Nº 1(882) (2024)

The article is devoted to the epigraphic laudatio of the military achievements of Pisa in the Central Mediterranean during the 21st century. The main subject of the article is the 4th line of the laudatio as an example of the use of the ideologeme ‘Urbs’ in the political discourse of the emerging commune. With the word combination micas dicere in the 4th line, the Pisan political discourse states the superiority of the Tuscan paragon over the Lacian prototype, due to the absence of defeats and fugitives in the mythochronological continuum of the Tuscan paragon’s past.

The article examines the points of contact between the storylines of the fictional biography of Merlin the Enchanter and the life of Saint Martin of Tours. The corpus includes original sources in Latin and Old French, as well as scientific translations and current scientific works about Merlin and Saint Martin. Additional corpus data from the Google Ngram Viewer resource is used based on French-language sources from 1500-2019, uploaded to the Google Books database.

The article contains the results of a study of the ways of representing the floristic code in the onomastic space of the Brest region. The study found that the floristic culture code is explicated with the help of four thematic groups: “plant-orienting” hydronyms, hodonyms, ergonyms, pragmatonyms, eventonyms. It has been established that regional onomastic units formed from the names of the plant world constitute a significant part of the onomasticon of the Brest region and represent a certain organized system. The topographic bases of the analyzed onomastic units reflect voluminous extralinguistic information, which is directly related to the culture of the inhabitants of the Brest region.

The article considers the probability of recognizing the phraseological status of Old English kennings. The study intends to work out a procedure of complex description of Old English formulaic phrases (kennings), proceeding from the assumption of their phraseological status. As an example, the word-combination yða ʒewealc is subjected to analysis. The contexts are taken from eight pieces of literature in Old English manuscripts. The research may be of interest to specialists in anglistics, phraseology and history of English.

The article presents an analysis of the basic features of the conceptual structure of “opinion publique” in the focal diachronic points during the period from the beginning of the 17th century to the end of the 18th century, combining both onomasiological and semasiological perspectives in line with the Moscow State Linguistic University scientific school of diachronic conceptual studies. Cognitive presuppositions for the integration of “opinion” and “publique” into a single concept are revealed, which leads to building propositional frame models.

Basic features of the discourse of the sonnet in Italian, French, English and Russian languages are viewed in the historic perspective since its emergence in the XIII-th century in Cecily followed by its gradual spread in Europe during the Age of Renaissance up to the New Time. The core structural-compositional and cognitive-stylistic peculiarities of the sonnet are consistently revealed. Lapidarity is introduced as the distinctive characteristic of the genre along five aspects.

The article is a description of the main features in the vocalism system in television talk-show in French. Experimental phonetic research based on a perceptual analysis allows to reveal the phonetic specificity of this type of discourse. The pronunciation of vowel sounds is considered, the correlation of this pronunciation with certain pronunciation register is revealed, modern trends of the vocalism are identified.

Phraseological units are an integral part of the language; they contain the national originality of the elements of spiritual and material culture, the idea of the world of a particular ethnic group. This article is devoted to the analysis of Spanish phraseological units containing a gastronomic component. The semantic and functional aspects of Spanish phraseological units are considered. A classification of phraseological units has been carried out. A semantic and syntactic analysis of various phraseological units in the Spanish language was performed.

The article analyzes the use of Latin expressions by British prime ministers. The problem is that the meaning of these speech actions of politicians has not yet been studied. In the work the method of continuous sampling, contextual analysis, content analysis was used. The research is based on statements by politicians published in the Internet; the result is the interpretation of the Latin phrases of prime ministers, references to the history of Ancient Rome.

The article analyzes the Buddhist connotations of the image of Leo Tolstoy in Victor Pelevin’s novel “t” in the framework of a study devoted to the “Buddhist text” of modern Russian literature. It is established that when plotting the spiritual search of the protagonist, the writer, referring to the Buddhist intentions of artistic creativity and philosophical journalism of the real Leo Tolstoy, refers, among other things, to the ideas of Mahayana philosophy. Among them, one can, in particular, note the idea of the absence of a permanent separate “I” and the idea of the illusory reality.

The article is dedicated to the problem of describing the Carlist movement in the books of R. M. del Valle-Inclán. The texts of his cycle “Sonatas” serve as the material for the study. The lexical means of creating the image of Don Carlos, of his supporters and opponents are studied. The “Sonatas” are analyzed in the context of Carlist political discourse. It is concluded that the author has a positive attitude towards Carlism.

The article is devoted to the understanding of the digital environment and the analysis of new cultural forms, in particular, token technology, which provides new opportunities for the consumption of digital art, makes it more popular, relevant, interesting, and included in culture. However, not only technologies influence the development of art, but art legitimizes them as culturally acceptable. The digital collection “Murakami.Flowers” by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami is an example.