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In this essay we are going to centre on the relationship between accidentality and consistency of motifs in Ante Babaja’s films. The focus is on the film The Stone Gate (1992) that we place in the context of the entire Babaja’s work, intertwined with the motif of death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following essay features a brief examination of the recent legislative act concerning the reorganisation and the institution of music courses (D.I. 176/2022); it furthermore includes a few considerations, regarding the cognitive and metacognitive aspects of the learning process of the instrumental practice, stemming from the concept of “mind-body continuum”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper titled „Mental Spaces of the Opera: Cognitive Approach to the Operatic Productions" introduces conceptual metaphor theory, conceptual blending theory and multimodal metaphor theory as the means of opera performance analysis. These theories can help to understand the meaning creation in the opera productions and can be used e.g. as basis for comparative analysis of the history of staging of the opera. The author deals particularly with George Lakoff's and Mark Johnson's approach to the metaphor, Gilles Fauconnier's and Mark Turner's works on conceptual blending and Charles Forceville's understanding of the metaphor from the perspective of multimodality, and complements these approaches with Lawrence M. Zbikowski's findings about (foundations of) musical grammar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The text makes an argument in favour of the hypothesis on the pronounced importance of sound in Krsto Papić's documentary films in terms of style and meaning. Although immersed in reality and close to cinéma vérité, with rare occasions of non-diegeticisim, in Papić's documentary films sound becomes a powerful tool for auteur comments and even stylizations. Papić demonstrates how by using a “non-rhetoric” film element such as (documentary) diegetic sound one can make strong auteur comments about social and ideological contrasts, ironic remarks, and metaphors. Rare non-diegetic sounds and music are never “ambient”, but rather play an active role of a reality commentator, while the use of non-diegetic music in the film A Little Journey (Jedno malo putovanje, 1976) represents a rare, almost unique example in film history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zoonymes used to refer to people and situations in informal and everyday contexts, and they make it in a extremely creative and successful way. Through the process of metaphor, in fact, these lexical units acquire a versatility that, in its colloquial use, appear frequently, as the animal world is totally close to ours. This article, therefore, analyze zoonymes that denominate body parts, ways to wear hair and dress, characterological types associated with different families of animals, feelings, everyday situations and objects from special languages. We also analyze how zoonymes can acquire some connotations when referring to female subjects and natives from somewhere, when derived by suffixes or composition or combined with other elements in various types of locutions. Finally, we consider the way in which zoonymes convey certain concepts as core of clausal expressions, regulate conversation pragmatically through routine expressions and form kinesics codes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Without denying his originality and his differences from other authors, Nietzsche's thought was taken from German romantic sources. That is the case of Johann Gottfried Herder, who belongs to an intellectual tradition dating back to the eighteenth-century and which has as an essential reference Prussia's social, cultural and political environment. This article addresses the question of language in the theses proposed by Herder in his seminal work Essay on the Origin of Language. We try to establish the approaches that flourish in the relationship Herder-Nietzsche. Starting from Herder, we intend to explore the possibilities opened by Herder and later taken into account by the German philologist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In On truth and lies in a non-moral sense Nietzsche understands that the value of truth and lies' forms is contained in the effects of a reality production instinct; being considered «interpretations», both of them are unrelated to the traditional pretension in which they were conceived as logical principles, responding to Christian moral metaphysics. But, given that for Nietzsche's rhetoric it is impossible to have an insight of the essences, every process of apprehension of reality is nothing else than an interpretation that doesn't follow a logical order but a pre-rational aesthetic one, through which men immerse themselves into illusions and dreams; their looks slide over the surface of things and perceive «shapes», their feeling not only doesn't lead to truth, but it pleases itself by receiving stimuli, as if it played to feel the reverse of things. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the interaction of stylistic patterns (metaphor, metonymy, pun and allusion) in verbal and visual discourse and their role in meaning construction. The article is an attempt to examine some of the underlying structures of figurative language and their contiguity links, and the correlation of tropes with cultural and historical occurrences, and the identity of the Latvian nation. National identity is shaped via different entities, and one of the most important identity constituents is national literature. The analysis is based on a poem by the prominent Latvian poet Juris Alunāns (1832-1864) "By Not Being Lazy and Rotting" (Nevis slinkojot un pū stot) which is part of the historic poster dedicated to the first Latvian National Song Festival (1873). The period from 1848 to 1870 is known for the First National Awakening when the main objectives were creation and development of Latvian national culture, paying special attention to the national language and schooling. The central idea of the poem "By Not Being Lazy and Rotting" is "be hard-working and make your state strong and wealthy". A whole network of tropes can be identified, drawing upon the history and culture of Latvia. The song reveals how to be a good Latvian and serve your country best. The most important tropes like metaphor and allusion rely on metonymic links. The meaning of conceptual metaphors like STATE IS A BUILDING and PEOPLE ARE BUILDERS or KNOWLEDGE IS LIGHT are constructed in the interaction of verbal and visual tropes. These conceptual metaphors are deeply ingrained in the Latvian identity and culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper sees to the identification of terminological syntagms on the specialized glossaries, exemplified in the lexicon of current economics. This is a fundamental task because of the frequency by which the terminological units are lexical complexes. This is explained by the characteristics of the (digital, systematic and recursive) terminological categorization and by the terminological syntagms that respond to an extremely productive diagram. However, this task is problematic due to the unclear boundary between terminological syntagms, specialized phraseological units and occasional combinations, the three categories established by the specialized phraseology in the specialized lexical combinations. The explanation of this difficulty can be found in the same property of the terminological syntagms, which constitute a pragmalexical category, so that they depend on contexts and are cancelable. At the same time the reason for this property should be found in the constituent process of the terminological syntagms, in which the characteristics of the terminological categorization (digital, systematic and recursive ones) carry weight. In order to solve these problems of distinction with other lexical complexes, it proposes to raise the consciousness of experts in the academic and professional field, and that of the users of the terminological syntagms. This consciousness is shown by data such as definitions, equivalences to English, variants that prove that a terminological unit, and no more a free syntagm, does exist. Finally, to solve these problems of distinction with other lexical complexes, it proposes to give the last word to the metalinguistic consciousness of terminologists who take charge of making the glossary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main aim of this work is to study the denominations of the word pupil in Spanish, Catalan and Galician as they are encountered in the data provided in the linguistic atlases that were developed for these three Romance languages. The analysis of each of the designations that this concept comprises in the maps of these atlases is carried out from three different points of view: firstly, the geographical distribution of each of the denominations, comprised according to their uses, is determined; secondly, its etymological origin is analyzed in order to characterize the genesis of a part of a vocabulary which is basic to us and, finally, its semantic motivations are investigated; mainly, the metaphorical ones, for they are the ones who give rise to the lexical diversity of this concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]