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The article describes three dictionaries compiled by three outstanding mariners who explored the Pomor North: the “Dictionary of Muscovites” compiled by the French navigator Jean Sauvage in 1586, the “Small Russian- Norwegian dictionary” written in 1907 by polar captain Alexander Kuchin and the “English-Russian Maritime Dictionary” of the Soviet sailor Fedor Shchepetov from Arkhangelsk. A detailed comparative analysis of these sources permits to illustrate different periods of the lexicographical...

The article analyzes verb collocations of 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...

The article analyses the means of cohesion in documents of general char­acter. The research material is the mid-18th century certificates and passports kept in the «Ataman of Michailovskaya Stanitsa» Fund of the Volgograd Re­gional State Archive. It is established that the texts of certificates and pass­ports are different in their choice of cohesion means in the text. The certificates are characterized by a specific means of cohesion — the repetition of the names of the responsible persons in the...

The author studies lexical dominants of the vocabulary of precedent biblical anthroponyms David and Goliath in the biblical texts and poetic texts based on the Bible. It is shown that the precedent name in the poetic text becomes a means of expressing the author’s assessment of the depicted. Changes are revealed in the semantics of images resulting from the author’s individual assessment and the reader’s perception. The author demonstrates the dependence of the functioning of the two biblical anthropoetonims...

The author explores the importance of the autobiographical component in literary works. The article offers a linguostylistic analysis of short stories by the German writer H. Hesse. In these stories, the writer reconstructs his past based on his memories. The article analyses methods of linguistic actualisation and reproduction of past experiences as an integral element of autobiographical memory and describes the verbalisation of obliviscence. The author holds that H. Hesse deliberately uses a number...

Contemporary communication is witnessing an increasing role of visual elements. The development of cinema as a special sign system has contributed to this trend. Scholars agree on the definition of the film text as a unique type of text comprising both verbal and non-verbal elements. Film adaptations are an instance of intersemiotic translation. Today, television series are growing in popularity. This article studies various classifications of film text elements and analyses non-verbal signs used...

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 mechanisms transformed Saussure’s terminology into a linguistic terminological system consisting of 36 scientific terms. 1. Cardona T. R. Négativité...

This article is devoted to the lexis of the Russian language denoting mental states. The study of the words and their functions rests on the psychological interpretation and classification of mental states. The author describes how a person’s mental life is expressed as a system ...

... expansion of the 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 ...

The article deals with linguistic aspects of localizaton, in particular, with cultural adaptation of non-equivalent lexis in the translation of computer games from Russian into English. The research is focused on the types of nonequivalent lexical units typical of game discourse and their translation into the Russian language. 1. Esselink B. A practical guide to localization....

The author investigates the use of gender marked lexemes in retrospective texts of the 19th and 20th century written by male authors. Gender identity in the male written texts is reflected in gender marked lexemes (GML), representing subjective autonominations realized at the lexical level in subjectified and objectified ways. A specific feature typical of the actualization of GMLs relevant for male retrospective texts is their social context, i. e. professional and academic pragmatic parametres...

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...

Irony is considered 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 на английский язык (функционально-семантический анализ) : дис. … канд...

This article considers the relationship between the TIME and SPACE concepts. The features of modeling space parameters in human cognitive ac-tivities and the universal ways of verbalization of space structures and attri-butes are analyzed. The research is focused on the theory of primary and se-condary space deixis put forward by the German linguist A. Friderici, which presents a system of coordinates giving the subject of cognition the possibility to navigate in the surrounding space. 1. Беседина...

Present paper is an endeavor to analyze the outcomes of the celebrated experiment Violin, expressing the structure of associative-semantic links in human brain. Based upon evidence gained from objective neurophysiological methods, certain dictionary articles of the Associative Thesaurus of the Russian Language have thus been analyzed. A comparative analysis of behavioral experiments is offered based on which associative dictionaries have been compiled-alongside with objective experiments of the data...

