No 7(901) (2025)

The article examines the olfactory vocabulary in the works of V.V. Nabokov and F.M. Dostoevsky using computational linguistics methods. The aim of the work is to identify the dominant factor in the descriptions of olfactory experience: language structure or individual authorial style. The material was collections of stories by both authors, analyzed using spaCy, NLTK and pymorphy3 libraries. A significant  difference in the nature of olfactory descriptions was revealed: Nabokov’s descriptions are dominated by descriptive characteristics with a wide range of odor sources, while Dostoevsky’s are dominated by emotionally charged metaphorical images of predominantly negative connotations.

The paper analyzes the structure of headlines in the Italian press in the digital era. The goal is to identify trends in headline transformation and their adaptation to modern media formats. To achieve this goal, we employed methods of structural, semantic and pragmatic analysis of headlines. The research material consists of headlines of Italian media. The findings reveal structural changes in headlines, their theme-rheme organization features and the role of punctuation in their compo sition. The study develops a typology of nominal themes, identifying structural models of themes (single-component, two-component, and three-component). Key trends include increased expressiveness and communicative autonomy.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the visual and verbal components of political posters typical of the media urban space of France during the presidential election campaign of 2022. The research material includes political posters produced by the French brand Ziggi. The following research methods were used: the continuous sampling method, the method of purposive sampling, the method of definitional analysis, elements of discourse analysis. It was found that the verbal component of the analyzed posters is loyal, which contributes to the dialogue between society and the authorities. In addition, the authors use allusions and language play to attain a comic effect.

The article is devoted to the study of interaction the components of a creolized text. The material of the study is 200 image-accompanied Italian-language texts of yearbooks and magazines of the Italian Armed Forces from 2000 to 2025, in which the combination of verbal (names of months, descriptions of historical events, articles) and non-verbal (photographs, drawings) components contributes to the creation of coherent and multilayered messages. The study reveals how the comibining of textual and visual components can affect the perception of information. The results of the analysis confirm that linguistic and visual components in Italian military information resources not only tell about significant historical events, but also influence the addressee’s perception of information in accordance with the addresser’s intentions.

The purpose of this research is to analyze the inner form of words of the lexico-semantic group "animals" in the Chinese language. The research methods include lexico-semantic, cognitive and comparative analysis, on the basis of which the peculiarities of animal nomination are revealed through the prism of the Chinese linguistic worldview. As a result, the classification of the lexicosemantic group of nouns-zoonyms according to conceptual parameters is proposed: similarity in appearance, behavior, sounds, symbolic meaning, functions. The results indicate that Chinese ideographic writing reflects the ways in which native Chinese speakers categorizes reality.

Drawing on the 12th century Eadwine Psalter, thе present research examines the typological shift of European languages within the context of medieval England’s trilingualism. In contrast to the literal approach and conservatism of the Old English interlinear gloss, the Anglo-Norman translation demonstrates a departure from the synthetic morphosyntactic structure of the source text to certify a typological shift to analytic alignment. By putting a number of linguistic phenomena to comparative analysis the study establishes that Old French demonstrated innovation in advancing the transition to an analytic typology. This observation is especially relevant, given Anglo-Norman’s high sociolinguistic status as the dominant language of Medieval England’s elite.

The article is devoted to the identification of similarities and differences in the formation of the names of linear objects, motivated by proper names, on the example of Italian and Belarusian borderland, characterised by the situation of closely related bilingualism. The material of the study is the names of streets, squares, alleys and other linear objects of the Belarusian city of Vitebsk and the Italian city of Aosta. The methods of quantitative data processing and photo-fixation, as well as introspective, descriptive and comparative methods were used. The research establishes both similarities and differences in the naming practices of the two cities related to the situation of closely related bilingualism and historical development of the regions.

In light of the traditional view of Robin Hood as a symbol of the Yeomanry, the idea of his noble origins at the end of the Elizabethan era and the beginning of the Jacobean era deserves further exploration. Using comparative historical and literary-historical methods, this article attempts to identify the reasons for such a radical transformation of this image by examining two plays by the English playwright Anthony Munday (1560–1633) – The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntington (1601) and The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntington (1601). By making Robin Hood the central figure of these plays, the playwright not only honored his first mentor but also highlighted the enduring universality of this image within a historical context, while using it as a lens to explore the urgent issues of his era.

The article is devoted to the study of corporeal imagery in the lyrical works of G. Adamovich based on his collection of poems “Purgatory”. The category of corporeality is one of the key categories in the poetic discourse of the Acmeists, in this regard, the purpose of this work is to identify the dominant corporeal features of the poetics of G. Adamovich’s work in relation to the semantic invariant of Acmeist aesthetics. The study is focused on a structural approach to the interpretation of a work of art and is based on a combination of structural and motive methods of analysis. The results of the study prove that the models of the main tropes are constructed based mainly on perceptual corporeal imagery and individual perceptual impressions of the subject of speech.

The article presents an analysis of the features of conflict in women magazines in the Republic of Belarus. The purpose of the study was to determine the frequency of distribution of this topic and the presence of a connection with value aspects. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, 150 texts from the publications “Women’s Magazine” and “City of Women” were analyzed. The results showed that these magazines meet the main interests of Belarusian women, paying attention to psychological and social problems, family conflicts and problems at work. It is also possible to trace how the peacekeeping function of the media is manifested in materials about conflicts, since these materials are aimed at resolving difficult situations.