title: Discourse of Loyalty, Subjecthood and Citizenship: from Medieval to Modern Practices
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metadata.value: Radulović, Milica
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metadata.value: 2022-12-15T17:24:53Z
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metadata.value: 2022-12-15T17:24:53Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-09
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metadata.value: Radulović M. Discourse of Loyalty, Subjecthood and Citizenship: from Medieval to Modern Practices. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2022, vol. 67, issue 3, рp. 930–944. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2022.315
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2022.315
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38702
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metadata.value: The article discusses historical, linguistic, and discursive aspects of the nouns loyalty, subjecthood,
  and citizenship. Тhe focus is on the historical lexico-semantic changes of the three nouns,
  which demonstrate that denotations are modified in different historical contexts. The analysis
  starts with D. Sperber and D. Wilson’s assumption that the correspondence between concepts
  and words may be one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or a combination of these since it
  is quite implausible that there is an exhaustive one-to-one mapping between mental concepts
  and public words. Words can be used in different contexts and discourses, and the synchronic
  semasiological approach may not always provide the full specification of word meaning, especially
  when the meaning of abstract nouns is analyzed. As argued by H.-J. Schmid, the formation
  of concrete concepts is different from the formation of abstract concepts, the latter being
  more complex as it can depend on many different experiences, which can make it difficult
  to form a single stable abstract concept. In the report on their experiments, S. J. Crutch and
  E. K. Warrington’s assertion would be that abstract concepts are represented in an associative
  neural network while concrete concepts have a categorical organization. This suggests that
  concrete words are more likely to be understood adequately, and, vice versa, abstract words —
  inadequately. Moreover, our understanding of words and the world can change over time because
  our experiences and historical circumstances can and do change. This article considers
  the issue of abstract concept-formation with regard to both synchronic and diachronic
  lexico-semantic aspects of the nouns loyalty, subjecthood, and citizenship. These aspects are
  analyzed in accordance with the lexico-semantic frameworks provided by the second edition of the University of Glasgow’s Historical Thesaurus of English. The aim is to demonstrate that
  the meanings of the three nouns can be understood more adequately if their lexico-semantic
  features are compared and contrasted not only synchronically but also diachronically. Another
  aim is to show that a better understanding of the nouns relies on both synchronically and
  diachronically contextualized knowledge.
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 67; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: loyalty
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: subjecthood
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: citizenship
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: concept
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: lexico-semantic features
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: synchronic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: diachronic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Discourse of Loyalty, Subjecthood and Citizenship: from Medieval to Modern Practices
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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