Aim. To reveal and analyse the significant characteristics of verbal empathic illocutionary types through speech-acting approach.

Methodology. General and special scientific methods were used in the work: communicative and pragmatic analysis, linguistic description.

Results. Qualitative signs of empathic statements in a bipolar dichotomy are highlighted. The interdependence of the considered features in the process of empathic communication is revealed. The communicative and pragmatic markers of empathic speech acts are compared with the basic types of the psychological phenomenon of empathy.

Research implications. The article contributes to the development of the theory of speech activity and the theory of speech influence. Empathic characteristics combine the fields of speech communication research with the psychology of speech behavior. The practical value of the acquired knowledge lies in its use as a communicative regulator of interpersonal communication relationships.

Aim. Identification of the linguistic and cultural specific features of the English language functioning on the territory of Nigeria.

Methodology. The research is based on the application of general scientific methods (analysis, generalization) and special methods (descriptive method, component analysis method, quantitative method).

Results. The most productive transformation processes of the English language of Nigeria due to the influence of creolization are revealed: monophthongization of diphthongs for the phonetic system; simplification of specific verb forms for the morphological system; use of high-frequency cultural borrowings from autochthonous languages for the lexical system.

Research implications is in the analysis of Nigerian English transformational processes potential due to complex language and culture symbiosis. The structure of Nigerian English is influenced by two key processes: indigenization and globalization which contributes to the preservation of its unique features, reflecting the specifics of the Nigerian linguistic culture.

Aim. To reveal personal experience narratives as an effective technique of influence in stand-up discourse.

Methodology. The key research method was content analysis, which allowed us to identify the most frequent patterns of personal narratives in the performances of English-speaking comedians. The classification of the patterns was based on the typology of axiogenic situations proposed by V.I. Karasik.

Results. The high level of multimodality of stand-up discourse appealing to semantic, pragmatic and syntactic principles of joke construction has been proved, which substantiates the relevance of further research into the nature of the manipulative impact of stand-up comedians.

Research implications. The paper reveals the peculiarities of using narratives of personal experience as an effective technique of manipulative influence on the audience.

Aim. To analyze the possibilities of verbalization of psychophysiological communication signs in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) based on the ethnic-linguistic-cultural Chinese value code, which translates the signs of the body "behavior" into a specific body communication with a person.

Methodology. Nonverbal and paraverbal means of body communication with a person are considered in the interpretive practice of TCM as a neuro-psychophysiological dialogue of the human body with its consciousness. The methodology is based on the psycholinguistic understanding of neurovegetative processes in the traditional culture of Chinese folk medicine and the principles of translation studies.

Results. The study showed that body language is interpreted in TCM as an interconnected complex system of nonverbal and paraverbal markers that transmit information about feelings and emotions both through nonverbal channels, including gestures, body position, facial expressions, and other paralinguistic techniques. This system of markers has a metaphorical character of euphemisms in TCM, which is due to the sacralization and taboo of the topics related to the vital activity of a human body.

Research implications. The theoretical significance of the study is associated with a new approach to the postulates and terminology of TCM from the standpoint of communication studies and neuropsycholinguistics, which provides a new look at the “language” of TCM.

Aim. To identify the conceptual component of the linguocultural type “teacher” in the Chinese language.

Methodology. The research material was the data of explanatory, etymological, encyclopedic, phraseological, frequency dictionaries, as well as a dictionary of synonyms and media texts placed in the Chinese language corpora. In the course of the research, such methods as etymological analysis, semantic analysis, contextual-descriptive analysis, cognitive-discursive analysis and comparative analysis of the vocabulary use were applied.

Results. The article presents the cultural specifics of the naming process reflected in the Chinese language picture of the world, as well as the semantic evolution of the hieroglyphics denoting the inguocultural type “teacher”. The conceptual component of this type in the Chinese language is established.

Research implications. The theoretical and practical significance of this study lie in the fact that it complements the comparative studies of the linguocultural type “teacher” in the Chinese and Russian language picture of the world.

Aim. To identify the features of pediatric discourse by means of overt observation.

Methodology. The authors analyzed the corpus of scripts of a pediatrician’s conversations with a child and his parents. Observations of the doctor’s speech, his ability to correctly collect anamnesis using communication tactics with the child and his parents were carried out. Methods of observation, generalization, interpretation and systematization of linguistic material, discursive analysis were used in the research. In accordance with the task, the method of communicative and pragmatic analysis of professional speech was used.

Results. The conducted analysis revealed some differences between the discourse of a pediatrician and the discourse of an “adult” doctor, namely, the use of diminutive suffixes, gestures, and game techniques. Based on the study of conversation scripts, the features of pediatric discourse are established, namely, personalization, dialogicity. It was revealed that the pediatrician should have developed lexical skills, speech abilities and verbal thinking, be able to use communicative tactics and strategies to establish and maintain contacts with children and their parents.

Research implications. The results of the study contribute to the development of medical discourse and discourse analysis.

Aim. To identify the deep content aspects of an insincere text, to establish parameters for interpreting the content of the texts considered as insincere in a communicative situation.

Methodology. The methodology of the research is based on the basic interactive principle applied to the study of speech communication, to the study of the texts content, which allows involving the texts of the addressee and the recipient in the study. Consideration of the insincere text content is based on a system-activity approach to the content study, including content analysis of each of the participants’ texts in speech communication; the component and structural analysis of the presented empirical material was no less important to the current study.

