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No 2 (2018)
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LITERARY STUDIES

97-106 65
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The article analyzes the place and role of thanatological motives in A. Pushkin’s “Little Tragedies”. On the basis of the material examined in the article, the author makes a conclusion that in “Little Tragedies”, there is a test of moral norms, the life attitude of the characters either in the face of overwhelming death or in other hardships: greed, envy, love. And only the ones, in whom the voice of conscience didn’t go silent, have stood the test. The action of all “Little Tragedies” without exception is illuminated by a high humanistic thought, animated by a deep love for people, a desire to awaken “good feelings” in them.
107-115 119
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The article reveals the nature of art polemic of I. Turgenev with the novel «The Lily of the Valley» by H. de Balzac presented in «Noble Nest». In both texts, parallels can be traced at the level of a plot, types, separate images, motives, and metaphors. In his novel, Balzac has expressed a thought of insolvency of the bans and dogmas imposed by Christian teaching as these bans, according to the writer, make people unfortunate. Turgenev, addressing in many respects a similar plot, on the contrary, showed that without religious feeling there is no human person. The love which arises between Lisa Kalitina and Fedor Lavretsky develops in the view of love to God and to people, and therefore it doesn’t disappear but becomes a source of their internal force.
116-123 59
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The article deals with L. Borodin’s little-known poem “Prayer in the Chamber”. With the help of the hermeneutical approach, features of the lyrical psychology of the author in the poetic text and artistic means of expression are revealed. Traditions of poetic prayer in literature are traced. Particular attention is paid to the writer’s main life values, mentioned in the work, as well as to his religious vision, which influenced the worldview and creativity. A conclusion is drawn that L. Borodin continues the genre of a prayer in literature.
124-137 151
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The article deals with the attitude of Chekhov to the problem of the upbringing of children and the educational role of literature. Based on the biographical data and memoirs of his relatives and friends, it is shown how Chekhov’s views on education formed, how his own childhood impressions influenced his attitude to religious education and the use of corporal punishment in education. The author traces how the writer tried to find a balance between the development of the child’s personality and the impact on the upbringing of the environment, especially the family environment. A brief analysis of Chekhov’s works for children and about children, his diaries, and letters devoted to education is given. As a result of the analysis there have been identified the main features that, according to Chekhov, the works for children should have. It is shown that Chekhov assigned a very important role in the upbringing of children to adventure literature and works about animals.
138-144 92
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The article is devoted to the image of the author in Theodor Dreiser’s essay «Life, Art and America». The study of writer’s journalistic work helps to determine Dreiser’s opinion on political, historical, aesthetic and other aspects of his life. That is why special attention in the article is paid to the way how the author’s self is revealed at the compositional and problem-thematic levels which is especially important when considering the problem of the art’s fate in the US at the turn of 19-20th centuries. Such approach to the author’s image and publicist works allows finding new parallels and in the future appeal to other works of the writer.
145-153 105
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The article proves the relevance of developing new approaches to the study of the problem of interactions with the romanticism of literary trends of different epochs - taking into account the processes happening «at the border», «return» of transcoding or destruction of traditions. It proves the methodological importance of the historic-genetic, teleological approach and the method of “deconstruction” of the organic model that was formed on the basis of postmodern paradigm and which is a new way of understanding the processes of the «ends» and the «beginnings» - in the literature.
154-163 81
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This article is devoted to the influence of feminism on the contemporary Persian female prose. The article examines the main features of feminism in the work of Iranian writer Shahnush Parsipur, whose focus is on the issue of women’s vulnerability to oppression and injustice of the patriarchal society. By analyzing the writer’s works, the author concluded that she clearly reflects her own feminist views and often encourages a woman to identify and individualize herself, to revolt against outdated traditions, to think about who she really is.
164-170 59
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The article is based on Lermontov’s views on the human world and the world of nature, which are expressed in his landscape lyric poetry. The article generalizes the material related to the subject, analysis three basic human conditions (“life”, “death”, “dream”) and their embodiment in the images of nature in Lermontov’s lyrics. The paper seeks to trace the reflections of Lermontov’s personality in the nature poetry. The features of the relationships between the human world and world of nature in Lermontov’s poetry are described.

