This study presents a comprehensive overview of a century of Indonesian poetry, short stories, and novels in terms of the development of literary motifs, namely a series of words that are repeatedly deployed and serve as the formal basis of the theme. This study aims to address the scarcity in the scholarship of motifs in Indonesian literature over the long term by aiming to present a diachronic analysis of the changing meaning associations of the most frequently appearing motifs in Indonesian poetry and prose over the past century. This very broad scope does not hinder the analysis because this study uses digital humanities approach, specifically Franco Moretti's distant reading, which is a computational analysis of the statistics of word occurrences based on a digitized literary corpus. This paper analyzes a corpus of 193 award-winning or critically acclaimed Indonesian poetry and prose books (novels and short stories) published between 1918 and 2025, divided into 10 periods, each covering 11 years (with the exception of the final period, 2017-2025, which spanned 9 years). This paper addresses the following research question: is there a pattern underlying the evolution of motifs in Indonesian poetry and prose from 1918 to 2025? The findings of this study are: (1) there is a trend of increasing lexical diversity in Indonesian literature, (2) a number of words that are central motifs in Indonesian literature have experienced changes in their meaning associations to become more abstract, and (3) there are stylistic similarities between works based on similarities in motifs across periods.
This study investigates the structural and semantic characteristics of Arabic collocations in the Indonesia Al-Youm digital news corpus, a corpus compiled from Arabic-language online news texts reporting Indonesian social, political, cultural, and economic issues. Using Sketch Engine’s Multiword Term extraction feature, the study identifies and classifies the top 100 recurrent multiword units according to their morphosyntactic structures, grammatical functions, and semantic domains. The findings show that Arabic journalistic discourse in this corpus is dominated by nominal constructions, particularly idafah, noun–adjective patterns, and Masdar-based formations. Semantically, the collocations cluster around six domains: media identity and digital technology, politics and diplomacy, social protection and administration, economy and development, tourism, culture, and geography, and proper names. The novelty of this study lies in its corpus-based mapping of Arabic collocation patterns within an Indonesian digital news context, an area that remains underexplored in Arabic corpus linguistics. The results contribute to the description of Arabic journalistic phraseology and provide empirical input for Arabic for Specific Purposes, especially journalistic Arabic and media translation instruction.
Since 2014, Ukrainian literature has been shaped by the Russian-Ukrainian war, which has become the central theme of many works, both documentary and fictional. At the same time, writers also address the lives of civilians in the country under martial law. One such work is the novel “The Sheep are Safe” by the well-known writer and translator Yevheniia Kuznietsova, published by Vydavnytstvo Staroho Leva in 2025.
The aim of this article is to examine the specific features of the lexicon in the novel “The Sheep are Safe” by the modern Ukrainian writer Yе. Kuznietsova.
The article analyzes the lexical composition of Yevheniia Kuznietsova’s novel “The Sheep are Safe”, distinguishing the standard literary language of a Kyiv family and its social circle, elements of folk ritual vocabulary used during Christmas celebrations, as well as the interference-influenced speech of a resident of the Kyiv region. It also considers foreign borrowings, predominantly anglicisms, present in the text. Special attention is paid to how the novel reflects changes in the attitudes of the Kyiv intelligentsia toward Russian literature following the outbreak of the full-scale war with Russia.
The novel consists of seven chapters, whose titles reflect the chronological sequence of Christmas holidays: “Romana,” “Kateryna,” “Andrii,” “Mykolai,” “Christmas Eve,” “Malanka,” and “Jordan”. The work portrays the realities of everyday life of Ukrainians under martial law, with the constant threat of enemy shelling, air raid alerts, and blackouts.
It has been established that a marker of changes in the country’s linguistic situation is the fairly large group of borrowings from English present both in the author’s narration and in the speech of the characters. English loanwords dominate the lexical composition of the novel, reflecting the actual state of the contemporary linguistic landscape. The study concludes that the depiction of traditional folk customs of Christmas celebration alongside the realities of a modern, technologically advanced society integrates traditional Ukrainian culture into the context of an open contemporary society with diverse international contacts that extend beyond the national sphere.
Keywords: Christmas traditions, interfered speech, digital technologies, anglicisms, Instagram, lexical features.
