The article considers the main stages of formation and development of Psycholinguistics as a special scientific discipline. The main features of each analyzed period are presented. The existing connection between the periods as well as specificity of the way of treating and solving tasks in this field of Linguistics are described. It’s also stated that the mentioned process expresses a general tendency to the synthesis of scientific knowledge which became most pronounced in the second part of the previous century. It’s stressed that National Psycholinguistics is based on the achievements of both Russian Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (Boduen de Courtenay M.A., Vygotskii L.S., Leontiev A.N. et al) and the ideas of Western scientists, therefore special attention is paid to the works of Leontiev A.A.

The main conceptual approaches to the study of the fairy tale in Russia and abroad are shown in the article. The author studies the conceptual viewpoints of the representatives of the folkloricist, anthropologist and historicist approaches, the theory of the literary plot migration and the results of the fairy tale classification and cataloging. The fairy tale has been the object of research for specialists in psychoanalysis, sociolinguistics and genderlinguistics, the most interesting examples of the fairy tale interpretation from these viewpoints are included in the article. The author predicts the growth of interest in fairy tales studies due to the cultural and ideological changes which take place in the society at every stage of its development.

The article is concerned with different degrees of morphological motivation of linguistic signs. To the two types of motivation that are usually defined as complete and partial two more characteristics- autosemantic and synsemantic depending on the semantic character of the constituent morphemes are added. They are further represented as complete autosemantic or complete synsemantic, partial autosematic or partial synsemantic. Motivations of this kind are derived from the linear structure of the sign itself versus paradigmatically-determined motivation of the sign which is centered outside it - within the lexical system at large.

The article contains analysis of linguistic material which reflects the development of linguistic identity on its way to becoming a professional identity. A thorough analysis of the ways the development of personality is reflected in the language is given. The translation techniques used by interpreters in the literary transmission from English into Russian are studied.

The article is devoted to the functional sentence perspective or theme-rheme division of the sentences with notional verbs functioning as link-verbs in the compound nominal double predicate in Modern English. The proof of the view that notional verbs in the analyzed type of predicate are thematic and rhematic simultaneously is given with the help of the actual division of sentences, containing simple verbal, compound nominal and double predicates. The characteristics of the compound nominal double predicate are described. The ways and methods of distinguishing theme and rheme are indicated. The analysis carried out in the article is based on the semantic features of the verbs.

The article examines different forms of address according to their structure and potential for extension. Different grammatical models of address are analysed in accordance with their productivity in speech situations; the article presents the classification of these variants and the results of their statistical analysis. Address is compared with ellipsis and parcellate, but in spite of certain similarity between these structures, it is not possible to unite them into one category due to considerable differences between them.

The article analyzes methodological descriptions and presentation of the grammatical category of voice in the course of the Russian language as a foreign language for Chinese students. Comparative study of the content of voice category included the causes of interference and interfering influence zones that must be taken into account in teaching process.

The present paper deals with the problem of using obsolete lexical, morphological and syntactical language means to give the translation a special stylistic effect of correlation to the past. In this respect, specialists in translation studies speak about historical (temporal, time) stylization. Historical stylization is analysed in the context of chronological translation. We used a series of pamphlets “The Drapier’s Letters” by Jonathan Swift and the Russian translation done in 1955 as the material for the research.

The article deals with some aspects of understanding words-realia in Sherlock Holmes stories by Russian and British readers. As the result of an experiment, similarities and differences in the background knowledge of these readers are revealed.丨t,s also stated that in some cases we can speak about different “depth” in understanding of certain lexis by readers, and this fact should be taken into consideration in the process of intercultural communication, in particular while translating various texts, especially literary fiction.

The article deals with one of the most topical problems of literary translation - loanwords transferring. The article covers the main Arabic lexis types in W. Irving’s novel Tales of the Alhambra and the problem of interlingual translation. The research touches upon the issue of original, convertible and non-original loanwords. In the course of our study the identified lexis, taken from the Arabic language was analyzed and classification of the ways of translation was given. It is based on the material of the original novel and translations into French (A. Sobry, 1832) and Russian (V.S. Muraviev, 1979).

The article deals with problems of translation which is often a compromise, adequacy of translation and equivalence viewed at different levels. The difficulties of decoding and conveying irony of the English text into Russian which the translator faced while translating The Egoist by G. Meredith and the fact that traditional expression of irony and sociocultural associations in different cultures often don’t coincide are the focus of attention.

Place of worship is religion mouthpiece of certain period and studying them has always been topical. The present paper is devoted to comparative analysis of architectural terminology referring to three important cult buildings in three countries which belong to different Christian confessions (Armenia (Cathedral of holy Ejmiacin), England (Westminster Abbey), Russia (Assumption cathedral). This allows to find out general and specific terms, borrowing of which illustrates cultural relations between these countries at a certain period of time. In many cases, terms were borrowed from Greek and Latin however there are words of other origins among them.

Interlingual interpretation of Australian realia is still not sufficiently studied and consequently is of great scientific interest. The article analyses the methods of translating realia from English into Russian on the material of Australian short stories with specific ethnical vocabulary. As the investigation shows, transliteration with a comment is the most successful method of translation. Some semantic inaccuracies in translating realia and the ways of interpretation of dialect peculiarities, which reflect national and cultural features of the text, are also analysed in the article.

Analysis of French adverbs used with passé composé is presented in the article. The compatibility of certain verb forms with definite adverbs, the typical collocations, their adequate translation are described, and the factors determining the compatibility/incompatibility of lexical and grammatical units are defined.

The emotive potential of subordinate clauses of comparison and concession in newspaper texts is analyzed in the article. Emotive potential of comparative and concessive subordinate clauses is related to the syntactic structure, expressive syntactic units, grammatical means and stylistic devices. It is possible to rank conjunctions, grammatical subjunctive form as grammatical means. Antonyms, comparisons, metaphors, antithesis belong to stylistic devices. These means possess great semantic capacity, figurativeness and emotive potential thus making newspaper texts more convincing and expressive.