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EDI RUS 1-11 57222081807 0000-0002-0670-9315 Samara National Research University Nesterov Alexander 0000-0001-6054-9255 Samara National Research University Demina Anna

Samara, Russia

Technology and Understanding Technology expresses the level of knowledge about nature and consciousness of a human being and represents a sort of material reflection of an individual and humanity. As such, technology is a fundamental capability of humans. Understanding by means of technology is a projective reconstruction of the meanings of signs, that is  active, dynamic, objectifying interpretation. It is demonstrated how the contributions to this special issue implement comprehension of grammatical, linguistic and mathematical, artistic, legal and anthropological procedures of comprehension in the field of technical knowledge and technical implementation. 10.48417/technolang.2021.04.01 130.2:62 Technology Understanding Hermeneutics Semiotics Technical worldview https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2021.5.1/ 1-11.pdf

RAR RUS 12-28 0000-0002-4213-8089 Samara National Research University Serikov Andrei

Samara, Russia

The Grammar of Behavior as a Theoretical Notion Many researchers of human behavior lack empirical data in the form of descriptions of actually observed behaviors and their generalizations. Fictional narratives could be used as a source of empirical descriptive data, and their analysis naturally results in the formulation of some "grammar of behavior." The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibility to use the notion of behavioral grammar in a strict scientific sense. Since the notion of grammar comes from linguistics, the article starts by comparing different linguistic approaches to the understanding of grammar. Then it explores how the concept of grammar is used outside of linguistics, in notions of "grammar of behavior," "grammar of society," and "grammar of culture." Any linguistic grammar explicitly or implicitly contains theoretical ideas about what language is in general, offers some typology of language elements, and some rules which can be conceptualized rather differently (prescriptions and proscriptions, distributions, algorithms, schemes, templates). A grammar of behavior also presupposes a certain theoretical view of behavior: how it is generated, where its forms come from, how they are assimilated and chosen, etc. However, not every theory of behavior can be understood as grammar. A grammar of behavior is that part of a theory that describes behavior, explains it by formulating rules, by specifying what is necessary, typical, possible, and what is atypical or impossible. A model of behavioral grammar extracted from fiction corpora can be based on Lewinian theory of behavior, and understood as a set of generalized descriptions of typical persons' behaviors in typical  psychophysiological conditions and typical circumstances. 10.48417/technolang.2021.04.02 81`36:316.62 Human Behavior Grammar Rules Norms Language Culture Scientific Models https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2021.5.2/ 12-28.pdf

RAR RUS 29-60 University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome Capone Luca

Rome, taly

Which Theory of Language for Deep Neural Networks? Speech and Cognition in Humans and Machines The paper explores the relationship between technology and semiosis from the perspective of natural language processing, i.e. signs systems automated learning by deep neural networks. Two theoretical approaches to the artificial intelligence problem are compared: the internalist paradigm, which conceives the link between cognition and language as extrinsic, and the externalist paradigm, which understands cognitive human activity as constitutively linguistic. The basic assumptions of internalism are widely discussed. After witnessing its incompatibility with neural network implementations of verbal thinking, the paper goes on exploring the externalist paradigm and its consistency with neural network language modeling. After a thorough illustration of the Saussurian conception of the mechanism of language systems, and some insights into the functioning of verbal thinking according to Vygotsky, the externalist paradigm is established as the best verbal thinking representation to be implemented on deep neural networks. Afterwards, the functioning of deep neural networks for language modeling is illustrated. Firstly, a basic explanation of the multilayer perceptron is provided, then, the Word2Vec model is introduced, and finally the Transformer model, the current the state-of-the-art architecture for natural language processing, is illustrated. The consistency between the externalist representation of language systems and the vector representation employed by the transformer model, prove that only the externalist approach can provide an answer to the problem of modeling and replicating human cognition 10.48417/technolang.2021.04.03 004.032.26:81 Natural Language Processing Deep Neural Networks Artificial Intelligence Philosophy of Language Philosophy of Science Psycholinguistics Linguistics Philosophy of Technology https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2021.5.3/ 29-60.pdf

