编号 2(870) (2023)

The article analyses the theoretical foundations underlying the concept of the ‘picture of the world’ in the discourse analysis in French linguistics. The analysis of discourse emphasizes the dependence of the meaning of a word on the subject of communication which leads to the accentuation of the problem of correlation between the cognitive subject and the world and the formation of epistemological concepts, the most important concepts being the subject of the utterance, the cultural conditioning of the utterance, etc. Such concepts require an awareness of the nature of their embeddedness in the problems of linguistics.

The paper deals with the classification of constructed languages (conlangs) proposed by David J. Peterson and its advantages over the typologies of constructed languages developed by modern Russian linguists. The research materials are the classifications of constructed languages proposed by D. Peterson, O. N. Shuvalova and M. Yu. Sidorova, A. Ch. Piperski. The typologies were examined by means of such methods as description, analysis and comparison.

In this study, to determine the degree of development of basic values by an individual, the method of free associative experiment is used. The classification of the associative field of the stimulus word 公正 / justice according to significant parameters of personal meaning and signs of association shows that in the minds of Chinese speakers, a complex of ideologized ideas about justice has been formed, minimally related to personal experience and behavior in society.

The aim of the article is to establish the content of the concept of “Toleranz” in German linguistic culture. The study is based on a comparison of data from lexicographic sources and the results of an associative experiment. The results obtained showed that in the minds of German speakers there is no clear idea about the concept under study, it is perceived by them as an imposed value that has various functions. It is rather a communicative category, which, due to misunderstanding and lack of a precise definition, is criticized by the carriers of linguistic culture.

The article describes verbal and non-verbal assessment tools in the contemporary Chinese blogosphere of a cultural strand. The author points out main assessment tools based on two types of blogs: official cultural institutions blogs and non-official blogs, written by a person or a group of people who share the same interests. The results of the research allowed to discover the main patterns in the use of verbal and non-verbal tools depending on positive and negative assessment in these types of blogs.

The given article presents linguostylistic and intertextual analyses of the detective story by G. K. Chesterton in the context of the verbalization of biblical motifs in the detective text. The motif itself, having symbolic function, usually manifests itself in text through allusions, separate linguistic units, the combination of which produces an indelible effect on readers. One can find more than one motif in the examined text, which are main and secondary, intertwining and complementing each other. Linguostylistic and intertextual analyses employed in the article show the realization of the motif in the text through symbols, allusions, metaphors.

The article outlines the results of a multimodal study into immersive communication. In particular, it aims to establish the type, frequency and contingency of speculative discourse markers on gesture use in two modes of immersive communication, namely with and without a visual stimulus. The analysis has shown significant differences in the distribution of speculative discourse markers and gesture, conditioned by, other than the extent of immersion, an individual’s level of intro/extraversion.

The article discusses some features of the verbal-gestural behavior of men and women when using invective. Analysis of video recordings in the ELAN program revealed differences both in the amount of invective vocabulary used and in the use of gestures simultaneously with invective vocabulary by men and women. It has been established that in the oral narrative, modern young women generally use invective vocabulary more often, while young men tend to use obscene expressions. When using invective vocabulary with gestures, as well as replacing it with non-verbal components, pragmatic gestures are most used.

The article uses the material of the Khalkha-Mongolian language with the involvement of related Buryat and Kalmyk languages to consider morphological and etymological groups of postpositions distinguished on the basis of their origin, namely primitive and postpositions formed from nouns and adjectives. In the course of the analysis eight primitive postpositions and eleven postpositions formed from nouns and adjectives were identified. Examples of the use of individual postpositions in Mongolian literary texts and other sources are given as illustrative material; corpus data are used.

The article studies the structure of the embedded narrative in Akunit’s detective story “Jade Rosary”. It is shown that the symmetry and mirroring of space and time in the plot-compositional structure, associated with the discourses of Chinese and Russian culture, are accepted as narrative strategies to strengthen the author’s position on the harmonious connection of East and West and on the creation of a new Eurasian national identity. The stereotypical thinking about the image of China is manifested in the national discourse. At the same time, influenced by Western detectives and the tradition of Russian literature, Akunin strives for innovations in the narrative model with the creative use of Eastern culture in order to achieve deep resonance from the reader.

The article deals with the problem of preserving ethnic cultures in the conditions of internal diaspora. The material is based on the questionnaire data obtained in two sociolinguistic surveys in the Chuvash and Mari diasporas of the Moscow region. Knowledge concerning ethnic traditions and customs is one of the key markers of respondents’ ethnic identity; however, weak intergenerational language transmission leads to its disappearance in the second generation of the diaspora and, as a consequence, results in a gradual loss of ethnic cultures and ethnic identities of second-generation representatives in the internal diaspora.