Features of grifonym functioning in English-language fantasy video game texts
The article highlights the results of a study on the cumulative functionality of fantasy character nominations in English-language video games. The relevant term “grifonym” is introduced for these nominations, proposed to denote quasi-anthroponyms of beings with a high degree of fictionality, possessing a one- ...
Teacher training for the formation of functional literacy in primary school: the problem of individualisation
The updated federal state educational standard designates the development of functional literacy as one of the intended outcomes for elementary school. Achieving this educational result is possible by engaging with the student in both the current developmental zone and the zone of proximal development. Such work, which requires ...
The functioning of precedent names from source domain “Literature” in Richard Brautigan’s “Trout Fishing in America”
The main functions realized by precedent names in the novel Trout Fishing in America by the American postmodern writer Richard Brautigan are identified. The study employed methods of contextual and intertextual analysis, as well as the method of exhaustive sampling....
