Nº 4(885) (2024)

The article looks into the levels of cognitive dissonance in dystopia. The authors propose three parameters of describing cognitive dissonance: the degree of abstraction, the degree of manifestation and the degree of context inclusion, establishing correlations between the descriptive parameters and the levels of dissonance (micro-, meso- and macro-levels). When analyzing concrete examples of cognitive dissonance the authors rely on the theory of conceptual integration and demonstrate that dystopian fiction contains cognitive dissonance of all the three levels.

The present study was carried out within the framework of linguistic semiotics. The article examines one of the basic categories of English subject names – clothing names, in particular, analyzes the main semiotic functions performed by members of this category in the journalistic genre in semiotically marked situations. The work was done using the linguistic corpus of CNN news texts provided by the Laboratory of Fundamental and Applied Problems of Virtual Education at MSLU.

In today’s digital space, two types of media coexist: online versions of traditional print media and digital native media. Both similarities and differences in their content, commercial potential, target audience, and development strategies are considered. Of particular interest is the study of their linguistic, particularly syntactic parameters to establish the similarities and differences of the means used to implement the main task of informing and manipulating public opinion.

The article studies semantic processes in new English derivatives from precedent names. These lexical units are a new means of categorizing, understanding and describing reality, which is manifested in their semantic and structural diversity. It is argued that the semantics of derivatives from precedent names can be built upon certain conceptual mechanisms. It is emphasized that the meaning of a precedent name undergoes considerable changes as a result of different derivation processes.

Based on the material of poems by leading Portuguese poets (XVII-XX centuries), the paper examines the following lexemes’ metaphorical meanings: mosca / fly, mosquito / mosquito, grilo / cricket, caruncho / beetle, piolho / louse, pirilampo / firefly, louvadeus / mantis, aranha / spider. The ethnonyms’ rich semantic-associative potential referring to human essential qualities and some abstractions (routine, poetry, fate) is revealed. The methods of hermeneutical, contextual analysis and elements of linguistic and cultural description have been applied.

The article is devoted to the study of ways of expressing the symbolic content of the knighthood rite on the material of two versions, prose and poetic, of the anonymous Old French composition “Ordene de chevalerie” written in the 13th century. The specifics of the description of each stage of the ritual are considered, where all actions and objects of reality reveal a hidden sacred meaning. Thus, the pragmatic purpose of the work is realized – to create an ideal image of a Christian knight, and the image of an enemy defeated not by weapons in battle, but by the power of faith and conviction.

The article looks into the syntactic peculiarities of G. Chaucer’s language. The order of words in “The Canterbury Tales” possesses considerable positional freedom, but, at the same time, is becoming more fixed. An important feature of Chaucer’s language is the use of compound nominal and verbal (modal and aspective) predicates. The language of “The Canterbury Tales” is characterized by a variety of complex sentences with a wide range of connectives. Special attention is paid to parenthetic expressions as means of establishing anaphoric relations.

The article presents the results of a reflexive speculation about anomaly in structures with notional agreement in modern English. Application of a dialectic method prompts a review of the known treatments of the phenomenon and suggests discussing it as a representation of ‘another’ norm, which seems erroneous for a formal-and-prescriptive analysis but relevant for a functional-anddescriptive interpretation, the latter explaining language deviations as cognitive and communicative demands of language users.

The article presents English grammatical idioms and discusses means and ways of exploring the process of grammatical idiomatization in diachrony. Analysed were some grammatical phenomena that either were fully idiomatized in course of history or show a tendency to become idioms at present. Evidently gaining idiomaticity is preceded by a long process of grammaticalization and idiomatization of a language unit can be realized in contextually determined use.

The article presents a linguistic-stylistic analysis of German-language texts of emergency response reports. Their distinctive features are described, their lexical, grammar, structural and compositional features are revealed. It has been found out that the choice of language and extra-linguistic means for design of operative information about response to emergency situations is aimed not only at presenting objective information, but also at enhancing citizens’ trust in rescue organizations.

The article examines a novel by a Vietnamese writer Nguyen Xuan Khanh “A Story That Happened in One Alley” (2016), unexplored in either Russian or Western literary studies. Using biographical and cultural-historical methods, the article examines the issue of nature of power in the novel. It reveals the writer’s assessment of the national liberation revolution of 1945 and the people’s democratic system established after it. The article makes an intertextual analysis through allusions in the novel to works of world literature of a dystopian and absurdist nature.

The article is dedicated to inclusive education in Russia in the aspect of national identity. Basing on comparative analysis of the definition of the concept “inclusion” in Russian, English and German dictionaries, the authors reveal differences between the concepts of “inclusion” in Russian and Western cultures. The research also covers some modern inclusive education issues in Russia. The authors conclude that development of inclusive education should go in compliance with Russian cultural code and high-contextuality of Russian culture.