The paper discusses the use of cognitive-discourse model of proverb's sense actualization offered by the author for analysis of semantics and pragmatics of proverb in newspaper interview.

In the literature of some countries the transition from romanticism to realism occurred in the period of Biedermeier. The term "Slavonic Biedermeier" causes a lot of discussion. Czech author Bozena Nemcova can be called a Biedermeier writer. Her works are characterized by the same features as the works...

In this paper, we state that conceptual-taxonomical analysis allows to carry out a profound time analysis. Three levels of categorization are examined: 1. Base level that is the starting point of the analysis, level of prototypes: lexical, grammatical, linguocognitive and conceptual; 2. Upper superordinate...

The purpose of the article is to give an overview of A. Thackeray's oeuvre and show her in her literary guises an essayist, author of fiction and a historian of literature. Special attention is paid to her major works,"The Story of Elizabeth," "Out of the World," "Miss Angel," and "A Book of Sybils."

Assessing students is a key part of teaching a language. Placement tests are used to help teachers set up learner groups that can work together, and to inform decisions ranging from choosing the most suitable course book to devising the teaching content to suit a particular group of students. The article...

The article deals with a textology question in Ninth Epode by Horace. The verses 17-18 gives as follows: adhuc/ad hunc frementesverteruntb is mille equos / Galli canentesCaesarem. The usual understanding of the noun hunc is to him, i.ÿe. to Marc Antony, mentioned in vv.ÿ11-13. Meanwhile the previous...

The paper presents an original method of synchronous recording the glottal wave and an output speech signal. The method was employed to obtain the experimental material. The recordings of 3 male and 3 female subjects were performed. The recording of each subject was 15 minutes long and included isolated...

The article focuses on one of the problems of teaching Thai students the Russian language in non-language environment - the designing of national-oriented textbooks. There is a need to create learning materials for special purposes are focused on the specific conditions of Thailand, where Thais use Russian...

Creating an online representation for authors' dictionaries with a scientific commentary implies facing difficulties of a specific kind. One of such resources is ®M.ÿLomonosov's Rhetoric Dictionary¯ (work in progress at the Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences). One of the most...

In this article a comparative analysis of different interpretations of the terms text, speech product, phrase is carried out on the material of dictionary definitions.Most notable is the difference between existing approaches to the interpretation of the term phrase.With such a divergence of views on...

The publication deals with the issue of the emergenceÿandÿfurtherÿmodification of social meaning as it occurs in everyday social practices. To identify the levels of engagement between a salient linguistic feature and a social object, bringing about differing kinds of social meaning,ÿthe data on language...

Our paper looks at Slovak modern journalistic texts containing well known Russian names of the Soviet era with a high degree of connotation and accompanying analysis focussing on a review of their function in Slovak media discourse at the beginning of the third millennium. In our paper we are using the...

This paper discusses how the epic genre is effective as a means for using structure to create meaning, as in the Mordovian epic Mastorava by A. M. Sharonov, where the author shows possible alternatives of government in the epic history of the Erzya and Moksha people.

The paper explores the linguistic situation in modern Scotland. Specifically it looks at the concepts of linguistic continuum, bilingualism and diglossia and their applications to the Scottish linguistic situation.

The paper deals with linguistic and structural limitations in narrative of language-impaired preschool children.ÿThe individual profile of narrative macro- and microstructural measures is highlighted. Dynamic analysis of narrative production evidenced an impact of narrative mode, story complexity, and...

The paper offers a comparative study ofÿTh.ÿBernhard's and Jean Paul's poetics focused on both explicit and implicit intertextual links. The authors' "Ausl"schung: Ein Zerfall" and "Siebenk"s" are analysed in view of life performed as if it is aÿwriting.

In contrast to class is Gothic novels where a suffering female protagonist plays an important role, ghost stories continuing the Gothic tradition in late 19 and early 20 c) represent men's world: female characters are either absent or mostly ambivalent. E. F. Benson's stories reviving traditional images...

The paper deals with the genesis of one of the seven traditions of the Finnish fictional war prose - the realistic one. The overview is given on the material of war novels, created during the 2nd half of the 20th century. The author emphasises the fact, that towards the end of the 1900s the main stress...

The article is devoted to examination of the set of characteristics, which the personages of modern Russian obituaries are prescribed to have. The research is based on the obituaries, devoted to the residents of the town of Pushkin at the Leningrad region.

Our research is aimed at developing a procedure for extracting term candidates for a multilingual glossary of terms. The procedure is based on the extract-then-align algorithm. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated on the parallel English-French-Russian corpus.

