Text Linguistics Research Articles

الاستعارة وتصنيفاتها لدى لِيتْشِ وَجُورْجِ لَانْدُو, دراسة تطبيقية في شعر أبي فراس الحمداني

Abstract: Modern theories of metaphor, both in theoretical and applied contexts, demonstrate the ability to adapt to various linguistic texts, transcending temporal and spatial constraints. The title of the study is: "An Applied Study of Metaphor and Its Classifications by Leech and George Landau in the Poetry of Abu Firas Al-Hamdani." This study aims to explore and apply the theories of metaphor proposed by Geoffrey Leech and George Landau to the poetry of Abu Firas Al-Hamdani. It examines how metaphorical elements are employed in Al-Hamdani's poetry to convey his emotions to the audience, highlighting the significance of metaphor in poetic composition.

Referential processes in the construction of the controversial modality: a study of tweets published by osmar terra mep

This article aims to analyze, from the interface between Textual Linguistics and Argumentation, the use of referential processes in anti-vaccine speeches published on Twitter on the page of Deputy Osmar Terra. In this way, we discuss, based on the polemical modality, how the argumentative directions around the subject of discourse "vaccine" were constructed. Our corpus of analysis consists of tweets published in April 2022. The work constitutes an exploratory study, with qualitative research characteristics and deductive method, allowing us to observe that the argumentative marks manifest themselves through referential processes, such as the nominal forms, referential introductions and anaphores. We rely on the theoretical conceptions of Amossy (2017) to understand the notion of argumentation in the speeches, as well as the peculiarities of the controversial modality. Extending the View Between the argument and LT, we follow the theoretical assumptions of Cavalcante et al. (2020; 2022). In order to understand the concept of text as process, we rely on the assumptions of Koch (2015) and the studies of Monada and Dubois (2015), Cavalcante, Custódio Filho and Brito (2014), which highlight the importance of understanding referencing as a discursive activity. The study indicates that referential processes contribute to the argumentative dynamics of the text and the objects of speech is introduced, resumed, and (re)categorized depending on the communicative purposes of the enunciator. Furthermore, by means of textual strategies, traces of the polemical modality are revealed.

Linguocognitive Approach to Text Analysis

Cognitive sciences were officially included in the nomenclature of scientific specialties in Russia in 2021. However, the issue of the subject and method of cognitive science in general and its projection on text analysis in particular remains little known to the general scientific community. Linguistic text analysis has gone through several stages of evolution. Each of them accumulates the critical aspects highlighting the necessity to search for new approaches. There are three such approaches in linguistics: structural, communicative, cognitive. The structural paradigm made it possible to solve scientific problems using the example of simple language units. However, it was experiencing serious difficulties in studying complex emergent phenomena, to which the text belongs. Some of these difficulties were leveled by including a communicative approach in the linguist’s methodological baggage. At the same time, a significant layer of factors influencing on the meaning generation of the text remained outside the scope of the research focus. As a result, the linguocognitive approach to text analysis was formed in linguistics. This made it possible to include not only linguistic structures, but also the widest range of mental structures (concepts, frames and slots, prototypes, categories, conceptual oppositions, gestalts, mental spaces and models, conceptual metaphors, precedent phenomena, semantic networks) and cognitive operations (conceptualization, categorization, inference, causal attribution, conceptual projections, blending) in the analysis. Thus, the linguocognitive approach to text analysis increases the heuristics of scientific research due to it is aimed at studying of semantic processes as mental processes.

Аргументативная структура текста парламентских выступлений (на материале французского языка)

The aim of the study is to identify the typological parameters of the argumentative structure of the text of parliamentary speeches. The paper examines the notion of argumentative structure, defines its main elements at the macro-level (the thesis and argumentative parts) and describes the relationships between them, identifying the typical speech forms of expression of these elements. The deployment of argumentation at the micro-level within the framework of the argumentative component is analyzed. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that based on the material of the French language, from the standpoint of communicatively oriented text linguistics, an analysis is carried out of the argumentative structure of the texts of parliamentary speeches aimed at convincing the addressee of the acceptability or unacceptability of a certain point of view on the political issue under discussion. As a result of the study, the following typological characteristics of the argumentative structure of the examined texts were established: intentionally determined hierarchical organization, variability manifested in different directions of the functional-semantic connection between its main elements. In addition, the results of the study made it possible to identify and systematize the functional-semantic relationships that arise within the argumentative component.

