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

Linguistics

Лингвосоциокультурные аспекты перевода поэтических текстов прошедших эпох (на примере переводов романа А.С. Пушкина «Евгений Онегин» на немецкий язык)

The article examines theoretical and practical aspects of translation studies: the adequacy of poetic texts translation within the language pair “Russian – German” using the example of A. S. Pushkin’s novel Eugene Onegin translation. The paper describes the main difficulties in translating poetic texts: the need for adequate conversion of both the content and the artistic form, the heterogeneity of the source and target languages, as well as the cultural and linguistic space considerations, especially with regard to texts from past eras.

The inner speech of a character as a way of penetrating the “imaginary” into the “real” (based on the material of the story by M. L. Kashnitz The Straw)

The article deals with establishing the specific role of inner speech in a literary text as a tool for introducing the unreal into the real world, based on the example of the short story by M. L. Kashnitz The Straw. The authors rely on the idea of speech positions in the heroine’s internal dialogues with the absent or potential interlocutors; on the concept of active silence, which in fact means the actualization of the heroine’s idea; on the idea of restructuring the essence of the “I” in a complex process of autocommunication.

Refusal in English communication: Tactics of privacy protection

The article deals with the refusal in English communication from the perspective of pragmalinguistics. In the introduction the author justifies the relevance of the chosen topic, indicates the material and methods and formulates a hypothesis. The object of study is utterances conveying refusal which function as a means of protecting private space. The aim of the research is to reveal the communicative tactics of refusal which provide the protection of private space as well as the linguistic means of their implementation.

Speech influence on the addressee in medical advertising (on the example of an advertisement of a vaccine against COVID-19)

The article analyzes the features of medical advertising as a source of speech influence on the addressee in medical advertising using the example of an advertisement of a vaccine against COVID-19. The material consisted of creolized advertising texts (in total more than 50 examples were analyzed) related to the topic of coronavirus, obtained from open Internet sources during the pandemic, as well as data from a free associative experiment (60 questionnaires of respondents aged 18 to 22 years).

Contest “Gorod bez oshibok” (“Error free city”): About the speech culture of a big city

The article analyzes the linguistic material obtained as a result of the 2023 “Error free city” contest initiated by philologists of the Ural Federal University. The contest fits into the circle of studies devoted to the interpretation of regional/urban identity as a phenomenon that has a mental and semiotic nature. The local text, whose multidimensional nature is an iconic feature of this object, allows us to address the examination of the visual aspects of the urban environment, the assessment of the ecological component of urban texts of the city.

Complexity as a textual, linguistic and metalinguistic category

The article attempts to systematize the linguistic (metalinguistic, textual) content of the concept complex / complexity. For this purpose, linguistic and non-linguistic contexts with complex / complexity are analyzed, primarily from the point of view of evaluativeness and markedness – unmarkedness.

Variability of the genre of autobiographical story in dialect and literary-colloquial speech (on the material of Saratov dialectological corpus)

The article examines the specific features of how the genre of autobiographical story functions in dialect and literary-colloquial speech. The study is conducted on the material of Saratov Dialectological Corpus and dictaphone recordings of native speakers of the literary language of the corresponding age group.

Spouses addressing their parents-in-law in Russian culture

The paper examines the forms of addressing the nearest in-law relatives existing in Russian family communication. Addresses to family members are among the oldest means of appealing and are marked by national identity in any culture.

Interaction between religious, historical and literary discourses in mass media

The present paper refers to the essentialproblem of the interaction between variousdiscourseswithin the framework of American media discourse based on the articles of the online version of National Geographic journal. Currently, the media discourse is a point of intersection of various discourses interacting in accordance with the intention and pragmatic goals of the journalists. Media discourse becomes poly-discursive, as journalists strive to demonstrate the presence of identical or similar components of situational cognitive models in different discourses.

Special features speech portrait of an autistic child in Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time translated into Russian

The article deals with the issue of studying the speech characteristics of a literary character, which is no doubt of significant interest. The speech portrait of a literary character is one of the key components in forming an image in a literary text. However, the speech of child char acters, especially those with developmental disorders, has not received much attention. The source material for the study is the modern novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by Mark Haddon and its translation into Russian made by A. Kukley (2003).

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