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The article analyzes the main features of the category of pity in the texts of two inklings — C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien in the context of the ethical binary opposition of “good and evil”. This binary opposition is not randomly chosen: Lewis wrote “The Great Divorce” in order to refute the famous artistic ...

The article highlights the results of a study on the cumulative functionality of fantasy character nominations in English-language video games. The relevant term ... ... of grifonym bearers, it is established that, in addition to the universal nominative function, grifonyms in the accompanying texts of fantasy genre video games perform the function of conveying information about the specific qualities of the character ...

The influence of Immanuel Kant’s philosophy on the ideas of Gilles Deleuze was quite substantial. However, analyses of the correlation between ... ... Kritika i klinika [Critique and Clinic]. St. Petersburg: Machina. (In Rus.) Deleuze, G., 2002b. L’Île déserte et autres textes. Textes et entretiens 1953—1974. Paris : Les Éditions de Minuit. Deleuze, G., 2004. Peregovory [Negotiations]. 1972-1990....

The article aims to reveal the principles of urban space organisation in Viktor Marti­novich’s novel “Mova”. Due to the fact that the novel is based on a linguistic ... ... Postgraduates]. Minsk, pp. 75—78 (in Russ.). Toporov, V. N., 2003. Peterburgskii tekst russkoi literatury [The Petersburg text of Rus­sian literature]. St. Petersburg (in Russ.). Usovskaya, E. A., 2021. Identity of the city's communities (thе case ...

The paper examines the linguistic and communication changes taking place in poetic dis­course under the influence of new media. The digital interface (blogs, social networks, applica­tions) affects the transformation of all the parameters ... ... as new pragmatic techniques of poetic utterance. Akhapkin, D., 2012. Cognitive approach in modern studies of literary texts. No­voe literaturnoe obozrenie [New Literary Review], 114, pp. 298—312 (in Russ.). Androutsopoulos, J., 2006. Introduction: ...

The present study addresses the interdisciplinary issue of conflict and its linguistic specificity as a component of the emotive dimension in artistic discourse, with a focus on the ... ... shaped by systemic relations of emotionalism. Discursive contradictions function as key elements of the structural tension in the text, serving as linguistic and semantic dominants or attractors. These contradictions materialize as stylistic units at various ...

The article attempts to reconstruct the genesis of the concept of the ‘new Soviet man’ within the framework of communist ideology. An interdisciplinary research perspective ... ... the concept of the ‘Soviet man’ at the intersection of linguistics and history, viewed through the lens of the literary texts by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. As a result, the literary text is examined as a semiotic model of communication, in which ...

The article highlights the features of self-presentation of the subject of retrospective mental and cognitive activity recorded in the texts of memoirs of German-speaking writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. The texts of fiction, which are fictional memories of the narrator and the main character of the narrative in one person, were also used as linguistic material. The novelty of ...

The idiolect, idiostyle of a literary work, and the subjective aspect of a speech activity product are considered as objects of translation into a foreign language. The study raises the question of a strategy for analyzing the linguistic means of a literary text that would allow for the most complete reconstruction of the fictional world in the imagination of the foreign-language reader. The aim of the research is to study the influence of the interpretation of the idiostylistic aspect of a literary work ...

The article analyzes the features of synesthetic conceptualization of time through the prism of the category of color, based on the works of W. Shakespeare. It is demonstrated that color, not being an independent entity but a quality, acquires in the space of the literary text additional metonymically conditioned meanings through its correlation with the phenomena of existence, in some cases rising to the level of value-­laden symbolic co-meanings. The semantics and pragmatics of each color that shades time in Shakespeare’s ...

The article examines the features of verbalizing the category of quality in Marina Tsvetaeva’s prose texts through the lens of the vectors of figurative semantics formation by means of epithet complexes. The purpose of the study is to identify the mechanisms of representing qualitative, attributive semantics in Marina Tsvetaeva’s idiolect. To achieve ...

Urban motifs in Russian poetry have not yet become the subject of comprehensive investigation in terms of the evolution of poetic conceptualization of the world, the frequency, semantics and ... ... Trediakovsky, Lomonosov, Sumarokov, and, in com­pa­rative terms, against a wider temporal perspective, the preceding and subsequent texts of Rus­sian poetry. The lexeme 'grad' was often used in Classicist and Romantic poetry. From the 1830s onwards, it was ...

