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No 2 (2010)
7-12 126
Abstract
The phenomenon of antonomasia,
based on the secondary naming unit, is considered in
the present article. The author regards antonomasia
not only as stylistic device, but in the consideration
of all linguistic functions in the process of communication.
A special prominent is given to the functional
peculiarities and pragmatic values of antonomasia as
a linguistic phenomenon, actualized in the sphere of
press. The given examples prove the authors hypotheses.
New classes and subclasses of antonomasia are
also distinguished. New criteria for classification are
proposed in the article.
13-16 64
Abstract
This article, based on analysis of
transport metaphor and metaphors of the transport
discourse interdiscource nature of metaphor as a factor
of convergence and interpenetration of different
types of discourses is substantinated.
16-24 56
Abstract
The article is dedicated to the psycholinguistic
description of the foreign language
personality - oriented communication ruining factors.
S. Bukhtiyarova describes their verbal and nonverbal
overcoming ways. The author reveals the reasons
for fear and the fear peculiarities, the verbal and
the non-verbal ways used by the foreign language
students to overcome their fear.
The author also presents the remarkable description
of the most interesting expressive foreign
language personality-oriented verbal means, image
components, the verbal and the non-verbal behaviour,
character and temperament types.
24-28 46
Abstract
The article discusses specific characteristics
of a Timeline as a type of biographical
texts on the Internet in comparison with traditional
biographical profiles in printed and electronic sources.
The paper also suggests possible criteria for the
classification of the given type of the text and its delimitation
from other allied types of texts.
28-31 158
Abstract
The article covers a problem of definition
of the content the secondary text in the literary
criticism, the theory of the scientific information,
linguistics and literary criticism, mentions a question
of the role of definition in a modern information
field, and also a question of its interaction with the
theory of the scientific information, automatic text
processing, annotation and rendering the text and
with the theory of literary creativity, the philological
analysis of the text. The article acquaints with the
history of occurrence and term development, with
synonymous terms (the abstract text, the peripheral
text).
32-35 47
Abstract
On a material of French and Russian
business correspondence the article studies translational
transformations of a syntactic sentence structure
connected with modifications of the speakers
point of view on the described situation. Such transformations
are dictated by usage and connected with
pragmatic parameters of the discourse «officiallybusiness
letter». In this case discourse analysis possesses
explanatory force.
36-45 63
Abstract
Verbal conflict description goes back
to the ancient times. In the article the author characterizes
the conflict in many manifestations establishing
interdisciplinary relations with the other sciences
directly or indirectly having conflict as an object for
their study. Most of the conflict situations are manifested
through the language. The author suggests
studying conflict in the micro-, macro- and megastratum
as a natural medium for its developing.
45-46 56
Abstract
The article presents some resources
of formation homonymy in English and focuses on
the significant role of disintegration of polysemy
synchronically and diachronically.
46-48 62
Abstract
The article focuses on the significant
role in understanding of homonymy development in
New English. Being products of their historical epochs,
they are a depository of specific system and
style of behaviour and thinking
48-51 43
Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis
of a recurrent centre and its correlation with the plot
perspective. Based on the detective story by Agatha
Christie «The Herb of Death» three types of recurrent
centres are examined as the way of their integration
into a single text, implemented by the plot
perspective.
51-56 60
Abstract
This paper is devoted to the referential
relations in the framework of the text linguistics.
In the article a review of the researches concerning
the dynamic nature of texts is given. The theory of
the referential movement as a vivid example of the
unfolding of information in texts is presented. The
analysis of the referential movement in the object
referential domain on the material of the present-day
German fiction is done
57-60 74
Abstract
The article deals with the modern
approach to singling out the specific features of text
categories. It touches upon the problem of defining
figurativeness as a text category in the modern linguistics
of the text and describes the means of its
realization within the text. The article also traces the
interrelation of the two categories - the category of
informativeness and imagery in the publicistic text.
60-63 216
Abstract
In this article the author analyses
the characteristics of «realia», a special category of
words which is needed to translate a national originality
of texts into foreign languages. The article
deals with the problem of teaching the difference
among this term and other linguistic terms such as
«varvarism», «lacune» , etc.
64-68 155
Abstract
The article deals with the stylistic
device of personification. The main task of the article
is an analysis of different views on given trope
and the research of relations between the personification
and the other stylistic figures. In our article
we try to formulate the most correct definition of this
concept.
68-74 201
Abstract
This paper is intended to examine
the texts which contain filmic speech and can be
used as a basis in a linguistic research. The author
offers a classification of cinematic texts based on the
Russian and foreign literature analysis. We clarify
terms cinematic language, filmic speech, and
cinematic text. The article thoroughly explores the
features of a screenplay which is seen as a unique
literary form.
