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Approaching perceptual qualities: the case of heavy
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The paper examines the properties of heavy as a perceptual concept, based on evidence from 11 languages. We demonstrate that the semantics of this concept is heterogeneous; lexemes of this field can be used in situations of at least three types: Lifting, Shifting and Weighing. These situations are either lexicalised as separate words or they converge in a single lexeme in various combinations following certain strategies. We also argue that different metaphorical extensions correspond to different situation types; this allows us to use analysis of metaphoric shifts as an additional instrument to establish the semantic structure of direct meanings.
Akhunova O., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2026 Т. 30 № 1 С. 108–119
There is a scene in Pindar’s Pythian 9 that attracts much attention of
scholars, not only because the erotic theme in general is unusual for Pindar,
but also because in this scene neither the question that Apollo addresses
Chiron, nor the answer that Chiron gives him, can be unambiguously
interpreted. Does Apollo intend to commit open violence against Cyrene,
or ...
Added: July 1, 2026
Reznikova T., Ekaterina Rakhilina, Ryzhova D. et al., Lingua 2026 Vol. 341 Article 104187
The article examines lexification of the semantic domains of searching and finding based on a sample of 25+ languages. First, it discusses the semantic parameters underlying lexical oppositions within each of the domains (e.g., type of the subject and referentiality of the object, for searching; intentionality and animacy of the object, for finding). Second, it ...
Added: July 1, 2026
Romanova T. A., Полис. Политические исследования 2026 № 2 С. 141–156
Russia’s official representation of the EU became highly metaphorical as of 2022. The goal of this article is to demonstrate how metaphors explained fundamental changes in Moscow’s political course towards the EU. Theoretically the research is based on the critical metaphor analysis of J. Charteris-Black. Empirics consists of messages in the official telegram channel of ...
Added: July 1, 2026
Balakina Y. V., Медиалингвистика 2026 Т. 13 № 1 С. 73–93
The growing influence of media communications on social processes, as well as the dominance of multimodal formats of media content, necessitates the development of an interdisciplinary methodological approach focused on the study of social knowledge through the analysis of multimodal media materials. The objectives of the presented study are to substantiate the productivity of the ...
Added: May 19, 2026
Semenova D., Radygina A., Zaripova J. et al., Nutrition and Food Science 2026 Vol. 56 No. 5 P. 969–981
Purpose
This study aims to investigate how objective (chemical composition, processing method) and subjective (perceived fat content) milk characteristics influence taste perception.
Design/methodology/approach
A blind tasting experiment was conducted with 36 participants who evaluated six commercial milk samples (all 2.5% fat) differing in thermal processing and brand territorial coverage. Each sample was tasted twice, yielding 432 observations. Fatty ...
Added: May 14, 2026
Fedorov D., Jezikoslovni Zapiski 2026 Т. 32 № 1 С. 23–52
This article describes verbs denoting motion of liquid and dry substances in Slavic languages. The research explores how Slavic languages lexicalize different situations within the semantic field of substance motion and identifies the parameters that drive this lexicalization (e.g., type of substance, intensity and quantization of flow, and causation). Adjacent grammatical phenomena such as argument ...
Added: May 13, 2026
Kanaev E., Актуальные проблемы Европы 2026 № 1 С. 225–241
The article aims to specify how the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) perceives the EU’s prospects for digital integration in the economic sphere stemming not so much from the statements of ASEAN officials, but from the objective factors pushing ASEAN towards cooperation with the EU. ...
Added: February 28, 2026
Trofimova N., Kiseleva S. V., , in: Синергия языков и культур 2021: Междисциплинарные исследования.: St. Petersburg: ., 2022. P. 522–533.
The article analyses the semiotics of smells in love discourse. A specific element of this discourse is analyzed: the smell of a woman in the perception of a man in love with her, its symbolism and linguistic representation. Firstly, the authors emphasize that there is no conventionalized “smell vocabulary” in any language. Then three main ways of describing smell ...
