No 1 (2014)

The publication treats the foundations, methodology and several methods to develop the general system theory, or systemology, which ascend theoretical treaties by L. von. Bertalanffy and at present have acquired wide circulation in different fields of science. As applied to languages, such systems used to be called verbal hierarchical systems, which could be described with the help of special mathematical means and instruments.

The paper is dedicated to the study of the subject-matter of the pragmeme, its difference from other units of evaluation lexics and its place in the system of axiology. Lexical and syntactic qualities of pragmeme are analysed. Pragmeme is analysed as a system. An attempt to systematise and classify pragmemes, to find their “core” and “periphery” is made.

The article deals with the aspects of creating a new form of autobiographism in the works of the French writer, J. Ruo. The author studies material “tracks” of time and changes into a “memory archaeologist”. A new approach to the memory discourse is characterized by presenting an invented intrigue, a circular and tangled model of the novel, the extensive usage of intercontextuality and play on words while searching for eluding meanings. The novel turns into the history of palimpsest. The irony proves the “trumped-up” style of the novel intrigue.

On the basis of linguo-cultural analysis of the French and English phraseology the spectrum of cultural connotations of concept “happiness” is being defined in different spheres of life and work of the English and French people.

The article is based on the materials of associative experiment and Internet sites data on the content of the cultural types “an elderly person” in the Russian and Ossetian linguistic mentality. It reveals the existing varieties of the entities and described their binary structure.

The article studies such specific national reactions of compliment as speaking out thanks, agreement or increase of the compliment. The author characterizes the above mentioned reactions on the material of the Russian and Vietnamese languages.

The aims of this paper are to examine and figure out the contribution of animal cries in order to acquire one’s spiritual progress through meditation. In addition, the affinity between animal cries and seven basic musical notes in Hindustani music will also be examined. Special attention will be paid to the canonical accounts where the Buddha emphasized the efficacy of flora and fauna, animal cries and music for one’s both secular and spiritual well-being.

The article presents the variations of how different propositional subjects exchange remarks in course of their dialogical interaction, focusing on the problems of free indirect speech. It also describes the structure of dialogical interactions taking into consideration semantics of communicative units.

The article reviews issues of translating higher education terms, suggests means of effective selection of exact equivalents, determines main directions in the work of unification of terms in the system of Russian higher education.