Motifs of “The Ladder” by St. John Climacus in the spiritual letters of St. Ambrose of Optina to the laity
... letters. The semantic field of the correspondence is grounded in the idea of spiritual struggle with the passions on the path toward the acquisition of virtues. Quotations from “The Ladder” cited in the letters consistently correspond to the elder’s pastoral task: to identify a specific passion afflicting the addressee and to indicate the path toward liberation from it. The key motif is the struggle with pride, which, according to both St. Ambrose and St. John Climacus, can be overcome only ...
Neologisms with the meaning of “fake” goods in modern Russian
The article describes neological units that have been functioning in the Russian language since the 1990s to characterize artisanal products or various types of counterfeit goods. The cognitive mechanisms underlying their formation are identified, based on the metonymic or metaphorical use of the image of fire, as represented in the root morpheme pal-. It is noted that the word-formation paradigm of the verb palit’ has expanded with the addition of derivatives with figurative meanings, including...
