No 3 (2008)

Various peculiarities of phonetic analysis in communicative stylistics of text are disclosed in the present report. The subject of the report is the experience of the examination of the oral speech of Smerdyakov. The article contains the results of research of phonetic database of Smerdyakov along with the influence of his social status.

In the article, on the basis of the factual material of the short story «The Grasshopper» by A.P. Chekhov, issues of the fundamental heterogeneity of the story are considered and various repetitions are analysed.

The article deals with the role of the gender when nominating persons in accordance with their profession in the Guatemalan national variant of the Spanish language.

The article describes a comprehensive approach to the word semantic structure definition that serves a foundation for the exploration and definition of meanings of modern English verbs denoting light.

The subject matter of the paper is related to the well-known general problem of the functional perspective of the English utterance, the latter, however, is seen here as a two-fold phenomenon, splitting within itself into semantic relations between the communicative elements, depending on the use of articles, and the informative structure of the utterance, which is not the target of the paper. The author examines the characteristics of the English articles, enabling to treat them as linguistic units which form the syntax of speech, the latter being differentiated from syntactic models being part of language. Thus the paper clearly distinguishes language and speech. Special attention is given, on the one hand, to semantic relations between the communicative elements of the utterance and, on the other hand, to semantic relations between such communicative elements, articles being the main linguistic units molding communicative elements proper and semantic relations between them.

On the basis of the comparative approach the article deals with the national specific features of the invective means referring to a person's character and antisocial behavioral models in the Peninsular National Variant of the Spanish language and the American National Variant of the English language.

The author discusses the learner's errors theories stemming from phycolinguistics, pragmalinguistics and language learning psychology. In the theory of discourse the scientists are concerned with the problems of understanding the metasense in communication, the way people extract information from extralinguistic sources, and how they overcome obstacles in intercultural communication. Reasons for communicative failures are considered from the pragmalinguistic standpoint. The author believes that elimination of communicative failures of pragmalinguistics nature calls for comments and explanatory notes different from those of traditional lexico-grammatical type. Innovation strategies in commenting with account of psycholinguistic factors are being developed within the lacuna theory; they could be included in the learner's errors theory.