No 10(891) (2024)

The article is dedicated to the study of linguocultural and linguopragmatic aspects of the Orthodox Christian comedic discourse. The article defines the concept of “Orthodox Christian comedic discourse”, and identifies the criteria for its classification. The linguocultural aspect of Orthodox Christian comedic discourse is illustrated by establishing and describing its main linguocultural archetypes elder, father, grandmother, etc. The linguopragmatic aspect of Orthodox Christian comedic discourse is based on the analysis of verbal and creolized texts (Internet memes and videos).

The article examines typical ways for the modern German language to express prepositive attributives to determinative compounds formed according to the “noun + noun” model, which is the most common way to expand the vocabulary of the German language and forms a single whole in combination with prepositive attributives. The structure, functions, and meaning of prepositive attributives are analyzed, and their significance for the expressive and semantic aspects of the text is noted.

The article examines the features of the notion "legenda" of French-language geographical maps of the 16th century using the example of André Thevet’s maps. The textual and symbolic elements of the maps are analyzed, and the specifics of their linguistic and cultural content are revealed. The author uses the method of observation and contextual analysis to show how the geographical and sociocultural ideas of the era are manifested through the legenda of maps. The main conclusions underline the role of Thevet’s maps as sources of linguocultural data that reveal the mentality and perception of the world in France in the 16th century.

The article is devoted to the comparison of the associative fields страх / fear / Angst based on the material of associative experiments conducted in 2023. The purpose of the article is to study fragments of Russian, German and American linguocultures on the example of the concepts страх / fear / Angst. An associative experiment was used as the main research method; the respondents were Russian, German and American students of 18-25 years old.

The purpose of the article is to analyze comments of an aggressive nature from the point of view of the emoji used in them taking into account both the context of such a comment and its social and public significance as well as the potential resonance that it can create in society. The relevance and novelty of the article are due to the fact that the sphere of emoji is not often found in linguistic research today, however, since from the standpoint of semiotics, a “smiley” is a sign containing certain linguopragmatic information, this sphere certainly generates interest for its further research.

The article sets out to analyze the story "A Day’s Wait" by E. Hemingway to show that from a linguistic perspective, the so-called in literary criticism Iceberg story structure can be viewed as a textual opposition based on the contrast between the verbalized central event and a character’s hidden emotions about it. Methods of structural and narrative analysis applied to the narrator’s inner monologue, and contextual analysis applied to the dialogues, serve to reconstruct the inner fear that the main character experiences as a result of his illness. It is stressed that interpretation of literary works with the Iceberg structure involves the hermeneutic circle approach.

The article is dedicated to the study of metaphorical ekphrasis in Victor Pelevin's novel “Journey to Eleusis”. Metaphorical ekphrasis is understood as a type of description in which metaphor plays a key role in creating a visual image and organizing the ekphrastic narrative. The research found that the fundamental conceptual metaphors of the novel are “life is a journey” and “life is a story”. By integrating these metaphors into a multi-layered narrative, Pelevin addresses the problem of self-identity in a world of human-AI interaction.

The paper presents biological background, theoretical considerations, algorithms and a brief description of a prototype system for integrating knowledge in text format. The purpose of the system is to create an environment for storing public knowledge that does not require rescaling caused by an increase in the volume of stored information and changes in its structure due to the dynamics of knowledge development, that is, the disappearance of old sections and the appearance of new ones. The system is represented as a hypertext and includes, in addition to the source texts, also a semantic network that characterizes the content of these texts.

The article focuses on identifying the lexemes representing the binary conceptual opposition “government - people” as a tool of speech influence in English- and German- language political discourse. The presented quantitative analysis of lexical units was undertaken using the LancsBox corpus manager. The significance of the results is seen in the possibility of increasing the effectiveness of linguistic measures aimed at counteracting the manipulative speech influence in political discourse.

The article summarizes different views on the term «autofiction» from its first mention in 1977 to the present. The history, social and cultural reasons for the emergence of autofiction are presented. Scientific approaches to the study of autofiction as a modern literary and philosophical phenomenon, as well as its manifestation as a general cultural practice reflecting problems of self-identification, are highlighted.

The article is devoted to the study of the work of S. Mamontov, whose 100th anniversary falls in 2023. The domestic scientist was one of the first founders of cultural studies as a science in Russia in the 90s of the twentieth century. The works by S. Mamontov propose approaches to the study of the uniqueness of the culture of peoples, and also trace the tradition of turning to the spiritual foundations of culture, which is significant for Russian philosophical thought.