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... cultural-linguistic perception of the con­cept of Joy is analysed. The research shows that Evangelic meaning of the con­cept is actualized whereas a secular linguistic meaning of the concept of Joy as «pleasure, worldly happiness» is de-actualized in Lewis's text. 1. Афонина Ю. Н. Традиция Г. К. Честертона и «концепция радости» К. С. Лью­иса // Вестник Вятского государственного гуманитарного универси­тета....

... the semantic field “Memory” with the component ‘Vergangenheit’, which are commonly used in German media; it describes structural, semantic and syntagmatic characteristics of the verb collocations. The source of the research data is newspaper texts corpus DWDS. The keyword "Vergangenheit" (past) can be characterized by a high syntagmatic potential that indicates the importance of the denoted concept for memory processes comprehension. The author employs a functional-communicative ...

... studied in more detail. Photography performs an illus­trative function in them. In “The Ring of Saturn” and “Austerlitz” the sig­nificance of visual inserts for the formation of the narrative is determined by their absolute integration with the text. I hold that photography in W. G. Se­bald’s works is the embodiment of a collective memory of the past. It encour­ages the creation of personal history and evokes individual memories. It com­plements the narrative and reveals parallels between ...

... Byatt’s reflections on the origins of creative energy and their connection with the processes taking place on the border of the real merging with the imaginary, Otherworldly. The author shows the role and organization of these poetical paradigms in the text, the center of which is the idea of Destiny. It is reflected not only in the plot twists and turns, but also in the formation of characters, the creation of the book composition, as well as in numerous intertexts. 1. Байетт А. С. Джинн ...

This article examines speech aspects of a strategic planning document — the Development Concept — and identifies factors determining its specifics. The text of the Concept is analysed using the communicative-genre approach, often employed in recent research works. This approach produces an integrated picture that takes into account parameters affected by both linguistic and extralinguistic factors. The ...

... its invariant development, analyzes connection between the relevant concepts and categories of space and movement, life and death. The semantic reconstruction is performed through play Multilanguage anagram code, which is used by Skidan to develop the text of basic semantic structures. 1. Бенвенист Э. Словарь индоевропейских социальных терминов. М., 1995. 2. Виноградов В. В. История слов. М., 1994. 3. Дмитровская ...

The textual analysis of three archetypes, "prospector", "mother" and "rebel" is conducted in the article by the example of the novel "The Prospector" by the French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. The concept of "archetype", its variations and functioning in the novel are discussed. 1. Архетипы, мифологемы, символы в художественной картине мира писателя : матер. Междунар. заоч. науч. конф. Астрахань, 2010. 2. Большакова А. Ю. Литературный архетип...

... vocabulary of the contemporary Russian language. In analysing new nouns derived from verbs, this article examines the nouns’ productivity and contribution to the word formation in the contemporary Russian language. Dictionaries of new lexis, media texts, and the Russian National Corpus are used to identify and describe the most productive wordformation types and models for verbal nouns with procedural semantics. The author investigates the connection between such nouns and denominative neo-derivatives ...

... while citations and phraseological units are used to form rhematic progressions, the aim of which is to provide new information about the theme. The theme-rheme sequence contributes to textual coherence; it facilitates a better understanding of the text and shapes the intented point of view in the reader. 1. Демьянков В. З. Интерпретация политического дискурса в СМИ // Язык СМИ как объект междисциплинарного исследования ...

... modal meanings, including those of necessity and obligation expressed by constructions with an independent infinitive in legislative directive documents. The authors analyze the dependence of the semantics of these constructions on the genre of the text. 1. Буралова Р. А. Оптативные высказывания с независимым инфинитивом в современном русском языке // Функциональный анализ прагматических ...

This article is devoted to the terminological analysis of F. de Saussure's 1872—1911 authentic texts. A component analysis makes it possible to identify the characteristics of formation of general linguistic terms. It is established that F. de Saussure's terminology (118 preterms) is based on existing lexical units of different systems. Tectological ...

The paper describes the results of denominal verb analysis. Corpora of media texts provide material for the analysis. The author explores patterns of novel meaning formation in denominal verbs. The proposed method is based on the notion of ‘seme-symbol’. The author reconstructions the semantic structure of motivating nouns ...

Through analysing the mechanisms of reception of modern Russian literature in Chinese literary criticism, the author shows that a Chinese reader has a predisposition to understand texts in the context of the urgent national problem of preserving traditions. This predisposition affects the interpretation and perception of new rustic prose, female prose, and postmodernist literature. The study’s methodological framework combines ...

