The article analyzes the novel «Pasternak» by Mikhail
Elizarov and Alexander Prokhanov’s «Ship «Joseph
Brodsky»» in the view of distinctive «signs» of
Russian culture functioning in them. Therefore, the
work of the writers - Nobel Prize winners is a kind of
prism for modern prose writers through which the
major questions for Russian history are considered: the
people and the intellectuals, social justice, national
idea, religion and statehood. The main topics are
implemented through the number of reasons, the main
of which are the motives of the blood and salvation
(the Savior on Spilled Blood), controversially allowing
philosophical problem of redemption of the depravity
of existence. Social issues are stated through allusion
layer: references to Dostoevsky's novels, Radishchev’s
«Journey from Petersburg to Moscow», Nekrasov's
poem «Who lives Happy in Russia». With the theme
of redemption organically linked theme of man's
salvation, which Prokhanov and Elizarov’s characters
decide on their own. So different view of the world
and creative aspirations of the authors are unified by
their desire to capture their era, its reversal of fortune
and historical faults in which the Great Russian
literature has always played a significant role
The analysis of the motive structure’s features in the play “August: Osage County” by a modern American writer Tr. Letts has been reviewed in this article. His drama is based on a compound of mass and elite, a playing and a moral. It allows to avoid the text’s tendentiousness and to keep the content. In the play “August: Osage County” Tr. Letts examines the family theme, which is very important for the American culture. The author reviews the destruction of family relationships as a sign of the society’s moral crisis. The main topic has been realized via motives (escapism, freedom, death, and incest), they create the semantic frame of the play and unite separate episodes of the plot’s development. The motives become special tools of the characters’ psychological analysis and are an explanation of the feelings’ contradictory. The image of the house has a special meaning. It’s the symbol of the human disunity and a destruction of the family relations. As a result the synthesis of the motives, symbolism, intertextuality, multilayer has been viewed as a particular tool of the author’s opinion realization and the philosophical implication’s creation
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 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
This article is dedicated to solving the problem of
language and culture relationship in the modern
society. Concept “love” is the main subject of the
article; the author shows its examples in popular
stage songs. There are five variations of love from
the psychological and sociological point of view in
the article. The author depicts how they are used in
the song discourse. According to the research data
the author consider that all variations of love in the
lyrical song genre are not equally frequent. So while
erotic love is almost everywhere, selfish love isn’t so
popular. Moreover, the author concludes the cultural
level of the whole nation can be defined with its
creative arts. Furthermore, nowadays there is clear
decadence of culture in English-speaking countries
A language for professional communication is formed and exists due to the human need for language design of special information that he develops in the course of targeted special activities. The pace and direction of modern society and technology development contribute to the continuous formation of new concepts and terms that requires study and systematization. The formation of new terms takes place due to the augmentation of the new additional content of the known concepts, which acquire their structure and boundaries. The increment of meanings is due to the metaphorical functioning of vocabulary in the language, which is a cognitive mechanism re-categorization of an object. The article is made in line with current studies of cognitive aspects of language activity in the professional field and is devoted to the analysis of anticoncept as a reflection of the development of the concept. Anticoncept is the result of internal cognitive conflict of cognition objects. Shaping itself, it pushes off and at the same time can “finish” concept. This peculiarity is demonstrated in the dichotomy brown economy – green economy, where the concept is less developed than anticoncept and shows asymmetry. Despite the fact that anticoncept is an anomaly relative to concept, it is more detailed and, perhaps, precisely because of its unusualness. The imbalance in the conceptualization of the professional activities fragments emerging due to characteristics of concept spheres is emphasized
In this article the linguistic-pragmatic problems of kineme verbal representation in literary text space are examined. The authors interpret the concepts of "speech act illocutionary force" and "performative utterance", which are becoming more widespread within the frame of pragmatic theory, speech act theory being the very core of it. The authors emphasize the kinemes which are used attended by verbal utterance. First, they complement verbal part, serving as speech act illocutionary force marker. Secondly, kinemes duplicate verbal utterance information and together with verbal part of the utterance create speech act illocutionary force. The authors draw special attention to non-verbal kinemes as they carry the entire "message", serving as speech act illocutionary goal markers. In addition, kinemes as any other signs undergo alterations under social and economic, cultural conditions and convey culture-specific and universal concepts of Russian and French kinesics systems. These characteristics are foregrounded in cross-cultural communication, in connection with complexity of denotation object construal and sign-oriented similarity establishment
This article examines the story of the unexpected stay
of lieutenant Vasily Golovnin in South Africa in 1808
during his famous navigation around the world. In fact,
the Russian sailor had to stop in Simonstown for a
short while to stock up and put his boat in shape.
However, his visit on this archipelago which newly
belonged to British had coincided with the moments of
crisis between Russian and British empires in Europe.
These events obliged Golovnin to stay in the Cape of
Good Hope for thirteen months. Enjoying his freedom
of movement, the young navigator will exploit this
long stay to describe the daily life of South African
people. During his travels across the Cape Colony,
Golovnin meets with colonists and colonized, and tells
about the mechanism of their cohabitation. Even if it is
not so abundant, his travelogue remains the first one
realized by a Russian on South Africa and will always
be crucial for the future generations of Russian
mariners who will follow his itinerary. From Kronstadt
to Kamchatka, Golovnin described the amazing events,
but there, it will exclusively focus on the part of his
travelogue [3] about his long and exceptional “stay at
the Cape of Good Hope”
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 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