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• The features of metaphors in “prophetic” dreams

  This article addresses the issue of the specific features of the metaphor in “prophetic” dreams. The following features are identified as specific: the representation of the specific through the specific (abstract semantics is ensured by metonymy), spontaneity, integration into cultural contexts,...

• The transformation of the Baltic countries’ political elites: general and specific features

  ... countries. This article aims to analyse structural and functional changes in the composition of the Baltic political elites after these countries gained independence in the 1990s. The main objective of this research is to reveal the general and the specific in the transformations of Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian elites. Changes in the structure of power groups are considered on a sub-regional scale in view of the current Russian-Baltic political interaction. The common and distinctive features in the transformations of Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian elites are identified. Quantitative methods of analysis are used to detect trends in the selection of channels and mechanisms of elite recruitment. The study of power groups concentrated ...

• The Russian sociological thought of the 19th century: the specific features of a study into social pathologies

  This article focuses on the specific features of a study into social pathologies in Russian sociology. The author emphasises that the addressing of moral problems is a tradition of Russian social thought. 1.  Лавров П.   Л . Избранные сочинения: в 2 т. Т....

• Post-Soviet Space: background and the results of regionalization

  ... specific manifestations in the post-Soviet space. According to the author, regionalization is developing at four levels-international (macroregional), subregional, intraregional and on country levels. The most important one is the international level. Specific features of regionalization at each level of the post-Soviet space are described. The author draws a conclusion that the post-Soviet space is the epicenter of regionalization in contemporary world. 1. Колосов В. А., Мироненко Н....

• The functional and pragmatic features of speech acts with the meaning of consent

  This article deals with the main types of speech acts with the meaning of consent in the contemporary dialogical discourse. The author identifies the specific pragmatic features of speech acts of consent and offers their typology. 1.  Баранов А.   Н., Крейдлин Г.   Е. Иллокутивное вынуждение в структуре диа­лога // Вопросы языкознания....

• Platform Markets: Their Place in the Theory of Mesoeconomic System: Development and a Challenge to Spatial Studies

  ... differences between two-factor systems and traditional one-factor groupings (agglomerations, industries, and conglomerates). I present a general theoretical framework for studying two-factor mesoeconomic systems, which is employed in a comparative analysis. A specific feature of platforms is the contribution of digital technology to the formalisation of relevant external effects and institutions, whereas economic zones are characterised by the external effects of agglomeration and clusters — by locally specific effects....

• Spatiotemporal features of the regional nature management basing upon toponymic data

  The article explores the application of toponymic data for the investigation of spatiotemporal features of regional nature management The article provides some results obtained through the formant method (on the example ... ... Томск. ун-та, 1983. С. 65—111. Lisenkova Z. V. toponymy in the exploitation of natural resources, Altaic specificity, format method 64-70 10.5922/2223-2095-2009-1-10

• Innovative development priorities of the major coastal agglomerations of the European part of Russia

  ... technological, and financial infrastructure, drawing resources from other municipalities. This makes the innovation space uneven, promoting an internal innovation periphery and strong nuclei in the coastal zone. The purpose of this study is to identify the features and specifics of the agglomeration development in coastal regions and assess their impact on the innovation trajectory of regional innovation systems. The study focuses on the agglomerations in 5 coastal regions of Russia: Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Kali­ningrad,...

• Interrogative and imperative modality in a literary text (The case of satirical writings of the 19th/early 20th century)

  The satirical works of N. V. Gogol, A. Averchenko, and I. Ilf and Ye. Petrov help consider the specific functional features of the microfield of interrogatively imperative modality in a literary text. The author establishes the structure-content correlation of the question and imperative within the given microfield and identifies the most regular means of expression ...

• Kaliningrad Exclave: Electoral Specificity

  .... The region is identified as a unique object, the example of which reveals the influence of the exclave factor on electoral specifics. The results of federal elections are viewed as a reaction of voters to socio-economic changes caused by exclave status,... .... Using calculations of coefficient of loyalty of voting for election participants, the author identifies the main electoral features that have developed over 27 years. 1. Алаев Э. Б. Социально-экономическая география ...

