Communicative move “indirect insult” in a political talk show (based on Tucker Carlson Tonight)
... speech-behavioral strategy of discrediting the President Biden administration, aiming to identify the linguistic means of expressing this speech move. Three groups of lexical means (non-normative, colloquial lexical units, and lexical units with negative connotations) and three groups of stylistic devices (means of imagery creation, descriptive and attributive means, and expressive syntactic devices) were identified, along with a set of characteristic grammatical constructions that objectify the speech move “indirect insult.” It was established that lexical units of high, medium, and low degrees ...
Conceptualization of prayer in the diary discourse of L. N. Tolstoy
... prayer as a dialogue with God, as self-understanding. The article analyzes the features of the conceptualization of prayer, objectified by the compatibility of the keyword, and reconstructs the primary image of “Person”: figuratively, prayer is attributed to procedural features inherent in a person. They are characterized by positive connotative evaluation. It is proved that the categorization of prayer using an anthropomorphic cultural code is a consequence of implementing a communicative cognitive strategy. Tolstoy names the following functions of prayer: it helps to achieve harmony,...
The title of Alexander Pushkin’s novel The captain’s daughter as the textual dominant
This article considers the functional significance of the attributive combination ‘captain's daughter’ as an essential and integral component of the semantic space of Alexander Pushkin’s novel. Placed in the title, it functions as the key sign of the work of fiction since it makes it possible to interpret ...
Colour naming as a means to present the concept of ‘life’ in N. Gogol’s epic poem Dead Souls
... Фрагменты русской языковой картины мира (модели пространства, времени и восприятия). М., 1994.
Alimpiyeva R., Sotnichnenko Yu.
concept, fiction text, text function, colour designators, connotative attributes
34-40
“They call the main entrance a porch”: social meaning in semantics and metapragmatics
... sociocultural and discourse practices using the example of linguistic variability in Russian. The analysis of the Russian nouns “paradnaya” and “pod’ezd” shows how a language sign acquires a stable indexical character and is used to express social attribution.
Beliaeva, L. N. and Chernyavskaya, V. E., 2016. Evidence-based linguistics: methods in cognitive paradigm.
Voprosy Kognitivnoy Lingvistiki
[Issues of Cognitive Linguistics], 3, pp. 77—84,
https://doi.org/10.20916/1812-3228-2016-3-77-84
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