Aim. The study is focused on identifying the relationship between the choice of functional styles and the means of hidden manipulative influence in the texts of phishing messages.

Methodology. A total of one hundred samples of email phishing (fifty in English and fifty in German) were analyzed, selected using a continuous sampling method from open Internet sources. Interpretative and contextual analysis methods are employed to investigate the factual material.

Results. The analysis allowed us to establish patterns in the use of various functional styles in the structure of phishing messages, thereby identifying prevailing style preferences and manipulation mechanisms through natural language.

Research implications. These findings could be useful for further interdisciplinary research in information security and deception linguistics, as well as for teaching English and German language theory and practice.

Aim. The study identifies the characteristics of multimodal discursive practices in Russian as a foreign language mediated by the level of language competence (B1/B2 vs. C1/C2)

Methodology. The primary method of analysis was a polymodal experiment, which explores verbal and kinetic (manual) behavior of Russian language learners in their recalls of narrative texts. Additionally, the study exploits parametric analysis of local discourse structure and functional gestures.

Results. The study identifies characteristics of multimodal discursive practices in a non-native language, including: the manifestation of local discourse structure relations in speech, the distribution of functional gesture types, as well as the patterns of speech and gesture co-occurrence. The findings reveal that the primary differences in the use of discourse relations in speech pertain to the distribution of Relations of Agreement, Hesitation, and Joint (typical of the B1/B2 group) as opposed to Metadiscursive Relations and Elaboration (typical of the C1/C2 group). Furthermore, the analysis of gesture use accompanying these relations indicates that in order to manage the increased cognitive load during discourse production in a foreign language, speakers frequently employ representational and pragmatic gestures as illustrating discourse-related properties, which attests to their compensatory function in discourse construal.

Research implications. The research contributes to further development of multimodal frameworks exploring narrative discourse construal in a foreign language. Its results are applicable in teaching methodology and in the area of teaching Russian as a foreign language.

The aim of this article is to establish the characteristic features of slogans based on modern linguistic coinages, including the consolidation of a stable connection between the brand name and the product through the transfer of information.

Methodology. In the study of slogans, general and special methods aimed at processing modern French commercial advertising were used: descriptive, comparative, contextual, in particular, description of derivational processes, as well as translation interpretation.

Results. The characteristics of modern French slogans and the means of their formation are revealed. In addition, the slogan is reproduced in advertising without changes and can go beyond it into colloquial speech. The meaning of the slogan can be characterized by idiomaticity.

Research implications of the paper lies in the clarification of the definition of a slogan’s value and its ability to promote relevant marketing information to the customer effectively. The slogan can be studied as an advertising constant using marketing and linguistic tools.

Aim. The article analyzes the conceptual metaphor “psycho-emotional excess is inebriation”. The aim is to identify and describe the functioning of inebriation as a means of metaphorical representation of emotions.

Methodology. The material consists of 50 examples from language corpora. The analysis was carried out within the Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory (ECMT), considering the hierarchical structure of the metaphor.

Results. It has been shown that inebriation serves as a cognitive mechanism for the hyperbolization of emotions, combining positive and negative scenarios in the sphere of emotional inebriation. At the abstract level, the metaphor structures excess as overflow, loss of balance, or narrowing of perception.

Research implications. Theoretical significance lies in clarifying the hierarchy of the metaphor of emotional inebriation and extending the provisions of the ECMT. Practical significance concerns its applicability to cross-linguistic comparison, discourse analysis, and the development of courses in cognitive linguistics.

Aim. Identification of ways of expressing mirativity meanings in German with further definition of the status of this category.

Methodology. General scientific methods of observation, analysis, and synthesis were used, as well as specific linguistic methods of contextual analysis and a descriptive method. The examples were selected from the German DECOW 16A and DWDS сorps.

Results. The category of mirativity can be considered as one of the manifestations of epistemicity and correlates with contrast and emphasis: the speaker must recognize the new state of affairs as true, while their previously held ideas about it are presented as false. Mirative semantics as a peripheral meaning manifests itself in a specific contextual environment.

Research implications. The obtained results make a contribution to the description of the category of mirativity in the German language. The practical significance lies in the fact that the results obtained can be used in seminars on theoretical grammar of the German language with students of language universities or faculties.

Aim. The aim of this study is to conduct a functional-semantic analysis of the taxis semantic complex of the German language, specifically the instrumental-taxis and medial-taxis semantic subcomplexes that express the meaning of simultaneity.

Methodology. The article analyzes utterances with prepositional deverbatives and the instrumental prepositions mit and durch. The following methods were used: hypothetico-deductive, inductive, descriptive, and contextual analysis of material selected using directed sampling from the Leipzig National Corpus (LC) and the Electronic Dictionary of the German Language (DWDS).

Results. Based on the analysis of empirical material (over 2,000 fragments), it was established that the interaction of the categories of taxis and instrumentality (mediality) forms corresponding semantic subcomplexes. It has been established that the basic criterion for differentiating instrumental and medial taxis in the subcomplexes under consideration is the nature of the instrumental means. Instrumental taxis is characterized by a non-anthropomorphic and objectively determined nature of the means, aimed at directly changing the physical or mechanical state of an external object. In contrast, medial taxis encodes a relationship where the means represents an accompanying action intentionally chosen by the agent.