Linguistic analysis of the Turkic written heritage, historical manuscripts and epics plays an important role in determining the historical development of the language and its formation. The object of the study of the article was the work of Abilgazy Bahadur Khan, "Shezhire-i terakime", written in the 17th century. This work is a medieval written monument containing valuable information about the history, culture, ethnography and geographical names of the Turkic peoples. This work is a version of the epic "Oguznama", written in the Arabic alphabet. In the lexical composition of the text of the work, along with ancient Turkic words, Arabic, Persian and Mongolian words are often found. The article examines the lexical and semantic features of Parsisms found in this work. In addition, the task is to determine the scope of their use in the modern Kazakh language, Kazakh folklore and zhyrau poetry. While in historical lexicology, borrowed vocabulary, especially Arabic and Persian words, is considered as a single “Arab-Persian vocabulary”, in this study, it is analyzed separately, as a separate linguistic layer. Also, depending on the degree of assimilation of Persian words by the Kazakh language, they are divided into three groups and described: a) words that are used in the modern Kazakh language, retaining their original meaning; b) words that have undergone semantic changes, but are still used; c) lexical units that have fallen out of use or are completely not used in the modern Kazakh language. The main goal of the study is to identify the historical and linguistic links between the Chagatai script and the Kazakh language by analyzing the Persian words found in the text of “Shezhire-i terakime” from the lexical and semantic points of view.
D. Baltabay, A. Baibossyn· BULLETIN of the L N GUMILYOV...· 0 citations
. The present study presents the results of investigation of the etymology and word-formation mechanisms of neologisms in the fantasy works of J. K. Rowling, with a particular focus on the Harry Potter series. In contemporary linguistics, authorial neologisms are increasingly recognised as a significant component of literary discourse, especially in fantasy literature, where lexical innovation is essential for constructing fictional worlds. Despite the popularity of Rowling’s works and the existence of relevant studies, the etymological sources, structural patterns, and semantic motivation of her invented lexicon remain insufficiently systematised. The aim of this study is to analyse the meaning of fictional words and classify Rowling’s neologisms, identify their etymological origins, and anal yse the word-formation strategies underlying their creation. The research employs methods of critical literature review, etymological analysis, and lexical classification, drawing on dictionaries, scholarly sources, and textual data from the original novels. The findings demonstrate that Rowling’s neologisms can be grouped into three major categories, including Latin-based formations, compounds, and blends (portmanteaus). A significant proportion of lexical items, in particular spell, are derived from Latin roots, contributing to semantic transparency and stylistic authenticity. Other neologisms rely on compounding and blending
A. Nypadymka, Olga Lakiychuk· Вісник науки та освіти· 0 citations
Nowadays, the increasing use of English words combined with Indonesian affixes in digital communication has given rise to a unique form of linguistic innovation that reflects the interaction between the local and global language. This research aims to analyze how Indonesian affixes influence the morphological structure and semantic meaning of English words which are used in digital communication. This research uses qualitative descriptive to analyze 45 lexical items found from Instagram and YouTube comment sections. The data selected from real online interactions containing English words attached to Indonesian affixes. Data were analyzed by following four stages, such as data reduction, classification, interpretation, and conclusion. The findings show that the Indonesian suffix -nya is the most frequently used representing 66.67% of the collected data, followed by the prefixes di-, ke-, nge-, ter-, se-, and the suffix -an. These affixes modify English words by adapting them to Indonesian grammatical structures while preserving or extending their meanings. Unlike previous studies that primarily examined English-Indonesian lexical borrowing through corpus data or magazine texts, this study contributes new insights by examining the morphological and semantic adaptation of English lexical items in spontaneous digital interactions on Instagram and YouTube. The research determines that Indonesian-English hybrid expressions showcase linguistic innovation, facilitate efficient digital interaction, and exemplify the active development of bilingual language usage in modern Indonesian online conversations.
In argumentative text types, evidential markers serve to construct credibility, authority, and power. Informed by corpus-assisted discourse analysis, this paper investigates the development of adverbial, phrasal, and clausal inferential adverbials in the Corpus of US Supreme Court Opinions spanning the 1790s to the 2010s. The analysis reveals that therefore constitutes the most common adverbial form but shows a continuous decline throughout the entire time span, with consequently and hence being way less common and demonstrating only minor frequency changes. The prepositional phrases for . . . the reason(s) . . . show an interesting increase but at a lower level. The clausal constructions that is why, this is why, and that’s why represent a fairly recent and infrequent format since the 1940s, with that is why enjoying a steep increase until the 2010s. The qualitative analysis explores the collocations of therefore and for . . . the reasons . . . and examines the text components in which these formats as well as that is why/that’s why are typically found. The findings reveal patterned collocates, including verbs denoting legal agency (AFFIRM, REVERSE, DISSENT), cognitive verbs (CONCLUDE, HOLD, THINK), communicative verbs (PRAY), and the legal adverb void as well as point to striking developments in terms of the subjects which these collocates take. While therefore, for . . . the reasons . . ., and that is why serve as adverbials in the majority and minority opinions, the contracted form that’s why is only used in the transcripts of court trials. It is concluded that the court opinion continues to be an authoritative formal genre. However, there seems to be a shift to a less abstract and more transparent and accessible style. The changing polyphony of voices suggests colloquialization, increasing informality, and democratization of the genre which may be linked to a decreasing discursive authority of the majority opinion of the court.
E. Reber· Journal of English Linguisti...· 1 citation