The article brings analyses of semantics and functions of mottos in two documentary books by Ryszard Kapuściński: Shah of Shahs and The Soccer War. These are special kind of quotes because their subjects represent types ...

The paper discusses the concept of ethnic stereotype and its main characteristics (simplicity, emotionality, evaluativeness, caricatural nature, and relative stability), and covers the issues of stereotype structure. The ...

The objective of the article is to analyze dictionary entries on connective words from the viewpoint of a text. A dictionary entry, according to the communicative classification of G. A. Zolotova, is a reproductive ...

The article is dedicated to means of verbal aggression analysis based on ethnocultural traits of Russian, Polish and Ukrainian mentality. Taking into consideration nicknames, irony as ethnocultural means, the author analyzes ...

The article presents a critical analysis of three theoretical concepts correlation – semantic level, inner speech, mental vocabulary, represented, respectively, in the traditional linguistics, psycholinguistics and cognitive ...

Angel as an inhabitant of heaven fulfilling its specific roles during its earthly mission should have a religion-related name. However, the lexeme ангел любви /anioł miłości as a lexical unit undergoes the processes of ...

This paper presents chosen issues connected with linguistic researches about the etymology of some Russian slang-words. The article attempts to show the tasks of future studies. Up to this day many questionable etymologies ...

This article relates to the field of cultural linguistics, and also touches upon the area of cognitive linguistics. The purpose is to describe the concept of «I am a WOMAN» by analyzing vocabulary highlighted in the text, ...

The article discusses issues relating to the sphere of semantics, namely the toponym as folded, concentrated text. Communicative-pragmatic discourse possesses aspects that can be seriously studied. Proper names of geographic ...

The language of the past century boasted innumerable patriotic clichés and revolutionary invocations, political slogans, propaganda terms and banner slogans, such as: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Marks and Engels); ...