect and the Tarlawi isolect.

The purpose of the study is to investigate how the Turkish and Ukrainian university students cognitively and emotionally processed the COVID-19 pandemic by examining their verbal associations through a psycholinguistic perspective. Research methods and techniques. Grounded in schema theory and a socio-psycholinguistic approach, research employs the Free Association Test (FAT) to capture spontaneous lexical responses to four key stimuli in this area (quarantine, lockdown, social distance, and self-isolation) from 1,130 participants. Associative responses are analyzed thematically to explore semantic fields reflecting emotional, cultural, and social dimensions of pandemic experience. Results. Findings indicate that both Turkish and Ukrainian students primarily associated these terms with negative emotions, including depression, anxiety, and loneliness, highlighting the pandemic’s disruptive psychological impact. However, cross-cultural differences emerged: Turkish participants emphasized obligation, prohibition, and state-enforced restrictions, reflecting centralized governance and norm-enforcement narratives. Ukrainian students demonstrate wider semantic spectrum, combining expressions of emotional strain with pragmatic strategies such as self-development, defense, and references to digital learning tools, reflecting institutional fragmentation and adaptation under crisis. High rates of non-responses suggest emotional avoidance and trauma-related withdrawal. Conclusions. Results reinforce schema theory by showing how extreme situations disrupt and reshape cognitive-emotional frameworks, while underscoring the role of sociopolitical context in shaping linguistic consciousness. The study has implications for post-pandemic policymaking, particularly in designing culturally responsive strategies for student mental health and educational resilience.

This study explicates the lexico-semantic features of the discourses constructed by EFL student teachers regarding language teaching approaches and methods. Utilizing corpus linguistics methods, the research explores a specialized corpus comprised of reflective essays produced by forty-one EFL student teachers in the context of Ukrainian teacher education. Techniques such as keyword analysis, n-grams, collocations, and KWIK (key word in context) were sequentially applied to complement the data. The keyword profile of the corpus enabled the extraction of the main semantic fields, including approaches and methods, education and instructional processes, agents, linguistic aspects, language skills, and techniques. The n-grams analysis further detailed that the participants were familiar with a repertoire of approaches and methods. Evidence garnered from collocations and concordance analyses substantiated that the respondents self-identified with current language teaching approaches and believed in the utility of principled eclecticism. Nevertheless, a minor segment of respondents gave precedence to traditional language teaching. Despite a lexically rich representation of the semantic field of EFL approaches and methods, the related semantic field of techniques was underrepresented in the corpus, indicating challenges associated with the procedures underlying specific approaches in the instructional process. This highlights the need for guided training in the application of contemporary language teaching principles.

Semantic change refers to the gradual alteration in a word’s meaning that takes place over a long period oftime. This phenomenon is examined within the fields of historical linguistics and semantics and is oftenknown by several other terms, such as semantic shift, lexical change, or semantic progression. There are various forms of semantic change, including amelioration, pejoration, broadening, narrowing, bleaching, as well aschanges brought about through metaphor and metonymy. Moreover, language learners can also contributeto semantic change when interpreting words or expressions, since people come from different cultural andlinguistic backgrounds. This article discusses several characteristics of the semantic development of verbs

This article analyzes the formation process of the field of cognitive semantics, its main principles, its connection with conceptual systems and thinking, and the cognitive mechanisms of meaning formation in linguistic units. The work is based on research conducted in the cognitive direction of linguistics, emphasizing methodological approaches such as conceptual metaphor and frame analysis. In addition, the article examines the study of cognitive semantic issues in Uzbek linguistics and discusses the prospects of scientific research in this area.

The subject of the study is the use of the Yakut language in the online space of regional mass media in the northeastern districts of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The object of the research is the collection of news publications from eight regional online media outlets presented on the Ulus.media portal. The study examines in detail such features as the ratio of Russian-language and Yakut-language news, the distribution of languages across topics, the peculiarities of headline writing, as well as the impact of Russisms on the formation of the modern local media space. Special attention is paid to identifying the lexical and semantic fields of Yakut-language publications, determining the degree of their functional load, and analyzing the factors affecting the fragmentary use of the language in the regional media environment. The research is aimed at understanding the dynamics of the use of the Yakut language in the context of remoteness, digital inequality, and weak infrastructure in the Arctic regions. The study employs quantitative content analysis and qualitative lexical-semantic analysis of headlines and news publication texts, as well as comparative-descriptive methods that allow for revealing the degree of representation of the Yakut language and the nature of its functioning in the regional media environment. The main findings of the conducted research are the establishment of the dominant position of the Russian language (over 80% of all news publications) and the identification of predominantly fragmentary and thematically limited use of the Yakut language in the regional online media of the northeastern Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The novelty of the research lies in the comprehensive analysis of 1,798 news materials over a three-month period, covering the media space of the republic's peripheral districts characterized by low infrastructure development, remoteness from trade and transportation centers, as well as specific media consumption features. The analysis of the text content suggests that the Yakut language in the local media environment functions as an adaptive and dynamically developing system capable of serving a significant part of the regional informational media space while maintaining its ethnocultural specificity.

