The article is based on an extract from a short novel «The Night Before Christmas», which was Gogol’s first work of fiction featuring the image of Saint Petersburg.The city is shown through perception of Vakula the locksmith, an inhabitant of Dikanka, and it appears that the aspects of the image are shaped entirely by the […]
Polyakov O.Yu., Shubin K.I. The Image of England in J. Lyttleton’s Series of Essays “Letters from a Persian in England to his friend at Ispahan”
The article is devoted to an imagological analysis of the series of essays by J. Lyttleton “Letters from a Persian in England to his friend at Ispahan” (1735), which presents a meta-image of the 18th century England. The conceptual element of Lyttleton’s essay is the technique of “defamiliarization,” a narration from the perspective of a […]
Shilova E.A. Tourism discourse in the era of global digitalization
The article is devoted to the description of constitutive features of tourism discourse as a type of institutional discourse. The choice of the topic can be justified by the wide use of tourism discourse, its evident importance in the life of modern society and the need to analyze this discourse with consideration of dynamically changing […]
Romanov А.А., Romanova L.А. Pragmalinguistic reasons of constructing fake reality
The study is devoted to the analysis of the pragmatic basis of constructing fake reality and its components in the form of standard fake manifestations. The aim of the work is to identify the differential features and properties of typical manifestations of fake messages, allowing to identify such messages as false, fraudulent and containing unreliable […]
Malysheva E.V. Political memetics of network interaction: from chaotic to regulative
The article considers the political memetics of network interaction. The author notes that political memes in the information and communicative field are a popular format of interaction, allowing to respond quickly enough to political events or “agenda” translating a certain assessment of a specific action in the form of a visual picture or a linguistic […]
Malygin V.T. Is an adequate translation possible poetic text? (using the example of J.W. Goethe’s poem “Willkommen und Abschied” translated by N. Zabolotsky “Date and Separation”)
The object of study in the article is N. Zabolotsky’s translation of a poem by I.V. Goethe “Willkommen und Abschied” into Russian. A comparative analysis of both texts showed that an adequate translation of a poetic text, despite its complexity, is possible when the translator does not translate the text itself, but the reality that […]
Krasina E.A., Novospasskaya N.V., Perfilieva N.V. Linguistic Systemology: Principles, Notions and Terminology of Prof. G.P. Mel’nikov’s Systemic Typology
By the end of the 20th century the complex-systemic methodology and determinant analysis have been elaborated by the RUDN Prof. G.P. Mel’nikov who proposed a new wholly-systemic classification of languages, so to say, “a typology of typologies”. In its core, it’s the complex content-structural typology of languages based on systemology and determinant analysis. Its main […]
Ikonnikova V.A., Mezentsova A.D. Creating glossaries of emerging terminology: the experience of the MGIMO L&CCC Linguistic Laboratory
The report studies characteristic features and contexts in which relevant “current crisis terminology” not fixed in dictionaries is used. The research is based on the new thematic Russian and English terminologies as well as on the theory of terminologicalsign. Peculiarities of well-formed terminological systems and developing terminologies are stated. The authors describe the process of […]
Grishaeva L.I. How informative is the choice of communicative tools and methods of solving communicative tasks for linguists?
The article is devoted to the search for answers to the question of the reasons for the variability in the native speakers’ choice of means and methods for solving specific communicative and cognitive tasks. With this question in mind, the respondents' answers evaluating the degree of their understanding of expressions that the author of the […]
Golovanova E.I. Semantic development of words in languages for special purposes (based on the material of adjectives-coloronyms)
The article is devoted to the analysis of changes in the semantics of adjectives involved in the conceptualization of scientific and professional knowledge. The author focuses on the secondary meanings of adjectives related to coloronyms (white, black, blue, gray, red, green) in languages for special purposes. The commonality of the meanings of these adjectives in […]
Galyuchenko A.S. Semantic features of English terms in Russian-language job vacancy texts for lawyers
The relevance of the issues considered in the article is connected with the urgency to comply with the new language policy of the Russian Federation, the objective of which is to reduce the use of anglicisms in the Russian. The aim of the study is to examine the features of semantics of anglicized terms and […]
Vansyatskaya E.A. Boys’ psycho-physiological reactions and their expression in literary text (based on works for children in Russian)
The article discusses linguistic nominations of psycho-physiological reactions, which are markers of emotions in non-verbal behavior. Psycho-physiological reactions are reflexive in nature and are designed to protect a person from various dangers. It is emphasized that the stronger the emotion experienced, the stronger it manifests itself at the physiological level. Examples with the most frequent […]
Tyutelova L.G. Chekhov's code in the early dramaturgy of E. Chirikov
Using the example of the features analysis of E.N. Chirikov's play “Ivan Mironich”, the paper solves the problem of the “new drama” development in Russia afterA.P. Chekhov. The Chekhov code is chosen as a tool for analyzing the work due to the importance for the formation of Chirikov (as the playwright) of his meeting Chekhov […]
Taganov A.N. How P.V. Korvin-Krukovsky and A. Dumas-son “rewrote” A.N. Ostrovsky in France
The article examines the currently relevant problem of reception and interaction of various national cultures. In this connection, the plays “The Danishevs”, written by P.V. Korvin-Krukovsky together with A. Dumas-son, and “The Foster Child” by A.N. Ostrovsky are compared. In the process of reviewing these texts, a new factual material is introduced into scientific use, […]