Aim. To describe and justify Gogol’s desire for positive assessments in the search for a positive character. To create an axiological portrait of Gogol in the context of linguistic-axiological research.
Methodology. The theoretical basis of the study was made up of works on the study of the assessment category in a multi-paradigm context (E. M. Wolf, V. I. Karasik, T. V. Markelova); on the study of Gogol’s language with its rich lexical composition (V. V. Vinogradov, B. N. Eikhenbaum), poetics (V. A. Voropaev); in cognitive science (V. I. Karasik) This study used the methods of component semantic analysis, linguistic-cognitive analysis, linguistic-stylistic analysis of the speech canvas of a literary text in the interpretive context of the author-addresser – literary text – reader-addressee paradigm; pragmatic-stylistic analysis of an aesthetic sign; interpretive analysis.
Results. Knowledge of the world in artistic thinking passes through the knowledge of language, which creates the opportunity for a creative dialogue between the subject and language, and here the discovery of language, its system and its capabilities is literally accomplished. The language of the “laughing judge,” inspired by the thirst for knowledge of Russia and the Russian people, was a discovery of this kind for contemporaries and still remains for us. The axiological portrait of Gogol is considered as a phenomenon of Russian life, relevant “yesterday” and “today”, inspired by the search of a positive character forced in the analyzed artistic space to move away from the realism with which his talent blessed him. The features of assessment-fantasy are revealed, reflecting paradoxical and absurdist meanings, the way out of which is the discovery of positive meanings in Russian people and Russian life. As an evaluative contrast, the technique of “transforming” the commendable into the blameworthy, the negative into the positive, the dead bureaucrat turning into a noble knight, is described. The role of pragmemes in the expression of double evaluation as the basis of assessment-fantasy is demonstrated. The non-existent, unreal appears in an evaluative form.
Research implications. Based on theoretical data, evaluative classification and a modern cognitivediscursive approach to the text, specific features of evaluation-fantasy are identified, its role in the study of Gogol’s work is shown - the “enchanted place” of Russian literature, the treasury of “immortal laughter”, the space of the unreal in the real. An attempt has been made to interpret Gogol’s visions in a modern way.

Aim. The aim of the work is to identify the semantic commonality of the borderline chronotope in the early prose of Gogol and the collection of short stories by Pu Songling.
Methodology. The work undertakes a consistent and comprehensive analysis of border chronotopes in the prose of Gogol and Pu Songling to identify common motifs and their subsequent comparative study and interpretation. The main research methods were analysis and subsequent synthesis and the comparative method in literary criticism.
Results. Analyzing various borderline chronotopes characteristic of Gogol’s and Pu Songling’s fantasy works (time: evening, night, holiday; locus: house, study, window, road, dream, etc.), we can come to the conclusion that the intermediate point of spatial-temporal existence can be interpreted as a special sphere where the hero comes into contact with alien characters at a tense moment in his life and remains alive and whole or perishes – depending on the moral decisions he has made.
Research Implications. The significance of the work lies in the fact that its results make it possible to clarify the originality of the presence of fantastic images of the other world in the works of Gogol and Pu Songling; the results of the study can be used both when studying Gogol’s work in a Chinese audience, and for developing an educational course on comparative study of Russian and Chinese literature.

Aim. To trace the ways of the author’s interaction with the reader in the collection “Evenings on a farm near Dikanka” by N. V. Gogol.
Methodology. Narrational strategies of N. Gogol in “Evenings on a farm near Dikanka” are identified from the standpoint of receptive aesthetics, their impact on the “perceiving consciousness” is also noted. The study is based on descriptive and systemic approaches to literary text.
Results. It was established that Gogol, through the use of artistic framing techniques, “speech masks”, and authorial monologue, influences the reader’s perception of the text; the role of these techniques in shaping literary experience is also noted.
Research implications. Studying this problem has allowed identifying authorial narrative techniques in the collection “Evenings on a farm near Dikanka”. The obtained results may be useful for literary research dedicated to the role of the reader in the process of reception and interpretation of artistic works.

