No 8(876) (2023)

The article presents some findings of the research into Mongolian dialects carried out over a century, with a primary focus on their classification, as well as the challenges associated with defining their boundaries. The study offers an analytical study of the statements of leading scientists in this field, including Sh. Luvsanvandan, B.Ya. Vladimirtsov, and N. Poppe and others. Despite the disputes and uncertainty concerning the differentiation of Mongolian dialects, the Khalkha dialect is considered to be the literary norm of modern Mongolian, and its study using modern research methods remains relevant for oriental studies.

The article contains an analysis of the state of modern corpus linguistics in order to identify current trends and prospects for development. For this purpose, an array of scientific publications (230 articles and 50 dissertations) published no earlier than 2019 and devoted to linguistic corpora was collected; then the method of sequential clustering was applied, the results of which were statistically analyzed and subsequently interpreted.

The article discusses the new Social Media verbal aggression identification problem. The authors analyze the verbal and non-verbal content of Telegram Messenger channels disseminating information about events related to the political crisis in Brazil in late 2022 - early 2023 and propose a classification of the means of the verbal aggression as well as approaches to their translation and interpretation. The problem described in the article is of particular importance in the context of the increasing role of the so-called new media and modern informational confrontation and the transformation of information and cognitive space into the operational domains.

Based on the material of the mottos of the Knights of the Crusades era, the article examines the specifics of the coat of arms mottos as a special type of medieval creolized text that combines culturally significant verbal and non-verbal information. Their structure, functions, meaning and role in the surrounding society are considered. The mottos of the military monastic Orders of the Hospitallers, Templars, infirmaries, the Teutonic Order and the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem have been studied as a special phenomenon of the Middle Ages from the standpoint of linguistics and linguoculturology.

The article presents the semiotic foundations of decoding rhetoric, which is the concept of the reconstruction of text formation mechanisms in the focus of evaluating their effectiveness. The key concept of the study is the rhetorical text type as a prototype of an effective text, acting in the semiotic functions of the code and metacode as a decoding tool. The sign situation of decoding rhetoric and its components are described. The metasemiotic nature of text decoding rhetoric is revealed.

The aim of the investigation is to describe the semantics of the structure «remain + past participle» as an aspect modification of the passive construction with the meaning of continuation. The research is performed on the basis of text-corpus data, along with the contrastive analysis applied to the results of preceding studies in English and German. The result of the analysis: several semantic groups of past participle tending to interact with the copula «remain» are established. The urgency of the investigation: aspect copula verbs remain little-studied as operators of the modification of the be-passive.

Deep interrelation between folk music and language is determined by cognitive mechanisms, which are identified indirectly by means of psycholinguistic methods. The study is based on ancient folk songs. The data obtained by perception analysis suggest that Russian musicians should have common mental codes to identify some native, nationally-specific features in the tone movement, as well as to perceive and identify the emotive meanings of native vocal speech.

The article is devoted to the functioning of discursive connectors of close semantics in the French language. The relevance of the analysis is due to the fact that students experience difficulties in their differentiation, without having consistent information about it in scientific and reference materials. The analysis is based on the protocols of the European parliamentary debates; it clarifies the meaning of some connectors and shows the presence of peripheral, contextually conditioned meanings in them, due to which their functional and semantic fields intersect.

The article is dedicated to a recently discovered linguistic phenomenon - the parlache sociolect of the national Colombian variant of the Spanish language. Parlache is considered in synergy with another phenomenon of the modern youth culture of Colombia - the musical genre of reggaeton, the song discourse of which is built on the basis of parlache. The authors analyze the main word-building models of parlache, its sociolectic and discursive functions based on the songs of the Colombian author and performer Maluma.

In this article, the author analyzes the phenomenon of intermediality and its manifestations in the works of the modern French writer Pascal Quignard. The work describes the origins of intermediality in Quignard’s work, as well as various plans of expression of intermediality (the plan of content, the plan of composition, ekphrasis, the plan of philosophical perception). The study also focuses on the concept of ekphrasis, its definition and possible classifications and analyzes examples from the works of this modern French writer. Special attention is also paid to the significance of music for Pascal Quignard and the plots and compositions of his works.

In the article, the author examines the specifics of the formation and development of the Russian and Latin American civilizational identity. After the conducted research, the author comes to the conclusion that in the course of the historical process, both distinctive and similar features were formed in both civilizations. Both civilizations, both Russian and Latin American, may belong to the so-called “borderline types of civilization”, which caused them in certain areas to have similar historical development and future fate.