Translation features of media articles about COVID-19 in Chinese in the linguo-pragmatic aspect

In the age of information, media language takes on special importance. Its continuous development is linked primarily to the evolution of information transfer technologies, which pro-vide media language a special role as a model of national language in the information space. Me-dia speech influences language norms, tastes and preferences of native speakers more than official, academic or artistic speech. The study of media texts as a result of speech immersed in a specific social context may help to examine in greater detail the basic principles of certain spheres of life. This, in addition to considering the translation of media articles and its linguistic and pragmatic features, can form the basis for further linguistic research, and additionally is especially relevant in light of the global emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this work the linguistic and pragmatic translation features of media texts were considered on the basis of media texts on COVID-19 in Chinese. By analyzing these articles, data on the structure and characteristics of me-dia texts and media language are proposed, which can help to delve deeper into the specifics of media language and the translation of media texts; analysis of the translation of media articles from Chinese into Russian is also conducted.

Aesthetic aspects of Mark Zakharov’s direction

We present an analysis of the basic aesthetic principles of Mark Zakharov’s directing. We consider the creative path of the director, factors influencing the development of his directorial views and worldview. Throughout his career, Zakharov improved and was constantly on the loo-kout. The director formulated some principles of working with actors. Among them is the need to help an actor, directing him in the right direction of his plan, without turning him into a pawn for directorial experiments. A modern actor must constantly take into account three important theatrical elements: the material environment, partners and spectators. Mark Zakharov’s performances did not put the actor in a certain framework, but on the contrary, gave an opportunity for improvisation, active life, constant creative search. We also focus on the director's ability to influence the viewer. He was able to unobtrusively, in a comedy-musical form, convey to the viewer the most terrible events, the wisest thoughts, and this form is always perceived better, the viewer is more willing to let himself be taught. We conclude that Zakharov built his own special directing system based on his worldview.

Heroic memoratives in the Russian toponymicon

We consider the place of heroic memoratives in the toponymic space of Russian Federation (at the level of oikonymy, urbanonymy, oronymy). The purpose of research is to show the effective role of commemorative practices, which are part of the state toponymic policy and aimed at preserving the historical memory of the heroic past of our country for posterity, using the example of Russian toponymy. We conclude that the state ideology is one of the main reasons for the ap-pearance of toponyms-memoratives, gives the main categories of heroic personalities after whom geographical objects were named (heroes of military battles of the initial period of Russia before the 18th century, Patriotic War of 1812, October Revolution of 1917 and Russian Civil War, Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, fighting in “hot spots” in peacetime, heroes of labor). In conclusion, we note that in the names of geographical objects considered, different historical epochs were intertwined, in which our ancestors showed courage and heroism in defending the Fatherland from external and internal enemies, and also performed labor feats for the benefit of their native country.

Influence of cultural and educational traditions on critical thinking formation practices

We consider the cultural and philosophical aspects of critical thinking and scientific approaches to them in the classical and postclassical philosophy of education. We characterize the specific features of thinking and requirements for it within the framework of the traditional and new models of educational values. We note that in the culturological value context an important place is occupied not by individual models as an intrinsic value, but by the presence of continuity, the implementation of the principles of complementarity and interdependence of “traditional” and “modern”. We analyze the concepts of “culture of thinking” and “culture of education”. We pro-vide definitions and levels of critical thinking in their relation to universal human cultural values, taking into account the awareness of the multipolarity of world. We propose an approach to solv-ing problematic issues related to the formation of critical thinking, in accordance not only with his-torically established philosophical doctrines about thinking, but also with cultural and educational traditions. As an example of the traditions influence of culture of thinking on the critical thinking formation, such educational practice as “Philosophy for Children” is given. We substantiate the choice of programs and methods of philosophizing with children based on cultural reality and spi-ritual problems (intellectual, political, ethical, etc.), characteristic of a particular state. We con-clude that there is a close relationship between cultural and educational traditions and key aspects of the critical thinking formation.

The influence of Old Testament reminiscences in the dramatic poem by S.A. Yesenin “Pugachev” on the artistic and philosophical system of the play by I.M. Levin “Moses”

The work examines the plots and images of the Old Testament in the dramatic poem by S.A. Yesenin “Pugachev”. The relevance of the study is determined by the need for both a com-prehensive consideration of possible interpretations of the poem and drawing attention to its crea-tive impact on the literature of the Russian emigration. The aim of the study is to identify in the poem by S.A. Yesenin “Pugachev” of the Old Testament reminiscences and determination of their influence on the religious and philosophical content of the play by I.M. Levin “Moses”. The theo-retical basis of the study is the thesis about the intertextuality of the poem “Pugachev”, put for-ward by N.I. Shubnikova-Guseva. In the course of the study, a comparative analysis of the artistic structures of the poem by S.A. Yesenin “Pugachev” and plays by I.M. Levin “Moses”. Based on the identification of common elements of the compositional organization and poetic language of these works, it is concluded that the play by I.M. Levin is a kind of reception of the biblical reminiscences of “Pugachev” associated with the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. When comparing the text of “Pugachev” with the book of Exodus, the Old Testament subtext is revealed, which became the main unifying factor of the figurative system of the poem. Together with the New Testament motifs of the poem already indicated in Yesenin studies, the Old Testament reminiscences testify to its deep religious and philosophical content.

