This article is devoted to communicative and
pragmatical importance of the speech act of
disagreement and means of its expression.
Importance of communication increases in the modern
world because of improvement of informational
technologies and expansion of borders of
communicative space. Therefore, the research of
features of communication ceased to have applied
character and got to the area of studying of many
sciences and linguistics. Research of expression of
semantic category of disagreement is actual for
modern linguistics and is because the integrated
approach to the analysis of essence of concept of
disagreement for the purpose of its adequate
description of system and functional properties is
necessary. The dialogical unities containing reciprocal
remarks of disagreement are the object of the research.
The object of the research is the features of
disagreement, which are shown at the lexical and
grammatical levels of any language and in some
spheres of communication. The purpose of this work
is to express the act of disagreement from the point of
view of semantical and syntactical importance, to
consider basic lexical means, both verbally and
nonverbally. However, it is noted, that the problem of
use of nonverbal means for expression of
disagreement demands special studying
This article is dedicated to the necessity of the local
material use at English language classes in nonlinguistic
universities, which is caused by Kuban
development in the frame of the Russian Federation
and on the international level. For the proper
realization of the Kuban component, some methodical
principles are recommended which define the contents
of this material at English classes in non-linguistic
universities and facilitate its correct realization in
class. General didactic and special principles in
connection with Kuban realties are shown and they
make the process of regional material studies effective
and methodically correct, define its contents in
accordance with the program demands to English in
non-linguistic universities
The development of international cooperation has
promoted the updating of problems connected with
business communication effectiveness. These
problems are very crucial, because their solution may
predetermine the collaboration success of business
partners. The integral part of this success is the
efficiency of the exchange of textual information.
Nowadays the main information exchange method in
modern business relations is business correspondence
in English; therefore, its research makes an important
contribution to the solution of the pressing problem
connected with the achievement of some goals in
business. In the article, we analyze both general and
specific linguistic features of English business letters,
which differ them from texts of other fields of human
activity. A special attention is paid to the question of
the content and presence degree of lexicological and
phraseological units in English business letters. In the
end the author comes to the conclusion that business
communication is considered effective if it contributes
to the mutual understanding of partners with the help
of the most optimal means. The analysis of practical
material showed that these means could be
lexicological and phraseological units. The correct
choice of these units helps with the formation of those
features of a business letter, which would make it
effective
The article analyzes the literary prose by Olga
Slavnikova in the context of the literature of the late
XX – early XXI centuries. The work of the writer is
poorly investigated; the study of it is presented in
modern literature only in the form of reviews and
analysis of some of the concepts and motives. Scientific
paper actualizes the problem of artistic method in the
works of the writer. It is difficult to classify into one
particular artistic method the work of many modern
writers. The installations of several trends intersect in
works some of them, even contradictory sometimes.
Creativity by Olga Slavnikova isn’t exception in this
series. At all levels of her prose, we have revealed
various aspects that characterize the work of
Slavnikova from the point of view of postmodernism,
magical realism and women's prose. Categories of
Death and Emptiness, the idea is the signified of
existence and the illusory nature of the real are purely
postmodernist, from the point of view of magical
realism examines the images of metaphysical beings
and the other world, also mentions personal and
psychological motives as an art installation of women’s
prose. Furthermore, with a postmodern understanding
of reality realistic psychology characterized for all
works, some constants of postmodernism are revealed
using style settings of magical realism
The article is devoted to the analysis of law definitions and its influence on law discourse-text universe. Linguistics can interfere into jurisprudence by introduction of mini-dictionary into the text of the law. Law is a mixture of legal norms and regulations plus philological pearl – thesaurus. It is not only reasonable but necessary to adopt definition to the body of law, because the meaning of the term can vary depending on goals and aims of the law. The legislation of the Krasnodar territory is analyzed in the article in the philological aspect. The choice of examined laws is proved not only because of the agrarian component of the region but also because of the presence of powerful base of tourist-recreational services. In the article there is regional evidential material. The exact actual laws are depicted, philological assessment of their language and legislative importance is given, it is mentioned that conceptual instrument is present in main normative acts. The problem of methodological basis is actualized. In the research the contrastive analysis of similar laws of the Krasnodar territory, Great Britain and southern states of the USA in discourse-text universe is conducted. The conclusions can determine the processes of language interference in today’s changeable picture of the world
The article studies words and set expressions of children's
speech appearance of which are directly linked
to the dissemination of movies in the late 1980s in the
Soviet Union. These words and set expressions are
analyzed on the basis of the material collected by the
author for «The Dictionary of Soviet Childhood» being
prepared for printing. As a result of exposure to foreign
video products, some new expressions and words
entered children's speech and have become an important
part of the linguistic landscape of the Soviet
childhood. Many of them have been stored in conversations
so far: invective vocabulary, translation loanwords,
barbarisms, exotic vocabulary, proper names.
