Vol 3, No 8 (2015)

The article touches upon the problem of structuring the cognitive domain of a legal document by analyzing of its lexico-semantic analysis and cognitive strategies. In this connection, the key concepts of the Report of the Working Party on the Accession of the Russian Federation to the World Trade Organization have been revealed.

The article considers the structure of polemic discourse as a complex communicative phenomenon in pragmatic and semantic aspects. The author studies the basic linguistic peculiarities of the discourse on three levels: lexical, grammatical, and syntactic.

The article considers the phenomenon of symbolic image. Particularly, it presents a number of classifications of symbolic images and defines their functions in a literary text. The study is based on the novel "The da Vinci Code" by the modern American writer D. Brown.

The article studies the reflection of political, economic and social problems of the XXth century USA in the works of a number of American writers. Particularly, the study deals with the stylistics means used to describe the destiny of millions of Americans of the XXth century, deceived by the false hopes that once their dream will come true. The study is based on the novel "A Garden of Earthly Delights" by J. C. Oates and the play "The Death of a Salesman" by A. Miller.

This article analyzes the influence of proverbs on the reader in the modern German mass media. In this connection, proverbs represent the authors’ intentions. It is concluded that proverbs have communicative flexibility and high contextual mobility.