Aim of the article is to describe the manifestations of the implicit phase category that is implemented by the verbal phraseological units in the contexts; the phase paradigm construction and the phase characteristics comparison of a particular idiom and a verb, which is its central component. Metodology. The research uses dictionary definitions, the method of component analysis, the method of substitution, and semantic interpretation. The theoretical basis is the theory of the phase paradigmatics of the Russian verb; the material is Russian verbal phraseological units. Results . It is proved that verbs in Russian with phase valence and the phase paradigmatics, to a lesser extent, save these grammatical properties in verbal phraseological units. The phase paradigm of verbal phraseological units is rarely complete as opposed to the analytical phaseness. The verbal phraseological units with the imperfect verbs are easily implemented in combination with all phase verbs. Reserch implications. The article summarizes the material on the research topic. The results obtained can be used in lexicographic practice for a complete description of verbal phraseological units.

Aim. Based on the content analysis of the transcripts of interviews with political leaders, the article aims to reveal the specifics of the resolutions of the substitute, to describe the factors that determine the choice of a reduced group, to substantiate the frequency of the complex discursive anaphora in the genre of political interviews. Methodology. Through the observations and the introspection methods based on linguistic modeling and transformation, in the course of the work, the article analyzed the means of re-nomination, organizing logical-semantic relations of antecedent-anaphoric complex (AAC) components with the semantics of the purpose - reduced nominal phrases, nominal and verbal phrases with anaphoric pronouns of different categorical correlations. Results. The specificity of the correlations of the antecedent and the referential means was established as the basis for the deployment of a complex discursive anaphora of the proposed-nominal type; the specifics of two options for resolving anaphora are described; the functional of referential expressions that form the propositional judgment of the antecedent into the grammatical cover of a purpose is revealed. The study revealed the facts and factors of violations of the structural cohesion of AAC components and situations of the mobility of the reference group as a part of the substitute. It has been established that the congruence of the semantic structure of the purpose and the AAC determines the discursive organic nature of the latter as a dismembered way of explicating judgments into statements about the purpose, and the peculiarities of the organization of the communicative meaning of the complex are most consistent with the speaker's pragmatic attitudes and the type of communication situation - a political interview. Research implications. Theoretical implication of the study is determined by the use of a cognitive approach to the analysis of political discourse, the identification of complex factors that ensure the congruence of the purpose semantic structure and the organization of the AAC, as well as the communicative intentions to «package» judgments. The practical implication of the work is in the possibility of including research materials in courses on discourse analysis and cognitive linguistics, as well as the use in the preparation of political discourse analysis textbooks (government-binding theory and generative semantics).

Aim. To reveal the function of words with lexical and semantic field “city” in the language of Y.V. Trifonov’s novel “The House on the Embankment”. Methodology. The authors identified, classified and analyzed nouns, adjectives, adverbs and collocations with the semantic component ‘city’. Results. It is empirically confirmed that words with lexical and semantic field "city" in Y. Trifonov's novel "The House on the Embankment" perform an aesthetic function. They form a special changeable image of a city in the writer's artistic world. With their help the author shows a city as a background where events take place for forty years, as an integral part of characters' life and as a reflection of their inner world. Research implications. It consists in generalization of a significant vocabulary amount, which confirms the idea that a city plays an important role in Y. Trifonov’s artistic world and is its main locus.

Aim. The purpose of this work is to identify the role of the verbalizer children of the concept of childhood in the novel «Family happiness» by F. Vigdorova. Methodology. The article considers the frequency of use of the lexeme children and its word forms, lexical and semantic field in the novel «Family happiness» by F. Vigdorova. The research uses the following methods: linguistic observation and description, statistical calculation, and elements of component analysis. Results. In the course of the work, the author has established that the units with the root -дет-, recorded in the work, are frequent in the idiolect; the word children is used in the main usual meanings with actual differential semes, but in addition to the explicit meaning, it is also characterized by an implicit; thr context reflects the traditional understanding of the Russian worldview of units with the root of дети, which act as usual explicators of the concept of childhood and express the main meaning of the verbalizer children of the concept of childhood in the novel «Family happiness» by F. Vigdorova - the role of the family in the moral and spiritual development of a person. Research implications. Previously published scientific articles do not consider and do not disclose the lexeme children in the work of F. Vigdorova, so the scientific novelty of this work is evident. The article is addressed to students of philological faculties, philologists, linguists engaged in the study of concepts, exploring the creative heritage of the writer of the 20th century, journalist, deputy F. Vigdorova.

