Cultural Transfer and Etymology

This article considers the synthesis of information transference in space and time and examines the etymology of Indo-European lexis. The author pays attention to the origin of the lexis connected with the ‘bear’ semantics. The bear taboo was developing against the background of information passed o...

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Main Author: Proskurin S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University 2017-12-01
Series:Слово.ру: балтийский акцент
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Online Access:https://journals.kantiana.ru/eng/slovo/3683/10201/
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description This article considers the synthesis of information transference in space and time and examines the etymology of Indo-European lexis. The author pays attention to the origin of the lexis connected with the ‘bear’ semantics. The bear taboo was developing against the background of information passed on from one tradition to another and of ideas imported within cultural transfer. The analysis reveals the original Indo-European root for ‘bear’, which was tabooed across different Indo-European traditions, including in Old English. The article shows that cultural transfer explains the fact that philosophical lexis originates from handicraft terms. Cultural transfer determines the choice of lexical transferences and creates new possibilities for topical vocabularies through demonstrating different paradigms of the structural exchange of knowledge. Transferences belong to the realm of transition from the concrete to the abstract and determine the evolutionary lines of historical semantics.
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spelling doaj.art-ddb54327b579469e8782e7d763c5e87c2022-12-21T23:32:07ZengImmanuel Kant Baltic Federal UniversityСлово.ру: балтийский акцент2225-53462686-89892017-12-0183606610.5922/2225-5346-2017-3-3Cultural Transfer and EtymologyProskurin S. 0Novosibirsk State University; Novosibirsk State Technical UniversityThis article considers the synthesis of information transference in space and time and examines the etymology of Indo-European lexis. The author pays attention to the origin of the lexis connected with the ‘bear’ semantics. The bear taboo was developing against the background of information passed on from one tradition to another and of ideas imported within cultural transfer. The analysis reveals the original Indo-European root for ‘bear’, which was tabooed across different Indo-European traditions, including in Old English. The article shows that cultural transfer explains the fact that philosophical lexis originates from handicraft terms. Cultural transfer determines the choice of lexical transferences and creates new possibilities for topical vocabularies through demonstrating different paradigms of the structural exchange of knowledge. Transferences belong to the realm of transition from the concrete to the abstract and determine the evolutionary lines of historical semantics.https://journals.kantiana.ru/eng/slovo/3683/10201/cultural transferetymologyhistorical semanticstransferencetaboo
spellingShingle Proskurin S.
Cultural Transfer and Etymology
Слово.ру: балтийский акцент
cultural transfer
etymology
historical semantics
transference
taboo
title Cultural Transfer and Etymology
title_full Cultural Transfer and Etymology
title_fullStr Cultural Transfer and Etymology
title_full_unstemmed Cultural Transfer and Etymology
title_short Cultural Transfer and Etymology
title_sort cultural transfer and etymology
topic cultural transfer
etymology
historical semantics
transference
taboo
url https://journals.kantiana.ru/eng/slovo/3683/10201/
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