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

Linguistics

Historical Perspective of the Notion of Enumeration

This article represents the notion of enumeration from the historical perspective. The author traces changes in the interpretation of the nature and specific functions of enumeration from the ancient times to the beginning of the 21st century with reference to a number of leading linguists of different areas and linguistic schools.

To the Question of the Possibility of Determinative Adverbs to Act as Actants of a Proposition

The article deals with the types of determinative adverbs that can semantically and functionally converge with such actants as recipient, subject, deliberate, finitive, directive, distributive, destinative, instrumentive, posessive, potensive. The producing bases of such adverbs are usually relative adjectives. The role that such adverbs play in the sentence depends on their semantics, the semantics of the predicate, as well as on the context. That is why the same adverb can realize different functions in different statements.

Celtic Influence on the Formation and Contemporary State of Scouse

The article describes the results of the phonetic, lexical and grammatical analysis of the audio files recording the speakers of Liverpool English dialect. Based on the conducted analysis the authors explain how Celtic languages influenced the formation and contemporary state of Scouse.

Dialect in German Language Fairy Tales (Study Relevance and Interpretation Examples)

The article deals with the German dialect, which has recently been drawing the increasing amount of attention in German-speaking countries. Nowadays, the verbal genre of telling fairy tales is popular there, and fairy tales are related and represented by means of dialect more frequently. The authors of the article analyze the use of different dialecticisms and their textual functions on the example of the interpretation of two of the brothers Grimms’ fairy tales, in which separate dialect words from the Plattdeutch and the Hessen dialect are used.

Phonosemantic Associations in Lullabies (On the Material of the Russian and German Languages)

Based on modern ideas about the role of intersensory associations in the minds of native speakers, the problem of determining the universal characteristics and national specific features of the sound picture of the world is posed on the material of folklore texts for children in Russian and German languages.

Spain’s Image Representation in the Spanish King’s Christmas Messages

The Spanish King’s Christmas message is a traditional event of the social and political life in Spain, and it is one of the few occasions when the head of state directly addresses the nation. This annual address is structured according to strict traditions of classical rhetoric, it has its own language and composition features and has a symbolic and ritual nature. This article analyzes Felipe VI’s Christmas messages (from 2014 to 2018) and focuses on the constructed images of the Spanish monarch (addresser), the Spanish nation (addressee) and the country.

Lexical Features of the Functioning of the Social Networking Language in the Community of Provincial Youth

The article discusses the lexical originality of youth slang in the language of social networks on the example of the messages of students of a provincial school of higher education; an attempt was made to organize lexical units according to the sphere of use; units that have changed or expanded their semantics in the communication of modern youth are highlighted.

Peculiarities of Medical Discourse in Professional and Non-Professional Settings

The article discusses structural and functional differences between the medical discourses that are used in professional and non-professional settings. Having analyzed over 51,000 word usages, the authors conclude that the most significant differences are: the organization of the synonymous sets of the hyperonym ‘Disease’, the design of paradigmatic and syntagmatic connections, and the application of slang words and expressions.

Abbreviations as Key Elements of Social and Cultural Space in Contemporary Media Texts

The article considers abbreviations as key elements of social and cultural space in the language of mass media. The paper closely focuses on the following language units as the initial lexemes: IGIL (ISIS), WADA, SMI (mass media), OPEC etc. The author shows that abbreviated names reflect currently relevant phenomena in the life of the Russian society, and perform an expressive and influencing function.

The Concept ‘Pioneer’ in the Russian Linguistic Picture of the World

This article presents a comprehensive cognitive-oriented study of the concept ‘Pioneer’ in the linguistic picture of the world of the representatives of the Russian culture. The analysis of various lexicographic sources allowed the author to identify a generalized prototype of the concept and obligatory characteristics that reflect its value-based evaluative perception.

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