No 6 (2025)
Articles
Professional chat communication of lawyers in the digital environment: cognitive strategies and pragmatic organization.
Abstract
The subject of this scientific article is the professional chat communication of lawyers in a digital environment, specifically the features of the formation, use, and interpretation of cognitive strategies, as well as the specifics of the pragmatic organization of communication. It analyzes how lawyers implement professional interaction through text messaging, forums, and specialized platforms, what speech and thought mechanisms are employed for the effective transmission of legally significant information, the development of collective decisions, argumentation, and the reconciliation of positions on legal issues. Attention is given to examining ways of planning utterances, the selection of speech impact strategies depending on communicative tasks, participants, and the nature of the topics discussed. The study explores how the characteristics of the digital environment and the format of asynchronous text communication influence the pragmatic structure of dialogues, the genre diversity of messages, the specifics of virtual legal ethics, and the verbal regulation of legal activities. The methodology combines cognitive reconstruction, pragmalinguistic, and content analysis based on a corpus of over 2,300 messages from the "Lawyers Forum" and "Lawyers Community" channels (2023–2025). The goal of the research is to identify cognitive scenarios, pragmatic strategies, and semiotic means that structure legal interaction in computer-mediated communication. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the comprehensive examination of professional chat communication among lawyers in a digital environment from the perspectives of cognitive linguistics and pragmatics. For the first time in domestic science, an analysis of the features of using digital messengers and specialized professional platforms for communication between lawyers has been conducted, revealing typical cognitive strategies for processing and transmitting information under conditions of limited time and message formats. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the pragmatic structure of messages and the communicative tasks faced by lawyers when discussing business matters, transmitting instructions, and reconciling positions in a virtual environment. The research reveals new patterns in the formation of speech acts and pragmatic tactics in the context of digital interaction, which opens up additional opportunities for optimizing professional communication within the legal community. Three models of interaction have been established—directive, navigational, and discussion—which differ in subject position and type of speech acts, as well as signs of cognitive compression, semiotic marking, and syntactic reduction.
Philology: scientific research. 2025;(6):1-10
1-10
Mythopoetic worldview of the Soviet intelligentsia in the novels of V. P. Aksyonov in the 1970s (based on the novels "Burn" and "The Island of Crimea")
Abstract
This article is devoted to the analysis of the novels "Burn" and "The Crimean Island" by Vasily Aksyonov — the most prominent writer of the second half of the 20th century. The author aims to identify the characteristics of the portrayal of the Soviet intelligentsia and to determine the main traits exhibited by the intelligentsia character in Aksyonov's novels. The research objectives include analyzing the images of the main characters in the works "Burn" and "The Crimean Island," highlighting the motives behind their behavior and choices, as well as their interactions with others; based on the findings, drawing a conclusion about how the theme of the Soviet intelligentsia in the 1970s is revealed in the novels. The relevance of the topic is due to the insufficient study of the writer's work, while Vasily Aksyonov was a key figure in the literary world of the 1960s and 1970s, being at the forefront of the Russian postmodern novel and the development of the alternative history genre. The author examines the content of the novels in close connection with Aksyonov's biography and the peculiarities of Soviet reality in the 1970s. To achieve the stated goal, the author employs biographical, comparative, and cultural-historical methods. As a result, it is proven that the intelligentsia characters in Vasily Aksyonov's novels are passionate individuals inclined to deep analysis of the surrounding reality, capable of creating, and they are peace-loving and compassionate; each of them is endowed with the mission of a creator, united by the choice of serving a higher ideal instead of personal happiness. Aksyonov's intelligentsia heroes are similar in that after undergoing initiation, experiencing betrayal in love and friendship, and ultimately arriving at the "Word of God," their attempts to bring positive change to Soviet reality and find a place for themselves end in tragedy. The practical significance of the research lies in the potential use of the examined material in teaching philology students in the courses "Analysis of Fictional Texts," "Literary Studies," "History of 20th Century Russian Literature," and the special course "Russian Postmodern Literature."
Philology: scientific research. 2025;(6):11-26
11-26
Peculiarities in Syntactic Expression of Possession Semantic Structure in Andean dialect of Spanish
Abstract
The subject of this scientific article is the syntactic means of expressing the core semantic structure of possession in the Andean dialect of the Spanish language against the background of comparison with modern normative Spanish. The author pays special attention to the practical application of a consistent mechanism for defining and presenting the means of verbalization of the category under consideration by describing them with specialized schemes in accordance with the Functional Syntax Theory of by A.Mustajoki. The purpose of the study is to identify discrepancies in the ways of linguistic expression of the analyzed possessivity field in the Andean dialect and modern normative Spanish by conducting a comparative analysis of their deep (semantic) and surface (syntactic) structures. The establishment of such differences will become the basis for the analysis of the factors of the formation of deviant syntactic constructions within the Andean dialect, as well as the consideration of various variants of their usage.