The topic of the poetry and the poet's immortality is among the most important topics of Derzhavin's oeuvre. His last poem "Reka vremen v svoyem stremlan'yi..." (1816) is usually not considered along with his works devoted to that topic. However, this poem exhibits a series of motives and images (immortality/poet's...

The paper looks into the way intertextuality is used by contemporary politicians from the US Democratic Party. The main groups of text sources and communicative functions of intertextual inclusions are identified. This paper also presents findings related to the speakers' individual styles and the discourse...

The article is dedicated to the analysis of African American slave narratives written by women and the consideration of questions of identity formation. The identity of the female personages of these texts is influenced by and formed with the help of their families and the cultural legacy of the whole...

The article examines the gender aspect of female characters' drawing in "Howard's End" (1910) by E.M. Forster with an emphasis on the technique of "rhythm" used in the novel.

The article deals with the cases of contextual subjectification of the meaning of the Middle English verb "may/mighte" in "The Canterbury Tales" by G.Chaucer. The purpose of the research is to define the pragmatic factors of its grammaticalization as a marker of the speech acts of permission and assertion.

The article deals with the systematization of the main approaches to the chronology of Polish dialects formation in Lithuania. It includes systemic survey of the concepts made by important researchers of the borderland Polish dialects, such as: H.Turska, Z. Kurzowa and others.

The article deals with the possibility of using BCI Emotiv EPOC for linguistic and phonetic researches. This portable device which permits receive and interpret brain signals can be useful for linguists in studying speech perception and speech production. Along with the detailed description of the device...

Didactics, design and implementation of the experimental project on written and oral Translation Studies (American Business English specialized translation course) with the help of Blended online technologies and resources. The project was based on online wiki site http://amvkclass.pbworks.com/ and regular...

In the article three novels by E. Gaskell, "Mary Barton" (1848), "Ruth" (1853), and "Cranford" (1853), are approached as debunkingthe Victorian stereotypes about women ("the Angel in the House", "the fallen woman". "the old maid"). In her protest against these notions, Gaskell introduced a new type of...

Contemporary technologies have made it possible to carry out "anticipatory" testing in order to evaluate the students' potential in their chosen field of study. Both linguistic testing and interdisciplinary approach appear useful. In addition to linguistic testing, a number of other research methods...

Studying the experience of teaching of social translators in Spain and the Netherlands will help to improve the education process of the translators in Russia in the field of Dutch-Russian and Spanish-Russian languages.

The article provides a comparison of the best-known Old English poetic text - "Caedmon's Hymn" with the Song of the Three Youths in Old English translations (both gloss and poetic ones).

Present Progressive and Simple Tense are examined in the holistic approach to language as a cognitive activity of a person orienting to the adaptation. Reduced Present Progressive and Present Simple express the direct experience of the observer.

The article analyzes some of the current trends of Russian stable comparisons use in sports discourse. The author pays attention to the replenishment of this strata of phraseology, expand the combinability of units, formation of new meanings, changing the connotations of the comparisons in the sports...

The article discusses the lexical meaning of the old Russian words associated with the conceptum of patience. Special attention is paid to symbolic structure of the concept.

W. Wrede's concept of "Messianic Secret" being juxtaposed with Jesus' rejection of signs in the Gospel of John opens way for both phenomena to express jointly the ethical tension of Jesus' teaching.

Gray's odes of prophecy The Descent of Odin and The Fatal Sisters, which he rendered from the Norse, represent the feminine power of prophecy revealed in the Older Edda (Balder's Fate and The Song of the Valkyries). Gray follows the poetics of the Edda songs with their uncertainty, ambivalence, and vagueness...

The report examines Marquis de Sade's Justine as a possible prototype of Katerina Maslova, the heroine of Tolstoy's late novel 'Resurrection'. The comparison is carried out in several ways: 1) the name of the novel 2) the name and the fate of the heroine of 3) genre 4) philosophical problems 5) the beginning...

The article deals with the possibiltiy to adapt the Curry-Howard isomorphism to describe natural language semantics. An approach to treating linguistic ambiguity is proposed based on specifying invariants for proposition classes. A variant of constructive higher-order logic powerful enough to cover descriptions...

Essay deals with poetry of M.Otis Warren and Ph. Wheatley, authors of the epoch of American War of Independence. Analysis reveals the selfidentification discourse in which American identity manifested itself initially.

The paper offers a comparative analysis of the construction of the image of women that is carried out by two great writers of the XX century: J. Joyce in his "Ulysses" and Henry Miller in his "Parisian Trilogy". Joyce in his novel synthesizes all the existing myths and images of women. Miller following...

