Text Linguistics Research Articles

Лингвистический подход к исследованию аксиосферы языка и культуры в современной коммуникативистике

The paper examines moral and ethical values, which dominated in different periods of human history, determining the vector of its development. The change of moral and ethical values occurs due to the paradigms’ shift that forms the integrity of social systems. The study of moral and ethical values can be characterized as a matter of interdisciplinary research. The linguistic aspect of the security of the axiological sphere of language and culture is based on the identification of fundamental factors affecting the worldview and its verbalization. The purpose of this study is to identify new values and anti-values typical for the modern world. Basing on the study of linguistic texts, through the method of analysis, synthesis, as well as the method of philological analysis, the authors have been able to consider the change in language at the lexical level, which reflects the new paradigm of modern communicative studies in general and PR communication in particular. The methodological basis of the investigation is formed by the scholarly research on this topic, giving the most accurate representation of the field of research. The results of the analysis suggest that the expansion of the English language has an impact on the formation of the axiosphere of various languages of the world, replicating new values, typical of the Western world.

Research on the Application of Neural Network Classification Model in English Grammar Error Correction

The field of English grammar error correction has developed rapidly in recent years, and many excellent research results have been obtained. However, errors are generally viewed as a whole for revision, which cannot be subdivided to identify the specific error types of sentences, lacks interpretability, and requires a lot of manpower to label the data. To address this, the study uses the CoreNLP tool to output the input text as a basic form of each word, and encodes and decodes the linguistic text in the corpus using the CNN-based Seq2Seq model. And word embedding and left-right GRU operations are performed on left-right text and target words in turn, and the merged new vector is obtained using two attention mechanism operations. It is fed into the MLP classifier for classification and error correction. To further improve the model performance, two model optimizers, stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and Adam, are used to tune the parameters of the classification prediction model. The study thus constructs an English grammar classification and error correction model based on a neural network classification method. The experimental analysis shows that the average accuracy of the model constructed in the study is 96.83%, the average recall rate is 78.93%, and the average overall evaluation F0.5 is 92.67%, which can effectively and accurately classify and correct the grammatical errors that occur in the process of English language learning.

A Meta-Functional Analysis of Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphor in Biden’s State of the Union Address

This paper is a tentative endeavor to analyze the functions of interpersonal grammatical metaphor used in Biden’s 2022 State of the Union Address based on the theoretical framework which is composed of interpersonal grammatical metaphor theory and the theory of meta-functions within systematic functional grammar. The interpersonal grammatical metaphor used in this speech is examined from two aspects as metaphors of mood and modality. Quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis are both employed to reveal the linguistic characteristics as well as the interpersonal meaning hidden in the speech, aiming at explore the meta-functions of interpersonal grammatical metaphor so that the understanding of the speech content is deepened. The research has found out that metaphor of modality is the preferred type of interpersonal grammatical metaphor in the chosen linguistic text, which mostly serves to express the speaker’s evaluation of a proposition. The metaphor of mood accounts for a lower proportion, which is mainly used to express the address function. The functions of these two types of interpersonal grammatical metaphor are mainly within the scope of interpersonal meta-function, which relates to interact with others in order to establish and maintain the social relationship. This linguistic research proves the necessity and significance of the existence of grammatical metaphor theory and to some extent enriches the research of interpersonal grammatical metaphor in spoken discourse.

Multimodal composing and second language acquisition

Multimodal composing, which has sometimes been referred to synonymously as multimodal composition or multimodal writing, is the use of different semiotic resources (e.g., audio, visual, gestural, and/or spatial resources) in addition to linguistic text for making meaning. Notably, multimodal composing is neither a new type of writing nor a new area of research, with studies dating back to the early 2000s. In the domain of second language (L2) research, Tardy's (2005*) study on multimodal composition in academia was one of the earliest to bring attention to the nonlinguistic features of L2 written output. Even after this pioneering study, in the few years that followed, only a handful of studies further explored aspects of L2 learners’ multimodal compositions. However, over the past decade, the fields of applied linguistics and second language acquisition (SLA) have witnessed an explosion of interest in both its study and classroom applications, with teachers’ adoption of multiple modes becoming an indispensable part of their pedagogical toolkits (e.g., Kessler, 2022; Li, 2021; Zhang et al., 2021).

