No 6(900) (2025)

The purpose of this study is to identify the conditions for the occurrence of modalized tenses in the German language. The research materials were examples selected from the corpus DWDS and DECOW16A. The following methods were used in the work: descriptive, comparative and contextual analysis method. It is shown that temporal forms can convey various types of deictic and non-deictic modal meanings during transposition, i.e., a change in temporal reference; as a result of the interaction of aspectual and temporal grammemes, mood and temporality; in certain types of contexts and in syntagmatics, taking into account the lexical semantics of the verb.

The aim of this study is to identify figurative meanings of names of folk costume items in Southern Germany and Austria (hyponyms) in comparison with names of clothes in the literary language (hypernyms) based on reference books on allegorical means of expression in the German language and German-language texts from the DeReKo electronic corpus. The work uses the methods of continuous sampling, inductive generalization, corpus analysis, linguacultural commentary. The nature of coincidences at two levels of language is studied and patterns of formation of proper figurative meanings of hyponyms and their functions in speech are revealed.

The present paper analyzes acoustic measurements and normalized representations of vowels realized in the interfered Russian speech of native Karachay-Balkar speakers. The primary probabilistic-statistical analysis was performed on the materials of formant measurements of a large set of vowel tokens recorded in the form of phonation reading of a pre-prepared list of words. Then, the data transformed by Lobanov’s method to reduce the variability associated with the individual characteristics of the informants were considered. The results showed a systematic deviation of the acoustic patterns of vowel allophones in the F1–F2 space, as well as their representations in the space of pronunciation features. The present study is aimed at detecting features that have sufficient identification significance for subsequent use in automatic systems of non-native speech recognition, accent identification, linguistic expertise, or voice biometrics.

The article is devoted to analyzing the communicative and pragmatic features of the author’s presence signs in English- and Russian-language texts of popular scientific discourse of astronomy on the material of the books “Cosmos” by K. Sagan and “Exploration of distant planets” by V.G. Surdin. The aim of the study is to identify the peculiarities of the functioning of explicit and implicit forms of the author’s presence, to determine the specificity of pragmatic focusing of the author’s intention in a comparative aspect. To identify the means of actualization of the author’s position we used such methods as purposeful sampling, as well as methods of linguopragmatic, cognitive-semiotic, contextual and comparative analysis, which allowed us to establish linguocultural and individual differences in the implementation of authors’ communicative intentions. The present study resulted in the substantiation of different specific weight of explicit forms of authorization in English- and Russian-language popular science discourse of astronomy and demonstrated the tendency to expand the variety of implicit signs of authorization.

The purpose and specificity of the passive construction with a by-phrase is considered in the focus of the topic-comment structure and functions at the level of a super-sentence. The aim of the research: text function analysis of the “long” passive in Russian, English and German, on the basis of text corpus data. The results of the analysis: 1) basic functions of the “long” passive are established; 2) anaphoric means typical of the compared languages are described; 3) a distinction in sentence models of the type Вопрос решен нами (passive) и Нами решен вопрос (semantic role structure) is revealed.

The aim of this study is to examine the emotional concept of “Angst” / “Fear” in German linguaculture as represented in creolized cinematic texts. The analysis focuses on the creolized film text, exploring the nature of interaction and the frequency of use of visual, auditory, and verbal elements in conveying the emotion of “Angst” / “Fear”, using the German film “Das Leben der Anderen” (“The Lives of Others”) as a case study. The findings of the study reveal that the emotion of “Angst” / “Fear” is realized through the following combinations: direct representation of this emotion is achieved through a combination of verbal and visual elements, while indirect representation is based on the interaction of non-verbal and auditory components, which is determined by the mechanisms of emotional perception by the recipient.

The article is devoted to the review of the areas of application of corpus managers in Russian and foreign scientific publications over the past 10 years. It has been established that corpus managers and artificial intelligence-based software are used to analyze changes occurring in a language over time (desemantization, disambiguation, transterminologization), case studies of specific types of texts, compilation of terminological dictionaries and databases, and teaching a foreign language.

The objective of the research introduced in the article was to briefly analyze basic viewpoints on the status of Bavarian dialect represented in German current linguistic and sociolinguistic discourse. In the course of the research discourse analysis method, descriptive method as well as method of generalization have been applied. A number of scientific works of modern German linguists exploring problems of dialectology along with regional languages and official information published on the website of the European charter of regional and minority languages have served as research materials. As the result of the research the conclusion about the conformity of Bavarian dialect with main criteria for the recognition of a dialect as regional language is drawn; the necessity for preservation of unique “diglossia” in Bavaria as joint cultural heritage of the mentioned federal state is pointed out.

This article examines the varieties of the historical novel, using as examples the works of the Vietnamese writer Nguyen Xuan Khanh (1933-2021), specifically "Ho Quy Ly" (2000) and "Mother Goddess of Mountains and Forests" (2005). These novels have received limited attention in Russian and English-language literary criticism. The study employs V. Malkina’s concept of subgenres within the historical novel as its theoretical framework. By applying comparative historical and structural methods, the article identifies the subgenre of each of the aforementioned novels. The analysis concludes that V. Malkina’s system for categorizing historical novel varieties is applicable to modern Vietnamese literature, as exemplified by the works of Nguyen Xuan Khanh.

The article presents the results of a study of the axiological foundations of the Russian state cultural and confessional policy. The study is aimed at analyzing the legislation in the field of preserving and strengthening traditional spiritual and moral values from the standpoint of cultural studies and theology. Research methods include cultural analysis, typology, and practical theology. The Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 809 of 09.11.2022 became the research material. As a result of the research, the authors propose original classification of the values listed in the 809 Decree and define a number of vulnerabilities and potential risks based on the cultural and theological analysis.