• Kaliningrad’s avia hub and its role in passanger air transportation

  The air company «KD Avia» — the owner of Kaliningrad’s airport «Hrabrovo» has been functioning as HUB since 2007. The article explores the specific features and perspectives of HUB. Ginzburg E. S. aviation hub, air transport, Kaliningrad region. 122-126 10.5922/2223-2095-2009-1-23

• The features of the functioning of small enterprises in the conditions of regional exclavity

  This article analyzes the features of small business activity in the conditions of regional exclavity. The author shows that these conditions have both positive and negative impact on small business development. The combination of the specificity of small enterprises as business entities and the distinctive features of exclave regions and the subsequent assessment of the significance and nature of the impact of such traits made it possible to identify and characterize the most important of them. 1. Бильчак В. С. Дупленко Н. Г. Предпринимательство ...

• The notion of ontology in the system model of argumentation

  This article analyzes the notion of ontology in computer science and contemporary argumentation theories. It introduces the notion of ontology into the system model of argumentation (SMA) in view of the specific features of the latter. The author analyses the role of ontology in building an argumentation model within SMA. 1. Брюшинкин В. Н. Системная модель аргументации // Трансцендентальная антропология ...

• Language specificity of Franz Kafka’s non-fiction texts

  The characteristic features of non-fictional texts by F. Kafka are studied on the material of the author’s diaristic and epistolary texts, which ... ... are analysed in reference to the addressee and their relationship with the author. Special attention is paid to the functional specificity of the parable as a genre and the absurd character of the author’s narration. 1. Бабенко Н. С. О лингвистическом ...

• The problems of colloquial and dialect speech translation of short stories by Günter Grass

  The author studies translation of lexical and phonetic colloquial and dialect specific speech features in the works of modern German writer Günter Grass. The author analyses the methods of fiction literature translation, which have been used for translation from Danzig dialect into Russian. 1. Девкин В.   В. Особенности ...

• The spatial model of conceptual metaphor in A. Ilichevky’s collection of short stories An Asinine Jaw

  ... conceptual metaphor of death in A.V. Ilichevsky’s collection of short stories An Asinine Jaw. The existential spatial model of the mentioned metaphor and the specific character of its cognitive-semantic organization are revealed. The author identifies the specific features of the metaphorical reconsideration of Russian reality and the ways of the character’s existence in the world. In A.V. Ilichevsky’s short story collection, the conceptual metaphor of death is identified on the basis of the common conceptual ...

• Intermedial text modelling: D. Lodge. Nice Work

  ... of modern literature – in the case of the novel Nice Work by a famous contemporary author and literary scholar David Lodge. The analysis is based on Yu. M. Lotman’s concept of polyglotism and M. M. Bakhtin’s and R. Bar-thes’s text theories. A specific feature of D. Lodge’s novel is the visuality of the world of literary images created using special literary techniques. The novel’s picture poetics emphasises picturesqueness as a generalising feature. The poetic role of the intermedial techniques ...

• The methodological framework for the study of Russian philosophical and historical thought abroad

  This article examines the approaches to the study of Russian philosophy of history aboard. The author focuses on the specific features of the object of research, outlines the principles of empirical material organisation, and gives its general characteristics. 1.  Кукарцева М.   А. Современная философия истории США. Иваново,...

• The role of logic and the study of rationality within N. O. Lossky’s ideal-realistic concept

  This article focuses on the specific features of N. O. Lossky’s interpretation of certain logical themes. The author shows that it is determined by the ideal-realistic position of the thinker. “Intuitionistic” logic is presented as a philosophical interpretation of traditional logic ...

• The features of talkativity implementation in the political online discourse (a case study of personal websites of members of the British parliament)

  This paper introduces and describes the concept of "talkativity" that is based on the identification of a specific set of conceptual features — the use of colloquial speech, spontaneity, formal situation, and the stability of subject matter. 1.  Ахренова Н.   А . Интернет-дискурс как глобальное межкультурное явление и ...

• Discursive practices of the Russian diaspora in Estonia: language contacts

  ... discourse of the diaspora: language selfidentification. In: Kul'turnyi landshaft Pogranich'ya: proshloe, nastoyashchee, budushchee [The cultural landscape of the Borderlands: past, present, future]. Pskov, pp. 115-121 (in Russ.). Külmoja, I., 2000. Specific features of the language of the Russian diaspora in Estonia. In: Trudy po russkoi i slavyanskoi filologii. Lingvistika. Novaya seriya. III. Yazyk diaspory: problemy i perspektivy [Works on Russian and Slavic philology. Linguistics. New episode. III. Diaspora ...

