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“Semoquake” and other metaphors of linguistic turns
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2024-5-84-98
Abstract
The article deals with some aspects of A.N. Barulin’s semiotic conception. The concept of “semoquake” introduced by him (which means significant periods of sharp and large-scale global changes in the evolution of sign systems, including language) is discussed here in a number of close metascientific terms of linguistic theory, such as “semiotic revolution”, “linguistic turn”, “language experiment”, and “language anomaly”. The study considers examples from linguistic practice, which, due to their anomalous nature, prompted linguists to new understandings of the essence of language. Over the last part of the 19th and the entire 20th century, linguistics conceptualized anomalies at the levels of semantics, syntactics and pragmatics, passing through three phases of a linguo-aesthetic turn along with literary experiments. The discussions of linguists about the role of correct and incorrect statements in the formation of language theories coincided both in time and content with an artistic language experiment, revealing common conceptual moves between science and art in the conditions that A.N. Barulin called “semoquake” (semotryasenie).
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V. V. FeshchenkoRussian Federation
Vladimir V. Feshchenko, Dr. of Sci. (Philology)
1, Bol. Kislovsky Line, Moscow, 125009
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For citation: Feshchenko V.V. “Semoquake” and other metaphors of linguistic turns. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2024;(5):84-98. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2024-5-84-98
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