Сolour terms in the Russian short stories of the early XX and XXI centuries: a corpus study
The paper presents a comparative analysis of colour terms frequencies in the Russian short stories of the early 20th and 21st centuries. The study draws on the Russian Short Stories Corpus 1900—1930, word frequency lists compiled from the stories by particular authors (Ivan Bunin, Alexander Kuprin, Anton Chekhov, Leonid Andreev), and the Russian National Corpus. Two major statistic parameters are used, i. e. relative frequency (ipm) and rank distribution....
Pragmatic obligatoriness revisited
... the introduction of a forthcoming canned joke into discourse is necessary, and it examines certain clichés commonly used to preface such jokes—clichés that are never employed to introduce spontaneous jokes.
pragmatic obligatoriness, discourse word, proper name, canned joke
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10.5922/2225-5346-2025-3-2
