The article is devoted to the study of peculiar features of mental processes verbalization in the contemporary English discourse. The choice of the mentalist or cognitive approach to the object of study is explained by its complexity; so this very approach will help to view upon the dynamic characteristics of psyche as upon the object of study and as the method of study at the same time
The article examines Ostrovskiy's works of 1860s, when he was closely related to Sovremennik magazine. A special interest is paid to the critical point of that time playwright works, changes in types of characters, peculiarities of storylines and inside conflict
The concept of “Understatement| is considered in the article from the angle of an associative approach. The author analyses the associative connections of the word “Understatement”, which allows figuring out a specific inner structure of the meaning, a deep system of interconnections, underlying native speakers’ cognitive picture of the world. The ethno-cultural peculiarities of the concept of “Understatement” in the English language are emphasized by means of mapping the corresponding lexical groups, comparing value judgments and set expressions, based on behavioral stereotypes. While analyzing the concept sphere of “Understatement” the author underlines the representativeness and relevance of the studied concept, which reveals the most important characteristics of the Anglo Saxon society, as well as its connection with some mental and language categories
The article is dedicated to one of the oldest genres of the Yakut folklore. Algys is connected with perception of the world and the socio-economic structure of the Sakha people. Basing on the structural anthropology of Claude Levi Strauss, the author analyzes three Yakut algyses: "Spell of Fire ", "Spell of Bayanaj ", "Supplication of Fisherman". The results of the structural analysis of three well-known Yakut algyses confirm the efficiency of the ideas of Claude Levi Strauss and the validity of using of author's
methodological approaches
In the article we have considered the similarities and the differences between cognitive and in whole intellectual abilities of men and women from the point of view of component’s appraisal of a picture of the world in Russian and English linguistic cultures
Lexemes “courage”, “bravery”, “heroism” in the military song of 1941 1945yy. are the subject of the conceptual observations in the given article. Appeal to the heroic theme in order to identify the conceptualized content of the heroic part of the world picture based on the fact that the heroes of the military songs personify the value system of the given community, its ideals,
preferences and expectations
The analysis of the intertext functions in biographical novels by P. Ackroyd has been reviewed in this article. Using citations, reminiscences, and allusions creates a factual structure of the works and becomes a particular tool of the hero’s characteristic. Its purpose is to destroy the stereotyped images. The intertext helps P.Ackroyd to comment the works of his heroes and to include them in the cultural paradigm. As a result, the structure of the biographical novel becomes open and allows of different interpretations
The article deals with the dialectal units found in the case of the song texts of the Olonets province of the XIXth century. The author divided the revealed units into the structural lexical classes. The aim of the work is to expand to a certain extent the borders of the "Dictionary of the Language of Russian Folklore", actively developed by the representatives of Kursk
lingvofolkloristics’ schoo
Detailed analysis of the folk world view is possible with the study of individual lexical and thematic groups. Research lexicon related to dynamic locus and comparative analysis of the functional features of the locus in the texts of bylinas, recorded in Northern Russia and Siberia, reveal the territorial peculiarity of
the Russian heroic epos
The article gives an analysis of lexical and phraseological means of objectification of linguocultural “mother” concept in Russian prose texts of the XIX century. The article also defines the role of
this concept in the process of formation of information
and semantic space of artistic works