From Boundary to Territory: Cultural Category "sì-hǎi" and the Chinese Cultural Group

This research focuses on the evolution of the cultural conceptualizations of the cultural category - sì-hǎi‖ from a diachronic perspective, and claims that the cultural category - sì-hǎi‖ is a notion of the spiritual territory which is closely related to the Chinese cultural group

Reversity as a universal phenomenon of cognitive nature

The article covers the problem of reversity as one of the linguistic phenomena that helps to represent linguistic view of the world. In the article the authors try to prove that it is a universal feature typical of all languages represented by specific language structures in particular language. The study of such phenomena in different groups of languages gives the opportunity to find out some principles revealing the true nature of language development and semantic modificatio

Proposition as means of polysemantic meaning understanding

The article deals with the problem of understanding the meaning of polysemantic verbs denoting perception. In accordance with the dominant cross disciplinary approach to the linguistic research the semantics of the verbs under study is analyzed in correlation with the relevant extra linguistic dat

Formation of the lexemes corpus for the level model development of language

The article deals with the principles of selection of factual material on the problem of fixing language invariants and variant

Image of Muslim women represented by means of modern English

The aim of the study is to show the image of Muslim women and to identify their position at the language leve

"Linguistic view of the world" and "Lingvistic evaluated view of the word": correlation of concepts

The study deals with the actual problems of the linguistic axiology. A special attention is drawn to the mechanisms of forming the value and evaluation components of the linguistic view of the world. A clear-cut differentiation of the value and evaluation as fundamental structures of the qualifying language thinking is put an emphasis on. In conclusion, an attempt is made to show the necessity of further investigation of the axiological substructure within the linguistic view of the worl

Non-language factors and language evolution

This paper is devoted to the description of the functioning and development of the language system seen in correlation with the influence of non-language factor

Conceptual features of mental structure of assessment

This article describes the conceptual basis of the mental structure of assessment. The main goal of this article is the systemic description if the linguistic and extra linguistic scientific data, analysis of relevant dictionary articles, search for the proper unique mental structure which is capable of storing, transforming, and transmitting knowledge concerning assessment of any object of reality into the meaning of lexemes verbalizing i

Gamma radiation attenuation characteristics of composites based on polyimide track membranes filled with nanodispersed Pb

The paper presents data on the effect of γ-radiation on polymer composites based on polyimide track membranes filled with nanodispersed lead. The radiation-protective properties of the composites were studied by theoretical and experimental method

Semantic features of the phraseological units with the component light within the artistic discourse

Conduct lexical and semantic analysis on the concept light in the artistic discourse of postmodern fictio