Dear colleagues,
Please note our special Literature and Culture Seminar to be held TODAY
in our usual room at the Davis Center:
*Wednesday, October 10*
*Literature and Culture Seminar
*
/"//Russian Mentality through the Mirror of Language"/
Valentina Apresjan, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Russian State
University of Humanities**
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 pm
Valentina Apresjan, a Regional Fellow at the Davis Center and a Senior
Researcher at the Institute of Russian Language in Moscow, examines
Russian cultural mythology, stereotypes, and emotional and spiritual
introspection through their reflection in the Russian language, seeking
to reconstruct the Russian linguistic model of emotions. Her work
examines how the resulting model is related (or opposed) to 1)
stereotypes and introspection found in the Russian culture, especially
literature; 2) images and stereotypes that people of other languages and
cultures (in particular, Americans) have of Russian emotions and
mentality ("Russian mentality in the eye of the beholder"); and 3) the
corresponding linguistic model of emotions in the English language. Her
talk will also consider certain related fields of emotion studies (such
as psychology, physiology, neuroscience), as they provide a valuable
insight both into the similarities and differences between the
linguistic model of emotions and their scientific counterpart, as well
as into the basis for similarity and variation in conceptions of
emotions across different languages and cultures.
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