Nizhnevartovsk Philological Bulletin

The article is devoted to the analysis of the stylistic manner of one of the little-studied, but significant postmodernist writers – Leonid Tsypkin. Most of the texts that belong to him were created in the 1970s – 1980s. Leonid Tsypkin is known abroad as the author of the shot story “Summer in Baden-Baden”. This text is based on the biographical story of F.M. Dostoevsky about his difficult life in Europe. After its publication, the novel caused many evaluative judgments: from bright, serious, with due piety, to constructively critical, and even, at times, negative. Leonid Tsypkin's prose is focused on the objectification of pressing problems, for this the author actively uses the techniques of intertextuality, allusion, reminiscence. It is worth assuming that the language game for the writer is an opportunity to achieve freedom of thought in the probable assessment of being. L. Tsypkin's short prose is no less dialogic. Within the framework of this article, the analysis of the story “The Holiday That Is Always with Me” is carried out from the standpoint of using the intertext technique. In addition to identifying intertextual traces, the study also assumes the definition of their functional significance. The methods of analyzing the artistic text are reduced to a set of typological, comparative, and structural nature. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that the story “The Holiday That Is Always with Me” has not been adequately studied in a variety of critical sources. Leonid Tsypkin's short prose, in our opinion, is the basis for constructing his large forms; in the mode of a short construction, the author manages to practically work out variants of postmodernist poetics techniques. The material of this article is appropriate to use when studying a number of disciplines in the humanities.

This article attempts to study the personal and historical prerequisites for the creation of the cycle “Poems about Moscow” by Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva in 1916. The theme of her native city has always interested M.I. Tsvetaeva and is one of the key themes in the poet's work. In addition, along with through the poems dedicated to Moscow, in the general poetic heritage of Tsvetaeva, the more global theme of the Motherland is seen and revealed. The article considers Tsvetaeva's cycle “Poems about Moscow” in its original form, as it was first published in the Petrograd literary journal “Severnye Zapiski” in January 1917, because, in our opinion, this approach to its study is important for understanding the author's intention. The analysis of the biographical and everyday context of the creation of the cycle “Poems about Moscow”, based on documentary evidence preserved in letters, will allow us to understand what historical and cultural events influenced the formation of the poetic image of the city, as well as to identify which Moscow geographical and architectural symbols were transformed by Tsvetaeva into poetic symbols, how they reflect her personal experiences and inner world. Special attention is paid to the symbolism of Moscow religious buildings, which in Tsvetaeva's poetry become not only architectural monuments, but also symbols of spirituality and fortitude. In addition, the article examines the relationship between Tsvetaeva's personal perception of Moscow and the themes of cultural identity and historical sustainability, as well as the use of certain images and motifs to create a comprehensive portrait of the city, which becomes an integral part of her literary heritage as a Moscow poet.

At Russian language classes Kazakh students work on the language of their specialty, sharpen the scientific style of speech. One of the topics is the study of syntactic features of scientific style of speech, where impersonal sentences occupy an important place among one-joint sentences. In the course of the research we applied general scientific methods, but the main approach was structural, which according to the ways of predicate expression allowed us to distinguish impersonal sentences from other one-, two- and synonymous sentences. Linguistic and extra-linguistic factors negatively influencing the students' mastering of this topic were revealed. Separate classifications of impersonal sentences, developed both in the traditional and new format, elaborated in detail, extended, were considered. When teaching Kazakh students, we focused on P.A. Lecant's classification of impersonal sentences presented in the textbook “Modern Russian Language. Syntax” (2007). Impersonal sentences were extracted from the textbook on physics by the method of continuous sampling, which allowed us to identify more and less frequent models in the composition of impersonal sentences. To master the grammar of impersonal sentences, students were offered exercises of instructional character, including exercises for independent performance with the support of samples, exercises on synonymy of impersonal sentences and other one-joint sentences. The practical value of the work consists in the fact that the article proposes a methodology of work on impersonal sentences in the training of Kazakh students who study in the field of physics and mathematics. We hope that the methodical development will be useful and informative first of all for young practicing teachers, who will be able to get acquainted with new classifications in the theory of impersonality. The authors conclude that when studying syntactic features of the scientific style, teachers should hold additional classes to help students, which will undoubtedly give positive results.

