Classical Japanese Poetry as Linguistic Input: A Motivational–Linguistic Perspective

NON - NOMINALIZATION AS A RESOURCE FOR IDEATIONAL GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR IN VIETNAMESE

Sounding global, meaning local: The amn -series as a translanguaging phenomenon in Chinese social media

This study examines the patterned formation and interactional functions of amn -series (e.g., bamn , samn , tamn ) in contemporary Chinese social media. Drawing on a corpus of 2,095 tokens from Weibo, the analysis investigates morpho-phonological patterning, analogy-based semantic anchoring, and cross-script integration. The findings suggest that a stylized rendering of the English word damn becomes stabilized in writing as a prosodically salient template and refunctionalized into a productive phonosemiotic construction in Mandarin. These forms are systematically integrated into Mandarin grammar and interaction, where they serve affective, evaluative, interpersonal, and metalinguistic functions. The study contributes to translanguaging research by demonstrating that what circulates across languages and platforms may include prosodically salient patterns, not only lexical or script-based resources. It further shows how such patterns are structured through analogy and embedded in local linguistic practices, highlighting prosodic templating as a key mechanism in digitally mediated communication.

Discursive Functions of Lexical Repetition in Tajik and English

The given article dwells on the discursive functions of lexical repetition in Tajik and English from a comparative perspective. The relevance of this study stems from the need to identify universal and specific mechanisms of text organization across languages. The aim of the study is to analyze the role of lexical repetition as a means of cohesion, expressivity, and pragmatic impact in discourse. The study utilizes methods of comparative-contrastive, functional-stylistic, and discourse analysis. The study’s material includes literary and journalistic texts in Tajik and English. The results of the study demonstrate that lexical repetition performs a number of universal functions, including ensuring text coherence, highlighting key meanings, and enhancing expressiveness. At the same time, nationally specific features are identified: in Tajik, repetition is often emotionally expressive, whereas in English, it is more structured and subject to rhetorical norms.

Word Order Variation and Focus Marking in Jordanian Arabic: A Syntax–Pragmatics Interface Study

This article examines the relationship between word order variation and focus marking in Jordanian Arabic (JA) from the perspective of the syntax-pragmatics interface. Drawing on a corpus of naturalistic conversations, semi-structured interviews, and written dialectal texts, the study investigates how JA speakers exploit subject-initial, verb-initial, fronted, dislocated, interrogative, and elliptical constructions to organize information and foreground salient discourse material. The analysis shows that JA word order is flexible but patterned: SVO clauses most frequently support topic-comment organization, verb-initial clauses foreground events or changes of state, left dislocation and topicalization activate or re-activate referents, and wh-fronting, contrastive particles, negation, repetition, and evaluative predicates mark several types of focus. Quantitative distributional evidence from 4,090 coded clauses supports the qualitative finding that word order choices are not merely grammatical alternatives but discourse-sensitive strategies. This study argues that focus marking in JA is multi-cued: it emerges through the interaction of constituent order, discourse particles, recoverable subjects, clitic resumption, and contextual contrast. These findings contribute to Arabic dialectology, information-structure theory, and applied work in translation, language teaching, and Arabic natural language processing. The theoretical framing is grounded in information-structure theory and cartographic approaches to the left periphery (Lambrecht, 1994; Rizzi, 1997), while the interpretation of JA word order follows previous work on Arabic dialectal syntax and information structure (Benmamoun, 2000; Jarrah, 2019).

SEMANTIC AND COGNITIVE PATTERNS OF DIRECTIONAL MOTION VERBS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK: A COMPARATIVE TYPOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION

Directional motion is a fundamental domain through which humans conceptualize spatial experience and represent it linguistically. This study examines the semantic typology of directional motion verbs in English and Uzbek, focusing on the interaction of path, manner, orientation, and deictic perspective. Drawing on literary texts, spoken discourse, and lexicographic sources, the analysis identifies semantic patterns related to movement toward, away from, upward, downward, inward, outward, and across space. The findings show that while both languages share universal cognitive foundations, they differ in lexical granularity, morphosyntactic realization, and conceptual organization. English primarily combines manner-based verbs with satellite path markers, whereas Uzbek often expresses direction through verbal morphology and contextual semantic structures. The study contributes to comparative linguistic typology by revealing how different linguistic systems organize motion concepts within broader cognitive frameworks.

Rethinking the teaching of ancient Greek: a vertical–horizontal architecture of reception and meaning-making

This article advances a conceptual model of meaning-making in ancient Greek texts by describing the cognitive and textual architecture through which such texts are approached and studied as historically distant, written discourse. Against dominant educational orientations that prioritize speed, communicative effectiveness, and fragmentary information processing, it argues that ancient texts require forms of analytic and interpretive engagement that cannot be reduced to basic or functional comprehension. The model is organized along two interrelated axes: a vertical sequence of textual approach and study (analysis, processing, understanding, interpretation) and a horizontal structuring of textual domains (linguistic, referential, aesthetic). By distinguishing ‘literature’ from literariness, the article foregrounds discourse organization, stylistic choice, and form–content articulation as mechanisms of meaning production. Rather than proposing a method or curriculum template, it offers a theoretical framework for understanding how ancient Greek texts are studied and interpreted, and why their engagement can cultivate cognitive and interpretive capacities.