. One of the distinguishing features of the rhetorical statement as expressive syntactic unit is its subjective nature: the reflection of the emotional and mental sphere of the speaker, his system of values, attitudes towards himself and others. These qualities of the rhetorical statement explain the special attention to the speaker who acts also as the subject of the action, the subject of the state, the subject of the perception, the subject of the opinion and the subject of the evaluation. A rhetorical statement can have different ways of presenting the speaker: specialized verbal and pronominal forms; pronominal components “who” in negative or affirmative rhetorical statements that include the speaker; constructive and syntactic way in the infinitive rhetorical statements. Personal semantics of rhetorical statement, as well as other categories of predication, is characterized by its generality.

The article is dedicated to linguistic description of one of the most important legislative acts of Ekaterina’s era, which sets out a framework of reform of the provincial administration in Russia. The author notes some spelling, lexical, morphological and syntactic features of the document, pointing out its linguistic differences from the norms of the local business writing of the same era. It allows to understand the system of linguistic units of the administrative documentation in the context of official style that was developed in the second half of the 18th the century and has formed new literary language.

The article is devoted to the means of expression of subjective-modal meanings in the modern radiotext. We outline a range of modal means involved in the creation of modal field of radiotext: lexical and grammatical (parenthetical components, particles, interjections), syntactical (rhetorical statements, question-answer systems), intonational. The article demonstrates the interrelation of the use of modal operators and peculiarities of radio communication, characterized by massive audience, weak feedback, lack of visualization; lists subjective modal meanings that are typical for radiotext, including contact-setting and emotional as the most productive ones.

The Urals area is famous for its gems first described in the latter half of the 17th century. Interest in the Ural gems at the state level since its commercial production and processing (18th century) contributed to the formation of the case phenomenon of «gems and their varieties» in Russian fiction and special literature. By the 20th century as a result of the synthesis of historical, geographical, artistic, natural history data, mythopoethic tradition of the Ural region had become stronger. The peculiarity of the aesthetic, symbolic perception of gems required special themes, motifs, images and techniques to introduce specialized vocabulary, including local, in a literary text that has become a subject of study in this article.

The article focuses on the interpretation of a fragment of linguistic reality «World of Plants» in the etymological dictionaries of N. Goryaev, N. Shanskiy, A. Preobrazhenskiy, V. Tsyganenko, M. Fasmer and P. Chernov. The structure of the entries devoted to nominations of plants is examined in detail. The attention is drawn to the presence of grammatical labels, hypotheses about the origin of the analyzed lexical items, synonymous word forms and nominations of plant realities of dialect use.

In the article, the function of the bisubstantive sentences in texts of different genres is investigated with the method of the comparative analysis. The analysis is made on the materials of the newspaper «Komsomolskaya Pravda» (the 70-80s years of 20th and the beginning of 21st centuries). It is shown that the main objective of using of the bisubstantive sentences in analytical genres (in an editorial of a newspaper) was the formation of an aim, mandatory for execution; influence on the masses and appeal to the masses. Bisubstantive sentences in the papers of the pre-perestroika period were used for propaganda purposes as a means of expressing the slogan, appeal, and as a way to formulate goals and objectives of the communist party. In modern newspapers, these functions of the bisubstantive sentences stopped being the dominant, though they are still present in political and advertising discourse. In the artistic and journalistic genres, bisubstantive sentences retain their activity and are used in different ways. On the examples of the bisubstantive sentences with the taxonomic value used by V. Peskov in his essays and articles about the nature a variety of shapes and shades of meaning of this type of sentences is shown.

In linguistic scientific descriptions the notion of intensification, graduality and ways of their expression in a sentence has strengthened. This article desmbes the morphological intensificators (adverbs of measure and degree, particles) attached to predicate with semantics of state of mind on material of poetic texts by poets of the Silver Age (A. Akhmatova, S. Yesenin and V. Mayakovsky). Attention is paid to the role of intensifiers as a means of enhancing the expression, means of influencing the reader, and also means of more complete disclosure of protagonist’s state of mind.

