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The author explores the semantics of the verb ‘to lack’ and the way the speaker categorizes situations when perceiving and asseessing them. The verb ‘to lack’ expresses implicit negation embedded in the verb meaning, which ac­tualizes some modus situations. The objective of the article is to identify and analyse situations verbalized in the utterances with the verb ‘to lack’. These situations are the results ...

... the so-called game component of communication. Some neol­ogisms are created as a result of a deviation from the traditional derivational models. There are also polycode neologisms. Generally speaking, neologisms are used as a means of increasing the expressiveness of media texts and a means of expressing assessment. 1. Русский язык конца XX столетия (1985—1995). М., 1996. 2. Диброва Е. И., Касаткин Л. Л., Николина Н. А., Щеболева И....

The linguistic and pragmatic analysis of expressive means in political texts is gaining popularityamong researchers. The study of the role of meta­phor in enhancing the pragmatic effectiveness of political speech is relevant due to the fact that metaphor, being not only a way of expressing ...

... author concludes that the sentences of the Praed structural scheme are used in everyday communication for transmitting both objective (dictum) and subjective (modus) information. They are used to re­flect the state of a person or the environment, to express the attitude of the subject of speech to the speech situation, to characterize the degree of his con­fidence in the transmitted information. Most often, such sentences are used by the subject of speech to generalize and at the same time emotionally ...

The article contains an axiological analysis of the novel "The Prospector" by the French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. The author of the novel employs a variety of artistic means to express the characters’ and his own value systems referring to the biblical myth of the knowledge tree of good and evil. 1. Ильин В. В. Аксиология. М., 2005. 2. Косидовский З. Библейские сказания. М....

The article focuses on lexical means of expressing time in a short story by O'Henry. The author identifies chronopuncture, chronometric and chronological markers and highlights their functions in the text. The lexical means of chronopuncture, indicating the specific time of the event, dominate ...

... found in the texts. In the system of sensory codes, under the concept of "musical", the author puts the idea of reflection and introspection. The specific feature of Kononov’s style is its correlation with the visual and the tactile, it expresses the separation of the visible into the hidden and the obvious and emphasizes the "otherness" of the subject of perception. Thus, hearing is a means of individualization of the subject, a resource, permitting to disclose its unique ...

... which was predetermined by some biographic and sociocultural factors. Reinterpreting G. Ivanov’s key motifs and imagery, B. Ryzhy enriches his lyrics by bringing in Soviet and post-Soviet connotations. G. Ivanov’s tragic intonation gains a new sound expressing the experience of man living in the 20th century. 1. Арнольд И. В. Значение сильной позиции для интерпретации художественного текста // Иностранные языки в ...

... 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 of interacting and interdependent mental states in the language picture of the world. The semantics and history of the words chuvstvo, etmotsiya, and oschuschenie are investigated. It is concluded that the words chuvstvo and chuvstvovat ...

This article analyses the concept of performative utterance, its primary characteristics, and properties. Audio and video sources are employed to identify secondary forms expressing performative utterances in the mother-child communication and to examine the use of such utterances in the speech. This type of utterances is considered as characteristic of the speech of a woman performing the social role of a mother. 1. ...

... half of the 17th and early 18th centuries. Special attention is paid to the interaction of modal semantics with the pragmatic background of the utterance. The authors identify a variety of modal meanings, including those of necessity and obligation expressed by constructions with an independent infinitive in legislative directive documents. The authors analyze the dependence of the semantics of these constructions on the genre of the text. 1. Буралова Р. А. Оптативные высказывания ...

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 ...

This article analyses trends in, and approaches to, research into problems associated with teaching migrant children at Russian multi-ethnic educational institutions. The author stresses the need to study emotional expression in non-native speakers and bilingual children and to develop their emotional intelligence. Interdisciplinary research should be aimed to study and develop a stable identification with the host country in migrant children and to create a feeling ...

