Conceptual metaphors, emotions and evaluations, standards and stereotypes in Russian and English proverbs of Truth

The paper deals with revealing conceptual metaphors, ways of expressing emotions and values, implicated fixation of standards and stereotypes in semantic structure and prag-matics of proverbs both taken in isolation, and in actualized regime in the context of fiction. Universal and national specific features of proverbial concept are brought out by means of cognition-discourse model of proverb’s sense actualization (CDM) in communicative episodes based on the texts of fiction.

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Barulin (1944-2021)

In memoriam (obituary).

A few bad apples: actual usage of a proverb and its derivative idiom in contemporary American English

The article deals with the actual usage of the Anglo-American proverb The bad apple spoils the whole <entire> barrel <bushel; bunch> (also known as The rotten apple injures its neighbor) in contemporary American English. Apart from the proverb, the article considers the separate use of its nominal part, bad/rotten apples, as a separate idiom in its own right. Emphasis is put on the semantic and pragmatic shift that occurs when the idiom is used with quantifiers (e.g. a few) and appears to juxtapose the idiom and the proverb in contemporary American political discourse, especially the one connected to the BLM movement.

Onymic matrices in Yevgeny Vodolazkin’s novel Opravdanie Ostrova (‘Apologia of the Island’)

The paper analyses structures of proper names in Yevgeny Vodolazkin’s latest novel Opravdanie Ostrova (‘Apologia of the Island’, 2020). The implicative influence of the genre of fictional chronicle on nomina propria in the text is noted. The distribution of proper names types according to the functions they perform, as well as the ways how proper names are in-troduced in the text, highlight some kind of a matrix structure of the novel onomasticon.

Book Review. E.R. Ioanesyan, N.K. Ryabtseva, M.L. Kovshova, P.S. Dronov, O.S. Orlova. Predstavlenie emotsional’noy sfery cheloveka na materiale raznykh yazykov (‘Hu-man emotions domain as exemplified in a variety of languages’). Moscow: Institute of linguistics, 2020. 244 p.

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Ethnolinguistic Situation and Language Policy in Haiti

The article presents the dynamics of the language situation in the Republic of Haiti and its characteristics at the present stage, as well as an analysis of the language policy and language legislation in the country. The paper also analyses the functioning of languages in the spheres of communication regulated by the state and in interpersonal communication such as in the family, at home, etc., is also analysed. The main attention is paid to the use of languages in the educational system, which is one of the most important spheres of commu-nication both for the transfer of knowledge and culture from generation to generation and for the formation of the language competence of the younger generation of the country. The Republic of Haiti is an example of a language situation in a former colony, where after two hundred years of independence French, the language of the colonizers, still domi-nates in the educational system at the expense of Haitian Creole, which is spoken by 90% of the population.

Semiotic and linguistic analysis of The Leap by Leo Tolstoy

The paper is concerned with the referential, lexical, pragmatic, semiotic, and literary analysis of Leo Tolstoy’s tale entitled The Leap in the context of his own life, as well as of his standpoint on Charles Darwin’s evolution theory.

Book Review. G. A. Shirokova. Gotovimsya k ekzamenu kandidatskogo minimuma po angliyskomu yazyku. Ekspress-kurs. M.: Flinta, 2020. 205 s.

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Language-specific units as intensity markers

The paper scans the linguistic literature on word formation models for high-degree vocabulary. It presents a number of new models, plus a description of some language-specific words as intensity markers in a variety of languages.

Developing writing skills in English with PhD students

The paper discusses the author’s experience of developing writing skills in English with PhD students. Emphasis is placed on the English-language phenomena most important for the course.