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Textualities of the city – from the legibility of urban space towards social and natural others in planning

Author(s): Tiit Remm / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2016

‘Text’ has been a frequent notion in analytical conceptualizations of landscape and the city. It is mostly found in analyses of textual representations or suggestions concerning a metaphor of “reading” an (urban) landscape. In the Tartu- Moscow School of Semiotics the idea of the text of St. Petersburg has also been applied in analysing particular cities as organizing topics in literature and in culture more widely, but it has not happened to an equal degree in studies of actual urban spaces.The understanding of text as a semiotic system and mechanism is, however, more promising than revealed by these conceptions. Some potential can be made apparent by relating this textual paradigm to a more pragmatic understanding of the city and its planning. My project in this paper is to uncover an analytical framework focusing on the concepts of ‘text’, ‘textualization’ and ‘texting’ in studying the planning of urban environment. The paper observes the case of the urban planning process of the Tartu city centre in Estonia during 2010–2016, and is particularly concerned with the roles that urban nature has acquired in the process of this “textualization” of the local environment, societal ideals, practices and possible others.

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ТРИ ВИДА ЭТНОСПЕЦИФИЧНОСТИ ВО ФРАЗЕОЛОГИИ: ЭТНОЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКАЯ, ЭТНОКУЛЬТУРНАЯ И ЭТНОКОГНИТИВНАЯ СПЕЦИФИЧНОСТЬ

Author(s): Marina Gutovskaya / Language(s): Belarusian Issue: 27(32)/2015

The ethno-specific phraseology – the phraseology which manifests interlanguage differences – is contemplated in the paper considering the phraseology corpora of the Russian and English languages. The popular opinion that ethnospecificity in phraseology is predetermined solely by unique features of the national culture is questioned. The three types of phraseological ethno-specificity are differentiated: ethno-linguistic (ensured by distinctive features of the national language), ethno-cultural (connected with the originality of the national culture), and ethnocognitive (ordained by the uniqueness of the national worldview). The characteristics of the phraseological units that belong to each of the three types of ethno-specificity are enumerated, and the circles of questions on the ethno-specific phraseology to be studied within traditional inguistics, cultural linguistics, and cognitive linguistics are outlined. The possibility of coexistence of several types of ethno-specificity in one phraseological unit is shown. It is noted that in order to comprehend ethno-specific phraseological units of the three types a different degree of immersion in the foreign linguisticcultural- cognitive space is required.

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УСАДЕБНЫЙ ТЕКСТ Г.Р. ДЕРЖАВИНА И ПОЭТОВ ЕГО КРУГА

Author(s): Valerii Anatolyevich Domansky / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2015

This paper considers G.R. Derzhavin’s country estate text, which is accomplished and contains topoi and loci typical for the subsequent texts of this type. The country estate idyllic chronotope was developed by G.R. Derzhavin, first and foremost in his poem “To Eugene. Life at Zvanka”, as well as by N.A. Lvov and G.R. Derzhavin’s literary circle. It is stated that this chronotope should have determined the pre-romantic and, partially, romantic country estate texts of the 19th century.

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Humor as a Survival Technique during Communism in Romania

Author(s): Miruna Iacob / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

Humour is generally considered a universal feature, but it is also a context-related notion and it may involve the specificity of a certain culture. The present paper attempts to explore the ethics of humor and its subversive nature perceived as a survival technique during the communist regime in Romania, with an emphasis on Ioan Groșan’s short story, The Island. Being in a constant battle with censorship, humour often proves to be a form of dissidence. Critical laughter functions as a corrective, undermining political principles and denouncing their inflexibility aimed at achieving a progressive social degradation. Therefore, a theoretical re-evaluation of the relationship between context and humor will reveal that the latter concept – with its forms and variations – becomes the escape from the gangrenous tissues of totalitarian societies.

