No 7(875) (2023)

The article analyses the role of stylistic devices and expressive means of the language in the self presentation of the interviewed celebrity in media interview excluding the interviewer’s position. The research is based on the celebrity interview with Elon Musk published in the New York Times 25/07/2020. The analysis is carried out in accordance with linguopragmatic approach.

The research problem is to establish the typological differences between the Chinese and Russian languages. Research methods: comparative method, methods of linguistic description, analysis and synthesis, methods of abstraction and generalization. The material of the study was theoretical works in the field of typology, as well as speech material from the corpora of Chinese and Russian languages. As a result, typological differences were established between these languages in functional, structural and quantitative aspects.

The purpose of the article is to clarify communicative, persuasive and suggestive peculiarities of a political discourse in the conditions of an information-psychological warfare on current examples of verbal and multimodal texts. The article applies descriptive, synchronic and functional methods, as well as methods of metaphorical modeling, component, contextual and communicative-pragmatic analysis.

The main aim of the research is to make an inventory of strategies employed by different world languages in order to iconically encode non-non-linguistic content. The research methods include the holistic approach, the descriptive, structural, semantic, and componential analyses. Research results revealed that as a self-regulating system, language tends to retain a number of motivated, iconic items. This strategy is a viable mechanism, which serves such language functions as mnemonic, ludic, expressive, emotive and evaluative.

The article is devoted to the specific features of dialectal differentiation on the example of European and Brazilian variants of the Portuguese language. The main conclusion is made that the considered variants of dialects do not always have a clear distinction, and sometimes they can be defined as subdialects. The article is designed for teachers of the Portuguese language at higher educational institutions, as well as for linguistic specialists-interpreters of the Portuguese language for a better interpretation of dialects of different variants of the Portuguese language on the example of the European and the Brazilian variants of the language.

The article studies linguistic creativity in the framework of the relationship between verbal and visual components in the news media discourse online. The analysis illustrates that looking at multimodal means as communicating factual information vs expressive and emotional information proves effective in the process of identifying creative vs noncreative manifestations pertaining to different semiotic codes.

The author considers the prospects for turning to the tools of historical discourse studies while examining American presidential communicative culture. It is argued that euphemisation plays a constitutive role and is used as a leading cognitive strategy in constructing a political public speech. An intense pragma-emotional impact on the addressee is provided by the polytropic character of context and extended metaphor, viewed as an invariant characteristic of American presidential discourse.

Drawing on the material of verbal-visual satirical cartoons in modern political discourse in Spanish, the article discusses the issues of interaction of metaphor and metonymy in them. The study of the cognitive mechanism of metaphthonymy allows to identify the main metaphthonymic models present in these cartoons. The main characteristics of modern Spanish-language multimodal cartoons are also highlighted.

Peculiar characteristics of the actualised cognitive-stylistic device of alliteration in the English-language publicistic and media texts are scrutinized. Extracts of up-dated American and British verbal printed matter and publications of information agencies are employed for detailed stylistic analysis. The significance and the novelty of the research can be explicated by a substantial place alliteration occupies in information sources along with such phonetic devices as rhythm, rhyme and onomatopoeia. Speech functions of alliteration are worded.

The idea of the “American dream” is prevalent in the works of great American playwrights; the concept’s evolution and disappointment therein in the middle of the 20th century, in the aftermath of the Great Depression (1929-1939) and World War II (1939-1945), is that of great interest. In the article, several plays by this era’s leading playwrights are analyzed, the main features, symbolic and thematic, which illustrate the concept, as well as the ways in which they are used in deconstructing the concept are highlighted.

This article is devoted to the analysis of the interpretation of the theme of the Last Judgment in the art of French Gothic. Each cathedral built in the Gothic era has a tympanum, the theme of which is the Last Judgment, and where the fragment with the punishment of sinners carries the main moral lesson to ordinary believers. Thus, this motif acts as one of the leading ones in the decoration of French Gothic churches, which determines its important place in the picture of the world of a medieval Christian.