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The short stories from Neil Gaiman’s collection Smoke and Mirrors are considered in the context of the cultural tradition of under­standing the sym­bolism of the mirror. The article aims to determine the main functions of the mirror in Gaiman's texts and describe the system of parallel images associated with the mirror and the reflection. The study concludes that the image of the mirror runs through the collection of stories, whereas its symbolism ranges from an object used in creating illusions ...

... revives and deconstructs the ancient mythological pre-text, which lays a foundation for aesthetic legitimation of rock and hip-hop lyrics and their inclusion in a greater cultural context. The study explores the forms of representation of Orpheus’s dual semantics as the archetypical poet and musician as well as of the general motifs of temptation/seduction and selling one’s soul. It is established that, perceived as a single source of meanings and plots, the myth encourages the musical and poetical culture ...

The author investigates verb-verbal noun collocations in literary texts. These collocations are analysed from the functional and semantic point of view. Literary works of I. Goncharov, I. Bunin, A. Solzhenitsyn, V. Makanin and D. Danilov are used as sources of examples. The author studies verbs and verbal (action) nouns from a linguopoetic perspective. Special attention is paid ...

... implicitly in each work of the writer. In this short story, the autobiographical discourse is represented via the painting and photography code. The authors emphasize the significance of the concepts of “life” and “death” and reveal their mythopoetic semantics of cycle and mutual transition. Ekphrastic descriptions are both ex­plicit and implicit in Kononov’s short story. The authors conclude that in “Svetotomia”, the text produces ekphrasis and at the same time, ekphrasis shapes the plot, and painting and photography create autobiography. 1. Барт Р. Camera lucida. Комментарий к фотографии / пер. с фр., послесл. и коммент. М., 2011. 2. Дашкова Т. Визуальная репрезентация ...

... sources that guide the Masons, and in the sources that they pro­duce themselves, the term “Word” dominates in the meaning of a “text, an idea or a communicative unit”. This determines the importance of the re­search. Its purpose is to identify the characteristics ... ... the Word by the Masons, that is, to discover the typology of the unit and its func­tions. To achieve the goal, the methods of semantic, contextual and communi­cative analysis were used, allowing in their totality to propose, prove and for­mulate a holistic ...

... 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 neo-derivatives with a meaning of an abstract action. The study follows the anthropocentric paradigm. 1. Ваулина С. С., Девина О. С. Авторская модальность как текстообразующая ...

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. филол. наук. Калининград,...

This article 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 ...

... ночью, чингисхань!..» в историко-литературной перспективе // Интерпретация и авангард : сб. науч. тр. Новосибирск, 2008. С. 42—50. 2. Левин А., Строчков В. Перекличка // Вавилон: Современная русская литература : [сайт]. URL: http://www.vavilon.ru/texts/levinstrochkov1.html (дата обращения: 02.02.2014). 3. Маяковский В. В. Собр. соч. : в 6 т. М., 1973. Т. 1. 4. Мифы народов мира : энциклопедия : в 2 т. М., 2006. 5. Николина Н. А. Словотворчество в поэтической речи на рубеже XX—XXI веков // ...

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 ...

N. Kononov’s short story “Anastasia’s amnesia” is used to study the mythopoetic code forming the basis of the writer’s 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 исследования // Виноградов В. ...

... functional-semantic and communicative category. These are the issues of the legitimacy and adequacy of identifying subjective and objective modality, the specific features of interaction between objective and subjective modalities in the language and text in view of the communicative orientation, and the function and genre of the latter. 1. Алимпиева Р. В. Роль ситуативной модальности в реализации аксиологической бинарной модели «поэт — родина» в лирике С. Есенина // Модели в современной науке: единство ...

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 и философия: Роль философии в формировании и восприятии художественного произведения на ...

This article deals with the 'time' concept in Boris Pasternak's poem “Sparrow Hills” and its English translation by Eugene M. Kayden. The focus is placed on implicitness as a basic feature of the semantic structure of a poetic text. The poem's main image – Pentecost (“Whitsun”) – proves to be a manifestation of eternity in the realm of time. In the English translation, this broad temporal context is lost. 1. Алефиренко Н. Ф. Событийная синергетика имплицитности текста в лингвопоэтическом ...

