Ontological concepts, associated with objects of the surrounding reality, appear as a basis in the conceptual model of the world. The special place among them is occupied by zoo concepts as primary cognitive structures, ...

The cognitive function of language is manifested, among others, in the inseparable processes of conceptualization and categorization of the world. The present study attempts to demonstrate that in the process of language ...

The article is devoted to the analysis of nonverbal means of conveying emotions in Polish and Russian cultures. Body language employs such tools as look, glance, mimics, change of the face colour, tears, voice, gestures ...

A distinctive feature of the processes occurring today in the lexical-semantic system is their dynamism. We often observe how a new word or a new meaning is born, the word is changed or neutralized by its stylistic marking. ...

The article shows the Russian equivalents of the emotion name of joy extracted from the contemporary Polish prose and its translation into Russian. The dictionary equivalent радость appeared in most of the examples.

The aim of the paper is to present the realization of motive of dream fulfillment in cars’ advertisements. Polish and Russian advertising slogans of various brands were analyzed. It allows to discribe similarities and ...

The review article refers to the book by Mark Johnson of 2007 which has been translated by Jarosław Płuciennik. The book is worth noting as it analyses the basic notion of the theory of cognitive linguistics – i.e. embodied ...

For describing a structurally difficult concept of the language situation with pluricentric language we consider the possibility of using the modeling method. Such situation is not a local situation in the region but it ...

The article discusses issues of using obscene vocabulary in artistic texts on the example of the lyric of S. Yesenin and V. Mayakovsky. The purpose of the analysis is to classify invective lexis taking into consideration ...

The paper presents linguo-cultural analysis of the concept “mother” in Russian and Polish languages. The concept refers to the category of the basic concepts in both linguo-cultures. The observation of conceptualization ...