Aim. To identify the distinctive features of speech acts of a request and a threatening demand at the prosodic level based on the modern German language.

Methodology. The experimental and phonetic research was based on the statements made by five native German speakers who are pronunciation experts. The methodology is a comprehensive analysis: auditory, acoustic, mathematical-statistical and comparative, using the Praat and SPSS computer programs.

Results. The conducted research allowed to obtain individual prosodic characteristics of speech acts of a request and a threatening demand. The speech acts differ at a given statistical level by tonal, dynamic and temporal features. The most differentiated section of speech flow delimitation can be considered the pre-beat and post-beat.

Research implications. The results of the study can be used in solving problems of automatic speech recognition and synthesis, as well as in the practice of teaching theoretical linguistic disciplines.

Aim. To identify the features of the interpretation of Russian traditional song folklore in the virtual space of the Internet through the prism of digital linguistic folkloristics.

Methodology. The empirical material was collected by the authors in the south of Western Siberia during the 30 years, incorporating Russian lyrical songs of the descendants of the first settlers and selfpropelled guns. The collected array of lyrical folk songs, reflecting the regional peculiarities of culture and worldview, allows for the formalization of folkloratives in their post-interpretative diversity. The peculiarities of interpretation of Russian traditional song folklore in a virtual environment are considered on the basis of the formalization of folklore markers based on software hardware analysis of digital linguistics.

Results. The key trends of the interpretative process are revealed. Russian traditional song folklore postinterpretation in a virtual environment makes it possible to prolong the viability of a Russian folk song, which acquires new forms and meanings under the influence of transformations of the virtual environment. Modern performers can give new sounds and meanings to songs using new audiovisual solutions for presenting Russian folk songs, actualizing issues of folklore and post-folklore. Despite the variability and oral transmission, each folk song has its own discursive space, thanks to which the interpretation and understanding of song folklore demonstrate vitality and stability even in a virtual environment.

Research implications. The presented approach opens up new opportunities for understanding and interpreting Russian folk song culture in modern conditions, identifying reference points that allow preserving and developing the ethnic-cultural heritage of the Russian people.

Aim. To identify and analyze the means of speech influence in anti-Russian propaganda in the Western and Ukrainian media at the lexical and morphemic levels of the linguistic hierarchy.

Methodology. The study comprises the discourse and content analysis of the texts of media articles in English, German and Ukrainian languages. The continuous sampling method reveals linguistic means of manipulation in anti-Russian propaganda at the lexical and morphemic levels. The methods of linguistic description and structural and semantic analysis are used as techniques for studying the manipulative potential of propaganda speech means.

Results. The results of the study have revealed the most frequent and effective means of speech influence in anti-Russian propaganda.

Research implications. The study reveals the influencing potential of speech units within the framework of the presented language levels as applied to the current political situation, which can serve to develop a methodology for identifying speech means of influence and their further use as well as the development of countermeasures against anti-Russian propaganda spread by the Western countries and Ukraine in order to discredit Russia on the world stage.

Aim. To analyse rituality as a typological feature of legal discourse, to reveal its relationship with institutionality and performativity; to establish the pragmacognitive functionality of verbal, non-verbal and paraverbal components regulated by the parameters of legal discourse and to evaluate their performative effect.

Methodology. The methods of discursive, contextual, interpretive, cognitive and structural-semantic analysis are used, which ensure the systematic study of the semiotic characteristics of legal discourse. The integral methodological approach, based on semiotics, cognitive science and discourse theory, ensures the correctness of the study of verbal, non-verbal, iconic and artifactual components of legal discourse, providing rituality as its typological characteristic.

Results. The concept of rituality as a key feature of legal discourse in its interconnection with other discursive features is formulated; discourse components that ensure the rituality of legal discourse are established, as well as their role in ensuring the efficiency of communication in the professional legal environment.

Research implications. The study analyses the rituality of legal discourse from the point of view of semiotics – a promising direction of discourse linguistics, which allows expanding the understanding of the speech act by taking into account the influence of verbal and non-verbal sign codes, as well as other extra-linguistic factors on the communication process. From the point of view of pragmacognitive science, the functional effect of such discourse components as Latin phrases and clichéd formulas, symbolic objects and artifacts used during court hearings, and iconic symbols evaluated by the court as evidence has been established.

Aim. To identify strategies for developing language models using artificial intelligence to support the inclusion of people with mental disabilities.

Methodology. The study compares two approaches to building dialogue systems: information retrieval question-answering systems and generative question-answering. A collection of texts on inclusive education was compiled. Additionally, a complex of question-answering systems was created using neural network transfer learning methods to analyze the performance of the approaches. A linguistic analysis of the collected data and the results of the dialogue system was conducted.

Results. The study showed that both approaches to building dialogue systems have their advantages and limitations. Information retrieval question-answering systems provide high answer relevance. Generative models offer greater flexibility in a broader context. Linguistic analysis revealed that for optimal results, it is advisable to combine both approaches, leveraging the strengths of each depending on the specific task and interaction context.

Research implications. The significance lies in the development of dialogue system theory, deepening the understanding of the interaction between structural and semantic aspects of language and their impact on the effectiveness of different approaches to creating dialogue systems, as well as the possibility of applying the research results in the educational system.

Aim. To identify the functions implemented by modal particles in texts of various functional styles in the German language.

