Speech and gesture regulations in expressing vague reference in expository dialogue
This study explores the organization of multimodal systems, mediated by two types of hierarchical regulations: systemic regulations governing each mode (speech and ... ... and gesture system in interactional discourse.
Berman, R. A. and Nir-Sagiv, B., 2007. Comparing Narrative and Expository Text Construction Across Adolescence: A Developmental Paradox.
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Pragmatics in the digital age: the Routinicon database
This study focuses on the Routinicon database as a digital tool for describing routines — a distinct class of formulaic phraseological units that represent reactions to or comments on standard extralinguistic situations. For instance,... ..., Gerasimenko, E. A., Zakharova, E. S. and Rakhilina, E. V., 2018.
Automatic Extraction of Discourse Formulae from Russian Texts.
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Pragmatics of epistemic warrants of the real, the possible and the probable in discourse
The ‘pragmatics of language’ is a set of pragmatic means of a particular language, the meanings of ... ... the field of epistemic pragmatics, including the use of epistemic modalities in the text. Strategies and tactics of manipulative influence on the audience play a crucial... ... three-dimensional space of language: Semiotic problems of linguistics, philosophy, art]. Moscow (in Russ.).
Weigand, E., 1996. Words and their role in language use. In:...
The pragmatics of semiosis and linguisation
A hermeneutical interpretation of Goethe’s Faust’s attempt to interpret the meaning of the Gospel word λόγος, the first three verses of the Gospel of ... ... linguistic capacities for pragmatically motivated communication—or languaging—and the more narrowly defined traditional models of text and utterance construction based on normative lexicons and formal grammars. The article contains a sketch of the main approaches ...
Velimir Khlebnikov’s poem “Vam”: context, intertext, ekphrasis
... structure of address.
The study is based not only on an analysis of the poem “To You”, but also on a broader contextual reading of Khlebnikov’s works, along with documentary sources such as letters from his relatives (father, mother, and sister). The findings make it possible to trace Khlebnikov’s text to its connections with both Russian and world literature and art.
Velimir Khlebnikov, Kuzmin, travel, diary, intertext, ekphrasis
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Visual language of the city: a case study of the visual perception of third places (the case of Nizhny Novgorod)
The article is devoted to the study of the pragmatic aspects of visual communication in the modern urban environment. The physical objects of the city are interpreted as a text aimed at transmitting specific information to its residents. The research focuses both on the processes of meaning-making—based on the interaction of various semiotic resources such as colour, imagery, graphic design, texture, and verbal signs—and ...
Genre-composition metaphor of rhizome in the novel “Primeval and other Times” by Olga Tokarchuk
The work of Olga Tokarczuk is examined in the context of the nomadological theory of postmodernism as reflected in the writings of philosophers ... ... investigates the concept of the “rhizome,” which in Tokarczuk’s work functions as a method of plot construction for her literary texts in general and the novel Primeval and
Other Times in particular. The metaphor of the rhizome is expressed in the novel ...
The topos of the forest in N. Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”
The article explores the symbolism of the forest in N. Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.” This study aims not only to interpret the meanings associated with ... ... the legend of the Black Man in the forest. The relevance of this research stems from the importance of engaging with classical texts and addressing existing gaps in scholarship, particularly the exploration of spatial poetics in Hawthorne’s work.
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Ways of expressing the call-to-action tactics in English-language environmental discourse
This study explores the pragmatic potential of linguistic means used to explicate the call-to-action strategy in English-language environmental discourse. The position of ... ... represented by specific verbs, particles, words, and phrases. The presence of additional linguistic devices in the analyzed texts is also noted, contributing to the enhancement of the linguo-pragmatic potential of English-language media-based environmental ...
The doctrinal factor of legal communication
It is a matter of scholarly consensus that legal doctrine has significantly influenced the development of law — at least within the Romano-Germanic ... ... proposes a definition of the doctrinal factor of legal communication as that segment of legal communication mediated by doctrinal texts, through which the legal system is constructed. The proposed definition integrates various manifestations of doctrine within ...