The focus of the article is on various aspects of the creative identity of an author of a mnemonic text represented by the concept of cognitive and communicative subject. The features of the author’s cognitive, communicative, discursive, and linguistic identities are described and the ways of their representation are shown in the case of the memoirs of the Lithuanian writer B. Sruoga Dievų miškas. The term ‘mnemonic discourse’ is introduced as a linguistic phenomenon connecting texts with the general...

Public service announcements attract attention to social problems and encourage the general public to solve them, which requires influencing the recipient using speech methods. The means to exert such influence create a functional and semantic field. The authors focus on the periphery constituents of this field, which function in public service announcements in the Russian and German languages. 1. Виноградов В. В. Русский язык (Грамматическое учение о слове). М., 2001. 2. Голуб О. В., Куракин М...

The analysis of R. L. Stevenson's story "Markheim" shows an essential role of Christmas motifs in the semantic space of the work. There are various forms of expressing this motif in the key moments of the plot. The value space of the main character is connected to the Christian values inherent in Christ-mas motifs, and the story line develops along the rules of a Christmas story. 1. Амелина Е. Е....

..., the author determines the role and purpose of the requestive threat as a speech act, and identifies the composition and role of various components of requestive threat speech acts as a type. Requestive speech acts are a means of indirectly derived expression of a corresponding meaning. 1. Крючкова Г. Н. Особенности психофизиологических механизмов эмоционального напряжения // Фундаментальные исследования....

The article discusses several strategies of Egor Letov’s idiostyle associated with his subjective position, which is expressed in a literary text. The authors analyze some models of Letov’s poetic syntax — subject-predicate relations and the prevalence of infinitives. The article describes certain constants of the Egor Letov’s poetic model of the world, characterizing ...

This article addresses the memento mori genre in the German literature if the 11th-12th centuries. The works in this genre present a literary expression of the category of reminder of mortality. It is close to the sermon calling for repentance. The typical texts by Heinrich von Melk include lamentations about the deceitfulness of the world, the brevity and vanity of earthly life, a reminder ...

... this arti-cles considers the early but the most literary advanced poems created as his poetic voice was emerging. The study shows that the process of the poet’s creative evolution followed a trajectory from the ‘social ideological order’ towards expressing the ‘living’ human feeling and lyrical sacredness. 1. Мазитов З. М. Фатих Карим: Очерк жизненного и творческого пути. Ка-зань, 1963. 2. Галимуллин Ф. Г. Атмосфера ...

... considering its relation to the problems of artist’s personality and freedoms. An analysis of similar space images used by several authors shows how the tradition was reinterpreted at different stages of romantic thought. Stepping out into the open, which expresses liberation from limitations imposed on the individual, is one of the key motives in the novels of Jena period, while the Heidelberg novel stresses the positive value of “limits”. 1. Васкиневич А. И. Символ в творчестве ...

... Щукина Г. И. Педагогические проблемы формирования познавательных интересов учащихся. М., 1988. 15. Roget P. M. Thesaurus of English words and phrases classified so as to facili-tate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition. L., 1952.

This article identifies and analyses the linguistic features of the genera-tion and perception of complimentary phrases in different age groups belon-ging to English, American, and Russian cultures. The language of representatives of different age groups is dissimilar, therefore, there is a need to consider the effect of age parameters on language. 1. Булгаков М. А. Театральный роман. Алма-Ата, 1988. 2. Вахтин Н. В., Головка Е. В. Социолингвистика и социология языка. Гендер. Язык и возраст. URL:...

Based on the materials of the handwritten Vesti-Kuranty newspaper, this article analyses the functional significance of evaluative lexis — adjective, adverbs, and nouns with subjective modal meanings conveying expressive emotional reactions of the author of a newspaper text to the described histori-cal events, as well as the temper and actions of its participants. 1. Арутюнова Н. Д. Типы языковых значений: Оценка. Событие....