To carry out a comparative review of syntactic constructions, the author of the study selected examples from several Spanish language corpora, Spanish-language mass media, as well as corpora presented in various scientific studies on the syntax of the Andean dialect of the Spanish language. The total volume of the material was 1,500 units. The novelty of this study is due to the fact that it was the first to perform a functional and syntactic analysis of the possession semantic category, as well as a comparative study of both the deep and surface structures of its verbal embodiment using the example of the Andean dialect and modern normative Spanish. The author of the study came to the following conclusions: 1) within the framework of the syntactic structures of possessiveness of the Andean dialect, Spanish can adapt an unusual basic word order for it, due to the influence of the Native American languages Quechua and Aymara; 2) within the framework of simple possessive constructions of the Andean dialect, agglutinative affixes are calculated into Spanish in the form of prepositions and possessive pronouns, which creates such a phenomenon of the syntactic level as "double session"; 3) syntactic constructions that deviate from the norm may represent not only the subject of a neutral linguistic tradition, but also possess pragmatic, communicative and discursive potential.
Philology: scientific research. 2025;(6):27-41
27-41
Borrowing images from the traditional Chinese horoscope in contemporary Russian calendar literature: the logic of transformation
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The article investigates the process of adapting images from the traditional Chinese horoscope (i.e., the 12 Chinese zodiac signs: Rat/Mouse, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat/Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig/Boar) in modern Russian calendar literature. Drawing on the classification of calendar texts and typology of magazines proposed by E. V. Dushechkina in her monograph "Russian Christmas Tales," the author analyzes the mechanisms of transformation of Eastern astrological symbols as they integrate into the Russian cultural environment using popular magazines "Liza" and "Domashny Ochag" (1995–2023). It is revealed that the appropriation of the images of the animals of the Chinese zodiac represents a complex process of cultural processing, including adaptation to the Russian calendar cycle, reinterpreting the symbolism of the animals through the lens of Slavic folklore, localization through literary and historical allusions, as well as functional enrichment of the astrological system. The research method is a semantic analysis of the texts and a cultural commentary on the process of adapting Chinese zodiac symbolism in the Russian context. Special attention is given to the transformation of the semantic load of the images of the animals of the Eastern horoscope in the Russian calendar tradition. This work systematically analyzes for the first time the process of borrowing and transforming traditional images from the Chinese zodiac in contemporary Russian calendar culture. The phenomenon of including the Chinese zodiac tradition into the Russian cultural context and forming a peculiar "hybrid" representation is identified. The study shows that in the Russian discourse, the cultural significance of Chinese zodiac symbols has changed and differs significantly from their original meaning in Chinese tradition, highlighting the novelty of this cross-cultural symbolic synthesis. As a result of this transformation, a unique hybrid phenomenon emerges, blending the Chinese zodiac tradition with meanings resonant with Russian culture. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of calendar texts about the Chinese horoscope, integrated into the system of Russian calendar rituals, including the interpretation of zodiac symbolism, descriptions of inter-sign compatibility, materials about amulets, monthly forecasts, and yearly horoscopes. The research demonstrates that the Eastern horoscope in Russian calendar literature becomes an element of festive New Year culture, while divinatory and magical functions recede into the background.
Philology: scientific research. 2025;(6):42-54
42-54
A Historical Overview of the Indefinite Article Studies in Spanish Grammar
Abstract
The subject of this study is the historical and linguistic analysis of the Spanish indefinite article (un, una, unos, unas) as a particularizing element in the nominal system and its role in expressing the category of determination. The research examines the origin of the article, the processes of desemanticization, and its evolution into a grammatical marker of indefiniteness. The analysis covers the functional and semantic values of the indefinite article across different historical periods of the Spanish language and offers a comparative assessment of approaches to its status and functions in various grammatical traditions, including Russian-language studies. Special attention is given to the role of the indefinite article in transforming a noun from potential reference to actual use in discourse. The methodology combines a structural-functional and historical approach, including the analysis of texts from the 13th to the 17th centuries, comparative historical-philological examination, and functional-semantic interpretation. The main findings of the research identify the stages of grammaticalization of the indefinite article in Spanish and describe the accompanying semantic and functional shifts. The study shows that the frequent use of the article with the grammatical category of number was gradually replaced by its function as a marker of particularization in noun phrases. It highlights the development of singular and plural forms (unos, unas), their grammatical features, and the semantic distinctions between the indefinite article and the pronoun algún. The research also clarifies how the indefinite article serves as an anti-extensive determinative that introduces new, non-identified referents into discourse. The scientific contribution consists in reconstructing the article’s developmental path, revealing previously undescribed patterns of semantic evolution, and organising academic studies on this topic in Spanish and Russian linguistic researches.
