Vol 14, No 2 (2023)

The phraseological array and the universal content of the phraseological zones of dictionary entries in “The Great Universal Dictionary of the Russian Language”, wherein phraseological units are repeatedly presented depending on the grammatically supporting component according to the alphabetical arrangement of a heading word, are of interest in the aspect of a research corpus for creating a vocabulary of an online Russian phraseological dictionary (VORPD). The purpose of the study is to determine the indicators of the representativeness of phraseological zones in the structure of the explanatory dictionary and present phrase-statistical models of the frequency ratio of heading words as a structural-semantic component of phraseological units in alphabetical order. The materials of the research make 2545 phraseological zones grouped according to the letters of the Russian alphabet. Combinations of the linguo-statistical method, the sampling method in the empirical study, and the methods of statistical modelling were used as a part of the research corpus. The scientific novelty of the research is determined by the conceptual approach to the “The Great Universal Dictionary of the Russian Language” - an explanatory paper dictionary - as a lexicographic corpus in the study of the usage (frequency) of phraseological zones in dictionary entries. The parameters of the representativeness of phraseological zones define the general linguistic set and the selective linguistic set as a working corpus. Phrase-statistical models are grouped according to the domain of definition - the set of all heading words fixed by one letter of the Russian alphabet. A consideration of phraseological zones is aimed at a detailed study of their quantitative characteristics and the percentage ratio of statistical sampling parameters. The technology of the study and the formula for calculating the indicators of phrase-statistical modelling are given. The results of the study are illustrated by diagrams and determine the objectivity of the research corpus, its nuclear and peripheral spaces. These factors will be a determinant for modelling the vocabulary of the pilot corpus of the electronic dictionary aimed at the semantic realization of phraseological units.

The study is devoted to the peculiarities of the representation of the category of space in Anglo-Saxon charms. The linguo-semiotic model of space allows accentuating a charm text’s binary structure, which, within the framework of the study, is considered as the opposition of the ‘own - alien’ space. The relevance of the research is due to the unfailing interest in the study of traditional folk spiritual culture and the reconstruction of ancient world visions, such as, in particular, archaic concepts of space. The latter invites a question about ancient charms as a source to restore the picture of the world of the primitive worldview since the charms had clearly preserved some value-semantic elements of the archetypal image of the world. The scientific novelty of the paper is attributed to the description of the dichotomous structure of spatial representations in Anglo-Saxon charms, with an emphasis placed on revealing spatial objects in rituals and charms. Of particular attention are the vertical and horizontal models of the representation of the ‘own - alien’ dichotomy in the texts of the charms and prayers. As a result, it was determined that their binary structure has a border zone where the ‘own’ space has a specific objectification in the material world while ‘alien’ space is reflected Abstractly, at the associative level, and does not possess pronounced distinctive features.

The study examines the specifics of understanding the Russian idea ideologeme in the Russian conceptual and language pictures of the world. The subject of the study is the compound name of the Russian idea, used in philosophical and political discourses, fragments of which are included in the National Corps of the Russian Language. The purpose of the study is to perform linguocognitive modeling of the ideological concept of the Russian idea as a unit of thinking, justifying the structural and semantic components. The cognitive matrix of the concept includes the following levels: precedent, prototypical, ideologicalevaluative, national-cultural, identification and association-shaped. having substantiated the structural and semantic components. The cognitive matrix of the concept includes such levels as: precedent, prototypical, ideological-evaluative, national-cultural, identification and association-shaped. Using the methodology of cognitive matrix analysis of knowledge representation, it was proved that the plane of expressing the ideologeme is represented by five main and four marginal options; the plane of the content of the ideologeme is determined, on the one hand, by the conceptual base, the projected historical and cultural component of the semantic field, on the other hand, by the content updated in the second half of the 20th - early 21st centuries. The ideological component of the concept is ambivalent, due to the paradigm of situational models (frames) of a socio-political, philosophical, religious nature, the representation of which by speakers implies an explicit or implicit assessment of the event. The results of the study extend the boundaries of linguocognitive modeling of concepts. The proposed model of cognitive interpretation of an ideological concept can be used in describing a wide range of ideologues.

The study is devoted to the analysis of somatic metaphor in the political communication, considered as a syncteric metaphorical-semiotic structure, which serves as one of the ways to encode ideological, cultural, evaluative, emotional, argumentative and other types of meanings. The necessity for a detailed analysis of the implementation of the actional code in the media political space was dictated by the need to study the mechanisms of interaction between kinesthetic and linguistic signs as powerful means of persuasion and effective impact on the readership. The study is based on an integral semiotic approach which involves the use of semantic-cognitive analysis, discourse analysis, content analysis, methods of contextual interpretation and conceptual metaphorical modeling, as well as the involvement of interdisciplinary information of the fields of cultural studies, sociology, psychology of communication and political science. The material of the study is represented by electronic mass media analytical and news reports on the political subjects with the focus on verbal and non-verbal somatisms. It was found that the system of archaic ideas and ritual actions determines the metaphorization and symbolization of related and free phraseological formations, the origin of which is due to the markedness of the elements of the non-verbal body code. Intercultural analogy and pragmatic parallelism of non-verbal and verbal representations of somatic units along with semiotic interpretation of the original meaning is revealed. Differences in communicative pragmatics and axiology of somatisms identical in structure and content in the intercultural aspect are characterized. Techniques for constructing the external and internal syntax of the actional code are described, models for assembling kinesthetic phrasemes into gestalt are demonstrated, and algorithms for unpacking/decoding of their meaning are demonstrated. The synergy of verbal and actional languages of communication in the construction of a cognitive-linguistic picture of the political world is noted.

