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UZBEK MENTALITY AND UZBEK LANGUAGE: PROCESSES OF THEIR INTERACTION
Full text linkAnthropocentric linguistics is currently developing. In this branch of linguistics, a language is studied together with a person. Accordingly, issues such as language and nation, language and culture, language and mentality are some of the key concepts of anthropocentrism. Studying the interaction of language and mentality is also an important issue. The article examines the Uzbek language and the Uzbek mentality. The article examines both the problem of the Uzbek mentality in the Uzbek language and the influence of the Uzbek language on the Uzbek mentality. The author explains the interaction of language and mentality with examples from the Uzbek language. Thus, he came to the conclusion that the mentality of each nation is reflected in its language. Using examples, the author shows how the Uzbek language reflects modesty, hospitality and other features of the Uzbek mentality. He put forward the idea that is possible to learn the mentality of the Uzbeks by studying the Uzbek language.
ETHNOGRAPHISMS IN THE LEXICON OF UZBEK DIALECTS IN REPUBLIC OF KARAKALPAKSTAN
Full text linkThis article deals with the ethnography of words in the lexicon of the population of Karakalpakstan formed in ethnolinguistic conditions. In particular, in the ethnolinguistic context of the language of the peoples of the Aral Sea, the main source of ethnography in the region is the clash of different nations and cultures. The ethnogenesis of these peoples (Karakalpak, Uzbek, Turkmen) dates back to antiquity, the history of which is still unclear. In addition, this complex ethno-linguistic process in the Khorezm oasis has left its mark on the language of Khorezmians and modern Khorezm peoples described in detail on the basis of examples. Also, after the settlement of the Karakalpaks in the lower reaches of the Amu Darya, the Kazakhs and small Juz Kazakhs lived in the area together. It is argued that the existence of grammatical similarities has attracted the attention of many linguists.Keywords: ethnolinguistics, ethnography, dialect, ethnogenesis, Aramaic script, Khorezmian language
THE BEGINNINGS OF ALBANIAN ADVERTISEMENT IN THE PRESS OF SHKODRA
Full text linkThe first journal with an informative aim in the Albanian territories was published in the year 1879. Albania was still under the rule of the Ottoman Empire and for the Albanian Renaissance publishing in the Albanian language was still a challenge because the Albanian language was at risk of disappearing as a written language because of the 500 year Turkish rule. In the poor an undeveloped Albania of that time, in Shkodra in the year 1879 the journal ‘Ishkodra’ started publication. This journal also brought a novelty to the Albanian market: the creation of the advertisement in the written press. For the first time we have the birth of the advertisement as a medium. The journal, besides being used for information, played a key role for the local merchants, who used to increase their sales. At that time the only option available to reach consumers was through the pages of journals. In this context the journal took an important role, which becomes even more important if we look at the historical period in which the first journal appeared. In this work we have analyzed: The way in which the advertisement took off in the Albanian written media and its characteristics; The Evolution of the advertisement in the journal Ishkodra as the first Albanian journal and then in the other journals which arose at that time. Keywords: written press, Albanian language, the journal Ishkodra.
PHONEMIC TRANSCRIPTION IN TEACHING ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION TO FIRST YEAR EFL STUDENTS OF TEXTILE ENGINEERING
Full text linkPhonemic transcription by using IPA is the most traditional as well as the most widely used technique for teaching pronunciation to learners of English as a foreign or second language. Although the effectiveness of IPA and phonemic transcription has been an issue of debate among language teachers and researchers alike, it has still been supported by a number of researchers and language practitioners. The present study is conducted on a group of students of Bangladesh University of Textiles with a view to measuring the effectiveness of teaching IPA and phonemic transcription to improve pronunciation. The methodology includes focused-group experimentation. The paper aims to assess the efficacy of teaching IPA and phonemic transcription in improving the pronunciation of learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) on the basis of the pronunciation achievements by learners of the focused-group experimentation. It also evaluates the merits of some useful techniques and activities for teaching IPA and phonemic transcription to the EFL students in improving their pronunciation in focused-group training sessions. Finally, the paper concludes by giving some recommendations for effective teaching of pronunciation to EFL students in the light of the experimental study and recent researches on pronunciation teaching.Keywords: Phonemic transcription, IPA, Pronunciation, EFL, focused-group experimentation
TOWARD AN ECLECTIC APPROACH FOR DEVELOPING A POSSIBLE THEORY OF DEMOCRACY IN ALBANIA
Full text linkThe main focus of this paper is on the eclectic analysis of the social and cultural aspects of democratization in Albania within the limits of this influence. Study analysis considers issues related to economic or institutional policy influenced by the model political elite. Consequently, here we will claim an eclectic appreciation of our outward values towards democracy, as well as other democratic ideas from cultural traditions comparing them that can provide a notion for a theory of democracy in Albania. The eclectic analysis will reflect on the relation between the state formation theory and society. We will use qualitative analysis involving theory consuming engaging the questions of whether recently Albania is on a prolonged transition and has failed to democratize. What is the path to the future of democratic consolidation if we approach it with an eclectic analysis? We will explore a few aspects of democratic consolidation in Albania in terms of the strength of democratic values represented theories of universalism, traditionalism, and eclecticism discussed during the analysis. It is envisaged that a critique of the various assumptions and presuppositions of these prominent schools of thought will lead us to a credible theory of Albanian democracy. Under this assumption, understanding the elite’s decision-making is vital in explaining the consolidation of democracies but not sufficient to promise the consolidation due to other specific country-based structural factors.Keywords: Eclectic analysis, Albania, democratic consolidation, political elites, democratic theory, traditionalism and eclecticism
