This article offers the theoretical grounds and methods of semantic analysis of “male” and “female” categories developed on the basis of linguistic data. The author draws examples from the Russian language to demonstrate gender semantic models in Russian linguistic mentality, e. g. the general understandding of the “male” and the “female”, the content properties of these principles, etc.
This article analyses the phraseological devices related to the metaphorical vision of conscience in the world image represented in the Polish language. The author distinguishes the metaphorical models that embody the concept of conscience.
This article offers an analysis of lexical means to represent the mental category of space, precisely, the "virtual space" group in Russian internet discourse.
This article considers the problem of the development of ancient family names in modern European areas. The author examines the main types of ancient family taking into account linguistic and extra linguistic factors.