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The article is devoted to the semantic evolution of the evaluative adjectives ‘horoshii’ and ‘plohoi’ (‘good’ and ‘bad’) in the early Soviet language. Through the use of party documents, propaganda slogans, letters to the government and literary texts of the 1920—1930s, the article reveals how these words turned into universal markers reflecting conformity to new social and political standards. The first part of the article analyzes the role of the adjective ‘good’ as a universal rhetorical tool...

... self-generation of a subject-on-its own. Vop-rosy filosofii [Problems of Philosophy], 7, pp. 93—103, https://doi.org/10.21146/ 0042-8744-2023-7-93-103 (in Russ.). Zolyan, S. T., 2023b. Pragmatics without a subject — but as a “speaking person”. In: METHOD: Moscow Yearbook of Social Studies, 3 (3). Moscow, pp. 77—94, https:// doi.org/10.31249/metod/2023.03.07 (in Russ.). Zolyan, S. T., 2024. Should there be biomolecular pragmatics? Slovo.ru: Baltic accent, 15 (4), рр. 41—54, https://doi.org/10....

... quantitative analysis, the verb ‘sovershit’sya’ refers to a neutrally evaluated fact, event or phenomenon, while the verb ‘svershit’sya’ clearly tends to the positive-evaluative attitude of the speaker to the depicted. It is concluded that the method of corpus-discursive analysis of induced evaluativeness tested in the work has significant potential for research objectification of fairly subtle semantic differences between words close in meaning, as well as for recording intuitively felt, but ...

A hermeneutical interpretation of Goethe’s Faust’s attempt to interpret the meaning of the Gospel word λόγος, the first three verses of the Gospel of John, and the first three verses of the book of Genesis is proposed. The analysis of these hermeneutical constructions makes it possible to relate them—as well as the phenomenon of genesis itself—to the author’s model of recursion with inversive switching. The next step is to use this model to interpret and understand the pragmatic moment as the active...

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 Armenian capital throughout the 20 th and 21 st centuries there was a deliberate displacement of some signs by others — from the demolition...

... — spontaneous graf­fiti, inscriptions, and spatial modifications that are legible only to locals. urban texts, untranslatability, cultural code, urban semiotics, municipal utility art, flânerie, jugaad, tertúlia, urban anthropology, visual methods 181—195 10.5922/2225-5346-2025-4-10

... hopeless struggle to preserve this syncretic environment of morals, subjected to the destructive attack of mobi­liza­tion, Matevosyan-the-person suffered defeat as a traditionalist. But Matevosyan-the-writer, who developed non-traditional writing methods to describe the metamorphoses of the collap­sing ‘mix of mores’, achieved victory as a modernist. Matevosyan's creative toolkit includes various types of metaphors. The comparative ana­lysis made it possible to identify them in the broad ...

... cultural meanings embedded in semiotically complex texts are interpreted by their recipients. The study adopts an interdisciplinary approach situated at the intersection of visual communication, media urbanistics, and social semiotics. The key research methods include critical discourse analysis, visual observation, and surveying. Their combined application made it possible to describe the external design of third places as a combination of verbal and nonverbal signs that construct the local identity ...

..., therefore, presents the results of an empirical study of the cultural code of Saint Petersburg. The research was conducted through structured interviews with residents of Saint Petersburg and was based on Lynch’s mental mapping methodology. This method was adapted to use verbal data collection techniques, with an emphasis on identifying the value foundations underlying citizens’ perceptions of the city across the following thematic blocks: a) natural and climatic characteristics; b) memorable ...

The study examines the features of the social situation, expressed in the age at which stu­dents of the Economic Security program encounter corrupt practices, as well as the dynamics of students’ perception of the phenomenon of corruption. The distribution of students in this program according to their inclination toward professional personality types was investigat­ed. Personality type was determined using an adaptation of B. A. Kondratenko’s methodology by G. V. Rezapkina, based on the works of...

... relationship of psychological well-being with moral identity and the identity stability index, as well as to examine the relationship of moral identity with anxiety and depression as indicators of mental health. Hypotheses were tested using standardized methods on a sample of 127 participants, followed by a correlation analysis of the obtained data. The results, which showed a significant positive correlation between psychological well-being, moral identity, and the identity stability index, may serve ...

