Keyword: «semantics»

The article reports low ability of schoolchildren with impaired hearing to understand the content of texts. The author describes results of the study with the use of two diagnostic tasks. It is noted, that children do not perceive the text as a whole. Hearing impaired schoolchildren try to find familiar words and expressions in given stories, remember them and ensure subsequent accurate reproduction. It is most difficult for children to establish inconsistencies between parts of the deformed text, and its subsequent restoration.

The article is devoted to the study of cognitive-frame features of epistemic adverbs in English. The most frequent adverbs of the English epistemic modality are considered. The aim of the work is to describe the cognitive meanings of epistemic adverbs and identify their textual implementation in the form of frames. The authors argue that the epistemic adverbs have a cognitive-frame structure in the English language, in terms of content reflecting mental processes based on experience and knowledge.

The paper is based on Bekhteev’s poetry; it describes the theme of the historical path of Russia, which is crucial for white émigré literature and which is associated with the present, past and future of country. The common values of the White Guard culture, affecting the formation of image of the historical paths of Russia, are noted.

This article provides an overview of some results of the study of linguistic identity of «Tobolsk Folk Tales» by writer V. Sofronov; In particular, compound verbs are considered as the most widespread part of speech of the words of this structural type. The author describes four groups of compound verbs in terms of structural and semantic features. The author concludes that the active use by V.Sofronov of compound words in general and verbs in particular is a prime means of stylization, imparting folklore-related identity to the texts. A similar phenomenon is logically determined by the genre specifics of the texts.

The specificity of the seeking for an object and a person situation relevant for administrative and legal communication cause the frequent use of the verb to seek and verbal nouns naming different stages of investigative processes in cursive business texts. The author of the article explores the use of the verb to seek and its deverbatives in the regional clerical community, documents taking for consideration all the stylistical peculiarities (genre of a document) from the point of view of historical dictionaries and the Russian national corpus materials.