Migration policy of the Baltic states in the context of EU and Russian interests
The European migration crisis has brought scholarly attention to national migration policies, including those of the Baltic states — Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia — all of which border Russia. This study aims to identify the key features of these policies, considering both Russian interests and those of the EU. To this end, this article undertakes, for the first time,...
Pragmatics and prosody: the analysis of oral speech as a principle of linguistic pragmatics
The paper views pragmatic meanings that have regular expression in language. Such meanings are 1) the illocutionary goal (illocutionary force) of an utterance, 2) the illocutionary function of a component of an utterance (theme and rheme of a statement, the known and the unknown of a question), 3) contrast and emphasis, and 4) the meaning of completeness/incompleteness of a speech act as a component of coherent discourse. It is shown that prosody is the main means of expressing pragmatic meanings...
Fundamentals of the theory of legal punishments (problem statement)
... problems of its implementation in legal practice are outlined. Finally, the author proposes concrete directions for the future development of the theory of legal punishments and methodological guidelines for distinguishing punishments from other forms of state coercion.
theory of law, legal science, state coercion, legal responsibility, legal
punishment, system of punishments, legal policy
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10.5922/vestnikhum-2025-2-1
