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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="book-review" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Russian Journal of Linguistics</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2687-0088</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2686-8024</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">44890</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2687-0088-40603</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">LKIUEW</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>BOOK REVIEWS</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>РЕЦЕНЗИИ НА КНИГИ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="zh"><subject></subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject></subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Review of Carsten Levisen. 2024. Postcolonial Semantics: Meaning and Metalanguage in a Multipolar World. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Review of Carsten Levisen. 2024. Postcolonial Semantics: Meaning and Metalanguage in a Multipolar World. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter</trans-title></trans-title-group><trans-title-group xml:lang="zh"><trans-title/></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8450-5361</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Habib</surname><given-names>Sandy</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Хабиб</surname><given-names>Сэнди</given-names></name><name xml:lang="zh"><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Tel-Hai Academic College, Israel. He is also a Catholic priest serving at St. Maroun’s Parish in Jish, which belongs to the Maronite Archdiocese of Haifa and the Holy Land. His research interests embrace cultural semantics, religious semantics, and pragmatics.</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доцент колледжа Тель-Хай, Израиль. Он также является католическим священником, служащим в приходе Святого Маруна в Джише, который относится к Маронитской архиепархии Хайфы и Святой Земли. Его исследовательские интересы включают культурную семантику, религиозную семантику и прагматику.</p></bio><email>havivsan@m.telhai.ac.il</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Tel-Hai College</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Колледж Тель-Хай</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="zh"></institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-06-28" publication-format="electronic"><day>28</day><month>06</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>29</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><fpage>457</fpage><lpage>461</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-07-08"><day>08</day><month>07</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2025, Habib S.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2025, Хабиб С.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="zh">Copyright ©; 2025, Habib S.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Habib S.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Хабиб С.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="zh">Habib S.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/44890">https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/44890</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>-</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>-</p></trans-abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="zh"/><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Crowley, Terry. 2004a. 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