REVIEWS

SCIENTIFIC LIFE

LINGUISTIC STUDIES

8-18 136
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The analysis of a contribution of A. Pushkin to the oriental lexical fund of the Russian literary language in the 19-20th centuries has been carried out according to the premise that borrowings originally come to language as eхotisms. It is established that the poet’s works contributed to the assimilation of the following Turkish words: Allah, delibash, Kumyk words: uzden, churec, Georgian dukhan of the Turkish or Azerbaijani origin and Kabardian narzan. The prevalence among oriental borrowings from Turkic languages of the Caucasus is explained by their traditional use as the main means of cross-ethnic communication of the people of the region.
19-25 140
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In the article, the category of negation is considered as a multilevel one, and represented by neutral (logical-semantic) and rhetorical (situational) forms. The paradigm of constructions with a negative meaning includes rhetorical forms of negation, which represent various modifications of neutral negation. The attention is drawn to the specifics of the formal and semantic organization of certain rhetorical forms of negation: conditional interrogation; rhetorical formants (pronominal and particular components), which are the signs of both pseudo-interrogation and meaning. The article notes the frequency of use of these rhetorical formants as independent units, that express not only the negative but also the modal-evaluative meaning. Their regular use leads to the phraseologization of the rhetorical forms of negation. The article emphasizes the role of intonational parameters in the identification of subjective connotations of the rhetorical forms of negation.
26-33 79
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The article raises the question of the place of univerbes in the explanatory-derivational dictionary. Basing on the analysis of the semantics of word-composites and attributive phrases that produce them, the work proves the relevance of such derivatives as signifying signs. Relying on the principles of completeness and integrity of the explanatory-derivational families of words, the authors of the article justify the inclusion of the nested type of nouns created by way of unverbation in the explanatory dictionary. The article attempts to develop common methods for describing word-composites based on a motivating basis. It is shown how the derivational connections can clarify the regular relations in the vocabulary, distinguish externally similar linguistic phenomena.
34-45 101
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As the result of the carried out research, the study identifies the main areas of the Humanities, which deal with the study of language personality of a public servant as a research priority. The author traced the research paradigm of the linguistic identity of a civil servant in the diachronic aspect, and notes the future prospects of the study of speech features of modern civil servants with the aim of developing their communicative competence.
46-55 126
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The aim of the paper is to present the phenomenon of linguoculture, the study of which may be important for the theory and practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language. The author briefly presents the phenomena of linguocultural identity and linguoculture as such. Systemic and functional features of linguoculture are discussed in comparison with the language system. As an illustrative material, the author provides examples from modern media, movies, contemporary literature (as a rule, popular one), that are present in the Russian National Corpus and in the personal file of the author. The author suggests that units of linguoculture are intended to be the subject of a separate research from the point of view of not only linguistics but also linguodidactics.
56-65 80
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Besides consideration of general theoretical aspects of a research, the article noted the basic character of the period of the 1830-1850s in the history of the Russian literary language of the beginning of the 19th century - 1917-1918s as an era of the formation of its norms. The Western European lexical assimilations of this time belong to the first wave of lexical borrowings. It comes to an end in the middle of the 19th century when many foreign words become widely and constantly common. New word-formation ranks with the borrowed Western European suffixes become a direct consequence of their final assimilation.
66-76 84
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The article analyses occasionalisms used in advertising texts in the Russian and Croatian languages. Occasionalisms are expressive, stylistically coloured new formations, which, as a rule, are created for single usage in a specific context. The author studies the peculiarities of structure and semantics of occasional new formations which in both languages may be derived using existing ways (with more or fewer deviations from the standard norm of word forming) or by unusual formative models. The most productive ways by which these occasional words are formed in this two related Slavic languages are determined. The analysis of linguistic material shows that the most productive standard way of forming occasionalisms is suffixation, and among the unusual formative models, it is necessary to mention contamination and graphoderivation.
77-86 76
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The article deals with the semantic derivation of the adjective zhelezobetonniy in the Russian language of the most recent period. The phenomenon manifests itself in the development of metaphoric meanings, the appearance of the semantic neologism ‘firm, solid, not easy to destroy, eliminate, disprove or cancel’ that has not been yet recorded lexicographically (zhelezobetonniye dokazatelstva, ubezhdennost, fact). It has been shown that the adjective in metaphoric meanings reveals the features of qualitative type, changes (extends) its compatibility, implies evaluation (meliorative or pejorative) that can be expressed in context, forms new synonymous links (zheleznoye alibi - zhelezobetonnoye alibi). The analysis has been performed on the basis of the data from definition dictionaries, modern fiction, and mass media texts, using the Russian National Corpus.
87-96 73
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The article examines the terms related to the sphere of market economy from the point of view of their functioning in the word-formative system of the Russian language. The active use of this terminological sphere in the modern Russian language determines the relevance of its study. The article provides a definition of the terminological word-building nest and an analysis of such nests on the basis of the most commonly used economic terms that function in the media texts. Descriptive-analytical method, methods of quantitative analysis and modeling are used. The analyzed material allows coming to a conclusion about the derivational activity of terms of market economy. As a result of the study, an intensive formation of derivative terms was revealed. The author has revealed intensive formation of derivative words, which results in the formation of new ones, as well as enrichment of the terminological word-building nests in the language. By combining on the basis of formal and semantic links the same root words of various parts of speech, the families of words fulfill the ordering, system-forming function in the terminology.


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