The paper explores the history of research dedicated to maps of Ancient Mesopotamia based primarily on publications of Western scholars of the 20th—21st centuries. The focus is given to studies that bear particular importance for the historiography and help to obtain an adequate understanding of the development of the field of topographic and cosmogonic maps […]
Simonenko E.S. Adaptation of disabled soldiers to civil life in Canada during the First World War (based on materials of the canadian press)
The paper is devoted to the study of government policy in the field of adaptation of disabled military personnel to the conditions of civilian life in Canada duringthe First World War. The article establishes a list of federal and provincial organizations created to develop and implement a comprehensive program for the rehabilitation of military invalids; […]
Luttseva M.V. Features of English legal terminology in a literary text (based on the works of J. Grisham)
The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of usage of legal terms in unusual types of discourse. The scientific novelty of the research is seen in the specification of the functions that perform the units of special nomination used in a literary text. The research is based on the books of modern […]
Babayan V.N., Maltseva M.V. The use of the rhetorical structure theory method and the method of explication in song discourse translation
The interpretation of discourse aims at creating a mechanism that combines all significant elements of the text into a single explanatory structure. In this study, discourse is considered as a set of logical-semantical relations that can be described using a metalanguage. The purpose of the study is an attempt to prove that the automatization of […]
Gorelov O.S. The poetics of birdwatching (preliminary remarks)
The article examines the socio-cultural phenomenon of amateur birdwatching as a poetic-generating structure of a new type of artistic writing and reading practice.The definition of the general features of the literary (primarily poetic) birdwatching optics is based on a comparison with other related optics and types of poets, who take birds into account as a […]
Kashulina E.V. The peculiarities of transformation of “1984” by G. Orwell in the graphic novels by French graphic novel artists
The article discusses two graphic adaptations of the novel “1984”, proposed by the French illustrators and published in 2021. The reasons for the appeal to the classical text in the context of mass culture are investigated and the main types of text transformation in the comic versions of the novel are revealed. A comparative analysis […]
Tyuleneva Е.М. The phenomenon of plastic thinking of a writer-artist: “image of image” in the structure of B. Dyshlenko’s literary text
The article continues a series of the author's studies related to the research of a special type of visual thinking of a writer who is also an artist with direct artistic practice. It is proposed to define this type of thinking as plastic, by analogy with plastic art, emphasizing the characteristic type of work with […]
Poluektova T.A. Women and photography in the Victorian Era (based on the novel “The Romance of a Shop” by Amy Levy)
The article analyzes the sociocultural reality of Victorian England associated with the phenomenon of photography as a new medium and the type of a “new woman”. Both publicistic and fiction style sources are used as research material. Anna Atkins, Julia Cameron, Clementinа Hawarden and others contributed to cultural history not only as the first English […]
Kapustin N.V. On semantic reiterations in Gogol’s prose: from “Evenings…” to “Petersburg Tales”
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 […]