The article presents a reflection on Yuri Lotman’s idea of reorienting semiotics from the analysis of structures to the analysis of texts and their binary diagogical nature. This idea allows correlating Lotman’s approach with Bakhtin’s concept of a continuous,... ... 233—240 (in Russ.). Tulchinskii, G. L., 1985. Factors of artistic culture dynamics. Sovetskoe iskusstvoz­nanie [Soviet art history], 19/83, Vol. 2. Moscow, pp. 220—248 (in Russ.). Tulchinskii, G. L., 1986. “New” theories of Truth and “naïve” ...

The article analyses the impact of digital technologies on storytelling. By creating new information streams of personalised stories with open storylines in the ... .... Eco, U., 2005. Rol' chitatelya: issledovaniya po semiotike teksta [The role of the reader: studies in the semiotics of the text]. St. Petersburg (in Russ.). Enikeev, A. A., 2016. The problem of reading and writing in the context of poe­tics and pragmatics ...

Drawing on Narrative Theory, this article analyses the second French translation of The Brothers Karamazov as a counter-narrative for the novel’s first translation into French. In the mid-1880s, the critic Vogüé blocked the introduction of Dostoevsky’s narrative by predict­ing a clash with the French taste. Taking this warning ...

The history of the creation of Andrei T. Bolotov’s memoirs has been little studied. In par­ticular, the stages of his work on this text are not entirely clear. This article is an attempt to shed light on one aspect of this problem. Bolotov’s personal fund (No. 349) in the Archives and manuscripts section of the State Historical Museum contain a manuscript of Bolotov’s memoirs ...

In this article, I explore one of the elements of situational modality, namely, the microfield of the modality of necessity. I consider the use of lexical modifiers ... ... of this study are to identify similarities and differences in the use of lexemes explicating the microfield in the biblical texts and to produce a comparative analysis of modal meanings of objective-subjective and objective necessity expressed through ...

Reception of translated texts has thus far received relatively scant, uneven attention in Translation Studies, even though reception studies theories ... ... transcription in the analysis, translation and subtitling of Italian films. The Translator, 9(2). pp. 191—205. Tuominen, T., 2012. The art of accidental reading and incidental listening: An empirical study on the viewing of subtitled films. Ph. D. University of ...

Corpus-based interpreting studies (CIS) are a relatively recent “[…] Off-shoot of Corpus-based Translation Studies” to quote the seminal paper (1998) by the late Miriam Shlesinger, a constant source of inspiration ... ... Corpus linguistics and translation studies. Implications and applications. In: M. Baker, G. Francis and E. Tognini-Bonelli, eds. Text and Technology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 233—250. Bendazzoli, C., 2012. From international conferences to machine-readable ...

This paper analyses structures typical of the classical Chinese poetry and the way they are used in contemporary Chinese verse. The analysis aims to demonstrate the ... ... phonographics. A linguistic analysis of relevant contexts shows that all the linguistic means contribute to the semantic cohesion of the text and make a bridge to the space of classical images and the tradition of the 20th century Chinese ‘New Poetry’. Such experiments ...

This article discusses the potential of the linguistic persona theory in the linguistic studies of Kant’s texts. Linguistic Kant studies is a scientific discipline focusing on the language of Kant's works. Such a study can be either independent or integrated int a logicalphilosophical analysis. The author emphasizes Kant’s contribution to the German philosophical ...

This article examines Old Russian literary texts of the ancient period from the perspective of the origin and development of the Slavic given names stemming from both Old Russian roots and loanwords. The author analyses two- and three-part male and female given names and examines their phonetic adaptation ...

This paper studies the vision of translation developed within structuralism, cross-cultural studies, and semiotics ... ... al., 1973. Theses to the semiotic study of cultures (in application to the Slavonic texts). In: M. R. Mayenowa, ed. Semiotyka i struktura tekstu. Wroclaw.<br> 6.... ... humaines. XIXe — XXe siècle. Paris.<br> 35. Espagne, M., 2009. L`histoire de l`art comme transfert culturel. L`itineraire d`Anton Springer. Paris.<br> 36. Espagne...

This article presents preliminary results of a project studying multilingualism in world poetry. Multilingual interactions are ... ... freely in two or more languages and intentionally create either variants of the same text in two languages or different poems in two separate languages. The author outlines... ... linguistiques, hybridations culturelles. Reims. 18. Espagne, M., 2009. L'histoire de l'art comme transfert culturel. L'itineraire d'Anton Springer. Paris. 19. Espagne, M....

