The review article is an attempt at a media studies analysis of short films made by Polish filmmakers commissioned by the HBO digital platform. They are all in response to the pandemic situation of ...isolation. The analysis deals with the transgression of artistic attitudes towards danger. In it, I use the tools of contemporary semiology: verbal and non-verbal codes that participate in creating meanings through destruction and a new reading of meanings hidden in film messages. I prove that artists, first of all, commit transgression, negating the existing reality and looking for a new film language that contradicts the Aristotelian structure of the three acts in order to disperse the images and meanings they carry. Secondly, I argue that the deconstruction of codes and the reassembly of meanings proposed by semiologists takes place in the artistic activities in question, as if in the opposite direction. Deconstruction – indeed, but not to discover the truth in a new context, but to look for it in bits of reality that function separately and do not create meanings. They are only separately illuminated and contoured images.
The axiogenic situation of the pandemic is considered based on the material of social advertising of two countries — Russia and China. The thesis is advanced that the coronavirus pandemic can be ...considered as a referent that allows a value-marked interpretation. The purpose of the work is to identify a set of universal values objectified in social advertising; characterize verbal and visual codes as means of expressing valuable meanings; determine national specifics of advertising.
400 Russian and Chinese advertising texts served as the material for the observations. As a result of the analysis, it was revealed that the axiological space of advertising of both countries is constructed by a set of valuable meanings, united by the absolute value of being — the concept of LIFE. It is noted that the structure of advertising discourse is based on the dichotomy of biological and social. The key value, along with life and its protection, was the strength of unity and cohesion of the nation in the face of a mortal threat. The value of the heroic is objectified in the image of medical workers. It was revealed that Chinese advertising is characterized by a language game associated with homonymy and the transformation of phraseological units, and the absence of weakly creolized texts with a strong cultural and historical component of the visual series. It is concluded that Russian advertising revives the style of the Soviet poster when promoting sanitary and hygienic rules.
The aim of the article is to introduce the authors’ perspective on how English loanwords are changing the structure and the content of the verbal code of Russian culture and the Russian linguistic ...pictures of the world, as well as on how the latter might change the former. Having used the continuous sampling method, observation method, and synchronic-diachronic approach (lexical semantic analysis, comparative semantic analysis, morphological and quantitative analysis), the authors have allocated and analyzed 487 loanwords, which led to the introduction of three distinguished types of interaction between the verbal code of the Russian language and foreign loanwords. The first interaction type is the process whereby the loanwords adapt semantically to the rules of the host language and culture, which leads to the complete change of a loanword meaning or its modification (15 words). The second interaction type is connected with the loanwords bringing new concepts to a host language and indicating borrowed ideas and objects (270 words). The differentiation of these two interaction types is based on the results of a synchronic and diachronic study of the loanwords in Russian. The analyzed interaction types are linked to the changes in the host language’s verbal code. A concept of a “hybrid linguistic picture of the world” is being introduced as the one constituting the third interaction type (201 words). According to the authors, the hybrid linguistic picture of the world is developing at the current stage of the Russian language and is caused by the process of the morphological adaptation of English loanwords, which is manifested in the production of hybrid words and Russian words being actively substituted by English borrowings.
Goal of the current study was to compare the respective roles of domain general cognitive skills with domain specific quantitative understanding, as well as the effect of math anxiety, on the ...performance of different types of arithmetic tasks.
Fifty-eight adults performed a battery of tests.
We found dissociations between domain general abilities that supported verbally or spatially mediated arithmetic tasks. The verbally mediated tasks were supported by the verbal central executive component of working memory, while the spatially mediated task, number line knowledge, was supported by the spatial central executive component of working memory.
Different tasks had differential relationships with math anxiety: math anxiety effected school-like math tasks more than verbally mediated tasks and number line task. Math anxiety was negatively influenced by the spatial central executive component of working memory, indicating that spatial working memory can be a source of vulnerability to math anxiety.
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The article presents the study of the geospace mental representations and their variability depending on the regional point of view. The research material comprises about 500 naive maps of Russia, ...created by informants of seven Russian regions: Moscow, St. Petersburg (capitals), Siberia (Barnaul, Biysk), Southern, Mid- and Northern Ural (Orenburg, Ufa, Perm) and Kaliningrad. A geoconcept, as a set of collective ideas about a geographic object, synthesizes images of a geographic location (topos), its name (toponym), ideas about it and its spatial parameters (length, coordinates, location relative to other geolocations). The paper raises the problem of the topology of the mental space, and describes the method and results of constructing computable metric models of geomental spaces. The use of modern means of processing and analyzing naive maps allowed to detect spatial dependencies between geoconcepts, their probable localization zones, and position relative to each other on the geomental map space. Modeling of geoconcepts was carried out on the example of the analysis of the collective regional representations associated with the capital (Moscow). Noticeable differences were found in the regional geoconcepts of Moscow, which makes it relevant to conduct research on the regional variability of the geoconcept systems of the country's common space.
