Text Units Research Articles

SEMANTIC AND PRAGMATIC FEATURES OF INTERFIXED UNITS IN THE FIELD OF PEDAGOGY IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES

This study investigates the semantic and pragmatic features of interfixed linguistic units within the field of pedogogy in English and Uzbek languages. Interfixed units, which include morphological combinations of words that create new meanings or nuances in communication, play a critical role in specialized discourse, particularly in academic and pedagogical contexts. Despite their significance, limited research has explored how these units function semantically and pragmatically in diverse languages, especially in the comparative contexts of English and Uzbek. This research addresses the gap by examining the structures, meanings, and pragmatic uses of these units in pedagogical texts and discussions within the two languages.

“Look not thou upon the wine…”. Wine Drinking in Proverbs 23:19–35 in Light of the Book of Sirach

This article examines the motif of wine drinking in didactic biblical wisdom literature from a synchronic perspective, using an analogy between two textual units in the Book of Proverbs in light of the Book of Sirach. The complex literary and social functions of the motif of wine drinking and its significance for ancient Israelite society are examined. The first part of the article focuses on Prov 23, which presents the didactic wisdom approach to drinking wine, consisting mainly of warnings and cautions to youth regarding wine and its consequences for the community. The second part compares this didactic approach to the hybrid approach of the Book of Sirach, where didactic precepts appear beside a cultural portrayal of wine drinking as a joyful and accepted tradition. The author of this article claims that this complex attitude is rooted in using the wine-drinking motif in biblical wisdom literature to reflect the social reality in ancient Israel.

CHARACTERISTIC OF PHRASEOLOGICAL DYSFEMISMS IN UZBEK PUBLICISTIC TEXTS

The article presents a classification of the common characteristics of dysphemistic phraseological units. Additionally, the rules, peculiarities, purposes, and functions of the use of such units in Uzbek journalistic texts are analyzed. The author’s perspective on the theoretical views presented in related research is also provided. The arguments are explained with examples.

Метафорическая концептуализация в текстах международных документов на примере аутентичных текстов Парижского соглашения по климату (2015 г.) на русском, английском и французском языках

The research aims to determine the role of metaphorical concepts in establishing the degree of equivalence of units in authentic texts with invariant content represented by an international treaty in Russian, English, and French from the perspective of the cognitive approach. The article examines authentic texts of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (2015), a significant international document reflecting the efforts of states to combat global climate change, in the aforementioned languages, taking into account the correspondences of metaphorical concepts and methods of their verbalization identified in the document’s text. The research is novel in that it is the first one to identify the features of equivalence of metaphorical concepts in the texts of international treaties, whose authenticity was established in Russian, English, and French. As a result, it was found that the concepts and methods of their verbalization predominantly coincide in the texts in Russian, English, and French. However, it is worth noting that a greater number of conceptual metaphors verbalized in the text is characteristic of the document in English, while a smaller number is characteristic of the document in French.

Metaphor in grammatical works of linguists

The object of the research is metaphorical nominations in scientific linguistic discourse. The purpose of the study is to systematically describe the structural and semantic features of metaphors in grammatical works. The identification of expressive linguistic units in scientific texts is important for a comprehensive study of the relationship between rational and emotional in strict speech styles. The appeal to this topic is dictated by the need to find ways to present complex theoretical material in university syntax teaching. The article considers metaphors-words, metaphors-phrases and metaphors-predicative units characterizing transitional phenomena in the grammar of the Russian language. Metaphorical designations in the description of the desemanticized verbal components of analytical constructions and verbal connectives are highlighted. Metaphors characterizing other grammatical phenomena are analyzed. The role of verbal metaphors in the description of constitutive features of sentences of different types is established. The features of substantive and adjectival metaphors in grammatical works are noted. It is shown that the expanded metaphors demonstrate the multidimensional nature of syntactic categories. It is concluded that verbal and substantive metaphors convey the desire of linguists to present the grammatical system as dynamic, actively developing. The use of metaphorical names makes it possible to present grammatical theory in a more accessible way, to draw attention to interesting linguistic facts.