The Concepts of Discourse and the Theoretical Genealogy of Discourse Analysis

Discourse analysis has become an important research approach in humanities and social sciences, involving a wide range of disciplines, schools and theories. Among the research literatures, which are named “discourse” or “discourse analysis”, there are significant differences in conceptual connotation and analysis frameworks, which are actually different from the theoretical origin and genealogy. In early studies, in view of structural linguistics, discourse is defined as “language above the sentence”, and discourse analysis is focused on the structure of language. The discourse analysis from the functional perspective emphasizes the use of language, highlighting the language users, the purpose and intention of the language users, or the situational context, including form/function analysis and context analysis. In social science, in approach of post-structuralism, discourse is “a form of social practice in which language plays a central role”, and discourse analysis is dedicated to revealing the social contradictions, conflicts and fairness, as well as the constructive role of discourse in the macro-social, cultural and historical process. The convergence of functional perspective and post-structuralist paradigm of discourse analysis has led to critical discourse analysis, an interdisciplinary field which inherits the post-structuralist view of language, cares about social practice, and at the same time attaches importance to linguistic texts. van Dijk's “Discourse-Cognitive-Social” analysis model, Wodak's “Discourse/History” critical discourse analysis model, and Fairclough's “Social event, Social practice, and Social structure" analytical framework are the typical representatives of critical discourse analysis.

Эмоциональная доминанта текста: некоторые лингвистические аспекты исследования

The article reviews the aspects of research into the text emotional dominant by linguistic methods, which allow to limit variability of the meaning interpretation. The relevance of the research topic is determined by the lack of competent studies on the methods of emotional dominant disclosure in the text content. Despite certain scientific and practical significance, modern text linguistics and linguistics of emotions demonstrate relative unevenness in the procedures of analysis development, which are, however, likely to clarify a number of theoretical problems: to make distinction between the concepts of psychological and textual dominants, subjective comprehension of the text and its objective contents; to extract the emotional constituent from the generalized content dominant in the text; to state correlation between a set of emotive signs and communicative aims of the author by means of multidimensional and multistaged analysis. In the article the emotional texts are studied by means of linguistic methods of semantic and contextual analysis, emotive analysis of language and text units and modificational procedure of keywords determination with the aim to identify the emotional dominant and define its characteristics proceeding from the signs unity to the generalized emotional content of the text, then to the conceptual dominants and communicative goals of the text composer. The analysis led to revelation of the following emotional characteristics in the text content: emotive complexes, emotional attractors, false dominant, random stimulus, false determination of emotion. The identified parameters and approaches to the analysis should foster studies on the linguistic aspect of the emotional text dominant, as well as refine practical methods for its accurate determination in modern textual contents.

The Sound Effect in the Discourse of the Angels (peace be upon them) Selected models from the Holy Qur’an)

The study is conducted to clarify the sound effect and its flow within the linguistic text and to give its phonetic value to the determinants of the text and raise the meaning towards the recipients. It gives an extension of it in its area in which it is established within the context, and what is associated with it from the indication of the director and the characteristic that exemplifies that wave spectrum and from the linguistic studies that have emerged. The studies are concerned with the conditions of the interlocutors and the signs and motives of the discourse, and what is obtained from the rhetorical process and standing on the most important elements on which it is based the discourse between the interlocutors (the sender + the message + the recipient) and how to direct the speech in a way that its intent is understandable to the recipient, so the speech of the angels (peace be upon them) is the focus of the research and its main foundations.

The Actor and Its deputy in the speech of the angels (peace be upon them): Selected models from the Holy Qur’an

The study was conducted to show the impact of structures and their flow within the linguistic text. The grammatical structure is considered as one of the complements of the verbal chain, taking into account the status and the formulation of the article with the conditions of the addressees or addressees. Since the formation of speech is based on linguistic units from which the context is centred around and towards delivering the structure to the image Which brings out from the corners of the structure the semantic perspective within the context and the unity of the text. As well as its addition of the determinants of the text and raising the meaning towards the recipients, led to the employment of these structures to serve the Noble Qur’anic text, which gave an extension to it in its space that is biased within the context, highlighting the course of the discourse within the context. It also sheds light on an explanation of the extent to which these building units contributed, to clarify the conditions of the addressees and the signs and motives of the discourse, so the speech of the angels (peace be upon them) was the focus of the research and its main joints and what was obtained from the discourse process and standing on the most important elements on which the discourse between the addressees is based.

