In the novel “Masons”, A. Pisemsky analyzed the interpretation of the main plot of “Eugene Onegin” by А. Pushkin. The type of Tatiana Larina, “an ideal lady” has been found to be similar to the life lines of the sisters Ryzhov. Like Tatiana, Lyudmila “creates” an ideal beloved, while Susanna strives to follow the most basic commandment of Pushkin’s heroine: to believe in the sacred bond of marriage and to be faithful to her husband heroically. These “labyrinths of linkages” demonstrate a lovable ideal of Tatiana to be firmly fixed in the society of the first half of 19th century. Pisemsky argued against complying with this ideal, since the imitation of “an ideal lady” makes people ruin their lives. It is shown that the writer expressed this point of view by using reminiscences to other literary works, and supported it by presenting the so-called ideal people - masons.

The article offers the interpretation of oriental motives revealed in the book of poems “The Pillar of Fire” by N. Gumilyov. Persian theme is subordinated to the main direction of the poet’s artistic search. The poems of a small cycle about Persia are considered to be the result of reexamining of oriental theme in the light of European world outlook. The lyric subject goes on his “journeys” in the search of spiritual values which build up and strengthen the basis of his worldview and principles of his creative work. The article presents a detailed analysis of the poems “Imitation of Persian”, “Persian miniature”, “Drunken dervish” and “With Gypsies”. Oriental motives are compared with the overall context of N. Gumilyov’s poetry and biography.

The article touches upon a poorly explored issue of metamorphoses in Brodsky’s works in the view of a statuary myth. Having highlighted the main concept of a metamorphosis, having reviewed Brodsky’s articles and essays as well as works of literary criticism, we define 3 types of transformations connected with an image of a statue. Starting with the analysis of intertextual metamorphoses (the revival of a statue), proceeding with analyzing an image of a statue - an embodiment of the poet’s ideas on human transformations (petrification regarded as a movement to non-existence and eternity at the same time), we advert to a motif of a monument and its transformations in Brodsky’s works.

The parallel analysis of poems about the Civil War in Russia by N. Otsup and V. Smolensky is offered in the article. Images and motives reveal the authors’ position to the historical events of the first quarter of the 20th century. Conceptual and ideological aspects of selected works are also characterized. The article presents various interpretations of the image of Russia (from the perception of its natural and landscape shape to understanding of spiritual, mystical destination), author’s assessments by two poets mission emigration. The conclusion is drawn that the poems about the Russian tragedy is considered by them as a kind of realization of spiritual memory, pledge of revival of an image of Russia in its descendants.

The article focuses on the interpretation of Nina Sadur’s novel “Miraculous Signs of Salvation”. The author of the article compares two levels of narration (real-life and imaginary) and attempts to discover the plot. The thorough analysis reveals the theme of obscure and truthful worldview in the novel: Nina Sadur explores a human view of reality, which determines his inner and outer existence. The ‘direct’ view presupposes only the visible, outward understanding whereas the ‘inverted’ one allows her to see the hidden. Both approaches lack integrity and lead to the distortion of the worldview. Only the third option gives us an opportunity to see true reality.

The issue of symbolist poet Jurgis Baltrushaitis’s own worldview is the subject of the article. Silver Age legacy is very rich in innovative approaches in the philosophical and artistic-aesthetic perception of the world and a man. However, Jurgis Baltrushaitis’s personal view was not reflected in theoretical works. The opinion that the Baltrushaitis created a philosophical model of “three worlds”, with its central idea of spiritual-and-ethic improvement of a man, is justified by means of analysis of poetry books “Earthly Steps”, “Mountain Trail” and “Lily and Sickle”.

The article deals with functional types of repetition as a means of subjectivity and expressivity. The analysis of repetition as a means of highlighting and expressivity allows us to describe the types of repetition and the peculiarities of its usage by the author of the story. Methods of study are language data observation and their functional, stylistic and syntactic analysis. The repetition enables us to distinguish both the micro text and the macro text dominants in Gogol’s story “Taras Bulba”. The analysis of the repetition as a means of subjectivity and expressivity allows us to study in detail the specific features of the description of the author’s imaginary world.

The author of the article is looking for the new ways to organize the vocabulary for learning purposes. As a perspective direction she accepts studying the vocabulary by means of learning its explanatory-derivational families of words. The article describes the advantages of the family approach to the study of language, such lexical phenomena as antonymy and paronymy. The purpose of article is to demonstrate the systematizing function of the family of words and show the ability to use explanatory-derivational families of words in the practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language.