Methodology. 200 examples were selected from the DECOW 16A colloquial speech corpus, the DWDS colloquial speech subcorpus, the “Berliner Tageszeitung” and “Tagesspiegel” newspaper text corpus, as well as from German fiction: works by F. Kafka, W. Herndorf “Tschick”, the novel by W. Timm “Johannisnacht”. When working with the actual material, the following methods were used: the contextual analysis method, the continuous sampling method, and the comparative method.

Results. It is shown that each functional style is characterized by its own set of modal particles that implement the corresponding functions. In scientific-style texts, modal particles contribute to the expression of reason and consequense, dialogicity, and the formation of hypotheses. In colloquial style texts, modal particles are involved in building successful communication, reflecting the speaker’s propositional attitude and emotional state, as well as acting as a means of coherence. In journalistic texts, modal particles typical of colloquial speech are used in intertextual inclusions, bringing the described situation closer to everyday life. In fiction the use of modal particles allows us to imagine the situation of everyday communication and reflect the internal state of the characters, show the nature of their relationships, speech characteristics peculiar to certain social and age groups. In both journalistic and artistic texts, modal particles act as a means of coherence, help to create dialogicity and hypothetisis.

Research implications. The theoretical significance of the study lies in the fact that the work makes a certain contribution to the description of the functional purpose of modal particles and their role in various types of texts. The practical significance lies in the fact that the results obtained can be used in practical classes on the German language, stylistics and grammar of the text at the language faculties of universities.

Aim. To define the internal hierarchy of discourse as a semiotic space through the French film discourse.

Methodology. The theoretical analysis of the French film discourse internal hierarchy is carried out using discourse analysis, content analysis, semiotic discourse analysis, semantic analysis of vocabulary, the method of continuous sampling, methods of theoretical analysis and generalization.

Results. The French film discourse internal hierarchy is revealed as the hierarchy between the film and the functional and pragmatic elements (FPE) of the film text, where the film text occupies a higher level of hierarchy; parts of a multi-part film, where the upper level of the hierarchy is assigned to the original film; the hierarchy within the FPE class, where the film title occupies the upper level of the hierarchy.

Research implications. The study reveals the identification of the internal hierarchy of the French film discourse as a semiotic space.

Aim. To describe the taxis functions of affixed and non-affixed deverbatives of actional semantics in Russian and Italian.

Methodology. The article analyzes Russian deverbatives ending in -ние/-ение, -тие/-ие, -ка and non-affixed names. In Italian, they correspond to deverbatives ending in -aggio/-eggio, -enza, -о, -zione/-sione, -ta. When used with temporal prepositions in both languages, deverbatives implement the taxis functions of simultaneity and non-simultaneity. The study used hypothetic-deductive, inductive, descriptive and contextual methods.

Results. The study revealed that Russian and Italian actional deverbatives with temporal prepositions implement the taxis functions of simultaneity, precedence and following.

Research implications. The article examines the issue of taxis functions of actional deverbatives of the Russian language and their Italian equivalents. The results of the study make some contribution to the theory of taxis. The results of the study can be used in a course teaching comparative typology of Russian (native) and Italian languages in higher education.

Aim. To identify and describe the representation peculiarities of the concept HEIMAT in the modern German aphoristic discourse.

Methodology. A combination of cognitive and discourse approaches as well as a linguocultural analysis of language units was used in the data analysis. A total of 106 samples were taken from the modern German authors (the second half of XX – the beginning of XXI centuries).

Results. According to the analysis, only two semantic dominants out of three recorded in lexicographical sources are actualized in the German aphoristic discourse. Local and temporal features of the HEIMAT concept are represented. The concept of the “inner, spiritual” homeland prevails. The perception of the homeland depends on a person’s age. The figurative component of the concept is represented by the metaphorical transfer “homeland for a person is a soil for growth.”

Research implications. These findings may help us to understand different linguocultures and allow determining the peculiarities of the national pictures of the world.

Aim. To analyze and describe the current state of the article category in Romance languages.

Methodology. The key research method was the contrastive method with elements of the linguisticcognitive approach. An analysis of article usage in Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian and French was carried out. A typology of article use in four functioning formats has been identified: definite, indefinite, partitive, zero.

Results. It has been proven that the general Romance features of article usage in the languages under consideration include the use of the definite article. Particular features of the use of articles in Romance languages include the specific discourse functioning of the partitive article in French, and the linguistic-cognitive features of the absolution of the article (zero article) in Portuguese, Spanish and Romanian. It is shown that the article can perform several functions in a statement, for example, the role of a definite or indefinite determiner of a name, and also play the role of an actualizer, transforming a virtual noun into a realized noun, or it can introduce a noun phrase with a hyperonym that refers to the set of designated nouns. Emphasis is placed on the difference between its use in a "core" language such as French and in so-called "peripheral" languages such as Spanish and Portuguese on the one hand, and Romanian on the other. Comparing the use of the article in Romance languages, it is found that the zero article is more common in the so-called “peripheral” languages than in standard French. This fact is explained by the fact that the article zero is a kind of equivalent of the French partitive article, since from a formal point of view the first can correlate with the indefinite article un/une in a negative sentence and, to a certain extent, with the indefinite article of the plural des. Prospects for further linguistic-cognitive and contrastive studies of functional equivalents of the article category in distant languages are proposed.

Research implications. The theoretical and practical significance lies in revealing the linguistic-cognitive potential of article usage in Romance languages, as well as the constructive functions of the noun in a synergistic connection with the use of the article. The most significant theoretical results of the comparison concern the subject, direct object, subject attribute, and prepositional complement. The results of the study can be applied in university courses on theoretical and practical grammar of Romance languages.