A review of modern viewpoints on the nature of concept is given and methods for its study are analyzed. The basic terms are defined. The linguo-cultural features of the life-concept are revealed. The results of an associative experiment, followed by a technique of direct word - interpretation are presented. They allow to find out some facts about the linguistic consciousness of the British people aged 19-25 and about British linguistic and conceptual world image. Three most general definitions of lexical unit life are determined by the method of direct word interpretation.

This article is dedicated to the 10th Anniversary of emergence of a new science - anthropolinguistics. It contains pre-requisites and the short history of its emergence. Main postulates, problems and perspectives in further development are presented and discussed. It is proved that evolution of human mentality may be studied on the basis of volume and type of vocabulary used at various stages of human evolution. Hypothesis of hundredfold increase of vocabulary at every stage is formulated. The main achievements and newly established directions of research in the field of anthropolinguistics are also introduced.

The paper discusses the concept of the «professional linguistic worldview» and the way it is represented by a bank officer as a professional linguistic personality. The article also analyses linguistic personality of a bank officer from the perspective of acquiring and mastering the language required to gain professional experience. Special attention is paid to the characteristics of bank officer’s speech-and-thought process. The specific characteristics of development of a linguistic personality in banking are studied.

The research of text affective evaluation, particularly the affective evaluation of Mass Media texts is described in the article. The concepts of media text, medialinguistics, and text sentiment are reviewed. The paper offers a sentiment-analysis of one of the US leading newspapers text fragments which were extracted from text corpus by means of textual analysis and

The article deals with the linguopragmatic characteristics of disjunctive questions in a business interview in the light of their gender aspects. It examines communication strategies of disjunctive questions in business interviews held by business community representatives, native speakers of two national variants of the English language: British and American. It also investigates male and female types of speech behaviour and basic characteristics of a business interview. The article focuses on historically conditioned interpenetration and assimilation of the American and British variants of English, reveals the differences in the use of communication strategies in British and American English.

Natural language-based information retrieval systems demand specific estimation methods. In the article a number of estimation methods of these systems are presented, the structure of information retrieval system KASKAD is described and advantages of one of the possible variants of estimating search systems efficiency using the fuzzy logic method are given. Two criteria are used for quantitative evaluation of search system quality - the search completeness and search precision. The dependence of search system quality evaluation on the criterion of completeness is illustrated on the graph. The experiment showed that the information retrieval system evaluation is determined not only by its technical characteristics but by wording of the request for information.

Discourse markers analysis as part of discourse analysis has recently become one of the most interesting and promising directions in linguistic research. There is much controversy in respect to the definition of this phenomenon in discourse. The paper focuses on presenting different definitions of the term discourse marker and reveals various features of this phenomenon. Moreover, three approaches to analysis of discourse markers, those of Halliday and Hasan, Schiffrin, Fraser, which represent the so-called coherence-based approach, are summarized and described.

The article describes the cross-cultural aspect of terminological anthropolinguistics in respect to rugby terms denoting types of game combinations in English and Russian languages. We focused on the process of terminology formation and its correlation with anthropolinguistics. The lexicon of game combinations in rugby is the basis of our research. Having carried out the comparative analysis of rugby terms, we came to the conclusion that in many respects the choice of the term depends on the cultural aspect that influences the consciousness of the person.

The article is devoted to the notion of intertextuality as a text characteristic that activates in the reader’s mind other texts he/she has read before. In the article different approaches to the definition of intertextuality are analyzed and actualization of his concept in texts belonging to different functional styles is examined. The reasons and peculiarities of precedent names usage in rap-discourse texts as a case of intertextuality are discussed. The main conclusion is that precedent names in rap-discourse are used to introduce into the text a cultural marker that could be understood by the majority of certain social group.

The methodological basis of the concept «lady» is presented in the article. Associations that the word «lady» has for Russian native speakers were analysed in order to determine categorical characteristics of the concept reflected in linguistic consciousness. These characteristics were collected while interpreting the results of the associative experiment and serve to reflect the perception of figurative constituents of the above mentioned linguocultural concept by the Russian native speakers.

The article describes the research of lexical synonyms in English for Customs by applying corpus analysis. The analysis of contexts related to the Customs in comparison with the contexts of various discourses from corpuses contributes to revealing usage patterns and parameters of lexical synonyms under study. The interpretation of synonyms usage in Customs English is based on comparing the semantic elements of the context situation which tends to be signified by one of the synonyms. The paper emphasizes the role of corpus as the additional instrument for empiric and explanatory studies.

Lexical and semantic means of the pragmatic filling-up of the presidential interviews are compared in this article. The basis of the comparative analysis includes the English and Russian interviews’ research, performed according to the following parameters: expressiveness, which presupposes appeal to emotions, standardization, which denotes standardization of the form; conceptualization, which includes values of linguistic culture and basic concepts of politics, which, in their turn, ritualize president’s language behavior; and persuasion, which consists of means of public opinion manipulation.

The present paper presents integrated syntactic-stylistic analysis of J.M. Coetzee prose, namely the novel “Disgrace”. Stylistic peculiarities of the novel syntax play the key role in communication between the author and the reader, in conveying the author's attitude, as well as in creation of the special narrative atmosphere. The paper presents analysis of examples of syntactic relations and links in the original and translated texts, which form a certain stylistic orientation of the novel.

The present paper contains the comparative analysis of the Book of Proverbs represented in two Russian translations - Synodal and Modern. The parable about wisdom and stupidity was chosen as a material of the research (that is one of few fragments of the part of the Scripture which has complete composition). In the comparative analysis of the two texts divergences of different types were found. These divergences can be classified as lexical, syntactic and connotative. In some cases the explanation of the translators’ choice can be found with the help of analysis of earlier texts - Vulgate and Bible of Elisabeth in the Church Slavonic language.