The article is devoted to the use of the metaphor as one of the most expressive figurative tools of the nature description in the prose of M. Prishvin. The metaphor is distinguished by anthropomorphism: everything that happens in human’s life has a lot in common with the nature. The metaphor of M. Prishvin is capacious in its content and various in styles that is proved by linguistic analysis of M. Prishvin texts.

The article is devoted to an analysis of the role of pronouns and components of pronominal nature in forms of negation in plays by Alexander Ostrovsky. It studied negative pronouns, negative pronouns in combination with other forms of negation, reconsidered pronouns as part of negative rhetorical expressions. Each of these components is characterized, their shades of meaning are analyzed and rates of reconsideration of pronominal components as part of negative rhetorical expression are analyzed too.

The article supports the idea that culture is a huge sign system in which the laws of society and behavior scenarios are encoded. Theater is an unique landmark model. Studying linguistic and semiological component of theatricality one can see that whole communication is built on the semiotics and actions of people, like those of actors, are ritualised. One can talk about any kind of ritualization discourse. As an example of this thought the article describes presentational components of sports discourse.

The paper considers one of the debating points of the modern terminology - the question of emotionality of a term. It is shown that in the term lexicon commodity-money metaphorical terminology along with the nominative meaning often carry evaluative components. It is noted that the most common principle of metaphorical term-formation proved to be the principle of attraction to each of the semantic fields the words and phrases which allow actualizing these areas in terms of assessment of what is useful or harmful to the subjects of the market economy. In this regard, the separate group of terminological units is marked by positive or negative expression.

This article features linguistic and cognitive applications of brackets in the texts of legal documents. This becomes necessary due to the special mental activity of a linguistic personality in the professional field. The analysis of semantic and structural models of nominative constructions shows a tendency of this punctuation mark’s potential growth in pragmatic terms. Using brackets in creative writing allows the linguistic personality to solve complex cognitive problems when structuring and interpreting special information.

The article is devoted to the historic-etymological and linguistic-graphic analysis of pseudo-European words - genetic arabisms, acquired by Russian literary language during a pre-Pushkin era through the Western European languages. It is established that along with use of word исламизм and language orientalisms муссон and надир of the Arab origin, other exotic pseudo-European words can be found. These are also acquired through the Western European languages Arabic loan-words амулет/амулетта, факир, феллах, шейх, эмир, набоб.

The article examines the communicative and pragmatic function of the particle как бы, which is described as a semantically devastated desemantised element, and as a catch of the standpoint of a qualifying party that serves to attract the attention of the interlocutor to the author’s «self». It is established that the partial semantic emptiness of particle как бы is not an obstacle in its functioning as a communicative speech-oriented sign, with which the speaker performs «bind» of his/her statements to the speech situation in coordinates «I - here - now.»

The article is devoted to the study of the concept «miracle», as it is reflected in accordance with the peculiarities of the Russian picture of the world in the Christmas stories by N. Leskov. The author of the article considered nature of wonderful, first of all, according to the ideas conveyed in Russian culture of the Christian traditions of its perception, which could not but affect the images in the works of the writer. The article presented the etymology of the word miracle, and analysed the lexical meanings of the words that represent the concept. The conclusion is made about the nature of explication of the concept of «miracle» on lexical and textual levels in the Christmas stories by N. Leskov.

The article highlights the problem of actualization of creative perception of stories of literary works, reflected in the form of text versions in the collections of the works; the question is raised about the possibility and advisability of multimedia presentation of moving and changing text in an animated form. The author points to specific examples, how the use of animation liberates the viewer from the need of understanding the metatext, bringing him closer to understanding the author’s thoughts. The author examines possible ways of using technology of animated text in electronic educational resources on various humanities.

The article deals with the linguistic-terminological basis of the nomination theory. It also presents the specific character of term nomination of the lexico-semantic group «Denomination of metals». The author focuses on the processes of lexical motivation. The article presents regular motivating features of nomination of the denotations, divided into several groups: «proper», «relative» and «combinatorial». The article deals with the models of nomination which reflect «relative» motivating features of nomination of the denotation typical for Russian language. The article summarizes the knowledge about the singularity of word-forming nomination in Russian language.