Linguistics

The article deals with one of the disputable issues of cognitive linguistics – the possibility of national culture manifestation in the scientific legal picture of the world. On the analysis of different terminological research works the author proves that national culture may be inherent in many scientific world pictures (technical, natural, and humanitarian).

The article presents an attempt of a linguoaxiological interpretation of the value preferences the Uralian people. The analysis focuses on the materials of the newspaper Gorodskiye vesti (City news) the target audience of which are the citizens of Revda in Sverdlovsk region. The authors reveal axiological constants of the sociocentric mentality and linguistic means of their representation.

The article proves that the semiotic approach is effective in being
applied to the analysis of the texts containing signs of different origin;
it is as useful in holding expert research of material in order to identify
extremist meanings.

The article considers the attempt to apply one of the decoding stylistic techniques, namely the technique of drawing a thematic frame, to the research of similes and to the identification of the main themes and motives of the two English-language novels by V. Nabokov.

The article studies the prospection of the contexts with spatial semantics. Analyzing the initial parts of A. P. Chekhov’s stories in order to identify their probable prospection the author determines the principles of how the spatial contexts of the beginnings correlate with the structure of the whole narrative.

This article presents the results of the propositional frame analysis of the fragment of the derivational nest with the «benefit» apex, semantically related to the name of act «benefaction» in the Russian language. The paper demonstrates that this group of cognate words represents a cohesive mental structure, knowledge about the situation of an act, referred to as «benefaction».

The article studies the peculiarities of conditionality semantics in sentences with adverbial complicators. The author analyzes such meanings as cause, result, purpose, and condition.

The article is devoted to the study of the semantic borrowing process in the French language of Canada. Being the result of language contact, semantic borrowing leads to polysemy. Borrowing of a homonymous meaning can be regarded as an intermediate stage of polysemy decomposition and semantic homonym formation.

The article considers the possibility of expressing referential meanings of nonce simultaneity by present tenses in English, French and Tatar languages.

The theoretical aspects of word-formation are considered in the article. The complex multipleaspect investigation of abbreviation in the modern English language has been carried out.