• Learning and research culture of students of rural schools in the History of Western Russia classes

  This article deals with the theoretical problems of learning and research culture, its functions and criteria, as well as possibilities of its formation in students of rural schools in the History of Western Russia classes in view of the specific features of the educational institution and the novelty of the discipline. 1. Кузьминых Я.   С. О пользе туристическо-краеведческой работы // Красное знамя. 2008. №   92. 2. Макотрова ...

• Speech representation of the category of authorship in mo­dern Serbian journalism

  ... talk both about the prac­tices of creating potential aggressive installations and directly using speech aggression, i. e. injective vocabulary in the speech, manifestation of ob­jects of this aggression in the texts. The research concludes that the specificity of the authorship category representation in Serbian journalism turns out to be connected with the modern psychological state of the nation, the peculiari­ties of the national mentality, which, in turn, determines the key features of the author-journalist, speaking from the position of a author-national. 1. Аристотель. Риторика. М., 1994. 2. Виноградов В. В. О теории художественной речи. М., 1971. 3. Захарова ...

• Cross-border Tourism in the Russian Northwest: General Trends and Features of Development

  ... border regions is one of key areas of tourism development in these regions. An assessment of the prospects of developing cross-border tourism in the border regions of Russian Northwest becomes a relevant research objective. The author identifies the specific features and general trends in the development of cross-border tourism in the Russian regions in question. It is proven that Russian border regions are less competitive than the territories of neighbouring states in terms of the development of crossborder ...

• Lexemes with the stem –БОГ- (GOD) in hagiographic texts of the 15th—17th centuries

  ... hetero­geneity in the use of lexemes with the stem бог- (God) in the XV—XVII centuries. This het­erogeneity was expressed in the dominance of the lexeme analysed over others. The identified lexemes are grouped according to the following semantic features: designation of people relat­ed to God, characteristics of the activity of a specific historical personality, an abstract con­cept, an object or a phenomenon of that time, or a polysemantic word. This large group of lexemes consists of the words characterizing a person, an object or a phenomenon on the basis of the following ...

• Rent-seeking behavior and rent-oriented behavior in the sphere of art and culture

  The article investigates the phenomenon of rent-seeking and rent-oriented behavior in the sphere of culture and arts. The author describes the specific features of the cultural production. It is shown that, the supply of cultural goods is characterized by the different level of rarity and consists from creative production, services of the institutions of culture and art, antiques, reproductions of works ...

• Development of a Method of Optimal Design of Structure and Pa­rameters of Technical Means of Information Protection

  Based on the specific features of technical means of information protection as a special class of complex systems, it is proposed the problem of synthesis of structure of means of protection to decide as a multicriterion optimization problem taking into account the influence ...

• The destinies of the Russian minority in Gdansk (translated from Polish by L. Maltsev)

  ... authorities. Special attention is paid to the political competition among the Russian minority, the activity of religious, cultural, and educational organisations. The article offers a review of Russian periodicals published in Gdansk. It is emphasised that a specific feature of the social and political life of the Russian minority in Gdansk over the mentioned period was the dominance of political activity over other aspects of social life. emigration, Russian diasporas, political struggle, national identity Romanow ...

• Functioning of coordinating conjunctions at the interphrasal level

  This paper describes the specific character of the discourse functioning of coordinating conjunctions in terms of both their innate features and interphrasal status and context. 1.  Жельвис В.   И. Существуют ли в языке сочинительные и подчинительные союзы? // Ученые записки Ленингр. госуд. педагог....

• Age-related characteristics of English, American, and Russian compliments

  ... people with a mature age identity differ from those made by younger persons. Younger people are more prone to make compliments in informal communication than persons with mature age identity are. Compliments made by members of each age group have certain specific features. The findings of the study can be employed in the Stylistics and Pragmalinguistics courses, which is the practical outcome of the research. Vakhtin, N.V., Golovko, E.V., 2004. Sotsiolingvistika i sotsiologiya yazyka. Gender. Yazyk i vozrast ...

• Musical ekphrasis and musical code in N. Kononov’s novels

  ... focuses on musical ekphrasis and musical code in the context of all the acoustic nominations found in the texts. In the system of sensory codes, under the concept of "musical", the author puts the idea of reflection and introspection. The specific feature of Kononov’s style is its correlation with the visual and the tactile, it expresses the separation of the visible into the hidden and the obvious and emphasizes the "otherness" of the subject of perception. Thus, hearing is a means ...