The main functions realized by precedent names in the novel Trout Fishing in America by the American postmodern writer Richard Brautigan are identified. The study employed methods of contextual and intertextual analysis, as well as the method of exhaustive sam­pling. The identified sample of literary precedent names (61 units) includes precedent biblio­nyms (titles of literary works), anchistonyms (authors’ surnames),...

... research material includes publications by analytical agencies and business media in the United States (Bloomberg, Forbes, FXStreet) and the United Kingdom (The Economist, The Daily Mail, Reuters, IFCMarkets). The genre of the analytical review and two methods of data processing — fun­damental and technical — are characterized. Approaches to the interpretation of the category of evaluation and the classification of its types are considered. The concept of speech influence is defined, and the means ...

The study examines the main substantive directions of ideological and political education of children during the formation period of the Pioneer movement (1922—1929), as well as the forms and methods of working with children. The directions of ideological and political education are identified and analyzed: internationalism, morality, military-patriotic education, and atheism. The means of ideological and political education are also investigated....

The article examines the main characteristics of gamification and the specific features of applying this technology in the context of foreign language learning. Various approaches to the interpretation of the gamification method, its characteristics, advantages, and potential risks of using the game-based approach in English language lessons are analyzed. Within the framework of the issue of forming foreign language communicative competence, the research focus is on interaction ...

... Tokarczuk is examined in the context of the nomadological theory of postmodernism as reflected in the writings of philosophers G. Deleuze and F. Guattari. The study investigates the concept of the “rhizome,” which in Tokarczuk’s work functions as a method of plot construction for her literary texts in general and the novel Primeval and Other Times in particular. The metaphor of the rhizome is expressed in the novel not only through the image of a giant fungal network, a mycelium, but also through ...

The idiolect, idiostyle of a literary work, and the subjective aspect of a speech activity product are considered as objects of translation into a foreign language. The study raises the question of a strategy for analyzing the linguistic means of a literary text that would allow for the most complete reconstruction of the fictional world in the imagination of the foreign-language reader. The aim of the research is to study the influence of the interpretation of the idiostylistic aspect of a literary...

With the aim of expanding the research base of concepts and methodologies in the field of educational psychology, this study analyzes the challenges encountered in the process of con­tinuous education for employees in the sphere of prosecutorial activity. Digital services within the Russian Prosecutor’s Office system currently do not adequately provide systematic and high-quality training for newly appointed personnel or support professional development for experienced employees. The key issues are...

The article examines the influence of the political media discourse of regional leaders on the formation of their reputational capital within a centralized political system. Using the example of the subjects of the Central Federal District, the authors analyze the relationship between the content of governors’ public speeches and their public perception. The study is based on a content analysis of materials from federal mass media and social networks, which made it possible to identify various strategies...

... concluded between the USSR and Germany in 1939—1941, analyzing the factual actions of the two powers in 1939—1945, other relevant circumstances, and the fundamental norms of international law of that period, and employing comparative and historical methods, the author addresses the issue of the legality of establishing Soviet occupation authorities on German territory after the end of the Great Patriotic War. The author demonstrates that the establishment of an occupa­tion regime by the Soviet ...

... discussion and demonstrate the need to search for new perspectives that allow a somewhat different consideration of inves­tigative actions as a legal phenomenon, which determined the aim of this article. To achieve this aim, along with general scientific methods (logical, comparative analysis, synthesis), spe­cific legal methods (interpretation of legal norms and formal-legal analysis) were also applied. The empirical method formed the basis for addressing law enforcement practice. This made it possible ...

... describe the changes that occurred in the graphic system of the German language during the Old High German, Middle High German, and Early New High German periods, as well as to identify current trends in German orthographic writing. The key research methods employed include a comparative analysis of the script found in German written monuments and the method of graphematic analysis. The empirical material compris­es written records from the three historical periods of the German language, including ...

The widespread use of artificial intelligence technologies, data analysis, and their positioning as the foundation for the development of the future economy significantly increases the demand for certain specialists. In this context, it is essential to focus on the methodology for teaching data analysis in universities. The aim of this article is to develop the basis of a taxonomy for creating practical data analysis tasks and to test its applicability. The author examines the main taxonomies of...

... development of cognitive skills such as thinking, working memory, and induction, but also cognitive and behavioral patterns in students, such as the ability to work with information and computer technologies. The study concludes that computer-based case methods currently used for evaluating the knowledge of university students are capable of diagnosing proficiency in mathematical, linguistic, and natural science subjects, as well as decision-making skills. However, the assessment of communication skills ...

