Nº 13(881) (2023)

This article attempts to summarize points of view on the phenomenon of communication failure in communication theory and pragmatics. The author establishes a typology of communication failures based on two types of criteria: procedural (i. e. at what stage of constructing the interaction the failure occurred) and structural (i. e. with which component of the communication scheme it is associated). The pragmatic approach considers failure as a phenomenon depending on some universal laws.

The article is devoted to the issues of the vocabulary and the structure of the dictionary entries of the Standard Dictionary, the creation of which is provided for by the law “On the state language of the Russian Federation”. The author considers the tasks associated with the representation of foreign borrowings in the dictionary. The research method is the analysis of empirical material and lexicographic practice. The author concludes that it is necessary to create an active type dictionary with zoning of dictionary entries, as well as an electronic resource for prompt discussion of language innovations.

The article presents results the analysis of semiotic properties inherent to women’s costume within the framework of the historical evolution of French fashion. Additionally, it elucidates the semiotic status of costume as a functionally interrelated ensemble of clothing articles. The conducted analysis unveils a diversity of symbolic characteristics within women’s fashion, consequently presenting the costume as an outstanding example of a communicative structure. The choice of topic is determined by the high social and ethical significance of clothing and fashion.

The article examines German-language Orthodox discourse in the historical aspect. The author describes the historical prerequisites for the emergence of German-language Orthodoxy and its current state. The existence of the German- language Orthodox discourse as a special type of religious discourse is substantiated and its definition is given. The article describes the individual style of Archpriest Sergius Heitz as a prominent representative of German-language Orthodoxy on the example of the collection of his spiritual letters “Parochia. Briefe zu den Festmysterien“, written in the 1960-1980s.

The article traces the main trends in the use of spatial prepositions à, en, dans with geographical names of the French metropolis. An analysis of the methods of spatial conceptualization in the French language using prepositions is carried out on the example of constructions with a toponymic component, and the national-cultural specificity in the expression of a mental-toponymic stereotype is analyzed. Research methods: cognitive, conceptual, comparative.

The article examines the problem of determining visual color associations for vowels of the Russian language (development of a software package for automated phonosemantic analysis of texts). A technology is proposed for automated determination of color characteristics of various texts using a computer program (written in Python 3) based on experimental data obtained as a result of an associative (phonosemantic) experiment. The results of the study can be used both for the analysis and modification of any texts in order to create more vivid associations among various intended audiences, and in the field of, as it were, “regulation” of speech emotional impact on the recipient (listening or reading).

The article is devoted to the consideration of the linguistic category of intensity, its features, linguistic means of its representation at various language levels. The main characteristics of the autobiographical discourse are considered that serve as the basis for the research. The paper highlights and describes the main functions of the intensification of statements in English autobiographical discourse, such as defensive, exculpatory, accusatory and some other functions.

The paper focuses on the use of paronyms in the titles of articles in the present-day French periodicals. Paronymic attraction as a means to create language games that contribute to the expressiveness of a title is considered. The analysis shows that paronymic attraction is often based on precedent phenomena. Features of paronymic attraction in titles and functions of titles with paronyms are analyzed with reference to examples from the magazine L’Obs.

The purpose of the proposed article is to substantiate the hypothesis that both mythologeme and typologeme are equally historical categories forming a correlative pair - the unity of analogy and opposition. They are brought together by the archiseme common to the timeless mythologeme and the situational typologeme; they are opposed by the great historical time, localizing the mythologeme in the absolute past, and the typologeme in the relative present, the typified characters and circumstances of which grow to archetypal over time.

The article deals with the medieval poetic genre of petition and its implementation in the work of the Scottish poet William Dunbar. The main topics are a brief sketch of Dunbar ‘s creative biography, a typology of Dunbar’s poetic petitions (a request, a complaint, a “letter of explanation”), analysis of his poems in this genre, and their comparison with the petitions of other medieval poets. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that in all types of the genre of Dunbar’s petition, the artistic task is combined with the practical task.

The article analyzes Denis Osokin’s story «Yellowhammers», dedicated to the literary reconstruction of the national cultural tradition of the merya people. This story, a kind of literary Odyssey through the former lands of the merya people, is considered as the most complete representation of the cultural codes of modern merya. The writer refers to the mythological picture of the world, focusing on the values of the modern small ethnic people, thereby “fixing” the Volga ethnic groups on the cultural map of modern Russia, legitimizing the right of small peoples to accept their historical heritage.

The analysis of the concept of “Renaissance” and the experience of its application in cultural and academic practice demonstrates the emphasis on such a semantic aspect as the restoration of the lost status, its re-actualization. This emphasis is due to the original use of the term “Renaissance”, symbolizing the restoration of the values of ancient culture. In the following centuries and today, we can note a situation in which this process is repeated, albeit on a smaller scale; when the very idea of the “revival” of cultural heritage is subjected to “revival”, thereby the boundaries of the meaning of the terms “Renaissance” and “neo-Renaissance” are expanded.