Aim. The article explores the problem of the psychological reality of the word form. Methodology. This approach involves the use of a complex of psycholinguistic, cognitive and linguistic “tools”: analysis of spontaneous speech word usage; longitudinal observations of children’s speech; modeling of associative fields as so individual word forms and grammatical paradigms based on experimental data. Results. It outlines a set of genetically early grammatical forms that the child learns in the process of speech and cognitive development, and forms that the child rarely uses at the early stages of the formation of grammatical competence. It has identified both the most frequent word forms, which form the core of the language system and bear the main speech load at further stages of speech development, and “lacuna” in grammatical paradigms, which the speaker does not use in spontaneous speech activity. Research implications. The results of the research can be used to develop an active grammatical minimum (actual grammaticon) for teaching Russian, which is intended to significantly change the formal and logical procedures that are used in existing methods of studying grammar.

Aim: a systematic description of qualifying modus meanings in the context, identifying ways of interacting with the categories of modality, emotiveness, and evaluativeness, as well as determining the degree of influence of these categories on the formation of the general meaning of the utterance. Methodology. The empirical material was analyzed using the functional approach, which allowed us to describe the qualifying modus categories both at the level of the elementary communicative structure - sentences, and at the text level. Results. The hypothesis is confirmed that the context, being one of the obligatory areas of explication of qualifying modus categories - evaluation, emotiveness and modality, allows you to functionally analyze the objective and subjective components of these categories, as well as determine the parameters of their interaction in the semantic structure of the sentence. Research implications: it consists in summarizing the theoretical data on the topic under study. Qualitative modus categories are investigated at the level of their semantic realization. The way of analysis of empirical material is substantiated - from semantic categories to the means of their representation.

The aim of the work is to describe the functioning of proper names in the poetic text of Bulat Okudzhava - a famous poet of the twentieth century, the founder of such a phenomenon of Russian culture as the author song. Methodology. We consider the anthroponyms of the thematic field “Historical and Political Figures”, used by the author in a poetic text and having a real person as his referent, i.e. a person living or lived in the real world. Results. The analyzed group of precedent onyms represents key figures of Russian and world history and culture, as well as iconic figures of the time in which the author lived. Behind each name is a worldview, attitude, belief system, code of ethics. Research implications lies in the fact that the results of the study can be used to develop methods for the integrated study of disciplines in a university.

The aim of this work is to identify process phraseological units that express gender relations in modern Russian language. Methodology. The article analyzes the semantics of process phraseological units that express gender relations. The research uses methods of continuous sampling from fiction and periodicals, the method of lexical and semantic analysis with elements of statistical methods, the method of component analysis, methods of observation, generalization and interpretation of results. Results. In the course of the work, semantic groups and subgroups of process phraseological units expressing gender relations were systematized, the component composition of the studied units was identified, synonymous series of phraseological units were compiled, and their causative and antonymic pairs were considered. Research implications. The article summarizes the material on the topic under study. The results of the research contribute to the theory of phraseology and can be used in the compilation of phraseological dictionaries.

The aim of the work - to trace how such a fragment of the Russian linguistic picture of the world as ‘clothes’ is reflected in the everyday nominations of the story by N. Leskov. Methodology. Vocabulary of life is studied, naming types of clothing, which was revealed by the method of targeted sampling in the story of N. S. Leskov’s “Life of a Woman”, where a wide range of life problems of various social strata of Russia of the XIX century, above all the peasants, are touched upon. Classification, analysis of semantics of units with their nominative and evaluative potential with the help of historical, etymological dictionaries are relevant in assessing realistic authenticity of recreated pictures of life, necessary for understanding the stylistic role of nominations in displaying everyday life and traditions, are interesting in linguocultural terms. Results. Observation of the use of clothes’ names by a realist writer confirms the validity of the statement that things and clothes are important in revealing the images of characters: this fragment of the Russian language picture of the world is anthropocentric. Research implications. This leads to the practical significance of the article: observations can contribute to the understanding of the objects of the artistic space by foreign readers, including Chinese, used to clarify translations and create a language commentary to the text. The theoretical value is in deepening the idea of the author’s idiolect and his evolution.

Aim. The main purpose of this study is to analyze semantic potential of interrogative sentences with pronoun «gde», and to illustrate contexts, conditions on which depends realization each one of mentioned meanings. Methodology. Results. Interrogative sentences with pronoun «gde» are most frequently used to form spatial questions, namely questions about location of certain subject / object, as well as questions about starting or ending point of their routes in case of transferring. Subject area of questions with pronoun «gde» could be reason of absence of someone / something in vision of the speaker, or method to realize some situation,or counterpart and or even time. Research implications.

The aim of the article is to identify the correlation of mythology and history, folklore and book culture within the framework of a single text of a modern poet. Methodology. The paper analyzes the poem «Andrei Ivanovich Goes Back Home» by Faina Grimberg. Results. Based on the analysis of architectonics, intertextuality, as well as the system of images in the poem, the author makes conclusions on syncretism of history and myth. The article formulates the genre-forming signs of lament, fairy tale, idyll and hagiography correlated in the text. Research implications. The results of this work can be used in the teaching of Russian literature in secondary schools and universities.