74-78 83
Abstract
In this article the author examines
influence of language upon society consciousness,
and also some features of operation of mechanism of
cognitive adaptation of experiment. These phenomena
are analyzed on the material of «political tolerance
» in the matter of its manifestation in modern
American variant of English
78-92 61
Abstract
The article is dedicated to the destructive
personality concept verbal description
problems in fiction. The semantic fields characterizing
diseases peculiarities, their process and consequences
are described in the article in connection
with the personality structure. The author also reveals
the peculiarities of the interconnection of the verbal
characteristic personality destructive changes in the
scientific psychiatric literature and in fiction. P. M.
Borisov describes the writers personality influence
on his characters verbal personality description. In
the article we can also find the information about
the remarkable psychiatric researches dedicated to
the most talented writers suffering mental diseases
in the interconnection with their characters verbal
description.
93-97 83
Abstract
The article is devoted to the study
of ways and peculiarities of Time language representation.
The author considers temporal semantics
of nouns denoting feelings and emotions in current
English. The following idea is put forward: non-temporal
words semantics reflects a peculiar subjective
idea of time; time - its certain notion - becomes basis
for categorization of emotional phenomena into
a language unit.
97-101 162
Abstract
The article is devoted to the problems
of studying English and French realiæ in the
text of the novel by Ch. Dickens A Tale of Two
Cities. The division of realiæ on different bases is
considered, including classification of realiæ on the
object basis. Special attention is paid to the division
of realiæ into own and strange realiæ within one
language, and besides into internal and external realities
within a pair of languages. The urgency of dividing
realiæ in this novel into modern and historical
realiæ according to time criterion is emphasized.
101-105 179
Abstract
The article reveals such notions as
spoken language, jargon and slang. The article
considers the main sources of the replenishment
of the vulgar vocabularys register, includes the
comparative analysis of the youth jargons functions
on the German, English and Russian languages material.
Theoretical principles are supported with the
examples in two languages and their translation into
Russian.
105-114 202
Abstract
The article is dedicated to the verbal
description of the proverbs and sayings, characterizing
personality in the interconnection of the linguistic,
psycholinguistic and psychological aspects. The
author analyzes the semantic field of the proverbs
und sayings, characterizing the personality structure
and the components, determining the personality
structure.
O. Savtsova describes the peculiarities of the
most frequent proverbs, expressing benaviour, positive
and negative personality attitudes.
115-118 54
Abstract
The present article aims at considering
aspectual verbal forms in the proposition of
preformative utterances with the verbs swear and
promise. The author analyzes the aspectual forms
of the given verbs, making use of the universal formulae
invented by W.E. Bull. The author also continues
to the set of W.E. Bulls formulae, taking into
consideration the specific character of proposition in
performative utterances
118-123 59
Abstract
The article studies branch terminology
in its infancy on the basis of anthropolinguistic
and cognitive approaches. The analysis is performed
of English railway terms formation with particular
emphasis put on common and specific features of
British and American professional world-image.
124-128 47
Abstract
This article focuses on the way English
speakers interpret communicative behaviour by
both ground staff and in-flight staff of two Moscow
international airports and two major Russian airlines.
The research has shown that most Russians in this
field are considered by Anglophones to be impolite
and discourteous. This may be due to national cultural
differences and specific approaches to individualism,
power distance and uncertainty avoidance.
129-133 43
Abstract
The given article deals with the
studying of the syntactical structure of political aphorisms
in the English and Russian languages
134-137 45
Abstract
In this paper we present a specific
use of the infinitive in the structures of the transitional
type of Indo-European languages of various
types. When accessing the Old Slavonic language
and the history of the Russian language are established
features of consolidation in the languages of
the Eastern type of such structures, as well as establishing
the cause of the abolition of the turnover
in the Russian language
137-144 62
Abstract
This article considers the distinctive
features of conceptual sphere "ECONOMY" and the
means of its realization in the English and Russian
languages.
144-148 47
Abstract
The article is devoted to the peculiarities
of translating the French informal/vulgar vocabulary
into Russian in L.-F. Célines novel Journey
to the End of the Night. The article presents
a detailed comparative analysis of the original text
and its translation, reveals the difficulties associated
with the asymmetry of the French and Russian syntax
constructions and the problem of searching for a
lexical equivalent.
148-151 81
Abstract
The present article covers the problematic
of correlation between translation and interpretation.
The author gives a short characteristic of
interpretation, shoves the motives and limits of its
use, analysis its main phases. The material of English-
Russian translation presents situations of interaction
between interpretation and translational transformations
in text discourse
151-155 53
Abstract
The article deals with the usage of
the English language by the greatest representatives
of Indian literature of the 20th century R. Tagor and R.
