Aim. To identify specific features of world modeling in clinical veterinary terminology based on the analysis of the metaphorical and metonymic conceptual models with the source domain “plant”.
Methodology. The main content of the study is the analysis of conceptual models with the source domain “plant” in veterinary terms denoting pathological processes and methods of treatment. The material of the study is professional veterinary dictionaries and manuals, as well as referrals for histopathological examination, which indicate the clinical data of an animal.
Results. The analysis showed that both metaphorical and metonymic conceptual models with the source domain “plant” are embodied in clinical veterinary medicine. Conceptual metaphors “pathology is a plant”, “diseased organism is a plant” – includes three frames: plant life cycle, plant parts, plant species; metonymic models “plant as the cause of the disease / a remedy for its treatment” are presented in the form of frames “material”, “parts of a plant”, “plant species”.
Research implications. The article raises the problem of the specifics of world modeling in veterinary terminology. The results of the study can be used in compiling glossaries for sections of clinical veterinary disciplines.

Aim. To describe mixed martial arts (MMA) discourse through the prism of the term ‘soft power’. To find the methods of soft power realization in MMA discourse.
Methodology. The key method used in the research is discourse analysis which is represented by critical (CDA) and linguopragmatic (contextual and linguostylistic) methodological variations of discursive approach. General scientific methods such as observation, comparison and induction are also used. Sport broadcasts on YouTube video platform are selected as the research material. In the process of the study, discursive fragments which can be seen as translators of soft power are determined. Linguistic (linguostylistic) and discursive means, including the non-verbal ones which are employed for the creation of ‘soft’ attractors, are singled out.
Results. It is proven that the term ‘soft power’ is applicable to the analysis of sport communication and its variations (subdiscourses), to which the analyzed communicative sphere can be referred. The view on soft power as a versatile category is postulated: on the one hand, in accordance with the Nye’s classical interpretation, it has to deal with relationships between countries and cultures but, on the other, the article presents a wider outlook on soft power as a tool that can increase the attractiveness of the MMA fighter’s personality for the audience. The latter projection of soft power is achieved through different methods usually connected with the inclusion of the elements of other discourses in the MMA professional communication. The article pays attention to the ways the MMA fighter’s appearance is discussed and provides some examples of motivational discourse that can also include religious motives.
Research implications. The research describes a relatively understudied, narrow professional discourse and reveals the importance of the notion of soft power for sports linguistics in general.

Aim. To identify the functions of pronouns in discourse organization and the parameters defining the choice of pronouns that are responsible for inner and outer economic discourse cohesion.
Methodology. Methods of discriptive, discourse and contextual analysis are applied in the research. The study is based on the scripts of International Monetary Fund representatives’ speeches, reports, blogs, news and publications in Finance and Development Magazine in 2022 chosen by the method of continuous sampling.
Results. The conducted analysis revealed that pronouns take an active part in the processes of discourse creation and organization: making text formation possible they gain their semantics and pragmatics. The choice of pronoun results from communicative situation parameters, the speaker’s communicative strategy, accepted or stereotypical speech behaviour.
Research Implications. The significance of the research lies in the possibility of applying the results to teaching efficient business communication.

Aim is to characterize modern fields and trends in pragmalinguistics, to determine their specifics and main research problems.
Methodology. The paper uses the descriptive method, which is a system of procedures for collecting factual material and its description based on observation. The analysis of modern research trends in pragmalinguistics is carried out with the identification of their features and the definition of the main research problems.
Results. A comprehensive overview of modern research fields and trends in pragmalinguistics is given, the main research problems of each trends and fields are characterized.
Research implications. This review provides comprehensive understanding of modern fields and trends in pragmalinguistic research.

Aim. To analyse communicative reactions to changes in distance in English communication.
Methodology. The selected material was studied using discourse analysis, contextual analysis, interpretive analysis, and introspection.
Results. The main components of the communicative situation in which a change in communicative distance occurs were identified. The main types of reactions to changes in communicative distance were distinguished: 1) on the emotional level, positive and negative reactions can be distinguished; 2) according to the criterion of speech use – verbal and nonverbal. Positive reactions indicate the willingness of the communicator to move the relationship to a new level, while negative reactions express the communicant’s disagreement with the attempts to change the established distance. Negative reactions to changes in communicative distance are predominant (displeasure, discomfort, concern, irritation, etc.). Nonverbal reactions are expressed through nonverbal means: movements, gestures, gaze, blushing, intonation, pauses. Verbal reactions are speech acts: demanding an explanation for one’s behaviour, threatening, attempting to interrupt the interlocutor, clarifying the source of information, evading the answer, and refusing. Lexical means of expressing reactions include interrogative words, interjections, nouns, adjectives, verbs describing speech behaviour, and idioms.
Research implications. The theoretical significance lies in clarifying the concept of “communicative distance”, expanding knowledge of communicative processes and factors influencing them. The practical significance of the study lies in the possibility of using its results in courses on discourse analysis, pragmalinguistics, sociolinguistics, and communication theory