The article aims to examine the cases of encoding of advertising culturally-determined items (trademarks and brands) that name branded products and manufacturers producing branded products, based on rhyming slang material. The topic is explored through the examples of rhyming slang that reflect advertising items represented by pragmatonyms and ergonyms. The analyzed rhymes are based on company names and brands that are well known to the average British citizen and are included in the so-called “cultural literacy” of the speakers of English linguistic culture. The rhymes are borrowed from dictionaries of rhyming and general slang, as well as Internet sources, while the sociocultural information is provided from encyclopedic dictionaries and dictionaries of culture. advertising culturally-determined items have not yet been the subject of special analysis and undoubtedly deserve linguistic and sociocultural description. The article presents a sociocultural analysis of more than 40 rhymes that refer to pragmatonyms and ergonyms. As a result, it was revealed that among the rhymes correlated with the names of goods and manufacturing companies, the rhymes encoding beverages are the most representative, particularly various brands and types of beer, which justifies the statement that beer remains the most favorite drink of the inhabitants of Great Britain. Rhymes encoding restaurants and means of transport (car brands) are also popular. Reflecting culturally precedent phenomena – names, situations, and historical culturally-determined items within the context of cultural literacy, the rhymes analyzed in the article have linguocultural value. The results of the study may be useful and interesting to specialists developing topics in intercultural communication, linguistic and cultural studies, linguoculturology, contrastive linguistics of the English and Russian languages, speech culture and the practice of teaching English as a foreign language.

Under the framework of the anthropocentric paradigm, the research fields in linguistics have taken a radical turn and enlarged their scope as well as areas of investigation. The study of human factors influencing language usage is being held from different perspectives and along with traditional methods of analysis, newly emerging research methods are being applied in linguistic explorations as well. One of such language means which has been a subject to a line of scientific studies is allusion and it has been under the spotlight of such disciplines as stylistics, text linguistics, cognitive linguistics, linguopragmatics and cultural linguistics. The focus on allusions as a figurative means of language used to indirectly refer to a person, object, place or event has been switched onto the other issues which are entailing the consideration of wider scale approaches to the analysis of this stylistic device. This article sheds light on the religiously marked allusions, their denotation, functions, conceptual significance in the literary text and ways of analyzing and interpreting them from the perspectives of cognitive linguistics. To reveal the conceptual significance of religiously marked allusions in the literary text, the cognitive mechanism of conceptual blending is implemented in the research. According to the results of the analysis, allusions obtain new conceptual senses by activating a specific event, object, or personage anew in the text and the blending theory can effectively be applied in decoding the implicit message conveyed by allusions.

This article is based on the realization that today there are many ways to spend your free time with pleasure and interest. Nevertheless, reading books, especially works of fiction, is still a popular way to spend time. Since there are many such works, both Russian and foreign writers are forever searching for how to write a work that would catch the reader's attention with its originality and not let go of the last page. The most interesting literary methods of influencing the reader are paradox and nonsense. The paradox, being a contradiction, challenges the usual ideas and encourages us to look at things from a new perspective. Through him, there is a confrontation with outdated norms. A technique can be called a paradox if it contains an expression of the dialectical interaction of opposites, the revelation of truth in contradiction, and the unexpected discovery of a contradiction in life by a paradox. Based on the contradiction the author wants to portray in his work, philosophical, historical, characterological, plot and ironic paradoxes are highlighted. Being nonsense, nonsense, in turn, forces the reader to look for new meanings in the work. This is facilitated by its features: play, rejection of beauty, the presence of drawings, the creation of new words. Nonsense is associated with two main sciences: philosophy and linguistics. In accordance with this, there are two types of it: philosophical and linguistic. Philosophical nonsense has no limits, like philosophical questions, its meanings are endless. Linguistic is realized through the word, which is the main building material of nonsense.