Aim. The study of the colloquial verbs as a means of predication, characterizing such an idiosyncratic feature of V. Astafiev’s texts as “cruel realism”.

Methodology. From the text of V. Astafiev’s short story “Trophy Cannon”, verb words, that belong to colloquial vocabulary, were purposefully selected. An important feature of the idiostyle for the author is revealed with their help. It is connected with the use of the stylistic potential and connotative halo of these units: the creation of truthful pages of prose about the war, outlined with “brutal realism”. The methods of analysis used are the description of the semantics of verbal vocabulary with the involvement of lexicographic sources, elements of component analysis, interpretation, contextual and stylistic analysis.

Results. The study showed V. Astafyev’s fidelity to the principle of truthful, unvarnished and retouched depiction of war, a psychologically subtle, philosophically meaningful reflection of the characters and behavior of people in conditions of military life – the special existence. It is shown, that not only in the famous novel “Cursed and Killed”, but also in the story “Trophy Cannon”, published in the magazine “Znamya” in 2001, at the end of his life, such an idiosyncratic feature as “cruel realism” remains inherent in the writer’s prose – the constant of works about the war with Nazi Germany.

Research implications. The study confirms the importance of studying the means of predication to characterize the idiosyncrasies of the writer, to identify / confirm its constants; the results can be used in the study of creativity, language and style of V. Astafiev, in university courses of stylistics and lexicology as illustrative material.

Aim. To identify the artistic specificity of the autobiographical type of narration in the works of V. P. Astafiev of the 1980-2000s.

Methodology. The components of the autobiographical type of narration in V. P. Astafiev’s “Last bow”, “Cursed and killed”, “Zatesi” are revealed. Attention is focused on the writer’s sincerity, the depth of comprehension of the subject, the sense of responsibility for human and people, snd their artistic expression. The approach is carried out from the viewpoint of literary concepts: autobiographical character, author-narrator, author’s position. Biographical, structural-hermeneutic and cultural-historical methods are used.

Results. The key aspects of autobiography, reflecting the author’s concept of the work, have been identified. The aesthetic, philosophical and psychological paradigm of Astafiev’s books is based on confession, journalism, lyricism of the narration, processes of self-awareness, the role of the author-narrator and the openness of his position. Methods of artistic embodiment are associated with the individual life experience, feelings and author’s emotionality of the writer. The role of autobiography in the works of the classic of Russian literature of the twentieth century correlates with the formal and substantive aspects of his works: types of narration, genre, space and time; becomes a tool of self-awareness and introspection, as well as the author’s subjective perception of himself.

Research implications. The study contributes to the development of aspects of autobiography based on specific material from the works of V. P. Astafiev in the 1980–2000s. The paper suggests ways to analyze autobiography within the framework of a separate work and, as a whole, the last period of the writer’s work. The results can be used in lecture courses on the history of Russian literature of the twentieth century, as well as in special courses on the writer’s work.

Aim. To investigate the features of the expression of the concept “Gulag” through the texteme “Sons of the Gulag”.

Methodology. The author analyzes the text of A. I. Solzhenitsyn’s novel “The Gulag Archipelago”. The implementation of the “Sons of the Gulag” texteme as a means of creating an image of Stalin’s camps and a representative of the “Gulag” concept is investigated. Methods of observation and comparison, elements of component analysis, contextual analysis, lexicographic analysis are applied.

Results. During the study, one of the main ways of representing the concept of the Gulag in A. I. Solzhenitsyn’s novel, the text of the book “Sons of the Gulag”, was identified, and it received a multidimensional assessment from linguistic viewpoints.

Research implications. The results of the research contribute to the study of the language of A. I. Solzhenitsyn’s works, expand the understanding of the writer’s conceptual sphere and the means of imagery of his texts; the results can be applied practically when mastering the disciplines “Language of fiction”, “Stylistics”, “Linguistic analysis of the text” at the university.

Aim. To identify the criteria for the impact of conflict interaction on recipients when exchanging comments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methodology. A survey was conducted to verify the previously defined criteria for the influence of conflict interaction on interlocutors in Internet-mediated communication. The respondents’ task was to assess each fragment for the presence of a conflict in it and to mark in these fragments components which they considered as conflictogenic.

Results. The following criteria have been identified: the aggressor’s choice of verbal and non-verbal means belonging to the category of conflictogens; combinability of conflictogens in the aggressor’s speech; intrinsic susceptibility of the recipient to conflictogenes of various levels; the degree of recipient’s involvement in the conflict.

