The author of this article studies hagiographic text through cultural linguistics and perceives the life of saint as cultural value. At the same time draws attention to the fact that the value side of hagiographies is revealed only through discursively-conditional approach. The author emphasizes the involvment of hagiographies in the sphere of Russian religious literature and Orthodox discourse. In this regard the conceptosphere of hagiography is represented as complex of cultural linguistics concepts, in this complex Holiness is a central one.

The article reveals the specific of imperative statements as grammatical means of subjectivity based on the material of poetic texts of Russian literature of the 1st half of the 20th century. The author studies the features of imperative modality, the ways of expressing the subject of speech and the subject of potential action. After analyzing the language material, the author concludes that imperative modality should be considered as an objective and subjective category, and that subject should be considered as a contamination of communicative and syntactic aspect of the language.

In semantics of the 3rd person it is offered to differentiate proximal and thematic (subject) values. Language means of expression of the 3rd person realize proximal value under certain syntactic conditions to which communication of verbal forms with personal nouns and the independent use of a verbal form of plural as the main member of the indefinite-personal sentence belong. Thematic value accompanies proximal, and in its absence acts as a unique value of the 3rd person. The 3rd person is a syntactic person: both values aren't shown out of a syntactic construction.

Хорошо is a series of functional homonyms: impersonal and personal predicative, word of the category of assessment, adverb, particle, modal word. Basis for distinguishing word of the category of assessment in a separate category is the availability of forms of time (unlike adverbs) that are syntactically expressed by link verbs, and the combination with the infinitive. Words of the category of assessment express, respectively, the importance of evaluating the actions referred to infinitive and not the state, which is expressed by impersonal predicative. The combinations of the infinitive with the word of the category of assessment are predicative ones.

The article deals with classification of names of persons according to their field of activity in the Russian language of the 18th century. Several lexical-semantic groups of thematic group “names of persons according to their activities” are identified. In this paper, the historical and definitional analyses are presented. Using the material of business documents of 18th century the author reveals the peculiarities of the process of borrowings as one of the main sources of forming of thematic group "names of persons according to their field of activity", as well as traces how the value and the use of the words of the group have changed in the modern Russian language.

The possession of the indications of the subjective modality is a common characteristic of all isolated parts. Sometimes the presence of these indications in secondary parts of the sentence becomes a main reason for the isolation. An exclusion of the indications might cause a loss of isolation or even a disruption of the sentence structure and a significant change of meaning. It happens due to the fact that the indications of the subjective modality weaken the connection of the isolated part with the sentence and cause a change to a semi-predication.

The article is devoted to an analysis of the connection of negation and modality. The author considered different aspects of modality and analyzed modal meanings, which are characteristic to negative constructions in plays by Alexander Ostrovsky: real-unreal meaning, probability-validity meaning, including neutral meaning of statement, and a whole series of particular modal meanings: impossibility, inexpediency, inevitability, non-participation, disutility, interdiction, refusal, disagreement, contradiction.

The article discusses the issues related to peculiarities of origin and perception of psychological semantics in the structure of a word and text as reflection of contemporary linguistic communication. Transformation of content of many tokens affects the language system, ways of giving information, development of speech activity. Functional load of keywords in text caused by presence of the main original and updated increased content, which is shown by linguistic analysis and lexicographical information. The increase of psychological semantics in the process of text formation may have positive and negative meanings for contemporary linguistic communication.

The article describes the fragment of the semantic field singing in the novel “Summer of the Lord” by I. Shmelev which includes verbs and verbal expressions with the meaning of ‘vocal action’. If compared with a codified literary language the fragment displays considerable extension. The author mentions the words which gained a contextually conditioned figurative meaning and/or were combined in a special way. The analysis of the lexical means and their comparison with the plot and the main ideas of the novel enable the author to account the extension for the peculiarities of real informal speech reflected in the novel.

The article is devoted to the study of the old Russian text in terms of the evaluation value. It is noted that special means of expression evaluation in the old Russian text are constructions with instrumental case of restriction, that include a noun in the instrumental case which indicates the base, and the adjective, which is an indicator of the nature of the assessment. The author examines in detail the classifications of the constructions by the nature of the assessment and comes to the conclusion that the investigated combinations can express in the old Russian text not only pejorative and meliorative evaluations but also qualitative and quantitative evaluations.

The article is devoted to the problems of studying a situation of dialogue interaction called communicative discomfort. The author considers this phenomenon as both unsuccessful and successful communication. Then means for language expression of communicative discomfort are reviewed. The author exemplifies language indicators of communicative discomfort and proves their existence at all levels of linguistic analysis.

In the article, on the material of S. Dovlatov’s artistic, publicistic and epistolary texts the case name Solzhenitsyn is analyzed. Name Solzhenitsyn is considered as a name-ideologem, transferring in Dovlatov’s texts his the relation to the famous writer from hatred to admiration. Name Solzhenitsyn appears as a mythologeme of the era, since the writer was the idol of several generations seeking intellectuals. Analyzed are the tools that indicate change of the vector of Dovlatov’s assessment in his texts.

