This paper considers the role of historical context in initiating shifts word meaning. The study focusses on two words – translation equivalents separatist and separatism discourses Russian Ukrainian parliamentary debates before during Russian–Ukrainian conflict which emerged at beginning 2014. employs a cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse analysis to investigate way wider socio-politica...

Linguistic corpus design is a critical concern for building rich annotated corpora useful in different domains of applications. For example, speech technologies such as ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) or TTS (Text-to-Speech) need a huge amount of speech data to train datadriven models or to produce synthetic speech. Collecting data is always related to costs (recording speech, verifying anno...

This article presents the results of many years research on creative life orientations carried out in socially diverse groups – among secondary school students, university and teachers as regards their socio-demographic characteristics. It describes theoretical assumptions analyses, being part author’s original concept orientations. discusses understanding this category, its interdisciplinary s...

The present study investigates a type of metaphor involving socio-cultural values in their mapping and interpretation. The linguistic data are Japanese metaphorical expressions that conceptualize women as plants or animals. First, the typology of metaphor based on previous research is discussed, focusing on conceptual, correlation, and resemblance metaphors, followed by our proposal to distingu...

The present research tries to show how race, class, and gender and intersectionality in general, have their decisive impact on the black- American women; and how Alice Walker as a womanist, in her selected short stories, tries to show that black women in the U.S. suffer two-fold acts of oppression and discrimination, i.e. male violence affects all women in social life, irrespective of age or so...