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The article is devoted to connectives, i. e., functional words and constructions whose primary function is to express semantic relations between units of discourse. It aims to explore the pragmatic dimension of connectives, which remains largely underappreciated in linguistic pragmatics to date. Given that the concept of pragmatics has at least two distinct interpretations in linguistic research—here ...

The article examines the main approaches to defining and studying political discourse. It identifies the conceptual components of its analysis in the context of political relations, where discourse is regarded not only as a process of transmitting and discussing information but also as a form of power communication. Changes in ...

This study explores the pragmatic potential of linguistic means used to explicate the call-to-action strategy in English-language environmental discourse. The position of environmen­tal discourse within the broader discursive space is defined, and a brief overview of relevant studies is provided, with a focus on its substantive linguistic characteristics. Based on an analysis of articles published ...

The article examines the features of representing the confrontational speech strategy of discreditation, used in everyday communication, particularly in marital discourse. The goal of the research is to identify the speech tactics employed in domestic communication between spouses for the purpose of discrediting and weakening the communicative position of the communication partner. To achieve the research goal,...

The article examines the principles and methods of constructing discourse that emerges through a unique combination of socio-cultural and linguistic factors in the context of a European metropolis. Participants involved are representatives of the first and second wave of Russian emigration: Gaito (Georgy Ivanovich) ...

In this paper, we study such a specific product of enigmatic discourse as a crossword puzzle. The powerful potential of this text is manifested in its ability to accumulate and translate cultural meanings and values, which explains the recent appearance of a large number of works on the study of linguistic, cultural,...

The article deals with the linguopoetics of deixis as one of the key mechanisms for expressing subjectivity in artistic communication. The aim of the study is to discuss the specifics of deictic words and constructions in experimental poetic discourse. The second part of the article analyzes the functions of personal, spatial, and discourse (textual) deixis in the visual layout of a poetic text (spatial design of verse). The material for analysis encompasses Edward Cummings’ experimental ...

... in comparison with the previously considered quasi-synonymous lexeme ‘svershit’sya’. The author's methodology of complex (contentive and quantitative) corpus-discourse analysis is used. The source of language material is modern domestic media discourse. The direct material of the study is the contexts extracted from the newspaper corpora of the Russian National Corpus. At the preliminary, empirical level of the study, according to the dictionary data, it was found that the meanings of the ...

This article examines the phenomenon of pragmatic obligatoriness. For illustrative purposes, it discusses Russian discourse markers—particularly the particles ‘vdrug’ and ‘razve’. An expression is considered pragmatically obligatory in a given communicative situation if its absence, where the situation calls for it, may lead to unintended implicatures. ...

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’ ...

The article discusses the pragmatic potential of inter-textual inclusions in political discourse and how this potential is determined by the commonly shared precedent knowledge held in the cognitive base of all the members of the society. The paper touches upon the notion of precedent texts which have a unique system of commonly shared ...

... which a story is narrated, followed by an interactive conversation. This design makes the cor­pus particularly suitable for the present research purpose. Relying on the episodic structure of the narratives, as well as on the notions of the elementary discourse unit (EDU), the spoken sentence, and the functional types of manual gestures, the study arrives at the following re­sults. Among the verbal signals of monologue completion, it was found that speakers tend to reduce the length of spoken sentences,...

The article examines the pragmatic and semantic mechanisms underlying the discursive realisation of implicit evaluativeness in Russian idioms. The aim of the study is to identify the implicit positive or negative evaluative meanings of phraseological units whose evaluative connotations are not recorded in dictionaries but emerge through their immediate and broader contextual environment. The analysis focuses on the idiom ‘iz ryada von’ (vykhodyashchiy) (Eng.‘out of the ordinary’) and its reduced...

Based on the material of five manuals promoting the lexical approach to learning and teaching English, an analysis of conceptual metaphors in linguodidactic discourse is conduct­ed. The study demonstrates which metaphors are used by the authors of the manuals (M. Lew­is, L. Selivan, H. Dellar, E. Walkley) when describing their experience and seeking to con­vince readers of the effectiveness of the approach ...

... commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Ingush people and the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Ingush statehood as case studies. Employing an actor-oriented approach based on the works of M. Bernhard and J. Kubik, along with discourse analysis, the author examines how various actors shape and promote competing narratives of the past. The study demonstrates that the narrative of the 1944 deportation consolidates In­gush society, enabling regional actors to sustain a “victimhood” ...

... study of politically oriented blogs and those that address political topics occasionally. The study also identifies mechanisms that increase the communicative potential and persuasive power of the ideological and semantic content, using semiotic and discourse analysis. Anisimova, E. E., 1992. Paralinguistics and text (on the problem of creolized and hybrid texts). Voprosy Jazykoznanija [Topics in the study of language], 1, pp. 71—79 (in Russ.). Barash, R. E. and Antonovskiy, A. Yu., 2019....

The hybrid genre of poetic treatise occupies a somewhat marginal position within the lit­erary genres landscape. Nonetheless, it holds particular interest as a realm of interaction be­tween artistic and scientific discourses, sometimes intertwining with everyday speech. In the twentieth century, the interplay between scientific and poetic texts, as well as between verse and prose, took on new experimental forms. Western literature saw the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein ...

... selected genre in both coun­tries is identified. The objects of evaluation are monetary units, currency pairs, trends in their movement, political events, and the activities of players in the foreign exchange market. Zakharova O.S. anglophone discourse, analytical review of the foreign exchange mar­ket, evaluation category, evaluation representation, comparative characteristics, ang­lophone media discourse of the USA, anglophone media discourse of the UK 5-15 10.5922/vestnikpsy-2025-4-1