Use of the Quranic Texts in the Footnotes Authors of Sibawayh's Kitab

This study deals with the use of Qur'anic Arabic grammar by the authors of the Hawashi Sibawayh book. The Qur'anic concepts of grammar are the basis for the origin of the Arabic language and play a pivotal role in verifying and documenting it. The Holy Quran is the closest linguistic text in the Arabic language, hence, the main reason for the emergence of grammatical studies. It is feared by Muslim scholars that the wrong pronunciation of Qur'anic verses can lead to a critical misinterpretation of Qur'anic concepts and change the judgments derived from them. Therefore, scholars have now turned to studying the language, narrating the poems, and classifying the linguistic material in the Holy Qur'an and adjusting its texts and correcting its readings. In this study, we try to highlight the use of the Qur'anic grammar by the first scholars and indicate their interest in employing it. It was found that the authors of the Hawashi Sibawayh employ a large number of Qur'anic verses to prove the grammatical rules and sometimes cite poetic evidence and then document it. They have adopted the division of the Sibawayh, so they do not deviate from its classifications, however, some authors of the book disagree with Sibawayh in the permissibility of kindness in conjunction with two factors, and employed the Qur'anic evidence to show the frequent omission of the verb of saying in the Holy Qur'an. The study also proves that Abu Bakr al-Sarraj authorized the distinction to be one or plural, as the distinctive was not a number. Abu Ali al-Farsi employed Qur'anic evidence to prove the validity of Sibawayh's argument that (or), be in the sense of (and). This research is an important study as it highlights the use of Qur'anic grammatical evidence in the books of leading Arabic scholars.
 Keywords: recruitment, evidence, grammar, Qur'an, language

SEMANTIC GROUPS OF VERBAL PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH THE MEANING OF A SPECIFIC ACTIVITY

The author explores individual verbal phraseological units’ meanings, the formation of the semantic structure of the subcategory of activity and individual structural and semantic groups. The main method of this study was the method of semantic identification. The methodological base consists of the works of leading Russian and foreign linguists in phraseology and lexicology. The research material consists of factual material from modern phraseographic sources, as well as the author's card-file of verbal phraseological units. The author describes mono-semantic verbal phraseological units with the meaning of social activity, movement and displacement in space, as well as the ones with the meaning of specific physical actions aimed at satisfying the most important physical (physiological) needs. The pattern of nouns with the meaning of a specific object as a product of activity functioning as an object of the studied units is substantiated. It is established that within the framework of structural-semantic groups and semantic subgroups, verbal phraseological units with the meaning of a specific activity have synonymous relationships. The results obtained can be applied in the courses of lectures and seminars on the modern Belarusian language, as well as on the text linguistics and cultural studies.

Kierunki językoznawczych badań mediów w Europie. Polska i jej sąsiedzi

The nature of this article is theoretical and methodological. The subject of the research presented in this article is the achievements of national linguists from Belarus, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Russia, and Slovakia in the field of media research conducted over the last ten years. Considerations include the research subjects of media linguistics, methodologies, andspecific methods used by researchers. The author carries out a synthesis which shows that the methodologies shaped by contemporary media linguistics include pragmalinguistics, linguistic stylistics, text linguistics, linguistic genology, and cultural linguistics. The synthesis also shows that the researchers use mainly modelling methods, related to the observation of linguistic, media and discursive worldview. The author emphasises the effectiveness of the first two methods in relation to traditional and electronic mass media, while the application of the category of discursive worldview brings, in her opinion, satisfactory cognitive effects in relation to the object of research defined as new media. The article also notes that in all of the Slavic studies presented, the influence of the media broadcaster on mass audiences is of interest. Media linguists assume that this influence exists and they develop means of achieving it. Styles of reception and the effects of media reception, on the other hand, are still not attracting the expected research interest.

The style of command in the Al-Taia al-Kubra poem of Ibn al-Faridh ( Rhetorical study )

The main aim of this study is to shed light on the writing style of command mood including command and non-command used in the poetry of Ibn-Faridh in (Ta’ya). It also discusses many grammatical features in his poetry. The researcher uses a descriptive analytical method to explain the rhetorics, analyze the quantity of the number of vocabularies and articles of subjunctive mood including both types command and non-command, and analyzes the linguistic texts used in his poetry. This study can answer these questions, who is Ibn-farith? What is the effect of command mood in the poetry of Ibn-Farith? What are the main features of Sufism during the Abbasian Era?