Philology: scientific research. 2025;(6):55-68
55-68
Russia's national image in Chinese social networks (based on the activity of RT's Weibo account)
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Official RT account in Weibo is considered from October 2019 to March 2025. With the development of mediatization of society, Russia pays special attention to the formation of its national image through international communications, using both domestic and foreign media to strengthen its influence in the world. In this context, RT has rapidly strengthened its position in the global media space, becoming a key tool for promoting the image of Russia and strengthening its international information agenda. At present, the comprehensive strategic partnership between Russia and China in the new era continues to deepen, and bilateral relations are experiencing the best period in their history. As a result, the image of Russia in Chinese social media has become significantly more positive and favorable compared with previous years. This paper collects and analyzes data from publications of the official RT Weibo account, including topics, countries, and positions covered in the news. Particular attention is paid to the ways of presenting issues related to Russian-Chinese relations and strategies for forming a national image. Quantitative analysis and content analysis are mainly used to summarize RT's communication activities on the Chinese social network Weibo. The image of Russia on Chinese social networks is becoming increasingly positive and popular, while RT purposefully increases the distribution of content dedicated to the strategic partnership between Russia and China; RT's agenda tends to align with China's official position, emphasize the idea of "multipolarity" and strengthen Russia's narrative of opposing Western hegemony; RT promotes the soft power of Russian culture through the popularization of literature, art, scientific and technological innovation, tourism and education, demonstrating to the Chinese audience the modern image of Russia as a great power. The study of data from the RT account on Weibo, in contrast to Western social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, allows us to study the strategies of Russian media adaptation to the Chinese censorship system and media environment; Including Russian-Chinese relations in an analytical framework to study how RT on Weibo creates common narratives and space for a unified position, shaping the image of a “partner country”.
Philology: scientific research. 2025;(6):69-81
69-81
Stress in the Dargwa language, its functions, and lexicographic practice
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The subject of the study is the accent system of the Dargin language. The aim of the research is to study the accent system of the Dargin language. To achieve this goal, the following tasks have been outlined: firstly, to determine the range of scientific works that address the stress of the Dargin language to some extent; secondly, to describe each of these works (highlighting the main points of view); thirdly, to identify and show the position of stress in disyllabic and polysyllabic words of the Dargin language. The lack of research on the accent system of the literary language significantly complicates the work of a lexicographer. The issue of stress in the literary language is of great importance for clarifying some grammatical questions, such as establishing the boundaries of words, defining the process of merging two words or roots into a single whole, which, in turn, can assist in solving orthographic issues—the question of whether to write a particular word together or separately. In writing this article, traditional research methods were mainly used: the continuous sampling method to identify illustrative material for the research; the descriptive method to characterize the stressed syllables of the Dargin language; and the comparative method to reveal the common and distinctive features in the study of stress in the Dargin language. The article analyzes various works (scientific grammars of the Dargin language and its dialects, monographs, and scientific articles) that contain information about the accent system of the Dargin language. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that the work, based on a significant amount of factual material, not only describes the stress of the Dargin language but also identifies its main functions. As a result of the research, it was established that the Dargin language is predominantly characterized by fixed weak stress on the last syllable, although there are many cases where the stress falls on the first syllable. In the Dargin literary language, the stress is weak and it is fixed on a certain syllable, both in and out of context. In compounds, as well as in some words with prefixes, two stresses are possible, alongside the main word stress.
Philology: scientific research. 2025;(6):82-91
82-91
The semantic content of the concept of CALMNESS in the minds of native speakers of the Russian language
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The object of the research is the concept of CALMNESS in the national consciousness. The object of research is the dynamics of this concept, because under the influence of economic, political processes, and changes in society as a whole, the content of the concept also change. The subject of the study is the lexical means of objectification of the concept of CALMNESS in the Russian language, presented in lexicographic sources, and the means of its speech representation, presented by the materials of a chain associative experiment conducted in 2023, in which 130 native speakers of the Russian language aged 18 to 80 years took part. The object and subject of the study determine its purpose – to describe the semantic content of the concept of CALMNESS in the minds of native speakers of the Russian language based on data from dictionaries and psycholinguistic experiment. The work uses linguistic methods of definitional and component analysis, the field method, and the method of conceptual analysis. The results of the study: during the interpretation of the results of the analysis of dictionary data, eight cognitive features of the concept of CALMNESS (CF1 – CF8) were identified, all of them were verified when processing the results of an associative experiment, i.e. they are relevant to the consciousness of modern native speakers. The research materials can be used in the development of manuals on Russian as a foreign language, the lexicology of the main language, as well as in the creation of associative dictionaries. The analysis of the experimental results showed that in the content of the concept it is also possible to identify such new cognitive features as ‘the state in which a person is at home / with his family’ (CF9) and ‘the cessation of being, existence’ (CF10). It should be noted that the linguistic objectification of the CF10-feature was found in etymological dictionaries, however, modern explanatory dictionaries do not record the corresponding meaning of the key lexeme. Despite this, this cognitive feature is still present in the minds of some native speakers of modern Russian.