The article deals with numerous instances of referring to Russian proverbs and sayings in letters written by A. Pushkin in 1832-1836s and provides further analysis of the principles of their creative usage in the epistolary heritage of the poet in relation to his belles-lettres works, because many of folklore adages, that can be found in his letters, are used by him in the creative way in his fiction. These letters are essential part of his epistolary heritage, which is important for studying of folklorism, personality, events and facts of poet’s life. It is concluded that proverbs and sayings naturally and organically come into the text of the letters, are used in the connection of different life events, closely resembling the way such sayings are traditionally used by Russian people.

This research is based on the analysis of allusions as a stylistic device in M. Bulgakov's drama “Flight”. The number of allusions in the text signify the importance of a Revelation which, along with other intertexts, is an important structural component of the drama and a necessary component of an interpretation process. The analysis is intended to show that the allusions have important and clear functions in the construction of the text. They are not accidental and should be studied as an essential part of Bulgakov’s artistic strategies. Most of the key allusions are ambivalent, above all the allusion to the Holy City and Babylon and the allusion to the apocalyptic beast and the Savior.

Basing on the works of "Life, poems and thoughts of Joseph Delorme" and "The sensual man" the article addresses the nature of autobiographical prose of Sh. Sainte-Beuve. Particular attention is paid to the author's intention, the mindset of representation of his life experience through the artistic means. Traceable connection between the two works helps to identify as in line with the mainstream romantic aesthetics the type of character is formed that reflects the author's consciousness. The article compares the main characters in the studied works, reveals their connection to the characters of the French novel of the 19th century, as well as their relationship to the romantic myth of "evil age."

This article deals with modern approaches to the study of M. Osorgin - novels «Sivcev Vrazhek» and «Times». Art material is analyzed in respect of the author’s world perception, philosophical and ideological positions of the writer. The study identifies genre features of M. Osorgin novel prose, the tradition of Russian classical literature in his creative legacy. The literary material shows a mixed assessment of researchers of some of the features in the artistic world of the writer's books, in particular, there are differences in the interpretation of M. Osorgin’s religious beliefs, in the characteristic genre affiliation of these novels.

The article considers the history of study of Old Russian literature in Czechoslovak republic in 1920-1930s by Russian researchers-emigrants. Thereby the biobibliographical information becomes especially important. It concerns the work of some scientists, who have made a contribution to the progress of study of Old Russian Literature, their works about the history of medieval studies, published in the interwar period in Czechoslovak republic. The article is devoted to Russian-Czechoslovak cultural and scientific contacts, the phenomena of Russian Prague. In 1920-1930s Prague became the center of Europe for humanities and emigration.

As opposed to the Russian literary criticism there has been still a considerable interest among American critics in the ‘New Enland’ period and the novels written by H.B. Stowe, a famous American writer of the 19th century, at that time. The article analyses the main trends in their research: the emphasis on the puritanical part of her religious and philosophical believes; the writer’s role in ‘national colouring’ movement; her being a master of true-to-life descriptions; and also the feministic ideas in her novels.

The article is devoted to the actual problem of literary cinematographic techniques in the book of Roman Gul, writer of the first wave of the Russian emigration - “The Ice march” (1921). The writing is analyzed in terms of cinematographic techniques. This paper presents the their role in uncovering ideological concept of the book. The attention is drawn to the influence of cinematographic techniques, such as montage, close up, long shot, point of view, punctuation and graphical design of the text; to the movement of the narrative and its visual perception.

The article studies plant images in P. Solovieva's collection of poems "Willow-herb" published in 1909. The examples of multifunctionality of these images are found and analyzed. The author focuses on common features of Solovieva's poetry and works of her contemporaries. The article mainly highlights the correlation of human life and nature; belief in God and the desire to perceive existence, to define your own place on Earth. It also shows how P. Solovieva demonstrates the polysemantic macro- and micro world to her readers, addresses the deepest feelings of human nature and the majestic Nature.

This article explores N. Gumilev’s collection of poems "Porcelain Pavilion" (1918), which included translations of poems by Chinese poets of VII-XIX centuries. Parallels are drawn with the N. Gumilev’s «Chinese poems» of earlier period (collections "Pearl" (1910), "Alien Sky" (1912), "Quiver" (1916)), as well as with the works of a little-known poet of the Silver Age M. Levberg. The author also looked into the history of Chinese poetry. The point of view is proved according to which "Porcelain Pavilion" is a reflection of the spiritual metamorphosis of Gumilev in 1914-1918s.

The article considers the artistic originality of Ivan Kozlov's (1779-1840) verse epistles, which addressed to members of the Imperial House. The study revealed the connection of the works to the genre of odes, which was almost leveled in the era of Romanticism, replaced by the Epistles-glorification. In his letters you can see the characteristic features for odes: praise to the recipient, elements of high and singing style, full of metaphors, high frequency of gradations. And tribute to Romanticism is associated with freedom of poetic forms of expression, deep lyricism, special vocabulary, semantics transmission of human feelings. The poet fills letters to officials with poetic experience of joy and a heart of delight, leaving behind the pathetic nature of such communications.