http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/4976 2026-04-04T03:29:12Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/4983 Title: Deconstruction of the Construction: Derridean Study of Selected Shakespeare’s Comedies Authors: Nozen, Seyyedeh Zahra; Sheikhalipour, Pegah Abstract: Since it was first introduced by Jacques Derrida in the late 1960s, deconstruction, as a method of reading, has been applied to literary texts by critics to reveal the hidden messages of texts and provide opportunities to rethink textual and cultural norms and conventions. While the western tradition has always prioritized tragedy over comedy due to its elegance and graveness, this research tends to focus on comedy as an entity in itself. Tragedy, especially in the Shakespearean sense of the word, has been considered by critics as a “construction” which is well-wrought and perfect in nature. Comedy, on the other hand, is notable for the laughing at the laughable and mocking the unfit. Put differently, there has always been a latent, freewheeling “deconstruction” within comedy, especially the Shakespearean. There is, thus, an attempt here to prove, on the one hand, how comedy can be put forth not as an inferior genre but as a supplement to tragedy and, on the other, how comedy moves toward deconstruction and how it tends to subvert or deconstruct the constructions. Investigating a selection of Shakespeare’s comedies including As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, and Twelfth Night, this study compares and contrasts Shakespearean comedy in light of some Derridean concepts. Along with it, Shakespearean ideas and concepts which are interconnected with those of Derrida are introduced and are buttressed through some meticulously chosen excerpts. Bearing in mind that Derrida is in a habit of deconstructing the so-called established creeds, Shakespeare’s texts are exposed to a deconstructive reading to examine how deceptively simple ideas are dealt with in his selected comedies. Also, as numerous enigmas have for years revolved around the personality of William Shakespeare, this study also aims to take up certain critical idioms of the Derridean canon, elaborate on them and then relate them to the selected plays from Shakespearean oeuvre in order to disclose some personal aspects of Shakespeare’s personality as a historical figure. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/4982 Title: Language Choice in Azerbaijani Context: A Sociolinguistic perspective Authors: Rzayeva, Narmin; Tagiyev, Ilham; Mammadov, Azad Abstract: This study deals with the issue of language choice from sociolinguistic perspectives. The problem of multilingualism and plurilingualism in sociolinguistics occupies a special field for the study and evokes the interest of most linguists. The goal of the research was to investigate language choice from sociolinguistic perspectives. This experimental work was carried out to verify the right choice of language (English, Russian and Azerbaijani) and to identify its effectiveness, the data were processed and interpreted based on analysis. Special attention was paid to the multilingualism / plurilingualism issues and multilingualism in Azerbaijan separately. This paper presents the results of quantitative method for the sociolinguistic research in language. It was based on the interviews that were conducted among parents in order to learn their tendency to bring up their children in a multilingual society. Thus, parents were interviewed in different schools with Russian, Azerbaijani and English medium of instructions; school with Azerbaijani medium of instruction named as “Zangi” lyceum, school with Russian medium named as “N_12”, school with English medium called as “Baku-Oxford School”. This paper is an in-depth, multidimensional study of such choices in language. The results of the data analysis affirm a solid status of English as an international language in Azerbaijan and emphasize an undeniable position of Azerbaijani language as well. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/4981 Title: A Comparative Analysis of the Similar Wordformation Processes in English and Arabic Authors: Abdullah Al-Hamidi, Tareq Abdo; Abbasova, Milana; Mammadov, Azad Abstract: This paper sets out on a comparative analysis of similar word-formation processes in English and Arabic. In doing so, it hopesto emerge and serve assubsequent and reliable, albeit partial, reference material for English and Arabic linguistics, especially in reference to linguistic structures. The framework herein for the study and analysis of word-formation processes in both languages may also be applied in future studies and other genres, corpora, and texts. This study enriches the research findings and meta-theory in the field of linguistics, contributing to the current linguistic intellectualism trends. The specific processes discussed are acronyms, antonomasia, backformation, blending, borrowing, compounding, and derivation. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/4980 Title: The Leading Role of the Language Phenomenon in Brain Activity Authors: Hajiyeva, Minaxanum Abstract: One of the most prime examples of a multidisciplinary field, Cogntive Lingusitics explores language as a cognitive mechanism in the coding and transformation of information. On the other hand, Neurolinguistics, combining two major sciences and studying the functional course of consciousness, deals with cognitive processes and the relationship between the brain and them. In the scientific development of its history, a number of different research areas related to the study of the functionality of the brain hemispheres are noteworthy. The different functions in the brain mechanism benefit from cognition, concepts, conceptsphers, and other necessary elements. Cognitive linguistics dealing with the illumination of these functions tries to highlight the aspects of language activity, seeing as how one of the important keys to reflecting the programmed mechanism of the brain is language-related activities. The main purpose of the research is to determine the relationship between functionality of the language phenomenon and the brain mechanism. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z