The article analyzes and comments the implied mythological analogies of the main character’s in P. Zuskin’s novel “Perfume”. It seeks to determine the similarity of his image with the bible and ancient Greek characters, proving its trustworthiness, although it creates ambiguity of the interpretation of the text
The article considers the sources of modern spiritual poetry on the example of one key motive - charity and compassion. In medieval tradition (Ioan Zlatoust) we find accentuation of moral aspects; in modern spiritual poetry (Veniamin Blazeniy) the emotion of love to the whole world predominates
In this article we are talking about V. Pelevin and his novels such as "The Sacred Book of the Werewolf," "Empire V", "T" and their ideological and artistic structure. The article is structured. The plot, the language of prose, genre are described in detail. We have also discussed the most important ideological and artistic landmarks
The article considers the song folk art as a reflection of national culture and mentality. The relationship between the nature of ethnic culture, mentality and language environment of the ethnic group is analyzed
The analysis of the philosophical and narrative structure’s features in the novels by modern Spanish writer A. Pérez-Reverte has been reviewed in this article. His works present an example of the postmodern double coding, that is the compound a mass and elite, playing and moral. It allows to avoid the text’s tendentiousness and to keep the content. In the novel “The Siege” A. Pérez-Reverte uses the detective story, but he deconstructs it: keeping the traditional plot’s scheme the writer changes the images’ interpretation, the meaning of the finale, adds
the intertext and the conceptual metaphors (the chess, the net, the herbarium). They code some philosophical ideas about human life. At the same time A. Pérez-Reverte asks the traditional classic literature’s questions and shows how war influences the person, what is love and so on. He also makes a psychological analysis of actions’ reasons and reveal the feelings’ contradictory. As a result, the multilayer, nonlinear and metaphorical narrative has been viewed as a particular tool of the author’s opinion realization and the philosophical implication’s creation. And with it the postmodern polysemic text associates with a psychological analysis and humanism
Comparative linguistics is one of the most urgent trends of modern linguistics. In the article we analyze the sociology terminology formation as one of the segments of the scientific world picture. The description of the terminology of sociology is rather important both in Russian and English languages
The article analyzes the image of the average man opposed in the novel to the protagonist Ulrich, whose otherness is reflected in the title of the novel by R. Musil "The Man Without Qualities"
The nuclear lexis of E.I. Nosov`s publicism is considered in the article. The author detected the part of speech criteria of the dominant lexis, analyzed in the diachronic aspect a group of high-frequency nouns that represent the name of a person in the journalistic work of the writer. The study aims to reveal to some
extent the originality of the individual linguistic model of the world of a great Russian writer and publicist E.I. Nosov
The article discusses the phraseological verbalization of the concept of “Construction/строительство (стройка)”. The fundamental changes taking place in social, cultural, political life of the society may have an effect on the national language mind now. Since a human being plays the role of the main action actant and there are no mind, thought, language out of subject, he is the focus of the thought concentration, ideas, interests, imagery, sensations, notions. In the opinion of the author, appearance, disappearance, change of the certain categories and notions connected with the processes and social phenomena actualize the use of the construction vocabulary in a language and speech directly connected with the presentation of the concept of “construction“. As a result, the research of these concept language realization peculiarities is of interest. The author presents the given notion as the model of a lexical and phraseological field with the consecutive description of its structure in German and Russian. The parallel analysis of the distant periphery units is carried out according to 9 subject groups: “structures”, “parts of a building”, “interior space of a building”, “exterior space of a building”, “сonstruction materials”, “construction instruments”, “construction operations”, “craft/construction professions”, “city planning / administrative division”. The analysis of the phraseological units shows that fragments of the lexical and phraseological field of German and Russian participate in the conceptualization of the “Construction” term
The article is concerned with proxemic communication connected with changing the relative positioning of communicants when interacting, in fictional prose of K.D. Vorobyov. This essential part of interaction is implied with the individual author’s approach to verbal representation of corresponding features and lexis’s choice preferences, its quantitative and qualitative characteristics in the writer’s fictional prose. By analogy with the term paracinema, the term paraproxema is also used for defining these kinds of language phenomena. Paraproxemas were analyzed with reference to semantic, stylistic and morphological aspects. There are two thematic groups of terms with the reference to retract and extend of the relative positioning of communicants being defined in the article. The distribution is based on semantics of verbs and function words. Changing the relative positioning of communicants changes the social zone and reports different information as exemplified with three stories of K.D. Vorobyov. The mutual influence of paracinemas and paraproxemas creates the integrated image of communicants, which gestures, facial expressions, and movements not only accompany but also complete speech