Cultural discrepancy within Russian-speaking community in Israel
The objective of the present research is to discover and explain a variety of cultural preferences within the Russian-speaking community in ... ... divergence between elite and mass culture.
Akhapkina, Ya. E., 2015. Peculiarities of the sentence structure in bilinguals’ texts.
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Translating philosophical aesthetics: Peritext as a window into the translator's mind. Part 2
Providing space for elucidating key translational issues is not a mundane practice but a privilege only hand-picked texts enjoy, philosophical writings among them. The challenge of translating philosophical discourse is widely recognized but scarcely explored. In this article, translation of philosophical ... ... Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes, 7(1), pp. 71—84.
Monk, S., 1944. A Grace Beyond the Reach of Art. Journal of the History of Ideas, 5 (2), pp. 131—150.
Olohan, M. and Salama-Carr, M., 2011. Translating Science. The Translator,...
English as a lingua franca — a paradigm shift for Translation and Interpreting
The global spread of English as a lingua franca (ELF) has caused a fundamental change to translation and interpreting (T&I). Translation and interpreting ... ... Conference Interpreting
, (forthcoming). London: Routledge.
Albl-Mikasa, M., Guggisberg, S. and Talirz, F., 2017. (Source) texting ELF. Native and non-native English speaker discourse production and conference interpreters’ native speaker preference....
Events and narration in socio-cultural practices
The article deals with the dynamic interaction of events and narratives. As a result of this interaction, stable links ‘events-narratives’ appear; they influence the formation ... ... Letters. A, 217 (4—5), pp. 188—193.
Lotman, M. Ju., 1970. Struktura khudozhestvennogo teksta [The structure of artistic text]. MMoscow (in Russ.).
Magun, A. V., 2008. Otritsatel'naya revolyutsiya: k dekonstruktsii politicheskogo sub"ekta [Negative ...
Time and eternity in the literary image of the church procession: Pushkin’s Boris Godunov and Shmeleff’s The Year of the Lord
This article considers the depiction of the church procession to examine the literary interpretation of time and eternity in Alexander Pushkin’s historical drama Boris Godunov and Ivan Shmeleff’s novel The Year of the Lord. The two texts share fundamental similarities in literary images. The church procession is portrayed as a manifestation of eternity in the tangible reality of this world. Despite their common temporal nature, images in Boris Godunov and The Year of the Lord ...
The concept “people” in the modern European political thought: Hobbes, Spinoza, Pufendorf
The author considers the evolution of the concept “people” in the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, Samuel Pufendorf and Benedict Spinoza. The political ... ... Elementa philosophica. De cive. Basileae: apud Johan. Jac. Flick.
Hobbes, Th., 2012. Leviathan, Vol. 2: The English and Latin texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Horton, M., 2009. Introducing Covenant Theology. Grand Rapids: BakerBooks.
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“Russian people” in the literature and documents of the 19th century: an experience of linguistic portraiture
The article describes the ideologeme “Russian people” and its use in the texts of fiction and documentary literature of the 19th century. The authors explored both the socio-political concept “'Russian people” ... ... zhurnal vuzov kul’tury i iskusstv [Culture and education: scientific and information journal of universities of culture and arts], 2 (25), pp. 31—38 (in Russ.).
Freeze, G., 2016. “To understand the Church means to understand people…” (Interview)....
The journal “1812”and the 100th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812
The author explores the perception of the characteristic traits of Russian people that was widespread among military intellectuals and their associates — publishers,... ... a textual analysis of twenty four issues of the journal. Comparative analysis of literary, popular science and information texts and the biographies and activities of the authors, makes it possible to understand the intended meaning these “unobtrusive ...
Peritext of the Russian translation of William Hogarth’s Analysis of Beauty: a case study
Translation of philosophical texts is a special challenge because of specific philosophical idiom and conceptual complexity of the narrative. It is not surprising that such translations are often accompanied by commentaries where the translator steps out of the shadows to justify ...
Digital World Communication аnd Translation
The introduction of digital computers, information and communication technologies (ICTs), and the Internet/Web has broadened the scope of communication ... ... Brown, B. eds., 2013. The SAGE Handbook of Digital Technology Research. London: SAGE Publications.
