The paper addresses post-revolutionary patterns in Russian toponymic onomastics. The chapter presents and discusses standard means of forming place names: 1) related to Lenin, the father of the Soviet country: Ленинград, ...

The aim of the present paper is to discuss the problem of Russian word stress evolution within verb forms, which has been observed for the last twenty five years. There are certain groups of verbs, in which the word ...

The present paper considers the word ‘silence’ (‘тишина’), which is perceived as one of the words that in artistic language of Prishvin have expressive value, despite their lack of a referent. For that reason the word ...

Metaphors as a type of euphemism formation in thematic group of Russian Polish and English toilet euphemisms are considered. Different types of metaphorical euphemisms are investigated. The analysis demonstrates common ...

The author of the article analyses the last two programmes (from 2009 and 2010) entitled „A Conversation With Vladimir Putin. Continuation” paying attention to the way Putin constructs his public utterances. The analysis ...

The aim of the article is to determine the peculiarities of meaning of Russian prepositions. The relativity of syntactic words is analyzed on the bases of spatial prepositions. The article distinguishes three kinds of ...

Singulatives are nouns that refer to individual objects separated from the mass substance. We analyze singulatives: their structure, relationships with various groups of nouns, and means of expressing singularity. Simple ...

Modulation is a process which involves changing the informative parameters of the source language word. The concrete manifestation of this transformation is the act of replacing the source language words with equivalents ...

The present paper analyses two currents of philosophy of language: ‘individualistic subjectivism’ and ‘abstract objectivism’, described in Marxism and the Philosophy of Language. The book by Voloshinov and Bakhtin is ...

The cultural connotation is the basic lingua-cultural concept. It links two semiotic systems – language and culture as the forms of consciousness. It is the means of storage and of the transmission of culture into the ...