The purpose of the article is to define the concept of “aiming at truth” which is one of pragmatic conditions to make distinction between fictional and non-fictional texts. The “aiming at truth” is especially important in texts which do not have clear fictional / non-fictional indicators. The category applies to both author’s intention and reader’s inference and that is due to its pragmatic nature. The article includes samples of text analysis in order to show the use of the category.

The article discusses the morphological discrepancies in 5th Psalms of 7th lists Psalter 15-18 centuries from the collection of the State Library and foundation of Arkhangelsk Museum Association “Art Culture of Russian North”. The most frequent morphological discrepancies are connected with the use of verb forms and use in context of the same noun in different cases. Presented in the article linguistic and textual features are a valuable material for the study of language processes in the period from 15th to 17th centuries and to determine Psalter’s place in the history of the Russian literary language.

The paper presents some observations of the author of the functioning of the general gender nouns in modern television. It has been observed that this group of words often is used to create a comic effect in TV comedy shows. The article describes several new kinds of tokens of the general gender, which have been created by the authors of these show and which have completed the group of studied words. Semantic and derivational features of these kinds of words that contribute to comic effect are analyzed.

The article discusses nuclear germs as the elements of the structure of the field of linguistic pressure of complex syntactical whole of a literary text, it reveals the importance of language units of different levels that form germs in terms of information saturation, which is based not so much as on lexico-semantic values of its constituents, but rather on all the complex components of its linguistic characteristics. The role of nuclear germs is defined both for the group of closed sentences and for literary text in general.

A modern person, from an early age, communicates in teams, thereby passing processes of adaptation and socialization. Communication of the individuals allows them to be enriched not only in information, but also to gain skills of speech communication, cultural behavior, the organization of psychological relationship, to acquire system of certain spiritual and moral values, and also to receive a certain assessment from a community which subsequently can be transformed to a special marker - a nickname.

The article is devoted to the analysis of some of the lexical occasionalisms (occasionalisms of the third degree) of the historical essay «Two Hundred Years Together» by A. Solzhenitsyn. This research investigates those types of contexts in which occasional words occur, and defines the degrees of occasionality of new word formations (the existing classification is extended). The article describes components of analysis of lexical occasionalisms as the elements of idiolect and - in a wider sense - the creator’s idiostyle. The author comes to the conclusion that the occasional words of the third degree under research carry a powerful charge of expression and appear to be one of the most important means of conveying A. Solzhenitsyn’s perception of the world.

The article focuses on the problem of text and aesthetic transformation of a language. Researchers study peculiarities of development of the word semantics in M. Veller’s text. Holographic modelling is established as a special way of formation of the semantic potential of the language units and the text. Researchers study conditions of the realization of the holographic modelling of the text. Researchers have come to the conclusion that Veller’s text holographic modelling is based on the substantial-semantic resources of the language units. The development of language units leads to the transformation of the text space.

In the article, the author reveals the echoes, direct and hidden citations, reminiscences of A. Griboyedov’s comedy «The Woes of Wit» in A. Pushkin’s works and letters. The article also provides evidence of contemporaries about Pushkin’s great appreciation of comedy «The Woes of Wit», the examples of figurative and sense connections of Griboyedov’s comedy and Pushkin’s works created in 1825 - tragedy «Boris Godunov» and poem «Count Nulin», and also works and letters, written in following years, up to the middle of 1830s. In the article, the author basing on the considered material makes a conclusion that A. Griboyedov and his comedy «The Woes of Wit» was constantly present in A. Pushkin’s creative consciousness.

The article is devoted to clarifying the principles of the internal integrity of the lyrical cycle of poems from the book by poet of early symbolism S. Solovyov «April» (1910). The author of the article carries out detailed analysis of the image system of poems, compares poetic images of dreams and reality, which is typical for the art of the Silver Age. Literary background is presented by works of I. Annensky, A. Blok, A. Beliy and others. The inner world of protagonist is interpreted by means of observations of the spatial symbols and details, peculiarities of the author’s tours from present to the days of his youth, a time of love and pure pleasures of beauty of nature in spring.

Literary analysis of the early M. Bulgakov’s stories is guided by the review of young writer’s peculiarities of portrayal of feelings of love and affection, peculiarities of the influence of strong emotions on human behavior, his fate as a whole. The article compares the artistic image of love with diary notes of the writer to clarify the first phase of development of the artist, his ideal of true love. Early Bulgakov demonstrates reminiscences of works of Russian and world literature. The research’s attention focuses on Bulgakov’s understanding love for creativity, to a woman, to the motherland, love as a passion and love as a mercy.