Using zoonyms is one of the main ways of naming American football teams. Implicit qualitative features of the zoonym’s meaning motivate to choose a name of this or that animal. Zoonyms in the teams’ names are a result of self-estimation act. With the help of
zoonyms footballers try to present themselves as a strong, competitive and successful team
The article deals with the formation process of the “family” conceptsphere taken in the respect of complex approach to such cognitive structures research. It aims to give the conceptsphere complex description, in accordance with description of
linguistic and extralinguistic formation factors, considering the representation of it in modern English
The article considers a lingvoconcept as a kind of initial unit, basic element of language and culture comprehension. It is established that a comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon helps to identify the nature and specifics of the language environment; it is
impossible to analyze historical and cultural features of the modern society without its research
The cognitive structure of the copular verbs is discussed. The cognitive structure is presented by connection of relative and nominative conceptual content. The main process of the copularity formation is desemantization, which represents, on a cognitive level, as the substitution of nominative concept by existence concept. This cognitive procedure results the deactualization of lexical semantics of the verb in certain syntax models and certain discourse situations
The article deals with the definition of author’s translation and the range of problems connected with the notion. We also analyze the reasons that forced the writers to be self-translated
The article presents a comparative analysis of the factors that influence the appearance of the lacunas with the colour component in the Russian, English, Spanish and Portuguese languages. Lacunar units are the most contrastive in the comparing languages. The article also reveals the phraseological lacunas of some language towards all other comparing languages (concerning phraseo-thematic groups and individual phraseological units
This article is dedicated to the problem of comparison of Russian and English root antonyms, some reasons of their likeness and differences and the most productive word models are given
This article analyzes the early frontier in the Caucasus. In this paper we prove the legality of the use of the concept of "early frontier" for the period of the Russian-Caucasian history. The author, basing on the classic criteria of frontier offered by Turner F.J., compares the main characteristics of early American and Caucasian frontier. During the analysis I allocate the general and specific elements of intercultural communication of this period, which forms the basic mechanisms of frontier community. The article shows how the factor of "intermediate" defines heterotopic, unstable, reversible, transgressionnature of the basic processes and intercultural communication occurring during early frontier. The methodology of this study can be used to analyze different types and stages of the frontier, both historical and contemporary
The article analyzes Charles W. Chesnutt’s novel “The House Behind the Cedars” regarding the writer’s new approach to Afro-American cultural identity. It seeks to determine the problems of self-identity of black Americans in the novel which are related to the modern epoch of multiculturalism
The specialties of character creating in oeuvre of L.S.Petrushevskaya are examined in the article from the position of archetypal concept of K.G.Jung. There is also an identified connection of female characters of the writer with their mythological foretype – Mother-Goddess in aspect of “Mother-Earth”