Department of Mathematical Linguistisc of SPSU maintains the corpus of hagiographic texts (SCAT), comprising digital versions of Church Slavonic handwritten lives of saints from 16-18th centuries. The paper deals with lemmatization and spelling normalization in the index to the texts.

This article provides a description of stereotypical constructions of the Middle English alliterative poetry based on a semantic analysis of narrative structures. These constructions prove to be common also to Middle English verse romances what can witness their genetic unity.

A characteristic feature of T.ÿKlimowicz's book consisting of 16 essays about Russian writers of XIX-XX centuries is a wide usage of quotations from letters and diaries of the title persons and their relatives, friends, as well as from memories and opinions of contemporaries, followers and researches....

Annotation: based on the archive materials there will be the biography and the history of the main publications of translator and cultural mediator between Russia and Germany Gisela Drohla reestablished.

The article considers self-reflection of literature in A. S. Byatt's criticism. Special attention is paid to collected essays "Passion of the Mind", "Imagining Characters", "On Histories and Stories", "Portraits in Fiction". Interaction of verbal and visual images is emphasised. It is proved that Byatt...

The report focuses on analysing some examples from Russian spontaneous speech in which the speaker is not confident of what he has just said or is about to say. There are several ways of the hesitation of this sort. They may be physical (hesitation pauses and unverbal sounds, such as e-e, m-m etc) or...

The article substantiates the principles of creating a special dictionary reflecting lexical signs of the border of the Pskov-Belarusian linguistic space in the data context of the Belarusian dialectal lexicography.

The article "Less is more: on one text-forming model in the medieval religious literature" discusses various options of syntactic and semantic schemes that form a model of the inversely proportional correspondence between the characteristics and manifestations of the human soul, on the one hand, and...

The article discusses possible eponyms of the dish pullus Frontonianus in the cookbook "De re coquinaria" (Apic. 6, 8, 12). The attribution faces a number of difficulties, such as the authorship and dating of the corpus ascribed to Apicius and the fact that cognomen Fronto did not belong to one particular...

The paper overviews the major variants of the third Servant song (Isaiah 50:4-9) presented in Qumran scroll 1QIsa (Great Isaiah Scroll). The scroll is the oldest copy of the book of Isaiah dated II century BCE. The paper offers the analysis of the textual variants as a result of scribal errors and editorial...

The main objective of this paper is to describe different ways to study Classical Rhetoric. Special attention is paid to the methods of studying a single rhetorical treaty in the context of the whole rhetorical tradition.

The article is devoted to the specifics of the speech genre of the Russian literary essays of the last 30 years. Relationship between the strategic orientation of the essay and the structure of the concept (Gestalt, frame, or script) at the base of the reflection becomes the basis for identifying the...

Eve's place in the Great Chain of Being (or the scale of Nature) in Milton's "Paradise Lost" is discussed in the report. The Chain of Being is a hierarchical chain spreading from God the Creator to the lowest material elements. Humans occupy a unique position on the scale of Nature: they are both flesh,...

The categorization of units "v lad", "v ladu", "v ladah" as the noun motivated prepositional units on the basis of their functions, as well as indications of grammaticalization is discussed in the paper.

In slovak discourse the cyrillic alphabet is used in various ways. On the one hand in various multimodal texts (eg. on book and magazine covers, posters) to underline the Russian context, or as reference to Russian cultural room, and on the other hand it has the potential to act as a carrier of aggression.

In the paper some notions ofÿcognitive science applying to functional stylistics are considered. Aspects of speech activity are connected with language types (profane, professional and sacred), which are correlated withÿthree forms of thought: rhetorical, poetical and logical. Taking into consideration...

The paper is on the semantic-stylistic functioning of the common saying (quote) from "The Mountain Wreath", a poem by Petar Petrovic-Njegos, in headlines of the Serbian publicistic texts. On the material selected from the contemporary Serbian newspapers and magazines the types of the structural-semantic...

This contribution elaborates on lingua-didactical aspect of the theory of precedential phenomena (PP). It focuses on analysis of methodological criteria for selection of national precedential phenomena of Russian language for their use in the Slovak textbook entitled Russian linguistic realities (Rusk,lingvore lie)...

This paper reviews the conception of Nikolay Gogogl's "The Government Inspector" comedy. The paper analyzes Gogol's article "St. Petersburg notes of 1836" and Pyotr Vyazemsky's review where he observed audience's comments on the premiere of the play. Comedy edition, which was created in 1836, is considered...