RAR RUS 61-72 University of London, London Ursitti Filippo

United Kingdom of Great Britain

Promethean Shame as the Hidden Instrumentum Redemptionis Humanae This article draws on the terminology of Günther Anders to identify three different forms of crisis in contemporary society: the crisis of freedom, the crisis of humanity as subject of history, and the crisis of shame. The article is composed of three different sections. The first section analyses Anders’ early anthropological works to show how freedom has turned into its own negation. The second section examines the other two types of crisis revolving around Anders’ notion of Promethean shame and techné. Building on these discussions, the final section offers an open suggestion for  re-thinking the possibility of redeeming human action within the  technological determinism of our epoch via an Andersian-inspired hypothesis. 10.48417/technolang.2021.04.04 130.2:62 Günter Anders techne Promethean shame Humanity Machine https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2021.5.4/ 61-72.pdf

RAR RUS 73-93 0000-0002-2428-9035 University of Eastern Piedmont Amedeo Avogadro, Lombard Jessica

Alessandria, Novara and Vercelli, Italy

Biotechnological Agencies in our Information Society: The Emergence of Biocitizenship and Genetic Language It is not uncommon to consider deoxyribonucleic acid, most commonly called DNA, as the expression of the genesis and mutation of living species. This molecule is composed of a double helix that carries genetic instructions for all known organisms and several viruses. However, in the Molecular Age, this metaphoric landmark is moved and stretched as we discover and study new structures that impact the genome. Important work is done nowadays in order to understand the consequences and causal relations that intertwine this language and the environment, in many fields such as genetic engineering, bioinformatics and genomic medicine. By giving new access to the architecture that constitutes living beings, technological artefacts and activities translate into a biological shift that opened our lives to new susceptibilities and risks, but also new rationalities and values revolving around DNA. All those technological discoveries inevitably led to a new framework in the Information Society; the Molecular Age. This paper focuses on the new agencies that are constituted in our Molecular Age. From the technology and researches revolving around DNA emerge specific modalities of action in our biosociality. Since genomic-related technologies and researches have constituted DNA as a meaningful structure of signs and symbols we are confronted with the traditional view according to which genomics is the new determinism of the 21st century. On the contrary, however, this paper shows the constitution of new forms of active empowerment based on DNA-related issues and researches. Thereby biological agencies and subjectivities arise from the constitution of a genetic biosociality that provides biocitizens and biocommunities with a discursive, ethical and technical self-understanding, and enables them to gather around the technological and informational meanings that this new knowledge has opened. 10.48417/technolang.2021.04.05 004: 577.21 Biosociality Biocitizenship Biocommunities Postgenomic knowledge Optimization of life Ethical agencies https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2021.5.5/ 73-93.pdf

RAR RUS 94-108 0000-0002-1378-2676 Samara National Research University Tyutelova Larisa

