Aim.   To study the semantic content of the floral images of cornflowers and lily of the valley in the novel “On the Eve” and the disclosure of their associative connection with the images of wildflowers in the Bible.

Methodology. To reveal the topic, analytical and comparative methods of studying literary text are used. Special attention is paid to the study of artistic images and details, their various functions in the text and their role in revealing the writer’s intention and position.

Results.  The result of the work was identifying the conceptual role of florosemantics and floropoetics of a literary text and a detailed analysis of the Gospel code, which is implemented in Turgenev’s novel through a system of motives for spiritual growth, spiritual pilgrimage, spiritual testing, spiritual trans -formation, and spiritual achievement.

Research  implications. The study of florotextual phenomena allowed us to expand the boundaries of interpretation and analysis of Turgenev’s novel, take a fresh look at the poetics of the narrative and better understand the features of the writer’s worldview.

Aim.   To investigate the lexical means of expressing the modal meaning of thoughtlessness of action in the works of I. Turgenev.

Methodology. The structural-semantic analysis of the structures extracted by the method of continuous sampling from the works of I. Turgenev is carried out along with the method of generalization.

Results. The result of the study was the identification of modal verbs, semantic type, the identification of features of thesentences structure with the semantics of thoughtlessness and the means of strengthening this meaning in the language of Turgenev.

Research implications.  The theoretical significance of the article is determined by the contribution to the methodology of linguistic analysis of the text. The materials of the article can be used in the practice of teaching modern Russian.

Aim.  To examine the role of sound, the colour factor, and the role of smells in the poetics of the the main characters’ images of the story “Asya” by I. S.  Turgenev .

Methodology. A model of an individual author’s description of the sound, colour, and olfactory segment is developed, based on a formalized continuous sample of material. A systematic description of the features of these components proves that these effects are one of the strongest markers when the author reports the psychological state of the characters.

Results. The corpus of linguistic units of semantic fields ‘sound’, ‘colour’, ‘light’, ‘smell’ in I. S.  Turgenev’s story “Asya” is revealed. The main dominants used by the author in the context of exploring the philosophy of love as a fragment of the emotional picture of the world are identified, and a conclusion is made about their compositional role.

Research  implications.   The study of this material made it possible to identify individual author’s universals of the transfer of the character’s emotional and psychological state through several sounds, colours, light images. The practical significance of the research is determined by the possibility of applying its materials and conclusions in teaching the stylistics of the Russian language, the language of fiction.

Aim. To describe the taxis functions of some affixed and affixless deverbatives of actional semantics in the aspect of their actualization.

Methodology. The article analyzes Russian deverbatives in –nie / –enie, –tie / –ie and unaffixed verbal nouns, demonstrating full semantic correlation with generating verbs and taxis property. When used with temporal and non-temporal prepositions, they realize the functions of primary-taxis and secondary-taxis actualizers of simultaneity and non-simultaneity. In the course of the study, hypothetical-deductive, inductive and descriptive methods were used, as well as the method of generalization and interpretation of linguistic material.

Results. As a result of the study, it was revealed that actional deverbatives with temporal prepositions implement the function of actualizers of primary-taxis meanings of simultaneity, precedence, following, and combination with non-temporal prepositions – the function of secondary-taxis actualizers.

Research implications. This article explores the issue of taxis functionality of Russian deverbatives, implemented in statements with temporal and non-temporal prepositions. The results of the study make a certain contribution to the theory of taxis. The main results of the study can be used in teaching the theory of language, as well as in conducting special courses on functional grammar.

Aim. To characterize the features of the macro-concept “friend-foe” representation means in the novel “Villi” by N. S. Dashevskaya.

Methodology. The analyzed text assumes the application of a conceptual analysis of the concepts of “house” and “kitchen” and the characterization of the means of their representation. In determining the significance of the identified language resources, lexicographic, contextual and quantitative methods were used to display the uniqueness of the “friend-foe” relationship as an idiosyncratic feature.

Results. The study of the representation means of the conceptions “home” and “kitchen” (42 lexemes) confirmed their significance for N. S. Dashevskaya’s representation of the relations of “one’s own” and “someone else’s” as an important category in the formation of the character zone of the work. It is proved that the reliance on general cultural concepts reflected in the background knowledge of the reader familiar with the fairy tale allows the author to saturate the text with conceptually significant associations, to strengthen its aesthetic impact on the recipient due to the connotative component of the idiolect units used.

implications. The theoretical significance of the work relates to the need to study the idiosyncrasies of modern authors of children’s literature. As an idiosyncratic feature of N. S. Dashevskaya, the specifics of the conceptual content of the fairy tale story “Villi” are described for the first time, the place of the concepts “house” and “kitchen” in the structure of the concepts “friend-foe” is determined, which allows us to clarify their significance for the Russian conceptual sphere.

