Discourse of power and the category of locus

About the author:

Natalia N. Belozerova, Dr. Sci (Philol.), Professor, Department of the English Language, University of Tyumen; eLibrary AuthorID, natnicbel@gmail.com

Abstract:

This article is written to contribute into the topic «Discourse of Power» (Discours d’Autorité et de l’ Autorité) with an employment of ecolingustics’ research approaches. The author aims at searching the semiolinguistic links between Power Discourse and the category of locus. To prove the hypothesis the author analyses several texts from Shakespearean tragedies, from the trilogy of Alexey K. Tolstoy, as well as several lexemes from the Lord’s Prayer in six language versions. The author scrutinizes semantic, etymological, metaphorical and translation aspects of this semantic fusion. Methods of definition, etymological, seme, corpus, and conceptual as well as semiotic analyses were used to demonstrate variants of the semantic fusion of the discourse of power and the category of locus. As a result, the author proves that this semantic fusion can be regarded as a conceptual “Universal”. All the deviations in rendering this universal into different languages are caused by semantic insufficiency or semantic redundancy.

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