Struktur, Isi, dan Kebahasaan Teks Posedur Siswa Kelas VII SMP Negeri 1 Sutera

The purpose of this research is to describe the structure, to describe the contents, and to describe the language of procedure text for seventh-grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Sutera. This research applied qualitative with descriptive methods. The source of the data is written procedure text for seventh-grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Sutera. The data are collected through documentation studies. The data validation technique in this study is a triangulation technique (cross-check). The data were analyzed based on the aspects of structure, content, and linguistics of the procedure text. The results of the study concluded as follows. First, all the procedure texts have titles, only 23 have objectives, all 30 texts have tools or materials and steps, and on the closing part, students were not able to write a good closing of a procedure text. Second, in terms of content, it was found that there are 20 complete procedure texts and 10 incomplete procedure texts. Third, there are 113 appropriate imperative and 45 inappropriate imperative sentences, 63 correct adverbs, and 3 incorrect adverbs, and there are 385 correct conjunctions and 19 incorrect conjunctions.

Searching students’ reflective writing for linguistic correlates of their tendency to ignore instructors’ feedback

ABSTRACT Students who ignore feedback are poorly positioned to reap its intended benefits. In this study we examined three reflective assignments written by undergraduate Psychology students about their experiences of receiving feedback. We also recorded what proportion of their instructors' feedback each student had accessed during the first two years of their degree, plus their average grades. Using linguistic text analysis software we searched for linguistic features of students’ reflective writing that were statistically associated with their tendency to ignore instructors’ feedback. We found no meaningful associations between feedback-accessing and students’ language use. Exploratory analyses, however, indicated that a greater tendency to ignore feedback was associated with lower grades, and that students with lower grades tended to focus relatively more on the past or present in their reflections than on the future. We discuss the possible merits of using language as an indirect measure in studies of feedback literacy.

A cor dos textos: possíveis indícios intertextuais de categorização racial

This study investigates intertextual clues of the role of racial categorisation in the (dis)alignment of the meaning attributed by opinion articles’ authors to the hashtag #SomosTodos-Macacos. The hashtag #SomosTodosMacacos was posted on the Instagram social network by Neymar Júnior on April 27, 2014, in response to a racist incident that occurred on the same day against his then-teammate Daniel Alves during a football match. The study is grounded in socio--cognitivist studies of Textual Linguistics and a socio-historical-cultural perspective on racial categorisation. The methodology involved analysing intertextual features in 10 opinion articles published between April 27 and May 3, 2014, regarding #SomosTodosMacacos. The study’s findings suggest that black authors tend to adopt a critical stance toward the implicitly racist meaning attributed to the #SomosTodosMacacos through intertextual forms of disalignment and other textual constructions.

Strategii de articulare a sensului în Istoria ieroglifică

In this article, the authors conduct a linguistic analysis, tracing the progression of meaning, including aspects of symbolism in Dimitrie Cantemir’s fable novel The Hieroglyphical History. Regarded by most critics as the masterpiece of Moldavian prince’s literary art, it incorporates elements of the fable within a broad epic structure, which can be compared to a stratified labyrinthine novelesque edifice, being enhanced as a political satire of the era. Given the complexity of the analyzed writing, our aim is to partially decipher the levels of meaning, namely the puzzling, historiographic, allegorical-symbolic, and effective literary cores, all unified into a perfect articulate synthesis. The methodology of research implies text analysis within the integral text linguistics conceptual frame, namely identifying elements of the sense creation and evocative functions by virtue of which the novel is structured.

