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

Linguistics

Newfoundland English. On the Problem of Enclave Dialects Insularity

The article discusses some problems of variantology on the material of Newfoundland English (Canada): factors of enclave dialect formation, criteria of dialect community insularity, correlation of enclave dialects’ characteristic features of conservatism and dialect congruity.

The Use of Interjections as Other Parts of Speech in the Russian Language

The article considers some cases of Russian emotional interjections being used in the position and function of other parts of speech.

To the Issue of the Aspectual Category of Telicity/Atelicity in French (on the Material of the Verbs of Movement) (Retracted 11/04/2022)

The article deals with the universal category of telicity/atelicity of verbal activity and with the classification of the French verbs of movement. The category of direction and the concept of perspective are the main semantic features indicating telicity/atelicity of a verb of movement.

Peculiarities of Hyperonymic Relations in Schoolchildren’s Associative Reactions

The article studies associative reactions of hyperonymic type that name animals. Dependence of frequency of this type of reactions on perceiving animals as «ours/theirs» and «wild/domestic» is determined.

Bible Text as a Generator of Precedence: The Book of Jonah

The article considers the issues related to the text of the Bible as a precedent phenomenon in the Russian and European literature on the example of the Book of Jonah and its key concepts.

Social Advertisement Genre as a Way of Influencing the Addressee

Different approaches to distinguishing advertisement genres are presented in the article; advertisement genres used in social advertising are analyzed; genres characteristic for social advertising are singled out; specific features of using genre forms in social advertising are revealed.

Biblical Expression in Modern Poetic Text

The article offers philological and religious as well as aesthic analyses of literary works; they enable the reconstruction of the dominant categories of poets’ perseption of the world; on their basis the embodiment and metamorphoses of the Cristian code in the poetic text can be elicted.

Thematic Organization of Dialect Speech: Quantitative Analysis

The article is dedicated to the study of thematic organization of the dialect text by the allocation of lexico-thematic groups and their quantitative analysis.

The Status of Modern German in Tomsk Educational Sphere in the Context of Americanization

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the status component of modern German in the educational sphere of the city of Tomsk. Registered decline of this language is determined by the tendencies to Americanization, by the recognition of English as the only foreign language, and by the democratization of cultural and language policy in the post-war Federal Republic of Germany.

Contrast Functioning in Political Discourse Depending on Non-subject Extra-linguistic Factors

The realization of different kinds of contrast and its dependence on non-subject extra-linguistic factors are studied on the basis of famous politicians’ speeches. Three stable statistical dependencies between the functioning of contrast and extra-linguistic factors of space, social activity and the history of society are distinguished. It has been established that the change in quantitative parameters of the latter is inversely related to the complexity of contrast-containing sentences.

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