Philology: scientific research. 2025;(6):92-99
92-99
Idiographic style features in drama (a case study: "American dream" by Edward Albee)
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The paper analyses peculiar features of Edward Albee's individual style with a special focus on drama being a synthetic art form, as well as the development of the theater of the absurd. The subject of the research is the ways of expressing the author's style in the text of the play "The American Dream"; the aim of the analysis is to identify the features of the expressive language that play a decisive role in conveying the intended meanings and ensuring the intended emotional impact on the recipient. The research methods include stylistic and linguo-cultural interpretation of the text, quantitative analysis, frequency analysis, as well as a method of continuous sampling. The methodology of idiostyle analysis suggests the use of cultural and anthropocentric approaches at the initial stage, as well as conducting linguistic analysis at the subsequent stage of the research. The research methodology involves using cultural and anthropocentric approaches to analyze historical context, the speech characteristics of characters, and the emotional impact on the reader (and the viewer); the linguistic analysis allowed to identify the idiographic features of the author's style in lines the characters have. These features are: anaphora, epiphora, and polysyndeton, as well as numerous lexical repetitions. The said repetitions of different types allow the author to achieve a sense of detachment typical for theatre of absurd works. This technique creates a picture of an indifferent and cruel society, where communication is devoid of meaning and people are not interested in connecting with each other; moreover, the repetitions provide a certain rhythmic organization of dialogues and, therefore, create the dynamics each scene demands. The results can be used when working with existing translations or when creating new translations of this play and other works by this author with the aim of accurately reflecting the features of the author's style in the translated texts. This approach appears to be particularly relevant because, during his lifetime, the renowned playwright closely monitored the interpretations of his plays, sometimes forbidding the productions from being staged; after 2016, his foundation adheres to a similar policy. The method of analysis proposed in the article will allow to achieve the precise transmission of the author's intention in translated texts, further granting directors and actors an opportunity to achieve the necessary emotional impact on the audience.
Philology: scientific research. 2025;(6):100-111
100-111
The word forms "minimum" and "maximum" in the aspect of gradual transposition into adverbs: core and hybrid zones
Abstract
The paper presents the experience of a comprehensive semantic-grammatical study of the stages, features and limits of transposition of nominative and accusative forms of nouns into adverbs of measure and degree in the Russian language. Adverbialization is understood as a process of changing the differential features in the structure of word forms, gradually moving in typical contexts from nouns to adverbs. The results of the analysis of the zones of nuclear nouns and hybrid, substantive-adverbial formations, synthesizing in approximately equal proportions the properties of the interacting classes of nouns and adverbs during adverbialization, are presented. Using the example of the substantive word forms "minimum" "maximum", it is shown how, in different syntactic conditions, the proportion of features in the specified word forms changes as they move away from nouns and approach quantitative adverbs. The study used general scientific, general linguistic and special methods (comparison, generalization; structural-semantic, oppositional, distributional, transformational and componential analysis, linguistic experiment). As a result of the study, the main stages of adverbial transposition of the word forms "minimum" and "maximum" were established, representing the zones of the core of nouns, hybridity and periphery of substantive adverbs. Particular emphasis in the study is placed on the semantic and grammatical description of the word forms "minimum" and "maximum" when they explicate the features of nuclear nouns, as well as when combining the properties of nouns and adverbs in the status of hybrid formations. It is concluded that in the process of moving towards adverbs, the word forms "minimum" and "maximum" bypass the stage of the periphery of nouns and do not reach the zone of nuclear adverbs at the final stage of adverbialization. The transposition of the considered substantives into quantitative adverbs has an exclusively functional character: it does not lead to the formation of new adverbial words – lexical homonyms. The limit of their adverbialization is associated with the emergence of a special, adverbial type of use within the semantic zone of the original lexemes. The results of the study can be used in lexicographic practice, in compiling different types of dictionaries, as well as in the practice of teaching Russian grammar in secondary and higher education.
Philology: scientific research. 2025;(6):112-125
112-125