Many words have developed new meanings and become
part of new Russian lexical sets. These neologisms
in vocabulary are reflected in children's folklore;
some of them have become part of the literary language
and have been fixed in modern dictionaries of
the Russian language. Many of them are still used in
Russian informal speech. The author gives examples
of the use of these lexical units in fiction and publicist
texts paying attention to their semantic, phonetic,
spelling and grammatical features
The article describes the characteristic features of
British political discourse, its historical development
and the formation and characteristics of the British
sense of humor. We noted that political humor reflects
the mood and attitude of trends in politics. Political
discourse has been viewed as socially-oriented
communication, which is in the nature of persuasive
and compelling communication, dominated by the
imperative type of speech, which, in turn, creates
preconditions for the implementation of the comic. We
have defined defamatory, socially critical, and
harmonizing functions. Special attention is paid to the
role of the addressee, as the factor, which determines
the political communication's aim. We have observed
that British politicians use humor carefully so as not to
provoke their opponents and dissenters in mocking
their use of humor or turning their statements against
themselves. The article contains the analysis of
illustrative material consisting of quotations of the
British political and public figures. English humor can
be studied from the point of view of transformational
grammar, in which case the jokes are divided into
prosaic and poetic ones. Prosaic jokes are based on
social and cultural situations, human interactions.
Poetical jokes are based on grammatical forms and
their irregular usage
This article considers the knowledge of the truth in the
novel of the American classic of the XX century
Thornton Wilder. From our point of view, one of the
ways of an implementation is the existential form of a
rhetorical question. They were asked by all characters of
the novel and for some of these questions the archetype
of the searcher which was formed in the Medieval
legends is guessed. Findings of this article offer to put
the question about the nature of the genre of Th.
Wilder’s novels in a new way
The article presents the results of a complex structural-semantic analysis of colloquial verbal units with the auf-component including semantic classification of the derivational stems, the description of semantics of a verbal component as a part of colloquial verbal units, consideration of the features of word-formation motivation of the analyzed verbal units, and also the classification of the considered verbal units based on semantic of word-formation models
The peculiarities of representation of the concept
“Muslim World” in modern English discourse are
regarded in this article. 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.
Different approaches to the definition of the term
“concept” are studied. The article describes
definitional analysis of lexical items “Muslim” and
“World” in modern English dictionaries. Based on
these results, it is concluded dictionaries present the
term “Muslim”, first of all, as a human - a follower of
a particular religion. We can say the concept “Muslim
world” is presented in the social and conceptual
knowledge as one of the manifestations of the human
world and is used in relation to the reality of cultural
and historical unity of the Islamic nation. This concept
serves as an image of reality in the system theory of
knowledge. The further studying of the Islamic world,
as definition is possible to make with the mutual
enrichment of the social reality of other peoples.
“Muslim world” in accordance with the principle of
universal connection of phenomena reveals its
potential in the modern world and it becomes possible
to establish relationship between people, nature and
society, as well as their mutual influence on each other