This article considers the functional features and deep cognitive foundations of ana¬grammatic structures in verbal texts. The traditional perspective on the phenomenon is defined as a general sign-based one: anagrammatic structures are examined in music and mathematics. It is concluded that anagrams are special cognitive universals; anagrammatic structures are possible ...

This article analyses L. Leonov’s novel «The Pyramid» from the perspective of hermeneutical and intertextual methodologies and identifies the coordinates of the text’s literary dialogue with the reader’s perception. The author shows that the hermeneutical and intertextual research methodologies make it possible to identify the multitude of intersections of literary layers, evaluations, and positions and describe ...

In the focus of my attention there are six German-language textbooks in logic published in the second half of the eighteenth century. What ... ... Johanne Charlotte Unzerin — Die erste deutsche Weltweise. In: Th. Langer, ed. 1996. Über die Gelehrsamkeit eines Frauenzimmers. Texte von und über Frauenzimmer von J. C. Unzerin, J. G. Krüger, G. F. Meier, J. J. Lange. Halle: Hallescher Verlag, pp. 8-23....

The article provides a comparative and collation analysis of the linguistic specificity of election speeches of J. Biden and D. Trump in 2020. Particular attention is paid to the linguistic means of agonality functioning in the texts. This study views agonality as a type of communication of the opposing parties when trying to achieve superiority in a political contest. The results of the study show that the means of agonality used in the election speeches of the presidential ...

The article is focuses on the interaction of artistic and scientific discours­es: scientific thinking into poetry. Based on two ... ... world itself. Finally, the author considers the value of Miłosz and Nemerov’s texts for modern culture and states that they are illustrations for cognitive research... ... R. Praise. N. Y., 1979. 19. Hoffmann R., Boyd I. Beyond the Finite: The Sublime in Art and Science. Ox­ford ; N. Y., 2011. 20. Hoffmann R. How I Work as Poet and Scientist...

Studying tourism branding as a process of communication requires a thorough analysis of both naming and descriptive texts available through information resources. A well-thought-out strategic platform attracts the target audience and ensures the smooth functioning of visual and verbal channels to create a bright and unified image in the world market. In this article,...

In this article, I investigate the poetics of the novel The buried giant by Kazuo Ishiguro and consider artistic images that tend to actualise mytho­logical poetics in the literary text. I pay particular attention both to the re-creation of elements of mythological origin in the context of the novel and to new semantic meanings emerging through the reconsideration of the myth in the mind of the author. I address the problem of defining ...

This article considered Beckett’s French short stories through the prism of philosophical and aesthetic foundations of modernist music. The rejection of tonal ... ... form and effect, to the impression of the ‘semiotic chaos’ arising when Beckett's texts are mentally articulated. The effect of ‘semantic chaos’ can be compared with... ... Samuel Beckett Talks about Beckett // Vogue. 1970. № 2. P. 108. 19. Harvey L. E. Art and the Existential in «En attendant Godot» // PMLA. 1960. Vol. 75, № 1. P....

Nikolai Kononov first published his story ‘Ceylon Island’ under the pen-name Alexander Chekhov (the name of Anton Chekov’s brother). This article explores the author’s literary mystification strategy as an element central to the poetic nature of ‘Ceylon Island’, its intertextuality, and its stylistic ‘set­tings’. The receptive nature of the text of Kononov’s story and the logic behind the creation of the author’s mask are considered. The structural sources of the text are revealed to be Chekhov’s Notebooks, Diaries, and Sakhalin Island. 1. Iванiв В. По краям рассветных ...

In his allegorical travel novel, Clive Staples Lewis tells the story of a hu¬man soul wandering in search for god. The medieval form of the allegorical novel helps the author to speak plainly about ... ... with it. The study identifies the pre-texts of Lewis’s intertextual novel. The interrelation between Lewis’s and Bunyan’s texts, which is shaped by differences between the cultural and religious attitudes of the two authors, is analysed. 1. Беньян ...

Today, the term ‘localization’ is used in many studies of translations and adaptation of various Internet resources. Foreign translation agencies specialize both in translation services,... ... adaptation and localization. The focus on the three key characteristics of the localization process and the analysis of localized texts placed on multilingual websites allow concluding that it is important to integrate localization concept in the theory of ...

The authors analyse the process of word formation in Russian media as a reflection of the global trends in modern communication. A structural and semantic analysis ... ... to identify the most productive models. The authors employ pragmatic analysis to determine the role of neolo­gisms in media texts. The following phenomena are characteristic of the mod­ern media discourse: the presence of foreign language elements (derivational ...