Codicology and the Transformation of Islamic Law

Abstract In Islamic law, preponderance (tarjīḥ)—a practical method for mujtahids to resolve legal contradictions (taʿāruḍ) between proofs—has been known in the uṣūl tradition from at least the 10th-century jurist al-Jaṣṣāṣ (d. 370/981). Yet, it is in several 17th and 18th-century Arabic and Ottoman manuscripts of Princeton’s Garrett Collection that we encounter summary-like lists labelled “tarjīḥāt al-bayyināt” (“TB s”), which succinctly compile the complex rules of preponderance. Organized into three-columned lists, on loose leaves, as annotations in the margin or separate textual units, the TB s follow a grammatical and visual layout that made them predictable and recognizable for manuscript readers. This paper examines the TB s as a codicological phenomenon, arguing that they served as a shorthand for legal practitioners familiar with evidentiary law and that their presence suggests a broader transformative process of readers’/legal practitioners’ relationship with codices of positive law at this critical moment in the history of Islamic law.

Identification of Sentence Stems Characteristic of Chinese Learner English Writing

Phraseological units in academic English texts have been a central focus in recent corpus linguistic research. This paper describes a special category of clause-level phraseological units, namely, Characteristic Sentence Stems (CSSs), with a view to describing their identifying criteria and their extraction method. CSSs are contiguous lexico-grammatical sequences which contain a subject-predicate structure and which are frame expressions characteristic of academic writing. The extraction method of a CSS consists of six steps: POS tagging, n-gram segmentation, structure identification, significance of occurrence calculation, text range calculation, and overlapping sequence reduction. The significance of occurrence calculation is the crux of this method. It includes the computing of both the internal association and the boundary independence of a CSS, and it tests the occurring significance of the CSS from both the inside and the outside perspectives. Our methods and results suggest that CSSs can be statistically defined and extracted from corpora and can employed in large-scale studies to more fully account for the phraseological features of non-native English academic writing.

Topic modeling for short texts: comparative analysis of algorithms

The steady increase in the popularity of social media as a means of communication actualizes methodological issues related to processing of short texts with less semantic context than large corpora, which are widely used for training and testing machine learning models for textual data. Topic modeling, an unsupervised machine learning technique aimed at aggregating texts into topic clusters, has many academic and practical applications where information on true groupings of texts is not available. However, the performance of topic modeling algorithms may be limited by requirement of a sufficient semantic context for a high-quality numerical representation of a unit of text, which may not be derived effectively from a short document. This paper is dedicated to discussing 6 different approaches to topic modeling, comparing their performance on a set of Russian-language comments on TikTok and formally evaluating their performance based on speed and coherence of the resulting topics.

Valorativity of time-remote source text as a problem of cognitive-discursive Translation studies (case study of Ukrainian retranslations of Shakespeare’s Tragedies)

The article addresses an issue of reproduction of evaluation category in the translated text drawing on cognitive-discursive translation studies. The objective of the study is to reveal the potential of valorativity of the units of the original and justify the ways of translational reproduction of this potential in units of translation in terms of the cognitive-discursive paradigm. This is a case study of the tragedy “Macbeth” by W. Shakespeare (1605) as a time-remote original work and its Ukrainian retranslations, the authors of which are Panteleimon Kulish (1900), Todos Osmachka (1930), Yurii Koretskyi (1940), Borys Ten (1986), Oleksandr Hryaznov (2008). The article substantiates the definition of new terminology, namely “cognitive-discursive translation studies”, “valorativity”, “valorative cognitive variant”. The article focuses on the nature of cognitive-discursive paradigm, which is rooted in the interaction of language structures and cognitive processes. The paradigm proves to be the most relevant for considering the valorativity of the text, as it studies it in the context of human cognitive activity and takes into account the impact of linguistic elements on the perception and interpretation of the text. The article reveals that the effectiveness of the selection of means for the reproduction of valorativity of a time-remote original work is determined by the general cultural code of the authors of retranslations and the nature of the translators’ idiostyle and individual authorial worldview. The study affirms that both lexical- semantic and lexical-grammatical transformations were effective in translating evaluative units of the original text using valorative cognitive variants. At the same time, the valorative potential of the original unit when using valorative cognitive variants is either strengthened, or weakened, or transformed as the opposite one.