The paper deals with some peculiarities of translating colloquial and lowcolloquial vocabulary functioning in the novels of S. Maugham into Russian. The features of translation equivalents are identified at the stylistic and semantic levels. The ways of compensating for the lost components of meaning are shown. In spite of that the colloquial and low-colloquial elements belong to typologically different languages, some similarities are observed at semantic and stylistic levels. 1. Кожина М. Н. Стилистический...

This article focuses on the interpretation of occasionalisms motivated by proper names through references to background knowledge, and cultural and historical context as presented in the poetical works of 20th century poets (V. Khlebnikov, V. Mayakovsky, etc.). The author addresses the problem of the lexicographical description of these lexical units. 1. Барковская Н. Стихотворение Велимира Хлебникова «Усадьба ночью, чингисхань!..» в историко-литературной перспективе // Интерпретация и авангард...

The article focuses upon basic means of the 'time' category explication in the English and Russian lexicon and grammar; special emphasis is laid upon linguistic instantiations of axiological sense. 1. Балашова Л. В. Метафора в диахронии (на материале русского языка XI—XX веков). Саратов, 1998. 2. Бондарко А. В. Временные категории (на материале русского языка) // Категоризация мира: пространство и время. М., 1997. С. 31—34. 3. Бондарко А. В. Теория значения в системе функциональной грамматики:на...

This article deals with the ways of the strategies of defining recipient’s emotional status explication in the modern German poetry discourse. Especially we are concentrating on lexical tools of the tactics of appeal to happiness and tactics of appeal to regret. The examples of implementation of the strategy of defining recipient’s emotional status are poems, which are devoted to consideration of concept LOVE. 1. Борисова И. Н. Русский разговорный диалог: структура и динамика. Екатеринбург, 2001...

The poetic texts of M. Voloshin help consider the metaphorical use of mineralogical lexis as a means of light and colour perception. The author identifies the features of semantic and aesthetic realization of these lexemes and stresses their representative function within the structure of poetic images. 1. Бранский В. П. Искусство ...

This article deals with the “border” concept, which is considered with the help of Russian language material from the cognitive point of view: as a prototypical spatial object and as a functionally important schema for the structuring of different parts of linguistic world image relating to space. 1. Бабенко Л. Г. Предисловие // Концептосфера русского языка: ключевые концепты и их репрезентации (на материале лексики, фразеологии и паремиологии): проспект словаря. Екатеринбург, 2010. С. 3—19...

This article deals with the verbs conveying semantic dominants of hagiographic texts; an integrated approach to the analysis of language facts makes it possible to establish that the features of verbal word forms function according to the type of hagiography and its composition. 1. Болотнова Н. С. Лексическая структура художественного текста в ассоциативном аспекте. Томск, 1994. 2. Гапеева Е. Л. Лексическая структура типовых фрагментов с монологической речью персонажа (на материале романа И. А...

This article deals with the process of conceptual shift that creates a syntactic field with its nucleus and peryphery. In the latter the superposition of prototypically opposed meanings and concepts substitutes for the polysemy of syntactic units, thus resulting in the overlap of syntactic fields. In this process vocabulary is of great importance. 1.  Bierwisch M. Semantische und konzeptuelle Repräsentation lexikalischer Einheiten // R. Ruzicka, W. Motsch (Hrsg.). Untersuchungen zur Semantik...

The article focuses upon lexical manifestations of the axiological aspect of the category of ‘the everyday’ in the English language. 1.  Бархатова О.   Н. Западноевропейская средневековая христианская картина мира. Благовещенск, 2000. 2.  Безгин В.   Б. Традиции сельской повседневности конца XIX — начала XX века: автореф. дис. … д-ра ист. наук. М., 2006. 3.  Великие старцы двадцатого столетия. М., 2008. 4.  Горин Д.   Г. Пространство и время в динамике российской цивилизации. М...

