Nº 3(871) (2023)

The article examines the peculiarities of multi-word expressions (polirematiche) in the contemporary Italian language. The author considers characteristic semantic, structural and functional properties of multiword expressions and the criteria for their distinction from similar linguistic units (composite words, collocations, phraseologisms). The article goes on to characterise major factors of productivity of phrasemic word-formation in the Italian language. The research is based on summary of most recent relevant literature in the Italian linguists.

The article looks into notional agreement and suggests a revised understanding of compositionality as a semantic dominant of the noun-subject in grammatical clauses - representatives of notional agreement. To justify homonymy in some groups of compositional nouns, semantic, contextual and conceptual methods of analysis are employed. The relevance of the study is determined by the lack of consistency and completeness in the present-day grammatical descriptions available.

Against the background of widespread digitalization, the influence of the political online media discourse that exists on various blog platforms is increasing. Publications in the accounts of political and public figures serve as a source of information and a tool for manipulating public opinion. The subjective authorial modality of political media discourse in blog posts is realized by a variety of syntactic means, the need to study which is obvious considering the growing influence of political media communication on political processes.

The article uses examples from American newspapers to show that the vocabulary of the language is replenished with new words that are used in the media and advertising, in the speech of politicians and public figures. Some new lexical units from the mass media of the United States of America are considered and the ways of their formation are revealed, while all examples are taken from various newspaper thematic groups. The most frequent ways of forming new words are abbreviation, contamination, word composition, word combination.

The functioning of the French lexemes en fait, de fait, en effet and effectivement in the initial position between two independent sentences is considered. It is revealed that the listed units act as analogues of the coordinating conjunctions car and mais. A tendency has been established to use the more frequent units en effet and en fait to denote predominantly causal relations, the less frequent units de fait and effectivement to indicate the adversative relations.

The article deals with characteristic features of expressive ethnic nomination in the Spanish language, based on its Iberian and Mexican national variants. It carries out a linguistic and cultural analysis of hetero-images associated with naming the US residents and Spaniards by Mexicans. The article concludes that the development of semantics and evaluative connotations in the studied units directly depends on ethnic stereotypes formed in the course of relationship between the countries in history.

The article is devoted to the study of sound repetition in artistic style texts. The main models of this type of duplication are highlighted, the multidimensional functions performed by it in the discourse of a work of art are considered. Methodologically, the study is based on a comprehensive approach, including the method of linguistic observation and description, the actual material for which was the texts of the artistic style of the modern Russian literary language, containing the facts of sound repetition.

The article deals with the situation of triglossia in Luxembourg. It providees a brief historical review which helps trace the emergence of multiculturalism and multilingualism in Luxembourg. The article gives a short etymological analysis of the words “Luxembourg” and “Luxembourgish”, considers the language status of the three official languages in Luxembourg within the functional spectrum, lists the main linguistic features of Luxembourgish within vocalism and consonantism.

The article seeks to present a variety of event frame build around the concept “state” as a cognitive schema of metaphorisation. The metaphoric schema is presumably a cross-domain mapping where relations between the source domain and the target domain are treated as specific event metaphors which inherit main features of abstract metaphors. Data of concept-based source domain are given as realized in resultative and non-resultative grammatical constructions.

The author traces the transformation of the image of the county doctor in the works of A. P. Chekhov, analyzes its causes. The purpose of the study is to characterize the personality qualities that the writer pays attention to while creating the image of a doctor. The work uses systematic, descriptive, comparative, cultural and historical methods of analysis. The material for the study was the stories «Ionich», «Belated Flowers», as well as the plays «Uncle Vanya» and «Three Sisters», in which the images of degrading doctors are comprehensively revealed. The characters-doctors in the analyzed works are characterized by: striving for material values, hypocrisy, selfishness, passivity, professional burnout, etc.

The article is devoted to one of the most significant Late Renaissance and Early Baroque tombstones in Swedish Estland - the tombstone of Pontus Delagardi. The article focuses on the epitaph text placed on the sarcophagus of Delagardi. Lexical and syntactic allusions introduced into it by the author allow us to speak of it as a Renaissance anthology of a number of mainly ancient texts, whose composition is determined by the author’s intention. The epitaph text of Pontus Delagardi, in turn, becomes the subject of anthologizing, significant in the context of the historiographical actualization in Sweden of the mid-second half of the 17th century of the idea of the Swedish Empire and the role of the Delagardi family in its formation and strengthening (historiographical works of Cl. Arrhenius, J. Widekindi).