Results. In the course of the research, the content aspects of the insincere text were established. The definition of the "insincere text" phenomenon is proposed, the conditions and parameters of the insincere text content interpretation are determined. The insincere text content is considered as the conjugation of the contents of texts in the aspect of the communicative activity of participants in speech communication, a communicative act, the interpretation of the text content is understood as the interpretation of the communication symbolic model deployment in the conjugation form of the communicative activities of the addressee and the recipient.

Research implications. The article contributes to the scientific study of speech communication text, the complex data obtained regarding the study of the text content, in particular insincere text. The presented scientific information is a complete, comprehensive and final interpretation of the essence under study, reveals the deep foundations of the content of insincere texts, which is of great theoretical importance for linguistic science in the aspect of studying the linguistic phenomena functioning, in particular, texts as a central component of discursive reality.

Aim. To clarify the differences between the actual translation and localization, as well as to trace how the identified differences affect the process of linguocultural adaptation of fragments containing phraseological units, set expressions and their variations for the Russian-speaking market.

Methodology. In the course of writing the work, the current scientific literature devoted to localization as a special type of linguocultural adaptation of texts was analyzed. A comparative analysis of a selection of quotes from the dialogues from the game “Divinity: Original Sin” was also carried out. The selection included phraseological units in a traditional form or creatively transformed by the authors of the game. The selected fragments were considered from the viewpoint of structure, origin and the presence of equivalents in Russian.

Results. On the basis of the considered theoretical and practical material, it has been established that in the course of the localization of computer games, the priority is given to the adequate transfer of the key content for going through the game and compliance with the technical requirements for the translation text, rather than to the artistic originality of the source text. This is especially noticeable when translating such difficult for linguistic and cultural adaptation units as phraseological units and their variations, since when localizing in-game dialogues, the possibility of using descriptive translation or explanations is extremely limited.

Research implications. The theoretical significance of the study lies in the fact that the work gives an attempt of further distinguishing between literary translation and localization of in-game artistic and narrative texts and dialogues. The practical significance is due to the fact that attention is paid to such an object of translation as phraseological units and how the translation of such units is complicated by the peculiarities of localization as a specific type of translation activity.

Aim. To identify the specific features of verbs of movement used as proxemes that form the literary space in the background terminal forming cognitive scenes in H. James's novel “The Bostonians” and H. Sudermann's “Dame Care”.

Methodology. This paper interprets the features of the representation of literary space in the multilingual texts of H. James's novel “The Bostonians” and H. Sudermann's novel “Dame Care”. The proxemes revealed in the background terminals of cognitive text scenes are studied. In the course of the study of the cognitive scene background terminal proxeme aspect, a cognitive-hermeneutic analysis was carried out. The research material were the multilingual texts of Henry James's novel “The Bostonians” and Hermann Sudermann's novel “Dame Care”.

Results. According to the study, cognitive scenes are of high-frequency in the texts of both novels. The proxeme spectrum of background terminals of textual cognitive scenarios is represented mainly by verbs of movement. The most frequent type of verb-proxeme in both multilingual texts are verbs in the Past Simple / Präteritum tense (simple past tense). Verbs in Past Perfect / Perfekt tense are less frequent proxemes.

Research implications. The theoretical and practical significance lies in determining the specifics of the construction of cognitive scenes as a dynamic segment of the conceptual sphere of the literary world of writers of the 19th century – H. James and H. Sudermann, in replenishing the theoretical and methodological basis of textual cognitive scenes interpretation with a detailed description of verbs of movement as one of the types of proxemes that form the literary space.

Aim. To establish and describe the dynamics of sociocultural similarities and differences between British and American aphorisms with a gender assessment reflected in their semantics and structure.  

Methodology. The main content of the study is the analysis of the subject of assessment in aphorisms, considering gender, social status, profession; establishing a conceptual space; identification and interpretation of cultural information reflected in the aphorisms of certain centuries through the method of linguoculturological analysis; comparison of sociocultural characteristics of British and American evaluative aphorisms using comparative analysis.

Results. The study of aphorisms from different eras made it possible to trace the process of formation of the axiological system of the American and British nations which contributes to understanding the peculiarities of the character of the English-speaking people. As a result of the study, the main differences between British and American evaluative aphoristic statements of a sociolinguistic nature were identified.

Research implications. The theoretical and practical significance of the article lies in the fact that the work contributes to the development of the cognitive essence and national and cultural specificity of aphorisms in the gender aspect, helps to identify the most effective ways to create vivid evaluative English and American aphorisms and to reveal and understand the process of inference of aphorisms of different structure, verbalizing the assessment of linguocultural images of men and women.

Aim. To consider the abbreviated neologisms of modern French military vocabulary and to reveal the features of the formation of abbreviations and symbols in military texts.

Methodology. The work primarily uses general linguistic methods, in particular, descriptive and comparative, special methods and techniques, such as the method of linguistic description and structural-semantic analysis as methods for studying the system of abbreviations in the French military sphere.

Results. As a result of the analysis, abbreviated neologisms and features of their functioning in the modern French language of the military sphere were identified. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the consideration of abbreviated neologisms in military texts of the modern French language in the aspect of their word-formation features, which differ due to the specificity of paradigmatic relations.

Research implications. The theoretical significance of the study lies in identifying the specifics of abbreviated neologisms in the military sphere, which complements the theoretical knowledge of the formation of French terminology.

The practical significance lies in the possibility of using the results obtained in the practice of teaching in specialized military educational institutions, in the preparation of training manuals for the military professional orientation.