The present paper is devoted to synaesthetic metaphors in Nabokov’s oeuvre. The main attention is paid to the metaphors in which both the source and the target domains are perceptual. Numerous constructions of the analysed ...

Mind in the Russian language consciousness is presented primarily as a mobile mental, ethical and emotional essence of the person. The paper examines some types of inner speech – during creative thinking, the memories and ...

The purpose of this paper is to establish the linguistic and cultural similarities and peculiarities of the Russian concept of pie and the Bulgarian concept of banica. The similarities and differences of the concepts are ...

The author emphasizes the characteristic for traditional Slavic culture relations of concept “Osud” ‘fate’ with good and bad times. It is significant that many words with temporal meaning value throughout its history could ...

Translation-wise, the article draws attention to what may connect different but related cultures. It refers to the basic assumptions of cognitive grammar of Ronald W. Langacker and the idea of the conceptual metaphor of ...

В статье рассматривается семантическое пространство лексемы «дом» в близкородственных языках. Анализ осуществляется на основе сравнения словарных статей в русском и польском языках. Прослеживается заполнение этого ...

The article deals with the «image of the author» considered as central semantic category in modern philology. Implicit character of this category in most cases makes interpretation difficult for readers. As central ...

The article examines the emotive connotation of gustatory metaphor in Russian and Bulgarian media texts. Area source of gustatory metaphors is relatively constant in time, because the taste sensation is characterized by ...

Artykuł recenzyjny prezentuje ocenę monografii zbiorowej "Dramat w nowych ujęciach teoretycznych. Studia slawistyczne" pod red. Natalii Maliutinej i Jarosława Ławskiego, Białystok – Odessa 2014) o współczesnym dramacie ...