The author maintains that the language of prophetic texts differs fr om natural language in the propensity to go beyond the lim its of regular language categories. The mechanisms of this process are identified.
This article focuses on the problem of forms of including borrowed speech into a written text. The author corrects the established interpretation of direct speech, gives a detailed description of citation as a syntactic phenomenon, and offers its classification.
This article focuses on Russianisms used in Polish journalistic discourse. The author considers foreign inclusions as a component of the paradigm of foreign language units and identifies their pragmatic function.
This article deals with the problem of semantic diffusion on the level of polysemantic and paronymic lexical units. A hypothesis on the storage of lexical-semantic variations of a polysemantic word in the mental lexicon of native speakers in diffusive way is developed on the basis of experimental research.
The author emphasises the high frequency of the use of ‘training’ concept in the linguistic world image of the 19th century and analyses the representative of the concept in the linguistic usage of military sublanguage of the 19th century. The article offers a cognitive description of linguistic factors in the framework of diachronic communication.
This article deals with the “border” concept, which is considered with the help of Russian language material from the cognitive point of view: as a prototypical spatial object and as a functionally important schema for the structuring of different parts of linguistic world image relating to space.
This article is dedicated to a little-known work of a Kholmogory priest, A.N. Grandilevsky on Kurostrov settlements of the Kholmogory district of the Arkhangelsk region – the birthplace of M.V. Lomonosov. The book created in the early 20th century is defined as corresponding to the modern principles of linguistic-cultural locus description.
The author presents the result of research into the speech of indigent population of Arkhangelsk aimed at identifying informants of dialect lexical units in view of social stratification. The data obtained show that dialect lexical units are still functionally active, but their frequency in groups formed according to the education principles differs considerably.