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

Linguistics

The attitude of native speakers of the Russian language to its norms: The dynamic aspect

Different historical periods are characterized by different attitudes of native speakers of the Russian language to its norms. Russian history during the Soviet period was marked by the struggle for the purity and correctness of the Russian speech. The process of protecting the Russian language was filled with deep ideological meaning, since the Russian language acts as a single means of communication for the multinational population of the USSR.

The redundancy of the personal refl exive pronoun self: To the question of non-banal grammatical pleonasm

The article deals with the case of grammatical pleonasm, which involves the verbalization of the verbal position of the actant or localizer by the case forms of the personal refl exive pronoun self, which have a spatial or subject-object meaning.

Bisubstantive sentences in scientific discourse: Types of evaluation in scientific articles

The article analyzes general and specific types of evaluation actualized in bisubstantive sentences in scientific articles in various specialties. It is noted that bisubstantive sentences are a productive means of expressing evaluative meaning. Although scientific articles have been revealed to express a predominately neutral evaluation, almost 12% of all analyzed examples have positive or negative assessments. The expression of evaluation in sentences with the lexeme “problem” is considered and the use of intensifiers with this lexeme is analyzed.

Categorical modeling of the sublanguage of homeopathy

The article considers the categorical modeling of the sublanguage of homeopathy. The sublanguage of a professional area of knowledge and/or activity is a means of verbalizing its notions, concepts and categories, and serves as a form of creation, interpretation, storage and communication of special knowledge.

Linguocultural lexical timers and chronemes in the informative code of journalistic discourse (on the material of the magazines National Geographic and Vokrug Sveta (Around the World))

The article describes the nominative fi eld of the dominant concept “Time” by identifying the peculiarities of the representation of chronemes and linguocultural lexical timers in the discursive temporal architectonics of journalistic articles on Arabic architecture published in the magazines Vokrug Sveta and National Geographic.

Specific features of proxemic informative text structure in The Portrait of a Lady by H. James

 The article deals with the English text space. The purpose of the study is to identify the specific features of the proxemic informative text structure of H. James’s The Portrait of a Lady. A new concept of “proxemic informative text structure” is introduced into text theory as a segment of text architectonics that describes the spatial parameters nominated by proxemes. Proxemes are considered as nominations of spatial parameters of the text.

Other people’s speech in contemporary Russian prose (A. Slapovsky’s collection Foggy Alleys)

This article provides a description of the ways in which other people’s speech is conveyed in modern and classical prose on the material of the collections of novels Dark Alleys by I.A. Bunin and Foggy Alleys by A. I. Slapovsky. The focus is on several ways: direct speech constructions, free direct speech, and dialogue. This choice is due to the fact that precisely these ways most clearly demonstrate the features of modern prose.

Lexico-semantic features of creating the image of the protagonist in the novel Zumalacárregui by B. Pérez Galdós

The article analyzes the linguistic features of the novel Zumalacárregui by the Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdos, first published in 1898. The novel opens the third series of the National episodes (Episodios Nacionales) and is dedicated to the First Carlist War in Spain (1833–1840). The protagonist is the Carlist general T. de Zumalacárregui, whose Doppelgänger is the priest José Fago. General T. de Zumalacárregui is frequently mentioned in periodical publications, in memoires and in fiction of the 19–20th centuries.

Functional and stylistic distinctive characteristics of the normative speech genre Schulordnung der Grundschule (based on German)

In the article the normative speech genre Schulordnung der Grundschule (Internal Regulations for Primary School Students) is considered on the material of the German language in the aspect of the functional and stylistic approach.

English-Russian Navigation Dictionary as part of the Marine Navigation Course

The artilce considers the English-Russian Navigation dictionary in the context of its creation. The dictionary evolved from a small appendix to a textbook into a separate edition, which is a part of a multi-volume Marine Navigation Course. The Navigation Dictionary as part of the Marine Navigation Course ed. by Yakov Lapushkin was published twice: in 1947 by Nikolay Rybakov and in 1960 by Tamara Rutkovskaya.

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