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

Linguistics

Sentence Representatives in the English Language

It is proved in the paper that the sentence representative in English constitutes a specific syntactic unit which has structural, semantic, communicative and pragmatic characteristics of its own.

Peculiarities of the Lexico-Semantic Field «Disease» in the Oral Form of Scientific Medical Discourse

The article is focused on the problem of investigation of the socialprofessional group discourse from the viewpoint of semantic fields. It describes the peculiarities of the lexico-semantic field «Disease» based on the material of the oral form of the scientific medical discourse, presents the structural-functional analysis of the field under investigation.

Semantics of ‘State vs. Action’ in the Content of Perception Verbs

The article deals with the analysis of the meaning of the perception verbs. Their consistency is determined by the contraposition of the semantics of state and action ( see/look, hear/listen) in their content. The opposition of these meanings reflects the duality of the language perceptions of human psychology: the contraposition of an ‘inner’ person to an ‘outward’ one. Inner unobservable perceptive processes (states) are opposed to observable pictorial processes (actions).

Roman Dialectisms’ Destiny in the French Language of France and French-speaking America

The peculiarity of territorial variants of French in France and the world is the existence of special sets of dialectisms that have penetrated from Romance dialects which were spoken in the territory of France. The history of these dialects was not the same in different areas, still the dialects have vastly contributed to the fact that the variants of French around the world are either similar or different in terms of their cultural background and structure.

Russian Metaphor in Diachrony: Major Trends in the Development of Transfers in the Object Sphere

In the article major tendencies in the development of the Russian object metaphorical subsystem are elicited; semantic and cognitive description of the main metaphoric models in diachrony is presented.

Types of Secondary Speech Genres in Internet Communication

A classification of secondary speech genre based on the analysis of Internet communication genres is presented in the article. The author contrasts diachronic and synchronic types of secondary speech genres, explores the subtypes and the characteristics of their mani‑ festation in Internet communication.

SEMANTIC ENGLICSMISM IN THE PRINTED MEDIA OF FRENCH-JANUARY CANADA

This article is devoted to the analysis of the language of print media in French-speaking Canada and, in particular, to the study of such a phenomenon as semantic borrowing. The existence of this type of borrowing is due, first of all, to the special linguistic situation prevailing in Canada. It is the presence of semantic borrowings from the English language is the main feature of the language of the print media in Canada.

VOCAL INTERROGATIONS IN THE GREEK GLANGAL GLOBALIZATION

The article presents and systematizes materials that were previously only casually touched upon in studies on ancient Greek verbal vocalism. Analyzing the material, the author comes to the conclusion that the alternations being the object of the study do not have synchronous phonetic conditioning and can be referred to the sphere of morphology.

Types of Irony in Fiction: Conceptual and Contextual Irony

The article analyses modern views on the correlation of stylistic and conceptual types of irony in the writers’ literary works, reveals the basic features and characteristics of conceptual irony, and also shows the correlation of the two types of irony with their different means of realization – linguistic and extra-linguistic.

Perceptive and Semantic Keynotes in the Formation of Artistic Style

The article considers the influence of the forms of the psychological phenomenon of perception on writers’ aesthetic systems. Visual and audio types of perception are reflected in fiction in the most consistent and systemic manner. Different authors exhibit variations in their correlation: either the visual or the acoustic type prevails.

Pages