10.00.00 Philological sciences
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THE IMAGE OF AN 'ORDINARY' MAN IN THE NOVEL "THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES" BY ROBERT MUSIL
10.00.00 Philological sciences
DescriptionThe article analyzes the image of the average man opposed in the novel to the protagonist Ulrich, whose otherness is reflected in the title of the novel by R. Musil "The Man Without Qualities"
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THE MOTIVE STRUCTURE OF THE PLAY “AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY” BY TR. LETTS
10.00.00 Philological sciences
DescriptionThe analysis of the motive structure’s features in the play “August: Osage County” by a modern American writer Tr. Letts has been reviewed in this article. His drama is based on a compound of mass and elite, a playing and a moral. It allows to avoid the text’s tendentiousness and to keep the content. In the play “August: Osage County” Tr. Letts examines the family theme, which is very important for the American culture. The author reviews the destruction of family relationships as a sign of the society’s moral crisis. The main topic has been realized via motives (escapism, freedom, death, and incest), they create the semantic frame of the play and unite separate episodes of the plot’s development. The motives become special tools of the characters’ psychological analysis and are an explanation of the feelings’ contradictory. The image of the house has a special meaning. It’s the symbol of the human disunity and a destruction of the family relations. As a result the synthesis of the motives, symbolism, intertextuality, multilayer has been viewed as a particular tool of the author’s opinion realization and the philosophical implication’s creation
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10.00.00 Philological sciences
DescriptionThe article analyzes the novel «Pasternak» by Mikhail Elizarov and Alexander Prokhanov’s «Ship «Joseph Brodsky»» in the view of distinctive «signs» of Russian culture functioning in them. Therefore, the work of the writers - Nobel Prize winners is a kind of prism for modern prose writers through which the major questions for Russian history are considered: the people and the intellectuals, social justice, national idea, religion and statehood. The main topics are implemented through the number of reasons, the main of which are the motives of the blood and salvation (the Savior on Spilled Blood), controversially allowing philosophical problem of redemption of the depravity of existence. Social issues are stated through allusion layer: references to Dostoevsky's novels, Radishchev’s «Journey from Petersburg to Moscow», Nekrasov's poem «Who lives Happy in Russia». With the theme of redemption organically linked theme of man's salvation, which Prokhanov and Elizarov’s characters decide on their own. So different view of the world and creative aspirations of the authors are unified by their desire to capture their era, its reversal of fortune and historical faults in which the Great Russian literature has always played a significant role
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STRUCTURAL-SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF GERMAN COLLOQUIAL VERBAL UNITS WITH THE VERBAL PARTICLE AUF
10.00.00 Philological sciences
DescriptionThe article presents the results of a complex structural-semantic analysis of colloquial verbal units with the auf-component including semantic classification of the derivational stems, the description of semantics of a verbal component as a part of colloquial verbal units, consideration of the features of word-formation motivation of the analyzed verbal units, and also the classification of the considered verbal units based on semantic of word-formation models
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DEFINITIONAL PROBLEM OF FORMATION OF THE “MUSLIM WORLD” CONCEPT
10.00.00 Philological sciences
DescriptionThe peculiarities of representation of the concept “Muslim World” in modern English discourse are regarded in this article. Based on the achievements of cognitive linguistics and cultural linguistics, it is possible to research the concept of “Muslim World” as a phenomenon of the English linguistic culture. Different approaches to the definition of the term “concept” are studied. The article describes definitional analysis of lexical items “Muslim” and “World” in modern English dictionaries. Based on these results, it is concluded dictionaries present the term “Muslim”, first of all, as a human - a follower of a particular religion. We can say the concept “Muslim world” is presented in the social and conceptual knowledge as one of the manifestations of the human world and is used in relation to the reality of cultural and historical unity of the Islamic nation. This concept serves as an image of reality in the system theory of knowledge. The further studying of the Islamic world, as definition is possible to make with the mutual enrichment of the social reality of other peoples. “Muslim world” in accordance with the principle of universal connection of phenomena reveals its potential in the modern world and it becomes possible to establish relationship between people, nature and society, as well as their mutual influence on each other
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THE POETICS OF QUESTIONS IN THE NOVEL “WOMAN FROM ANDROS” BY THORNTON WILDER
10.00.00 Philological sciences
DescriptionThis 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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NEOLOGISMS IN CHILD'S SPEECH CAUSED BY THE DISSEMINATION OF VIDEOS
10.00.00 Philological sciences
DescriptionThe 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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10.00.00 Philological sciences
DescriptionThe article describes the characteristic features of British political discourse, its historical development and the formation and characteristics of the British sense of humor. We noted that political humor reflects the mood and attitude of trends in politics. Political discourse has been viewed as socially-oriented communication, which is in the nature of persuasive and compelling communication, dominated by the imperative type of speech, which, in turn, creates preconditions for the implementation of the comic. We have defined defamatory, socially critical, and harmonizing functions. Special attention is paid to the role of the addressee, as the factor, which determines the political communication's aim. We have observed that British politicians use humor carefully so as not to provoke their opponents and dissenters in mocking their use of humor or turning their statements against themselves. The article contains the analysis of illustrative material consisting of quotations of the British political and public figures. English humor can be studied from the point of view of transformational grammar, in which case the jokes are divided into prosaic and poetic ones. Prosaic jokes are based on social and cultural situations, human interactions. Poetical jokes are based on grammatical forms and their irregular usage
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LEGISLATIVE DEFINITIONS IN LAW DISCOURSE-TEXT UNIVERSE
10.00.00 Philological sciences
DescriptionThe article is devoted to the analysis of law definitions and its influence on law discourse-text universe. Linguistics can interfere into jurisprudence by introduction of mini-dictionary into the text of the law. Law is a mixture of legal norms and regulations plus philological pearl – thesaurus. It is not only reasonable but necessary to adopt definition to the body of law, because the meaning of the term can vary depending on goals and aims of the law. The legislation of the Krasnodar territory is analyzed in the article in the philological aspect. The choice of examined laws is proved not only because of the agrarian component of the region but also because of the presence of powerful base of tourist-recreational services. In the article there is regional evidential material. The exact actual laws are depicted, philological assessment of their language and legislative importance is given, it is mentioned that conceptual instrument is present in main normative acts. The problem of methodological basis is actualized. In the research the contrastive analysis of similar laws of the Krasnodar territory, Great Britain and southern states of the USA in discourse-text universe is conducted. The conclusions can determine the processes of language interference in today’s changeable picture of the world
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ARTISTIC PROSE OF OLGA SLAVNIKOVA IN THE CONTEXT OF NOWADAY LITERARY PROCESS
10.00.00 Philological sciences
DescriptionThe article analyzes the literary prose by Olga Slavnikova in the context of the literature of the late XX – early XXI centuries. The work of the writer is poorly investigated; the study of it is presented in modern literature only in the form of reviews and analysis of some of the concepts and motives. Scientific paper actualizes the problem of artistic method in the works of the writer. It is difficult to classify into one particular artistic method the work of many modern writers. The installations of several trends intersect in works some of them, even contradictory sometimes. Creativity by Olga Slavnikova isn’t exception in this series. At all levels of her prose, we have revealed various aspects that characterize the work of Slavnikova from the point of view of postmodernism, magical realism and women's prose. Categories of Death and Emptiness, the idea is the signified of existence and the illusory nature of the real are purely postmodernist, from the point of view of magical realism examines the images of metaphysical beings and the other world, also mentions personal and psychological motives as an art installation of women’s prose. Furthermore, with a postmodern understanding of reality realistic psychology characterized for all works, some constants of postmodernism are revealed using style settings of magical realism