The article deals with the basic persuasive techniques of discourse representation.The research is based on occasional patterns representing the concept “entertainment” as seen by “new” generation of youth. 1.  Maaß K. Spaßgesellschaft. Wortbedeuting und Wortgebrauch. Peter Lang. Frankfurt a/M, 2003. 2.  Арутюнова Н.   Д. Дискурс // Лингвистический энциклопедический сло­варь. М ., 1990. С . 136—137. 3.  Foucault M. Die Ordnung des Diskurses. Frankfurt a/M, 1998. 4.  Teubert...

The article examines the means of expressing impersonality meanings in the works of contemporary Russian, Polish and Bulgarian poets. The author determines typological characteristics defining correlations between the lexical and semantic and functional grammatical categories of linguistic units in contextualised expression of impersonality. 1.  Андреев А . Пътьом: поезия. София, 2000. 2.  Балева   В . Някъде вън от живота: поезия. София, 1999. 3.  Васильев   С.   А . Собрание сочинений: в 3 т...

The article considers the development of regional toponymic lexicon on the basis of the Volgograd region geographical names. The author offers the field approach to characterising functional and semantic unity of linguistic units on various synchronic snapshots of the end of the 20th — beginning of the 21st century. 1.  Бондарко А.   В . Теория морфологических категорий и аспектологические исследования. М., 2005. 2.  Васильева С.   П . Русская топонимия Приенисейской Сибири: картина мира: автореф...

The article deals with the ideological foundations of English monolingualism in the U. S. A. The author analyses the arguments used by supporters and opponents of this ideology. The author also describes the history of monolingualism, as well as its function and sources. 1. Хантингтон С. Кто мы? Вызовы американской национальной идентично- сти. М., 2008. 2. Baker C., Jones S. P. The Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Clevedon, 1998. 3. Crawford J. Anatomy of the English-Only...

This article offers an analysis of lexical means to represent the mental category of space, precisely, the "virtual space" group in Russian internet discourse. 1.  Красных В.   В . Виртуальная реальность или реальная виртуальность? (Че­ловек. Сознание. Коммуникация). М., 1998. 2.  Подосинов А.   В . Картографический принцип в структуре географического описания древности // Методика изучения древних источников по истории народов СССР. М., 1972. С. 22—45. 3.  Степанов Ю.   С . Номинация...

This paper offers the results of the study on the word-building capacities and lexical potential of verbs and nouns in the tales in two parts by A. I. Solzhenitsyn. Special attention is focused on the occasional word construction patterns, which are used by the writer as a means to create a literary image. 1 .  Виноградов В.   В . О языке художественной прозы: Избранные труды. М., 1980. 2.  Винокур Г.   О . О языке художественной литературы. М., 1991. 3.  Григорьев В.   П . К эстетике неологизма //...

The article focuses upon cognitive basis and lexical manifestations of the axiological aspect of the spatial time metaphors in the English and Russian languages. 1. Акты Святейшего Тихона, Патриарха Московского и всея России, позднейшие документы и переписка о каноническом преемстве высшей церковной власти. 1917—1943 гг. / сост. М. Е. Губонин. М., 1994. 2. Алексий II, Патриарх Московский и всея Руси. Церковь и духовное возрождение России. Т. 2. Слова, речи, послания, обращения. 1998—2000...

The author studies translation of lexical and phonetic colloquial and dialect specific speech features in the works of modern German writer Günter Grass. The author analyses the methods of fiction literature translation, which have been used for translation from Danzig dialect into Russian. 1. Девкин В.   В. Особенности немецкой разговорной речи. М., 1965. 2. Шишканова М.   И. Морфологические особенности разговорного стиля английского языка: дис. … канд. филол. наук. М., 1956. 3. Grass...

The article focuses on polysemy as a conceptual phenomenon. The author gives a brief overview of the works of Russian and foreign linguists specializing in the study of Polysemy. Special attention is given to the representation of polysemy in mental lexicon. 1. Виноградов В.   В. Русский язык: Грамматическое учение о слове. М., 1972. 2. Зализняк А.   А. Феномен многозначности и способы его описания // Вопросы языкознания. 2004. № 2. С. 20—45. 3. Лещёва Л.   М. Когнитивные аспекты лексической...