• On the programme of research development in the exclave region

  ... informacionno-analiticheskoe izdanie. 2009. Moscow. 6. Pravitel'stvo Kaliningradskoj oblasti. [online] Available at: <http://www.gov39.ru> (Accessed 10 March 2011). Bilchak Vasily, Nosachevskaya Yekaterina programming, exclave region, research, specific features, regional level 101-108 10.5922/2079-8555-2011-2-12

• A transcendental analysis of mathematics: The constructive nature of mathematics

  ... [CPR, A 713/В 741], which is “thoroughly grounded on definitions, axioms, and demonstrations” [CPR, A 726/В 754]. Unlike specific ‘physical’ objects, mathematical objects are of abstract nature and they are introduced using Hume’s principle ... ... intertwining of both. The author also identifies a third type — logical constructing [in proving theorems], which inherits the features of both Kant's types. 1. Aristotle, 2011, in: Shiffman, M. De Anima: On the Soul, (Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing....

• The functional features of the “lexical modifier + dependent infinitive” modal structures in the first Russian newspapers

  On the basis of Russian periodicals of the first half of the 18th century, the author considers lexical modal modifiers that convey situational modality meanings in combination with a dependent infinitive. The article identifies the specific features of such modifiers, namely, their capacity to express subjective-modal evaluations of newspaper text authors. Список сокращений   В — Ведомости времени Петра Великого. Вып. 1. М., 1903....

• Brothers “in the fifth season of the year, the sixth sense and the fourth dimension”: the space of heaven in the poetical world of M. Tsvetaeva

  The space of heaven in the poetic world of M. Tsvetaeva is considered as a hierarchically and semantically complex space structure. The author identifies the specific features of the heaven spacium levels and describes the three main tiers of heaven, namely, the entry to heaven, the mountain space of the “divine youths, and the top of the mountain. The article justifies the reasons behind the rapid movement of the ...

• The specific features of the institution of the order of court in the civil procedure

  This article considers the problems of order process and some peculiarities of the application of the regulations of the court order institution in the civil procedure. 1. Гражданский процессуальный кодекс РФ. М., 2010. 2. Гражданский процессуальный кодекс РСФСР. М., 2002. 3. Комментарий к Гражданскому процессуальному кодексу РФ (постатей­ный, научно-практический) / под ред. М.   А. Викут. М., 2003. 4. Комментарий к Гражданскому процессуальному кодексу РФ (постатей­ный) / под ред. Г.   А. Жилина...

• The functional approach to managing regional foreign economic activity

  This article reveals the specific features of the transformation of functional approach when characterizing the multi-level system of functioning and managing of foreign economic activity (FEA). The author describes the adjustment of traditional management functions (planning, organization,...

• Introduction of Competence Approach and Optimization of Education Process in Professional Education Manager Training

  The article considers the competence approach introduction as one of the priorities and main features of education modernisation. The author outlines methods and activities aimed at the competence approach introduction to education process, considers a model of students’ independent work. A concrete example is drawn to show the specificity of the competence training of students of the “Business Administration” field of study in the framework of the “Fundamentals of Management” discipline. 1. Зимняя И.   А. Ключевые компетенции как результативно-целевая ...

• Innovative education for the Baltic region: the experience of the Finnish-Russian Cross-border University

  ... Region at the graduate level, taking as an example the double degree program in international relations of the Finnish-Russian Cross-Border University, set up by the St. Petersburg State University and the University of Tampere the article also evaluates specific features of other similar programs taught in universities around the Baltic Sea. 1.      Kuzmin, Ju. S., Novikova, I. N. 2005. Novejshaja istorija malyh i srednih stran Evropy. Saint Petersburg. 2.      Lanko, D. A. 2008. Processy globalizacii,...

• Specific features and content of innovative activities of social work specialists

  This article considers innovative activities of a specialist in social work. The author gives a definition of innovative product and provides a detailed description of stages of innovative activity. 1. Кайгородова Л.   А. Инновационные технологии в социальной работе с по­жилыми людьми. URL: http://home.novoch.ru 2. Карпова Ю.   А. Введение в социологию инноватики: учеб. пособие. СПб., 2004. 3. Нейхц Н.   П., Решетников В.   А. Традиция и инновация в социальной работе // Вестник Иркутского...

• Specific features of the diarist-writer’s world view verbalisation

  The article deals with the influence of the diarist’s status as a writer on a variety of ways of formation and explication of the language view of the world in the corresponding discourse. 1.  Бондарева Л.   М., Петешова О.   В. ПДД с позиций теории интердис­курсивности // Вестник Российского государственного университета им. И . Канта . 2008. №   2. С . 60—65. 2.  Becher J.   R. Auf andere Art so gro β e Hoffnung: Tagebuch 1950. Berlin , 1951. 3.  Brecht B. Tagebücher 1920—1922...

