Linguistics

The articles touches upon the problems concerning a renown American researcher R. Jacobson’s scientific interests which were important during his stay in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and recreates historical and linguistic context in which his works appeared.

The article explores the basic principles and stages in the development of the linguistic policy of the French language in terms of its spread, usage and quality.

The article studies how the gender component manifests itself in the structure, semantics and reference of the idioms represented by Lak phraseological units with agential nouns.

The article studies the means of secondary semiosis, non-verbal means of intensifying the reader’s perception, characteristic of the journalist style of the Dagestan journalist Khadzhimurad Kamalov. A journalist text is considered in this article as a result of combining a verbal text and all non-verbal means, which help the author to address the audience and emerge as a linguistic persona.

The article presents a linguistic and extra-linguistic characteristic of one of the qualities of the school educational discourse of the Third Reich – its militaristic quality, which has been singled out through the analysis of fiction films in the German language.

The article studies linguistic features of the political discourse of the immigration on the threshold of the general parliamentary elections in the UK in 2005 from the perspective of critical discourse analysis on the materials of the leading British printed press. The author distinguishes major discursive strategies, forming the discourse of the immigration, and the techniques of their implementation.

The task of the paper is to study theoretical aspects of the pragmatic use of phatic tokens. To achieve this aim, the authors review and specify the concept of phatic communication; describe the system of phatic tokens and provide a new approach to their structural organization; besides, they consider the usage of phatic tokens in different registers.

Classical languages in the scientific communication of the early modern period could be the language of written text, the source of borrowed vocabulary (these functions are now lost); the foundation for creating lists and symbols (these systems are used but are hardly ever replenished); sources of morpheme borrowing (such morphemes are widely used in term formation of the modern languages).

The article deals with the evolution of the morphological system of the Greek language. it was established that the Greek morphology in the process of historical development retained the role of a means of realizing the species opposition, lost its structural hierarchy, developed the unity of the positional system in the sphere of vocalism and consonantism, narrowed the lexical filling of the vocal alternations and expanded the regularity of the consonant

In Russian and English business conversations, verbal means perform identical etiquette functions, but the actions of Russian communicants are more variable and largely depend on their speech culture, and English ones are normative with a high degree of binding and stereotyping.