Since ancient times the importance of human language in the process of social management has been very high. The emergence of rhetoric in Ancient Greece and Rome as an art of eloquence and its further development in the theory of argumentation (In the Russian science - the theory of persuasion) contributed to the understanding of language as an instrument of control and management of public opinion. In today's world of information wars, the policy of soft power acquires particular relevance, primarily based on these functions of language. Word is now not only a key tool in information wars, but also one of the most efficient means of defense. Of course, there is already a number of researches on the role and place of language as a management tool, but it is generally dominated by works of foreign scientists. It seems important to follow the development of Russian in-home scientific thought regarding the issues under study, as well as to determine within which sciences at the present stage this issue is being studied. In this regard, the purpose of the research is to streamline approaches to understanding language as a tool of control and management of a society and assess the prospects of language development as an efficient tool of society management, which would help to identify the key aspects for the implementation of efficient language policy of the state in the era of world information wars.

The study is devoted to psycholinguistics as one of the angles of the study of consciousness. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that psycholinguistics has not yet succeeded in constructing a valid ontological picture defining the specific “reality” of a given science, and finding a place for it in the scientific picture of the world. If we take into account the spatial structure of the sign, then we can assume the presence of at least three points of view on semiotics as a subject of study of the sign organization of consciousness. These are linguistic semiotics, philosophical semiotics and psychological-hermeneutical semiotics. The novelty of the study lies in the introduction of psycholinguistics into the intersubject communicative space of disciplines that study consciousness in order to highlight its subject-methodological features. The symbolic nature of consciousness makes it possible to consider semiotics not only as a scientific subject of study, but also as a method of organizing and transferring experience. As a result of the analysis of the problem, the statement can be proposed that psycholinguistics methodically explores understanding as an accompanying function of text creation. In culture, relations between people are reified, and this reification is semiotic. In the psyche, these relationships are psycholinguistic. The socio-cultural encounter of these relationships occurs at the metacognition level.

The article is based on a report given in course of the round table meeting 'Language as an art', dedicated to the 90th anniversary since the birth of the outstanding linguist L.A. Novikov, whose reknown works on the issues of linguistic meaning and the aesthetic aspects of language have attracted wide critical acclaim and become a valuable part of philology as a science. The choice of the topic is methodologically adjusted to L.A. Novikov’s conception of verbal arts, which is succinctly represented in the term 'poetheme'. Emotives (vocabulary that names, expresses and describes emotions) can be categorised as poethemes, since the verbalisation process of emotions in poetry is related to their aesthetic transformation. The description of emotions in the article is conducted in multiple directions, each of which is significant in order to understand the specifics of the verbalisation of emotions in poems. The author relates the new aspect of viewing the poetic semantics of emotives to the influence of the grammatical meaning of the verb mood on the illocutionary function of verbalised emotions that take part in the declaration of intent. Besides, the imperative mood and the infinitive accentuate the extravert semantics (emotions for others and for oneself), the subjunctive mood being introvert (emotions for oneself). Additional information regarding the contextual features of emotions could be acquired through the emphasis on the indefinite, demonstrative, negative and possessive pronouns, which accompany emotives. The article demonstrates that metaphorical rows of emotions organise the personal mental image of the poet’s world. Basic poetic emotions, established due to the fact of attractiveness (mutual attraction, approach), are related to Russian mentality as a whole. The range of problems dealt with in the article is significant to filling the forming term 'emotional picture of the world’ with content.

The subject of the study is the poetic word as a special kind of aesthetic instrument. The aesthetics is the universal relation of a person to the world, to himself, to art in general, and to the poetic text in particular. The purpose of the research is to establish the relationship between tradition and new ideas in L.A. Novikov's concept of language as art; to identify the specifics of the implementation of the aesthetic function of language in poetic texts. The methodological basis was the works of L.A. Novikov, M. Gasparov, R.O. Yakobson, and M.M. Bakhtin. Poetic texts of classical and modern authors were chosen as the material for the study. The research shows that the aesthetic meanings in the poetic text go beyond the meanings of the words used in the poem. On the examples of the poetry of M. Tsvetaeva and modern poets E.K. Olshanskaya and D.M. Burago we demonstrate a non-linear vision of the world, which provides an aesthetic effect. L.A. Novikov’s theory of the ornamental field and the theory of the aesthetic in language helps to understand the mysterious poetic meanings (connotations, subtexts, with the help of which the reader completes or transforms the author’s poetic image). The conducted research allowed us to draw the following conclusions: language is an object of aesthetics and a means of creating by the author a multidimensional reality, which is cultural; a full-fledged aesthetic perception of poetry is provided by the personality of the author himself, the phenomenon of the text (its motives, the palette of language means and techniques), the personality of the reader, the type of culture, etc.).

Research argues that the rhetorical dialogue theory (Yu.V. Rozhdestvensky) is a sound approach to the analysis of corporate media. The first part of the research briefly outlines the evolution of corporate media and dwells on communication technologies used in magazines for employees today. Digital technologies have reinforced the emotional impact produced by the multimodality of media texts and made the narration which embodies various corporate values more explicit. Then the discussion addresses the rhetorical dialogue theory underscoring three main types of dialogue which manifest themselves in management: dialogue-difference, dialogue-unison and dialogue-theatre. In the third part the focus moves to some features of magazines for employees, refracted through the lens of the dialogue-unison perspective. It is shown that in-house magazines do not communicate any new knowledge and demonstrate no opposition between personnel and management. Thus, due to a new media environment, a full accord of the board and employees results in a dialogue-unison.

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