The essay presents the project of a Church Slavonic-Italian lexicon undertaken in 2012 and currently about to be accepted among the digital resources of ILIESI. The first part of the essay explains ...the reasons for the project and its aims, the methodology initially adopted, the first results obtained, the turning point in 2018 with the fine-tuning of the methodology currently in use, and the most recent results. The second part introduces the transition of the project to the web, describing the features of the platform that will host it in terms of content and functions, and reflecting on possible future developments. The project is conceived to overcome the lack of specific tools for the translation of religious and philosophical-theological vocabulary from Church Slavonic to Italian and the difficulties posed by the transition from one culture to another. The research, which does not disregard existing vocabularies, is mainly based on the resources offered by corpora.
S pomočjo jezikovnih korpusov in anket smo analizirali 200 paremioloških izrazov iz štirih različnih virov. Zanimala nas je aktualna raba teh izrazov (in njihovih variant) ter njihova pomenska ...določljivost s pomočjo njihovega sobesedila. Predstavljamo seznam 200 analiziranih enot z rezultati analize in oceno kakovosti izhodiščnih virov tega paremiološkega gradiva. Enote z dokazano aktualno rabo in določenim pomenom bodo vključene v prvo izdajo rastočega spletnega Slovarja pregovorov in sorodnih paremioloških izrazov.
In the field of German linguistics, several important contributions have been published in recent years focusing on the value of spoken language corpora for language teaching (e.g. Costa 2008, Römer ...2008, Paschke 2018, Günthner/Schopf/Weidner 2021, Fandrych/Meißner/Wallner 2021). Taking these theoretical approaches as a starting point, the contribution intends to highlight the often neglected potential that spoken language corpora offer for DaF teaching in secondary school and how they can be used as a database for designing thematic CLIL contents in secondary schools, by proposing some language teaching applications taken from the corpus Fluchtgeschichten aus Ostpreußen (FGOP) edited by Lucia Cinato and available on the Datenbank für gesprochens Deutsch (DGD) platform of the Institut für deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim.
On the semiotic diversity of language Lepeut, Alysson; Beukeleers, Inez
Belgian journal of linguistics,
12/2022, Letnik:
36, Številka:
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Abstract
Language is complex in many respects. When conceived as a system that is to be analysed at all levels of
linguistic structure, it is interpreted as a static and abstract phenomenon in which ...the rules are disconnected from their context
of use. However, the ability to do language, construed as a fundamentally social practice grounded in our
in situ
face-to-face interactions, does not exclusively rely on knowing the rules that govern the grammatical principles in a given
language, nor does it limit itself to understanding the lexical content of utterances. Language is more than that; it is
fundamentally social and inherently multimodal in that it enables all humans to create, express, and construe meaningful
utterances through their bodies. For a long time, however, linguistic theories have neglected to consider the diverse and rich
ways humans
do
language using their bodies. In this introduction, particular attention is paid to the different
roles the body plays across a range of distinct sign languages and contexts. In that respect, a short historical detour into the
evolutive stages of sign language research is provided first. Next, the aims and the different contributions of this volume are
outlined. Finally, some conclusions are drawn.
This article discusses a pilot project aimed at giving tertiary students a wider repertoire of resources to use in language learning, with a particular focus on Italian. This project responds to the ...exponential increase in and access to online data and the potential value such data represent for students studying additional languages at tertiary level. By examining whether current language students are aware of online resources, such as linguistic corpora and other potential applications of big data, we aim to provide an insight into the possible uses of corpus-assisted learning in the language classroom. In this paper, we detail a project undertaken in 2017 with undergraduate students of Italian in a major metropolitan university. Our project directed students to complete a translation task using corpora-based resources and assessed their experience through a post-assessment survey. Subsequently, we present our initial findings in relation to the possibilities of a corpus-based approach to language teaching and learning. While today’s students are already predisposed to relying on online resources as part of their language studies, our results suggest students are not aware of emerging online resources such as corpora. Moreover, even when these resources are presented to students, the complex nature of the software programs used to interrogate corpora often results in their underutilisation.
This data article presents a dataset for Siswati, a Bantu language of the Nguni group that is one of the eleven official South African languages and the official language of Eswatini (together with ...English). The dataset contains parallel textual data between English and Siswati as well as monolingual data for Siswati and was developed for use as training data for machine translation systems, specifically the Autshumato machine translation project. Both corpora can also be used for development and evaluation of Natural Language Processing (NLP) core technologies for Siswati. In addition, the data lends itself for corpus linguistic studies. The article describes how the data was collected, what type of texts it contains and what clean-up was done. It also provides an overview of the number of words contained in the datasets.
ABSTRACT With the increase in availability and user-friendliness of Russian language corpora and corpus-analytic tools, the field of Russian language education has recently begun to employ corpus ...linguistics as an approach to understanding the dynamic of language development in users of Russian as a second and heritage language. The paper provides a brief overview of the current state of learner corpus research as a field and explores the benefits of application of corpus linguistics methods and instruments to the study of Russian. The paper reviews pertinent issues in corpora design, compilation, and annotation; offers an overview of the existing Russian language corpora and reports on the currently available corpus-based studies of Russian as a second/heritage language. The paper concludes with a call to the field to explore the benefit of corpus-based approaches to the study of Russian.
