Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1817-7115 (Print)
ISSN 2541-898X (Online)


discursive words

Secondary Communicative Units in Political Discourse: the Problem of Translation (Based on the Russian and English Language Sources)

The article comprises the results of the research of different means of secondary communicative units translation; stable tendencies, manifested in the correspondences between the analyzed united in the original and translated political discourses, are revealed.

Discursive Words: Uniformity in Diversity

The article researches the place of discursive words in the system of
language units; a semantic and functional classification of discursive
words is developed.

Syncretism of Discursive Words

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.

Auxiliary Communicative Units’ Functioning In the Radio Programmes

The article researches how additional communicative units function in monologues and dialogues that sound on the Russian and English radio. In the Russian broadcasts those units are used more frequently and in more diverse ways than in the English ones. Dialogical speech is filled with more additional units of various types than monological speech. The differences between the monologue and dialogue are more vividly pronounced in the English language broadcasts.

Does Gender Influence the Use of Discursive Words? (On the Material of the Written Scientific Discourse)

In the article the results of the research of gender specific use of different kinds of discursive words in the written scientific discourse are given. Gender differences have been marked in all groups of discursive words except for the organisational and structural units.