The article presents a study of a phenomenon of a symbol and also a symbolical word meaning as linguistic categories; it suggests systematic and consistent description of a language symbol змей (змий, змей, змий, змея) that functions in poetry of Maksimilian Voloshin. The article defines the conditions of explication by a word a snake of common cultural usual and personal and authoring symbolical meanings within the writer’s ideostyle; it reveals the principles of the organization of an associative and semantic field of the considered symbol.

The article deals with conceptual sign “space” as a structural part of the concept EAST in the fiction world of Ivan Bunin. On the basis of the writer's lyrical cycle «Islam» (19031906) it describes the linguistic means of representation of the conceptual sign ‘space’. The lexical explication includes signs ‘territorial space’, ‘air space’ and ‘water space’. We consider the opposition «earthly space, real - space «beyond», unreal» one of the key conceptual signs of oriental poetry of I. Bunin.

This article discusses lexical and pragmatic semantics of words, names of persons and objects, characterized by the reference to the racial-ethnic and national spheres. The study is carried out on the material of dictionaries, mainly non-codified vocabulary. The author notes various evaluating connotations: neutral, positive and negative. In addition, we investigate the methods of forming of the evaluating connotations in this group of vocabulary. Formation of evaluating categories in the language is based on the use of hyperbole to particular ethnic characteristics of a person (complexion or hair color, eye shape, and others), many of the evaluation were generated based on cultural-historical, substantive connotations that form metaphors-evaluation names of persons, on the basis of the estimated metonymy, on the basis of the shift of nominations within hypero-hyponemic group of words.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the works of poets of Kursk region, the contemporaries of the Fists world war, who expressed their point of view on what was going on and who contributed to comprehension of events not settled down in history yet. The works of famous poets and of the poets whose names appeared to be forgotten are at the centre of our attention. In poetic responses which were different by their artistic level but convincing and impressive by their emotional influence on the reader, it is possible to trace attitude to events: from patriotic to philosophic. Service to the Motherland, soldier brotherhood, sympathy to all suffering people were the main topics of the poets.

The paper studies the functions and the meaning of the motif of the road in the historical novel by Y. Tynyanov «Death of Vazir-Mukhtar.» Its role in poetics, plot and composition of the work is analyzed. It is concluded that the road is dominant, prevailing and combining motif of the novel. It contributes to a deeper comprehension of the image of the protagonist - Russian diplomat, playwright Alexander Griboyedov, representing his life’s path. This motif has a structural-organizing meaning, building a circular track of the narrative.

The article analyses Michel Le Bris’ manifesto «Pour une littérature-monde en français» (2007) as well as the concept of «littérature-monde» in its connection with the «world» and «francophone» literature. The author studies some inner contradictions of the concept that let Michel Le Bris offer a solution of an urgent question - to define the position of the francophone literature in the hierarchy of the world literature. In conclusion, given the analysis, the author dwells on the difficulties concerning the research of the Russian equivalent of the littérature-monde term.

The article is devoted to the image of an epoch «time of troubles» in «Literary newspaper» of A. Delvig. It shows repeated appeals of Russian writers to the image of this segment of history: «time of troubles» was presented in the works of A. Sumarokov, A. Pushkin, F. Bulgarin. The article discusses in detail the excerpt from the novel by D. Struyskiy «Dimitry the Pretender», which can be seen as an example of the historical novel of 1830s. The author of the article suggests the reasons why the newspaper preferred novel of D. Struyskiy and not F. Bulharyn’s one.

In the article, we present the results of investigation of P. Vasilyev’s art in the context of revealing genre specifics and style uniqueness of the Russian ceremonial poetry and its functions in the emotional figurative system of P. Vasilyev. We analyze the specific forms of art thinking and the original world of P. Vasilyev’s poetry formed on the rich soil of folk culture and art, the author’s ability to clothe a social thought with a bright emotional material, to use verbal folk poetry, and distinctly separate functions of each specific genre.

Family Chronicle in the 19th century was one of the genre form that allowed women writers to reveal the basic parameters of the inner world of auto-protagonist as a special cultural and historical personality type, with a certain character of world-perception, values and behaviors. On the basis of analysis of a number of representative for literary process of the 19th century women’s memoirs, the article studies the specificity of creating author’s «self» in the women’s prose memoir. Several models of self-description are traced in women’s memoirs and autobiographical literature of the second half of 19th century.