... language. It is established that, under the influence oral discourse conditions, the antinomies of language development are resolved in regional spoken languages predominantly in favor of the system (usage vs system), the speaker (speaker vs listener), expressivity (regularity vs expressiveness), and the code (code vs text). 1. Едличка А. Теория языковой культуры сегодня // Новое в зарубежной лингвистике М., 1988. Вып. 20 : Теория ...

This paper considers the concept of verbalization of punctuation marks, its regular and expressive forms in spoken and written language. The author identifies the functions of verbalized punctuation and other written marks in literary (M. Vishnevetskaya, V. Makanin, I. Dubcova), journalistic (radio programmes), scientific and dictionary ...

Based on Mstislav the Great’s Aprakos, the authors consider the functioning of linguistic units expressing the meaning of situational modality (possibility, desirability, necessity). The article establishes a semantic correlation between the use of these explicators and the fundamental moral and ethical postulates of Christianity. 1. Баталина ...

... article presents the results of a communicative study of the charter documents of “Proryv” volunteer centre. The author describes the main communicative strategies and tactics used in the regulations on the centre establishment and job descriptions to express the communicative purpose of regulating 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 ...

This article focuses on the interconnection between the individual and typological characteristics of an individual and the features of adolescent social contact networks. It is shown that adolescents with a high level of hostility, expressed perfectionist attitudes, low self-esteem, and insufficient perceived self-efficacy have smaller and poorly differentiated social contacts networks. These characteristics of social networks can subsequently lead to increased narcissistic tendencies ...

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 ...

The main aim of the article is to describe the problem of feminization of lexical changes in the light of gender linguistics. The article analyses the means of expressing gender in the modern French by studying feministic neologisms which appeared in the language as a result of word-building processes and metaphorical transfer of meaning. In order to prove the universality of the feminization tendency of lexical ...

... functional features of the microfield of interrogatively imperative modality in a literary text. The author establishes the structure-content correlation of the question and imperative within the given microfield and identifies the most regular means of expression of its specific meanings. 1. Бабенко Л. Г., Васильев И. Е., Казарин Ю. Б. Лингвистический анализ художественного текста. Екатеринбург, 2000. 2. Валимова ...

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 century. 1. Дронова Л. П. Становление и эволюция модально-оценочной ...

Texts from modern Russian newspapers are used to demonstrate the specific features of explication of objective modality meaning through the forms of indicative mood of the present, past, and future tenses. The expression of situational modality is related to the use of modal verbs and predicatives in combination with a dependent infinitive and direct speech structure. The author examines the explicators of objective modality and specifying situational modality ...

This article identifies the means of expressing simile in literary texts. The author described the individual stylistic and graphic-expressive characteristics of linguistic units in the framework the implementation of their morphological and syntactic features in N. Sukhov's prose. 1. Девятова ...

Ya. Dyagileva’s song “For a Rainy Day” is characterised as an aesthetic manifestation expressed in the framework of polemics with the pre-texts of A. Bashlachev, B. Grebenschikov, and A. Makarevich. 1. Башлачев А. Н. Стихи. СПб., 1997. 2. Дело мастера Бо : [песни группы «Аквариум»]....

On the basis of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection, the author considers the text function of linguistic units expressing the meaning of situational modality (possibility, desirability, necessity), as well as their role in the depiction of the moral revival of personality. 1. Бобровская Г. В. Семантика и прагматика риторических ...

Official and business documents published in modern Russian and Polish periodicals serves as the material for analyzing the expression plane of necessity microfield. The authors identify its central and peripheral components, as well as common properties and intralinguistic features in the set of expressive means of the given microfield. 1. Ваулина С. С. Языковая ...

... texts of the Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedmosti (Saint-Petersburg Bulletin) newspaper of the second quarter of the 18th century serve as the material for the analysis of structural and content features of conditional sentences in the context of their role in expressing basic modal meanings and author’s intentions. 1. Азарх Э. Д., Рывкина Р. В., Черемисина М. И. Классификатор логико-синтаксических связей и его использование ...

