№ 6(887) (2024)
Linguistics
Hate Speech in Network Space of the North Caucasus Multiethnic Regions: Functional and Pragmatic Analysis of Conflictogens
Аннотация
The article provides a functional and pragmatic analysis of conflictogens as a key component of the hate speech. The empirical basis of the study is the online postings from the VKontakte social network and the Telegram messenger in the network space of the multiethnic regions of the North Caucasus. The key elements of conflictogenesis are pejoratives, critical remarks, accusations, insults, curses, censures and sarcasm, the soft and medium of hate speech dominates. Stereotypical zoonymic ethnopholisms are frequent in the comments.



Linguistic and Rhetoric Characteristics of Electronic Speech
Аннотация
The paper discusses the problems of graphics, vocabulary and world-building, communication and culture of the emerging style of electronic speech analyzing materials of Russian and English. The methods of analysis include stylistic and lexicological approaches to the language material. The goal of the paper is to highlight and discuss the linguistic and rhetorical characteristics of electronic speech. The conclusions sum up the characteristic traits of the speech under study.



Research of Language Consciousness of the Young Generation of the Republic of Bashkortostan (based on the results of a pilot study in 2022)
Аннотация
The article discusses the possibility of using the “counter text” method by A.I. Novikov to study the linguistic consciousness of a group of people in a particular region. The features of phraseological units are given. Practical research is an analysis of experimental data in order to study comprehension strategies in the perception of Russian folk proverbs. The features of the linguistic consciousness of the youth of Bashkortostan, which are determined by generally accepted moral principles, have been identified. In conclusion, prospects for research based on the material of other precedent texts are outlined.



Translation Techniques in Transmitting Zecchino d’oro Songs from Italian into Russian
Аннотация
The article deals with the techniques of translating Zecchino d’oro songs from Italian into Russian. Poetic translation involves recreating the semantic and cultural content of the original using the resources of the target language. The authors define and analyze the techniques of translating the Italian songs into Russian, as well as justify the choice of translation transformations to achieve an adequate translation.



Ways to Translate Accidental Gaps in a Literary Text from Chinese into Russian
Аннотация
This article presents the results of the study focusing upon the methods for accidental lacunae translation from Chinese into Russian. This study is aimed at identifying the most adequate ways to translate that kind of vocabulary from Chinese. The research material was the original text of Yan Ge-ling’s story “The Thirteen Women of Jinling.”



Interference of Slovak Language among Hungarian Minority
Аннотация
For 100 years since signing the Trianon Treaty (1920) the Hungarian minority in Slovakia has been leaving in a foreign state and has begun to develop some features caused by the interference of the Slovak language. Such features can be seen at the phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical levels. The main borrowings from the Slovak language are observed at the lexical level, in the form of direct and indirect borrowings. Loan-calques are also common. Borrowings at the morphological and syntactic levels are not so numerous, but they exist and will probably continue to be recorded.



Cognitive Bases of Lexical Categorization (based on the material of Chinese and English languages)
Аннотация
The article shows that the lexical categorization in both Chinese and English is based on conceptual structures that are regularly reproduced in the semantics of lexical units related to a specific subject area. Modeling the conceptual structure of the lexeme allows us to reveal the concepts that motivate its ambiguity and form categories. The study of the cognitive aspects of Chinese and English lexemes is based on a comprehensive analysis of the conceptual internal form of a lexical unit.



Delacunization techniques in V. Nabokov’s self-translations (based on the writer’s bilingual autobiographical prose: “Other Shores”, “Speak, Memory”)
Аннотация
The article focuses on the problem of delacunization while translating almost any literary text. The specific objective of this study is to identify ways to eliminate lacunae of various types used by V. Nabokov in his bilingual autobiography which is considered to be among the most iconic examples in the history of self-translation. The correlation of the concepts of “realia” and “lacuna” common in modern translation studies is analyzed, in connection with which the methodological basis of the study is the linguistic theory of realities and the theory of lacuna model proposed by Jurij Sorokin and his students.



The Main Features of the Commemorative Discourse (an analysis of authentic English-language texts)
Аннотация
The present article is devoted to the peculiarities of the commemorative discourse, which is a type of the institutional discourse aimed at reactualising, promoting and preserving the heritage of the past. Having analysed English-language texts of internet communication published by British and American politicians, the author reveals the most vividly expressed features of the commemorative discourse.



Manifestation of the Economy Principle in the Italian Media Discourse
Аннотация
The article concerns the manifestation of the economy principle in the language of the Italian media, elaborates on the analytical tendencies in Italian, explores the analytical word forms such as “Noun+Noun”, “Verb+Noun” and “Adjective + Noun” compounds as well as the adaptation of the anglicisms. It posits that the abuse of this kind of neologisms in the media frequently leads to terminological confusion. In conclusion, we emphasize the importance of the economy principle for the development of the language.



Linguistic Profiling of Internet Personality
Аннотация
Due to the advent and widespread use of the Internet, the concept of a linguistic personality has changed, while obtaining the name of “digital personality”. The main goal of the study is to find out whether the new algorithm can make it possible to profile and identify a “digital personality” by their written speech. The article discusses such methods of personality profiling as: phonoscopic and authorship examination, features of a digital personality and a methodology for developing new ways of personality profiling and identification, taking into account the shift in the linguistic expertology paradigm.



The Specifics of Verbal Modeling of Space in a Modern German Detective Novel
Аннотация
The interest of scientists and literary critics in the phenomenon of space is due to the need for scientific analysis of the spatial characteristics of a literary text. The term locus is often used, which has a hierarchical structure and can be metaphorically represented in the form of matrjoshka. The author of the article identifies the locus of the crime scene, which is the central genre-forming element of the detective genre. It is the hierarchical structure of the locus that allows us to build a verbal model of the space of a modern German detective novel, which has a “pulsating” character: the space expands from the crime scene to the scale of the country or European and world space and narrows again to the crime scene.



