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Лікі і лічбы ў славянскай урбананіміі: набор, сімволіка, асаблівасці функцыянавання

Ганна Mезенка
Onomastica | 2017 | No 61
Keywords number figure Slavic urbanonymy symbols toponymy
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As part of a general lexical system, urbanonymy reflects cultural phenomena in a broad sense. Alongside often discussed and well-studied lexical units, there are other urbanonyms that have been neglected by researchers for various reasons. Intra-city names containing numbers and figures belong to this neglected category. The aim of the study is to define the role of numbers and figures in Slavic urbanonymic systems. The research material is comprised of the contemporary urbanonymy of cities in Belarus, Russia, Poland and Bulgaria; toponymic dictionaries, electronic resources, tourist guides, maps and atlases have been used. The author demonstrates the shared and specific features of the numbers and figures used in the Belarusian urbanonymic system, as compared to that of Russia, Poland and Bulgaria. The symbolic meaning of these figures in the Slavic urbanomasticon is also discussed. I n spite of the existing differences in the use of names with a numerical component, their composition can be treated as a universal onomastic process. Street names containing figures are part of national culture, as they call to mind important national events or facts, both past and present. This helps individuals cultivate a personal sense of belonging to their native land, thus contributing to the preservation of tradition.
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Ганна Mезенка

A Circle or a Spiral? The Primeval, Tropological Scheme Identified in the Structure of Truth Theories

Giulia Cirillo
Filozofia i Nauka | 2022 | tom 10 | 173-185
Keywords truth tropes Hayden White Giambattista Vico figuration
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Applying linguistic tropes to the deep structure which underlay the 19th century historical imagination Hayden White derived from the vault of philosophical richness contained in Giambattista Vico’s La Scienza Nuova. Now the treasure trove becomes a source of one more illuminating analogy. The following study demonstrates how metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony can be identified with five major theories of truth: the correspondence, pragmatic, coherence, deflationary and the semantic one. Theories are evoked on the basis of texts by philosophers themselves (Bertrand Russell, Charles Sanders Peirce, Brand Blanshard et al.). Moreover, a numerical mismatch between them and the four tropes should be seen as everything but unwanted. The concept of irony has multiple interpretations, and so mapping it onto the semantic theory will expose the relation between truth accounts and the principle of their development. In the end, there emerges a pattern in the shape of a circle or a spiral—two models of infinity along which runs the human quest for meaning of truth.
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Giulia Cirillo
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  1. Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Institute of English Studies, Faculty of Philology

The Problem of Polysemy within the Cognitive-Discursive Linguistic Paradigm (Based on the Contexts of the Fictional Discourse of the Verbal Predicates чудиться, почудиться)

Elena Cherntsova Lyudmila Pedchenko
Slavia Orientalis | 2022 | vol. LXXI | No 2 | 373-388 | DOI: 10.24425/slo.2022.142184
Keywords cognitive semantics polysemy gestalt background figure
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The purpose of the study is to reconstruct the cognitive semantics of the verbal predicates “чудиться”, “почудиться”, taking into account their inner form, and also to suggest a linguo‑cognitive model for explaining polysemy. The object of the study is the different contextual meanings of the verbal predicates “чудиться”, “почудиться” in the contexts of fictional discourse, the subject is cognitive semantics as a repeated structure of cognitive processes reflecting the patterns of understanding and thinking. The article presents a typology of contexts for the functioning of verbal predicates, their different contextual meanings are defined, the semantic dependence of the contextual meaning of the verb word on the semantics of the broader context analyzed, the role of the inner form in the creation of polysemy determined, while a linguo‑cognitive model for explaining polysemy in terms of “gestalt”, “focus”, “background – figure”, “focusing – defocusing” is suggested.
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Elena Cherntsova
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Lyudmila Pedchenko
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  1. V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

National-Kulturelle Besonderheiten der Welt-anschauung im Sprachlichen Weltbild
. = The National Cultural Worldview’s Peculiarities in the Language Picture of the World

