No 3 (2016)

The article is devoted to conceptualization of the language being of creative bilingual personality. The content of the article was written under the influence of the scholars’ writings who are working in the mainestream of Moscow psycholinguistic school in recent years (E.F. Tarasov, N.V. Ufimtseva, I.A. Bubnova and V.V. Krasnykh, G.T. Khukhuni and I. II. Valuytseva), and other scholars (Vyach.Vs. Ivanov, T.P. Mlechko). The authors attempt a critical analysis of the theory of language contacts and bilingualism in Russian linguistics and reveal similar positions of linguists in learning of the individual’s language being. The article also offers their approach for studying of language personality and model analysis of a specific linguistic identity.

The modern sociocultural reality is creating a need to develop methods of formation of the Russian language personality, which is a relevant language methodological classroom task within the Rhetorics course. This article is describing the linguistic teaching methods approach to the skills of public speaking and conducting discussions in a new sociocultural environment. This article is giving the examples of some typical mistakes. Moreover, the recommendations on overcoming these difficulties are given.

In the article we analyze the particularities of the language awareness proper to representatives of the Basque linguistic culture and try to characterize their cultural and national identity. The anthropocentric orientation of modern linguistics is of genuine interest for many researchers who investigate the language as a key to the ethnic identity, meanwhile the expansion of intercultural contacts in an era of increasing globalization explain the relevance of the chosen theme. Identification of the specific features of different linguocultures allows us to make good the deficit of didactic material necessary to optimize cross-cultural communication. The investigation of the Basque linguistic culture assumes great practical importance, since this European ethnic group is one of the most mysterious one not only in the anthropological aspect, but also in the linguistic context. The origin of the Basque people and their language “euskera” still remains one of the most intriguing topics of European linguistics and ethnology, and therefore involves a wide range of possible future research.

Modern global information space is characterized by incessant information and hybrid wars. Data mining from an information stream has turned from desirable in a necessary task. The article is devoted to the consideration of formal methods of the text information analysis and the quantitative analysis of information of a website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia carried out by QDA Miner computer program. The official website cannot be focused on the certain category of the addressee on age, gender, status and the other attributes. The content-analysis allows determining how the content of messages influences an audience and quantitatively describes the contents of the communications, reduces probability of subjectivity of the text interpretation. The carried out analysis has shown the frequency of distribution of the data of the allocated rubrics.

The article analyzes one of the genres of medical net-discourse - official medical site. Considered the genre and language peculiarities the examples of the official websites of medical institutions. Significance of linguistic and linguodidactic research of net-discourse of this type is proved.

The article considers the expressive impact of linguistic units and the author's paradigmatics and syntagmatics, reflecting the perception of everyday Russian life realities in the second half of the 19th century. With estimated register, N.S. Leskov certifies the state of facilities for natural needs of a man as a highly unsuitable, dangerous to health. Oppositions as a manifestation of idiostylistics reveal the presence of one of the correlates of potential or implicit components and characterize the publicist as a careful person, a refined stylist Along with stylistically marked lexical units with the negative connotation, the author introduces the means where connotative potential reference component multiplies the context partner. Purpose of the research is to identify the way how language means explain living conditions marked by Russian commoners in the second half of the 19th century. The main methods of the study were contextual analysis method, descriptive, comparative, discourse analysis.

In the article the evolution of the categories of space and time is considered, from purely philosophical concepts to literary and linguistic phenomena. The idea of space and time as the categories of a literary text is described with the definition and characterization of their main functions: ontological, anthropocentric, pragmatic, aesthetic, story forming, symbolic, which are decomposition of chronotope’s key function, specifically, sense-making. The decomposition of chronotope’s sense-making function as described in the article requires the new approach to language representation of space-time category and linguistic means ranking.

The article is devoted to the functional aspect of biblical imagery in Shakespearean drama. It deals with the functions of imagery in the Bible itself (e. g. nominative, illustrative, descriptive, emotive, emphatic, expressive, explaining, veiling, cognitive, reminiscent, cohesive, integrative, symbolic etc.), as well as the functional peculiarities of biblical images in Shakespeare’s tragedies, comedies and problem plays, where besides the allusive and illustrative functions they also form connotations, subtext, sometimes - the plot and the main ideas. Specifically emphasized is the modeling function of biblical imagery in the consequent texts, where the images from the Bible serve as a model for imagery coinage. The article also covers the role of biblical imagery in creating ambiguity, along with the major situations and motives generating imagery.

The article is devoted to the question of the representation of language in the objective value of the recorded dialectal dictionaries, symbolism reality, characterizing traditional culture. The study concludes on the importance of the role of ritual context for completeness of the presentation on the cultural significance of a certain way, this article is the hare. The collected material has allowed to establish that the designation of a hare are widely used in various Slavic and South German dialects to refer to a wide range of objects and phenomena, associated with fertility and marriage, meteorology, folk calendar.

On the basis of the factual material of Russian and Tajik paremiology and classification of associative-image groups of logoepistem the idioms with symbolic component of “bread” in Russian and Tajik languages are studied. Lingvo-culturological analysis of the idioms in the compared languages is made. For the Russian and Tajik pictures of the world in representation of the concept paremiological the concept “bread” along with similar, specific features are also found.

This article deals with the construction of the figure of a character as an artist as seen in the works of the Italian writer A. Baricco and in their Russian translations; some of the main theoretical theses on figurativeness and its forms in literary texts are exposed; a short characterization of A. Baricco’s style is given; some extracts from his novels “Ocean-Sea” and “Mister Gwyn” are quoted together with the analysis of the strategies used for the construction of the figure of characters as artists; structural similarities of the two novels are highlighted; conclusions are made on the techniques of construction of figurativeness used in the novels quoted.

This article analyzes the degree of coverage of environmental terminology in thesis research. The material for the analysis have been 35 Russian-language master’s and PhD of philology theses upon environmental topics. The author singles out lexical sets on areas of research, languages of terminology and sources, points out the information units typical for the majority of theses, and analyzes the similarities and differences in the rationale, objectives, methods, and materials of research. In conclusion, the author gives ground for the key areas of the research and outlines its prospects.

In the article the microstructure of the modern bilingual dictionary, in particular the structure and contents of the dictionary entry is considered. Addressing the analysis of dictionary parameters allows to take lexicographic information on the word, the ways of its reflection in the dictionary entry, and also to establish a community and specificity of lexicographic tradition in general. Bilingual dictionaries are considered as storage of culture on the one hand, and on the other hand - as bridges between different cultures. The ratio in the dictionary of linguistic and extralinguistic information is a significant issue for a modern lexicography. Inclusion of a cultural studies component in structure of the dictionary entry corresponds to an anthropocentric orientation of modern lexicographic science.