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

Linguistics

Competition Between Capital and Lower-case Letters in the Modern Russian Language

The article is dedicated to the modern problems of the use of a capital letter in compound names of authorities, the state documents and positions. The main reasons for the developed diarchy in the spelling rules are revealed in the article. The use of a capital letter as the instrument of creating a hierarchy is also considered. The samples from newspaper texts and specialized legal reference books are offered as illustrations.

Communication of Strangers

The article is dedicated to the research of the interaction of strangers in the oral informal communication.

Language Representation of Concept Health in Etiquette (on the Basis of the Russian and English Languages)

The article is devoted to the comparative study of ways and methods of concept HEALTH representation in modern Russian and English etiquette phrases including phraseological units and proverbs. Theoretical issues are considered in the article. They concern the mechanisms of concept verbalization in standard colloquial expressions of unrelated linguistic cultures. The basic cognitive signs that allow to determine similarities and differences of concept health representation in both language world pictures have been revealed.

Sound Gestures in Oral Communication

The paper deals with the study of sound gestures – involuntary subconscious exclamations.

Issues of Lexicographic Description of Word-formation Metaphors

The article deals with the issues of describing the lexical meaning of word-formation metaphors in thesauruses. Various means of defining derivatives with metaphoric motivation are regarded. The reasons of why it is impossible to describe the lexical meaning of some groups of derivatives by means of linking them to the generative word are established.

The Role of the Thematic Group «Hats» in the Formation of Russian Idiomaic System

The article analyzes the degree of how productively the headwear nominations are used in Russian idiomatic system. The main principles of motivation of semantics of phraseological units by meanings of lexemes of this type have been identified.

Specific Features of the Lexico-semantic Field «Disease» in the Written Form of Scientific Medical Discourse

The article is concerned with the problem of investigation of the socialprofessional group discourse from the point of view of semantic fields. It describes the peculiarities of the lexico-semantic field «Disease» based on the material of the written form of the scientific medical discourse, presents the structural and functional analysis of the field under research.

THE BASIC METHODS OF IMPACT IN SOCIAL ADVERTISING

The main ways of influencing the addressee in social advertising are considered in the article; Some of them are considered common with means of commercial advertising, others - specific.

Creolization of the Text in the Field of Art

The work of fine art is considered in the aspect of its two-code semiotic organization - iconic and verbal, i.e. as a phenomenon of a creolized text.

OBSERVATIONS OVER LANGUAGE CARTULARIA OF TULUZA CONSULATE XII - XIII CENTURIES

The article is devoted to the study of the Latin text of the 12th-13th centuries, which before did not attract the attention of linguists. Various phonetic and lexical features are distinguished and classified. They are typical for the variant of medieval Latin used at that time in Provence. The materials proposed can later be used in studies of the Romance languages.

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