No 3 (2014)

The author of the article strives to realize inner (semiotic) proof of the “pleonasm” which used to characterize special manner and method of narration that was called “breeding words” (pleteniye sloves) and that appeared in the angiographic literature of the end of the XIV century.

The article discusses the semiotics of a characterological conflict. The system of alter-idem is shown at several novelistic levels. Firstly, the semiotic reflection of the text of F. Sologub is directed on a reproduction of a cultural code. Secondly, between characters of the novel difficult connection of an attraction of pushing away and pair interaction are established that all-in-all supports the difficult ideological concept of the novel. On the whole, the structure of the system of images realizes the mythological principle of a syncretism which is cornerstone of poetics of the novel.

The аrticle is dedicated to the analysis of masculine and feminine paremias in the English language. The axiological features of the concepts “man” and “woman”, which reflect the gender stereotypes prevailing in the British culture, cognitive characteristics and axiological bases of this conceptual opposition “man - woman” are analyzed.

This article deals with a problem of terminological differentiation of two disciplines within the scope of comparative linguistics that studies genetically related languages in diachrony (comparative-historical linguistics) and synchrony. For the purpose of the terminological nomination of the second discipline the term “comparative-synchronic linguistics” has been proposed

The peculiarity of this article is the new realizing of a unit of translation concept in the field of translating and interpreting activity. There is an attempt to answer the question: what is to be considered as a unit of translation in general and in the linguistic reason in particular? We introduce our views on the balance between a unit of a thought and a unit of translation when we use the technology of the stereotype interaction. For a translator a unit of a thought as a portion of realized information might be a unit for translation. So, we conclude: a frame of knowledge might be a unit of a thought and a unit of translation simultaneously and consequently.

The article is dedicated to the structure and semantics of the dari speaking Afghani` names, surnames and other components of their anthroponymic formula from the cultural point of view.

Author focuses on the problem of the interpretation of Spanish historical and cultural realias from a Russian-speaking reader’s point of view. The analysis shows that deep comprehension of the novel “The City of Marvels” by E. Mendoza depends on the proficient understanding of separate key words and notions which are culturally determined.

This article examines the status of elements of Greek origin in the modern Russian language. It provides analysis of the functioning of neo-classical formatives and a means of word formation process. Neo-classical word formation is defined as a subsystem of the word formation processes in Russian language.

The article is devoted to the description of lexico-semantic fields of the youth American slang, which were identified on the basis of analyzing screen-scripts of modern American film for the young. Methods of research: critical analysis of the topic literature, search for slangizms, in the screen-scripts, classification of slangizms into corresponding lexico-semantic fields, groups, thematic groups, cognitive classes, as well as considering their semantics and lexicographic features.

The article considers problems of dictionary composing, and specific character of translation linguistic and cultural units and their differential semantic.

The article discusses indirect ways of expressing requests: implicitly, i.e. implicitly expressed, and indirect request in the structure of the utterance.

The author of the article reconstructs the system of values of the candidates for the post of mayor and their voters through analyzing London and Moscow models of the election campaigns.