Aim. The purpose of the study is to identify and describe the types of indirect speech tactics of the refusal to answer and ways of its implementation. Metodologу. We used the method of descriptive and taxonomic research, as well as the method of context-semantic analysis of the tactics, by which the addressee of the question indirectly refuses to answer the question. Results. Indirect refusal to answer differs from the unintentionally unsuccessful response of the respondent's question and an explicit refusal to answer and answer-deception since it does not express an apparent reluctance to answer and does not contain false information that the questioner may consider accurate. Speech ways of implementing the strategy of indirect refusal to answer may be realized in providing the reasons for the lack of informative response - responder pretends he didn't hear the question, didn't understand it or that the question is irrelevant, insincere, unimportant, incorrect, or inappropriate, or post uninformative answers, the addressee of the question deliberately informs the questioner of unwanted response to avoid providing the required information. Research implications lies in a systematic analysis of records of indirect refusal to respond: for the first time, the conditions under which the recipient indirectly refuses to respond are clarified and described, and speech actions used to detect the recipient's unwillingness to respond are identified and described. The theoretical significance of the study is determined by the fact that its results and conclusions can contribute to a deeper understanding of the characteristics of an incompatible mutual question, in particular, deliberate refusal to answer the question; clarifying the concept of indirect speech tactics can become a theoretical basis for further research in the field of speech interaction. The practical significance of the work is that its material can be used in courses on rhetoric, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and practical manuals on rhetoric and communication.

Aim. The article is an attempt to reconstruct the cognitive model of taste perception based on a conceptual metaphor in the aspect of contrastive research of the principles of metaphorization of vocabulary with semantics of taste in Chinese and Russian languages, generalization of parameters of similarities and differences of metaphorical meanings of “taste” vocabulary in the compared languages, as well as analysis of a metaphorical fragment of the national picture of the world, where metaphorical nominations with semantics of taste perception are used to characterize phenomena of the physiological, psychological and social spheres. Methodology. An analysis of the Chinese and Russian language material was carried out using contrastive and comparative research methods, which made it possible to identify and describe the similarities and differences between the metaphorical meanings of vocabulary with the semantics of taste in the Chinese and Russian languages, thus expanding the scope of the conceptual description of the metaphorical fragment of the Chinese and Russian picture of the world in her language area. Results. A contrasting analysis of linguistic material confirmed the hypothesis that the metaphorical parameters of gustatory perception represented at the linguistic level in the Chinese and Russian linguistic pictures of the world largely coincide, but at the same time, significant differences in the metaphorized semantics of a number of Chinese and Russian lexical units that actualize gustatory spheres reflected in compared national linguistic pictures of the world. The study of the stated problem made it possible to detail the important parameters of the specificity of the metaphorical-associative meaning of vocabulary in the languages of different peoples, to concretize the similarities and differences between the Russian and Chinese languages in the field of metaphorization of lexical units. Research implications. It consists in generalizing theoretical data on the topic under study. Chinese and Russian lexical units with the semantics of gustatory perception are investigated at the level of establishing the laws of their metaphorization in the semantic sphere. The way of analyzing empirical material is substantiated - from concepts to means of their representation.

Aim of the article is the analysis of epithets in the poetic idiostyle of A. Tolstoy, the Russian poet of the 19 century. Methodology. The article deals with identifying the lexical-semantic originality and functioning of adjectives-epithets in the poet's lyrical discourse. Context analysis is the primary research method based on the semantic method. Results. Based on the results of the study, the author makes a conclusion about the variety of thematic groups of adjectives-epithets and the peculiarities of their semantics, their formation based on the direct and figurative lexical meanings of various adjective categories. Additional meanings, evaluative and connotative components in the meaning of epithets, individual-author epithets, their syntagmatics are revealed. All this emphasizes the originality of the author's picture of the world, the poetic consciousness of A. Tolstoy. Reserch implications. The analysis of epithets in Tolstoy's works allows a new way of looking at his poetry's semantic versatility and shows richness, diversity, and originality of his poetic language.

Aim. The article aims to describe syntactic models (structural schemes or formulas) of the Russian language containing emotional meanings. Methodology. The paper's main content is the analysis of syntactic models of the Russian language (fixed in scientific and didactic literature) from the point of view of the possibility of simultaneous expression of rational and emotional information. The models making the core of the language's syntactic level and phraseologized units forming its periphery are compared. Result. It is shown that Russian models relating to the periphery of the syntactic field, such as Chto za prelest'!, Chem ne podarok, Vsem pirogam pirog, Vot tebe i priyateli!, Iz hitrecov hitrec, Nu i rezul'tat!, Prazdnik ne v prazdnik, Ya li ne lyubila, etc., systematically contain and convey the emotional connotation (doubt, admiration, surprise, disapproval, etc.). Reserch imlpications. The article lists the conditions (lexical constants, selection of grammatical classes, word order, intonation) under which the syntactic model systematically expresses emotional meanings. These phraseologized models require obligatory (though second-rate) inclusion in grammars and textbooks of the Russian language.

