Phonaesthetic Phonological Iconicity in Literary Analysis Illustrated by Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber”

The article offers a phonosemantic analysis of Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber.” The phonosemantic investigation has been based on the corpus of nineteen relevant sound-related descriptions of the sea. Although most excerpts identified contain aural metaphors and are not phonologically iconic per se, there seem to exist at least three fragments which are particularly interesting from a phonosemantic point of view. Most notably, phonaesthemes /gl/, /l/, /r/ have been found to carry substantial meaning contributing to the overall interpretation of the story in question. Accounting for the inevitable subjectivity concerning iconicity, and in this case phonological iconicity, a few theories are presented in order to support the author’s reading of each phonaestheme’s contextual significance. The paper briefly reviews the chronological development of the field of phonosemantics and then combines the aural images theory (proposed by Richard Rhodes) with the “aural semiotic process” theory (the term coined by the author). Each analysis is further supplemented with scholarly views on respective phonaesthemes. On the whole, the paper does not aim to polemicize with the well-established definition of a phoneme and its generally accepted arbitrariness. Nevertheless, it has been observed that a speculative phonosemantic analysis of a literary work may yield noteworthy results

Proverbs in Martin Amis’s London Fields: A Stylistic Analysis

The aim of this paper is to present how Martin Amis uses proverbs in order to achieve a particular stylistic effect. The study draws on the corpus of 18 proverbs identified in London Fields of which paremias used in the canonical form represent precisely 50%. The findings show that the most qualitatively considerable alteration of proverbial structure includes changes in terms of lexical substitution. Examples are provided in order to examine the hypothesis that the proverbs altered by means of lexical substitution display polemics with traditional wisdom, whereas adages used in the canonical form are an attempt to re-evaluate proverbial truths. It has been observed that the use of structural changes or canonical forms has a different value for a given discourse. As regards the methodological tools used in this study, the analysis of proverbs with different paradigmatic relations and their literary relevance is largely based on the semiotic commutation test and the systemic-functional grammar approach applied as a component of discourse analysis. In particular, the transitivity theory proposed by M.A.K. Halliday is used to investigate the semantic links between proverbs and discourse. The conclusions drawn from this analysis may be further used for stating that Martin Amis’s novel displays a high level of stylistic dexterity as regards the use of proverbs to suit literary purposes

Proverbs in Martin Amis’s London Fields: A Stylistic Analysis

The aim of this paper is to present how Martin Amis uses proverbs in order to achieve a particular stylistic effect. The study draws on the corpus of 18 proverbs identified in London Fields of which paremias used in the canonical form represent precisely 50%. The findings show that the most qualitatively considerable alteration of proverbial structure includes changes in terms of lexical substitution. Examples are provided in order to examine the hypothesis that the proverbs altered by means of lexical substitution display polemics with traditional wisdom, whereas adages used in the canonical form are an attempt to re-evaluate proverbial truths. It has been observed that the use of structural changes or canonical forms has a different value for a given discourse. As regards the methodological tools used in this study, the analysis of proverbs with different paradigmatic relations and their literary relevance is largely based on the semiotic commutation test and the systemic-functional grammar approach applied as a component of discourse analysis. In particular, the transitivity theory proposed by M.A.K. Halliday is used to investigate the semantic links between proverbs and discourse. The conclusions drawn from this analysis may be further used for stating that Martin Amis’s novel displays a high level of stylistic dexterity as regards the use of proverbs to suit literary purposes

Multilingual Cross-domain Perspectives on Online Hate Speech

In this report, we present a study of eight corpora of online hate speech, by demonstrating the NLP techniques that we used to collect and analyze the jihadist, extremist, racist, and sexist content. Analysis of the multilingual corpora shows that the different contexts share certain characteristics in their hateful rhetoric. To expose the main features, we have focused on text classification, text profiling, keyword and collocation extraction, along with manual annotation and qualitative study.Comment: 24 page

Kompozycyjność i teoria światów możliwych w analizie przysłów deontycznych

Celem pracy jest zbadanie cech modalności deontycznej występującej w najstarszych przysłowiach angielskich. Analiza semantyczna przysłów przeprowadzona jest za pomocą narzędzi formalnych opartych na algebrze uniwersalnej oraz teorii światów możliwych. Główną tezą postawioną w badaniu jest założenie, że w kompozycyjnej analizie czasowników modalnych występujących w przysłowiach musi zostać uwzględniony aspekt częściowej zależności od kontekstu. W głównej części pracy staram się pokazać, że parametr kontekstu może być analizowany jako dodatkowy argument funkcji kompozycyjnej. Stosując teorię światów możliwych modyfikuję następnie wspomniane rozwiązanie i przedstawiam parametr kontekstu jako argument funkcji kompozycyjnej samego czasownika modalnego.The aim of the thesis is to investigate the features of deontic modality occurring in the oldest English proverbs. The study presents a combined semantic analysis of English deontic proverbs by incorporating elements of Hodges’ abstract algebraic framework of compositionality and Kratzer’s concept of relative modality explained within possible worlds semantics. The pivotal hypothesis of the thesis is that the compositional analysis of deontic modals occurring in proverbs requires an additional parameter, viz. that of partial context dependence. In the main part of the thesis, I attempt to demonstrate that the contextual parameter can be represented as an argument of the composition function. By applying the theory of possible worlds semantics, I then modify the aforementioned solution and propose to interpret the contextual parameter as an argument of the deontic modal itself

SciML/DifferentialEquations.jl: v7.10.0

DifferentialEquations v7.10.0 Diff since v7.9.1 Merged pull requests: Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 (#982) (@dependabot[bot]) CompatHelper: bump compat for SciMLBase to 2, (keep existing compat) (#984) (@github-actions[bot]) Closed issues: 22 seconds to 3 and now more: Let's fix all of the DifferentialEquations.jl + universe compile times! (#786