“Old hell transformed into a new purgatory”: the disturbing historical experience in the novel “The Haunted Hotel” by Wilkie Collins
... reminiscences contained in it, which have a clearly expressed historical content. The need for such a methodology is dictated by the main objective of the study: to demonstrate the possibility of interpreting Collinsʼs story as a specific historical representation. As a result of the analysis, the veiled historical content of the story was explicated, thanks to which it can be considered as a specific representation of historical reality, close to oneiric representation: historical characters and ...
Simultaneous interpreter in multimodal dimension: the role of gestures in moments of non-interpretation
... on biology interpreted from English into Russian by 24 simultaneous interpreters are analyzed with the help of quantitative and qualitative methods. The distribution of gestures with the moments of ‘non-interpretation’ indicates that referential (representational and deictic) gestures serve the compensatory function of strengthening the mappings between three frames of reference in which a simultaneous interpreter acts at the same time: i. e., the frame of reference of the events described in ...
The space of metaphor in the space of the created locus (based on Hrant Matevosyan’s prose)
Any city holds hidden meanings associated with its history, intentional or unintentional plans of builders, representations of power and practices of residents, revealing archaic or pseudo-archaic elements in the city structure. The article focuses on Yerevan as a space of multiple symbolic layers, conflicts and re-significations. The authors trace how in the ...
Evaluative language in analytical reviews of the foreign exchange market: a comparative perspective from U.S. and U.K. media
The paper presents a comparative analysis of evaluation representation means in the anglophone analytical review of the foreign exchange market. The research material includes publications by analytical agencies and business media in the United States (Bloomberg, Forbes, FXStreet) and the United Kingdom ...
