Linguistics

The article reveals the content of the term "graphic-lexical abbreviation" and its relationship with the lexical unit; considers the question of its correlation with the iconic signs of the diagram character; analyzes the possibility of its transition to the full linguistic sign. Graphic-lexical abbreviations accumulate properties of the lexical and graphic abbreviations which are manifested in the peculiarities of their formation and usage in writing and speaking. The graphic-lexical abbreviations may be drawn mainly from English.

The article studies how the expressiveness category is structured in a popular science text. Lexical, phraseological and syntactic stylistic means used in the novel in order to enhance expressiveness and reasoning are arranged as a field with the center and periphery.

The article discusses the factors influencing the development of variability of scientific pictures of the world based on the material of science’ and humanities’ terminologies in the Russian language. The correlation of the concepts ‘naïve picture of the world’, ‘scientific picture of the world’, ‘professional picture of the world’, as well as the typology of variants of scientific pictures of the world are considered.

The article provides an analysis of manipulation in the American political discourse of 2015–2016. It is postulated that manipulation inherently belongs to the people’s speech and in particular to the speech of the politicians. In this respect, it is deemed to be wrong to study manipulation in an exclusively negative light. The focus of the research is the effect of the manipulatory impact and this interest is predetermined by the emphasis on the linguo-pragmatic aspects of communication.

The article considers the main issues of defining the exact term: factors facilitating the exactness and factors preventing the precise definition of the term. The author researches the main scientific methods used to specify the meaning of a term unit.

The article deals with international lexis as a specific class of vocabulary that unifies the words referring to various international realities, which makes this class vital for teaching Russian as a foreign language. The authors analyze the specific features and the linguodidactic value of the class for the teaching methods of Russian for foreign students at different levels.

The article analyzes some peculiarities of how sentences of the model Inf-Adv-o function in modern business communication. Such sentences usually express teleological or normative evaluations of various social or mental actions. This is due to the subject-matter of business communication. The reverse order of the main members of the sentence (inversion) is more common in the spoken form of business communication.

The aim of this article is to try to differentiate the notions of fashionable words and key words of the modern times. The comparative analysis of these linguistic phenomena is presented in this work. The author comes to the conclusion that fashionable words characterize the aesthetic tastes of society, have a bright outer shell, in the center of attention of native speakers are short time. The key words of the modern times depict values, cultural priorities or outlook of society of the given time and are able to influence the formation of the picture of the world for a personality.

The article focuses on the specific features of verbalization of the linguo-cultural concept ‘doctor’ in the Russian artistic medical discourse. The article aims to define the linguo-cultural concept of the artistic medical discourse, to explain the specific nature of linguistic means which objectify it in the Russian linguo-culture, to find out nuclear, near-nuclear and peripheral components of this concept, to define forms of its linguistic actualization.

The article deals with the study of the intertext as a means of creating the information tension in a dicteme. It is justly pointed that the intertext is capable of delivering significantly more information than its verbal segment immediately contains. This ability is based on the mechanism of extracting the necessary associations from precedent texts, represented in a dicteme in the form of quotations and allusions.