The article seeks to verify the hitherto unexplored group of Japanese loanwords in Polish from the 19th to the end of the 20th century on the basis of entries extracted from dictionaries of foreign words. The collected material was verified by establishing a definition of a Japanese loanword which takes into account the identifiability of the donor word in Japanese. A total of 154 borrowings were distinguished. The vocabulary was divided into 10 extensive semantic fields. The study also proposes an approximate chronology for individual words and offers a general account of the adaptation processes undergone by the analysed Japanese borrowings. Keywords Japanese words; lexical borrowing; chronology of borrowings; loanword adaptation; lexical meaning; semantic fields

I will consider, first, the positive charge of energeia in Aristotle, who identified it with the actuality of the actual. Then, I will pay attention to the negative charge that re-signifies the term, bestowing on it the exact opposite sense of potentiality. Rather than a radical correction of Aristotle, this polarizing modern signification unfolds in the field prepared in, if also rejected by, Greek Antiquity and unblocks the electric current of the concept of energy, a directional flow of charged particles of meaning from the positive to the negative pole. Still, the flow does not just happen by itself: the equivalent of electromotive force (EMF) is a fresh glance at the history of philosophy, not as a field dotted with static monuments to past intellectual achievements, but as an electric, or electromagnetic, semantic field. Only by grasping the conceptual circuitry of energy as a whole is it possible to appreciate the complex relation of this concept to the history of philosophical and theological thought and to the present.

A study of linguistic features of the "love" concept in Russian lexicography presents a pressing scientific problem, as this concept occupies a central place in the Russian linguistic worldview and spiritual culture. Comparative analysis was conducted of dictionary definitions in explanatory dictionaries from various historical periods (Dahl, Ushakov, Ozhegov/Shvedova, BAS, Evgenieva). Research revealed significant similarity in interpretations within twentieth-century lexicographic sources, recognition of "feeling of deep attachment" as the leading meaning, and shifts in meaning hierarchy and transition from "condition" to "feeling" category. Results determine a specific set of lexemes constituting the nuclear zone of the semantic field of the "love" concept in contemporary Russian language.

Studies in the field of semantics show that hyponymy is a basic semantic sense relation through which the nexus between a generic term (hypernym) and a specific instance of it (hyponym) can be manifested. However, to understand hyponymy, the inclusion relation between a hypernym and hyponymy within a semantic field is crucial. The purpose of this study was to examine hyponymic structures and their variations within selected semantic fields in Lutirichi, such as flora, fauna, kinship, and artifacts. The study was anchored in the Semantics Field Theory (SFT). A descriptive research design was employed. Data was collected through administering key informant interviews to native speakers of Lutirichi. The findings established that some semantic fields exhibited a high degree of lexical specificity and multiple layers of hyponymy, whereas others relied on broader, more generalized terms. The study also observed that hyponymic variations were also due to the sense of entailment in Lutirichi hyponyms. The study concludes that hyponymy in Lutirichi is meaningful only in their semantic field, and thus they are bound to change their meanings from one context to another context. These results contribute to a deeper understanding of semantic field structuring in underrepresented languages and provide insights into the cognitive and cultural underpinnings of lexical organization in Lutirichi. We recommend deliberate documentation and preservation of Lutirichi lexical items across semantic fields to safeguard their contextual meanings and promote linguistic vitality within the community.

Heritage studies often struggle to move beyond descriptive cataloguing toward interpretive frameworks that reveal how artifacts encode cultural meaning. This study applies semantic field theory—originally developed for linguistics—to the collections of the Candi Jiwa Museum in West Java, Indonesia. Through qualitative analysis of artifacts and contextual materials, nine semantic domains were identified, including funerary ritual, architectural symbolism, environmental adaptation, domestic–sacred convergence, and symbolic economy. These findings demonstrate that artifacts function not as inert remnants but as interconnected semiotic systems that sustain continuity, cosmology, and identity values. The study advances two key contributions. Theoretically, it extends semantic field analysis into material culture, showing how objects can be decoded as networks of meaning without reducing their contextual richness. Practically, it repositions museums as pedagogical mediators that engage youth through interpretive dialogue rather than passive display. The results challenge conventional heritage discourse that privileges the authenticity of objects, arguing instead for preservation of semiotic systems as the true foundation of cultural sustainability.