Evaluative lexemes with the “good/kind” semantics representing the concept of “god” are considered on the basis of Old Russian texts of the 11th—14th centuries. The author analyses the semantic features of the functioning of these lexemes. Список сокращений   Девг. деян. — Девгениево деяние [11, т. 2]. Жит. Феод. Печ. — Житие Феодосия Печерского [11, т. 2]. Из Иуд. в. — Из «Истории Иудейской войны» Иосифа Флавия [11, т. 2]. Изб. 1073 — Изборник 1073 года. М., 1983. Изб. 1076...

This article considers phonetic, lexical, grammatical, syntactical and stylistic poetic neologisms relevant to the language of contemporary poetry from the functional-semantic aspect. 1.  Бобышев Д. Ангелы и силы. N .   Y ., 1997. 2.  Вознесенский А. Треугольная груша. М., 1962. 3.  Гаспаров   Б.   М. Язык, память, образ. Лингвистика языкового существова­ния. М., 1996. 4.  Даль В.   И. Толковый словарь живого великорусского языка: в 4 т. М., 1978—1980. 5.  Зельченко В. Войско. СПб.,...

This article focuses on the interaction between space and text in A. Eppel’s short stories. The correlation between the fictional and text spaces at the level of lexis is analysed on the basis of the short story On a dark warm night. The author proves the isomorphism of the plot and the reading process. 1.  Андреев О.   А., Хромов Л.   Н . Учитесь быстро читать. URL : ...

The author justifies a conceptual provision that social capital can be com­posed of not only positive but also negative elements. Most researchers, in­cluding economists, sociologists, and psychologists stress the importance of the formation and development of human capital in modern society. However, they focus on the positive content and application. Without rejecting this ap­proach, the author proposes to proceed from the assumption that the inclina­tion and abilities, education, will, value preferences...

The paper focuses on Königsberg’s elites faced with fast changes in the 19th century. The city’s old merchant families were up against increasing competition from new actors – industrialists and bankers – trying to take advantage of the former. The author examines changes in the elites in the course of major economic, social, and political changes 1. Albinus R. Königsberger Lexikon. Würzburg, 2002. 2. Altpreußische Biographie / Hrsg. Ch. Krollmann. Königsberg; Marburg, 1939. T. 1. 3. Carrez M...

The article analyses the development of photography in the 19—20th centuries, the themes of East Prussian resort photos, as well as the professional activity and biographical facts about German photographers. 1.  Stiegler B. Zeigen Fotografien Geschichte? // Fotogeschichte: Beiträge zur Ge­schichte und Ästhetik der Fotografie. 2005. Heft 95. 2.  Wagner R.   M. Ostpreußen in alten Ansichtskarten. Würzburg, 2001. 3.  Der Kreis Samland: Ostpreußen in historischen Ansichten...

The article analyses the mechanisms of the development of American foreign policy towards Central and Eastern Europe on the example of Poland.The author considers a number of factors that influenced the process of the foreign policy development. 1. Печатнов В.   О. Мистер «Икс» в 1945 г . (неизвестное письмо Джорджа Кен­нана) // Проблемы всемирной истории. СПб ., 2000. 2. Alternative concepts of United States foreign policy 1943—1947. European and global aspects of postwar...

This article analyses population changes in North-West regions of Russia (the former North-Western economic zone and the Kaliningrad region) and the Baltics at the level of urban districts and municipalities. The cohort component method is used to analyze the youth population dynamics in the administrative territorial units of this level, which makes it possible to estimate the international (intraregional) migration of this population group. This method is used quite rarely, yet it is more accurate...

This article analyzes the principles of spatial planning, which form the basis for this type of urban development in the countries of the European Union (EU) and in the Russian Federation. The following principles are considered and compared for both territories: 1) promotion of territorial cohesion through a more balanced social and economic development of regions and improved competitiveness; 2) encouragement of development generated by urban functions and improvement of the relationship between...