The article deals with semantic-pragmatic aspect of performative utterances of modern German politicians. The material for the study is based on the speech of Oskar Lafontaine and Guido Westerwelle (1961-2016). The analysis is based on examples from sixty speeches of politicians for the period from 2003...

The study examines the semantics of derivatives formed by means of quasisuffixes. The functional aspect of such morphemes as -geddon/-mageddon, -erati, -pocalypse, -licious and -splaining is analyzed. The authors attempt to make a distinction between the terms of "suffix" and "quasisuffix". The discussion...

In the texts of XVIIth century French writers Molière and Saumaise we find the examples of expressions from the précieuses salons of Mme de Rambouillet and Mme de Scudéry. Their analysis suggests that the specificity of women's education at that time determined the use of periphrasis based on the prescriptions...

The article deals with W. Ainsworth's historical romance "Crichton" (1837), the events in the romance take place in France, in 1579. The fact that the main character James Crichton, who has a natural charisma, attracts ladies is emphasized. The main feminine characters of the romance and the plot lines...

Two measures of lexical similarity between frequency dictionaries are analyzed. The examples are drawn from frequency dictionaries of short stories by Russian writers. Their potential in stylometric researches is shown.

The problem of the artistic canon in Russian literature of the 1910s is analyzed in the article. Low-studied notes and marginalia in the books and magazines of Alexander Blok's personal library are in described in the article. It is proved that in the post-symbolism epoch Blok understands the necessity...

The concept of correctness which has been inherited by medieval roman authors from ancient tradition, means be in accordance with the rules that has not been established by dictionary and by grammar, but has already existed in language practice and has been approved in society. The analysis of medieval...

The article attempts to analyze the influence of the artistic style of Biedermeier on the Polish children's literature of the nineteenth century. Biedermeier which put forward at the forefront the traditionalism of family life and religiosity, idealized cozy home world and showed interest in the details...

The participation of lecturers from Slavonic countries in educational process at Slavonic philology department provides the students with possibility to learn to be fluent in Slavonic languages and to get more intimately acquainted with culture and literature of the country of the target language. The...

The Bulgarian constructions with the inflectional particle se resulting from voice transformations and actant derivations (passive and subjective impersonal) can convey both actual and non-actual meaning. The present paper reviews the habitual and modal meanings of the se transformations, identifies...

Recent sociolinguistic studies show substantial differences between the solutions offered in pronouncing dictionaries and the data of interviews and observations. This situation casts doubt on the correctness of the procedure for the adoption of solutions of the dictionaries. The article critically analyzed...

Verbal constructions with the general meaning of encouragement to act (Letёshkojnёata! 'Let them go!'/'Pust oni pojdut!')make the target of the research. The constructions under consideration are formed with particle 'le' which etymologically dates back to the imperative form of the second person singular...

The paper analyses the use of aorist to express the future in old Croatian written sources. This relative use of aorist is also possible in modern Croatian, however it is rare and limited. The goal of this paper is to analyse the usage of aorist future forms in the Croatian language in the past, especially...

There is less difference between versions of English phoneme /l/ [ ] and [l] than between Russian [l] and [l']. While adopting English words Russian native speakers can perceive English [ ] close to the Russian [l] and pronounce an English word in Russian with [l], but also they can perceive [ ] not...

This article uses instrumental analysis of spontaneous speech data collected from speakers of the varieties of the Aromanian language in the village of Turia (Greece) and the town of Resen (FYRM) as a base to research affricate inventory and phonetical change processes that affect affricates, including...

The paper gives a survey of corpora and analyzes a number of Russian nouns across the following corpora: ruTenTen (18.3 bln tokens) and Araneum Russicum Maximum (13.7 bln tokens). The research focuses on the discussion on these corpora, their comparison and the study of frequency properties for the high-frequency...

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder, characterized by cognitive impairments manifesting themselves in communicative behaviour. The paper deals with psycholinguistic experiments aimed at detecting problems experienced by autists when achieving local coherence of the text. Particular emphasis is placed...

In the Scandinavian tradition, Thor is a 'Herculean' hero (Tacitus), rather than a thunder god, as both his name and that of his hammer imply, cf. è¢rr: èunarr (archaic), OE è r ~ è r ~ èunor, OS Thunar, Mod. E. thunder; Mj"llnir: Russian molnija 'lightning', Latvian milna 'Perkunas' hammer'. The association...

The article deals with the main features of formation process of Russian terminology for description of the Hungarian language. The author comments on linguistic terms have been used in scientific publications in Russia during the last 70 years.