АБАЙ ӨЛЕҢДЕРІН КОРПУСТЫҚ ТЕХНОЛОГИЯЛАР КӨМЕГІМЕН ЗЕРТТЕУ

The article discusses the features of studying Abai's poetics using corpus technology. The research and creation of corpora of Kazakh poetic texts is important not only for industry specialists, but also relevant as a social task. In the works of foreign and Russian scientists there is information that after the creation of the corpus, academic dictionaries and grammars were revised and rewritten. Thus, there is a need to create a small corpus of the Abai language, consider the possibilities of using language corpora based on the texts of the Kazakh literary language and develop a scientific and theoretical justification for the implementation of these possibilities. After all, the use of the results obtained in compiling a language corpus, in particular, when compiling various dictionaries, rewriting scientific grammar or defining certain linguistic phenomena, is important not only for the further development of corpus linguistics, but also for the formation of a new technology for scientific research. Another function of the corpus is to provide various references related to vocabulary, grammar, accentology, and history of the language. Modern computer technologies greatly simplify and speed up the process of linguistic text processing. By improving the corpus of poetic text, it is possible to create a small corpus of the Abai language, improve the functions of electronic language corpora, conduct lexicographic research, and create the basis for a scientific methodology for automating the small corpus of the Abai language. Generalization and implementation of the vocabulary wealth of Abai’s language into the corpus will be a key step towards transforming the Kazakh language into the language of science, the language of IT platforms and technology, raising it to the level of a language of global demand.

Readability Assessment of Chinese Linguistic Texts Based on Dependent Syntactic Networks

Abstract Based on Chinese linguistic text features, this paper classifies dependent syntactic networks into two types: supervised and unsupervised, and researches to illustrate the inter-conversion relationship and difference between the two. Based on traditional linguistic features, the orthogonal features in linguistic features are fused with the neural network features extracted from the pre-trained model utilizing feature projection to complete the construction of the Chinese linguistics text readability assessment model, and the Chinese linguistics text readability assessment model is empirically analyzed. The results show that the accuracy of the six classification algorithms takes the range of 0.379-0.648 when only the baseline model is used, which is much lower than the performance of the corresponding classification models on the feature set constructed in this study, confirming that the algorithms in this paper can better fulfill the task of automatically assessing the readability of Chinese linguistics texts. The research results in this paper can be applied to educational scenarios to help teachers select reading materials of appropriate difficulty for learners.

Exploring teachers’ perspectives on the implementation of a translanguaging pedagogy in two superdiverse Viennese classrooms

Abstract This article discusses the implementation of translanguaging in two superdiverse school classes and their teachers’ understanding of translanguaging. Translanguaging as a theory and a transformative pedagogy has recently captured scholars’ interest from all over the globe, but also earned critique for its transformative claims and ongoing expansion of the term (Jaspers, 2018, p. 2). Through a triangulation of ethnographic fieldnotes and interviews, analysed with thematic coding and linguistic text analysis, this study shows that the teachers’ translanguaging pedagogy is strongly characterised by reoccurring elements, such as translation or reading tasks. The data also reveals teachers’ strong beliefs concerning translanguaging and a gap between the terminology of teachers’ everyday experiences and the terminology used in research, which both turn out to be resistant to change.

Ideational Meta-Functional Analysis of Letters to the Editor of The Times

Objectives: Letters to the editor are linguistic texts in which the letter writer expresses a specific type of discourse related to a previously addressed issue, requiring clear interpretation by both the editor and the third-party reader. The study aims to investigate the discourse function of verb nominalizations used in letters to the editor throughout the research. 
 Methods: The study sheds light on the function of transitivity and its variants in the act of communication. To convey the communicative value of transitivity utilised in letters to the editor, which represent a kind of written discourse, of The Times, the study adopts Halliday and Matthiessen’s model (2014) to present a statistic of transitivity processes which reflect the ideational meta-function. 
 Results: The study presents variant percentages of transitivity processes utilized which reveal the communicative value of transitivity in the selected letters-to-the-editor. Material process occurs with 35% which is the highest percentage while other processes; relational, mental, behavioral, verbal and existential with 25%, 19%, 14%, 3% and 1% respectively. 
 Conclusions: The discourse functions of transitivity processes realised in the selected samples of letters to the editor are variant, depending on the ideological significance, social power and text type.