Al-Ďawāhir al-Tarkībiyyah fī al-Agniyyah "Taṣna' al-Mustaḥīl" lī Humood Al-Khuder

This study deals with research in particular on tarkīb characteristics. The tarkīb has two main things, namely the subject and the backstop, and the field of this study is taken from the word "Taṣna' al-Mustaḥīl" of Humood Al-Khuder. This song was released on May 16, 2017, and is becoming more popular nowadays. This study is a desk study, and the technique of desk study is to collect data from written sources for data and linguistic context in the analysis. The main source is the word song makes the impossible. In this study, the researcher uses data analysis in the song "Tasna'ul Mustahil", an analysis of content (Analysis Content), which is one of the groups of analysis methods of linguistic text analysis. As a result of the study of synthesis characteristics in the song word "make the impossible", there are four types of tarkībs: tarkīb isnādi, tarkīb idāfi, tarkīb aṭfī, and tarkīb bayāni. There are 32 tarkīb in the song lyrics, meaning 16 tarkīb of the tarkīb isnādi, 9 tarkīb of the tarkīb idāfi, 7 tarkīb atfi, and one tarkīb of the graphic tarkīb. The most composite is the alloy tarkīb.

Textuality in Online News Paper Articles

Textuality is a key concept in text linguistics. It is a property that a text must have in order to be regarded as a good text. In this paper, an attempt is made to arrive at the aspects of textuality utilized in online newspaper articles. More precisely, the paper endeavors to answer the following question: what are the most prevalent aspects of textuality utilized in this kind of discourse? As such, this paper aims at identifying the most common aspects of textuality exploited in online newspaper articles. Accordingly, it is hypothesized that cohesion, coherence, and informativity are the most prevalent aspects of textuality utilized in online newspaper articles. In order to achieve the aims of this paper and test its hypothesis, De Beaugrande and Dressler’s (1981) model of textuality is utilized for the analysis of the data under scrutiny. The analysis is executed on six articles retrieved from online British newspapers, namely, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Guardian, and Express. Findings of the analysis validate the above mentioned hypothesis.

THE ROLE OF REFERRING IN THE TEXTUAL INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE, THE POETRY OF SAID AL-SAQLAWI AS A MODEL

The research seeks to develop an accurate definition of referring that matches its concept in textual linguistics, and to reconsider the types of referring by differentiating between its three elements: reference, explainer and object. and by looking at the functions of the referring, and by defining the angle of view when dividing any element or when dividing the relationship between the three elements. Moreover, the research applies all of the above to the poems of the Omani poet Saeed Al-Saqlawi to add a new artistic value in reading his poetry

Imagens, links e vídeos: argumentação em campanhas eleitorais no Twitter

This article presents an excerpt from our ongoing doctoral research, which aims to identify and analyze linguistic aspects and argumentative strategies in electoral campaign publica-tions on social media from the official profiles/pages of Jair Bolsonaro and Fernando Haddad - the 2018 Brazilian presidential candidates – and Ana Gomes and André Ventura – the 2021 Portuguese presidential candidates – based on the theoretical framework of Discourse Analysis. Here, we pro-vide an analysis of two of the 15 most relevant publications from each candidate on the Twitter social media posted in the 15 days immediately preceding the elections. We draw on Textual Lin-guistics, following the works of Adam (1997, 2001a, 2001b), Bronckart (1985), and Plantin (1996), to identify and analyze how the structure of the social network (Bossetta, 2018), as a textual support, as conceived by Maingueneau (2001), influences the materialization of techno-discourses (Paveau, 2021), which is reflected in the construction of textual sequences identified in the corpus, specifi-cally regarding the presentation of arguments or data (premises) in argumentative textual sequences in which multimodal compositions involving static images, links, and videos were preferred.

Ethos e argumentação nas funções-orador: juiz, ministro e candidato

In this study, the objective is to conduct a descriptive-interpretative analysis of argu-mentation and ethos constructed in light of the acknowledged change in social roles by an individu-al in their public life across three contexts: judge, minister of justice, and candidate. To achieve this, anchored in Textual Linguistics, we employ concepts and analytical procedures derived from the Theory of Argumentation in Discourse (TAD) for a textual/discursive analysis of the individual's personal publications on social media during the three indicated periods of social role transition. In terms of research, the primary inquiry revolves around how the generation and maintenance of a positive self-image or engagement in the transition/maintenance of positions were carried out. Results of the analyses indicate a particular shift in the speaker's employment of strategies for au-dience adherence in the analyzed composites since their assumption of a public office, particularly concerning the maintenance of the stereotyped ethos as a hero, initially created in the first phase as a judge.

