This article deals with the verbs conveying semantic dominants of hagiographic texts; an integrated approach to the analysis of language facts makes it possible to establish that the features of verbal word forms function according to the type of hagiography and its composition.
The poetry and plays of A.S. Pushkin serve as the material for identifying the lexical–semantic paradigm of means of explicating the idea of the beautiful in its external and eternal manifestations.
This article focuses on the influence of rhetorical tradition on the development of categorical framework of Russian Formalism. The author proves that formalism borrows the idea of the poetical from the “deviation” from rhetorical theories.
This article compares the theoretical treatises of representatives of Russian avant-gardism of the 1910s with the ideas of Yu. Tynyanov and R. Yakobson. The author shows the conceptual unity of metaliterature search of avant-gardists and formalists.
This article analyses the functioning of colour naming in a poetical text. The authors identify the features of its semantic and aesthetical implementation, as well as their role in the structure of poetic images.
This article identifies the means of expressing simile in literary texts. The author described the individual stylistic and graphic-expressive characteristics of linguistic units in the framework the implementation of their morphological and syntactic features in N. Sukhov's prose.
Deverbatives are considered from the functional and semantic perspective on the basis of works of F. Dostoyevsky and L. Ulitskaya. The authors arrive at a conclusion about the meanin-creating features of nouns of action.