№ 4(872) (2023)

This article deals with the problem of the impoverishment of the Italian language and its reflection in contemporary Italian literature. The “Italiano standard” is undergoing a gradual transformation and is shifting towards the neostandard in both oral and written speech. The article highlights the main features of the Italiano neostandard and gives examples of how contemporary literature responds to such linguistic changes. The linguistic material is taken from Italian novels published between 2007 and 2022, as well as from contemporary linguistic studies published in Italy.

The article is devoted to the problem of studying the origins of Russian vernacular. Data of analyzed materials and context from Russian national corpus shows that the concept of “in vernacular” was first recorded in the 17th century, it is understood as a “natural” language, free from the techniques of Western European rhetoric and Greek ornate. In first half of 18th century it is observed about the expansion of the semantics of vernacular: this is not only a rejection of the means of eloquence, but also ordinary Russian folk speech. However, the systematic use of the term will come later - in Lomonosov’s works, and it will be used as a stylistic mark in the Dictionary of the Russian Academy.

The article analyzes the role of the Danish modal particle dog in expressing the speaker’s emotional intentions. Linguistically, these particles are not proper signs of emotions. However, their functional and semantic features contribute to the fact that they affect the listener emotionally in structurally diverse statements, provoking emotions of excitement, surprise or admiration, similar to speech acts of a rhetorical question and exclamation, or emotions of irritation, indignation and impatience, as in imperative speech acts.

Sweden’s transformation into a national state and its strengthening in the medieval period were accompanied by unification of legislation. The Country Law of Christopher (Kristoffers landslag) was actually a mix of innovations, which make the language of these legislative provisions similar to officialese, and traditions used as a readily available and recognizable stylistic device to mark the genre of the text.

In the process of adapting borrowings in the recipient language there may be not only a narrowing or expansion of semantic meaning, but also a connotative shift. Borrowing from English is one of the important sources of neogenesis in modern Korean. The problem of the adaptation of loanwords in Korean is not sufficiently studied in both domestic and foreign linguistics. At the same time, changes of connotation in borrowings has received the least coverage. Therefore, this paper investigates and analyzes the examples of English borrowings with connotative shift.

Digitalization in the field of the humanities is considered as a modern technological process of digital coding and decoding in a certain format of all types of humanitarian information that forms a certain information environment. The study of this environment includes many aspects: semiotic, semantic, emotional, valeological, etc. Special emphasis is given to the development of an iterative model, the analysis of which includes the dynamics of the transformation of the original digital text into a secondary digital intertext and then into a tertiary and n-ary interpretative text at the output of the communicative space, which, in our opinion, preconditions the emergence of an essentially new text; moreover, such a text is transformed with the help of special programs of digital censorship and digital editing into a completely new text. In this regard, we introduce the concept of a digital quasi-text containing transformed network information with elements of sentimentality and toxicity.

The article is a case-study of B. Shaw's “Pygmalion” to illustrate segmentation of dialogue and analyse the realization of Tense-Aspect-Taxis complex as means of forming a drama dialogue. The resulting evidence is that the playwright's choice of TAT-complex in his dramatic method of discussion is indirectly reflected in the language worldview of the time, affected by the respective literary movement.

The article examines complex sentences with subordinate conjunctions expressing anteriority and posteriority in Swedish: efter det att ‘after’, sedan ‘since’, innan ‘before’, tills ‘until’ and förrän (after negation) ‘not until’. Special attention is given to the grammatical semantics of the predicates in the principal and subordinate clauses. The analysis is carried out on the basis of parallel texts drawn from the works of Swedish writers and their translations into Russian, presented in the Russian National Corpus.

The article gives an overview of the basic issues of the public discussion about gender language adequacy in synchrony and diachrony and provides a review of gender adequacy expression means currently applied in the German linguistic and social discourse. Besides, prevailing gender markers’ trends for the German language are estimated for a short run. The conclusion is drawn that prevalence of respective gender markers is varying in accordance with a discourse type.

Existential philosophy focuses on the issue of the uniqueness of human existence. Existentialism in fiction mostly takes the form of reflections on loneliness, human alienation, the authenticity of life and death. Since the 20th century existentialism in Russian literature has echoed a worldwide trend related to ‘’existential anxiety’’, personal loneliness, anxiety, alienation from the world and despair at the imperfection of life. This article reveals existential motifs in A. Bitov’s early work of the 1960s.

The article is devoted to the problem of intercultural dialogue and the problem of understanding in the culturologycal and philosophical aspects. The methods of neoanthropology, which proclaimed an ontological turn in the study of the otherness of the Other, and biosemiotics, which extends the semiosphere beyond not only civilization, but humanity as a whole, are applied to the identification of factors of understanding. The article offers a way of overcoming the dual opposition that polarizes the natural and the cultural, immersing consciousness in rigid categories that prevent an understanding dialogue.