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


Linguistics

Implicitness in Fantastic Realism Prose Fiction

The article focuses on two types of implicitness: implicitness of blended images, and implicitness as a result of correlation and suggestive influence of compositional, figurative, syntactical and grammatical structures of the text.

Discourse Analysis and Corpus Analysis in Historical Lexicology

This article considers the role of discourse analysis and corpus analysis in the investigation of historical development of the semantic structure of lexical units.

GENDER STEREOTYPE AS LINGUISTIC SYSTEM-FACTORY FACTOR OF THE SOCIUM

The article is devoted to the problem of the influence of social gender stereotypes, underlying the factor of the linguistic and semantic continuum, on the speech activity and gender-gender identification of men and women.

Pragmatic Orientation of Metaphorical Means of Expression in the Language of Economics (on the Material of the Television Sublanguage in the Federal Republic of Germany)

The article is devoted to the exploration of semantic and stylistic peculiarities of the German media language. The object of the research is specific features of the semantics and pragmatic influence of metaphorical means which are used in economic news broadcasts on FRG TV channel Deutsche Welle to present the global financial crisis. The analysis marks out the basic semantic spheres in which lexical units develop the same kind figurative meaning and gives several tendencies of forming terminology of economics using metaphorisation.

Associative Field of the Event Name

The article deals with the analysis of associative fields formed by stimuli with event meaning, it describes the procedure of marking out the structural slots, typical of stimuli which name events.

On the Problem of Nomenclature Nomination (on the Material of International Flowering Plant Names)

The article is devoted to the exploration of the functions of the binominal specific name which represents the most significant taxon of the angiosperm or flowering plants section in the International Botanical Nomenclature. Being a narrow usage lexical unit, the specific name denotes a directly perceivable, particular object and represents nominal, classifying, informational and communicative functions.

Family Lexicon (Important Everyday Object Nomination)

The article presents an observation on speech communication in families living in Saratov; it investigates the nomination of important everyday objects such as shops, chemist’s, shoe repair shops, etc, from the anthropocentric perspective.

On the Problem of the Role of Scientific Biography: the Scandinavian Period of R. Jacobson

The articles touches upon the problems concerning a renown American researcher R. Jacobson’s scientific interests which were important during his stay in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and recreates historical and linguistic context in which his works appeared.

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