The aim of the present paper is to show periphrastic structures as the substitute names for animals. The periphrastic expressions are recognized as one of the most characteristics features of the style of Aleksander ...

Any text of Folklore is a meta-language system. It consists of simple units (meta characters, or meta-marks), each of which has some sacred meaning, characteristic of the national culture and mythology in general. The ...

In the article the author analyses word-formation and semantics of personal nouns of masculine gender, derived with the help of unproductive suffixes in the 17th – century Russian language. The suffixes mentioned are: ...

In the article the author analyses difficulties which appear in contemporary researches about the category of sign. According the author these difficulties often lead to ignoring the definitions of the category sign. To ...

The paper aims at presenting basic considerations referred to blending theory, on the material of articles in press published during the electoral campaign in 2005 in Poland. As it has been demonstrated, studying the ...

At present the language situation, formed in the former USSR, enable to divide the country into two groups, the situations in which differ from each other radically. In one group the Russian language is widely presented ...

The work contains a grammatical and linguistic analysis of the texts of watch advertisements placed in Polish and Russian press. The research has been carried out on the basis of marketing contents printed among others ...

The aim of the present paper is to prove the presence of idioms in the child language. Idioms are used by children in modified forms. Idiomatic innovations may affect both structure and meaning of idioms. They are the ...

The report focuses on the issue – representation of normative stylistic codifications of the XVIII cen. in the works by A. P. Sumarokov, V. K. Trediakovsky, M. V. Lomonosov, G. R. Gerzhavina. The study of language ...

The report is devoted to the results of the study on the word-building capacities and lexical potentials of verbs and nouns in the short stories by A.I. Solzhenitsyn; the author’s preferences on the usage of stylistically ...