No 6(874) (2023)

The article describes contextual conditions which influence the interpretation of the modal meanings of the verb moč in Russian and können in German. By the usage of the method of contextual analysis, descriptive and transformational methods, it is shown that the transitivity of modal meanings is influenced by such parameters as the activity/passivity of the semantic subject, the type of verb, temporal perspective and the use of appropriate lexical indicators.

Thearticle defines the essence of religious conversion, considers sociocultural and linguopragmatic aspects of convertite’s media narrative. The media narrative is considered as a semiotical compound in which the author’s narrative intention is realized using verbal and non-verbal means (video, photo, audio etc.). The author’s strategy in media narrative is the agency with Islam. It is realized using various techniques (representative, mnemonic, adaptive, integrating etc.), which reflect various stages of conversion (pre-conversion, conversion, post-integrating etc.), coming up to various parts of the narrative composition.

The article presents the results of a study of the perception of verbal and creolized texts in German by Russian recipients. The study was conducted using the scaling method (according to scales in German and Russian). It is established that the evaluation of the verbal text in Russian schools always turns out to be higher in absolute value of the evaluation of the same text on (translated) German scales. Implementation in most cases increases the absolute grades for German schools and lowers for Russian schools.

This article is dedicated to investigating the model of irony called OBJECT-EQUATING in the discourse of the TV-program „heute-show” on the ZDF channel. The article explores the application of this model within a multimodal text and analyzes its influence on forming ironic meaning in the text. The article provides a linguistic analysis of a multimodal text (a video excerpt) from „heute-show”, related to the topic of Deutsche Bahn. The analysis reveals the peculiarities of using the model of OBJECT-EQUATING.

The article provides an overview of the principles of demonstrating lexical compatibility in Russian-German and German-Russian combinatorial dictionaries and the available prospectuses of similar dictionaries of the 20th and 21st centuries. The features of the organization of dictionary entries are revealed, the most and least successful ways of organizing of the lexicographic material from the perspective of users are predicted, missing ways of demonstrating compatibility in the analyzed dictionaries are indicated, variants of fragments of missing types of dictionaries are proposed.

The article presents a comparative analysis of text structures of the discursive-and-communicative form “Description” in two discourse types, text presentation parameterized by conditions and interaction channels as well as pragmatic orientation of communication. The materials under scrutiny are: Peter Bruegel the Elder’s ‘Landscape with the Fall of Icarus’ as described in the German language in the Brussels Royal Fine-Arts Museum catalogue and in a fictional essay by the German author Wolf Biermann.

The article aims at reviewing the current state of audiovisual translation theory in Russia and abroad. The author focuses on various research paradigms in audiovisual translation studies and identifies the following types of research approaches: text-centered linguistic approach, functional-semiotic approach, functional-didactic approach, communicative-semiotic approach and communicative-functional approach. In conclusion, the author outlines a range of problems for further study using the methodological apparatus of modern translation studies.

E. T. A. Hoffmann devotes the article to considering the verbal expression of time and space characteristics in the fairy-tale “Cavalier Gluck”. Special attention was paid to such grammatical means as verb forms, adverbs, numerals, nouns with time and space meaning, and syntactic constructions, as well. Using the method of linguistic analysis allowed to discover some features of verbal means of the fairy-tale.

The perception-production link has been studied mainly on the segmental level. The paper examines the perception and production of terminal tones (their placement, pitch level and movement) by Russian learners of English with different level of language proficiency. Two experiments have resulted in a correlation between the cases when the tone placement and its characteristics are identical. The former has shown up to 50 % of corresponding tone placement cases and the latter - 56 % of cases. The perception task has revealed up to 25 % of corresponding tone descriptions and in the production task there are 27 % of such cases.

The article describes one of the most interesting movements in the literature of the early 20th century - futurism. The main attention is paid to comparing the artistic peculiarities of Italian and Russian futurism. The authors give examples of similarities and differences in the way the futurism developed in the literatures of the two countries, and also make special emphasis on the unusual terminology used by Italian and Russian futurists in their works.

The article discusses the models of traumatic narrative in Petrushevskaya's work, including non-linear narrative for the reference of ethical family trauma, intertextual narrative for the aesthetic perception of collective trauma, and rehearsal narrative for creating a thematic metaphor for psychic trauma. It was revealed that in the deep relationship between the voices of the author, the narrator and the character, inconsistency, heterogeneity and polyphony of the narrative discourse of trauma and the critical attitude of the author to the depiction of traumatic events are manifested.

The article examines the contexts of understanding the concept of the «Holy City», provides examples from various spheres of artistic culture that represent this image in the domestic history. The boundaries of modern scientific interpretations of the “topos” are also noted, the connection of the image with the self-identification of the culture carrier is revealed. The research involves interdisciplinary approaches that allow the author to approach a holistic understanding of this concept. The semantic boundaries of the concept of the “Holy City” are determined by the sacral origins, which in their turn determine the translation of the corresponding semantic connotations in modern culture.