RESUMO Com o aumento da disponibilidade e facilidade de uso de corpora de língua russa e ferramentas de análise de corpus, o campo do ensino da língua russa começou recentemente a empregar a linguística de corpus como uma abordagem para entender a dinâmica de desenvolvimento de russo como segunda língua e língua de herança. O artigo fornece uma breve visão geral do estado atual da pesquisa na área de corpora de aprendizes e explora os benefícios da aplicação de métodos e instrumentos de linguística de corpus para o estudo do russo. O artigo revisa questões pertinentes na área de design, compilação e anotação de corpora; oferece uma visão geral dos corpora de língua russa existentes e descreve os estudos de russo como a segunda língua/língua de herança baseados em análise de corpus, atualmente disponíveis. O artigo conclui com um chamado aos especialistas na área para explorar o benefício de abordagens baseadas em corpus para o estudo do russo.
Jealousy vs envy Sardelić, Mirko; Perak, Benedikt
Collegium antropologicum,
2021, Letnik:
45, Številka:
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Speakers of many languages tend to use pairs of words such as emotion/feeling or jealousy/envy interchangeably. This paper explores the differences in the way in which the emotional states of ...jealousy and envy are understood (in the Croatian language ljubomora and zavist) and the influence of culture on the expression of these states. First, we establish the cultural framework that significantly shapes the experience and expression of emotional states, and summarize cognitive aspects of the two emotions. Second, we demonstrate that Croatian 19th- and 20th- century belles lettres differentiate between the two in the way it is described in sciences. Third, a psycholinguistic questionnaire was used to investigate features of the conceptual content from 209 high school students. Finally, the results were compared with the empirical corpus analysis of the linguistic constructions of emotional categories. Complementary methods used in this research show indications of an ongoing semasiological change of ljubomora and zavist in a significant part of Croatian speakers.
Ovaj rad istražuje razlike u načinu na koji se razumiju emocionalna stanja ljubomore i zavisti te utjecaj kulture na izražavanje tih stanja. U radu opisujemo kognitivne sastavnice sadržaja i uspostavljamo kulturni okvir koji utječe na oblikovanje doživljaja i izražavanje emocionalnih stanja. Drugo, pokazujemo da hrvatska književnost 19. i 20. stoljeća precizno primjećuje razliku među njima, onako kako je ona opisana u znanosti. Treće, psiholingvistički upitnik korišten je za istraživanje značajki konceptualnog sadržaja ovih dviju kategorija kod 209 hrvatskih srednjoškolaca. Konačno, rezultati su uspoređeni s empirijskom korpusnom analizom jezičnih konstrukcija emocionalnih kategorija. Komplementarne metode korištene u ovom istraživanju ukazuju na trajnu semasiološku promjenu ljubomore i zavisti u većem dijelu istraživane populacije.
Children's language development can reflect the developmental process of children's cognition and social emotions. The present study focuses on preschool children's conversational competence and ...narrative competence, aiming at exploring developmental features of preschool children's pragmatic competence through analyzing data from self-built oral language corpora using the INCA-A coding system and CLAN. Results show that with respect to using pragmatic indicators, frequency increases significantly with age in the dimensions of knowledge and language. In the language dimension, frequency is highest in the middle group and in the behavior dimension, frequency gradually decreases. Results are taken to indicate that preschool children's language competence improves continually, and gradually displaces the use of behavior-assisted language. Meanwhile, children can initiate conversation or discourse narration by using knowledge and language. Based on the findings, this study analyzes the development of preschool children's pragmatic competence at different ages within the framework of perlocutionary acts. Finally, corresponding educational suggestions are suggested.
Sve veći interes za metajezik, kako u lingvistici, tako i u drugim disciplinama, naglasio je prazninu koja postoji u metajezičnim korpusima i analitičkim izvorima koji spadaju među neke od najrjeđih ...u sklopu suvremenih dosega korpusne linvistike. Ovaj je rad usmjeren ka popunjavanju te praznine na način da u njemu predstavljamo naš metajezični korpus te ga potom koristimo u kratkoj analizi koja služi kao primjer na temelju kojega raspravljamo o mogućnostima primjene takvih izvora u lingvistici i društvenim znanostima. U radu se prvi put predstavlja MetaLangCorp, višeelmentni korpus suvremenoga medijskog metajezika prisutnoga u jezicima triju država nastalih raspadom Jugoslavije, koji je lingvistički anotiran i dostupan u slobodnome pristupu u sklopu repozitorija lingvističkih resursa CLARIN. Kako bismo korpus smjestili u kontekst, dajemo kratki prikaz značenja i značaja metajezika, kratki osvrt na postojeće napore u sastavljanju metajezičnih korpusa te predstavljamo preliminarnu analizu ključnih riječi iz MetaLangCORP-a s ciljem otvaranja šire rasprave o mogućim primjenama metajezičnih korpusa. Nadamo se da će dostupnost ovih podataka potaknuti iznijansiranije analize metajezika kao i daljnje slične napore usmjerene na stvaranje korpusa kako za slavenske, tako i za jezike koji pripadaju drugim jezičnim porodicama.
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