From biblical texts to Balinese paintings

The intersemiotic translation is defined as the interpretation of linguistics signs by means of non-verbal resources. This study aims to investigate the intersemiotic translation of linguistic texts” The Parable of the Ten Virgins” into an image system of Balinese Paintings made by Christian artist Nyoman Darsane. The approach applied in this study is derived from multimodal social semiotic theory in accordance to Halliday’s Systemic Functional Theory (SFT). The source of data is biblical texts which were taken from the New International Version of the Parable of the Ten Virgins of Matthew 25 verse 1 until 13 and its intersemiotic translation in the form Balinese painting. The result of analysis has demonstrated that the metafunctions principle of the different semiotic systems which in this case is texts and painting have complementary and compounding meaning to each other in all levels of meaning including experiential, interpersonal, and textual meanings. Even though there are some untranslated keys of information in those levels of meaning as there are omission strategy implemented from source text to the target image for various reasons such as presenting only essential information.

Критична мовознавча спадщина на сторінках журналів Червоний шлях (1923–1936) та Життя й революція (1925–1934)

The article is devoted to the study of linguistic texts, namely reviews, published in two Ukrainian journals which played an active role in the field of scientific journalism in the 1920s and 1930s. This study was conducted according to the principles of descriptive analysis. The structure of selected reviews is presented, as well as an outline of certain issues that were unresolved in the contemporaneous study of language, such as the question about the origin of the Ukrainian language or the issues of language norm or description of phonetic phenomena. In addition, the issue of two linguistic schools in Ukraine of that period was raised and their confrontation was outlined based on the analyzed texts.

The Non-Formal Learning of English in the Interwar Period: Images of the OTHER in Self-Study Books and Magazines for English Learners

The subject of this article is self-study books and magazines addressed to Poles learning English in the years 1918–1939. The typological description of the sources, embedded in the text linguistics, draws attention to their specificity (structure, pragmatics, and cognitive aspect) and role in promoting the knowledge of English in the then popular self-education process. Discursively profiled in-depth analyses are used to reconstruct the ways of perceiving a native English-language user based on the content presented in the source material. They showed that the OTHER is a bearer of desirable features, both socially (respect for etiquette, respect for tradition, precision in expressing yourself) and psychologically (self-control, perseverance, well-understood cleverness), and is a representative of a powerful cultural heritage. The image created in this way motivated people to learn English and strengthened the growing prestige of this language in Poland.

Challenges and Opportunities of Emergency Remote Teaching: Linguistic Analysis on School Directors’ Interviews

This research delves into the experiences of primary school directors during the abrupt transition to Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Through semi-structured interviews, the organization and implementation of online classes, associated challenges, and potential improvements were scrutinized. Findings underscored a lack of preparedness, yet acknowledged ERT as a vital tool during the crisis. Recommendations included the improvement of technological support, designing a well-planned strategy, creating appropriate teaching content, comprehensive staff training, and tailoring the educational content to fit students’ learning styles or special needs. A Linguistic Text Analysis approach, employing word clouds, treemaps, and sentiment analysis charts to graphically depict complex patterns in the data, enriched our understanding of the ERT transition, shedding light on subtler nuances and insights. This study contributes valuable knowledge, offering a roadmap for the future development of robust, flexible, and inclusive educational policies and practices, particularly in crisis situations. The dataset is an invaluable asset for policymakers, providing critical insights and highlighting the challenges and opportunities that arise.

Museumskommunikation in Klarer Sprache – Theorie, Praxis und Perspektiven

The International Council of Museums redefined the term museum in August 2022. According to this, museums are at the service of the public and promote diversity and sustainability for, among other things, education, the enjoyment of art and the transmission of knowledge. The aim of this contribution is to use the multi-perspective approach of the Legal-Linguistic Comprehensibility Model to examine what applied linguistics can contribute to comprehensible communication in museums. The focus is on Clear language as a means for knowledge transfer. The theory and methodology of Clear Language is essentially based on text linguistics and pragmatics. The examples are taken from four explanatory films by the State Gallery Stuttgart, which guide a heterogeneous target audience through the permanent collection of the art museum.

