The article deals with the origins of the Functional Semantics Academic School at the PFU General and Russian Linguistics Department specifying its theoretical background and features.

The author examines discourse parameters for the administrative, teachers and students discourse varieties in British high (secondary) school. The study identifies the discourse markers, their relationships and functions.

The article analyses the main sources of enriching the invective vocabulary in the Peninsular national variant of the Spanish language and the American national variant of the English language: revaluation of the lexical material of the literary language, interaction with the non literary sphere of the language, and foreign borrowings.

This article describes the role of subject classification in terminology; defines its specific peculiarities and justifies the choice of the given classification to analyze the specific terminology.

The article is devoted to the study of verbs nominating aggressive emotional condition. Fragments from modern fiction were used as an illustrative material.

In the present article the concept «language situation». This concept is based on paradigmal approach in conditions of poliethnical region (Irkutsk region). This makroconcept include the sociolinguistic and linguocultural concepts. Their subject of research defines the volume of concept «language situation» and individual aspect of regional language situation.