Abstract: Special place in the language of literary text is appointed to the category of evaluation, as it is associated with the manifestation of subjective beginning in the language that addresses the cognition of objective reality and represents one of the complicated and controversial sections, which attracts attention of the linguists, philosophers, psychologists, etc. In the center of this research is the examination of evaluative lexicon in the novel “Raskovnik” by I. K. Kalashnikov”. Since the novel is dedicated to the life of Old Believers dwelling in Buryatia, the language of the text is unique and features multiple dialectisms, as well as emotionally evaluative words. The goal of this research lies in determination and analysis of the peculiarities of explication of evaluative lexicon in the novel. The methodological framework contains the studies of N. D. Arutyunova, E. M. Volf, T. V. Markelova and other scholars, which reflect the theoretical principles of the category of evaluation. The scientific novelty consists systematization of evaluative lexicon based on the material of the novel “Raskovnik” by I. K. Kalashnikov. As a result of this research, the author revealed the most significant areas of evaluation in this novel, among which are a person, his appearance, character traits, worldview, stance on life, and existence overall. The analysis of evaluative lexicon allows to better understand the meaning of the novel, gives a fuller perspective on its the characters, and reveals the peculiarities of the writer’s individual style.

Abstract: The New Year is a significant sociocultural phenomenon, thus it is important to determine its conceptual cognitive characteristics reflecting national identity. The subject of this research is the associative field of the concept of “New Year” as a fragment of Russian and Chinese linguistic worldview. The goal consists in structuring the associative field of the concept of “New Year” in the Russian and Chinese languages, as well as description of associative responses reflecting the structural-semantic content of the concept. The results of associative experiment conducted among the students of Ulan-Ude universities (Russia) and Chinese students in the city of Xi’an (China) served as the material for this study. As a result, the author determines the main semantic groups of responses; interprets and systematizes the acquired data; composes associative field of the concept of “New Year” leaning in conceptual, figurative and value associations; presents systemic characteristics of associative field, its core, close and distant periphery; defines most typical responses comprising the core of the concepts, as well as the unique associative responses demonstrating individual perception of the recipients. The article reveals similarities occurring in the mind of Russian and Chinese recipients in perception of an incentivizing word, as well as substantial differences justified by the national, cultural, regional and timely peculiarities of celebrating the New Year. Special attention is paid to linguoculturological interpretation of the concept of “New Year” as a fragment of linguistic worldview in the Russian and Chinese languages.  

Abstract: The subject of this research is the peculiarities of speaker's functional roles in a literary text taking into account the functional and semantic contents of the text. The authors of the article view the demonstration and possible variation of a speaker's role in the artistic text, describe the dependence of explication peculiarities on the kind of an utterance's referential structure and associated type of speech. As an example, th eauthors analyze the chapter 'Taman' from Mikhail Lermontov's novel 'A Hero of Our Time' as a flat fiction masterpiece. The methodological basis of the research involves the main provisions of the theory of functional and semantic types of speech. The nature of the research has determined the use of the main method of the structural and semantic description which implies direct observation, analysis, comparison and classification of linguistic factors. The major role is played by the oppositive analysis that allows to compare description texts and narrative texts as well as so called 'reasoning' texts. The researchers describe the connection between speaker's roles and functional and semantic structure of an artistic text. Such approach allows to analyze the functions and roles of a speaker taking into account the general logical basis of the speech types like 'description', 'narration' or 'reasoning' and the nature of an actor that creates the utterance and semantics of predicates. This approach to the analysis of an artistic text demonstrates how the role of a speaker impacts his or her choice of linguistic means, tonality, expressive patterns and means and allows to define the most typical features of a writer idiostyle.

Abstract: New Year is an important socio-cultural phenomenon, thus it is important to define its essential cognitive features that reflect the Russian sense of national identity. The subject of the research is the associative field of the New Year concept as a fragment of the Russian linguistic world view. The aim of this research is to create an associative field of the New Year concept as well as to describe association reactions that convey the structural and semantic contents of this concept. The research material includes the results of the associative experiment that involved students of Ulan Ude universities. The main research methods included the descriptive method that involved observation, comparison and generalisation, field method, statistical processing of linguistic material, and conceptual analysis to define and interpret the main features of the concept. As a result of the research, the researchers describe the main conceptual groups of responses, interpret and systematize obtained data, present the associative field of the New Year concept by defining conceptual, imaginative and value-based associations; and provide a description of the association field, its core, nearest and farthest peripheries, the most typical responses that constitute the core of the concept, and unique association reactions that reflect the personal perception of recipients. Associations, in their turn, include responses that reflect regional features of the aforesaid concept. The authors of the article focus on the linguocultural interpretation of the New Year concept as a fragment of the Russian linguistic world view.