No 1 (2012)

In this article we consider the main concepts of speech acts theory, the stages of its development within philosophical language studies and its interaction with linguistics. The notion of a speech act has become one of the key priorities for the development of research in linguistic pragmatics. We analyse the conceptions of British, American and German scientists, who studied and developed the theory of speech acts, and those of their followers. A special focus is laid on E. Koschmieder's conception of coincidence.

The paper discusses the mediator, which is postulated by the author, known as the verbally expressed linking thought (VELT) and provides for sense integration of thought. An approach to identification of VELTs is proposed, and examples of their identification in text segments and large texts are considered. A classification of VELTs is proposed.

This article provides a brief analysis of the national and cultural identity of English and Russian proverbs and sayings in the context of two variants of the world conceptual vision. The main task is to show some features of their translatability and transferability as the substrates of intercultural communication.

The article is devoted to stylistic qualification of English lexis, represented through the system of stylistic labels in English explanatory dictionaries. Bookish and colloquial styles are well-defined, although sphere of passage as well as their interpenetrability is not excluded. Both archaisms and regionalisms are referred to stylistic labels.

The aim of the present article is to demonstrate the common and different characteristics proper to the Concepts «Love» and «Hate». These concepts аre opposite but while analyzing french phraseological units representing love and hate the correlation of their structures is revealed.

The article deals with the structure, semantics and pragmatics of phraseological units with personal names in modern Spanish and is concerned with their role in the Spanish phraseological world model.

The article deals with the problem of the imperative values in modern Romanian language

The article considers the main structural and semantic peculiarities of the complex sentences of the Sakha language which are formed, first of all, by a conjunctionless method that is caused by the postpositive-agglutinative type of structure of this language.

The article deals with linguo-pragmatic parameters of news media discourse, reviews it's convergent and divergent characteristics in Peninsular and Latin American variants of the modern Spanish language.

In this article, we present the lexicographical description of Slavonicisms. In the examples are excerpts from these historical dictionaries and cards of the ancient/old Russian dictionary, author that reveal historical-cultural information which are enclosed in the semantics of Slavonicisms.