The article studies stylistic peculiarities of the descriptive part of the judicial decision. Particular attention is paid to such issues as passage division of the text, the usage of verbal nouns, pronouns, and conjunction also.
The article is dedicated to the study of the composition of highfrequency dialect lexis and to the definition of linguistic world-image characteristics of dialect speakers.
This article studies some phonetic features of the territorial variant of Texan English which are caused by the bilingual situation developing in Texas under the influence of Hispanic variant of Spanish. The examples of words with specific vowels and consonant changes are given in the article.
The article is focused on the conceptualization of Greek loan-words from the Orthodox discourse in literature. On the material of prose by I. Shmelyov we have analyzed the structure of the concept icon. It is possible to distinguish objective-notional, imagery-symbolic, and evaluative levels of the concept. Their distinctive features are shown to be determined by cultural and religious traditions and also explained by narrative characteristics of the works.
The article deals with the question of the methods used in the study of artistic concepts. The complexity of this problem is due to the ambiguity of the nature of the artistic concept and the associated entities - the artistic text, the artistic picture of the world.
The article deals with the correlation of the concepts "language picture of the world", "world picture" and "conceptual picture of the world". The possibilities of reflecting the linguistic picture of the world at various language levels are shown. The national-cultural specificity of phraseological units in different languages is analyzed.
The article discusses some extra- and intralinguistic conditions for the formation of the Australian version of the English language, which is independent and takes its own place in the system of other variants of the English language, differing both from the British English and American versions. It is also noted that in the works of domestic linguists this option is given insufficient attention.
The article considers options of communicative strategies of medical discourse, their linguistic characteristics and the place in the general classification are identified.
The article represents diachronic analysis of what changes the formation and usage of direct requests have undergone in British English. Special attention is paid to diachronic changes in the frequency of direct requests, as well as to the means of softening and intensifying direct requests.
The article deals with a specific type of etiquette statements – condolences. The first part analyzes the pragmatic conditions for making the relevant speech acts, then the author covers the language operators which generate and modify the sense elements of condolences. The paper concludes with a view on indirect ways of expressing condolences.