Are Metaphors Getting Lost? – The Usefulness of Linguistic-Poetic Analysis of Old Testament Poetic Texts for Theological Interpretation

This paper presents an interdisciplinary experiment. The core of the experiment is to examine the Hebrew poetic text of the Old Testament through a textual analysis of its textuality prior to theological interpretation and to ask why and which linguistic-literary solutions, i.e. poetic procedures, are used in the construction of meaning. On this basis, a research design can be created that asks how linguistic-poetic analysis can help in the exegesis of Old Testament poetic texts (or of any other textual genre). Poetics is about the production of meaning: all of our verbal utterances are made with some kind of poetics or speech strategy in mind – our communications are not formulated randomly. The linguistic analysis proposed here examines not only whether a word or phrase in a particular poetic text of the Hebrew Bible is written correctly or not but also the poetic role of that phrase, word, sentence, and grammatical or other structure in the larger textual unit (i.e. the poem) under study. Keywords: linguistic-poetic analysis, Walter Brueggemann, Robert Alter, trial metaphor, laboratory translation, metaphor, conceptual metaphor, background metaphor, context, Leningrad Codex, massoretes

Defining Spatial Reasoning: A Content Analysis to Explicate Spatial Reasoning Skills for Early Childhood Educators’ Use

Spatial reasoning is critical for mathematics learning and achievement, and its comprising skills are necessary in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers. To support young children in learning to reason spatially, clear definitions of the construct and supports for early childhood educators to teach the skills are needed. This study defines spatial reasoning as a comprehensive, comprehensible framework of skills. Using problem-driven content analysis, 835 text units from 103 sources, plus definitions from two reputable dictionary sources, were used to adopt, adapt, and infer the definitions for 40 terms that collectively represent spatial reasoning. Findings provide both the definitions and evidence of the extent to which various spatial reasoning skills have been investigated empirically. Directions for future research are discussed, including the need to refine the framework to ensure its utility for teachers and researchers.

A roller coaster of emotions. A content analysis of experiences and evaluations of hospitalization after birth

BackgroundMost new parents spend the first few days with their newborns in the hospital. Problem: Although negative hospital care experiences can have short- and long-term negative consequences (e.g., risk of postnatal depression), only a handful of studies have investigated experiences of maternity care after birth. Aim of the studyThe aim was to gather more detailed information on the experiences during the immediate postpartum period at the maternity ward, in order to confirm and complement previous findings with additional data sources. MethodsA content analysis was conducted on 524 textual units comprising ratings of maternity care units in Germany provided by mothers or accompanying individuals. These units were sourced from a publicly accessible website. FindingsThe analysis identified three overarching themes that influenced positive or negative experiences: Hospital and Maternity Ward Infrastructure; Midwifery, Medical, and Nursing Care; and Breastfeeding and Establishing a Breastfeeding Relationship. DiscussionThe findings indicate systemic challenges within the medical system, including persistent issues such as staff shortages and overworked personnel. Additionally, critical primary support structures related to early parental mental health care and breastfeeding initiation were found to be lacking in certain hospitals. ConclusionThese results underscore the necessity for structural reforms within hospitals to establish a comprehensive prevention network capable of early problem detection and intervention.

Cultural Concepts in the Turkish Translation of „The Knight in the Panther’s Skin“

The present work is a critical analysis of Shota Rustaveli's poem "The Knight in the Panther’s Skin" translated into Turkish by Professor Bilal Dindar and Assistant Professor Zeinelabidin Makas. We will present comparison of the original and translated texts of "The Knight in the Panther’s Skin". "The Knight in the Panther’s Skin" is one of the remarkable monuments of medieval literature. "The Knight in the Panther’s Skin" is an epic work containing lyrical passages, the story of which takes place in Arabia and India. We often find cultural-specific concepts in the target language, the translator tries to adapt the lexical units in the original text to his own culture. These cultural concepts are: sun, moon, devil, wine drinking. We used the following methods during the research: Corpus Linguistic research method, which is relevant in modern humanitarian studies. The use of this method allows to quickly and efficiently process a large amount of empirical material, which simplifies the research process. We have also used method of linguoculturological analysis. Modern linguoculturology studies are of a comparative-contrastive nature, because the national specificity and universality of the concepts are particularly clearly revealed when comparing the materials of two or more languages. According to the linguocultural analysis, we will study the cultural concepts in two different cultural texts, which will help in the detailed description of the cultural concepts expressed in the linguistic process.

PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS IN A WRITTEN MONUMENT SAFE SHEDS «GULISTAN BIT-TURKI»

The language of written monuments of the Golden Horde era is rich in such artistic and stylistic means as phraseological units and metaphors that reflect the worldview and way of life of the Turkic peoples. Therefore, the relevance of the research topic is due to the value of studying phraseological units and metaphors found in the written monument of the Sarai Safe «Gulistan bit-Turki» (hereinafter – «Turkshe Gulistan») of the Golden Horde period. The article analyzes phraseological units and metaphors in two aspects: structural-semantic and linguocognitive. Phraseological units and metaphors are divided into four lexical and semantic groups and their continuity with the Kazakh language is analyzed. Phraseological units and figurative expressions, collected in eight sections of the written monument, form the concept of «Man», which reflect the existence and knowledge of the people. They are intertwined with the religious knowledge of that period. The concept of «Man» is subdivided and analyzed according to the linguocognitive models «Man – power», «Man – satisfaction», «Man – about the benefits of laconicism». The practical significance of the work. Linguistic explanations of metaphors and phraseological units in the text of "Turkshe Gulistan" can be used in the practical development of semantic meta-marks of linguistic units of medieval texts of the historical subcorpus. They are being developed within the framework of the National Corpus of the Kazakh Language at the Institute of Linguistics Akhmet Baitursynov.

Terminology in the domain of seafood: A comparative analysis Germany-Spain

In the last few decades, the study of terminology has undergone a cognitive shift that has led to the development of several approaches that study the social, linguistic, and cognitive dimension of terms, such as Communicative Theory of Terminology (CTT) and Frame-Based Terminology (FBT). CTT was developed in the early 1990s and argues that the study of terminology should be based on a communicative perspective, taking into account aspects such as the communicators and the context of communication. FBT has been developed from 2007 and uses certain aspects of Frame Semantics to conceptualise specialised domains and create non-language-specific representations through the analysis of the domain event and on the study of the behaviour of the terminological units in texts. The two theories share many of the same premises and propose the representation of the concepts of a domain in an ontology. FBT also proposes a representation in frames. We explore how these two methods of domain representation can be used to represent the terminology of the domain of seafood in Germany and Spain.

GNN-Based Multimodal Named Entity Recognition

Abstract The Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (MNER) task enhances the text representations and improves the accuracy and robustness of named entity recognition by leveraging visual information from images. However, previous methods have two limitations: (i) the semantic mismatch between text and image modalities makes it challenging to establish accurate internal connections between words and visual representations. Besides, the limited number of characters in social media posts leads to semantic and contextual ambiguity, further exacerbating the semantic mismatch between modalities. (ii) Existing methods employ cross-modal attention mechanisms to facilitate interaction and fusion between different modalities, overlooking fine-grained correspondences between semantic units of text and images. To alleviate these issues, we propose a graph neural network approach for MNER (GNN-MNER), which promotes fine-grained alignment and interaction between semantic units of different modalities. Specifically, to mitigate the issue of semantic mismatch between modalities, we construct corresponding graph structures for text and images, and leverage graph convolutional networks to augment text and visual representations. For the second issue, we propose a multimodal interaction graph to explicitly represent the fine-grained semantic correspondences between text and visual objects. Based on this graph, we implement deep-level feature fusion between modalities utilizing graph attention networks. Compared with existing methods, our approach is the first to extend graph deep learning throughout the MNER task. Extensive experiments on the Twitter multimodal datasets validate the effectiveness of our GNN-MNER.

