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
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 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
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 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