LINGUISTIC TERMINOLOGY IN THE FOCUS OF THE MENTIOLOGY THEORY

The objective of the paper under consideration is to display the formation and development specifics of the linguistic terminology associated with the linguistic mentiology formation issue. Since language reflects reality as it is, or as individuals want to imagine it, which they want to project, then it is quite logical that the language makes untruth verbalized, fake (untrue) concepts get fixed, and corresponding terms emerge in the academic and general discourse. One can definitely observe the modeling of the terms system for describing language (speech) facts, processes and phenomena, which when being nominated have a basic semantic component representing the untruth (false/lies) concept. This semantic constituent, in particular, is formally (explicitly) covered by means of quasi-, pseudo- elements and expressed implicitly by means of the corresponding semes in the term semantic structure, which represent the untruth (false/lies) concept. These include: false, unreliable, untrue, distorted, unreal, disinformation, disguising, fictitious, fantasy, imaginative, paradoxical, exaggerated, understated, belittled, concealed, one that reflects part of the truth, one that substitutes one for another, one that does not correspond to reality, one that contradicts the original meaning, one which can only be assumed, one which conceals the true meaning. Most of the above mentioned terms that outline the mentiology term field belong to monosemantic and one-word structure terms, a smaller part of them can be regarded as polysemantic and multicomponent by their structure. Within the terms system under consideration homonyms emerge, some terms expand their meaning, which is not yet registered in current dictionaries of linguistic terms. The terms analyzed primarily belong to the metalanguage of lexicology (quasi-synonyms, quasi-synonymy), onomastics (names distortion, pseudonym), orphemics (quasi-inflection, pseudo-motivation), morphology (quasi-grammeme), syntax (evidentiality and its counterpart category, quasi-sentence, pseudo-question), communicative linguistics (truth criterion, sincerity riterion, truthfulness maxim / postulate, pseudo-communication), text linguistics and discourse linguistics (quasi-discourse, quasi-text), linguistic stylistics (catachresis, quasicontrast), etymology (pseudo-etymology), sociolinguistics (quasi-ethnonym, pseudoethnonym). The issue discussed has broad prospects for further research: the mentiology terms will need systematic fixation and being processed by lexicographers.

Text Linguistics and Translation: An Empirical Perspective on English-Chinese Translation in the United Nations

Abstract Document translation in the context of the Unite Nations, which involves a colossal system of documentation with a huge variety of subject-matters, should be considered as a specialised translating activity. A relevant theoretical framework is needed to explore and contribute to the actual practices on the ground, much remaining to be done in this respect, though. The present study attempts to explore the possibility of precise understanding of source text and its accurate rendering into target language, by focusing on some aspects of the text linguistics as the theoretical reference points, and based on the empirical evidences in the English to Chinese translation of the UN documents. It tries to explore how much the role of text or discourse analysis can play in the study, and hopefully in the contributions to the quality improvement, of such a specialised activity as UN document translation.

Приказката в обучението по чужд език на студенти

The topic of the present article explores the place of the fairy tale in foreign language learning for adults. The research aims to reveal the rich potential of the fairy tale for the successful training of foreign students in the Bulgarian language in foreign universities. Tasks of the research are: analysis of the fairy tale as a literary genre, as a linguistic text and as a methodological tool and some features of foreign language learning for adults, in this case for students. From a theoretical and methodological point of view, there are detailed statements of German-speaking linguists and specialists in the field of teaching a foreign language, and from a practical point of view, the development is based on the teaching of Bulgarian as a foreign language for students at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Jena “Friedrich Schiller” in Germany and at the Baku Slavic University in Azerbaijan. The general conclusions of the study indicate that the use of the fairy tale in the process of foreign language learning is undoubtedly both a very successful and no less interesting tool. What is innovative in this research is the focus on the age group of the participants in the foreign language process – the students, who are adult participants. In this sense, the tale reveals additional possibilities and ideas for application, which would contribute both to the practical learning process of foreign languages in general, but also to theoretical scientific disciplines, such as linguistics, methodology of teaching foreign languages, lexicology, foreign studies of the countries whose language is taught, sociolinguistics and so on.