Aim. To identify and describe the origin of the most actively expanding groups of Russian automotive terminological vocabulary borrowed from the English language in oral spoken and non-professional publicistic discourse.
Methodology. The most dynamically developing groups of calqued, directly borrowed (transcribed, transliterated) and metaphorically reinterpreted by the modern Russian language consciousness automotive terminology in oral and non-professional publicistic discourse are identified and described by the author.
Results. The article concludes that the automotive terminology in the Russian oral and non-professional publicistic discourse is actively replenished due to borrowings from the English language. The paper also focuses on the increasingly noticeable transition of technical vocabulary denoting the most dynamically upgraded components, units and parts of a modern automobile from the category of special to the category of commonly used.
Research implications. The results of the work can be used for classification of the Russian automotive terms by origin and methods of word formation.

Aim. To reveal the logical-semantic restrictions for implementing the general factual meaning (GFM) of Russian verbs.
Methodology. A diagnostic observation of modern spoken speech was carried out alongside with the registering of speech material and subsequent logical-semantic and syntactic analysis.
Results. In the quantity sphere two logical-semantic restrictions for using GFM in the simple sentence are detected: 1) in partitive characteristic of the object; 2) in counting the objects. The explanatory model of these language phenomenon for the “Russian as a foreign language” (RFL) courses is created.
Research implications. Gained results widen the knowledge of peculiarities of using the verbs in GFM in speech. Gained language and speech facts have led to creation of explanatory model for several RFL courses – Syntax, Colloquial Speech and Bilingual Translation, which contributes to forming the communicative competence of foreign students at Russian Acquisition Levels B1-B2-C1.

Aim. To identify the linguocreative continuum of ergonymic nominations as a special zone of influence on the consciousness of modern urban society.
Methodology. The description of ergonymic linguistic createmes is carried out on the basis of structural, semantic and motivational analysis, which makes it possible to decode the intention of the nominator, represented in a non-standard linguistic form. To verify the perception of the axiological setting of the ergonym, data from pilot associative experiments are used.
Results. The typology of models and linguocreative technique of creating ergonyms of the thematic sphere “Nominations of educational institutions” in the light of the value dominants of the versatile development of the child’s personality is presented. The productivity of language game practices in this cluster of modern ergonymicon is substantiated.
Research implications. In line with the linguocognitive and psycholinguistic approaches, the imagebased pragmatic component of ergonymic linguistic concepts is substantiated.

Aim. To reveal some parameters of semantic-grammatical relativism of evaluative and static predicates of the Russian language.
Methodology. TThe main content of the study is the analysis of the functioning of Russian predicates in the context of ideas about relevance / irrelevance and temporal localization as the basic characteristics of state predicates. The main research methods are descriptive method, component analysis and contextual analysis.
Results. The work discusses the issues of localization of mental and social states in constructions with the so-called. determinants of various types. The parameters of semantic-grammatical relativism of predicatives with property / quality semantics are considered separately. As a result of the analysis, the author identifies certain parameters of relativism in the semantics of state, assessment and quality in constructions of various types. In particular, the features of the implementation of evaluative and statistic semantics in constructions with determinants were identified.
Research implications. The data obtained make it possible to clarify the characteristics of the class of predicates of the Russian language, as well as the semantic classes of “state” and “property / quality”. The results of the study make a certain contribution to the semantic typology of predicates and can be used when teaching a course on the modern Russian literary language, as well as when conducting special courses on functional grammar and cognitive syntax.