Pym, A., 2004. The Moving Text. Localization, translation, and distribution. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
Quah, C. K., 2006. Translation and ...
Text reinterpretation and the motif of transformation in a short form of Internet poetry
In this article, I analyse the vehicles of humour in two short forms of Internet poetry that developed in the 2000s: the pirozhok (literary, a ‘stuffed bun’) and the poroshok (‘powder’). Poems of these genres are quatrains written in iambic tetrameter. Pirozhoks have no rhyme scheme,...
V. The hagiographic topic in I. S. Shmelev’s novel The Inexhaustible Chalice
... the hagiographic topics in I. S. Shmelev’s novel The Inexhaustible Chalice, which are expressed through different components of the novel’s literary structure — ranging from the individual traits of the main character, Ilya Sharonov, to twists of ... ... novel resembles both the lives of the righteous and the lives of the venerable. The novel conforms to the canons of hagiographic texts because of the presence of a righteous character, whose image is built in accordance with the traditional paradigm of the ...
The problem of meaning in Social Semiotics: deep semiotics as a conceptual extension of Social Semiotics
... experience. These systems affect the human consciousness to change the semantic picture of the world, behaviour, and the way one perceives reality. Almost all cultural artefacts... ...
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Thibault, P. J., 1991. Social semiotics as praxis: Text, social meaning making, and Nabokov’s Ada. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota...
The problem of meaning in Social Semiotics: Max Weber today
A human activity is based on the constant creation, transmission and transformation of meanings and texts. All the forms of representation of this activity (culture, history, literature, art, politics, law, etc.) can be considered as semantic ensembles consisted from meaningful actions. The concept of “meaning” is fundamental not only in linguistics amd semiotics, but also in M. Weber's theory: thesubject of sociology is the understanding ...
‘The Word, an Ulcer…’: Aleksey Chicherin’s semiotic utopia
In this article, we analyse the semiotic concept of art created by the constructivist poet Aleksey Chicherin, as presented in his treatise Kan-Fun. We establish the connection between ... ... Chicherin’s theory has internal inconsistency. Its artistic representations are incapable of overcoming the basic conventions of text generation and reception. The use of non-verbal (visual and auditory) signs entails both the semantic enrichment of the sign ...
A. G. Baumgarten’s aesthetic-semiotic concept
In this article, we consider the semiotic concept developed by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, a founder of modern aesthetics. We describe the principles of the semiotic theory, as expressed in Baumgarten's Metaphysica, particularly ... ... 1779. Metaphysica. Ed. VII. Halae Magdeburgicae.
Baumgarten, A. G., 1783. Metaphysik. 9. Aufl. Halle.
Baumgarten, A. G., 1983. Texte zur Grundlegung der Ästhetik. Lat.-dt. Hg. H. R. Schweizer. Hamburg: Meiner.
Baumgarten, A. G., 1983. Theoretische Ästhetik....
Ergonomics and the translation process
.... Environmental factors in the physical sense (e. g. lighting, temperature, air quality, space) as well in the broader sense of the role of translation and translators in the economy and society as a whole can also influence the process. Viewing translation ... ... H. Pashler (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Mind. Thousand Oaks: SAGE, pp. 335—338.
Mesa-Lao, B., 2014. Gaze behaviour on source texts: An exploratory study comparing translation and post‐editing. In: S. O’Brien, L. Winther Balling, M. Carl, M. Simard ...
On the Semiotic Model of Image
... And the meaning, and the measure. Semiotics in the space of modern science. Politicheskaya nauka [Political science], 3, pp. 30—45 (in Russ.).
Lotman, Yu. M., 2000. Semiosfera [Semiosphere]. St. Petersburg (in Russ.).
Lotman, Yu. M., 1998. Structure of artistic text. In: Ob iskusstve [About art]. St. Petersburg. pp. 14—285 (in Russ.).
Pirs, Ch. S., 2000. Izbrannye filosofskie proizvedeniya [Selected philosophical works]. Moscow (in Russ.).