Cycle of novellas “Bruderschaft with Death” by B. Akunin in the aspect of literary cinematic

We consider the implementation of the literary cinematic principles in Boris Akunin’s cycle “Bruderschaft with Death”, which we analyze using intertextual, contextual methods, as well as the method of holistic analysis of a literary work. We substantiate that “novel-cinema” as a new form, which is the result of intermedial interaction (one of the key processes of the modern cultur-al space) contributes to the assertion in the texts of novellas to develop “visible”, dynamic action emphasized in the visual space, constructed through the characters system and utilitarian editing. We establish that in B. Akunin’s text there is a corpus of visual material (posters, illustrations, photographs) that asserts a specific visual image of the events described. However, the existence of such a visual corpus contributes to the generation of additional semantics, which changes the emphasis in the “visual – verbal” relationship. As a result, we conclude that in the novellas of cy-cle not only the main provisions of “literary cinematic” are realized, but the text itself appears as secondary in relation to the primary visual matter, to the conditional pre-, post- or postrevolution-ary “film”, the existence of which is indicated by the presented corpus of illustrations and photo-graphs. Research materials and general conclusions can be used to analyze not only other works of B. Akunin, but also modern domestic and world literature in the context of intertextual and inter-mediate interaction.

The names of the coast and forms of coastal relief in the Kostroma Region’s patois: landscape and geographical aspect

One of the most detailed systems of terms in regional dialect systems of the language is the terminology of rivers and river valleys, lakes and lake basins. We explore the repertoire of folk geographical terms used in the patois of the Kostroma Region, which are associated with such part of the river valley as the coast. We analyze language units, on the one hand, in the coordinates of the lexical and semantic group, on the other, in relation to the designated objects. We identify the correspondence of terms and their semantics to the nominated forms of coastal relief. In the plan “Program of collecting information for the lexical atlas of Russian folk patois” we consider the general names of the coast and the names that actualize its morphological characteristics – the names of low, low-level and high steep coast, the names of coastal relief forms, such as a cape and a sandbank. At the lexical and semantic level, we trace the connection of local names with the terminological system of the geographical landscape. The repertoire of the terms group under consideration includes mainly words with a transparent inner form, their semantics reflect the features of the coastal relief. At the same time, in the Kostroma Region’s patois, words of obscure origin are encountered, which can be attributed to the substrate vocabulary. In general, the nomenclature of the terms under consideration fits into the concept of the vocabulary continuity of the Kostroma patois.

Color designation semantics in S.A. Esenin and E. Verhaeren’s lyric

We consider the color designation features in the poetic texts of Russian and French poets. An appeal to the lyric poetry of great writers from a chosen perspective expands and concretizes the existing ideas about the individual features of the authors’ style. Analysis object is the language units of poetry by S.A. Esenin and E. Verhaeren, containing color semantics. A comparative analysis of several works representative within the framework of the declared theme reveals the similarities and differences in the color palette of Esenin and Verhaeren’s lyrics. We consider the semantics of blue, white, yellow, red colors and their shades in poems of poets. Special attention is paid to the golden color poetics, the use of which is also focused on religious symbolism. We designate the vectors of changes in the set of colors in different periods of Esenin and Verhaeren’s creative activity, the dependence of the changes in the color scale on the general pathos of the poets and the events of their personal biography is determined. We clarify the reasons for the differences in color solutions in the landscape and philosophical poetry, explained by the authors’ belonging to different literary trends and national traditions. We provide examples of discrepan-cies in existing Russian translations of E. Verhaeren’s works with the provision of our own trans-lations.

Modeling the conceptosphere as one of the most effective methods of its interpretation

The work is devoted to the description of one of the modern research methods in linguistics – modeling. We present theoretical material about modeling and substantiate the idea that this method is an effective way of analyzing and interpreting information of not only scientific, but also artistic type. The purpose of the work is an attempt to study and describe the modeling me-thod based on the conceptosphere of Russian-speaking writers in Kazakhstan. In this regard, we define our attitude to the concepts of the concept and conceptosphere. The modeling method is considered as a way to highlight the structural features of a concept, based on its definition as a conditionally mental structure that does not exist outside of thinking. The results of the analysis lead to the conclusion that systemic research in this area is promising.

The interaction of the underived vocabulary of the Smolensk patois and the Belarusian language (incomplete lexical matches)

The work is focused on specific underived nouns that are functioning in the Smolensk patois and in the Belarusian language at the present stage of the existence of these language systems and are quite close, but not identical formations in semantic and structural terms. The subject of the study is the volume of lexical meaning and potential derivational connections of nouns recorded in two synchronous language formations. The relevance of the study is determined by the complex history of the Russian and Belarusian borderland, which is reflected both in the Smolensk patois and in the Belarusian language, which had been created on the dialect basis. The vocabulary of the Russian and Belarusian borderland belongs to a single cultural and historical continuum de-termined by the history of the region, it reflects the diverse material and spiritual ties of the two language idioms’ speakers. The complexity of the historical relations between the two language systems, one of which is codified and has the status of an official language (Belarusian language), and the second exists only in an oral form and has a norm due to internal language laws of devel-opment (Smolensk patois), has led to the fact that when studying two language formations at the present stage, it is possible to speak not only about unambiguous types of relations between words, but also about peripheral types, about zones of various transitions, changes in lexical and grammatical semantics, which can potentially be points of development of two idioms in the future and are therefore valuable for study.