Aim. To account for the main communication strategies and tactics used for conflict accommodation in virtual interaction of LiveJournal users during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methodology. Contexts are studied as a semantic whole in terms of the presented language means by means of linguistic and stylistic analysis. Thanks to pragmalinguistic analysis, author's motives, intentions, and attitudes were revealed. Contextual analysis ensured that the situation of text generation and perception was taken into account when studying the functional specifics of words and their meanings, namely the COVID-19 pandemic situation.

Results. The most frequent communicative strategies and tactics used by virtual communicators during the specified time period for conflict accommodation were identified, namely, persuasion strategy - tactics of referring to authority, reasoning/ persuasion tactics, exposure strategy – tactics of expressing distrust, self-presentation strategy – distancing tactics.

Research implications. The theoretical significance of the study is that it helps comprehend the process of controlling the emerging speech collision in a virtual interaction and offer options for resolving the conflict and continuing the interaction with the aggressor.

Aim.  To establish the peculiarities of the speaker’s style in a business situation of fuel and energy discourse of linguistic and social nature, to give a qualitative characteristic of language units in interaction with the speech situation and communicative goal setting, as well as to determine the language mechanisms for regulating the communicative action of the communication participants (type of text, means of addressing, the nature of communication participants’ relationships, subject-object relations, type of speech situation).

Methodology. During the research, the methods of complex, component, oppositional, distributive analysis and corpus description were used as well as the functional and stylistic text analysis.

Results.  The analysis of the minimal language units, various special texts that have become the result of professional speech activity in the socio-political situation and cultural and historical conditions, allowed us to determine the following communicative and pragmatic features of political discourse: 1)  genre of written  / printed or oral text (for example, document, legal act, speech, etc.); 2) designation of the topic of the discursive text and its actualization; definition of stylistic and linguistic features (conservatism and standardization; 3)  clarity of the text (the use of well-known vocabulary; minor grammatical complexity of the text; invitability, agitation; emotional expressiveness) 4) the objectivity of the presentation (the designation of specific results, statistical data); 5)  the expression of subjective modality (primarily the expression of a positive attitude be means of modal words and expressions, introductory and insertion constructions, emotional and evaluative vocabulary).

Research implications.  In this article, communicative-pragmatic and genre features of the political dis -course of the fuel and energy complex as a special type of business communication were established; style-forming units were identified; linguistic means of organizing specialized texts were described. The research results can be used in the practice of teaching such linguistic disciplines  as “Semantics of the text”, “Pragmatics of the text”, “Stylistics of the Russian language”, “Theory of Genres”, “Business communication”, “Language and Speech”, “Discursive practices”, “Norms of the Russian literary language”, as well as when conducting special courses and seminars.

Aim.  The paper aims to trace the linguistic understanding of the notion “genre” and genre typology of scientific texts in Russian linguistics of the 1960s – 1970s.

Methodology.  The research is based on the analysis of linguistics studies on genre in general and the genres of scientific texts in particular. The study is conducted through observation, generalization, interpretation of the results and comparative analysis.

Results. It was found out that linguistic thought passed several stages on the way to developing genre approach to scientific texts and that it was possible due to its collaboration with other disciplines, such as literary studies, theory of translation, language teaching theory and book studies, the whole process having been guided by the logic of the development of science itself, especially information science.

Research implications.   The  obtained results may broaden the horizons of scientific text studies from genre perspective.

Aim.  To give a comprehensive analysis of the state of the Russian language in the field of speech culture and linguistic ethics, making a short excursus into the history of origin and development of a constantly updated scientific and applied integral discipline.

Methodology.   The  main content of the study is the analysis of language units. The analysis of the researchers’ views on the problem of the modern Russian language in the context of the speech culture is given .

Results. The  extra-linguistic reasons that determine the negative language phenomena are revealed, as well as the relationship between democratic transformations in the society and the liberalization of linguistic, communicative and ethical norms is established.

Research implications.  A clarification of the concept of “democratization” of linguistic processes and its role in the development of the Russian language as a state language uniting more than 190 peoples in the Russian Federation is proposed. The materials can be used in the practice of teaching the Russian language and culture of speech.

Aim.  To conduct the analysis of functional parameters and communicative properties of interjections as expressivizers of communicative reactions represented in a text dialogue. To define, describe, and systematize the functions of emotive interjections in the individualization of characters’ images in the semantic space of the author’s text.

Methodology. The  research base of the work was developed by means of functional and descriptive methods used to analyze the functions of emotive interjections in a text dialogue, to describe the features of expressivization by interjections of communicative reactions of subjects, systematization of modus-expressive meanings actualized by interjections, as well as differentiation of semantic shades in the communicative field of the author’s text. 