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Essence of Technology and Ecological Disaster: A Heideggerian Reading of Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood

Author(s): Wu Lanxiang,Zhou Xiaolin / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

In his criticism about modern technology, Martin Heidegger etymologically examines the word “Technē” and points out that, technology, as a mode of revealing, does not solely refer to the bringing forth of truth through machine-based experiments and exploration, it also contains the poetic revealing inside which a saving power can be found. Following this argument, this paper conducts a textual analysis of Margaret Atwood’s 2009 novel The Year of the Flood and argues that the Compound elites are so delivered over to technology that they have turned everything into standing-reserve, and thereby have fueled the impending ecological disaster in their pursuit of bioengineering innovation. By contrast, a Heideggerian meditative person – Adam One, the leader of God’s Gardeners, illustrates the practice of “arts of the mind” by his words and his deeds, exemplifying the possibility of poetic revealing in an emblematic way. Although the trajectory of environmental deterioration cannot be reversed, the ending of the novel does strike a promising note by referring to music, an old form of fine arts.

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Svět slov Věry Linhartové

Author(s): Michaela Křivancová / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2011

This paper focuses on Věra Linhartová’s prose texts published between 1964 and 1968. Its aim is to present the main features of her poetics, above all the epistemological-philosophical and ontological-existential dimension of words. It also seeks to demonstrate how both aspects determine the intra-textual reflection of the construction of literary utterances and that the epistemological principle affects language and contextual transformations in the author’s artistic formulation of texts. Furthermore, it shows that in Linhartová’s poetics the manner of formulating literary utterances is not merely a self-contained reflection of the epistemological (and ontological) principle, but also has communicative aims.

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Kauko, Mikko, Miika Norro, Kirsi-Maria Nummila, Tanja Toropainen & Tuomo Fonsén, eds. Languages in the Lutheran Reformation. Textual Networks and the Spread of Ideas

Author(s): Eleonora Buožytė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 1/2019

The review of: Kauko, Mikko, Miika Norro, Kirsi-Maria Nummila, Tanja Toropainen & Tuomo Fonsén, eds. 2019. Languages in the Lutheran Reformation. Textual Networks and the Spread of Ideas. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 303 p. ISBN 978 94 6298 155 3.

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Lūžio žmogaus problema Vytauto Martinkaus romane Simonija: literatūros etikos aspektas

Author(s): Kristina Tutlytė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 37(42)/2020

The author of the thesis uses Literary Ethics as a theoretical instrument and analyses the portrait of human dealing with turning-point in Vytautas Martinkus’s novel Simonija. The novel corresponds to the features of the turning-point literature marked in the dissertation of V. Katinienė: the thematic level emphasizes a change of historical (political) order and its existential problems; in thoughts, dreams, memories characters go back to the period of totalitarianism; the contrast between “homo sovieticus” and individuals of the free world is emphasized. The analysis of ethical conflicts in Simonija is presented, having in mind specific cultural context during the Soviet period and emphasizing the process of writing as a particular ethical situation and a way to reflect human’s experience. Vytautas Martinkus offers appropriate “snoumenizm” notion for summarizing human’s experience during the Soviet periodperiod. In essence, dehumanizing, painful experience of the Soviet era does not abandon human even in the period of freedom and forces him to go back to the past – physical presence in the world of restored independence does not free him from inner stagnation. In this paper, it is shown that Literary Ethics is asuitable theoretical instrument in order to analyze text about human’s experience at turning-point.

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Metamodern Gaming: Literary Analysis of The Last of Us

Author(s): Simon Radchenko / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

Among numerous ways to describe the culture and literature after postmodernism metamodern is becoming more and more popular. Its main features – oscillation, affect, desire for structure and (re)construction etc. – appear in many products of contemporary culture. This article reflects the endeavour to apply metamodernism and its trends to the literary analysis of cybertext. Crucial trends of metamodernism are briefly described and implemented in the analysis of a video game. The features of cybertext that influence the analysis are considered. All these instruments were used to show the metamodern nature of the game by Naughty Dog, The Last of Us (2013). The article attempts to analyze a cybertext through the methods of literary analysis and reveal metamodern ideas in The Last of Us using main metamodern categories as a tool for text study.

