10.00.00 Philological sciences
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THE POETICS OF QUESTIONS IN THE NOVEL “WOMAN FROM ANDROS” BY THORNTON WILDER
10.00.00 Philological sciences
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This article considers the knowledge of the truth in the novel of the American classic of the XX century Thornton Wilder. From our point of view, one of the ways of an implementation is the existential form of a rhetorical question. They were asked by all characters of the novel and for some of these questions the archetype of the searcher which was formed in the Medieval legends is guessed. Findings of this article offer to put the question about the nature of the genre of Th. Wilder’s novels in a new way
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LEXICAL PHRASEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH BUSINESS LETTERS
10.00.00 Philological sciences
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The development of international cooperation has promoted the updating of problems connected with business communication effectiveness. These problems are very crucial, because their solution may predetermine the collaboration success of business partners. The integral part of this success is the efficiency of the exchange of textual information. Nowadays the main information exchange method in modern business relations is business correspondence in English; therefore, its research makes an important contribution to the solution of the pressing problem connected with the achievement of some goals in business. In the article, we analyze both general and specific linguistic features of English business letters, which differ them from texts of other fields of human activity. A special attention is paid to the question of the content and presence degree of lexicological and phraseological units in English business letters. In the end the author comes to the conclusion that business communication is considered effective if it contributes to the mutual understanding of partners with the help of the most optimal means. The analysis of practical material showed that these means could be lexicological and phraseological units. The correct choice of these units helps with the formation of those features of a business letter, which would make it effective
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PECULIARITY OF DOPPELGANGER MOTIVE IN “THE STORY OF MR SOMMER” BY P. SÜSKINDIS
10.00.00 Philological sciences
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In this article named “The Story of Mr. Sommer” written by P. Süskindis we have analyzed the subject of space and time categories interaction with the image of the main character. The image of Mr. Sommer is considered as a symbol of the passing of time. One more function of this image is underlined: that is a doppelganger issue. New attitude towards art images’ correlation is suggested, their interaction and binarity is underlined
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NEOLOGISMS IN CHILD'S SPEECH CAUSED BY THE DISSEMINATION OF VIDEOS
10.00.00 Philological sciences
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The article studies words and set expressions of children's speech appearance of which are directly linked to the dissemination of movies in the late 1980s in the Soviet Union. These words and set expressions are analyzed on the basis of the material collected by the author for «The Dictionary of Soviet Childhood» being prepared for printing. As a result of exposure to foreign video products, some new expressions and words entered children's speech and have become an important part of the linguistic landscape of the Soviet childhood. Many of them have been stored in conversations so far: invective vocabulary, translation loanwords, barbarisms, exotic vocabulary, proper names. Many words have developed new meanings and become part of new Russian lexical sets. These neologisms in vocabulary are reflected in children's folklore; some of them have become part of the literary language and have been fixed in modern dictionaries of the Russian language. Many of them are still used in Russian informal speech. The author gives examples of the use of these lexical units in fiction and publicist texts paying attention to their semantic, phonetic, spelling and grammatical features
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FRENCH PRESS THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE LANGUAGE MEANS OF EXPRESSION
10.00.00 Philological sciences
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The article presents an analysis of French press through the prism of its language. There is the characteristic of political newspaper communication. A dialogic interaction was elicited among the components of the political newspaper discourse. It is determined, that the formation of the amount of political information happens simultaneously with the formation of the text with the help of lexical units with ameliorative or pejorative connotation that give positive or negative evaluation to the information performed. We have confirmed, that the Mass Media language covering socio-political issues is characterized by the usage of evaluative lexical units, i.e. the words that combine both substantive and evaluation meanings. Lexical, syntactic and stylistic significance of politically oriented newspaper texts is described. We have also proved that any language phenomenon can become a mean of ideological struggle and a strong method of exposure on the audience for the communicator. The presented analysis of the language material of the political newspaper text makes prominent contribution into the studies of the language personality of the communicator (journalist) and also provides material for further generalization and systematization of the knowledge about coding and decryption of the newspaper text with political content through the prism of its language
