In the article the author investigates the influence of the subjects’ age on the nature of the associative reactions. The material for the research is obtained from the associative dictionaries and the data of the associative experiments.
The article is dedicated to the analysis of the metaphoric subsystem of Web slang. Major lexical groups, used as the source of figurative slang meanings formation, are determined; they are juxtaposed with general language tendencies; the system of the metaphor sources as a reflection of the idiosyncratic world picture of the users of this idiom has been viewed.
The article deals with the analysis of the part that precedent phenomena play in the formation of the contemporary Russian slang. Main thematic text groups frequently used by the slang-speakers in communication are discovered. The functions of the precedent phenomena under study are determined.
The article reveals the category of time from the perspective of functional grammar, illustrated by the comparison of structural fields in the source and target texts of Oscar Wilde’s “Model Millionaire”.
The article contains the semantic and cognitive analysis of the lexeme вера / faith, which nominates concept faith in the Russian and English languages; basic structural components of this lexeme are singled out; nationally specific features of the language and culture concept faith are defined in both Russian Orthodox and Protestant discourse types
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.
This article considers the role of discourse analysis and corpus analysis in the investigation of historical development of the semantic structure of lexical units.
The article deals with specific features of the speech representation of the opposition «one’s – other’s» in religiously heterogeneous traditional community.
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.