The author shows a change of the axiological paradigm in the literature of the 20th—21st centuries using examples from the novel Angels & Insects by the contemporary British writer A. S. Byatt. Retreat from the traditional characterization in the creation of an artistic image and the aesthetic accentuation of its importance are manifested in the rejection of the unambiguous assessment of moral and ethical evaluation and emphatic characterological art image. The tale “Things Are Not What They Seem”...

... edition of Abel Matthieu’s «Devis de la langue francoyse» (1559). Author’s views on the actual for the French renaissance problems in linguistic tradition, such as the origin of language, it’s defense and illustration, interpretation of foreign texts are studied. The particular attention is paid to Abel Matthieu’s attempts to prove the self-sufficiency of French language. 1. Гуковская З. В. Из истории лингвистических воззрений эпохи Возрожде­ния: ...

... gender aspect in the auto-biography "Lebenserinnerungen" by the Austrian writer Bertha von Suttner (XIX-XX c. с.). The analysis is performed on the example of the lexical-semantic category "The Feminine" which is implemented in the text in reference to lexical-semantic subcategories in explicit and implicit ways. The main language markers of the lexical-semantic subcategory "I am a woman" representing the explicit way of realization of "The Feminine" are self-nominations ...

The article considers artistic strategies of creating personal worlds of fic-tional chacracters in the works of Tatyana Tolstaya. These strategies include lingvopoetics of communication failures (“Peters”), “cinematic” lingvopoetics (“The River Okkervil”) lingvopoetics of insight (“Night”), lingvopoetics of deixis and the similarity (the novel “Light worlds”). The article analyses the way these strategies affect the formation of conceptual textual meanings. 1. Словарь русского языка : в 4 т. / под...

1. Владимирова Н. Г. Формы художественной условности в литературе Велико­бри­та­нии XX века. Новогород, 1998. 2. Владимирова Н. Г. Условность, созидающая мир. Поэтика условных форм в со­вре­менном романе Великобритании. Великий Новгород, 2001. 3. Фатеева Н. А. Интертекст в мире текстов: Контрапункт интертекстуальности. М., 2012.

The article focuses upon cognitive foundations underlying the metaphoric conceptualization of time in the Anglo-American Weltanschauung. Special emphasis is put on basic image schemata underlying time perception and verbalization in the Old English, Middle English and Modern English periods. Lexicographic and textual data are drawn to exemplify cognitive shifts that bring about gradual transformation of the conceptual structure of time metaphors in the Modern English period. The pragmatic shift in...

... and Roman M. Kundera's «The Unbearable Lightness of Being». The authors explore the role of these relations in the formation of the artistic concepts of «soul» and «body» in N. Kononov's works. The authors аnalyse similarities of N. Kononov's texts with the above mentioned works in their themes, imagery and vocabulary. 1. Апулей. Метаморфозы, или Золотой осел / пер. с лат. М. Кузьмина // Апулей. Апология, или О магии. Метаморфозы,...

... as a means to express implicit judgements in N.V. Gogol's poem Dead Souls. The author analyses lexical units comprising the ironic semantics of judgements about characters. Special attention is paid to comparing irony explicators used in the original text and the poem’s translation into German. 1. Коковина Л.В. Модальные значения уверенности — неуверенности в поэме Н. В. Гоголя «Мертвые души» и ее переводах ...

The article discusses several strategies of Egor Letov’s idiostyle associated with his subjective position, which is expressed in a literary text. The authors analyze some models of Letov’s poetic syntax — subject-predicate relations and the prevalence of infinitives. The article describes certain constants of the Egor Letov’s poetic model of the world, characterizing the position of ...

The article deals with some issues of translating technical, in particular, programming texts. The author pays special attention to the polysemy of certain English IT terms. An important problem is adapting such terms to the system of the target language. Translators working in IT are required to have extensive expertise in informatics. ...

The author analyses the works of singer songwriters, i. e. lyrics of bard songs and rock poetry, from the point of view of their plot and their place in the typology of texts. The author identifies a discrepancy between the principles of building the plot of songs and the methods of creating the poetic model of the world in the central and peripheral areas of this type of songs. This internal asymmetry of the analysed ...

... In the atemporal dimension of a ‘holiday,’ visible images of the natural world become symbolic representa-tions of the invisible. In the English translation, the overt concreteness of some of the poetic images results in the partial loss of the text's axiological po-tential. 1. Бахтин М. М. Формы времени и хронотопа в романе // Бахтин М. М. Эпос и роман. СПб., 2000. С. 9—193. 2. Бердяев Н. А. О небесной истории....