Aim. To review the phenomenon of linguistic economy, which is represented in the English language system, as the objective global tendency from the viewpoint of teaching English to Russian learners.
Methodology. Grammatical and lexical phenomena in the English language are discussed in terms of their correlation with similar phenomena in Russian regarding their semantic and functional characteristics. The English forms ending in -ing, which are considered as the representatives of polyfunctionality in the system of the English verb, are analyzed from the point of view of the difficulties the learners of English are confronted with. The deictic system is analyzed first and foremost at the level of articles, and the phenomenon of grammatical homonymy is subjected to a general analytical description in reference to the semantic structural properties of the English language system.
Results. The approach based on discussing linguistic economy as a global property of the English language system that has been objectively developed throughout its history, may serve as a basic principle of understanding the verbal representation processes as well as a successful language acquisition. The tendency for linguistic economy is determined by the structural and semantic specificity of the English language.
Research implications. The theoretical significance of the article lies in the development of the systemic interpretation of the phenomenon of linguistic economy as an objective property of the language, due to the specificity of its historical development and functional-semantic structure. The practical application is determined by applying the results and material under study in the process of learning English in a Russian-speaking audience, as well as in research practice.

Aim. To state the role of national narratives of the East and the West in forming the multi-plot scenario of the modern “Asian Century” media narrative.
Methodology. The research was carried out based on a contrastive linguistic analysis of the “Asian Century” media narrative in the English-language media of the West and East, as well as a diachronic comparison of national narratives to explain the reasons for the development of different plots of the “Asian Century” media narrative in the East and in the West. The English-language media narrative “Asian Century” as a modern phenomenon has been studied in a synchronous-diachronic dimension to explain both its integrity and the multiplicity of its manifestations.
Results. The paradigmatic series of the temporal name ‘Asian Century’ in the media texts of the East and West were determined. Chronotopic schemes in which the media narrative “Asian Century” is implemented were revealed. The scenario differences of the media narrative “Asian Century” between East and West were proved against the background of differences in national narratives. The study of the mythological code embedded in the texture of the English-language media narrative “Asian Century” revealed the underlying causes of discrepancies in forecasting the Global Future in the East and in the West. The media narrative “Asian Century” showed multiple plots due to significant differences in the perception of the chronotopic scheme “Past – Present – Future” in the countries of the East and West.
Research implications. The theoretical significance lies in the development of the methodology of comparative linguistic rratology in relation to media texts. The practical value lies in the possibility of using the results in the practice of intercultural communication and translation.

Aim. To study the thematic scope, emotiveness and techniques for translating connotational meanings of English news headlines into the Russian language.
Methodology. The material was collected by means of random sampling of the news and the Russian translations, and analyzed with the help of the quantitative and semantic (contextual and componential) analysis.
Results. Most frequent thematic areas of news coverage were identified, and the proportion of polar emotional meanings was calculated (negative 65% and positive 35%). The main strategies for translating emotive connotations of the English news headlines into Russian were recognized: 1) equivalent substitution (30%); 2) emotive intensity modification – mainly towards its increase (30%); 3) neutralization and emotive uplift (40%). On average, the degree of emotiveness increased by 1.56. The techniques for connotational meaning representation in the Russian translations were described: epithets, metaphors, evaluative lexis, superlative adjectives, euphemisms, citations, direct speech, syntactic transformations.
Research implications. The obtained results can be of interest for contrastive studies of news headlines and linguistic means of emotive representation in English and Russian media discourse. The results can be used in teaching translation of emotive lexis and connotational meanings of news headlines from English into Russian.

Aim. To study the crystallization of axiological dominants in fictional discourse.
Methodology. Discourse is considered as a complex structural and semantic formation, an axiological system that includes specific functions. The basis of the discourse is a system of concepts. The concept is a set of meanings representing an axiological category important in the space of fictional discourse, acting as an axiological dominant. Methods of analysis include contextual and linguistichermeneutic analysis, as well as the technique of meaning crystallization.
Results. The article analyzes contexts in their sequence and interaction, which made it possible to trace the formation of the concepts time and soulmate, as well as to demonstrate the impact of crystallization processes on text formation and axiological system. The meanings forming the individual author's concepts were revealed. The authors come to the conclusion that the crystallization of concepts determines the features of fictional discourse.
Research implications. The study of axiological dominants allows to determine the structural and semantic organization of fictional discourse. This research contributes to the development of discourse theory, axiological linguistics, philological hermeneutics. Its practical value consists in the possibility of using research materials in educational courses on language theory, discourse theory, stylistics, text interpretation, theory and practice of translation.