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Pour une théorie périphérique et/ou amoureuse: lectures d’Agamben, Derrida, Rancière

Author(s): Francesca Manzari / Language(s): French Issue: 2/2020

The introduction of Giorgio Agamben’s book entitled Stanzas, Word and Phantasm in Western Culture is about the relationship of philosophy and poetry to knowledge in Western culture. The stanza is “the essential nucleus” of Tuscan poetry in the thirteenth century. It is actually an invention of Tuscan poets who call stanzas the parts that compose every canzone. Stanza is a word for chamber in Tuscan dialect as well as in Italian. Agamben points out that what makes possible its poetical existence is the fact that a stanza is a topos outopos, a topos which contains its own negation: it is the reality of unreality. Agamben’s thesis is that Western culture has forgotten the unitary status the Western word had until the thirteenth century. The thirteenth century could still conceive poetic activity as a philosophical one and then Western culture has known a separation between two poles that define knowledge and word. This paper aims to investigate the relationship between knowledge and words in Derrida, Rancière and Agamben.

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„Ich werde eingetaucht / in vás“? Peter Waterhouses Prosperos Land als Dynamisierung von T.S. Eliots The Waste Land

Author(s): Dinah Schöneich / Language(s): German Issue: 2/2020

The assumption of the existence of well discernible national languages is at odds with the dynamic nature of language. It is part of the so-called “monolingual paradigm” and therefore implies inextricably linking people to their mother tongue, which is in turn tied to one respective ethnicity, culture and nation. However, languages are not always clearly discernible from one another and do not always appear in fixed, static forms. Instead, language is subject to dynamic changes, which are at the same time subject to political interests and language policies. The poems presented in this article exemplify how modern and contemporary poetry can use the conjuncture of multilingualism and ambiguity to create a sense of language dynamics themselves. Their poetics simultaneously question and make use of the assumption of static multilingualism. They unfold political problems from it and awaken in their readers a desire for proactive reading and (language) change. T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land already problematizes the coexistence of the European languages as a challenge for understanding, suggesting that languages as well as their speakers might be untranslatably shut-off from each other. However, the poem also creates surprising synergistic effects from its multilingualism and ambiguity. This way, it invites its readers to connect and cross over (language) borders in an adaptive and poetic manner, stressing the importance and capability of poetry and learning for intercultural understanding. Prosperos Land by Peter Waterhouse perpetuates and even surpasses this movement. As the ambivalent bilingual, intertextual and ambiguous title suggests, the poem challenges the possibility of linguistic as well as national demarcation from the start. Moving away from strict language borders and rules, the poem highlights the transformative magic of an almost childish exploration of language itself.

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Philosophical Origins of Methodological Nomothetism of F. de Saussure’s Concept

Author(s): Alla Luchyk,Oksana Prosianyk,Ivan Stepanchenko / Language(s): English Issue: 40 (45)/2021

The article raises the problem of philosophical principles and origins of Ferdinand de Saussure’s views. The editors of “Course in General Linguistics”, C. Bally and A. Sechehaye, contributed to the emergence of stereotypes about Saussure as the founder of structuralism, who for the first time conceptually distinguished language and speech based on dichotomy, established the systemic nature of language as an abstract entity, developed a bilateral psychological theory of sign and divided linguistics into the synchronous and the diachronic. This prevented the synthesis of Saussure’s concept as a holistic and internally consistent anthropocentric system of views. The conceptual analysis of the fundamental theses of Saussure’s concept, given in Saussure’s autographed materials, which appeared in 2002, showed that its most important feature is that it was an anthropocentric nomothetic proposition aimed at creating the foundations for the study of human language activity as such, language as such and speech as such. The Kantian idea of anthropocentric transcendentalism can be considered the principal philosophical source of Saussure’s nomothetic project.