... The composition of hagioanthroponyms in the Menologium is classified as archaic. Varying spellings of hagioanthroponyms are identified. Differences in the composition of hagioanthroponyms are described alongside the ‘dark places’ in the calendar texts. 1. Бугаева И. В. Агионимы в ономастическом пространстве русского языка // Известия на Научен център «Св. Дасий Доростолски». Силистракъм ...

In the information society, criticism assumes a special role in the system of genre and stylistic differentiation of media texts. The media culture of new generation is faced with the problem of studying the discursive characteristics of criticism of modern media genres. The analysed examples of criticism from German press focusing on arts and culture make it possible to ...

... article addresses the memento mori genre in the German literature if the 11th-12th centuries. The works in this genre present a literary expression of the category of reminder of mortality. It is close to the sermon calling for repentance. The typical texts by Heinrich von Melk include lamentations about the deceitfulness of the world, the brevity and vanity of earthly life, a reminder of the Last Judgement, and a prayer to God. Heinrich von Melk’s memento mori contain criticism of emerging Minnesang....

This article is an attempt at a conceptual interpretation of the scientific paradigm in modern prose and the possibility of using it in discussions in German classes with PhD students. Fragments from Hans Konsalik’s Jour-ney to Tierra del Fuego and Daniel Kehlman’s Measuring the World are used to this end. The biographies of scientists — as shown through literary characters — can serve as a basis for role models for young researchers. 1. Василькова В. В. Междисциплинарность как когнитивная практика...

... “The door in the wall” is considered in the spiritual axiological aspect. The issues of true and false values, the visible and invisible worlds and the border between them, and the meaning of human life are examined as the central problem of the text. It is shown that the image of Wallace and the related plot are deter-mined by the choice between the eternal and earthly values, this and the other worlds. The image of the narrator embodies the opposition between the catego-ries of faith and doubt ...

This article focuses upon the features of constructing and re-constructing a literary text in the case of Daniel Kehlmann’s novel Fame (2009). Using various narrative strategies, Daniel Kehlmann manages to create a multilayered fictional space based on meta-narration and self-reflection of the characters and the narrator. The duality,...

This article discusses the dominant textual elements in Der fernste Ort — one of the most famous novels of German author D. Kehlmann. The novel’s text organization is described; parallels to other literary works are drawn. The author analyses the influence of the 20th century modernist experiments on Kehlmann’s works. The article focuses on the general and specific features of the writer’s ...

Peter Handke’s novel is considered in the context of a change of eras in European and German art. The results of the study is the identification of the aesthetic characteristics of the writer’s prose that exhibits the features of both modernist and postmodernist poetics reflecting the general historical and literary pattern that has become the focus of current discussions. 1. Гладилин Н. В. Становление и актуальное состояние постмодернизма в странах немецкого языка (Германия, Австрия, Швейцария)...

This article considers the textual dominant in the context of The Far-thest Place — one of the most famous novel of the modern German author Daniel Kehlmann. The organization of the novel’s text is described and parallels to other literature works are drawn. The article focuses on the influence of the 20th century modernist experiments on Kehlmann’s works 1. Кельман Д. Последний предел. СПб., 2004.

The article reviews the foundation and development of the concept of the Russian Idea in the Russian philosophical and social thinking, its main definitions, content, as well as critics. The significance of development of national identity and cultural self-determination for effective intercultural communi-cation is pointed out. Besides, the role of the Russian Idea as a Russian nation specific component, forming the national identity, when dealing with intercul-tural communication practices is discussed...

... way modal meanings are connected to concepts, stresses the functional value of modal meanings for concept structure, and considers the structure of concept, its nuclear, and interpretation field. The concept of «duty» in the context of a literary text is used to prove the modal background of the concept. 1. Арутюнова Н. Д. Дискурс // ЛЭС. 1990. С. 136—137. 2. Арутюнова Н. Д. Язык и мир человека. М., 1999. С. 96. 3. Берестнев Г. ...

... Raumkonzepte in Verste-hensprozessen: interdisziplinäre Beiträge zu Sprache und Raum / hrsg. von Ch. Ha-bel. Tübingen, 1989. S. 17—36. 11. Lindemann B. Einige Fragen an eine Theorie der sprachlichen Perspektivie-rung // Perspektivität in Sprache und Text / hrsg. von P. Canisius. Bochum, 1987. S. 1—51. 12. Miller G. A., Johnson-Laird Ph. N. Language and Perception. Cambridge, 1976. 13. Wunderlich D. Raum, Zeit und das Lexikon // Sprache und Raum: psycholo-gische und linguistische Aspekte der Aneignung ...

