World Of Text Research Articles

Preparing potential teachers of the English and Korean languages (on the example of tropes and figures of speech in beauty blogs)

Relevance. The training program for foreign language teachers is represented by a number of disciplines, among which �Linguistic analysis of text� occupies a special place. This question is relevant, since more and more attention is paid to studying video blogs� language and various means of its creation. In this work authors have attempted to consider ways of preparing potential teachers to analyse specific features use of tropes and figures of speech in video beauty blogs� language.Purpose. The aims of the research are: to develop foreign language teacher�s skills; to classify and define tropes and figures of speech as a significant component of video-blogs� language; to describe specifics of tropes and figures of speech use in video-blogs� language on the example of beauty blogs.Methodology. Various research methods were used: descriptive-analytical method, method of comparison, observation and modelling method, transformation techniques, linguistic experiment and quantitative assessment. The main research method is the method of linguistic observation and description of specific linguistic facts in order to obtain generalized data. The material for the research was video content of beauty video-blogs.Results. The results show how students, using example from video beauty blogs, analysed possibilities of tropes and figures of speech, highlighted the features of beauty blog�s speech design, compared frequency tropes and figures of speech use, considered corresponding examples.Conclusions. Its practical significance for a foreign language teacher�s professional activity lies in understanding the world of texts and transferring this knowledge to their pupils.

Такемная аттракция в текстовом информативном коде когнитивного сценария (на материале романов Д. Брауна «Инферно» и M. Бюсси «Черные кувшинки»)

The aim of the research is to identify the universal and unique mechanisms of haptemic attraction in the textual informative code of the background terminal of cognitive scripts in literary works written in different languages. The scientific originality of the research lies in the fact that the authors substantiate the existence of two types of models of text worlds in which the components of the text informative code are located in the central-peripheral zone, create their own algorithm for the study of haptemic attraction in the textual informative code of the background terminal of a cognitive script, determine the specifics of haptemic attraction in the textual informative code. As a result, the paper shows the existence of a multifaceted model of a text world as a central-peripheral structure with proximal-temporal vectors and a simplified model of a text world as a central-peripheral structure without proximal-temporal vectors. The research reveals the existence of five types of the universal mechanisms of haptemic attraction in the informative code of background terminals of cognitive scripts in the studied novels written in different languages. The development and implementation of a new approach have supplemented the theoretical and methodological base of the theory of text worlds with two new types of models. The theory of modelling textual cognitive constructs has been supplemented with an algorithm for studying haptemic attraction in the textual informative code of the background terminal of a cognitive script. New terms have been introduced into the scientific thesaurus: “a multifaceted model of a text world”, “a simplified model of a text world”, “haptemic attraction”.

ТЕМПОРАЛЬНІ ПЕРЕМИКАННЯ СВІТІВ У ТРЬОХ РІЗНОЖАНРОВИХ ТЕКСТАХ

Application of the principles of Text World Theory to texts of diff erent genres gives us a clearer idea of the diversity of roles performed by the same discourse technique. In this study, we look into the technique of changing temporal parameters of the basic text-world which can involve the appearance of new entities and the relocation of setting in discourse. The analysis shows that temporal world-switches in three texts of diff erent genres – an excerpt from a novel, a free verse poem, and an archival project review – transfer a reader mostly to the past. Yet in each text, temporal world-switches are put to a diff erent purpose. In the excerpt from a complex psychological detective novel they are aimed at foregrounding the role and place of a particular enactor in the network of motives and events; in the free verse poem they serve to convey the theme; in the review of archival papers, temporal world-switches bind together the facts of the past and their contemporary interpretation. The results of the current study suggest that temporal world-switches are polyfunctional, their role depending largely on the genre of writing. Key words: discourse, genre, temporal world-switch, the past, time-zone.

AI vs. Human Translators: Navigating the Complex World of Religious Texts and Cultural Sensitivity.

This article explores the growing landscape of machine and AI-powered translation, explicitly focusing on religious text translation. The objective is to assess how AI-powered translation tools, such as ChatGPT and Google Translate, can replace human translation in handling complex religious content. The analysis considers word choice, word count, readability, and overall translation quality. This article uses qualitative and comparative data analysis to evaluate translations of seven English to Arabic religious texts by ChatGPT, Google Translate, and human translators. The texts were chosen randomly in different religious contexts, and a systematic coding framework was employed. Through Nvivo software, we examined word placement, vocabulary diversity, fluency, and accuracy. The analysis concludes that ChatGPT and Google Translate provide fairly accurate translations, yet the quality is questioned. Human translation consistently outperforms machine translations, maintaining depth, cultural relevance, and nuanced understanding. Word count analysis shows that machine translations are more concise and missing significant elements. While AI-powered translation tools have made significant advancements, they still need to be capable of entirely replacing human expertise, especially in handling complex and culturally rich texts. Human translators continue to excel in conveying complex ideas and preserving the richness of language and culture.