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ABOUT 'CHORON' - YAKUT ETHNOGRAPHIC REALITY
10.00.00 Philological sciences
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In the article, we reveal the linguistic and culturological value of the best-known and popular reality of traditional culture of the yakut people called сhoron. It exposed the value of choron in spiritual consciousness of people as the ethno cultural phenomenon, it resulted the interpretation of the wellknown names of choron varieties and names of some patterns
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10.00.00 Philological sciences
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Contemporary linguistics and discoursology regard means of author’s position expression to be an important part of a science. However, it should be stated that this aspect “author’s position expression” in scientific discourse has not been described in details. This article researches different lexical means of author’s position expression, actualized in different types of discourse: scientific science (based on geological texts). According to quantitative and qualitative data analysis of English and Russian texts, means of author’s position expression depend on directly on functional characteristics of the discourse itself and proper usage of them indicates and the cultural background of the author. Comparing English and Russian texts, the following was revealed: Russian authors pertain to (a) be reserve in expressing his/her own opinion; (b) employ impersonal constructions abundantly; (c) resort to the minimum use of those words expressing his/her personal opinion; (d) overload other author’s citations; and (e) use such follow-up lexical means that encourage the reader to understand the author’s conceptions or notions. The English corpus analysis showed that the authors, comparable to the Russian ones, are more explicit in expressing one’s opinions through pronouns, such as “I” and “we». In this case, the author’s position expression is less straightforward and more “shaded”. Due to the well-defined structure of English scientific texts the authors exclude the possible duplication of one’s opinions by expressing the author’s position on the issue discussed in the article both in the explicit and implicit ways
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THE CHARACTERISTICS OF LOVE COMMUNICATION AND GENRE GENESIS RESEARCH TOPOS
10.00.00 Philological sciences
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The article considers the definition of love communication. In addition, the specific features analysis of love communication is carried out. The article deals with communication genres and differences in content
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A MODEL OF THE CONFLICT LINGUISTIC PERSONALITY IN EVERYDAY CONFLICT DISCOURSE
10.00.00 Philological sciences
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The aim of the study is to describe the concept of conflict linguistic personality and construct a model of linguistic identity. By summing up common features of the individual personalities we have created the model of conflict linguistic personality, based on three levels: verbal-semantic, cognitive and pragmatic. 1. Verbal - semantic level. Unlike other subtypes of conflict discourse, everyday conflict discourse is characterized by slang, invective, obscene vocabulary. Another feature of everyday conflict discourse is familiarity. Imperatives are also among the characteristic features of conflict. There are also some non-verbal components that play an important role in constructing the model of conflict linguistic personality, such as gestures and mimicry. 2. Cognitive level. Typical conflict linguistic personality rarely tries to mince the words at the peak of the conflict, so his/her cultural level comes "through the language." 3. Pragmatic level. On this level diverse and even opposing tactics are possible depending on the purpose of conflict linguistic personality, as well as his/her social role and psychological state at the moment. The cooperative tactics include: acceptance, conviction, compassion, assignment, promise, etc. Noncooperative tactics include: mockery, accusation, insults, threats, pressure, interruption, provocation
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PRINCIPLES OF REGIONAL COMPONENT USE AT ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES IN NON- LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITIES
10.00.00 Philological sciences
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This article is dedicated to the necessity of the local material use at English language classes in nonlinguistic universities, which is caused by Kuban development in the frame of the Russian Federation and on the international level. For the proper realization of the Kuban component, some methodical principles are recommended which define the contents of this material at English classes in non-linguistic universities and facilitate its correct realization in class. General didactic and special principles in connection with Kuban realties are shown and they make the process of regional material studies effective and methodically correct, define its contents in accordance with the program demands to English in non-linguistic universities
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