This article aims to discuss, using texts from Greek historians and a philological-historiographical approach, key terms and passages from the lexicon that make up the semantic field on exile, deportation, banishment and initiatives to establish migrant networks and communities. Although, as a rule, the passages examined are limited to verifying and describing the migratory phenomenon, showing little interest in the initiatives of the migrants themselves, the present investigation aims to demonstrate that the establishment of support networks and communities in Greek antiquity was not a phenomenon identifiable only in the larger sphere of relations between polis and empires, but already in the smaller scope of everyday relations between individuals and groups who moved for various reasons; and that the fact that migrating does not seem to have been seen as a problem, but as a common, if not even predictable, phenomenon.

The article examines the semantic modeling of the category of time in language through the lens of deictic field theory, with a focus on Pashto adverbs. It outlines four major approaches to modeling semantic fields - phenomenological, lexical-semantic, functional-grammatical, and functional-semantic - highlighting their application to the temporal domain. Special attention is given to the concept of deixis, understood as the reference of linguistic units to participants, time, and space of the speech act, and its role in structuring temporal meaning. Based on an analysis of thirteen non-derivative Pashto temporal adverbs, the study identifies the deictic field “time of action” as a system organized by three oppositions: speech vs. narrative modes, moment of speech vs. moment of another action, and coincidence vs. precedence vs. sequence. The research demonstrates that Pashto temporal adverbs acquire their semantics in the communicative act, functioning as correlates between the moment of speech and narrated events, and are thus integral to expressing temporal relations in discourse.

This paper explores the concept of “performing space,” emphasising its dynamic nature and its role as an active participant in the artistic process, rather than a passive backdrop. The term “performing” is unpacked through its connection to action and performativity, drawing on Austin’s theories of performative utterances, Peirce’s notion of the living sign, and Schechner’s environmental theatre. The discussion introduces a formalist definition of performance and its derivatives (performativity, perform, performing), refining the semantic field concerning the process of “producing a form.” Two case studies illustrate the transformative power of performing spaces: Marmarinos’ Trackers and Papaphilippou’s Sacred Tales, both presented at the 2021 Athens and Epidaurus Festival. Marmarinos’ production at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus is framed as a performative space that integrates music, movement, and dramaturgical elements to create an immersive environment that encourages audience interaction. The dynamic choreography, sound design, and spatial engagement dissolve the boundaries between performance and spectator, highlighting the interplay between narrative, space, and temporality. In contrast, Papaphilippou’s Sacred Tales uses an installation of interconnected strings in the Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus to symbolise unity and interconnectivity between the audience and nature, framed within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This performance, grounded in environmental theatre principles, transcends the physical space of the theatre, fostering a sense of temporal and cosmic awareness. By engaging with the strings, spectators actively participate in the performance, experiencing a collective connection. Both examples underscore the notion that performing spaces are living entities, shaped by the interaction of performers, spectators, and the surrounding environment, offering new perspectives on the relationship between performance and space.

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Context and relevance.</strong> The phenomenon of antisocial (antisocial) creativity described earlier is realized in human behavior not directly, but through the reorganization of the information and semantic field, which sets the social situation of modern human development. The psychological characteristics of this process are not clear enough and require detailed empirical research. <strong>Objective.</strong> To analyze the relationship between the propensity for behavior in which antisocial (antisocial) creativity is realized with the information and semantic field of personality in relation to the features of the bright triad and the assessments of modern society and to identify the profile features of people with a high level of antisocial creativity. <strong>Hypothesis.</strong> There are differences in the information and semantic field, in the assessment of modern society and the level of development of the features of the light triad in people with a pronounced tendency to behavior in which antisocial creativity is realized. <strong>Methods and materials.</strong> The sample: N=316, M = 30.6, SD = 14.68% women. The following methods were used: "Behavioral features of malevolent creativity" (Meshkova's adaptation, etc.), the "Light Triad Scale” (Meshkova's adaptation, etc.), the "Characteristics of the information and semantic field" methodology (Kudryavtsev, etc.), a modified questionnaire for studying the legal awareness of law enforcement officers (Raspopin, Ermosh). <strong>Results.</strong> Significant negative correlations of antisocial creativity with the light triad were revealed, and significantly positive correlations with a more negative perception of modern society and with the total indicator of the information and semantic field. Nonparametric comparisons have shown differences between people with different tendencies to antisocial creativity in the features of the light triad, perception of modern society and in the information and semantic field of personality. <strong>Conclusions.</strong> 1. People with a high tendency to antisocial creativity have less developed features of the light triad compared to those with low levels of this tendency. 2. People with a low tendency to antisocial creativity and high indicators of the light triad are more positive in their perception of modern society. 3. An increased tendency to antisocial creativity is combined with higher values on the scale of "Information application" and the total indicator of the information and semantic field. High values in this case indicate contradictions in information and meanings that make up the information and semantic field of a personality.</p>