No 3(897) (2025)

The purpose of the article is to reinterpret the content and historical context of the inscription MVHVΛV available in the medieval Tuscan epigraphic material. The structure of military-political and cultural contacts of Tuscany in the VIII – 1st half of the XII century, as well as a number of objections related to the Michaelic interpretation, makes it possible to reinterpret the inscription MVHVΛV based on the Quranic substrate: as a transmission through the Latin graphics of the Quranic exclamation mā šāʾ Allāh. The inscription MVHVΛV, as well as monuments of Islamic Arabographic epigraphy of the X–XII centuries, embedded in the urban space of Christian Pisa, acquired in this connotation an ideological, apotropaic and invocative meaning.

The study is carried out to investigate specifics of the influence of the institutional nature of discourse on linguo-cultural differences in politicians’ communicative behaviour. The material of the study, which is Russian and Vietnamese parliamentary discourse, has been analysed using comparative, descriptive, classificatory, quantitative, functional-pragmatic methods. Strategies and tactics of verbal expression of negative evaluation used by Russian and Vietnamese parliamentarians were analysed. The results of the study showed that despite the linguo-cultural differences between Russia and Vietnam, there are substantial similarities in the way negative evaluation is expressed in the parliamentary discourse of the two countries. This indicates the blurring of linguo-cultural differences in the institutional discourse.

The article studies the peculiarities of individual author’s synonymic variation in the description of a character’s personality in the novel by J. Austen “Sense and Sensibility”. The aim of the research is to determine the individual author’s peculiar features of synonymic variability as a process and as a result of fictional reflection. Synonymic means of varying degrees of proximity are determined through the use of methods of linguistic, pragmatic, contextual analysis, and pragmatic and axiological modeling, which allow to exemplify the controversial image of Edward Ferrars by outlining the vector of his interpretation by the reader. As a result of the linguistic and pragmatic analysis the modeling of hierarchically organized text synonymic paradigms was performed, revealing conceptually significant personality traits of the fictional character in the author’s projection.

The study aims to determine the key linguotypological characteristics of online fan discourse as a form of specific, expanded, non-cooperative interaction. Common areas of relativity of initial posts and the information reasons behind them are built on the basis of a set of techniques of the dialecticalrelational method of critical discourse analysis. The research procedures include the analysis of the genre typology of sports discourse, as well as the identification of conventionalized polycode markers of the convictivity of an active actor and the definition of emotive-affective elements of the actualization of deliberative space. The conclusion is made about the primacy of conventionalized verbal components (terms, professionalisms, argumentative references to precedent phenomena) when expressing the confidence of an active actor in stimulus-reactive interaction, and about the dominance of emotive attractors in the intimization of content and evaluation.

Featuring the collected data of spontaneous expository dialogues, the study identifies the specific use of spatial deixis which helps construe the relative space within and beyond the communicative situation mediated by its subtypes, close and far. At present, little is known on the role of spatial deixis in modulating space in spontaneous dialogues. The study reveals four types of relative space as well as their distribution in dialogue. The results show the prevalence in the construal of relative space beyond the communicative situation as close, which proves the necessity to move the objects absent in the communicative situation closer to the interlocutor to develop the common ground.

This paper aims to understand how toponyms function as parts of idioms in German. To that end, we use the overarching diachronic approach, as well as structural-semantic modelling, phraseological identification, comparative and etymohistorical analysis. The paper is of relevance as the rapidly growing field of semantics pays more and more attention to phraseology. The study takes a particular interest in deonymisation of toponyms in phrasemes. In this paper, we take a look at one common European idiom to showcase how useful the structural semantic modelling can be when analysing universal and national toponym containing idioms. It is also shown that there is a need to improve the method further taking research specific contexts into account.

The purpose of the article is to study the melodic сomponent of spontaneous English speech to highlight the distinctive features of northern dialects. The research methods include perceptive and acoustic analysis using the PRAAT program. The material included the recordings of unprepared speech samples of southern and northern dialect speakers. The results show that northern speech is characterised by a narrower range of speech, frequent use of level tones and ascending contours in the final sense-groups. Melodically, the northern male speech is more expressive than the female speech which sounds more monotonous.

The purpose of the article is to identify the stylistic dominants of S. A. Klychkov’s prose in the context of the discussion about language in 1934. The material of the study was the novels of the 1920s «The Sugar German», «Chertukhinsky Balakir», «Prince of World». The methods of text analysis are hermeneutical, comparative, historical and literary, biographical ones. It is concluded that the combination of ornamental, verse-like prose and folk tale reveals in Klychkov’s creative manner two narrators, between whom there is no formal boundary and who are mentally united. Metaphors, comparisons, the versioned composition of the text, metrical fragments are fused with live speech, which is explained by the narrative principle «combination of words». The position on the connection between the idiostyle and the social portrait of the writer, which was voiced during the discussion, was preceded by the attitudes of orthodox criticism of the 1920s.

The purpose of the research is to determine the dynamics of changing Chinese perceptions of honesty as a value. Based on the analysis of ancient and modern Chinese texts, the main elements of Chinese linguistic culture related to “honesty” are highlighted; differences in Chinese axiological ideas about honesty within Confucianism, Taoism and other religious and philosophical teachings and dynamic changes in the structure of basic values are identified; it is indicated that modern Chinese ideas about “honesty” are beginning to form in The Southern Song Dynasty defines the standards of honesty for different social groups. The article highlights the trends in the development of Chinese axiological ideas about honesty: from evaluating words to evaluating any actions and deeds, from evaluating rulers to evaluating the entire society, from evaluating interpersonal relationships to evaluating human–state and human–society relations.