Mental representations; Naive geography; Regionality; Sketch map; Semiotics; Graphics code; Verbal code; Geoconcept; Information systems; Applied linguistics; Knowledge representation; Cognitive psychology; Human geography, Geography, Information science, Linguistics.
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The choice of the topic of research can be attributed to the language changes and the shift in the Russian public consciousness caused by social cataclysms. Many problems need urgent solution, e.g. ...such as the state of the historically formed layer of precedent texts as an organic constituent of the verbal code of Russian culture and the acquisition of the units of this code by the linguistic consciousness of schoolchildren. The aim of the study is to prove the following hypothesis: should special analysis of the texts addressed to mass readers confirm the need for verbal precedent units, such units are to be used by a secondary school teacher as didactic material in the process of teaching the Russian language and literature. The scope of research includes newspaper headi- ngs and heading complexes (December 2000 – July 2021), created on the basis of ready-made and transformed precedent texts. A two-stage intertextual analysis conducted on the basis of the procedure of axiological interpretation of linguistic material and focused on the peculiarities of the structural organization of the schoolchild’s linguistic personality has shown that newspapers regularly use units of the verbal precedent code as effective tools for translating constants of the national culture and as means of organization of intracultural dialogue. The article describes the main types of precedent units that maintain a live connection with their sources: quotations from Russian fiction, names of authors and characters, literature titles, proverbs and sayings. The study has revealed the technologies of transformation of precedent texts, including the compressed ones, and has described grammatical (morphological and syntactic) and lexical substitutions. The description of the research material is is accompanied by the development of methods guidelines and learner-centred training tasks, including creative ones, for the target audience. It is emphasized that interpretation of the precedent texts is performed by the Russian language and literature teacher taking into account the speaking, cultural and communicative competences of schoolchildren The future research may include expanding the scope of individual knowledge of the precedent cultural code units and formation of the skills of using these units in oral and written speech.
The comic, as a form of art, represents a particular means of literary and graphic expression. The text and image coexist to adapt an idea or tell stories whose richness is equal to the extreme ...variety of ingredients used in their composition. The aim of the given article is to reflect on interweaving of all elements mobilized by the comics creators to present the expressive and interpretable potential of the sequential art.
The present study investigated basic numerical skills and arithmetic in adults with developmental dyslexia. Participants performed exact and approximate calculation, basic numerical tasks (e.g., ...counting; symbolic number comparison; spatial-numerical association of response codes, SNARC), and visuospatial tasks (mental rotation and visual search tasks). The group with dyslexia showed a marginal impairment in counting compared to age- and IQ-matched controls, and they were impaired in exact addition, in particular with respect to speed. They were also significantly slower in multiplication. In basic number processing, however, there was no significant difference in performance between those with dyslexia and controls. Both groups performed similarly on subtraction and approximate addition tasks. These findings indicate that basic number processing in adults with dyslexia is intact. Their difficulties are restricted to the verbal code and are not associated with deficits in nonverbal magnitude representation, visual Arabic number form, or spatial cognition.
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This article analyzes the specificity concept of «eternal image» in connection with the Visual Studies in modern Philological / Linguistic studies, based on the similarities between visual and verbal ...ways of perceiving the world; presents the definition of «eternal image» and explores mechanisms of Genesis and the evolution of "eternal image" in the culture texts of different semiotic systems and clarifies the Bible concept of «eternal image» through the example of the Crucifixion.
The aim of this study was to provide evidence for knowledge of the syntax governing the verbal form of large numbers in preschoolers long before they are able to count up to these numbers. We ...reasoned that if such knowledge exists, it should facilitate the maintenance in short-term memory of lists of lexical primitives that constitute a number (e.g.,
three hundred forty five) compared with lists containing the same primitives but in a scrambled order (e.g.,
five three forty hundred). The two types of lists were given to 5-year-olds in an immediate serial recall task. As we predicted, the lists in syntactic order were easier to recall, suggesting that they match some knowledge of the way lexical primitives must be ordered to express large numerosities.
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