Research implications. The theoretical significance of the presented criteria is determined by the need to describe the mechanism for deploying communicative conflicts in electronic text, to build an algorithm for preventing conflict in specific speech situations.

Aim. Consider the linguocultural concept “oak” and explore the content of this concept in Slavic myths, setting the task of producing a multi-aspect synchronic-diachronic analysis of the main explicators – oak and tree.

Methodology. The study used: 1) a descriptive method, which consists in presenting the modern meanings of the words oak and tree, as well as the history of these words and their etymology; 2) a comparative method associated with establishing the historical synonymy of the words oak and tree; 3) methods of structural and semantic analysis of phraseological units associated with the lexeme oak.

Results. The study showed that the lexeme oak and the stable combination eternal/world tree for the mythological picture of the world studied in the article, i.e. the pre-Christian period and the beginning of the Christian period; oak and the eternal/world tree, as well as phraseological units associated with the word oak, reflect the pagan, mythological and Christian ideas of Russian people.

Research implications lies in a three-level study of the concept “oak” and the connection of the lexeme representing it with the phrase “eternal/world tree”: in the speech material, the replacement of the lexeme oak with the eternal tree and vice versa was observed. Based on the consideration of the modern meanings of the words oak and tree, the study of their etymology and history, the basis has been established for the perception in the mythological consciousness of Russian people (of the pre-literate era, probably during the spread of paganism, in the pre-Christian period) of the oak tree as an eternal / world tree located in the center of the universe.

Aim. The article continues the study “The Formation of Genre Approach to Scientific Text in Russian Linguistics in the 1960s–1970s” and aims to trace the further development of genre studies in Russian linguistics of the 1980s–1990s, specifically the search for methods of genre analysis based on scientific text material.

Methodology. The research focuses on the analysis of the works on text stylistics, functional stylistics and poetics considering the problem of genre in general and the genres of academic text in particular. The study is conducted through observation, generalization, interpretation of the results and comparative analysis.

Results. It was found out that national academic text studies of the period under consideration shifted their focus from the natural science perspective, which does not take into account either the specificity of text activity or its agent, to the anthropocentric one. The latter used ‘speech genre’ as one of the key concepts explaining the mechanisms of producing and interpreting speech, and multiplicity of text types.

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

Aim. To identify some functional features of lexical reduplication using in the Russian language picture of the world.

Methodology. The phenomenon of lexical reduplication is considered as a widespread productive phenomenon with a special tradition in Russian. The methods of observation, generalization, interpretation of the results and discursive analysis were used in the research.

Results. The types of reduplication are determined; the ways of formation of reduplicates in Russian are considered.

Research implications. The article allows expanding the understanding of the phenomenon of lexical reduplication and revealing the functional potential of its use in conversational and artistic discourses.

Aim. To identify and analyze obligatory frame models in tourist advertising texts.

Methodology. The Russian-language tourist advertising texts of printed and online advertising (magazines “Tourist”, “GEO”, “Around the world”, newspaper “To every house” for 2019-2022; official websites of travel agencies “Anex tour”, “TUI Travel”, “Coral Travel”, “PEGASUS Tourist”, “Laguna”) were extracted by means of continuous sampling method and analyzed; the study relies on contextual and component description of functional-semantic categories, structural components, and modeling subframes method is used as the main one.

Results. The study revealed a number of obligatory components in the frame structure of a tourist advertising text. The advertising communication of the travel service is explicated through the movement subframe, including such top-level slots as method of movement, locative and temporal nominatives.

Research implications. The theoretical significance of the work lies in the fact that the analysis of the material expands the idea of the specifics of the functional and semantic potential of the frame model of tourist services as a central component of the advertising tourist text, and also updates the intrastructural information about each slot of the movement subframe, including the nominatives of auxiliary terminals (i.e., the general functionality of additional services (insurance, transfer, etc.). The practical significance is determined by the applied adapted nature of the received materials, namely the creation of high-quality and effective text advertising of the tourism sector.

Aim. To reveal how the precedent phenomenon differs from reminiscence and allusion, to present its own classification of the precedent phenomena of the Soviet and Russian film text.

