No 4 (2012)

The article deals with the perception of a personality and the concept of the German philosopher and theologian Fr. Schleiermacher in the Russian philosophy of the first half of the XIX th century. There is evidence of P.J. Chaadayev and I.V. Kireyevsky being aware of the texts by Fr. Schleiermacher as well as their evaluation of his personality and world view. Proceeding from the evidence, the author of this article reveals the main features of the first period of perceiving Fr. Schleiermacher’s ideas in Russia, and a conclusion follows that on the whole the novelty of his views was not understood and stayed underestimated.

First-person narrative (skaz) as a special genre uses occasional words to characterize narrator’s speech. In Leskov’s “Levsha” (Left-Hander) occasional words show the attitude of the narrator towards what he describes, express more complicated shades of meaning rather than create a substandard speech pattern of the narrator.

The study of functional peculiarities of a foreignism in a literary text can reveal the peculiarities of a culture perception in a given language community. The purpose of the article is to analyze pragmatic functions and difficulties of deciphering cultural meanings of words and expressions from structurally different languages in literary texts of contemporary English-language fiction.

The article exerts cross-cultural analysis in the field of biblical phraseology in the Russian, Spanish, Italian, French and English languages.

The article deals with emotive component of news media discourse, its pragmatic objectives, and means of emotional transfer, reviews convergent and divergent characteristics of televisual discourse in the Iberian Peninsular and Latin American national variants of the modern Spanish language.

The article treats structural methods used to form neologisms-Anglicisms as well as their assimilation in Russian and Chinese. There are being analyzed lexical units coined according to major patterns of modern English: contaminated words with partial phonetic juxtaposition, contaminated words with abbreviation, contaminated words implying three or more abbreviated components with partial phonetic juxtaposition . The Internet resources facilitate the generating of neologisms-occasionalisms-internationalisms in typologically and structurally different languages

The article treats general trends and specifics of banking terms in the field of IR in Russian and English. The adaptation of English terms by the Russian banking terminology is being demonstrated alongside with the functioning of the speech means conservation law.