The concept of regional identity in foreign scientific discourse
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Malaschenko M.V., Glushkova S.A. The concept of regional identity in foreign scientific discourse. Humanities of the South of Russia. 2017. Vol. 23. No. 1. P. 90-100. (in Russ.).
Abstract
In the article notes that methodological difficulties associated with the study of regional identities problem is that the concepts of “identity” and “region” uses in a different meanings in modern research practices. The authors conduct linguistic analysis of the concept “regional identity” as a composite of the concepts “identity” and “region” in the paradigm of linguistic pragmatics. It is pointed out that recent research has demonstrated a growing interest in specifying these concepts. An attempt is made to find out whether these concepts tend to be used as convergent or divergent. Linguistic analysis of the concept “regional identity” in the paradigm of pragmatics is conducted. The article aims to give an overview of social and historical transformation of regionalism and identification in foreign sociological discourse. The article focuses on the forming of regional identity within bounded territories. We note that the relations between regions and regional identities are increasingly complicated in the mobile, globalizing world where the challenge to open traditional bounded spaces and the perpetual practices and discourses associated with the production and maintenance of spatial distinctions and boundaries seem to exist simultaneously and also seem to become fused in increasingly complicated ways. Regions and regional identities seem to have maintained their important roles around the world. They are not merely typical in abstract academic discourses but also crucial as elements of social and political practice and discourse. There are doubtless many backgrounds for such tendencies but in general people’s awareness of being part of the complex and at the same time abstract processes associated with globalization appears to motivate a search for certain orientation points, as well as generate efforts to affirm old boundaries and to create new ones. Our review of modern research makes us convinced that in the meantime the concepts “identity” and “region” are perceived as convergent rather than divergent.
Keywords:
identity, region, regional identity, discourse, lingvo-pragmatical analyses
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Malaschenko, M. V., & Glushkova, S. A. (2017). The concept of regional identity in foreign scientific discourse. Humanities of the South of Russia, 23(1), 90-100. Retrieved from https://www.jour.fnisc.ru/index.php/hsr/article/view/4969
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SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN MODERN SOCIETY