Textual Competence in Aladdin and The Enchanted Lamp: A Text World Study

Textual Competence in Aladdin and The Enchanted Lamp: A Text World Study

Textual Competence in Aladdin and The Enchanted Lamp: A Text World Study

Textual Competence in Aladdin and The Enchanted Lamp: A Text World Study

Development of one translator’s style: A corpus-based investigation of Allan Barr’s style of translating Yu Hua’s works

This paper examines the evolution of translator Allan Barr's style and methodology. Regarded as the primary English translator of Yu Hua's works for fifteen years, Barr's corpus is examined in order to catalogue the development of his translation style. This corpus consists of Yu Hua’s Huanghun li de Nanhai and Siyue Sanri Shijian and their translations Boy in the Twilight: Stories of Hidden China (2003) and The April 3rd Incident: Stories (2018). The mixed-methods approach was applied to analyze Barr's idiosyncrasies in translating Direct Speech (DS) presentations at different stages of his career using the revised S-type model. A quantitative analysis identified a translator’s changing preferences in translating DS. The subsequent qualitative analysis addressed the translation strategies of (Free) Direct Speech and Barr's preferred position of report clauses at different points in time. The results suggest that Barr's translation styles were more influenced by his assumptions and attitude towards the implicit target readers and then dominated his stylistic choices, leading him to be more loyal to the source text and the author in his later translation and more inclined to present the literary world of the source text with less interference and interpretation by the translator. The implications proposed that the development of the translator’s style may be due to the promotion of the author’s familiarity with the literary field of the target language, the influence of the norms of the source language in which the translator is immersed in translation practice, and his increasing knowledge of style.

Tracing palimpsestic text-worlds of key moments in rewrites of King Lear - A Thousand Acres and Dunbar

In recent years, Text World Theory has been extended and elaborated to explain readers’ understanding of discoursal phenomena where toggling between separate text-worlds is sustained at length, such as extended metaphor and allegory. Similarly, experiencing adaptation, that is, reading a rewrite of a source text, may also involve readers deriving cognitive effects from shifting attention between two ontologically separate sets of worlds throughout a discourse. However, Text World Theory has not been previously applied to the study of this area. This paper deploys Text World Theory to examine the stylistic manipulation of text-worlds in A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley and Dunbar by Edward St. Aubyn, novels that are both modern rewrites of Shakespeare’s King Lear. It aims to contribute on the one hand to Text World Theory by enriching and elaborating a Text World basis for explaining adaptation, and on the other to adaptation studies by demonstrating the utility of a cognitive stylistic approach for analyzing literary adaptation. Specifically, it investigates how the construction of intertextually-relevant text-world patterns serves to draw the reader’s attention to assign significance to certain narrative moments, and to allow the reader to access an additional layer of meaning. This study sheds some light on the possible contribution of special types of contextual information to the negotiation of text-worlds.

The Existence of Sharia Courts in the United Kingdom

The Islamic Risala brought by Muhammad SAW has been presented as the last heavenly religious teaching that carries a mission of peace with the Qur'an as the guidebook of his people. The study of all life aspects contained in the Qur'an is Hudan (guidance), and it is the most complete guide for all humans in the world. The authenticity of the Qur'an and language style has been unrivaled throughout the ages, and it strengthens the perfection of Islamic teachings, which is universal as Rahmatan Lil' ālamīn. As time goes by, Islam has significantly contributed to the history of human civilization. History also records areas where great civilizations have emerged. There are relics of high Islamic culture, admired and recognized, including in the European region, definitely cannot be separated from the contribution of the struggle of Muslim leaders who are highly dedicated and persistent in spreading Islamic teachings. As a European country, the United Kingdom was not spared from the spread of Islamic teachings. By collecting research data from various works of literature and making the world of texts the main object of its analysis, this article intends to examine the track record of the early embryo of the universality of Islam touching British society by looking deeper into the history of the beginning of the arrival of Islam, the Dynamics of Muslim life and Sharia Courts in the United Kingdom.

