Category of politeness: Russian imperative speech clichés in dialogue
... in the research consisted of categorical appeals used in speech acts to interrupt or prohibit contact. A collection of examples from the Russian National Corpus — about a hundred tokens — was compiled to this end. The method of lexicographic description was employed to prepare a test article for the otstan'! [leave me alone!] speech cliché. Linguistic description and dictionary representation of imperative speech clichés are central to a comprehensive description of the category of politeness ...
Distributive interpretants in the crossword metalanguage
... linguistic, cultural, structural-semantic and cognitive-discursive features of the crossword language. The study of the ontological nature of the crossword, as undertaken in this research, is grounded in an examination of its metalanguage essence. Crossword descriptions reflect the outcomes of metalanguage consciousness operations, which aim to depict the elements of the semantics of encrypted nominations.
The unit of research is the crossword puzzle cell — the basic structural unit, which is formed ...
