Vestnik of Moscow State Linguistic University. Humanities

The aim of this article is to examine the lexical and grammatical semantics of words as a common property of native Russian speakers from different age groups (schoolchildren, students, and the elderly) in a comparative synchronic and diachronic manner. A method for analyzing the results of a free association experiment using the “people” stimulus is proposed: 1. Identifying the degree of standardization / variability of associative fields by establishing matching responses. 2. Qualitative and quantitative assessment of associates and establishment of cognitive layers based on the predication operation within the “stimulus → response” relationship. 3. Evaluation of the grammatical connections between the response and the stimulus in each associative field, establishing a trend line within one age group, and stability / variability across different age groups.

The purpose of the study is to provide a theoretical justification and practical demonstration of the possibilities of modeling the internal form of a language (IFL) based on verbal associations. The object of study is speech action, and the subject is modeling the IFL based on the predication between stimulus and response. The theoretical significance of the work is determined by the argumentation of the possibility of modeling the IFL based on verbal associations, which is demonstrated through the analysis of speech actions. The study uses general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, as well as the associative method. VFY as a generalized and structured complex of predications between concepts, as a historically established way of representing concepts in language, is realized in a specific act of predication within a speech act. The feature underlying predication actualizes VFY.

Based on the speech act theory of J. Austin and J. Searle, this article employs a quantitative-qualitative method to analyze the utterances of addressers in invitation speech acts in Russian and Chinese, using data from the RNC and BCC. The aim of the study is to identify the similarities and differences in the structure and realization strategies of invitation speech acts in Russian and Chinese, along with an analysis of their underlying causes. The findings reveal that in Chinese, the initiating part reflects social hierarchy, whereas in Russian it reflects age / kinship; the supportive part in Russian emphasizes logic, while in Chinese it highlights emotion; and the key part is standardized in Russian but more variable in Chinese. The cultural characteristics of the two ethnic groups are unveiled: Russian culture values directness, while Chinese culture prioritizes indirectness and face-saving. The research holds practical significance for intercultural communication.

The study addresses the problem of pragmatic adaptation observed in the construal of academic knowledge in media discourse. It’s aim is to explore the construal and pragmatization of academic knowledge within a cognitive-discursive framework, and to further identify the pragmatic strategies of adapting the semantic structure and stance in an academic article to a longread. Featuring the distribution of semantic roles and stance types in the article and the longread, the study reveals two pragmatic strategies of intensification and mitigation appearing in the differences found in the distribution of roles and stance markers. The results show the prevalence in intensification strategies attributed to agency, spatial construal, higher probability of events in the construal of academic knowledge in the longread.

The paper describes the problems of interpretation and terminological nomination of the abbreviated component of compound words. The purpose of the work is to substantiate the definition of this unit as an abbroconstruct. Alternative concepts of verbal (as an analytical adjective) and morphemic (as an acromorpheme and an affixoid) interpretation of it are considered. The presence of both morphemic (reproducibility, status of a part of a word) and verbal (lexemic meaning, confirmed by its substitution of a word during univerbalization and expansion into a word during pseudo-univerbalization) features in the abbreviated component of an compound word is established, which does not allow it to be identified with either a morpheme or a word. It is proposed to use the neutral term “abbroconstruct”, indicating only the structural characteristic of this unit.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the functions of different idioms in formal and informal communication in the Republic of Belarus in the youngest cohort of respondents aged 20 to 40 using semi-structured interviews. The study showed that Russian is the dominant means of communication. The literary Belarusian language was most often used by the respondents in the domain of education. In the family domain there is an increase in the proportion of respondents who use Russian, as well as those who use literary Belarusian in their own families, compared with their parent families. Local dialects and a mixed variant of Russian and Belarusian are also used in formal and informal communication.

The aim of the research is to reveal the frame structures of precedent background phenomena within English and Russian linguocultures. The methodological framework employs cognitive-discursive, intertextual and contrastive analysis of corpus data from the Russian National Corpus and English Corpora. The study reveals that the biblical phraseological units exhibit a dialectical unity of stable conceptual cores and variable peripheral elements, which ensures their discursive adaptability. The corpus analysis revealed a tendency of biblical phraseological units to retain their religious and historical connotations in English, in contrast to the prevalence of their metaphorical reinterpretation in Russian. This variation is explained by the differences in the historical trajectory of the Bible within the given linguocultures.

The study examines the role of symmetry as a harmonizing principle in the Silver Age poetic texts’ composition. The research material is N.S. Gumilev’s poem “I have experienced a lot of tough work in my life”. The author used interpretive, linguistic argumentative, and mathematical research methods. The study concludes that symmetry in poetic texts can be detected through mathematical analysis, and its function is to emphasize the climactic elements of a work and develop the author’s intent at the structural and compositional level.

The purpose of the study is to consider religious metaphor in media texts as a means of expressing the code of Russian culture and a tool for consolidating and mobilizing the audience in the context of information warfare. The following research methods were chosen: critical discourse analysis (socio-cultural approach), conceptual analysis, elements of quantitative processing of the material. The research material was made up of media texts from the Telegram-channels “Archangel spetsnaza,” “Sladkov+,” “Kotsnews,” “Wargonzo,” “Operatsiya Z: Voenkory russkoj vesny,” “Siniaia Z Boroda.” As a result of the analysis of religious metaphors, it was revealed that they actualize binary axiological oppositions in the collective unconscious, form images of “friends” and “strangers,” and have the greatest impact on the addressee.