Research implications. The results of the study contribute to the development of the functional-semantic concept of taxis and the theory of intercategorical interaction. The materials and main provisions of the study can be used in the teaching of theoretical and functional grammar of the German language in higher education.

Aim. Obtaining acoustic parameters of speech (frequency of the fundamental tone, intensity and duration) for modeling the prosodic pattern of the illocutionary act of a threatening demand for the purpose of its automatic recognition.

Methodology. The experimental phonetic study involved utterances produced by five native German speakers proficient in pronunciation norms. The methodology is a comprehensive analysis: auditory, acoustic and comparative, using the Praat computer program.

Results. The conducted study allowed us to obtain a prosodic pattern of the speech act of a threatening demand at the level of the frequency of the fundamental tone, intensity and duration. The strongest correlation is observed between melody and loudness. The threatening demand is characterized by a smooth tone and loudness, a discontinuous development of the temporal feature, and an accentuation of the first stressed syllable, which is evident at all levels.

Research implications. The study of the threatening demand as an independent illocutionary act allows us to clarify the classification of speech acts. The results of the study can be used in teaching German to develop students' prosodic competence, and can also find application in forensic linguistics.

Aim. The aim of this study is to describe, from a linguopragmatic perspective, the linguistic means used to convey the idea of national and international unity in the official public speeches of Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font delivered between March 11, 2022, and August 6, 2025.

Methodology. The methodological framework of the research is based on an interdisciplinary approach combining principles of text linguistics, discourse analysis, and political linguistics. The study, which focuses on identifying linguistic means of speech influence employed to construct collective identity (including ideologemes, metaphorical models, and communicative strategies and tactics), was conducted on a corpus of the Chilean president’s public speeches. The research employed systematization, descriptive analysis, and contextual analysis.

Results. The research enabled us to describe and systematize the lexical and semantic means of speech influence in the president’s public speeches used to convey the idea of unity. Among these means, we highlight ideologemes and metaphors of integrative semantics, as well as communicative strategies and tactics. It was concluded that their use is aimed at constructing both national and supranational identity.

Research implications.The theoretical significance of the research lies in the fact that it provides, for the first time in Russian Romance studies, an analysis of the key features of the discourse of Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font. The results obtained are relevant for further research on Latin American political discourse and for identifying its patterns from the perspectives of linguacultural studies, sociolinguistics, and linguopragmatics. The practical significance of the study lies in the potential application of its findings in the training of future specialists in Linguistics, Pedagogy, Public Affairs, and Foreign Affairs.

Aim. To identify and compare the word-formation capabilities of the English suffix -ing in German and Russian.

Methodology. The key method of the study was the comparative method, which was used to establish the features of the functioning of nouns with the suffix -ing in German and Russian. The study describes word-formation relations that reflect the semantic compatibility of the suffix -ing with the productive base in word-formation models of the German and Russian languages.

Results. The analysis showed differences in the level of adaptation of the suffix -ing to the word-formation system of the German and Russian languages. The specificity of the suffix -ing in the Russian language is its ability to be derivated with nouns that do not express procedural semantics; this function is assumed by the suffix.

Research implications. The study deepens the understanding of word-formation relations in the language, in particular, the process of word-formation assimilation of borrowed affixes to the system of another language.

Aim: to identify the pragmatic and communicative-functional features of the speech etiquette unit (SEU) “complaint|” in the structure of dialogic unity, to determine the full range of SEUs from other thematic groups that can be combined with it, to characterize the conditions for achieving the perlocutionary effect of empathy and the factors leading to its absence, and to develop a multiparameter classification of complaints.

Methodology. The main content of the study consists of an analysis of typical dialogues modeling various ways of including a complaint in an initiating or responding speech move. The method of pragmalinguistic description, elements of discourse analysis, and classification of speech acts according to their illocutionary orientation are applied. Observations on the verbal and gestural-mimetic accompaniment of the complaint are summarized. An analysis of researchers' views in the field of speech etiquette and pragmatics is presented. The method of introspection and analysis of communicative failures is used.

Results. The conducted analysis has shown that the complaint as an SEU realizes three variants of dialogic functioning: the first variant – a self-sufficient complaint acting both as a stimulus and as a response replica (a "complaint + complaint" dialogue); the second variant – the complaint as an initiating speech move; the third variant – the complaint as a response to worry/concern. The SEUs combined with the complaint in the response move have been identified and systematized: worry/ concern, sympathy, indignation, condolence, regret, consolation, compliment, advice, apology, indifference, ignoring, as well as negative reactions (distrust, disappointment, irritation). According to the author's conclusion, the achievement of the perlocutionary effect of empathy depends on the coincidence of the communicants' attitudes toward the subject of the complaint, the anamnesis of their relationship, and spatial-temporal and social factors. It has been established that the addresser's stress state paradoxically hinders the correct assessment of the communicative situation before verbalizing the complaint. A multi-parameter classification of complaints based on five criteria is developed.

Research implications. An author's distinction is introduced between sympathy, condolence, and regret as different ways of verbalizing empathy, distinguished by the degree of coincidence of the attitude toward the subject of the complaint. New material on the classification of response speech moves to a complaint is summarized. The research updates the issues of studying speech etiquette units from the perspective of perlocutionary effect. An integrative model for predicting the success of a complaint is proposed for the first time. The results can be applied in courses on pragmalinguistics, speech act theory, intercultural communication, as well as in practical rhetoric and psychological counseling.