Larysa Drobakha
LINGUISTICA SILESIANA | 2021 | vol. 42 | 307-321 | DOI: 10.24425/linsi.2021.137242
Keywords semantics figurative meaning positive connotation negative connotation the language picture of the world
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The article is devoted to the study of the national worldview’s peculiarities on the material of names of airspace, celestial bodies and natural elements. The quantitative analysis of common and different meanings of the analyzed lexical units in Ukrainian, German, English and French relating to the person’s characteristics in society is carried out. The greatest number of connotative meanings that characterize the behavior, features of character, appearance and a certain state of a person, show the lexemes water and fire. The lower item takes the use of the lexeme moon, and the lexemes sky and sun are in the last positions. Among the common and different meanings the common meanings prevail quantitatively. In the different meanings with national peculiarity the most belong to French. The use of each of the analyzed names in figurative meanings reveals the meanings with a positive and negative connotation, the meanings with negative connotation prevail. The obtained results are indicative of the importance of the analyzed names for different peoples.
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Larysa Drobakha
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  1. Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University

Expression du désaccord dans la controverse scientifique

Odile Schneider-Mizony
Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny | 2020 | No 4 | 477-491 | DOI: 10.24425/kn.2020.135194
Keywords scientific controversy figures of disagreement pragmalinguistics French and English corpus
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This paper examines the discursive means by which authors of scientific texts in the humanities and social sciences take a critical stance on the theses of their colleagues. Focusing on controversy rather than polemics, and using a corpus in French and English borrowed from Language Science, translation and didactics, the paper presents rhetorical figures and linguistic structures that maintain conversational propriety despite the emotionality of disagreement.

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Odile Schneider-Mizony

Bible in the Movies

Ks. Marek Lis
Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN | 2009 | Tom 4 | 335-347 | DOI: 10.24425/snt.2009.133815
Keywords Bible cinema Jesus movies audiovisual translation Christ-figure
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The presence of the Bible in the movies is a complex reality: besides direct interpretations of the stories from the Holy Scriptures, a number of films has been inspired by other cultural sources (passion-plays, arts, literature, music, other films). By reason of its subject and its non-religious origin, a biblical film is important for theologians: numerous audiovisual adaptations of the Gospel have raised the issues of the faithfulness of this particular kind of translation (transmediatization) of the Bible. A particular attention should be paid to Jesus-movies because of their impact on the audiences and very different ways of portraying of Jesus (from a relatively simple „historical" Jesus till elaborated Christ-figures).

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Ks. Marek Lis

Active Inductor with Feedback Resistor Based Voltage Controlled Oscillator Design for Wireless Applications

Omar Faruqe Md Tawfiq Amin
International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications | 2019 | vol. 65 | No 1 | 57-64 | DOI: 10.24425/ijet.2019.126283
Keywords VCO active inductor inductance quality factor phase noise figure-of-merit
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This paper presents active inductor based VCO design for wireless applications based on analysis of active inductor models (Weng-Kuo Cascode active inductor & Liang Regular Cascode active inductor) with feedback resistor technique. Embedment of feedback resistor results in the increment of inductance as well as the quality factor whereas the values are 125.6@2.4GHz (Liang) and 98.7@3.4GHz (Weng-Kuo). The Weng-Kuo active inductor based VCO shows a tuning frequency of 1.765GHz ~2.430GHz (31.7%), while consuming a power of 2.60 mW and phase noise of -84.15 dBc/Hz@1MHz offset. On the other hand, Liang active inductor based VCO shows a frequency range of 1.897GHz ~2.522GHz (28.28%), while consuming a power of 1.40 mW and phase noise of -80.79 dBc/Hz@1MHz offset. Comparing Figure-of-Merit (FoM), power consumption, output power and stability in performance, designed active inductor based VCOs outperform with the stateof- the-art.

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Omar Faruqe
Md Tawfiq Amin

«Рай незабывчивой души» и «христианская истина о человеке»: Eden Вячеслава Иванова

Maria Cymborska-Leboda
Slavia Orientalis | 2018 | vol. LXVII | No 2
Keywords Ivanov Vyacheslav St Augustine Petrarch Scheler paradise/Eden Holy Trinity figure soul happiness memory/anamnesis oblivion
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Taking as a starting point Vyacheslav Ivanov’s poem Eden – the epilogue of the 5th book of “metaphysical lyric poetry” Rosarium as well as his critical and philosophical works – the article proposes a culturological interpretation of the key topoi of the poet’s artistic thought: his poetic anthropology. The principal point in these considerations is conceptualisation of the category of paradise/Eden in Ivanov’s writings and the notion of happiness as “metaphysical and religious feeling” connected with a person’s spiritual life in its vertical dimension (relation man – three-personed God). Moreover, the article presents intertextual relationships between Ivanov’s poetry and cultural texts (St Augustine, Petrarch, and others) being the source of European understanding of the concepts: soul, memory, oblivion, paradise.
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Maria Cymborska-Leboda