THE BOMB ATTACK IN CSONGRÁD. A CASE STUDY OF RADICAL RIGHT-WING PARAMILITARISM AND POLITICAL TERRORISM IN HUNGARY IN THE 1920s
Full text linkIn the 1920s, paramilitary violence was an almost natural phenomenon in Hungary, like in many other countries of Central Europe. After the Great War and the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire the new right-wing government, establishing its power with the help of the Entente powers, could difficulty rule the quasi anarchistic conditions. In 1920–1921, Hungary was terrorized by irregular military formations that were formally part of the National Army, and radical right-wing soldiers committed serious crimes frequently by anti-Semitic motivations. Although paramilitary violence ceased in 1921, the militia movement lived on in the form of secret paramilitary organisations. The government used up these units, since the right-wing elite was afraid of another communist takeover, using them as auxiliary police forces, and they also wanted to circumvent the limitations of armament of the Treaty of Trianon, also aiming to cooperate with Austrian and German radical-right paramilitary groups including Hitler’s National Socialist movement as well. Irregular soldiers became concerned in political terrorism, several bomb outrages. Although the police did its best to investigate the cases, most perpetrators interestingly were not sent into prison. The age of the bomb raids, as the press of the opposition called this period, finally ended with the fact that murderous, anti-Semitic terrorists remained at large, and found their places in the authoritarian conservative regime of Hungary of the 1920s. The research article reconstructs certain terroristic crimes committed by the members of irregular military formations via a micro-historical case study, analysing the bomb attack in Csongrád, December 1923, based on archival records of criminal suits. Furthermore, beyond the analysis of the individual cases of three different, but interrelating bomb outrages, it intends to draw general conclusions about the controversial and complex relationship between the early Hungarian paramilitary radical right-wing movements and the government, considering that several paramilitary commanders operated as influential radical right-wing politicians as well.Keywords: political terrorism, anti-Semitism, paramilitary violence, radical right-wing movements, Hungarian political history
THE USE OF ANALYTICAL FOLKLORE IN THE NOVEL “SULTAN JALALIDDIN” BY ERKIN SAMANDAR
Full text linkThis article discusses and compares the analytical and stylistic folklore elements used in the novel Sultan Jalaliddin written by Erkin Samandar and the writer’s skill in using them. It presents exact excerpts and examines the adaptation of folk tales about Najmiddin Kubro, Sultan Jalaliddin, Majididdin Baghdadi, and others in their original form and in a modified, elegant way in the novel. It emphasizes that folklore is a key tool in the development of novel art. There are also clear examples of variants of folk tales in the scientific work. The similarities and differences are also contrasted. In particular, it discusses writing skills and unique style of expression of thought by Erkin Samandar.Keywords: Erkin Samandar, writer, novel, analytical folklore, stylization, Najmiddin Kubro, Jaloliddin Manguberdi, Majididdin Baghdadi, Shamsulmulk, legend, legend, myth, mastery, art
PRAGMASEMANTIC STUDY OF POETRIC TEXT (on the example of Erkin Vahidov’s poetry)
Full text linkIn this article, the units expressing the pragmatic and poetic features used in the works of Erkin Vahidov are studied as the object of study on the example of the poet's poems. Also, potential semantics formed an analysis of the poetic text through lines that revealed pragmatic meaning. The semantics expressed by polysemantic lexemes in creative poetry are analyzed in the direction of pragmatics.Keywords: pragmatic, semantic, verse, paradigmatic relations, lexical units, occasional meaning, semantic connection, associative field, lingvopoetics, lingvopragmatics
TERRORIST PROPAGANDA IN ALBANIAN LANGUAGE ON YOUTUBE: CHANGES IN PATTERNS AND NARRATIVES 2013-2018
No full textThe new and fast-developing Internet-based social networking environment has become particularly attractive to terrorists. Social networking sites not only provide a cheaper, better and easier way to spread terrorist content online, but also enable terrorists to address their target public directly and in real time if necessary. In the period 2012-2013 ISIL and other terrorist organizations have had an unusual success in convincing a relatively large number of Albanians, over 100 individuals from Albania and over 300 others from the neighboring Kosovo (and several hundred from other Balkan countries), to join its fighting ranks and territories in Syria and Iraq. YouTube and Facebook have been the main online platforms where terrorist narratives in Albanian were disseminated in search for potential recruits and continued radicalization. In a research conducted in 2013 (Zoto, 2015) I provided a simple method for research on social media, a contained sample and relevant data for measuring propaganda success factors of terrorist propaganda in the Albanian language on YouTube. The sample was researched again in early 2018 and new data was collected with the aim to explore and observe the YouTube-based terrorist propaganda developments over the concept of jihad in terms of content, characteristics of message providers and receptiveness by the target audience in 2018, but also the change in the patterns by comparing new data with the data collected from the 2013 research. The findings from this research are presented in this article.Furthermore, this article describes counter terrorist and counter radicalization initiatives and developments in the Albanian society in the period 2013-2018.Keywords: Albanian, terrorism, social media, You Tube, ISIL, ISIS, Albania, Kosovo, Balkans, Syria, Iraq, Jihad, online radicalization, metrics, social network analysis
LINGVO-COGNITIVE AND LINGUCULTUROLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PROVERBS AND MATALS IN DIFFERENT SYSTEM LANGUAGES
Full text linkThis article describes the linguocognitive and linguoculturological aspects of proverbs and sayings in different systematic languages. In addition, an attempt is made to analyze and study anthroponyms, proverbs and sayings, analogies and metaphors in the Uzbek language as linguocultures, which are the object of science. The article examines the fact that many proverbs and sayings of different peoples are mutually adequate (similar) in semantic nature, some of them are not only in content, but also in external structure and form.Keywords: linguoculturology, paremiology, anthroponym, adequate, folklore