Results.  The  paper analyzes the features of the functioning of emotive interjections in the expressivization of dialogue, establishes the communicative functions of these interjections in the semantic space of the author’s text, clarifies the functional parameters of emotive interjections as representatives of emotional and psychological subject reactions. It is proved that emotive interjections in the dialogues of a literary text manifest themselves as multifunctional speech amplifiers, words used by the artist to individualize the images of characters in the text evaluation zone. The functional and communicative-pragmatic properties of emotive interjections as means of expressing the subject’s personal opinion through the representation of multilayered psychological reactions are determined. The aspects of the speaker’s speech impact on the addressee in a text dialogue with the help of emotive interjections are analyzed.

Research implications.  The  theoretical and practical significance is based on the generalization of theoretical and practical data obtained during the study of the stated scientific problem. One of the vectors of the development of the functional and expressive resource of linguistic means in text dialogues is investigated on the basis of identifying and systematizing the functional parameters of interjections in the semantic space of a literary text when individualizing the images of characters through the communicative reactions expressivized by them. The proposed way of analyzing the stated research problem is theoretically justified and practically tested: from establishing the communicative and pragmatic functions of emotive interjections in a text dialogue to analyzing the specifics of functioning of the considered linguistic means as vivid expressivizers of the literary text semantic space.

Aim.  To analyze the phenomenon of lexicalization as an active process in the semantics of diminutive nouns naming parts of the human body. The authors focus on the complete or partial loss of the original forms of their “affectionate” and “expressive” meanings.

Methodology. The article analyzes the semantic structure of diminutive forms formed based on somaticisms against the background of the history of the study of the lexicalization phenomenon. The question is raised about the reasons for the absence of diminutives in some nouns of the studied group. The nature of the polysemy of diminutive forms is considered in detail. To solve these problems, the method of analyzing dictionary definitions, word-formation analysis, component analysis are used.

Results. Productive and unproductive word-formation models are revealed, according to which diminutives from the names of body parts (somatisms) are formed in the Russian language; semantic differences between variant forms are shown. The formation mechanism of diminutive-somatisms secondary meanings has been studied. Secondary nominations are divided into lexical-semantic groups. The authors come to the conclusion that “diminutive forms” should be considered the result of the word formation process, since they show independence in the development of the figurative meanings system. The regular lexicalization of these forms clearly indicates the conventionality of the boundary between modification and mutational word formation.

Research  implications.   The results of the study contribute to the lexicology, morphology, word formation of the modern Russian language, as well as to the theory of nomination. They can be used in compiling educational dictionaries intended for foreign students.

Aim.  To examine the semantic value of “Irkutsk” aktualema in 2019 and 2020. 

Methodology. The  corpus of electronic texts was analyzed, conceptual analysis aimed to describe the content of “Irkutsk” aktualema was conducted .

Results.  In accordance with the results of the study, the conclusion was made on tendency of relevant concepts to relate to various discourses in the course of their development. 

Research implications.  The study deepens the concept of media text, blog language, the notion of “aktualema” and develops the theory of actualization of semantic components of the concept under the influence of socio-cultural factors. 

Aim.  To study the functional role of the means of the communicative level of the Russian language in creating an isolated comic effect in a sounding stage monologue .

Methodology.  The  main methods of research are the method of auditory analysis, method of semantic analysis of the communicative means of the sounding language, observation, generalization and interpretation of results .

Results. The means of the communicative level participate in creating a comic effect on a par with the means of the nominative level, entering into relations of conjunction, inversion or disjunction with them. When creating an isolated comic effect, communicative means perform a reprising function.

Research implications.  The  results of the study contribute to the study of the means of the communicative level of the Russian language, as well as  expand the knowledge about the mechanisms of the comic effect formation.

Aim. To identify the artistic specificity of the verbal portrait poetics in A. Green's stories from 1900 to 1910.

Methodology. The evolution of verbal portrait in Green's early prose is traced: from the general social characteristics to the individual psychological ones, the attention is particularly focused on the dynamic properties of portraits, reflecting momentary changes in a person’s condition. The research relies on descriptive and hermeneutical methods.

Results. It is concluded that Green already declared himself as a master of verbal portrait in his early work. A variety of vocabulary, tropes, coloristic and phonological means were used for the expressiveness of the portrait; the principles of mirroring are used as a tool for self-knowledge and self-analysis of the character; subjective contemplation and perception are productive in increasing the level of psychologization; the functionality of the a priori portrait in the further development of events is also active.

Research implications. The results of the research can be used in lectures on the history of Russian literature of the 20^th century and in special courses on Green’s work.