From ‘flaying’, ‘Ascension’ and ‘red garden-beet’ to ‘wolves’ and ‘sweet dishes’: The Stunning Semantic Variety in the Arabic Root SLQ as a Touchstone for Arabic Etymologists

Stephan Guth
Folia Orientalia | 2022 | vol. 59 | 49-75 | DOI: 10.24425/for.2022.143836
Keywords loanwords reflexes of protSem *š- causative root extension figurative use semantic expansion
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The following article can serve as yet another report from the workshop of an Etymological Dictionary of Arabic ( EtymArab).1 Work on a ‘zero version’ of such a dictionary has seen (slow but) steady progress since several years now. Taking the root √SLQ as an example, this contribution gives an idea about the high potential of such a project, but also shows its clear actual limits. The enormous spectrum of semantic values covered by √SLQ—one may distinguish more than thirty meanings that, at first sight, do not seem related to each other—provides a fine illustration of the complex composition of the modern as well as the classical lexicon. The current state of affairs in Arabic etymology allows us, to a certain degree, to ‘sort out things’ and bring some order into this confusing complexity. In many cases, however, research also remains ‘hanging in the air’.
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Stephan Guth
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  1. University of Oslo, Norway

“Right or left, or even mixed”: Michel Serres reads Cervantes

Ewa Wojciechowska
Ruch Literacki | 2022 | No 6 (375) | 1113-1126 | DOI: 10.24425/rl.2022.143010
Keywords Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Don Quixote the binary model deconstruction the parasite figure Michel Serres (1930–2019)
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This article contains an analysis of a short passage about Don Quixote from Michel Serres’ philosophical dialogue entitled La Légende des Anges. He claims that the generally accepted view of the relationship between Don Quixote and Sancho Pansa as a binary, hierarchical pairing is an illusion. In fact, Cervantes deconstructs the familiar opposi-tions of the carer and his subordinate in need of care, the rational thinker and the dreamer, the main character and his associate. As the two protagonists continually ex-change their roles, theirs is a story of creating and upholding new kind of bond. In describing the relationship between Don Quixote and Sancho Pansa, Serres alludes to the figure of the parasite (from his 1980 book Le Parasite), i.e. a third party or position, an (invisible) go-between or middle ground that makes the relationship possible but also messes things up. Serres acknowledges the dynamics of this configuration on the formal level and makes it the structural axis of his text, which is just a piece of dialogue between a nurse and an air traffic controller. Their interaction seems to be fully inscribed in the binary model, yet, he insists, there is more to it. This may well be the case with the pair of characters in Cervantes’ novel.
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Ewa Wojciechowska
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  1. Wydział Polonistyki UJ

Stuck in loop: Kazimierz Tetmajer’s attempts to cope with transcendental absence (lack)

Urszula Pilch
Ruch Literacki | 2021 | No 2 (365) | 195-216 | DOI: 10.24425/rl.2021.137306
Keywords Polish literature of the turn of the 19th century Young Poland philosophy of poetic creation Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865–1940) nothingness absence and lack figuration Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) Félix Guattari (1930–1992)
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At the core of Kazimierz Tetmajer’s lyricism is the perception of transcendental absence, which provokes a range of unsettling reactions like fear, horror, or scorn (irony), and, in turn, the need to regain some sort of balance. This article analyzes all elements of this paradigmatic situation, especially the poet’s owing up to those reactions, his attempts to come to terms with them, and, if possible, to work out a way of converting their negativity into something that he actually wanted. At all times, it seems, he looks hard for the adequate means to express his emotional states. Struggling to express the inexpressible, he performs acts of creation which, however, do not produce anything (i.e. ‘nothing’ or ‘lack’). This outcome sets in motion, largely beyond conscious control, an emotional reaction, the affect of emptiness and lack ( l’affect de vide et de manque). That emptiness constitutes a certain whole, or, more precisely, a negative figuration of lack. Attempts to make sense of it endow it with a new, spatial quality – it is a site where lack becomes nothing ( le néant), but at the same time is reconstituted as a space which can engulf the human subject. This precarious situation defines in a way the human condition. The poet, as Tetmajer’s poetry shows, is stuck in a loop. The creative act is elicited by a lack which he tries to control, fill in, and master, yet all the attempts to find an adequate expression or figuration are in vain. They merely recreate the original absence (lack).
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Urszula Pilch
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  1. Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków

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