Machine learning based software effort estimation using development-centric features for crowdsourcing platform

Multi-label text classification is a method for categorizing textual data based on features extracted from the original textual information. When it comes to modelling text structural properties, Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) has demonstrated outstanding performance. However, most existing graph-based models do not model the structure of a single text unit and do not consider the sequence information in each document (e.g., word order). To resolve these issues and fully utilize the text’s structural and sequential details, a text classification model called Sequential GCN with Multi-Head Attention (SGCN-MHA) is proposed in this paper. For each text, a separate text graph is constructed in which nodes are the words of the text, and the edges between nodes corresponding to the word relations. Then the GCN is used to extract the structural feature. To enable the word nodes in the document graph to hold contextual information, the BiLSTM is also applied to learn the sequential feature for each graph. Finally, the Multi-Head Attention mechanism is adopted to interact with these two features and then aggregate them to get access to critical information in the text. The efficiency of our approach has been tested on two standard datasets, including comparative and ablation experiments.

ФРАЗЕОЛОГИЯЛЫҚ БІРЛІКТЕРДІҢ КӨРКЕМ МӘТІНДЕГІ ҚОЛДАНЫСЫ

Abstract. The article discusses the use of phraseological units in a literary text. It is obvious that the winged words, Proverbs, sayings, sentimental reasoning, thoughtful, key examples, phraseologisms found in our language are all stable expressions due to their own characteristics, thoroughness of the phrase, constancy, etc. Scientists also study the conditions of Use and different transformations of phraseological units, their variability in speech and text. The article discusses the fact that phrases that come mainly from Kazakh phraseology in the form of wisdom, testament, proverbs are also widely used in language use. It is obvious that these studies attach special importance to the study of phraseology in conjunction with the worldview, cultural, historical, spiritual, material values of the nation. In the analysis of the semantic features of phraseology found in works of art, there is a comprehensive coverage of the human factor in the language. There are specific examples of positive and negative emotions that occur in a person, his speech skills, personal qualities of this character, social status in the public environment, mood, etc.are conveyed by figurative phraseological (stable) phrases in the language. A review of research on phraseology is also carried out, it is analyzed whether the definition of the stylistic functions of phraseology allows us to more deeply reveal the features of the author's creative methods, master the skill of accurate creation of artistic images and images using the artistic means of the language.

The Phraseology of Legal French and Legal Popularisation in France and Canada: A Corpus-Assisted Analysis

The popularisation of legal knowledge is a critical issue for equal access to law and justice. Legal discourse has been justly criticised for its obscure terminology and convoluted phrasing, which notably led to the Plain Language Movement in English-speaking countries. In Canada, the concept of Plain Language has been applied to French since the 1980s due to the official policy of bilingualism, while the concept has only been recently discussed in France. In this paper, we examine the impact of Plain Language rewriting on legal phraseology in French popularisation contexts. The first aim of our study is to see if plain texts published in France contain more traces of legal phraseology than French Canadian texts. Our second objective is to determine if a ‘phraseology of plain language’ can be identified across genres and languages. To do this, we compare two corpora of expert-to-expert legal texts written in French—made up, respectively, of legislative texts published in France and judicial texts published by the Supreme Court of Canada—with two corpora of texts that are claimed to have been written in Plain French Language for a non-expert readership—texts that guide laypersons through legal and administrative processes in France and summaries of decisions by the Supreme Court of Canada. Using n-grams, we extract and discuss the patterns that emerge from the corpora. In particular, our analyses rely on the concept of ‘lexico–grammatical patterns’, defined as the minimal unit of meaningful text made up of recurrent sequences of lexical and grammatical items. We then identify a sample of recurring lexico–grammatical patterns and their discursive functions.

Функционирование фразеологических единиц в текстах судебных решений по уголовным делам (на материале немецкого языка)

This article is dedicated to the study of phraseological units in texts of court decisions in criminal cases within the German legal system. The research objective is to identify legal phraseological units that repeatedly appear in a fixed form in the analyzed legal documents and hold a specialized meaning in terms of professional language. The authors distinguish types of fixed expressions and clichés, organizing them based on their usage in various structural parts of court decisions. The research novelty lies in the first examination of the characteristics of phraseological language tools in the sphere of legal practice based on German court decisions, shedding light on issues related not only to the construction of court decision texts but also to the influence of the content of structural elements on significant text characteristics of legal documents. The analysis revealed a specific set of professionally marked phraseological units regularly present in the examined texts. It was also found that such linguistic clichés act as distinct markers of the compositional organization of court decisions, representing the thematic content of corresponding sections (headings and thematic blocks), predominantly presented either as multi-word terms or as functional verbal constructions and collocations.