... idioms. The authors classify colour idioms according to the factor which forms the basis of value meaning and is specified by the semantics of the colour. 1. Алефиренко Н. Ф. Фразеология в свете современных лингвистических парадигм. М., 2008. 2. Вежбицкая ... ... Самара, 1996. 11. Fauconnier G., Turner M. Conceptual blending, form and meaning. URL:http://tecfa.unige.ch/tecfa/malt/cofor-1/textes/Fauconnier-Turner03.pdf (дата обращения: 11.10.2011).

... background knowledge. The special emphasis is given to the description of the manipulative technique. The research is based on the texts of Russian and American political discourse. 1. Владиславова Н. Базовые техники NLP и хорошо сформированный результат. ... ... Пелевинские чтения. Калининград, 2009. 5. Тураева З. Я. Лингвистика текста. М., 1986. 6. Stalnaker R. Assertion // Syntax and Semantics. N. Y., 1978. Vol. 9: Pragmatics. 7. Бесполезно ли бороться за чистоту выборов? // Наш город Калининград.2011. 1 марта....

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 ...

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...

Based on M. Voloshin’s poetic texts, the specificity of mineralogical colour-denotings functioning is considered as the means of the author’s perception;the semantic-aesthetic peculiarities of these lexemes realization are revealed;their role in the structuring of poetic images is ...

... content of the cultural component of meaning. Special attention is given to the functions the cultural component performs in the text and to the problem of culture-specific information translation in the context of cross-cultural dialogue. 1. Бучило Н.... ... Mediators. Manchester, 1999. 9. Hofstede G. Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind. L . , 1991. 10. Wiezbicka А . Semantics, Culture and Cognition: Universal human concepts in culture-specific configurations. Oxford, 1992. 11. Tatyana T . ...

This article addresses the chronotope formation in the short story Of the name of Lev on the basis of the semantic potential of the main character’s anthroponyms. The author considers the role of the left-right opposition in the modelling of space and time in the text. 1.  Баркова А.   Л. Мифология: авторская программа. URL : http :// mith . ru / alb / mith / myth . htm (дата обращения: 20.03.2011). 2.  Берестнев Г.   И. Языковые подходы к проблеме архетипов коллективного бессознательного // Языкознание: ...

This article presents a functional-semantic analysis of one of situational modality meanings — the meaning of necessity — as implemented in Russian and Lithuanian newspaper texts. The authors identify the functions of Russian modal explicators and their Lithuanian equivalents. 1.  Бессарабова Г.   А . Соотношение системно-языкового и речевого аспектов категории персональности в русском и испанском языках: на материале ...

On the basis of S. Yesenin’s poetry, the authors consider the text function of linguistic units expressing the modal meaning of necessity. The article offers their functional and semantic hierarchy and describes their role in analysing the poet’s axiological world view. Список сокращений   МАС — Словарь русского языка: в 4 т. / АН СССР, Ин-т рус. яз.; под ред. А.   П. Евгеньевой. М., 1981—1984. 1. Бабенко Л.   Г., Васильев ...

Based on an analysis of holiday issues of the Kaliningradskaya Pravda newspaper, this article determines the frequency of semantic structures constituting the official image of the Kaliningrad region. Seventeen distinguishing features of the region ... ... марта 2015 г. // Русская Православная Церковь : официальный сайт Московского патриархата. URL: http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/4013160.html (дата обращения: 16.05.2016). 6. Год нашей жизни // КП. 1983. 31 дек. 7. Две даты // КП. 1954. 9 апр. 8. Двухлетие ...

... a more general level, which makes it possible to identify the cognitive mechanisms of anagrams. General conclusions about the functioning of anagrams in the philosophical discourse are made. The author stresses the originality of their structuring (text forming) function, the expansion of discursive semantics created by them and its orientation to the sphere of the irrational; the mechanisms of interaction between the semantic structure of the philosophizing personality and the texts created by them are identified. 1. Азарова Н. М. Анаграмма в философском ...

... constructions in the modern advertising. The author analyses the use of various types of Passive and explores other forms of speech when it becomes possible to convey the Voice relations. The research has been conducted on the basis of the German advertising texts. 1. Арутюнова Н. Д. Предложение и его смысл. М., 1992. 2. Коммерческий словарь/ под общ. ред. А. Н. Арзилияна. М., 1992. 3. Bendel S. Werbeanzeigen von 1622—1798. Entstehung und Entwicklung einer Textsorte. Tübingen, 1998. 4. Duden....