Linguistics

Concept LABOUR and its Representatives in the English Language Idioms

The article deals with the research of the concept labour in the traditional world picture of the English language. This concept has a layered structure. The informative (notional) zone of the concept is to a large degree predetermined by its lexical representatives within the idioms, and the evaluative zone helps to reveal the attitude of the linguistic community to this phenomenon.

Conceptualization of a Greek Orthodox Discourse LoanWord Lampade in Fiction (on the Works of I. S. Shmelyov)

The article is focused on the conceptualization of Greek loan-words from the Orthodox discourse in literature. On the material of a novel and a story by I. Shmelyov we have analyzed the layer structure of the concept lampade. It is possibble to distinguish objectivenotional, imagery-symbolic, and evaluative levels of the concept. Their distinctive features are related to the cultural and religious traditions, and are also predetermined by the genre characteristics of the author’s works.

Types of Irony in Fiction: Conceptual and Contextual Irony

The article analyses modern views on the correlation of stylistic and conceptual types of irony in the writers’ literary works, reveals the basic features and characteristics of conceptual irony, and also shows the correlation of the two types of irony with their different means of realization – linguistic and extra-linguistic.

Incompetence in Communication Types as a Risk Factor of Communicative Failures and Conflicts

The article discusses modern trends of language development, in particular the trend of principles of informal communication permeating traditionally formal spheres, thus creating pretexts for different communicative failures and conflicts. Therefore, the question of the person’s competence in choosing the type of communication acquires special importance.

Newfoundland English. On the Problem of Enclave Dialects Insularity

The article discusses some problems of variantology on the material of Newfoundland English (Canada): factors of enclave dialect formation, criteria of dialect community insularity, correlation of enclave dialects’ characteristic features of conservatism and dialect congruity.

Does Gender Influence the Use of Discursive Words? (On the Material of the Written Scientific Discourse)

In the article the results of the research of gender specific use of different kinds of discursive words in the written scientific discourse are given. Gender differences have been marked in all groups of discursive words except for the organisational and structural units.

Adverbial Constructions in the Aspect of Communicative Sentence Structure

The article is dedicated to the examination of adverbial constructions in the aspect of communicative sentence structure in modern fiction and press

Word-formation Family as a Means of Actualizing the Concept of Movement (on the material of the Old Russian families with the roots -id-, -khod-, -shed-)

The article presents semantic analysis of the derivatives of Old Russian root families of the movement verbs. Groups of words with the roots -id-, -khod-, -shed-, which constituted the core of the Russian concept of movement in the XI–XIVth centuries, are singled out according to different aspects of movement – direction, way, goal, environment.

Peculiarities of Precedent Names Functioning in Student Speech as Symbols of the Precedent Texts and Precedent Situations

The article considers instances of precedent phenomena in students’ speech. There is a special focus on the analysis of communicative situations in which the precedent name is a means of verbalization of the precedent text and precedent situation. It is attempted to elicit the mechanism of actualizing precedent knowledge stored in the cognitive database of the representatives of one linguistic and cultural society.

The Functions of Metaphor in the Modern Speech of French Military Servicemen

Using the examples from the non-fiction and memoir works by the French military servicemen on active duty in the French expeditionary forces from 2001 to 2012, the author identifies and analyzes the functions of metaphor. The author determines the role of metaphor in the contemporary speech of French servicemen based on the results of the present research.

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