Samara, Russia

0000-0001-7248-2756 Samara National Research University Sergeeva Elena

Samara, Russia

0000-0003-3254-5761 Samara National Research University Sundukova Ksenya

Samara, Russia

Virtual Communication Technologies in Modern Drama for Teenagers This article is devoted to the study of the reception and image of virtual communication technologies in modern drama for teenagers. It is obvious that digital technologies in plays aimed at young audiences are becoming a marker of modernity and a characteristic detail of a technogenic civilization that generates conflict situations. The portrayal of young heroes and heroines - the same age as the prospective viewer - is impossible without recreating the realities of modern virtual communication. It will be shown in this article that the appeal of modern playwrights to these problems entails a transformation of the dramatic language, caused by the need to take into account the social and psychological characteristics of the addressee. This research studies plays that were included in the short lists of 12+ of the "Little Remark" award for the period of its existence (2018-2021). Statistical and comparative methods were used, as well as the method of immanent analysis of the work. In total, 31 plays were considered, of these, 19 were relevant. The languages of virtual communication are presented in these plays as: 1) a way to identify one's era and, as a result, oneself in heroic characters; 2) a metaphor for building a hero's identity; 3) symbol of a reality that differs from the empirically given world; 4) a method of modeling a dramatic picture using the signs of modernity and a new type of communication with the viewer. Technologies can be perceived as a source of conflict situations, but also as a means of resolving these conflicts. Despite the contradictory attitude of the authors of the plays to the depicted phenomenon, it can be stated that the appeal to new technologies of dialogue that do not correspond to the traditional dialogical forms of drama can become the basis for a further development of the dramatic language as a whole. . 10.48417/technolang.2021.04.06 004.5:792 Modern drama for teenagers Digital technologies "Little remark" Transformation of dramatic language https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2021.5.6/ 94-108.pdf

RAR RUS 109-124 0000-0002-9915-0521 Samara National Research University Ivanov Viacheslav

Samara, Russia

Samara National Research University Tsoi Vladislav

Samara, Russia

The Concept, Types and Rules of the Use of Technical Means in Criminal Proceedings This article examines the concept of "technical means" in the framework of criminal proceedings, both in science and at the legislative level, as well as the types of technical means used in criminal proceedings (search tools, fixation devices, research methods, auxiliary methods, etc.), as well as the general and special conditions and rules of application of these means. The works of prominent specialists in the field of criminal procedure and forensic science on this topic were studied. The study examines the norms of criminal procedure legislation related to the use of technical means, including the Russian Federation's Code of Criminal Procedure and other federal laws. The methodological basis of the article is the general scientific and especially the complex of reasoning-related methods, including such methods as synthesis, analysis, deduction, induction, analogy, formal-legal method, method of interpretation of legal norms and other methods of research activity. As a result of their work, the authors conclude that there is no commonly accepted definition of "technical means" in Russian criminal procedure studies. Each author's definition has its own differences and peculiarities in defining what constitutes a technical means. At the same time, they proceed from the differences related to the purpose of such means and the conditions of their application. At the legislative level, there is no definition of technical means at all. The standing orders that regulate the rules and conditions for the use of these tools are "scattered" throughout the criminal procedure legislation and are not fully coordinated with each other, which is a problem. The types of technical means are also not defined by law, but the issue has been sufficiently developed in academic circles and researched in forensic science. Based on the foregoing, the author considers it appropriate to introduce a unified norm governing the institution of "technical means" into the criminal procedural legislation, which will contain a list of subjects entitled to use these technical means, rules and conditions for their use and other provisions. 10.48417/technolang.2021.04.07 343.132:62 Criminal procedure Criminalistics Technical means Application of technical means https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2021.5.7/ 109-124.pdf

RAR RUS 126-143 0000-0002-1703-2119 Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University Krylov Eduard

30 let Pobedy 2, bld. 5, Izhevsk, 426069, Russia

0000-0003-1283-2245 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Khalyapina Liudmila

St. Petersburg, Russia

17344631600 0000-0002-2173-4084 Institut für Philosophie, Darmstadt Technical University Nordmann Alfred nordmann@phil.tu-darmstadt.de Teaching English as a Language for Mechanical Engineering Engineering education usually includes the acquisition of a foreign language for a transnational professional discourse. Engineering education also involves the acquisition of competencies to compose functional technical systems from component parts. This paper provides a conceptual and empirical exploration of a synergistic effect between these two learning processes. It proposes that engineering education draw upon and incorporates this synergy. A pilot training course confirms that this leads to a faster development of the overall engineering knowledge system. This training course implements the conceptual finding according to which the process can be integrated on the model of language learning: to learn mechanics. i.e. kinematics, is like learning English as a foreign language. The grammar of sentence formation and the grammar for the effective technical placement of things teach engineers about symbolic and conceptual order, what the language of mechanics is and how it differs from the language of electronics, and how, for example, this difference needs to be accommodated in the field of mechatronics. 10.48417/technolang.2021.04.08 378: 811.111 Philosophy of engineering education Foreign languages Language of kinematics Integration https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2021.5.8/ 126-143.pdf

