Evolution of the special question in English (based on examples from the Gospel of John)
The article deals with the evolution of the special question in the English language of the 10th—16th centuries. The study is conducted using examples from three versions of the Gospel of John — the Wessex Gospels of the late 10th century, the Gospel of the Wycliffe Bible (the end of the 14th century) ...
Ideas about private space boundaries and tact in Russian communicative culture: results of a sociolinguistic experiment
... avoid infringing on the private space of their interlocutor. Moreover, ideas about the boundaries of private space and tact are among the most significant elements in describing a national communicative culture.
This study focuses on the tactless question as a typical way of violating private space boundaries. The survey questionnaire was based on interviewee behaviour observations, with one interviewee labelling the interviewer's questions tactless or indecent. It was established that the presence ...
The rhetorical question as an explicator of modal meanings in the text of the novel The brothers Karamazov by F.M. Dostoyevsky
The author considers the features of rhetorical question as an explicator of modal semantics in the novel The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The article identifies the scope of objective modality and subjective modality meanings of rhetorical question and addresses its text-forming function....
Units of the lexical-semantic group ‘Information search and receipt’ as personifying metaphors in Russian poetry
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Fedoseeva, E. N., 2009. Dialogicheskaya osnova russkoi liriki pervoi treti XIX veka [Dialogic basis of Russian lyrics in the first third of the 19th century]. PhD thesis. Moscow (in Russ.).
Golubeva-Monatkina, N. I., 1991. Classification study of questions and answers of dialogical speech. Voprosy Jazykoznanija [Topics in the study of language], 1, pp. 125—134 (in Russ.).
Golubeva-Monatkina, N. I., 2004. Voprosy i otvety dialogicheskoi rechi. Klassifikatsionnoe issledovanie [Questions and ...
The “Polish question” in Soviet-German relations in the second half of the 1920s (based on the materials of the USSR consulate in Königsberg)
... unknown documents of the Soviet consulate in Königsberg retrieved from the Archive of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation, the author analyses relations between the USSR and Germany in 1925—1930. The author focuses on the role of the “Polish question”, which largely affected the nature of bilateral relations. The consulate documents indicate that Soviet diplomacy aspired to exploit the differences between Poland and Germany over a wide range of issues (the geopolitical situation of East ...
