Scope/scale as a cultural phenomenon (а pragmatic aspect of semantics)
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- Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation
Abstract
Russian word масштаб combines two meanings: scale and scope. The scope may be viewed as an instrument of metaphoric comprehension, related to the notion of cultural landscape. The reader’s/spectator’s position plays a key role in the metaphoric way of understanding.
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(Archived) Sociocultural tendences of the modernity
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