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

Linguistics

The concept of syntax by O.B. Sirotinina

Professor of Saratov State University Olga Borisovna Sirotinina lived a long and fruitful life. The author of more than 700 scientific works, she is known in Russia and beyond as a scholar who was at the origins of the Saratov linguistic school of real functioning of language units.

A comparative study of the notions of “hate” and “nenavist’”

The aim of the article is to look into the specific features of the representation of the notions "hate" and "nenavist'" in the lexico-semantic system of the Russian language and spoken discourse. The study is relevant due to the undying interest of the scholars to the conceptualization of a person's inner world and is caused by the rise of hate on the Internet.

Ergonymicon as a frame and as a field in the aspect of advertising nomination

The author of the article proceeds from the premise that an ergonym, being an advertising name, implements in its form the main internal opposition of advertising – informativeness contrasted with suggestiveness. The purpose of the study is to trace the specific characteristics of the implementation of this opposition in the ergonymy of various industries.

A thematic group through the prism of verbal associations (based on the material of TG “Supernatural beings”)

The article considers the thematic group "Supernatural beings" in the associative-verbal network of Russian native speakers. Russian associative dictionaries, as well as the texts of the Russian National Corpus (the main subcorpus, the period from 1950 to present time), were used as the research material, which allowed us to compare associative data with discourse, to establish correlations between the functional features of the group's units and their associative connections in the minds of Russian native speakers.

Ethnolinguistic peculiarities of Australian slang (based on Internet resources)

The article studies one of the main variants of the English language, Australian English. The main variants of English differ from each other on phonetic and lexical linguistic levels. The grammatical structure is the same in all variants, that is why the focus of the study was the lexical level of Australian English. The word-stock of Australian English includes slang as a certain layer of the vocabulary. It started to be formed under a strong influence of the first settlers from Great Britain.

The role of key words in the title of a literary text (on the basis of A. Brookner’s novel Strangers)

The article examines the role of key words in the titles of literary works on the basis of the novel Strangers by a contemporary British writer Anita Brookner. Being one of the strong positions of a text, a title makes a given work of verbal art notable and draws the reader’s attention to it. Placing the key word of a literary work in such strong position increases its aesthetic potential. The linguopoetic analysis of the keyword stranger was supported by the use of Sketch Engine, a computer program that works with text corpora.

The development of semantic neologisms within the lexico-semantic group “The denominations of mutant coronavirus strains”

The article describes semantic neologisation within the lexico-semantic group “The denominations of mutant coronavirus strains” as part of the lexico-semantic fi eld “The new coronavirus infection”. The relevance of the article is determined by bringing into clear focus the lexical units that have not yet been analyzed within the designated topic.

Pragmatonyms-names of dental products: Features of formation

The object of the study is pragmatonyms-names of dental products. As the subject of study the word-formation aspect is considered. The aim is to identify the ways of how the pragmatonyms are formed, taking into account their specific nature – the intermediate position between consumer goods and medical goods. In the course of research it was established that there is a correlation between the special position of dental pragmatonyms among other products, on the one hand, and medical products, on the other hand, and the specific nature of the ways of their formation.

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