No 1 (2012)

The article treats the issues of language functioning in the Internet communication, the peculiarities of speech strategies realizations, the linguistic conflictology.

The article presents a comparative study of the photographs dating back to different historic periods in the aspect of semiotic organization of visual text. The main attention is given to the inner frame dialogicity of media texts ant its transformation in the dialectic link with social and historic issues.

The article presents an original classification of formal and substantive models of literary confession, including confession as self-determination, confession-preaching, confession-autobiography. The article also tells about the fool in Christ's confession, which has a different purpose and structure. Models are presented as an example of Old Russia literature.

The article considers the phenomenon of manipulation through the language means, the author's intention role in the speech manipulation and the functioning of the keywords of social dictionary, which are grouped around the basic concepts «authority», «people», «wealth», «poverty» in the publicistic texts.

The analyzing of W. Shakespeare's sonnets is quite important to understand his works. This study involves the context of the sonnet 92, the structural and meaningful analysis and the style analysis.

This article represents a parallel investigation and description of the means to express possibility and supposition both in the Spanish and in Russian languages. The authors make their conclusions on the basis of analyzing numerous examples from belles-lettres, textbooks, proverb collections, as well as their own notes of the colloquial speech. Some recommendations are given in order to optimize the foreign language teaching.

The article is devoted to the metaphorical concept of time, which reflects the extent of movement and change, the expression of national cultural identity in the Russian and Thai languages; the analysis of linguistic perspective of concept Time and the study of interaction between human factor and time factor in the construction of linguistic worldview.

The article is devoted to the studies of religious-and-political discourse in the works of J. Ratzinger (Pope Benedictus the XVI). The author considers the religious-and-political concept «faith» in its historical and modern context. There are analyzed such notions as «progress», «science», «freedom» in the comprehension of Benedictus the XVI.

Literary aesthetic appreciation is an indispensable part of college English teaching. As an important content of aesthetic education as well as one of the basic qualities of the compound-type foreign language learners, literary aesthetic appreciation is also an essential part of the college teaching innovation, curriculum construction and training objectives. In the course of students' acquiring aesthetic knowledge, college English teachers need to combine moral education and highlight the value of aesthetic education, combine intellectual education and penetrate aesthetic education and combine interest stimulus and protrude the art function of literary aesthetic appreciation.