This paper focuses on the idiom spoken in one of the Krashovani villages in Romanian Banat -Iabalcea, whose residents identify themselves as Krashovani or Croats, but use the Romanian language in everyday conversation. History and ethnogenesis of this Catholic subethnos is sometimes labeled as an "ethnic...

Text P. Volkova analyzed in the aspect of mono- and polysemous text. The works of P. Volkova - a polysemous texts. In scientific art history speech A.P. Volkova includes fragments of event type. Fragments of event types are seen as receiving in the reader's life. Text as a whole becomes easier to understand.

A new source of the Pskov dialect records from the 1920s - 1930s - manuscripts made by local historian Alexander Belinsky, 1886-1977 - is of value for the Pskov Regional Dictionary.

The article focuses on the role of the inner form and the components in shaping the structure and values of the German despecialised idioms. The semantic centre of such phraseological units constitute substantive components related to special and everyday communication.

The article discusses the correlation of Chakavian and Church Slavonic forms in nominal and verbal morphology in the Slavic translation of the bull of Pope Gregory XI to the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit from 1371. Traditionally the language of the monument is defined as Chakavian, but a significant...

The article is dedicated to the system features of the acquisition of deictic pronouns. The pronominal module of the child's individual language system is being constructed according to the universal law of system development: differentiation and integration processes go simultaneously, sometimes abrupt...

The article is devoted the functioning of conjunctionless complex sentences in "Journey through Sicily in 1822" Abraham Sergeyevich Norov. The article deals with typical conjunctionless complex sentences presented in the text, such as conjunctionless complex sentences with repeating words, with anaphoric...

Novella of famous Austrian author Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868) "Brigitta" (1847) is regarded as a work in which two key gender stereotype are disputed, namely the "beauty" and the "youth" as attributes of "femininity".

The article presents the analysis of the general question intonation contour in the context of the Chinese-Russian and Russian-Chinese cross-language interference.

"Fun Projects" are regarded as creolized cycle of texts that reflects individual authors' vision of the world. In the interpretation of the work, its grotesque image, the main attention is paid to the elements of the culture of folk humor

In this paper we are dealing with the discourse strategies of bilingual speakers of three dialect varieties in a situation of language contact: the Macedonian, Aromanian and Albanian dialects in the Prespa region. On the basis of the analysis of interference phenomena in the speech of the bilinguals...

The article deals with formation and development of an interdisciplinary branch which is called the general theory of coenoses. Special attention is paid to the formation of its branching - the theory of linguistic coenoses. The paper focuses on logical and methodological issues related with such notions...

The current article studies the interaction between the semantic statics and the markers of perception, multiplicity, and intensity in the utterances with the predicates of behavior, activity and lifestyle. It's argued that the specifics of the resulted statics shown during the analysis of such interaction...

The main objective of this paper is to describe the types and functions of Bible citation in M. V. Lomonosov's prosaic works. Special functions of Bible and liturgical borrowings borrowings are described.

Historical changes in semantics of the word chrevatyi are connected with the axiology and influence its syntagmatics and paradygmatics. In addition, the word chrevatyi develops new subordination, used as a predicative adverb and starts to form the comparative. All these new lexical and grammatical features...

This article presents some results of a comparative analysis of the two apocryphal texts (Greek and Syriac), telling of the death of the Virgin Mary. Researchers have long noticed the similarity in content and presentation of one of the sections of "Transitus Mariae" with the "Dormition" of Pseudo John....

The aim of this paper is to compare variation units in Mt. 14.14 - 14.34 of the Greek and Old Church Slavonic New Testament and to see which variation units of the Greek text find parallels in the Church Slavonic text and which of them are relevant for the text classification.

The article analyzes the various ways of functioning of phraseology in modern journalistic discourse. In many respects they are adequate to the traditional methods of use and transformation of phraseology in literary texts, but their actuality creates a special expressiveness and creative use of specific...

There is no direct equivalent to the Russian conjunction in the Bulgarian language. The given conjunction has an ambiguous syntactic status and a variety of meanings. Its most important function is that it is used in so-called alternative motivation sentences. In the Bulgarian language we observe one...

Twenty two West Semitic consonantal graphemes were not intended for reflecting Semitic phonetics adequately since their usage had originally been conditioned by the Egyptian scribal practice of rendering non-Egyptian words.

Non-standard geographical terms in the database of toponymy of Ingermanland (Leningrad region) are analyzed in the article. We consider some peculiarities of these terms use in the database in the process of compilation of a toponymic vocabulary of Ingermanland.