The purpose of this article is an attempt to show the value of translated Russian novels of the XVIII c. in formation of premise to the birth of a new literary genre – “slavic” fantasy. V.A.Levshin’s, M.D. Chulkov’s and M.I. Popov's contribution to development of a domestic fantasy can't be underestimated: by copying style of the traditional chivalric novel, they decorated the text with elements of the oral national tradition
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
In domestic terminology we now have a priority problem of studying the functioning of the terms in the text. In this regard, the article discusses for the first time the terms of the Yakut grammar recorded in the text of multi-transferable “dictionary of terms”, made by one of the largest cultural and educational figure of 1920-1930 - Alexey Andreevich Ivanov - Kүnde. The content of the article consists of three sections, where in quantitative terms and qualification we have: the terms used at the present time, permitted with partial corrections and variative deprecated which, for various reasons, emerged from the modern use. According to our estimates, about 90% of grammatical terms, registered in the "Dictionary", stuck in the literary language. Through deep knowledge of the native language, the talent of the writer and scientist, A.A. Ivanov-Kүnde became one of the first leading developers of the original terms of the Yakut grammar
Word building system of English and its kin languages
has been thoroughly investigated first in the
grammatical aspect. We investigate the ways of
teaching word-building in the context of grammatical
approach in teaching foreign languages, specifically
English, to future linguists whose major is Linguistics
and who have to know the theory of the language as
well as to be able to communicate in English.
The authors of the article investigate the peculiarities
of functioning of compound words, carry out their
structural and semantic analysis, which serves as the
basis for developing of the skill of working with lexis
with young adult researchers. Based on the definition
of a lexical skill the authors of the article investigate
how to develop the skill of working with lexis with
young adult researchers. We apply the grammatical
method to developing word-building skills with future
linguists when the main goal is to take off the material
for investigation, analyze and classify it, thus,
performing the operations essential for research of
lexical units of a foreign language
This article conveys J. Donn’s poetry from the point of
view of archetype “Height”, namely the Sun. The Sun
as an object of the material world, always attracts
people’s attention. At all times it has energy and
power, tenderness and endearment. The Sun has been
in the focus of interest both for primitive men and our
contemporaries. The Sun is depicted in literature,
works of art, folklore, architecture. In the poems by J.
Donn the Sun is personificated, the author gives Him
human beings’ features, the hero is equal to Him, he
asks the Sun questions and even tries to reign over
Him. The Sun rays can be compared with passion, high
feelings, gladness; love is associated with sunrise,
zenith and sunset. Partly this article compares barocco
and modern literature. The archetype “Height” is
connected with the Sun image in the Medieval
literature. So, it may be concluded that the Sun, its
image and archetype is the key point of J. Donn’s
creative work
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
The strategies of positive and negative presentation of
information in political newspaper communication are
considered in the article. The significatives that
perform political and ideological information are
identified and described. The strategies of positive and
negative presentation of information with the
description of the language means that constitute them
are shown through definite examples from newspaper
publications of Russia
The article discusses the specific character of the
representation of the concept “Wall” in the Russian
and German linguistic fields. The peculiarities of the
historical development, the different world views and
world interpretation, the fundamental divergence of the
life philosophy of the Russians and Germans are
causes of the distinct fragments fixation of the
linguistic view of the world which have been realized
by the concept “Wall”. The global changes in social
and political life of the society generally may have an
effect on the lexico-phraseological language fund,
works of literature and also social and political essays.
The undertaken analysis of the mentioned
phraseological units and certain texts has revealed the
national specifics of the of the concept “Wall”
realization in the national linguistic cultures. It made
possible to draw a conclusion from polar connotation
of the concept under consideration in Russian and
German. In the opinion of the author the concept
“Wall” has been fixed in the Russian mind as a symbol
of the national unity and patriotism, confidence in the
future, safe defense. In German mind the concept
«Wall» arouses the negative associations which have
been caused by the concrete events in the German
history. In this context the analysis of the peculiarities
of the concept “Wall” linguistic realization is of
substantial interest. As a result of the undertaken
research, the author concludes the main reasons of the
semantic coincidences and also about their lacks in the
Russian and German linguistic cultures
The article deals with the specifics of verbal
actualization of the concept “MUSLIM WORLD” in
the modern English-speaking discourse. Based on the
achievements of cognitive linguistics and cultural
linguistics, it is possible to research the concept of
“Muslim World” as a phenomenon of the English
linguistic culture. The author notes the concept can be
submitted directly via the meaning of “MUSLIM
WORLD” or by its connotation. The means of a
nominative, descriptive and expressive realization of
the concept “MUSLIM WORLD” are described using
the material of 100 pieces of contemporary Englishlanguage
discourse, which actualize the concept
“MUSLIM WORLD”. The author concludes the
concept is treated as a multidimensional construct of
thought, reflecting the knowledge of the surrounding
reality, the process and the result of human activity,
experience and knowledge about the world, containing
the information about it. Cognitive-discursive analysis
permits to set the content and the structure of the
concept “MUSLIM WORLD” not only in the
conditional but also in the discursive spaces in
cooperation with nominative, descriptive and
expressive realization. The author makes a conclusion
the concept “MUSLIM WORLD” appears in the
American print mass media from a negative sight - this
is the result of a lack of public awareness about the
cultural heritage of the Islamic world, its customs, and
key problems
In the article, the syntactical means in political cartoon are reviewed. The use of parallel constructions, repetitions, parcellation, ellipsis, rhetorical questions enriches the context of cartoon and draw attention on social problems