Headlines as illocutionary subacts: The genre-specificity of headlines

This study investigates if headlines in journalism are genre-specific. Taking a starting point in Austin's concept of illocutionary act, Searle's development of the concept, and the adaptation of the concept to texts within rhetorical genre studies (Bazerman, 1994; Miller, 1984) and pragmatic text linguistics (Borchmann, 2005, 2010, 2014), the study assumes that the texts of a specific genre comprise various subordinated illocutionary acts which must contribute to the fulfilment of the typified purpose that the textual macro-act serves. Accordingly, headlines are considered to be subacts, i.e. illocutionary acts whose conditions of satisfaction are determined by the typified purpose of the text they form a part of. This functional account suggests that headlines are genre-specific. The present study tests this hypothesis by means of two analyses: a comparative pragmatic analysis of 300 headlines from three different genres, and a comparative pragmatic analysis of 90 texts from three different genres. The material used in both surveys are texts of the genres news, analysis and column in the Danish omnibus newspaper Politiken.The result of the comparative analysis of headlines is that it is possible to identify genre-specific pragmatic features of headlines. The results of the comparative analysis of texts are that there are functional relations between pragmatic features of headlines and the accepted purpose of the textual macro-act they form a part of, and that there are genre-specific rhetorical relations between headlines and the body of the texts. On this basis, the distinctive conditions of satisfactions of each of the three illocutionary subacts news headline, headline of analysis and headline of column are stated.

Explicative Specificity of the Concept of “Coronavirus” for Children in the Framework of Medical Discourse

Introduction. In the spring of 2020, the pandemic of coronavirus was announced in the world – the disease caused by the new type of coronavirus SARS-COV-2. In connection with the progressive psychoemotional stress in society in the literature and the media, attempts are made in a simple and affordable form to explain the causes of this disease and prevention methods. Despite the fact that the children's contingent was the least susceptible to the disease, this topic was widely covered in children's books, posters and brochures. The purpose of this article, therefore, is to analyze and study various methods of verbalizing the renewal of knowledge about coronavirus infection through lexical units. The article describes the results of the analysis of the concept of “coronavirus”, reflecting the “childish” vision of the disease.Methodology and sources. To create an idea of the concept of “Coronavirus”, it is required to conduct a framework analysis and build concepts of concepts that dominate generally in the discourse. For this, it is necessary to conduct a case analysis of children's texts, conceptual analysis and method of modeling using the theory of cognitive metaphor. Also, the compilation of frames will need to conduct definition, etymological, component and contextual analyzes.Results and discussion. Within the framework of this article, the role of metaphor as the main mechanism for representing information about the disease and its prevention is presented. As a result of the study, strategies for the verbalization of knowledge about coronavirus infection were revealed, contributing to training and socializationConclusion. The significance of the presented work is determined by the possibility of using the results of the study in theoretical and practical courses in cognitive linguistics, discourse theory, text linguistics and metaphorology. In addition, the results of the study can be used in theoretical and practical medical activity to optimize the connection in the field of pediatrics.

Testi teatrali tra performance e lettura

The following essay sets out to investigate the complex nature of theatrical texts taking into account the fact that in the field of dramatic textuality there aren’t any certain authorships, but a polymorphy of testimonies in which it is difficult and inappropriate to aspire to consumptive “ne varietur”. The analysis of sixteenth-century comedies should therefore attempt to combine textual philology with the history of performance. A suitable case in point for this work is the unpublished comedy “The excess of love and fortune” composed between 1571 and 1592 by the Intronato academic Alessandro Donzellini, whose manuscript and printed tradition reveals a series of macro-variants that can be organized into recurring typologies, demonstrating the fact that in the field of dramatic textuality there is no standard version of the text, but as many versions as were required by different performance contexts.