This article is devoted to the means of presenting argumentation in literature focusing on judicial matters. In such texts, theses and relevant arguments are often in an implicit form, which emphasises the particularities of the functioning of judicial reasoning. In addition, the argumentative function, which is integrated into the discourse, is combined with the aesthetic ...

... Kehlmann’s oeuvre is often interpreted as ‘ironic’ and thus put on a par with works following Friedrich Schlegel’s tradition of Romanticism. It would be more accurate to speak of ‘humour’ in the context of Schopenhauer’s philosophy of pessimism ... ... (for instance, Gabriel García Márquez). 1. Ahrend Th. No more dogs! Erfahrungen mit Daniel Kehlmann // Arnold H. L. (Hrsg.). Text + Kritik 177: Daniel Kehlmann. München, 2008. S. 68—72. 2. Jean P. [= Richter, Johann Friedrich Paul]. Vorschule der ...

Based on the texts from Russian news portals, this article considers the functional semantic and communicative pragmatic features of using structure representing interrogative imperative modality in the headlines. The author analyses the occurrence and typology of identified examples, as well as their functionality in the context of a headline’s communicative objectives. 1. Арутюнова ...

This article studies the cross-disciplinary interactions – a characteristic feature of modern literature – in the case of the novel Nice Work by a famous contemporary author and literary scholar David Lodge. The analysis is based on Yu. M. Lotman’s concept of polyglotism and M. M. Bakhtin’s and R. Bar-thes’s text theories. A specific feature of D. Lodge’s novel is the visuality of the world of literary images created using special literary techniques. The novel’s picture poetics emphasises picturesqueness as a generalising feature. The poetic role of ...

This article presents the results of a communicative study of the charter documents of “Proryv” volunteer centre. The author describes the main communicative ... ... department and employee activities. The author identifies the linguistic means of implementing said strategies and tactics in the texts of these documents. 1. Баландина Н. А. Дискурс переговоров в англоязычной деловой ...

This article considers the topical linguistic problem of metalinguistic potential of a natural language and identifies the cases of its specific functional tensions (the description of nonverbal signals designed within the ideal spacetime of a literary text). The chosen methodological approaches to the problem are new, however, they are based on the concepts developed by specialists in the field of applied psychology and semiotics, on the one hand, and prominent Russian linguists, on the other. 1. ...

This article considers the category of language modality as a means to implement the author’s intentions in a newspaper text. The modal meanings indicative of the author’s attitude to the message and the means of its expression are identified. The interaction between objective and subjective modal meanings is described for newspaper texts of the second half of the 19th ...

This article focuses on the problem of forms of including borrowed speech into a written text. The author corrects the established interpretation of direct speech, gives a detailed description of citation as a syntactic phenomenon, and offers its classification. 1. Вернадский В. И. Избранные труды по истории ...

This article analyses the functioning of colour naming in a poetical text. The authors identify the features of its semantic and aesthetical implementation, as well as their role in the structure of poetic images. 1. Алимпиева Р. В. Способы реализации концепта прекрасный в ...

This article is devoted to the problem of selecting the content of the “for-eign language” university course, in particular the selection of textbooks on the basis of modern psychological and pedagogical approaches. In order to im-prove the quality of teaching languages at university, ...

This article deals with the determination of local-temporary organization of German literary-narrative texts of ХIХ—ХХ centuries. The category of polysemy of German verb and its stylistic potential are examined in this context. 1.  Булыгина Т.   В. Грамматические и семантические категории и их ...

The article considers the interaction between modality and affective evaluation on the basis of hagiography of the ХIV—ХV centuries in the framework of medieval concept of the moral meaning of the beautiful. Ж. Мих. Яросл. Тверск. — Житие Михаила Ярославича Тверского // Биб­лиотека ...

This article considers the contentious issue of author's modality as one of the central categories of a text. The authors state their position on the structural-functional correlation of author's modality, subjective modality and axiological modality and define the features of the intracategorial relations of author's modality. 1.   Арутюнова ...

This article considers the characteristic features of utterances conveying the modal meaning of possibility that forms the field of situational modality in the texts of television commercials. The author makes an attempt to classify speech situations from the perspective of the bearer of the possibility property and examines the functioning features of the semantic variants of the verb мочь. 1.  Ваулина С....