Aim. This work aims to identify characteristics of the causative semantics of Russian-emotive verbs and their interpretation in the headlines of the modern Internet media that corresponds to the tasks of "Semantic and grammatical dictionary of Russian verbs. Methodology. The article analyzes verbs of the same lexical and semantic group, sets morphological priorities within the inflectional paradigm of these verbs, and identifies syntactic conditions that strengthen or weaken a seme of intentional/unintentional causation. Methods of observation, corpus analysis, and discursive analysis were used in the verbs' research. Results. Corpus and text analysis of constructions with causative emotives allowed us to present the semantic and grammatical properties of causative-emotive verbs and show their role in different types of headings. Research implications. The research results are intended for lexicographic representation of causative emotives in an integral dictionary that combines morphological, syntactic, functional, and communicative information with characteristics of the lexical semantics of verbs of the same group.

Aim. The article aims to identify and analyze the perception and assessment of the Russian Federation's language policy by modern Russian speakers. Methodology. The paper presents sociolinguistic monitoring results aimed at studying the level of language training of respondents, their attitude to measures to implement the Russian Federation's language policy in the legislative, educational, and foreign policy spheres. Besides, during the study, methods of observation, generalization, and interpretation of results were used. Results. The study revealed the attitude of modern native speakers to the most pressing issues of the Russian Federation's language policy and described the initiatives of respondents to popularize the Russian language both inside the country and abroad. Research implications. The research results can be used to form the strategy of the Russian Federation's state language policy and its subjects.

Aim. The article aims to investigate the polysemantics of the aesthetic strategies that determined the tr ansition from sentimentalism to the romanticism of B. de Saint - Pierre in the novel «Paul and Virginie», the special features of the poetics and historical and literary significance. Methodology. The article is based on a comprehensive historical and literary analysis of the work, with the elements of cultural, mythocritical, and hermeneutical approaches. Results. It’s proved that B. de Saint-Pierre embodied the transition to romanticism as an incomplete process that in a contradicting manner combines the naturalization of the genre whole (synthesis) with socio-psychological motives and myths. The mode of the irrational problematizes the underlying teleological model of the genre. Preparing and anticipating the works by Chateaubriand and G. de Stael, the author introduced existential themes and motives inherent in romanticism, an unsolvable conflict of «real» and «ideal». The romantic aesthetics of antinomies and contrasts grow through traditional forms and interacts with them, creating new meanings; the ratio of the lyrical and the picturesque, the dramatic and the tragic, sensitivity and senses, the providential and the fateful. The novel contributes to forming a romantic melodrama that characterizes many genres of the popular literature of the nineteenth century. Research implications. The results of the research deepen the understanding of the process of changing aesthetic paradigms; antithetical and ambivalent poetics of the novel, which develops the principles of romantic writing; in University courses on the history of foreign literature of the turn of the 18th - early 19th centuries.

Aim is to investigate the motives of water and fire, which are a representation of the universal concepts "Water" and "Fire" in the ideological and aesthetic system of "War and Peace." This leads to the formulation of the following tasks: consideration of essential aspects of L. Tolstoy's worldview, problem-thematic analysis of the work, its symbolic structure, features of the artistic space, consideration of methods of psychological research, folklore and mythological influences. The observations allow us to demonstrate the features of the artistic implementation of the above concepts. Methodology. The article's methodological basis presupposes reliance on such basic literary approaches as interpretive, cultural-historical, systemic and holistic analysis, mythopoetic. Results. The considered motives of water and fire in the epic novel carry world-organizing, plot-form- ing, socio-ethical, psychological, folklore-mythological functions, are associated with eschatologism, sacrifice, spiritual liberation and are the embodiment at the ideological and aesthetic level of the basic concepts "Water" and "Fire". These mental units are included in the concept sphere of the great novel, and together with others reflect the originality of the author's thinking, the artist's life philosophy, his axiology, epistemology, ontology, the worldview of a certain era, the national picture of the world, carry folklore and mythological information. Research implications. The observations can be used in the study of the model of the artistic world of the epic novel, the originality of the national consciousness, the historical, philosophical and ethical views of L. Tolstoy of 1860s, as well as in the scientific commenting on "War and Peace", in the development of special courses on the work of L. Tolstoy.

Aim. The article aims to analyze the compositional organization of the poetry collection "The White Pack" by A. Akhmatova and its constituent poems from the point of view of unifying elements. Methodology. The White Flock is considered a single whole in the article; therefore, both the frame-heading complex and the lexical and structural elements that emphasize the unity of the collection are subjected to detailed analysis, explaining the use of the textological and hermeneutic method. Results. The analysis showed that the framework elements have important temporal semantics correlated with historical events. Therefore, the heading elements are clearly worked out. Akhmatova reduces - compared with "Evening" and "Rosary" - the number of emotionally expressive elements in poems; the emphasis is on the event's image. The organization of poems is not chronological but semantic. Therefore several internal cycles are observed in the collection. Research implications. The article's practical significance is due to the possibility of its use as a description of one of the new approaches to the analysis of the book of verses as a large form.

Review on the book V. Voropaev “There is no other door ...: About Gogol and not only" (Moscow, BelyJ Gorod PUBL., 2019. 448 p.)