The aim of the article is to analyze the re-consideration of the traditional Russian culture image of Bronze Horseman in V. Sosnora’s poetry. The poem “The Bronze Horseman” is chosen as a material for the research. Methodology are based on the theory of style developed by Russian philological tradition (A. A. Potebnya, A. N. Veselovsky, A. F. Losev, V. V. Vinogradov, Yu. I. Mineralov, et al.) The results of the analysis showed that using familiar lineaments of the Brazen rider as the sculptural art and the artistic image (primarily the image used in Pushkin’s poem “The Bronze Horseman”) Sosnora makes a new internal form both of the image and the work of art. He accumulated artistic plots of his predecessors and rises actual issues of his days. The research implications of the article is that gets new vision on the correlation of the classical traditions and the neo-avant-garde literature of the middle of the XX century.

The aim of this research is to determine integral and differential traits of the literary images of the USA and Scotland in Scottish emigrational poetic discourse. Methodology. The article deals with the literary images of Scotland and the USA in literary works of XIX century Scottish poets-emigrants. The basic methods of investigation are comparative analysis, method of genre analysis. Results. Positive appraisal both of Scotland and the USA is revealed. Concepts «right» and «might» are more frequently used in texts concerning Scotland, «justice» and «independence» - in texts about the USA. Urban scenery of Scotland is widely-distributed in comparison with that of the USA. Absence of myth destruction concerning both images of Scotland and the USA is explained with poets’ position. Poets-emigrants were not the part of their own native country, Scotland and, at the same time, they were not the part of their new Fatherland, the USA. Research implications. The research results contribute to the comparative study and study of emigrational literature.

Aim. The article aims to compare the features of the images of madman in Gogol’s and Lu Xun’s works called «Notes of madman» and considers the three main issues forming the images - sources of the images, artistic and ideological originality of the stories, cultural and historical context. Methodology. The author analyzes Gogol’s and Lu Xun’s works, biography of Lu Xun and points out the artistic features of each of the two images. Results. As a result, the author comes to the conclusion that there are both the genetic and typological links between images of madman in the stories. Research implications.

The aim of the article is to detect the features of the plot and figurative embodiment the motive of happiness in the stories by Irina Odoevtseva. Methodology. The author analyzes the early emigrant writer`s stories. The connection identified of the life experience of the writer and the characters created by her is revealed. The study identifies several types of motive: lost happiness, false happiness, sacrificial happiness. Comparative historical, biogeographic and hermeneutical methods and used. Results. At the end of the article the conclusion is that is stated that this motive stemmed from separation of the characters and author departure from Russia, that this motive plays a plot-forming role, is the leitmotif in the early prose by Irina Odoevtseva. Research implications. The article is addressed to all interested in literature of the Russian foreign countries.

The aim of this study is to outline the attitude of authors of textbooks, anthologies and manuals on Russian literature in relation to Russian female writers. Methodology. The article discusses textbooks, anthologies and manuals on Russian literature (1820-1850) which mention female writers or include texts of their works. Results. It is concluded that two approaches to the perception of the female writers’ work can be outlined: considering it as a kind of separate phenomenon, which deserves condescension and encouragement (Galakhov, Mizko); its perception as an integral part of literary process (Grech, Peninsky, Askochensky, Zelenetsky). Research implications. The article is the first attempt to give a picture of the representation of female writers in textbooks on the history of Russian literature, as well as to analyze the attitude of the authors to the problem of female literature.

The aim of this research is to identify patterns of influence of Mayakovsky - the artist on the poet’s early lyrics. Methodology. The article analyzes the works devoted to the study of the phenomenon of synthesis of arts in the poetry of the Silver age. Special attention is paid to the basic principles of reflecting the world in futuristic Italian painting, in the paintings of Russian avant-garde artists. The methodology consists in revealing ways to transfer these principles to the field of verbal art - the early lyrics of V. Mayakovsky. Results. It is concluded that the study of the pictorial avant-garde of the early twentieth century allows us to create a more complete picture of the innovation of Mayakovsky’s poetry. Research implications.The results of the research can be used in higher educational institutions when studying the course of Russian literature of the Silver age, when conducting a special course on the aesthetics of futurism, and for making comments on the publication of poems by V. Mayakovsky.

The aim of the study is to analyze the framework elements in detail, which allows us to speak not about a collection of poems, but only about an aesthetic phenomenon (a book of poems), because the author has the opportunity to speak directly with the reader. Methodology. The article considers the book of poems “Shortening parting” by Veniamin Borisov as holistic book. The framework elements are analyzed in detail. The study uses textual and hermeneutic methods to emphasize the unity of the book of poems at the architectonic level. Results. The analysis showed that the framework elements, the reverse - not chronological-principle of the arrangement of poems, the inclusion of color illustrations serve the main task- to show a certain time period of the life path of the lyric hero, who lived “shortening the separation”. The name of the poetry collection becomes not only a connecting element of all the poems that make up it, but also a key to the plots of small novels and frame elements. Research implications. The practical significance of the article is due to the possibility of its use as an illustration of one of the new approaches to the analysis of literary text.

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