Vol. 8 No. 3(24) (2017)

Articles

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    The Purpose and Objectives of the Armenian Electronic Proofreading System

    FRIDA HAKOBYAN
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    The purpose of the article is to present the principles of creating the Armenian Electronic Proofreading System. The necessity of a new Proofreading program is underlined, because even though there are a few spell and grammar checkers, they are incomplete, as they do not correct all types of mistakes. For the creation of a new Proofreading program, the importance of including rich vocabulary and formal description of the language are highlighted. The newly-created program is supposed to correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and stylistic errors. The Armenian Electronic Proofreading program will highly contribute to the use of computer technology in the field of linguistic research, elimination of errors in texts through computer programs, as well as to the successful use of the Armenian language as a web language.

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    Toponymical Suffixes of the Toponyms of Isfahan Province

    ELAHEH TAGHVAEI
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    The most widespread and viable method of word-composition of the toponyms of Isfahan is suffixation by means of toponymic suffixes. However, the list of suffixes that make up the toponym in Isfahan is rather limited: -ābād, -ān, -gerd / -jerd, - vān. The article deals with compilations with the indicated toponymic suffixes.

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    Transcendence in Pathological Forms of the Language

    SIRANUSH HOVHANNISYAN
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    The article deals with the transcendence of unhealthy language forms. From observations, it is concluded that healthy and pathological types of speech, united in a common system of language, are transcended in different ways. In the case of pathological forms of language, unlike healthy ones, the content and form are transcended separately from each other. In the formal plan, they ultimately amount to an absolute unit, and in terms of content – to an absolute set.

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    Features of TV and Radio Internet Broadcasting in Armenia

    ARMEN AVETISYAN
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    The process of penetration of traditional media of various types into the Internet has been uneven. It should be noted that complex technical innovations were required before the emergence of the Internet radio and TV. Radio and television, of
    course, as well as throughout the world, entered the Internet in Armenia rather late. The research of the Armenian Internet radio stations shows that Internet broadcasting in our country is in the process of establishment up to this day. With the exception of the Public Radio of Armenia, “Radio Liberty” and “The News Radio 106,5 FM”, the others have not yet been able to become competitive in comparison with other types of the Internet media. Unlike radio, television companies made their websites later, but the process of their involvement in the Internet space proved to be quite effective. All of the prestigious TV channels of the country are presented on the Internet through their websites. In addition, there is already a noticeable trend of formation of its independent online content, which will work in the offline mode. Nevertheless, in Armenia, it is still too early to speak about the end of the process of the internetization of the two media giants – radio and television.

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    The Diachronic and Synchronic Aspects of the Old Armenian Sonorant ւ(ṷ)

    VARDAN PETROSYAN
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    The etymological prototype and phonemic nature of the sonorant ւ are among the most intricate realities of the Old Armenian phonemic system. The historical-comparative and typological analysis of the issue under discussion reveals that 1) Old Armenian is one of the few Indo European languages together with Hittite, Gothic, Latin and Old Iranian languages, where the Indo European *ṷ has preserved its labial nature to this day. 2) The Old Armenian ւ is mostly the result of the consistent development of the phoneme <*Ṷ> with certain similarities with both its sonorant (*u) and consonant (*ṷ). 3) In Old Armenian the phonemic system ւ(ṷ) possessed a weak phonemic nature, this being the reason why it was replaced by վ(v) after the Late Grabar period.

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    Observations on the Decisions of the Higher Council for the Armenian Language (Vocabulary and Grammar)

    YURI AVETISYAN
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    The shifts in the vocabulary and the grammatical system of modern Armenian presume the necessity of reconsidering and reestablishing the decisions in these fields, and working out and establishing the development of new draft decisions on separate new realities.

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    The Interference of Communication Patterns in Diplomatic Discourse

    GRIGOR GHAZARYAN
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    The paper deals with the problem of interference of communication patterns in the textual model of diplomatic communication based on the analyses of verbal notes in different languages. As a basic format of written communication between a foreign ministry and an embassy accredited in a state, notes verbales have certain stable structural characteristics. It is noted that in those types of notes, certain patterns are the same across different languages. Diplomatic correspondence presents an
    example of semi-structured information which is endowed with high potential of generating transfers in its oral and interference in its written forms.
    The contrastive analysis of the notes demonstrated that certain patterns, being recurrent in texts of the same format in different languages, appear as stable structured elements. Besides, diplomatic texts with all their aspects of hypertextuality and intertextuality can become the material of future research aimed at identifying language distance.

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    The Functional Value of Attributive Phrases in Legislative Texts in English

    ANNA HAKOBYAN
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    In this article an attempt is made to reveal the main factors which condition the wide use of “noun + of + noun” phrases, and the almost lack of the other two types of attributive phrases typical of English, namely, “noun + noun” and “noun genitive + noun’’ in legislative texts. It is argued that the above mentioned is partly accounted for by the requirements of the grammatical norms of English but mainly by the tendency to emphasize the meaning of the utterance and avoid ambiguity.

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