This article presents an interdisciplinary study on text linguistics, lingu-o¬poetics, and narratology. It addresses the problems of modern science fiction discourse and analyses the ideas of the leading theorists of postmodernism — J.-F. Lyotard and J. Derrida — as well as those of scholars focusing ...

... of the handwritten Vesti-Kuranty newspaper, this article analyses the functional significance of evaluative lexis — adjective, adverbs, and nouns with subjective modal meanings conveying expressive emotional reactions of the author of a newspaper text to the described histori-cal events, as well as the temper and actions of its participants. 1. Арутюнова Н. Д. Типы языковых значений: Оценка. Событие. Факт. М., 1988. 2. Балли Ш. Общая ...

This article deals with the problem of public opinion manipulation through creating a positive image. Special emphasis is given to the description of the manipulative technique. The research is based on the texts of the 2012 Russian presidential election campaign. 1. Кара-Мурза С. Г. Манипуляция сознанием. М., 2011. 2. Колесникова Г. И. Манипуляции: техники успешного общения....

The tactics of a language game aimed at activating background knowledge of the recipient are studied in the texts of jokes, crossword puzzles, and other literature and speech materials. Special attention is paid to language games focusing on the reader’s knowledge of history in the Old Slavic epic poem The Tale of Igor's Campaign. 1. Анненков Ю....

This article discusses the verbal behavior of the German President, Joachim Gauck, in political communications. The author analyses the linguisticstylistic and pragmalinguistic means employed in the texts of his political speeches. Special attention is paid to the strategy of dialogue with supporters, which includes the tactics of cohesion, promises, compliments and praise, "indirect positive pressure”, question formation, and behavior regulation ...

This article deals with the functional and semantic features of performative verbs in the texts of documents. Performatives are defined as significant structure and content components of text solving the pragmatic task of establishing the contact between the addresser and addressee. The author identifies the communicative and pragmatic features ...

... учебного процесса в высшей школе. М., 1976. 2. Барсегян А. А., Куприянов М. С., Степаненко В. В., Холод И. И. Технологии анализа данных: Data Mining, Visual Mining, Text Mining, OLAP. СПб., 2007. 3. Елманова Н., Федоров А. Введение в OLAP-технологии Microsoft. М., 2002. 4. Овсяницкая Л. Ю. Интеллектуальный анализ данных как составляющая ...

This article identifies the cognitive tactics behind the interpretation of dreams in the ancient Assyrian text known as the Dream Book. Its basic characteristics include belief in the prophetic power of dreams, ritual orientation to men, regard for image polysemy and the use of symbols, employment of such mechanisms as metaphor, metonymy, pragmatic shifts,...

... considers the interaction between the functional and semantic categories of theme and rheme forming the basis for the generation, information deployment, and functioning of discourse. It is emphasized that the communicative structure of a political text incorporates several types of the themerheme progression formed through replacing the theme with the rheme and the transformation of the latter into the theme. It is concluded that the effective communicative impact of discourse is achieved through ...

... and describes the modern perspective on scientific writing in the following aspects: field of use, topic and content, characteristics of the sender and recipient, purpose and forms of speech, and general properties, linguistic features, and types of texts. 1. Кожина М. Н. К основаниям функциональной стилистики. Пермь, 1968. 2. Котюрова М. П. Тенденция к формированию новых явлений в научном стиле ...

... works. The article considers the semantics of human life as vegetation in its connection to the “life-death”, “young-old”, and “top-bottom” oppositions. The author’s approach consists in reconstructing the writer’s method of meaning and text generation based on the game potential of language up to using a multilingual anagrammatic code and reconsideration of language category. 1. Виноградов В. В. Слово и значение как предмет историко-лексикологического ...

The focus of this article is on the cognitive structure and means of verbalisation of the temporal and atemporal layers in Charles Dickens's depiction of Christmas in his novella «A Christmas Carol». In the complex structure of the holiday concept, past and present become intrinsically blended, Christmas time being a manifestation of eternity. 1. Бердяев Н. А. Время и вечность // На переломе. Философские дискуссии 20-х годов: Философия и мировоззрение. М., 1990. С. 402—410. 2. Вежбицкая А. Семантические...

Based on the modern Russian and Polish texts of different genres and styles, the authors consider the functioning of the Russian verb мочь and the Polish móc as main explicators of the modal meaning of possibility within their respective microfields. The article identifies the universal ...