№ 10(878) (2023)

The paper based on the notes of German-speaking travelers is dedicated to the emotive means of the language, objectifying the emotional reactions of the authors of publications to the events and facts of Russian reality. The analysis revealed language means representing the most frequent emotional reactions (surprise and apprehension); the spheres of their actualization (nature, welfare, lifestyle and behavior of Russians in everyday life). It has been established that the image of a country has a field structure.

The article deals with the ways of linguistic representation of somatisms head, eyes, eyebrows. Using examples from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), the most frequent kinesic utterances are analyzed and the main communicative situations and emotional states in which they are realized are identified. It is assumed that the selected somatisms to a certain extent reflect the non-verbal behavior of representatives of the given ethnic culture. The paper indicates the relevance of this topic and its further in-depth study using a comparative method.

The paper deals with ethnical stereotyping from the point of view of the cognitive linguistics. It analyzes the means of verbalization of social stereotypes about Russians in modern German literary text on the material of “Black and White Novel” by Marion Poschmann. The conclusion about the prevailing negative heterostereotypes in the novel is made.

The process of communication within the cognitive-discursive paradigm is considered as the interaction of various semiotic codes entering the human perceptual system and undergoing cognitive processing. In the Internet space, verbal and visual media texts are aimed at a certain impact on the addressee. The article is an analysis of the advertising multimodal media text in order to identify the means of verbal and nonverbal speech effects, as well as to describe the interaction of semiotic components.

The research under consideration focuses on acute problems of legal consciousness of a Russian lawyer. The authors undertake to compare and analyze legal mindsets of lawyers who have studied a legal language and the appropriate legal system, and their counterparts who are unfamiliar with the foreign legal experience. The authors come to the conclusion that the analysis of foreign legal experience within foreign legal discourse substantially influences the formation of legal consciousness of a Russian lawyer.

One of the ways digital communication is used by the rising generation nowadays is the use of short figurative and yet meaningful communication units called memes. The wide distribution of this communicative means covers almost all language segments of the Internet. The modern German-language segment of the Internet is no exception. The article reflects the features of modern German memetics in relation to their topical content and the type of coding used (monocode and polycode).

Since the 17th century, the French Academy has been the main institution regulating standards of the French language. However, over the past few decades, the conservative position of the Academy came into conflict with the need to reflect the social and economic changes in France. As a result, the French press is positioning itself as a social institution involved in regulating the linguistic norm of the French language. The article proposes to examine the institutionalization of media discourse on the French language on the example of the national daily newspaper Le Figaro, which created a separate column devoted to the French language.

The article examines the phenomenon of political correctness in connection with concepts close to it, the causes and features of the occurrence of this phenomenon in Germany, as well as changes in the lexical system of the German language; some linguistic means and examples of the implementation of political correctness in the German-language media discourse are considered; the range of debatable issues in the field of studying this problem is outlined.

The article deals with certain features of mediators’ questions application. The use of questions is one of mediation methods aimed at promoting a constructive dialogue between the parties along with achieving a mutually satisfactory decision. The article describes different types of questions and the tasks solved by the mediator through questions application as well as the achieved results.

Based on the material of French literature from the Middle Ages to postmodernism, the article traces the stages of the plot-forming interaction of the author’s creative intention, the semantic autonomy of the plot and the reader’s participatory reception. Attention is focused on episodes that testify to the exhaustion of the traditional discourse’s ability to verbalize the ever more complex picture of the world. The principle of mimesis addresses to literature the requirements of variatization of narrative forms that are adequate to the logical structure of the events depicted.

The article presents the result of a content analysis of the representation of the culture of everyday life of Russian Muslims in the social network VKontakte. The author’s definition of the culture of everyday life of Russian Muslims is presented, its main components reflected in the digital space are considered: religious culture, communicative culture, gastronomic culture, fashion and clothing, beauty and health of Muslims.