Русский язык

The article deals with the research of friendly communications, which is compared to other varieties of everyday communication: communication of family members, relatives, acquaintances and strangers.

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the metaphoric subsystem of Web slang. Major lexical groups, used as the source of figurative slang meanings formation, are determined; they are juxtaposed with general language tendencies; the system of the metaphor sources as a reflection of the idiosyncratic world picture of the users of this idiom has been viewed.

The article is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the outstanding Russian linguist, professor of Saratov State University Olga B. Sirotinina (born in 1923). The article presents and analyzes a number of scientific ideas of the scholar: the necessity to work out new approaches to syntactic units; the interaction of primary (factual) and secondary (organizational) levels of communication; attention of the author to the addressee as a leading principle of linguistic ecology; semantic diffusion as a dynamic process in the Russian discourse.

Upon analyzing Russian phraseologically bound sentences such as ‘if we are going, let us go’ from various aspects, their linguistic essence has been described and their semantic structures have been characterized. All the above have allowed to approach the task of creating a general typology of these units.

Upon analyzing Russian nominative phraseologically bound sentences from various aspects, their linguistic essence has been destribed; their structural and grammatical types have been defined; their semantic structures have been characterized. All the above have given an opportunity to approach the task of creating a general typology of these units.

In the article, dedicated to the research of the syncretism of discursive words (discursives) of the Russian scientific speech, alongside the two main types of discursive words – regulators and organizers – syncretic types, combining different types of information – discursive and regulatory, factual, pragmatic and grammatical, discursive and regulatory – are singled out.

The article is dedicated to the book:
Сиротинина О. Б. Русский язык : система, узус и создаваемые ими риски. Саратов : Изд-во Сарат. ун-та, 2013. 116 с.

The article highlights differences between root morphemes and radixoids of Latin origin in the structure of linguistic terms and specific units of term formation – term elements.