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Tajna (neprevedivosti) Logosa

Author(s): Ante Periša / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 3/2021

Im vorliegenden Beitrag wurde die vielfältige Problematik vom Logos dargelegt, die zunächst mit der Übersetzung des griechischen Schlüsselbegriffs aus dem Johannesevangelium ins Altkirchenslawische ansetzt. Zunächst dem ursprünglich griechischen Begriffe sprachkundig nachgehend und ihn in seinen griechischen Wurzeln erhellend, lässt sich der Autor anschließend auf die ganze Komplexität vom Logos ein, um schließlich zum eigentlichen Grund seiner Unübersetzbarkeit zu gelangen. Logos lasse sich, laut Verfasser, freilich nicht übersetzen, ohne die Vielfalt seiner möglichen Bedeutungen umfassend zu berücksichtigen. Selbst dem ursprünglichen griechischen Sprecher war das ganze Bedeutungsspektrum dessen, was der Begriff Logos eigentlich in sich trägt, gar nicht bewusst, d. h. ihm wurde der volle Ausmaß dessen, was der Begriff Logos im Laufe der Jahrhunderte – dem unterschiedlichsten Einflüssen unterzogen – mitgetragen und während der andauernden „Sprachentwicklung“ ausgetragen, bzw. immer wieder neu ausgedrückt hat, gar nicht präsent. Das Bedeutungsspektrum vom Logos mit den adäquat vorahnenden Termini hauptsächlich im Hinblick auf den Bedeutungswert – zunächst in der kroatischen, zusätzlich aber auch in der lateinischen und deutschen Sprache – vergleichend, weist der Autor sowohl auf die semantische Verschiebungen als auch auf die Bedeutungserweiterungen hin, deren Grundlage eine tiefere Bedeutungsdimension vom Logos bildet. Abschließend hebt der Verfasser den semantischen Grundunterschied zwischen dem ‘Wort’ Logos und allen anderen ‘Worten’ hervor, weil Logos in sich selbst den Sinn trägt/hat, ohne irgendeine Referenz außer sich selbst zu haben. Als Grund und Ursprung von allem habe Logos keinen äußeren Bezugspunkt (keine äußere Referenz), auf den/die er sich referieren könnte. Als solcher ist der Logos (in einem einzigen Wort zusammengefasst) reine Performativität, d. h. pure Handlung (pures Handeln).

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Discursul cognitiv al antropologiei lingvistice – Sursă pentru potenţarea cunoaşterii

Author(s): Violeta Negrea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 19/2015

The article outlines the capacity of anthropological exploration of language enabling cross domains knowledge through the reconstruction of ideologies, beliefs, habits, traditions specific to the culture of social communities. The research opportunities opened by contextualized linguistic information are supported by communication functionality and non-neutral relationship between linguistic sign representing the world, the world itself and references. The language samples analyzed anthropologically bring forward the social and cultural nature of the linguistic information. The understanding and acknowledgement of the language accumulation of cultural values target the improvement and responsibility of the social behaviour (Hudson, 1980:2-4) expressed in the material nature of word. (Vâlcu, 2013: 33-46).

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Proricanje sudbine čovječanstva u dramama Antona Pavloviča Čehova

Author(s): Almedina Čengić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 2/2020

