No 1 (2011)

The article deals with the characteristics of forming of phraseological synonymic rows with a lexical identifier as a dominant of a row. Revealed synonymic rows mirror the deepness of systematic language relationships between lexis and phraseology.

This article is devoted to studying the semantics of color terms. Comparative analysis of the names of colors and their tones in the translation aspect enriches the knowledge in this field and brings out the specifics of linguistic and national character.

The article is dedicated to the emphasizing words and expressions used in the Swiss national variant of the French language; the issues of the language social role as well as the problems of intercultural communication are also touched upon.

This article deals with the comparative analysis of Anglo-American borrowings, which are used in Spanish, French and Russian versions of the Vogue magazine.

The article is devoted to researching of onomatopolic affix in verbs -да- // -де- in Karachay-Balkar language. Here are examined such questions as the history of affix origin, semantic classification of derivational units, affixation and lexicalization as methods of new lexical units formation.

This article reveals the peculiarity of the functioning of the somatic words being parts of the French argotic phraseological units which form the phraseological thematic group Person's character. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the image-bearing and symbol basis of the somatic words in the structure of the phraseological units under consideration. While studying the structural and semantic features of the units which are investigated special attention is given to the analysis of the substitution and intensification.

In the article problems concerning the teaching of the Russian language to Mexican students outside the linguistic environment related to cultural and linquistic difficulties are commented; concrete examples from the author's experience in such aspects in the teaching of foreign language, such as working with the dictionary in the classroom and educational comments, are offered.

This work is devoted to the analysis of the informational structure of the dialogic text (speech), its correlation with communicative segmentation

The article is devoted to the study of the conceptual space of the literary text as a source of linguistic and cultural information. It deals with some types of national-specific concepts, that form the sphere of concepts of the national language.