The article deals with textual strategies in fully creolized texts of graphic novels. Visual, verbal and mixed (verbal-and-visual) devices and tactics used to actualize textual strategies are described and analyzed
The article considers lexicographical aspect of lexical synonyms of the Sakha language: it identifies the ways and methods of including the lexical synonyms in the general dictionaries, it carries out a critical analysis of the existing dictionaries of synonyms
The main aim of the article is to give the definition of the renaming as a special linguistic phenomenon of the youth sociolect. The article analyses the youth renamings by studying neologisms which appeared in the language as a result of word-building processes and metaphorical transfer of meaning. The article deals with the renamings constituting the part of the innovating vocabulary of young people of today
The article focuses on the place of the (Thieves')
Notions in the hierarchy of values in criminal activity
from the viewpoint of functional-pragmatic typology
of linguasemiotic experience. The Notions are
intentions (intentials) that correlate to the upper (The
Thieves' Law) and lower (Limits/Thieves'
Commandments) levels of the hierarchy of values.
The Notions were described in diachronic aspect with
regard to their place and esoteric functions in the
Master Felons' Law. The functional-pragmatic
typology was aimed to show the differences in the
ways of distribution of reference features
(categorization processes), what reflects in
formalization (ritualization and folkization) of social
behaviour. Such approach was based on a panchronic
connection of the idea of informational kind to the
idea of energo-material kind. When correlating with
the upper level of the hierarchy of values, the Notions
can be considered a Random Access Memory
connected to a slow encoded memory of greater
capacity (The Thieves' Law). The Notions provide for
a faster reaction of an individual when making a
choice in criminal activity
The article provides the review of the main concepts of
discourse analysis, proceeding from a theoretical and
practical criterion. The approaches to the analysis of
discourse are realized in the models, which enable to
carry out a productive research of different types of a
discourse, and are generalized in a diachronical aspect.
Among them, one can find the concepts which go back
to "dialogical aesthetics" of M.M. Bakhtin and the
views of the French school of discourse analysis. The
conclusion about the efficiency of integrative approach
is drawn
The article analyzes the particular characteristics of
the logical and psychological sides of argumentation
as a means of a persuasive effect in the speech of a
public linguistic identity. The relevance of the
research is defined by the importance of problems of
studying the language of the given linguistic
identities. The novelty is in the aspect of setting the
problem of studying various types of public linguistic
identities and in involving previously unresearched
material. The object of study is a rhetorical speech
portrait of a public language identity (prosecutor).
The subject is particularities of logical and
psychological lines of reasoning as ways of
persuasive effect. The method used is scientific
description with elements of speech portraying,
observation. As a whole, the speech of the prosecutor
corresponds to the rhetorical canons, having a
standard logical composition: introduction, analysis
and evaluation of the evidence gathered in the case,
personality characteristics, conclusion. Various types
of logical and rhetorical (psychological) lines of
reasoning were distinguished in the course of the
analysis. It is found that the text is rich in affective
evaluation and metaphors. The general strategy is the
prevalence of the psychological side of persuasive
speech over the logical. The public language identity
chosen strategy turned out to be successful, i.e. it
made the speech expressive, original, assisting the formation of the judge's opinion in terms of
conviction
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 deals with the concepts of situations that are set by the verb ‘tener’ on a material of Kamilo José Sela work of art. Semantic dominants of constructions with ‘tener’ are defined and analyzed
This article is aimed at researching the semantic operations of inferencing macropropositions. Theoretical description and classification of data are given
The article deals with semantic development of verbs
of the three languages different by structure (English,
Russian and Tatar). Many of derivatives on the certain
stage of linguistic development are perceived as the
basic meaning, which is a normal linguistic
phenomenon, when one lexical meaning stops being
actual and is not used any more or is used so rarely
that it is perceived as a secondary meaning. The work
represents analysis of derivative potential of verbs with
pressure meaning and common tendencies of semantic
shifts of verbs belonging to this verbal group. In
particular, among common tendencies for lexems of
this group was acquiring meanings of negative affect
on an object, destruction, processing, relation,
emotional state and denoting some kinds of
professional activity