“Village prose” in the context of conflict between the traditional russian culture and the soviet modernity

The article is devoted to analysis of the works of the so-called village prose (F. Abramov, V. Shukshin, V. Rasputin, A. Solzhenitsyn) in the decolonial perspective using the concept of internal colonization. The characteristics of this concept and its heuristic potential are given. The application of semiotic method - distinction of markers - allowed the authors to determine the points of divergence in the socialist realism poetics and the village prose. It is shown that the village prose plots do not fit into the soviet ideological narratives, while the key narrative of the modern thinking - progress - in the artistic world of the village text testifies to the destruction of Russian village and the Russian peasantry. It is revealed that F. Abramov's application of the deconstruction method allowed to revaluate the narratives that are important for the soviet ideology. In V. Shukshins stories we have found an opposition of modernity - traditionalism, which serves as a precondition for the comic. It allows us to identify a subordinate position of a villager-peasant, irrelevant in the world of modernity.

Presenting the Lordship Attributes as an Effort to Build Up the Spirituality of the People of God

Kevin Vanhoozer observes that the loss of imagination that is discipled and disciplined by the Bible leads many Christians to experience a disconnect between the world they live in and the world of the biblical texts they believe in. There is a gulf between known truth and lived practice. The daily lives of Christians do not bring out the resultant Christian character. This article attempts to explain the importance of meditating on the threefold lordship attributes proposed by John Frame—authority, control, and presence—in one’s daily meditation. It argues that one’s theological understanding is crucial in worldview formation and that, through intense meditation, those truths need to be internalized in the heart and mind so that they can be integrated into the practice of everyday life. This article also shows that the three inseparable lordship attributes need to be experienced in the relationship between spiritual leaders and the congregation, for true spirituality is formed not only in personal experience but also in the community. Such a pattern is then offered as a solution to answer challenges related to worship and fellowship during the pandemic and beyond. Through this article, it is hoped that the people of God can better understand the dynamics of their spiritual life, either through personal meditation or fellowship with other believers, either face-to-face or virtual meetings, including the role of a spiritual mentor whom first experiences and thus embodies God’s authority, control, and presence in their relationship with God’s congregation.

Transmedial Creation of Text Worlds. Pictorial Narration in Response to Verbal Texts

Abstract With the narrative and visual turn engaging research in several scholarly disciplines over the last decades, the author of this article intends to approach the issue of world-formation in such pictorial representations that have originated in response to verbal texts, mostly literary. The study assumes a semiotic vantage point, with text understood broadly as any meaningful sequence or network of signs. It draws also from Intermedial Studies, following in particular the idea of media transformation (transmediation) as proposed by Lars Elleström (2014), especially in application to “qualified” media such as artistic forms. An analysis will be carried on the set of images (mostly Western paintings and one instance of Oriental sculpture) produced by 19th and 20th-century artists, all induced by well-known verbal narratives that represent three categories: a) Greek mythology, b) religious and literary-religious texts (The New Testament, the Rāmāyana) and c) English-language literature (drama and poetry). As such, these visual renditions — a reversal of traditionally conceived ekphrasis in which verbal descriptions commented on visual artefacts — qualify as transmedial phenomena. The author’s main concern is to what extent storytelling static visual works, the instances of secondary narrativity (Stampoulidis, 2019), are capable of creating text worlds (partly) similar to storyworlds postulated for verbal narratives. Starting with her own taxonomy of picturing endowed with a narratorial potential (inspired by several typologies proposed for narrative images), the author will discuss the formation by pictorial means of two world-building units, namely: 1) scenes and 2) small worlds/sub-worlds, both of them only parts of full-blown text worlds. Temporality emerges as a foundational but not exclusive property of text worlds in the verbal and pictorial arts. This study is a continuation of the author’s previous research (Chrzanowska-Kluczewska, 2009, 2016, 2019) that points to an incremental growth of possible worlds into text worlds into discourse worlds in verbal and visual media.

Sibyls, destruction, and loss in the context of reproductive science

The sixth-century prologue to a collection of Sibylline Oracles introduces the anthology according to a pattern recognizable in prologues to a number of texts of the period. It begins by praising the oracles for the great value they have for readers. But then, it introduces a problem: the oracles have suffered from destruction, loss, and corruption at several points in their history. The prologue goes on to offer a solution: the creation of the very anthology of Sibylline Oracles being produced. The rhetorical function of such a prologue is clear: It ensures the value of Sibylline Oracles while simultaneously demonstrating the utility, or even necessity of the newly created collection. Of interest in this study is the way the prologue introduces and illustrates the problem of destruction, loss, and corruption. In no less than three different vignettes, the prologue shows how the oracles are especially resistant to preservation. And these instances are not alone. A discourse of sibylline loss circulated around the textual world of antiquity. This study argues that the discourse is best understood within the framework of ancient ideals concerning intergenerational transfers of knowledge from fathers to sons, and some ancient theories of reproductive science, which held that only men contained reproductive potential, while women were empty vessels or fallow fields waiting to be filled. The article concludes that sibyls are so frequently sites of loss and destruction of knowledge because, as women, they are believed to lack the capacity to reproduce themselves both intellectually and biologically.