Added: February 23, 2026
Kharlamov A. A., Pilgun M., , in: Special Issue Sensing Technology for Smart Cities: Data, Analytics, and VisualizationsVol. 24. Issue 15.: [б.и.], 2024.
The analysis of large volumes of data collected from heterogeneous sources is increasingly important for the development of megacities, the advancement of smart city technologies, and ensuring a high quality of life for citizens. This study aimed to develop algorithms for analyzing and interpreting social media data to assess citizens’ opinions in real time and ...
Added: February 22, 2026
Тамбов: Тамбовский государственный университет им. Г.Р. Державина, 2025.
"Cognitive Studies of Language" is a leading scientific field and periodical studying language as a cognitive mechanism, a tool for conceptualizing and categorizing the world, storing and processing information. It analyzes the relationship between language, consciousness, and mental processes, including conceptual analysis, frame semantics, and modeling, drawing on the work of Russian and international experts.
The ...
Added: February 22, 2026
Леонов Т. В., Вестник Самарского университета. История, педагогика, филология 2025 Т. 31 № 4 С. 248–256
This research is devoted to analyzing the functioning of the conceptual metaphor «LANGUAGE LEARNING IS A JOURNEY» in contemporary English-language linguodidactic discourse. The study's objective was to identify the suggestive potential of this metaphor for transforming cognitive representations, emotional patterns, and social roles in the educational process. A longitudinal experiment involving students of HSE University ...
Added: February 19, 2026
Valentina Apresjan, Alexander V. Orlov, Koncha K. et al., Metaphor and Symbol 2026 Vol. 41 No. 1 P. 5–38
This study investigates the mental representation and processing of the two types of metaphorical senses in Russian polysemous verbs and adjectives using eye-tracking, sensicality judgment, and semantic clustering tasks. The metaphorical senses under study differ in their semantic proximity to the literal sense, with “proximal” metaphors (e.g. “raise prices”) retaining more semantic components, and “distal” ...
Added: January 13, 2026
Овчинникова А. В., В кн.: Двадцать вторая Конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей. Тезисы докладов (Санкт-Петербург, 27–29 ноября 2025 г.).: СПб.: ИЛИ РАН, 2025..
Традиционно в литературе, посвящённой лексической полисемии, обсуждают два основных механизма семантических сдвигов — метафору и метонимию. Метафора подробно исследовалась в применении к разным лексическим классам, тогда как метонимия изучалась в основном на материале существительных. При обсуждении метонимии на глагольном материале [Падучева 2004; Кустова 2004] различают два класса переходов: обусловленных перепрофилированием аргументной структуры и смежностью разных фаз ...
Added: December 13, 2025
Albitskiy P., Rakhilina E. V., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2025 № 21.1 С. 34–61
The article examines Russian verbs of disappearance analyzing their semantic and syntactic properties. These verbs are classified as “underdetermined predicates” similar to verbs of hiding and searching as they do not specify the exact process of disappearance only indicating its result. Unlike verbs of searching and hiding, verbs of disappearance do not describe associated processes ...
Added: December 6, 2025
Rakhilina E. V., Казкенова А., Russian Language Journal 2025 Т. 75 № 1 Статья 1492
This paper examines a specific case of fictive motion conceptualization—non-standard motion metaphors identified in texts from the Kazakh subcorpus of the Russian Learner Corpus (http://www.web-corpora.net/RLC). The texts were written by students from several universities in Almaty who are native speakers of Kazakh (L1) and second-language speakers of Russian (L2). Our study focuses on three aspects ...
Added: December 1, 2025
Гордиенко Т. А., Smirnova A., В кн.: XXVII Всероссийская студенческая научно-практическая конференция Нижневартовского государственного университетаЧ. 4: Гуманитарные науки.: Нижневартовск: Нижневартовский государственный университет, 2025. С. 189–195.
The article is devoted to the investigation of the verbalization of olfactional experience in the communicative practice of video-blogging. The relevance of the work is due to the interest of modern linguistics in the study of language in its relationship with sensory perception and development of sensory marketing. The aim of the study is to ...
Added: November 20, 2025