• The optics of vision in Daniel Kehlmann’s novel Der fernste Ort

  ... author D. Kehlmann. The novel’s text organization is described; parallels to other literary works are drawn. The author analyses the influence of the 20th century modernist experiments on Kehlmann’s works. The article focuses on the general and specific features of the writer’s literary image. 1. Baßler M. Der Deutsche Pop-Roman: die neuen Archivisten. München, 2002. 2. Кельман Д. Последний предел. СПб., 2004. 3. Плахина А. Немецкоязычная, но не ...

• Legal regulation of civil liability of institutions

  ... liability of institutions in view of the recent changes to the legislation and investigates the key issues regarding the application of civil liability to private, public, budgetary, and autonomous institutions. Special attention is paid to the general and specific features of civil liability relating to the use of civil and fiscal legislation. It is concluded that there is a need to unify the rules of civil liability of institutions. 1. Гражданское право : учеб. : в 3 т. Т. 1. 6-е изд....

• Discretionary powers of judges in the countries of the continental law system: A comparative analysis

  This article analyses the features of judicial discretion in the continental law system. The author conducts a comparative analysis of the discretionary powers of judges in Northern, Western, and Southern Europe and describes the specifics of judicial discretion in the continental legal system 1. Гегель Г. В. Ф. Философия права. М., 1990. 2. Головко Л. В. Судебный прецедент как ненормативный способ легитимизации ...

• The resistance of the greater Baltic region states to market cycle changes

  A non-linear change process is a specific feature of a poorly regulated market economy. However, many researchers have shown that different economic sectors do not respond to market cycles in a similar way. Regional economic systems are a combination of many sectors, therefore a hypothesis about ...

• The functional features of metadiscription of beliefs in a literary text: The case of I. S. Turgenev’s works

  This article considers the topical linguistic problem of metalinguistic potential of a natural language and identifies the cases of its specific functional tensions (the description of nonverbal signals designed within the ideal spacetime of a literary text). The chosen methodological approaches to the problem are new, however, they are based on the concepts developed by specialists in ...

• Linguistic and cultural focus of specialised technical translation in the steel industry (Russian, English, and German languages)

  The article analyses linguistic and cultural features of specialised transla­tion in the steel industry. Technical translation has always been in high de­mand and occupies ... ... communicative situations of translation in the steel industry, con­sidering the transfer of terminology, lexical ambiguity, cultural specificity of technological processes, aspects of regulation and standardization, interfer­ence and borrowing from other cultures ...

• Studies into the history of Russian Neo-Kantianism in Poland

  ... constructs. 1. Belov V. N. 2012, Russkoje neokantianstwo: istorija i osobiennosti razvitija [Russian neo-Kantianism: history and features of development] // Kantovskij sbornik [Kants Collection]. № 1, p. 27—39. 2. Valickij А. 1994, Posleslovije k publikacii ... ... Niznikow S. A. 2004, O specyfice rosyjskiego neokantyzmu (uwagi o filozofii wiary A. I. Wwiedienskiego). Pier. H. Rarot [On specific character of the Russian neo-Kantianism (notes on A. I. Vvedensky’s philosophy of faith). Trans. H. Rarot] // Rosja ...

• Hagiographic genre in the works of Konrad von Wurzburg

  ... tradition, characterize hagiography as a genre in the medieval epoch and compared them with the notion used by Konrad von Würzburg. I examine the peculiarities of the text structure, the functions of the prologue and the epilogue and analyse a number of specific features typical of the plot of the above-mentioned hagiographic poems. Conrad von Würs­burg’s outstanding merit lies in the establishment of hagiographic canons in German litera­ture. Gugnin, J. A., 2003. Tvorchestvo Konrada Würzburgskogo v ...

• Geographical structure and dynamics of foreign trade relations of the Republic of Crimea with the border countries and economic security issues

  ... particular foreign trade indicators of the Republic of Crimea while ensuring economic security of the region. The author analyzes the features of the post-Soviet export-import operations dynamics in the Cri­mean border region considering the changes in the scale ... ... given to the Republic's position in the foreign trade relations in the Greater Black Sea region. The article de­scribes the specifics of exports and imports commodity structure with core partner countries. It is revealed that large-scale changes in the ...