Methodology. Based on a comparative analysis of the definitions of “allusion”, “reminiscence”, “precedent phenomenon”, their differences were revealed and the functions of these phenomena in the text were determined. Based on the typological method, it was determined that a linguistic personality should be well prepared for the perception of film texts or various creolized texts.

Results. The classification of the precedent phenomena of the Russian and Soviet film texts has been compiled, the source of origin has been determined, and a specific example has been given.

Research implications. The results of the study contribute to the study of intertextuality and precedent units.

Aim. The purpose of this study is to identify similarities and differences in the functional features of the image of a tear in the artistic system of V. Mayakovsky and B. Ryzhy.

Methodology. The article provides an analysis of the works devoted to the study of the figurative system of V. Mayakovsky and B. Ryzhy. The main content of the study is the analysis of lyrical texts. Special attention is paid to the subtext connections of the poets’ lyrics with the philosophy of Christianity. The methodology consists in revealing the sources of common motifs and images of the artistic system of poets.

Results. According to the results of the study, a conclusion was made about the different functional significance of the image of a tear in the poetic world of V. Mayakovsky and B. Ryzhy. With obvious coincidences in the aesthetics of the poets, the reasons for the different semantics of the image of tears are revealed, which allows us to create a more complete picture of the author’s concept of Mayakovsky and Ryzhy.

Research implications. The problems of the little-explored work of B. Ryzhy have been updated. The results can be used in universities when studying the course of the history of Russian literature of the twentieth century and to compile comments on the publication of poems by B. Ryzhy.

Aim. To identify and investigate the allusions and the social component of reality in the artistic structure of V. Kataev’s comedy “The Road of Flowers”.

Methodology. The criticism, reviews, and articles of the Soviet and post-Soviet authors are analyzed. The archival research work of the period under consideration has been carried out. Textual, structural, and sociological methods of studying literature were used in the study. A selective analysis of the work was carried out, the artistic layer of the work was revealed, in which allusions of L. S. Vygotsky’s scientific works, components of social reality were used. The artistic elements and techniques that allowed the author to express the idea hidden behind the external action were determined.

Results. The results of the study compensate for the lack of a critical approach to the play, in the Soviet period associated with literary politics, in recent times – with the lack of research interest in V. Kataev’s dramaturgy. From the appearance of the comedy in public to the present, it was believed that the comedy “The Road of Flowers” is a satirical comedy ridiculing the demagogue Zavyalov, who talks about the fantastic Soviet future, cynically using his publicity for vulgar purposes. However, the analysis made it possible to establish that the external satirical action is a cover for the main idea of the author. The results of the study showed that the author’s critical expression, based on the allusive and social material located in the artistic structure of the satirical action, directs the reader/viewer’s attention to the scientific works of L. S. Vygotsky and the generalized image of the Zavyalov liberals, expanding the knowledge base of the scientist’s works.

Research implications. The allusive and social aspect of comedy revealed in the study will serve to understand the “Road of Flowers” in the context of comedy dramaturgy of the early 1930s. The means and techniques of dramaturgy, as well as the hidden theme of the work revealed in the study, will expand the idea of V. P. Kataev’s comedic work. The research materials can be used in lectures on dramaturgy of the 1920s–30s, seminars dedicated to the dramaturgy of V. P. Kataev. The results of the work can be used by artistic directors of theaters, directors, set designers in staging Kataev’s dramatic works on stage.

Aim. To analyse the poetics of the “urban text” in V. V. Nabokov's poetic and prose works in the 1920s..

Methodology. The main content is consideration of the “metageographic” aspects of Nabokov’s poetry and short prose, in which images of St. Petersburg and / or Berlin appear. The research uses biographical, comparative, cultural-historical methods of analysis.

Results. The analysis showed that in the first half of the 1920s Nabokov’s Petersburg not only appears in artistically reinterpreted memories in images associated with real toponymy, but also receives a metaphysical dimension. In the same years and later, Berlin in Nabokov’s works is a city not of the past, but of the present happiness, “romanticized” by means of optical illusion. But the opposition between St. Petersburg and Berlin is removed in Nabokov’s works, on the one hand, due to the fact that through the German city Nabokov “sees” the Russian city (in natural and cultural aspect), and on the other hand, due to universalization of the chronotope: a particular city vanishes, replaced by the space of the author’s consciousness filled with love.

Research implications. The results of this research expand the scope of Nabokov’s artistic world, especially about the existence in his works of such cultural and literary phenomena as the “Petersburg” and “Berlin text”.