Narayan. It is stressed that in the first case we mean auto
translations from Bengali, and in the second case English
was originally used in descriptions of Tamil reality.
This peculiarity was reflected in linguistic characteristics
of the considered texts: speaking about R. Tagor we
mean derealization, shown in elimination of specific
Indian cultural notions, but in the works of R. Narayan
on the contrary the main feature is the national colour
which is difficult to express in translations.
155-159 90
Abstract
In the novel Captains Daughter
by A.S. Pushkin the proverbs and sayings are not just
the refined details amplifying the historical past in
each speech measuring. Some of them are verbatim
report of the artists intention, its compressed form.
The creation of proverbial turns which keep the image
of the original and are easily recognized by the
foreign reader becomes the main way of the translation
of paremias and goes side by side with the usage
of monoequivalents and analogues.
160-163 103
Abstract
The present article contains description
and comparison of main structural and significant
characteristics of the concept friendship in
the Russian and Spanish languages; friendship ties
are determined via their functional and pragmatic
direction; lexical and semantic field of the concept
friendship in communicational and explicit space
is also expressed. The article shows the phenomenon
of the friendship image existing in the modern national
consciousness of Russian and Spanish natives;
verbal expression of the image in spoken speech is
compared and contrasted. The results are evidenced
by the data obtained within the associative experiment
which involved Russian and Spanish natives
164-166 52
Abstract
The comparative and typological
study of taxis as the universal category has pointed
to the other form of taxis relations in the Lezgin
language than in Russian. Interlinguistic research of
such relations done in this article enabled to explicate
in the Lezgin language main and subordinate
actions connected with characterization relations
166-168 46
Abstract
The analysis of Lezgin taxis converbs
submitted in this article demonstrates structural
and semantic unity of morphological means
expressing taxis relations. Such integrity of taxis in
Lezgin gives all reasons to have another view of subordinate
clause system in Russian.
169-175 43
Abstract
The article deals with the functions
of the modal words with the semantics of the epistemic
modality in the sentence. The author marks out
the following functions: accentuating, predicative as
well as the function of the transmission of the tense
meanings. Modal words are analysed in the situative
aspect. The types of situations are determined in
which the modal words are used
176-185 87
Abstract
In this article we detail the psycholinguistic
and linguistic aspects of verbal characteristic
of personal and professional managerial
qualities of senior executives of Venezuela. The article
analyzes one of the most popular television series
in Venezuela, which depicts skillfully the image
of the President of the country Hugo Chavez, who
served as the prototype for the main character of the
series named Olegario. Chavez comes and stays in
power due to the strong identification between him
(the president of Venezuela) and an average Venezuelan.
This fact is reflected in his verbal means.
The article discusses the relationship of personality
traits with verbal means of management, as well as
the culture-relevant lexical units forming an integral
part of the Venezuelan national variant of the Spanish
language and language-specific view of the world
of the Venezuelans.
185-190 86
Abstract
The article deals with the ways of
verbalization of concept fool in diachronia based
on the material of the German language. The language
representatives of the concept under consideration
are analized, semantico-ethymological
analysis is given to language units of German and
other german languages that represent this concept
and semantic shifts of the meaning of the observed
lexical units are traced.
190-193 53
Abstract
In the given article there are results
of analysis of loan terms process in German terminology
of agricultural mechanical engineering. It examined
different classifications of loan terms which
allows to retrace phases and reasons of loan terms
process in considered terminology. The completed
analysis established the loan terms process as well as
substantial source of vocabulary update of German
terminology of agricultural mechanical engineering
194-197 59
Abstract
Along with constructions of speech
style there are certain widely spread constructions in
advertising, which determine the specific character
of an advertising discourse. The article deals with
two typical syntactic structures of sentences used in
headlines of French advertisements, these are predicative
non-verbal and complex asyndetic constructions.
These very constructions give us an opportunity
to single out advertising sentences from many
other different constructions of written speech and
they also reflect expressive syntax in written advertisements.
198-203 66
Abstract
We tried to research into the mass
performance nature and its contemporary functioning.
We analyzed the historic appropriateness of the
mass performance origin as a part of the popular culture
and defined its functions and goals. Determination
of the stages connected with origin, functioning,
use and influence of the performance has been proposed
as its possible analytical division.
203-206 60
Abstract
Krasilnikovs work presents story,
novel and tale. The article dwells on the features of
Krasilnikovs poetics. They are deskriptiveness, psychology
and dialogism. The most important in product
description is the life of the soul. Life of the soul
is disclosed with the help of the interior monologue,
subtext, details, colour symbolism and psychological
parallelism.


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