Aim. To address the methods of defining the subject type within Russian quasi-subject constructions such as Kniga legko chitaetsja (The book is easy to read), to describe the semantics of various syntactic constructions of this type, to outline their place in the general system of Russian syntactic constructions.
Methodology. The paper analyses samples of quasi-subject constructions, outlines the subject types, and verifies the subject type interpretation based on the proposed semantic tests and experiment.
Results. The analysis and testing of Russian quasi-subject constructions help outline the factors that define which subject type would take place within the original construction. The paper establishes the quantitative ratio of the subject types that is supported by the features of the Russian linguistic map of the world and helps describe the semantics of quasi-subject models.
Research implications. The article suggests a systematic way to define a semantic component within the quasi-subject construction, which can be used for further analysis of such syntactic constructions in other languages. The results can also be applied to semantic and syntactic problems in Russian and other languages.

Aim. To reveal quantitative and linguistic characteristics of public speeches of economic discourse based on the analysis of speech and interview of one of one of the key speakers at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF-22) from the standpoint of discourse theory and quantitative linguistics.
Methodology. The study used computer semantic text analysis (SEO analysis) and discourse analysis of the interview and transcribed public speeches by the Minister of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic A. O. Chekunkov at EEF-22 with subsequent interpretation of the results.
Results. The quantitative and linguistic features of public speeches within the economic discourse and its subspecies - the discourse of the economic forum are considered and clarified, the conclusion concerning the interdiscursive nature of the type of institutional discourse under consideration is made, the status of the economic forum discourse among other subspecies of economic discourse is determined.
Research implications Theoretical significance is in identifying the quantitative and linguistic characteristics of the public speech of the key speaker (the dominant discursive role) and in the genre of interviews in open economic discourse, namely in the framework of the multimodal discourse of the economic forum.

Aim. To identify and analyze relevant elements of communicative behavior and ideological dominants inherent in Puerto Ricans.
Methodology. A linguoculturological analysis of the modern discursive practices of Puerto Ricans was carried out, through which the key parameters of their identity were determined.
Results. The main speech and behavioral attitudes and discursive parameters of the identity of Puerto Ricans were identified and characterized. The study also stated that the Spanish code shows intergenerational stability.
Research implications. The study reveals the special cultural, linguistic, cognitive, social parameters of the Puerto Rican identity that form and explain the cultural identity of this ethnic group. The results of the study can be applied in teaching Spanish, history and culture of the countries of the studied language and other related disciplines.

Aim. To review the legal neologisms of corporate documents, in particular, smart contracts, recorded in fiction and industry literature, in order to compare the ways of word formation of neologisms from articles of the Civil Code (Code Civil) of the French and court decisions.
Methodology. In the course of the study, a continuous sampling of legal neologisms from authentic French texts published between 2008 and 2019 was carried out, on the basis of which the most typical legal neologisms were identified. To determine the extent of their distribution in jurisprudence, corpus analysis was used (French-language corpus and English-language Google Ngram Viewer corpus for 2019). In order to determine the methods of word formation and compare these neologisms with the terms recorded in the dictionary, semantic analysis was used to identify the meanings of neologism terms, as well as descriptive and comparative general linguistic methods.
Results. As a result of the conducted research, trends have been established and the main ways of word formation of legal neologisms associated with the use of smart contracts of the modern French special language in the period 2008–2019 have been identified.
Research implications. The results of the study can be used for further application in the field of modern contract law, contracts based on blockchain and agreements in the electronic form, analysis and prediction.

Aim. To analyze lexical and semantic features, rhetorical means, precedent phenomena of various Argentive football fans’ compositions as a reflection of the axiological values of the Argentines, as well as to establish their intertextual links in the semiosphere of the Argentines’ identity.
Methodology. The main research methods are semantic, interpretive, linguistic and cultural analysis, cultural commentary.
Results. The author highlights how the integration of meanings, their connotations, lexical and semantic means, precedent phenomena, and rhetorical devices implements the main aesthetic message of the football fans’ song discourse which is the Argentine identity, both group (football fans) and national, as football is of great importance for the cultural space of the country.
Research implications. The article develops the paradigm of precedent philology, and its results can be applied in teaching Spanish with in-depth study of culture.

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