Aim. To analyze the artistic reflection of the activities of the political movement “Red Army Faction” (RAF) in the work of the modern German prose writer B. Schlink using the example of the novel “The Weekend” and identify the main reasons for its appearance in the 1960s in Germany.
Methodology. Analytical, cultural-historical, comparative-historical, descriptive and psychological methods of studying the artistic text are used to reveal the theme. The author of the research gives an analysis of public life in Germany after the Second World War. The article indicates that the topic of the formation of a new, economically strong, modern German state was reflected not only in public life, but also in art as well as in literature. At the same time, as part of the study of practical material, the reasons that led to the emergence of a radical movement in the country were identified, the “shadow” sides of the economically successful Federal Republic of Germany were revealed. The relevance of the problem indicated in the article is due to the reflection and representation of the activities of RAF in the modern German literature on the example of B. Schlink's novel “The Weekend”. The main content of the study is a contextual analysis of the novel on a given theme, in addition, an interpretation of the “generational conflict” problem and a comparison of this topic with the works of the German classics are briefly given.
Results. According to the results of the study, it was concluded that in the novel “The Weekend” Schlink managed to show a complex collision between the “acceptance” and the “understanding” of German history by different generations, the writer psychologically subtly noticed the inability to objectively analyze the same historical event through the eyes of “fathers'” and “children”. In addition, it was revealed that in the novel the writer subtly leads the reader to the awareness of the senselessness of the armed war against the “former” Nazis and neo-Nazis in the same ways that they had previously used.
Research implications. The study confirms the problem of generations is relevant for modern Germany and occupies one of the main places in the works of B. Schlink. The theme of “fathers” and “children” is also present in Schlink’s works out of connection with the Nazism theme and is psychological in nature. It should be noted that in domestic literary criticism the topic of Nazism is widely analyzed on the example of the novel “Reader”, however, other novels devoted to the problem of generations have not been sufficiently analyzed. The results of the study can be used in the further study of Schlink’s works, in teaching the course on history of foreign literature of the XX–XXI centuries.

Aim. To find correspondences in the mathematical and literary ideas of the two authors and to understand how mathematical algorithms are embodied in the structure of their novels.
Methodology. By means of employing various modes of analysis (hermeneutical, comparative, and cultural-historical methods), it is shown that in the novels Petersburg and We mathematics, both algebra and geometry, determines the way the authors and their characters perceive the world, and, as a consequence, special attention is paid to mathematics in the context of considering the psychology and even physiology of the characters.
Results. The analysis shows that mathematics determines Zamyatin’s way of conducting dialogue with Bely, whose novel undoubtedly influenced the thinking of the writer of We.
Research implications. The significance of mathematics in the prose of Bely and Zamyatin is proved, and on this basis the peculiarities of the artistic thinking of each writer are characterized. The further study of their work in the proposed direction will help reveal the philosophical meaning of the works , to deepen understanding of the specifics of the psychologism of the two authors.

Aim. To compare artistic means of depicting mentally ill characters in the works of the Russian writer A. P. Chekhov and the Chinese writer Lu Xin to identify the typology of the image of the distorted world of a sick consciousness.
Methodology. The paper examines artistic techniques in the texts of doctor-writers. The world of mentally ill patients is considered an important topic in the work of doctor-writers. The role of the experience of a professional doctor in creating images of mentally ill heroes is analyzed. For this purpose, methods of generalization and search for intertextual links with works of Russian and Chinese literature are used.
Results. In the texts of these authors, insanity is considered a type of mental illness that is incompatible with life in society, in addition, it manifests itself as a “persecution mania”, that is, the patient is scared, agitated and anxious, he is always on guard. The author concludes that professional doctors describe madness from the viewpoint of their unique medical experience, but for humanist writers, crazy people turn out to be reasonable and honest people in an “inverted world” in which good and evil, reason and madness have reversed places.
Research implications. The discovered data make it possible to expand the intertextual field of the work by including some medical topics that were not considered by previous researchers.

Aim. To reveal the essence and meaning of the duel as a semantic component for the plot of the named novel.
Methodology. The research is based on the cultural-historical, psychological and axiological methods. The author analyzed the personality of the novel’s protagonist Pechorin, as well as his inner motives for his actions. The development of the conflict between the duelists has been observed.
Results. Based on the study results, the author made a conclusion that the duel and its final bloody outcome represent a principal choice from both sides, especially for the main hero. This duel may be interpreted as an artistic metaphor for Pechorin’s trial over the world.
Research implications. The study revealed a multilevel interpretation of the essence and meaning of the duel between heroes based on a thorough research on the personality and inner psychological characteristics of Pechorin.