Vol. 5 No. 3(144) (2014)

Articles

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    The Drama of the Contemporary Man in the Play "Birthday" by Harold Pinter

    NAIRA YELINYAN
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    After the World War II England was in spiritual crisis, and Pinter succeeded in drawing the tragic picture of a contemporary man describing in exact colours the crisis and inner search of his century. The playwright pictures those critical states in which the individuals find themselves: the human being is lonely, troubled, alienated and secluded from the society, confused and frightened in the enemy world, he is always in a search of a home – a safe shelter. Pinter has reflected the complex and controversial inner world of the human being. He succeeded in emphasizing the drama of an individual, their views and perceptions that are well presented in Pinter’s ‘Birthday Party’.

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    The Aesthetic World of Mushegh Galshoyan’s Essays

    ZUKHRA YERVANDYAN
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    Having studied the essay literature created by Galshoyan, in the article Z.Yervandyan presents Galshoyan's conceptions of the principles of world and existence, the role of the homeland constructing work in them, as well as those meditations of the
    author that underline his worshipping love to creating people and to the nature, to the earth – the archetype of homeland. The author of the article mentions that the heroes of Galshoyan’s essays are the persons-symbols depicting some epoch: they deeply carry the psychology and mentality of ruling time period and by this means, for the interested one, they may depict on a very wide canvas the panorama of Armenian existential reality of that period, with geographically multisided spreading.

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    The Definition of Grammatical Agreement

    ARTASHES SARGSYAN
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    The article presents several opinions about the definition of grammatical agreement and it mentions those circumstances that are omitted from the definition of agreement. In particular, it points the connection between the homogeneous parts of the sentence and the predicate, between those units that are not considered as a part of the sentence and between the components of the composite sentence. It is also pointed, that defining the grammatical agreement, one must take these factors into consideration.

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    The Ways of Penetration of Words from Western Armenian to Eastern Armenian

    LUIZA MELKONYAN
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    Borrowing is the main outer way of stocking of lexical fund of the language. But there also exists an inner borrowing, which is
    considered to be one of the inner ways of word stock enrichment. Social changes also had their impact on the literary Eastern-Armenian language, especially on the word stock of the language. Depending upon different conditions, the word stock of Eastern-Armenian language was penetrated by many West-Armenian words, which came to name new concepts and phenomena or to replace foreign word units. These words must be represented by different groups:
    1. Words penetrated from West-Armenian, which are absolutely new in East- Armenian literary language, i.e. they are not registered in “Explanatory dictionary of modern Armenian” of E. Aghayan and in a four-volume “Explanatory dictionary ofmodern Armenian Language” published by AC (Academy of Sciences). From this we come to a conclusion, that these are mainly recent borrowings.
    2. Words that are registered in “Explanatory dictionary of modern Armenian” of Aghayan by the link ³ñ¨Ùï. (Western Armenian). These are the words, which in Western-Armenian are known exceptionally as Eastern-Armenian words and which had not been used in Western Armenian.

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    An Outline of Building a Lexical Database for the Armenian Language

    FRIDA HAKOBYAN
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    This article describes the suggested principles of the construction, a freely-available lexical database for the Armenian language by using types of meaning representations based on other electronic dictionaries and various lexical databases. It is noted that a newly constructed lexical database will be a valuable resource and will heve different kinds of applications.

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    At the Origins of Abovian’s Poetry

    VAZGEN SAFARYAN
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    Khachatur Abovian preserved the medieval peculiarities of the genre in the classical (Old Armenian) poems prior to the Dorpat years. The classical poems at the Dorpat years contained visual elements of European poetry. The aim of being comprehensible to people led the writer to simple and coherent representations. Western elegy and ode are combined with eastern ‘bayati’ (sorrowful music). Even though the classical works continued to be composed, the refined and rich Old Armenian referred as literary language, remained the liaison between Armenian high cultural past and European analogous present for Abovian.

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    Context Comprehension of the Word in the Q uatrains of H.Tumanyan

    ASTGHIK BEKMEZYAN
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    The problem of understanding the word as a literary unit, the literary meaning of the word in the context of a particular work is being examined in the article. Within the scope of the present study the quatrains of H. Tumanyan have been selected, where different connotations of every word – starting from the aesthetic and semantic context of each literary creation are obviously being distinguished.

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