Did Job Live “Happily Ever After”? Suspicion and Naivety in Job 42:7–17

Abstract The book of Job apparently ends happily ever after, with the restoration of the protagonist’s family and fortune (42:7–17). Juxtaposed with the rest of the book, however, this epilogue may appear incongruent and deeply problematic. In light of that, this article argues that a double reading is warranted. On the one hand, the epilogue may be read with a hermeneutic of suspicion, which resists superficial worldviews and protests against injustice. This reading will unmask troubling features in the representation of Job’s God, Job’s restoration, and Job’s speech. On the other hand, though—and drawing on Paul Ricœur—the text can be approached with “second naivety.” The audience is thereby welcomed to inhabit the symbolic wholeness of the textual world. The text invites both these readings and does not adjudicate between them. By holding them in dialectic tension, both hermeneutics and theology are enriched.

The Forms of Manifestation of Intertextuality and Their Role in Creating the Text World of “Omon Ra” by V.O. Pelevin

In the domestic culture of the beginning of the 21st century, the crisis of value attitudes of a modern person, whose consciousness is subject to manipulation, has aggravated. The phenomenon of manipulation of consciousness has its own history, but it gained particular strength in the 20th century, when the media, art, and advertising became the main conductors of power. At the beginning of the 21st century, the information and communication space becomes the main tool for manipulating human consciousness. The phenomenon of intertextuality has become widespread in works by V.O. Pelevin, one of the brightest representatives of Russian postmodernism, the author of Omon Ra, the novel that reveals a creative rethinking of the transformation of the cruel Soviet reality of the 1990s. In this article, the novel is interpreted through the identification of manifestation forms of intertextuality and the defining their role within the framework of a united artistic world of the text. The intertextuality of the novel is expressed by intertextual components: literary borrowings, imitations, overt and covert citations, allusions, reminiscences, poetic inclusions, irony. These intertextual elements represent the cultural layer of the novel text being interconnected with the storyline of the work. V.O. Pelevin managed to emphasize the main thing in his heros character the ability to doubt dogmas; to reveal the duality of the heros world, who goes through difficulties before deciding to free himself from the cruel system that destroys any I. Intertextuality the text of Omon Ra provokes a play of meanings and a plurality of interpretations, helps to achieve the creation of a multi-level text, which is made of the cultural and ideological layers of the Soviet era, which the author characterizes as a time of deliberate falsification of history and manipulation of human consciousness. The author constructs an artistic reality built at the intersection of the real and unreal, the real and illusory worlds.

Standard of Coherence in the Translated Texts: A Textlinguistic Contrastive Analysis

Translation Studies and practices currently face some procedural challenges which are summarizable into problems of Text reception and analyses, transfer of text meaning, assessment of translation text, and realization of textual equivalence. Translation practice have also witnessed a number of theories and approaches aimed at solving these problems. Textlinguistics has recently been considered a pragmatic touchstone for the analysis and assessment of translated texts. Textlinguists have made a strong case for the principle of Textuality (and its standards) as an effective tool in text creation and analysis as well as determinant of textuality in a natural text. Coherence as one of the seven standards of textuality therefore deals basically with the internal semantic structure of text. It is a textual procedure in which cognitive elements are activated to create and recover conceptual relations in a text. It also forms the basic features by which text world and its conceptual relations are characterised. This paper therefore aims to provide information on Coherence as one of the seven standards of textuality, expose its concepts and elements, and demonstrate its relationship with Translation. it also attempts at transforming Coherence standard into an effective cognitive theoretical framework for the analysis and assessment of translated text. Two political reports (Source and Target Texts) were selected from two (non-) governmental organizations for textual analysis and assessment. The paper concluded on the note that any translation process that is done on the basis of standard of coherence will enable translator to identify the extent of his success in producing a coherent, equivalent and communicative translated text.

