Linguistics

The article is devoted to the comparative study of ways and methods of concept HEALTH representation in modern Russian and English etiquette phrases including phraseological units and proverbs. Theoretical issues are considered in the article. They concern the mechanisms of concept verbalization in standard colloquial expressions of unrelated linguistic cultures. The basic cognitive signs that allow to determine similarities and differences of concept health representation in both language world pictures have been revealed.

The article is focused on the problem of investigation of the socialprofessional group discourse from the viewpoint of semantic fields. It describes the peculiarities of the lexico-semantic field «Disease» based on the material of the oral form of the scientific medical discourse, presents the structural-functional analysis of the field under investigation.

The evolution of the concept MERCY is researched in the Russian linguistic consciousness; the concept is analyzed in many aspects; the concept’s functioning in the writer’s idiostyle is examined on the material of A. S. Pushkin’s literary heritage.

This article gives the Russian-language reflexives classification. Types of non-comic reflexives in the creative heritage of the first wave emigrant writers are found out.

The article offers philological and religious as well as aesthic analyses of literary works; they enable the reconstruction of the dominant categories of poets’ perseption of the world; on their basis the embodiment and metamorphoses of the Cristian code in the poetic text can be elicted.

Anthropocentric character of the clauses with intensifying adjectives in Russian language is described.

The aim of this research is to determine the national specific features of the semantics of persons’ nominations in the Russian language and their corresponding English translations via contrastive method application. The present research of persons’ nominations is performed within the aspect approach to their semantics on the level of micro components of their meaning in the process of denotative, connotative and functional macro components’ description. The results of similar researches may be used in compiling a new type of contrastive dictionaries.

The paper considers the cognitive-communicative nature of blending (contamination), as a word-formation process. Blending is characterized by the combination of mental spaces in one-word motivated signs, accompanied by their semantic laconic brevity, fullness and a great potential of expressiveness.

The article is devoted to language units possessing vague semantics and to actualization of their meanings in situations. It deals with the concept of situation itself, gives different approaches to its investigation, as well as provides a classification of referential meanings of the temporal adverb maintenant.

Upon analyzing Russian nominative phraseologically bound sentences from various aspects, their linguistic essence has been destribed; their structural and grammatical types have been defined; their semantic structures have been characterized. All the above have given an opportunity to approach the task of creating a general typology of these units.