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Battlefield memories of the youth in Yu. N. Ivanov’s oeuvre: The novel In a besieged ci
This article analyses Yu. N. Ivanov’s novel In a Besieged City, which was inspired by the author’s battlefield memories. Yu. N. Ivanov pictures the city as he saw it in April 1945. It is shown how descriptions of the works of architecture and art contribute to the artistic understanding of the history of Königsberg. The literary text based on what the author saw and experienced helps him to not only immerse himself in the past and relive it but also rewrite the past and change it to fit his concept of it.
1. Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Kaliningradskoi oblasti (GAKO) [State Archive ...
The Name of Prophet Abraham in the Old Russian Literature of XI—XIII centuries
The spread of Christianity in Russia contributed to the development of writing and had a direct impact on the thematic, genre, figurative ... ... pp. 446—448 (in Russ.).
Gippius, A. A., 2010. ‘Chronicle’ readings of paremias about Boris and Gleb: the history of the text and the historical context. In: B. A. Uspenskii, F. B. Uspenskii. Fakty i znaki: issledovaniya po semiotike istorii [Facts ...
Character’s existence in the Königsberg/Kaliningrad toposphere: Yu.N Ivanov’s Dances in the Crematorium and Michael Wieck’s The Decline of Königsberg
A comparative analysis of the existence of the main characters in Yuri Ivanov’s Dances in the Crematorium and Michael Wieck’s The Decline of Königsberg ... ... racial hatred. The analysis shows common motifs in the works, those of destiny, desperate situations, ordeals, and suffering. The texts have a similar structure combining reminiscences of the main characters with interactions between the past and the present....
‘Many years to the invincible’: The axiological meanings of the spatial and temporal images in Boris Pasternak’s poem ‘Neoglyadnost’/’ Spanlessness’
This article is an attempt to expose and analyse the chronotopical structure of Boris Pasternak's poem ‘Neogliadnost’/’Spanlessness’, written in 1944. The axiological meaning of spatiotemporal images ... ... context of Russian language and culture. It is argued that the poem’s key value-laden motif, victory, is introduced in the text in three temporal domains. Two of them — the planes of the historical past and present — belong to the sphere of time....
The functioning of the vladyka lexeme in the Ostromir Gospels of 1056—1057
This article considers the use of the Vladyka lexeme to denote God the Father, Jesus Christ, and human rulers in the Ostromir Gospels with a Greek translation.... ... grecheskogo teksta Evangelii i s grammaticheskimi ob"yasneniyami [The Ostromir Gospel of 1056—1057. With application of Greek text of the Gospels and with grammatical explanations]. St. Petersburg.
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Daniel Everett and Cultural Linguistics
This paper deals with the views of Daniel L. Everett as exemplified in his major works Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes and Language: The Cultural Tool. The aim ... ... a subject of linguoculturology. In: Natsional'no-kul'turnyi komponent v tekste i yazyke [National-cultural component in the text and language]. Minsk. Part 1.
10. Teliya, V. N., 1996. Russkaya frazeologiya. Semanticheskii, pragmaticheskii i lingvokul'turologicheskii ...
Philosophical Discourse and the Conceptualisation of Word Formation
... Russian, French, and German philosophical discourses. The author identifies key word-formation models that use the hyphen. In philosophical discourse, the hyphen serves as a linguistic tool to convey dialectic thinking that expresses the conceptualization of the limited/the unlimited, under-certainty or emerging certainty, and motion and stillness. In philosophical texts, hyphenated complexes facilitate the tendency towards a perfect dialectic form in language — a form that embraces discreteness and continuity, division and wholeness. The hyphen is a means that contributes to the formation of concepts as undivided ...
Transformations in the Communicative Characteristics of Political Discourse in the Current Information Space
The article analyses the main causes and the genesis of transformations in political discourse (PD) and provides a comparative analysis of the present and earlier forms of PD. The ... ... space]. Moscow. p. 32.
