„У ТІНІ ВЕЛИКОГО БРАТА...” — КОНЦЕПТ “РОСІЯ” (НА МАТЕРІАЛІ СУЧАСНОЇ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ ПРЕСИ)

Concepts in human consciousness are described by means of such features as traditions, customs, special stereotypes of thinking, behavior models, emotions, etc. The present article focuses on the attempt to analyse the linguistic realization of the concept of “Russia” based on the sphere of Ukrainian-Russian relations presented in Ukrainian mass media.Koncepty w ludzkiej świadomości są odzwierciedlane poprzez pryzmat tradycji, przyzwyczajeń, stereotypów, modeli zachowania, emocji, itd. Niniejszy artykuł stanowi próbę analizy językowej kreacji konceptu „Rosja” w odniesieniu do wzajemnych relacji na linii Ukraina-Rosja zaprezentowanych w ukraińskojęzycznych środkach masowego przekazu.Concepts in human consciousness are described by means of such features as traditions, customs, special stereotypes of thinking, behavior models, emotions, etc. The present article focuses on the attempt to analyse the linguistic realization of the concept of “Russia” based on the sphere of Ukrainian-Russian relations presented in Ukrainian mass media

Variació històrica. Els temps en la variació lingüística

This paper comments and reflects upon the inherent nature of time during any linguistic realization, and therefore during variation. This happens aside from the abstractions made by a sincronicity due to the descriptive methodology used or due to the theoretical premises that propose a sincronicity

Review of Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession

This paper is a review of the book Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession, a collection of 11 papers all dealing with the cross-linguistic realization of the concept of possession through various morphosyntactic constructions. After a short introduction, the review summarizes the contents of the volume and provides an evaluation

The Strategic Realization of The ‘Redressive’ Speech Acts

The article is aimed to investigate the effect of social variables on the realization patterns of apology speech act within specific speech communities; the linguistic realization of the act of apologizing and potential range of apology strategies are analyzed.Розглянуто вплив соціальних змінних на лінгвістичну реалізацію мовленнєвого акту вибачення, а також стратегічний інструментарій даного мовленнєвого акту

Opening up closings - the Ecuadorian way

In the conversation analytic tradition, this paper examines the procedures Ecuadorian Spanish (ES) speakers employ to close telephone conversations. Conversation analysts (cf. Schegloff, 1979) examined telephone talk in American English and that found that conversations are opened and brought to a close by the joint work of participants. Concerning closings, they observed, for example, that participants employ certain procedures to signal their desire to bring the conversation to an end and others to actually close the interaction. They also suggested that the conversational procedures they describe are of a universal character (cf. Schegloff and Sacks, 1974 [1973]). The examination of telephone closings in the present study reveals that similar procedures are employed in Ecuadorian Spanish. Nevertheless, it also highlights some of the features that appear to be characteristic of Ecuadorian Spanish only, that is, that seem to be culture-bound, and thus contests Schegloff and Sacks's unversality claims. The need for a culturally contexted conversation analysis, along the lines proposed by Moerman (1988) is supported here