Verbalization of Phenomenon «Beziehungen» in Professional and Civil Online Journalism
Аннотация
Communication in the digital environment is a relevant and popular form of communication that has certain linguistic features. This article discusses the phenomenon of verbalization of relationships in a couple («Beziehungen») on the material of modern German satirical article and the social network Reddit. The analysis of the empirical material demonstrates the tendency for the elements of oral speech to penetrate into electronic professional and civil journalism, in particular, phraseological units, anglicisms and slang expressions.



The Linguistic and Cultural Landscape of Algeria: Current State and Development Trends
Аннотация
Globalization processes find their expression in various institutional spheres, including in the space of social communications, the use of which largely determines the linguistic landscape of the country. Today there is a transition from the era of global bilingualism to the era of global multilingualism. Hence, the linguistic situation in the Maghreb countries is of great interest. The research shows the influence of cultural-historical, sociocultural and institutional factors on the interaction of minority, heritage languages, and the language of the titular nation using the example of Algeria.



Verbal-Gestural Behavior in Oral Narrative: Humor from a Gender Perspective
Аннотация
The article discusses the verbal-gestural behavior of speakers in an oral spontaneous narrative as well as the gender aspect of humor. As a result of the empirical analysis, some tendencies were revealed in the gestures of men and women when generating a humor statement, in particular, there was a quantitative predominance in the use of representing gestures, as well as a more frequent use of humor by men in an oral spontaneous narrative.



Verbalization of Aggression in Mass Media Texts
Аннотация
The article provides a classification of aggression, determines the correlation between the terms “aggression” and “destructive behavior”. System-forming signs of destructive behavior have been established. An algorithm for describing destructive behavior on the basis of mass media texts posted on the Internet is proposed. Three types of destructive behavior are described: gaslighting, abuse, triangulation.



Fiction Discourse Modifications in Historical Events Construal: a Contrastive Onomasiological Study
Аннотация
The study develops a cognitive onomasiological approach to exploring discourse modifications and onomasiological novelties in the construal of events in historical discourse with an increase of its artistic (fiction) potential. The analysis of onomastic nominations of ten historical events in scientific, publicist and fiction types of historical discourse reveals that onomasiological novelties appear in the increasing number of agentive event participants, the diversity of their behavioral patterns as well as of event spatial and temporal characteristics.



Phonetic Deviations in the German Speech of Russian Bilinguals
Аннотация
The article is devoted to the description of the main phonetic (segmental and suprasegmental levels) errors in the German speech of Russian bilinguals, which are a consequence of the interference of the Russian language. To denote the harmful “traces” of interference at the phonetic level, the author chooses the term “deviations”, which precisely defines the essence of deviations from the phonetic norm of the learned language arising from interference. The emerging deviant phenomena in the German speech of Russian-speaking students in articulatory language are described. intonation and rhythmic levels of the German language. The author emphasizes the idea that, in addition to imitative exercises, for the assimilation of the intonation-rhythmic base of the studied language, an analysis and understanding of the essence of the differences between the articulation bases of the native and the studied languages is necessary. To form stable phonetic skills, the author proposes to expand the grid of hours of the practical phonetics course.



Literary criticism
Poetry and Mythology in Italian Criticism of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries
Аннотация
The article gives an overview of the ideas about the role of classical mythology in poetry, expressed by Italian authors of the XVIII century and participants of the dispute about romanticism in 1816–1823. Relying on the topos of the prisci poetae, Gravina, Crescimbeni, and Vico presented mythology as a coherent worldview of ancient times. Other authors condemned the use of mythology as a set of ready-made forms to express poetic content, thus anticipating the theses of the Italian Romantics, among whom A. Manzoni, who revived the criticism of mythology from a Christian point of view, occupies a special place.



“What Maisie Knew” about “A Divorce in a Big City”: On Interpreting Film Titles
Аннотация
The issue of translating the titles of films released in another country in a language different from the original language deserves the attention of both translation theorists and practitioners and can become the subject of interdisciplinary research due to various factors influencing translation. The article examines both linguistic reasons that influence the translation of film titles, as well as extralinguistic ones.



Cultural studies
Motive of Nature in Russian Hokku (on the example of V. Skif’s cycle of poetry “Winter swallow”)
Аннотация
The article attempts to consider hokku in Russian as one of the forms of realization of the travelogue genre. The latter is characterized by a description of a real or fictional space, in the representation of which natural phenomena play a key role, known and little-known realities, which are often trivial, but immersed in some fictional and cultural-historical context, acquire symbolic features. It is assumed that it is possible to recognize the symbolism of natural phenomena that mark the space only through the cultural and historical interpretation of an event or phenomenon. The theoretical and methodological basis for studying a unique poetic text is also considered - from the standpoint of cognitive poetics, the theory of intertextuality and multiliterature, the emergence of which is due to the introduction of digital technologies into the virtual fictional space.



The Phenomenon of Success in the Context of Socio-Cultural Studies
Аннотация
The article focuses on the phenomenon of success from the viewpoint of sociocultural approach performed in studies in this country and abroad. The aim of the research is to assess the ratio of internal and external axiological components comprising the phenomenon by means an in-depth semi-structured interview. The following methods were exploited to process the obtained data: dense description, condensation of meaning, content analysis, and conceptual analysis. The interpretation of the phenomenon under investigation appeared to demonstrate a dichotomy. On the one hand, success was shown to measure the level of appreciation of one’s activity and its results; on the other, one’s the position in society is indicated by means of success.