In the synchronic presentation of the changes, at the turning point of the 19th and 20th centurie Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) took special place in world literature. Through the theorists’ critical comments on his work, the basic idea is recognizable, that he directed his artistic commitment to new trends in the European cultural environment and connected the “classical” Russian literary in tradition, with the avant-garde movements that were emerging at that time. The specificity of the approach to processing topics that are already recognizable in the so-called: The “Russian school of writing” demonstrates to this writer the intention to break the patterns established by the great writers in their prose sagas during the nineteenth century. He paints the reality that surrounds him and the time in which he lives, which is reflected in the consciousness of his dramatic heroes. Yet his literary-artistic vision is a dramatic image determined by a prophetic hunch about the tragic end of an entire generation. It is symptomatic that he writes his texts completely outside the expected genre division as comedies, just when his plays depict the most tragic of human destinies. Coming completely away from all the parameters and rules dictated by stereotypes in writing the drama: elements of a tragic or comic, main or supporting character, or expected plot, Chekhov, by his own definition, bids human feelings. He oscillating in the artistic variables between the extremes of arrogant and banal attitudes toward life, at the crucial existential moments in which his dramatic characters exist and operate. Balancing on the boundary between false euphoria and harsh reality, his characters become completely lost and isolated individuals, who find themselves in a temporal rationale, with results in the tragic breakup of an epoch. The question is: Is this the beginning of the catastrophe in which we live today and in which we completely unconsciously “close our eyes”, as individuals, societies and civilizations? Will we, as Chekhov’s heroes, remain on the sidelines of history, as its inert participants, who indulge in the inevitability of tragic determination, without the desire and intention to try to make the world a better?

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Budismi semiootika I - Tartu-Moskva koolkonna panus: Pjatigorski ja Mäll

Author(s): Andres Herkel / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 17/2020

The article examines Buddhist studies within the Tartu–Moscow school of semiotics. At the beginning of Tartu semiotics there was a pleiad of orientalists and indologists using the semiotic approach for Buddhist studies. Alexander Piatigorsky and Linnart Mäll were important contributors. Piatigorsky and Mäll refrained from using theories and terminology from Western philosophy to interpret Buddhism. However, they used semiotic tools to describe such basic problems as: the hierarchies of thestates of mind; personological classifications; the difference between psyche and consciousness; Buddhist metalanguage and terminology; the term dharma; the impact of texts on the mind; the mechanisms of the production of new texts; zero and infinity as symbols for texts and sates of mind, etc. Their several articles in Tartu semiotics have timeless value for Buddhist studies. With the help of semiotics they were able to successfully deal with texts corresponding simultaneously to different states of consciousness and different levels of interpretation.

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Conceptul, simbolul şi structura antonimică

Author(s): Daniela Gheltofan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2012

В нашей работе предпринята попытка проанализировать концепт, чтобы выявить его признаки и функции с учётом признаков символа. Наши замечания сводились к тому, что мы принимаем антонимический концепт как амбивалентная структура, и концепт, вообще, как когнитивно-аффективный символ с многочисленными экстензиями на семантическом, культурном, религиозном, философском уровнях.

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RETHINKING (DIS)FLUENCY WITHIN THE SCOPE OF INTERACTIONAL LINGUISTICS AND GESTURE STUDIES

Author(s): Loulou Kosmala / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The study of so-called ‘disfluency’ phenomena (uh and um, filled and unfilled pauses, self-repairs and the like) has gained a lot of attention in various fields in linguistics in the past few decades, but a majority of studies tend to be production-oriented and often disregard fundamental aspects of face-to-face communication such as interactional dynamics and gesture. This paper presents a multimodal and multilevel model of “inter-fluency”, considering different levels of analysis, mainly, talk, gesture, and interaction, by combining different theoretical frameworks and methodologies in gesture studies and interactional linguistics in order to bridge this gap and go beyond previous cognitive-oriented models.

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Which Philosophy for Which Theology?

Author(s): João Manuel Duque / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The ancestral relationship between philosophy and theology will be worked here not abstractly but based on some of its historic achievements. From the diversity of theological areas and theological discourse trends—especially in the last century—the article proposes to establish a relationship between this diversity and the diversity of some contemporary philosophical proposals. Among the huge variety, we chose to refer to hermeneutical philosophy, philosophy of language, phenomenology and some “unique” cases. The article ends with a reflection on the relationship between theology and metaphysics.

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Author(s): Christo Moskovsky / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2009

The article offers general reflections on artificial languages of the type of Esperanto, discussing them from a linguistic-typological and philosophical point of view, tracing the history of the idea of creating such languages and making some recommendations as to what the ideal artificial language should be.

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