... vectors of figurative semantics formation by means of epithet complexes. The purpose of the study is to identify the mechanisms of representing qualitative, attributive semantics in Marina Tsvetaeva’s idiolect. To achieve this goal, the following methods were employed: descriptive, component analysis, and cognitive-semantic analysis of linguistic units. Epithet complexes of metaphorical, metonymic, and metaphonymic types were analyzed, allowing the identification of the author’s logic in forming ...

The purpose of this article is to define the concept of situational-discursive demonstrativeness and identify the linguistic means of its expression and functions. An interdisciplinary approach and the method of psycholinguistic analysis of communicants’ statements were employed in the study. The material for analyzing the properties of situational-discursive demonstrativeness included the speech production of participants in television interviews,...

... forming a new world order. The methodological foundation of the study includes theories of functional and complex conflict. These theories offer analytical tools to explore the formation and evolution of contemporary global conflicts. Additionally, methods of normative legal analysis and comparative analysis were employed. The results of the study indicate that relations between Russia and the Central Asian countries are currently characterized by two main trends: cooperation and conflict. Most ...

... of the far-right Republican Ronald Reagan, and strengthened the ideology of neoconservatism in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Considering advancements in historical and political sciences and employing historical-comparative and historical-genetic methods, this analysis is undertaken in the present study. Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, presidential election 1980, United States 74—87 10.5922/vestnikhum-2025-2-6

... forensics, focusing on the use of information technologies in crime investigations; normative legal acts regulating the procedures for seizing electronic messages and other communications transmitted over telecommunications networks. The research employed methods of analysis, systematization, and generalization of information. As a result of the study, deficiencies in the procedures for conducting the specified investigative actions were identified, and advantages were noted. Methodological recommen dations ...

... tools for infiltrating information infrastructure. In the vast majority of cases, the exploitation of malicious software is associated with gaining access to systems containing confidential information and its theft, which constitutes the least costly method for delivering and executing malicious code on a recipient’s device. Given that the increase in unlawful acts related to the creation, use, and distribution of malicious computer programs is a significant factor in the self-reproduction of cybercrime,...

... related legal categories, and current developmental trends. The author attempts to formulate provisions that may serve as a starting point for developing a general theory of legal punishments. In the course of the study, in addition to general scientific methods, special legal research techniques were employed, including the formal-legal, systemic-legal, and legal modeling methods, which, together with the analysis of legislative norms and decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation,...

... the CPRF and the Communists of Russia in their interpretations of the historical experience of socialism in the USSR, the causes of the crisis and collapse of the Soviet state, the nature of contemporary Russian society, as well as the driving forces, methods, and stages of socialist transformation. It is established that while the CPRF leans toward a more moderate and gradual strategy of socialist transformation within the framework of a mixed economy and parliamentary democracy, the Communists of ...

... principles of law. The objective of the study is to determine the correlation between these principles within legal science. Based on a comparative analysis of scholarly perspectives on expediency and legality as principles of law, and employing the method of abduction, the author attempts to define the place of the principle of expediency within the multi-level system of legal principles, including supreme, general legal, inter-branch, and sectoral principles. Special attention is given to the increasingly ...

It is a matter of scholarly consensus that legal doctrine has significantly influenced the development of law — at least within the Romano-Germanic (continental) legal tradition. However, the mechanisms through which doctrine exerts its law-shaping influence remain insufficiently explored in Russian legal scholarship. One may also note conceptual gaps and inconsistencies in the terminology employed in studies on this subject. This article attempts to describe the functioning of doctrine in the formation...

... the relationship between the development of technologies and their involvement in economic turnover with the level of legislative regulation. The purpose of the research is to identify the main patterns of Russian law-making activity. The following methods were used as the methodological basis of the research: legal hermeneutics, used to reveal the main provisions of the legislation; historical-critical, used to display cause-and-effect relationships in the development of the legal regulation system....

Due to technical reasons, several articles originally intended for the thematic issue “Pragmalinguistics: In Search of Synthesis” (Slovo.ru: Baltic Accent, 2025, No. 2), prepared by the editorial team in collaboration with guest co-editors V. V. Feshchenko, I. V. Zykova, and O. V. Sokolova, have been carried over into the present issue. With this release, we conclude the publication of the thematic cluster. At the same time, we plan to return to this line of research in the coming year and encourage...

