The concept of “Understatement| is considered in the article from the angle of an associative approach. The author analyses the associative connections of the word “Understatement”, which allows figuring out a specific inner structure of the meaning, a deep system of interconnections, underlying native speakers’ cognitive picture of the world. The ethno-cultural peculiarities of the concept of “Understatement” in the English language are emphasized by means of mapping the corresponding lexical groups, comparing value judgments and set expressions, based on behavioral stereotypes. While analyzing the concept sphere of “Understatement” the author underlines the representativeness and relevance of the studied concept, which reveals the most important characteristics of the Anglo Saxon society, as well as its connection with some mental and language categories
This article is aimed at researching the semantic operations of inferencing macropropositions. Theoretical description and classification of data are given
In this article, the author analyzes the verbs of motion formed with a productive in modern Russian language prefix раз- (рас), on the material of war theme, created by famous prose writers from Kursk E.I. Nosov and K.D Vorobiev. Comparative analysis helped to identify similarities and differences in the use of this group of words and thus emphasize the features of idiostyle of each writer
The phenomenon of isofunctionalism in language syntax is considered. The possibility of isofunctionalism-based approach to the description of semi significant interphrase conjunction syntactic words is discussed, and their functional similarity in Russian and Arabic is proved
In the article the expediency of use of a text in the course of formation of pupils’ communicative, language, linguistic and cultural competence is revealed and proved; the text analysis as a higher unit of speech activity training is presented; the criteria of selection of texts during training are offered while teaching the native language; methodical recommendations to the organization of process of formation of pupils’ coherent speech on a text basis are gives
The cognitive structure of the copular verbs is discussed. The cognitive structure is presented by connection of relative and nominative conceptual content. The main process of the copularity formation is desemantization, which represents, on a cognitive level, as the substitution of nominative concept by existence concept. This cognitive procedure results the deactualization of lexical semantics of the verb in certain syntax models and certain discourse situations
The article is devoted to the analysis of artistic world of R. Senchin on basis of three narratives (“Minus”, “Nubuck”, “Forward and up with low batteries”) that represent works of one of the most important adherents of “new Russian realism”
This article is aimed at exploring the conceptual sphere of “creativity” using the cognitive approach to language study. The key concepts of this concept sphere have been determined, and some approaches to the study of its constituent concepts have been analyzed. The main results of the associative experiment are given in the article
The article considers the orientation of terminological units. The classifications of qualitative and quantitative criteria are offered
The research investigates the onomastic vocabulary of translation poetry created by A.Fet. The author composes and describes the list of proper names, extracted from Fet’s translations. The frequency of occurrence, the semantics and the place of different noun types published in different issues are determined in the article