Lower‐Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia

AbstractThis article demonstrates widespread engagement of lower‐class people with the written word in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian Empire, in rural and urban locales, in homes, workplaces, and social spaces. We explore how lower‐class people read: the daily habits, personal relationships, and social spaces that shaped engagement with texts, and especially collective reading, a widespread phenomenon that extended the reach of the written word to less‐ or non‐literate audiences. Many lower‐class Russians experienced reading as a collective, public, aural activity, not a solitary, private, internal one. Reading was entwined with the rhythms of everyday social life and provoked critical thought and active engagement within countless lower‐class reading groups, as evidenced by collective letter‐writing and observations of post‐reading discussions. This article therefore contributes to scholarship exploring lower‐class Russians’ conscious and meaningful engagement with the textual world, and by association with late imperial Russia’s transforming social and political spheres.

Intentions and flexibility: navigating complex literacy practices in primary education

ABSTRACT Background Children develop within a complicated and dynamic textual world. In the primary school classroom, one of the most important tasks for teachers involves the design of learning environments and situations that can support all students’ literacy development. Although the identification of students with weaker skills is relatively well researched, there is a need for deeper understanding of how teachers address the variation of literacy skills within their classrooms. This article focuses attention on teachers’ navigation of complex literacy practices within the primary classroom, which involves supporting the literacy development of children with a variety of needs, abilities and experiences. Purpose The study aimed to investigate how primary education teachers and special educational needs teachers described their intentions and ways of designing learning for complex literacy practices in order to sustain a culture of inclusive education design. Methods A total of 24 primary education and special educational needs teachers across four schools in two Swedish municipalities participated in focus group discussions. In-depth data analysis was based on design-oriented theory, applying the central concepts of intentions and flexibility to the teachers’ accounts of literacy development. Findings According to the analysis, the participating teachers perceived advantages in using multimodal methods, collaborative learning, motivation and joyfulness, as well as learning structures and support. They discussed the challenges around supporting students’ literacy progress, describing their preparedness and the flexibility, or transformation competence (using different teaching resources in different situations at different times) involved in navigating complex literacy practice in the classroom for the benefit of all students. Conclusions The study highlights the significance of teachers’ intentions to prevent, identify and remove barriers to students’ literacy development. It suggests that the part played by flexibility in determining solutions to challenges in classroom practice should not be overlooked in relation to supporting students’ literacy learning progress. Implications also include greater recognition of the importance of continuous professional development to support inclusive practice, with opportunities for collegial learning and collaboration.

‘Super-Unsupervised’ Classification for Labelling Text: Online Political Hostility as an Illustration

AbstractWe live in a world of text. Yet the sheer magnitude of social media data, coupled with a need to measure complex psychological constructs, has made this important source of data difficult to use. Researchers often engage in costly hand coding of thousands of texts using supervised techniques or rely on unsupervised techniques where the measurement of predefined constructs is difficult. We propose a novel approach that we call ‘super-unsupervised’ learning and demonstrate its usefulness by measuring the psychologically complex construct of online political hostility based on a large corpus of tweets. This approach accomplishes the feat by combining the best features of supervised and unsupervised learning techniques: measurements of complex psychological constructs without a single labelled data source. We first outline the approach before conducting a diverse series of tests that include: (i) face validity, (ii) convergent and discriminant validity, (iii) criterion validity, (iv) external validity, and (v) ecological validity.

THE MOTIVES OF COSMOPOLITANISM IN THE LYRICAL COLLECTION “POET, OKEAN I RYBA” AND IN THE COLLECTION OF ESSAYS “UZDOVZH OKEANU NA ROVERI” BY VASYL MAKHNO

In the article the attempt of comprehension the motives of cosmopolitanism in Vasyl Makhno`s work based on the material of the lyrical collection "Poet, okean i ryba" and the collection of essays "Uzdovzh okeanu na roveri" is made. On the basis of the texts of the collections the principles of author’s identification in the artistic world of lyrical works and essayistic texts are analyzed, based on the ideas of cosmopolitanism as universal human values that prevail over ethnic problems in the artist`s worldview. Furthermore, the origins of the idea of cosmopolitanism in Vasyl Makhno`s work are also substantiated, representing the formation and transformation of the author`s worldview as the Ukrainian author who lives on the American continent. Due to the categories of "presence" and "belonging" in place, the methods of reconstruction and reproduction of the author`s search for own identity are analyzed. In the article the topoi are examined through the category of “journey”, which are common and different in the artistic worlds of the lyric collection and the collection of essays, representing the author`s reflection through the category of "location". It is concluded that, while acting in various guises, among which the guise of "foreigner" is important, the author appears to the recipient as a cosmopolitan striving for harmony and the search for own "self". In the analyzed collections of lyric poems "Poet, okean i ryba" and the essays "Uzdovzh okeanu na roveri" by V. Makhno common and distinctive features of the reconstruction of space as a place for author`s and reader`s reflection are revealed.