... Genetics and Biosemiotics. Kritika i semiotika [Critique and Semiotics], 1, pp. 57—77 (in Russ.). Zolyan, S. T., 2021б. The Origin of the Genetic Code Sub Specie Semioticae. Me­tod: Moskovskii ezhegodnik trudov iz obshchestvovedcheskikh distsiplin [Method: Moscow Yearbook of Social Studies], 11, pp. 119—135 (in Russ.). Zolyan, S., 2022. From Matter to Form: the Evolution of the Genetic Code as Se­mio-Poiesis. Semiotica , 245, pp. 17—61. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2020-0088 .

... biosemi­otics: Bridging the gaps. Language Sciences , 28 (1), pp. 51—75. Kravchenko, A. V., 2007. Essential properties of language, or, why language is not a code. Language Sciences , 29 (5), pp. 650—671. Kravchenko, A. V., 2007. The problem of method in cognitive science. Voprosy Kog­nitivnoy Lingvistiki [Issues of Cognitive Linguistics], 4, pp. 28—35 (in Russ.). Kravchenko, A. V., 2008. Biology of Cognition and Linguistic Analysis: From non-realist linguistics to a realistic language ...

The article is devoted to the polemic with Alexander Kravchenko regarding his thesis that the way out of the protracted crisis in linguistics is to use a systemic approach to linguistic semiosis as biological adaptation. The author argues that linguistics is not in a state of crisis but rather in a state of stagnation. Overcoming it presupposes an intensive methodological search that infinitely expands the horizons of permissible views rather than the use of a sys­tem approach that is inadequate...

The article suggests a way to overcome two well-known problems of embodied/grounded theory of cognition: the impossibility of strict differentiating modal and amodal symbols, and the difficulty in defining abstract concepts/simulators (abstract lexical meanings). The pro­posed functional approach is based on the dichotomy 'perceptual (external) vs. functional (internal)' that goes back to Ivan Sechenov. These cognitive units are shown to play funda­mentally different roles. The function — the embodied...

... structure of territorial identity. Vestnik Novgorodskogo filiala RANKhiGS [Bulletin of the Novgorod branch of RANEPA], 1 (7), pp. 259—265 (in Russ.). Fedotova, N. G., 2018. Symbolic Capital of the Place: Notion, Peculiarities of Accumulation, Research Methods. Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Kul'turologiya i iskusstvovedenie [Tomsk State University Journal of Cultural Studies and Art History], 29, pp. 141—155 (in Russ.). Fedotova, N. G., 2020. Symbolic codes of urban identity (on ...

The paper examines the interaction of the poetic function with the emotive and expressive functions in belles-lettres texts. The authors attempt to prove that the poetic function should not be equated with the aesthetic one. The former overlaps all the above-mentioned func­tions, but alone bears the responsibility for the form-content fusion. The paper focuses on the less evident mechanisms of the poetic function, beyond the obvious effect of tropes and figures of speech. Not unlike meiosis, its...

... Model for Translation Studies. In: M. Olohan, ed. Intercultural Faultlines. Research Models in Translation Studies I: Textual and Cognitive Aspects. Manchester: St Jerome, pp. 15—28. Mellinger, C. D. and Hanson, T. A., 2017. Qualitative Research Methods in Transla­tion and Interpreting Studies. London; New York: Routledge. Crisafulli, E., 2002. The Quest for an Eclectic Methodology of Translation De­scription. In: T. Hermans, ed. Crosscultural Transgressions. Research Models in Transla­tion ...

... the minimal text and the textual unity within a poetic book and forming micro- and metacycles with movable boundaries. The material of the re­search is Ivan Zhdanov's monoverses, which were considered both immanently and as part of the book. The main methods of research are semantic, contextual and distributive analysis. The author concludes that the heading, interpreting the text, sets its reference, and the mono­verse is both a self-sufficient text and an aphoristic expression of many other texts ...

The article discusses the role of the syntactic level of the organisation of a poetic text in the formation of a model of literary communication. The research aims to identify the role of syntactic structures in the construction of lyric discourse and to explore the poetic function of grammar units in the text. The author employs the principles and techniques of linguopoetic analysis and the methodology of constructing a communicative act, which was developed in the works of Vinogradov, Shcherba...