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Problems of Studying Russian Hagiography
This article outlines the major problems of studying Russian hagiography. The author responds to the challenge of performing a comprehensive analysis of a hagiographic text, while preserving the unity of the content and the form. Considering hagiography as an ecclesiastical genre and a form of the Sacred Tradition, the author addresses the analysis methodology and proposes to combine the principles of hagiology and ...
‘A power of shuffled letters’: anagrams in the European culture of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
This article addresses the history of anagrams in the European culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The author stresses the variety of application of anagrams ... ... l'équivoque: les manuscrits à devise anagrammatique à la fin du Moyen âge // Lecture, representation et citation. L’image comme texte et l’image comme signe (XIe — XVIIe siècle) / ed. Ch. Heck. Lille, 2007. P. 117—128.
8. Clément M. Nom d’auteur ...
Monarchical iconographers at the turn of a new time: Slavonic parallels (Simon Ushakov and Matvey Domoradsky)
The article compares the facts of life and work of the Eastern Slavonic Orthodox artists of the second half of the XVII century — Simon Ushakov (Moscow) and ... ... Поселянин Е. Богоматерь на земле. Гл. 7. Успение Богоматери. URL:
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On the metalinguistic functions of a natural language in literary texts
This article considers the relevant linguistic problem of metalinguistic potential of a natural language and its functions in a literary text in the case of the Russian language. The Russian language and natural languages in general act as a universal cognitive model capable of describing different codes presented in literary texts
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Between mysticism and technique: anagram the European Baroque culture
The author analyses the history of anagrams in the European baroque culture of the 17th century, shows a rich diversity ... ... anagrammatique à la fin du Moyen Âge // Lecture, représentation et citation. L’image comme texte et l’image comme signe (XIe-XVIIe siècle). Lille, 2007. P. 117—128.
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Prose miniature in the works of N. M. Karamzin
The article discusses some exercises of N. M. Karamzin, the first great Russian writer who worked in the prosaic miniature`s form, a short text which we compare to a poetic one. In the Russian tradition the prosaic miniature developed primarily in journals and magazines. Translations, sometimes fragmentary, from European languages, of both poetic and prosaic texts became one of the main ...
Psychological tradition of "Poor Lisa" by N. M. Karamzin in the poem "Eda" by E. A. Baratynsky
The article examines the structure of Baratynsky’s poem and compares it to a Karamzin’s tale because in spite of some substantial differences these two works ... ... "anthropocentric" landscape, specific fictional details, bodily "code". Comparativistic analysis of the two texts, that are storywise close to each other, not only allows to trace Karamzin’s psychological tradition in Baratynsky’s ...
N. M. Karamzin in the jubilee articles: semiotics and pragmatics of the image
The article presents an overview of the anniversary texts about N. M. Karamzin, and analyses semiotics and pragmatics of his image. The author assumes that the jubilee event and constructing N. M. Karamzin’s image depends on the socio-cultural context and identifies forms of "revival" and “modernizing” ...
A major principle of Indo-European poetry or arbitrary etymologising? A review of modern international publications on anagrams in the cultures of Ancient East and Antiquity
This article examines the approaches of modern international scholars to the problem of anagrams in ancient texts. The author addresses the following “problem nodes”: the difficulty of proving the presence of an anagram in each individual case and the ambiguity of the question as to the arbitrary or systematic nature of anagrammatic structures and anagrams’ ...
On the history of the problem of a human being in Soviet Medieval studies
This article provides an analysis of the situation around studying the problem of the human being that developed in Soviet medieval studies in the 1950—70s. Emphasising ... ... the ideas of D. S. Likhachev and V. P. Adrianova-Peretz, and S. S. Averintsev about the nature of the human being in ancient texts and identifies the underlying internal polemical nature of their concepts.
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The ways to increase motivation for learning literary Russian language
This article describes the ways to generate motivation for learning literary Russian. Classical literary texts and works of Kaliningrad writers are considered as a means to develop the students’ emotional abilities and inspire respect for their future professions. It is stressed that introduction to the works of leading Kaliningrad authors and poets gives international ...
Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Germany: Models of Memory and Cultural Recollections
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The Remains of the Berlin Wall
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