RAR RUS 144-167 0000-0002-0079-554X Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Ozerova Daria

St. Petersburg, Russia

0000-0001-6779-4800 Satbayev University Serikov Alisher

Almaty, The Republic of Kazakhstan

Technology and Language in Tattoos This study identifies graphic features of words that are used in tattoos. Our interest in this type of name tattoos is based on the fact that words have a great significance in a person's life. The article presents the history of the origin of tattoos from ancient times, the geography of tattoos, and also describes in detail the methods of ancient tattooing techniques. It moves on to the main task of analyzing the relationship between fonts and meanings. For this, the tattoos were divided according to their meanings into the categories “emotions”, “principles of life”, and “positions”, and divided also according to the fonts used – “handwritten”, “book”, and “decorative”. The article concludes that handwritten fonts are most often used in tattoos with romantic and family themes from the “emotions” category, conveying the feelings and attitude of the owner towards other people. Book fonts predominantly express the principles of life and motivations of the owners – thereby, they make a significant contribution to the “principles” category. And finally, decorative fonts are chosen for tattoos that are supposed to challenge social stereotypes, mostly from the “positions” category. 10.48417/technolang.2021.04.09 391.91 Body art Body modification Tattooing Ink Word Tattoo technology Tattoo https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2021.5.9/ 144-167.pdf

RAR RUS 168-180 Darmstadt Technical University Hess Matthias

Darmstadt, Germany

Politics of Usernames We interact with usernames every day to communicate on the Internet. We are so familiar with this practice that it seems banal and we therefore fail to see the political implications associated with it. This article aims to help uncover this political dimension of the username. At first, the article follows the argumentation of two texts by Jacques Derrida, from where I establish a connection between the phenomena of proper names and usernames. Derrida deconstructed the founding act of American Independence to work out the role of the signature of proper names. He does the same with Friedrich Nietzsche's proper name to show that proper names play a far greater role in political processes than we might expect. In this context, the modern state is disclosed as an archive and administrator of proper names, while the new phenomenon of the username evades this state power and itself has the institutional potential to become powerful. Because access by the state through verification of names fails with the username, people are more difficult to identify in digital space. The state archive therefore can’t exercise political power over usernames. At the same time, the lack of verification of a username creates the potential for new institutional forces which leads to a conflict with the modern state. This topic is illustrated using the username Q and the politically explosive QAnon movement. Lastly the article points to the conclusion that the phenomenon of usernames is shifting our institutional structures and questioning our beliefs about the modern state, identity and truth. 10.48417/technolang.2021.04.10 004.5 Username Politics Signature Jacques Derrida Verification QAnon Institution https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2021.5.10/ 168-180.pdf

RAR RUS 181-197 D&B Dienstleistung und Bildung Belyaeva

Berlin, Germany

Dialog, Communication, Cooperation, and Collaboration: Facets of Human-Computer Interaction This study is a linguist’s attempt to analyze such terms as human-computer interaction, computer-human interaction, human-machine cooperation, machine-human collaboration, and many related terms. The purpose of this analysis is to determine whether and how they represent different shades of meaning, some nuanced, some distinctive. This allows for their further systematization and the identification of terminological synonymy. The discussion shows that terminological choices might be necessary - not only between „man“ and „human“ or between „dialogue“ and „dialog“, but also between „cooperation“ and „collaboration“ as well as „dialog“ and „communication“. This still leaves a considerable number of terminological options which can be assigned to different facets of human-computer interaction. 10.48417/technolang.2021.04.11 004.5 Human Machine Computer Communication Cooperation Dialog Human-Computer Interaction https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2021.5.11/ 181-197.pdf