The poetry and plays of A.S. Pushkin serve as the material for identifying the lexical–semantic paradigm of means of explicating the idea of the beautiful in its external and eternal manifestations. 1. Алимпиева Р. В. Лексема прекрасный в эстетической системе А. С. Пушкина и ее этнокультурный аспект // Актуальные проблемы лингвистической семантики : сб. науч. тр. Калининград, 1998. С. 3—10. 2. Арутюнова Н. Д. Истина. Добро. Красота: Взаимодействие концептов //Логический анализ языка: Языки...

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 ранней лирике А. Блока // Языкознание: Современные подходы к традиционной проблематике : сб. науч. тр. Калининград, 2001. С. 5—21. 2. Арутюнова Н. Д. Язык и мир человека. М., 1999. 3. Бавин С., Семибратова И. Судьбы поэтов...

... is to study and compare the use of pronouns for second person reference in English and Swedish in terms of the two dimensions, power and solidarity, suggested by Brown & Gilman (1960) and the theory of politeness by Brown & Levinson. The history of expression of esteem by personal pronouns is traced through as well. 1.  Brown R., Gilman A. The Pronouns of Power and Solidarity // P.   P. Giglioni (red.). Language and Social Context. Harmondsworth, 1972 (1960). P. 252—282. 2.  Мельчук ...

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 ...

The article analyses the peculiarities of Rainer Maria Rilke’s “New Poems” in the context of mythological constructions of German Romanticism. The author formulates the hypothesis of mythologisation as the expression of the sacred in poetry. The epiphany of the image of the Thing (das Ding) is reached by means of artistic representations, which allows stating the connection between the 'matter' of poetry and its higher source, as well as its inner mythological ...

... Никитин М.   В. Основания когнитивной семантики. СПб., 2003. 5.  Koestler A. The three Domains of Creativity in The Concept of Creativity. L., 1981. 6.  Turner M., Fauconnier G. Conceptual integration and formal expression // Journal of Metaphor and Symbolic Activity. 1995. Vol. 10. No. 3. P. 183—204. 7.  Жинкин Н.   И. Язык. Речь. Творчество. М., 1998. 8.  Степин В.   С. Теоретическое знание: структура,...

This article concentrates on the research of concept understanding as a mental and inter-cultural unit in collective perception, represented by means of set expressions and phraseological units. Specific ways of the formation of the phraseological concepts in English and Russian cultures are described 1. Алимурадов О.   А. Смысл. Концепт. Интенциональность. Пятигорск,...

... 19. Cope H. F . Levels of Living. Essays on Everyday Ideals. N.Y., 1908. URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18712/18712—8.txt ( дата обращения : 25.03.2009 ) . 20. Geeraerts D. The interaction of metaphor and metonymy in composite expressions // Metaphor and metonymy in comparison and contrast / ed. by R. Dir­ven. B., 2003. P. 434—465. 21. Goossens L. Metaphtonymy // Ibid . P. 349—377. 22 . Lakoff G., Johnson M. Philosophy in the flesh. N. Y., 1999. 23. Oxford English ...

... modality conveying the attitude of the author to the content of articles on the basis of “Vedomosti”, “St. Petersburg Vedomosti”, and “Moskovskiye Vedomosti” newspapers. The author determines the set of modal explicators, the content and expression planes of the given modal fragment and qualifies the "modal background" of the publications in the framework of the characteristic features of the first newspapers of the period of the development of Russian periodicals. 1.   Валгина Н....

This article analyses the usage of substandard elements in literary works. Substandard is regarded as a characteristic of the author's idiolect from the standpoint of their internal culture, ethics and aesthetic expressiveness. It is emphasised that the author's usage of substandard units depends on both ideological and thematic content as well as the cultural-linguistic state of the society. 1.   Большой толковый словарь донского ...

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...