Conceptual metaphor in George Orwell`s political dystopia "Animal Farm"

The aim of the work was to confirm the hypothesis that the work represents a conceptual metaphorical model "Totalitarian state is Animal Farm" in both structural and meaningful ways. In modern cognitive linguistics, metaphor is regarded as one of the basic mechanisms of cognitive knowledge, structuring and explanation of the worl

Value of "mentality" and "mental" concepts in Russian, English and French

The article dwells on the cognitive-national sphere which is the subject of attention of researchers nowadays. One of the concepts that are difficult to detect, includes the concept of mentality, because it is not structured and is a kind of predisposition, the inner person’s willingness to act in a certain way. The origin and formation of the concepts "mentality" and "mental" in Russian and foreign humanities are considered in this article. With this purpose vocabulary definitions on the material of Russian, English and French dictionaries and the researchers' points of view in the given languages are analyzed, and an attempt is made to identify common and different features inherent in these concepts. The method used is a conceptual analysis. In addition, we aim to identify what the correlation of "mentality" and "world view", "mentality" and "national character" concepts ar

Contrastive analysis of the English and Russian language picture of the world = Сопоставление языковой картины мира англичан и русских

The subject matter of this paper is the Russian and English language picture of the world. The article is aimed at determining inherent and the most original traits of national character and mentality and their reflection in the Russian and English language – at both lexical and grammar levels. The further contrastive analysis has been carried out to reveal common and varying features of the two nations to draw conclusions concerning cross-cultural communicatio

The role of the olympiad movement in forming the key competences of teachers

The role of the Olympiad movement for realization of professional, social and personal qualities of teachers is considered in the articleРассматривается роль олимпиадного движения для реализации профессиональных, социальных и личностных качеств педагого

Antonio de Alfián y Juan de Oviedo el Viejo. El retablo de la Inmaculada de la Parroquia de Santa Ana de Sevilla (1573-1574)

En este artículo se documenta el retablo concertado conjuntamente por el pintor Antonio de Alfián y el entallador Juan de Oviedo el Viejo para el altar de Melchor de Horozco en la parroquia sevillana de Santa Ana. Del retablo sólo se han conservado en la actualidad las pinturas que formaron parte del conjunto, pinturas que, a pesar de haber sido atribuidas a diversos pintores, nunca se habían vinculado con el estilo de Alfián. A partir del estudio de éstas, es posible atribuirle otras obras, algunas de las cuales analizamos.This paper examines the painted and carved altarpiece made by the painter Antonio de Alfián and the “entallador” Juan de Oviedo the Elder for Melchor de Horozco in the parish church of Santa Ana in Seville. Only the paintings, however, are preserved. Never before linked to this master, these paintings allow a more complete understanding of Alfián’s somewhat unknown style. Thanks to the documentation of the altarpiece, it is now possible to attribute other works to this painter, some of which we study

Mapping of multiple muscles with transcranial magnetic stimulation: Absolute and relative test-retest reliability

The spatial accuracy of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) may be as small as a few millimeters. Despite such great potential, navigated TMS (nTMS) mapping is still underused for the assessment of motor plasticity, particularly in clinical settings. Here, we investigate the within‐limb somatotopy gradient as well as absolute and relative reliability of three hand muscle cortical representations (MCRs) using a comprehensive grid‐based sulcus‐informed nTMS motor mapping. We enrolled 22 young healthy male volunteers. Two nTMS mapping sessions were separated by 5–10 days. Motor evoked potentials were obtained from abductor pollicis brevis (APB), abductor digiti minimi, and extensor digitorum communis. In addition to individual MRI‐based analysis, we studied normalized MNI MCRs. For the reliability assessment, we calculated intraclass correlation and the smallest detectable change. Our results revealed a somatotopy gradient reflected by APB MCR having the most lateral location. Reliability analysis showed that the commonly used metrics of MCRs, such as areas, volumes, centers of gravity (COGs), and hotspots had a high relative and low absolute reliability for all three muscles. For within‐limb TMS somatotopy, the most common metrics such as the shifts between MCR COGs and hotspots had poor relative reliability. However, overlaps between different muscle MCRs were highly reliable. We, thus, provide novel evidence that inter‐muscle MCR interaction can be reliably traced using MCR overlaps while shifts between the COGs and hotspots of different MCRs are not suitable for this purpose. Our results have implications for the interpretation of nTMS motor mapping results in healthy subjects and patients with neurological conditions

Социология религии Иоахима Ваха

Joachim Wach (1898-1955), one of classics of religious studies, devoted much of his scientific life to the study of sociological aspects of religious experience, the social functions of religion, the development of sociological challenges of systematic religious and sociological implications of the research methodology of religion. The article presents basic concept of the sociology of religion German-American religious scholar.Иоахим Вах (1898-1955), один из классиков религиоведения, посвятил значительную часть своей научной жизни изучению социологических аспектов религиозного опыта, социальных функций религии, разработке социологических задач систематического религиоведения и методологии исследования социологических импликаций религии. В статье представлены основные положения социологии религии германо-американского религиоведа

Международные практики изучения высшего класса: обзор зарубежных исследований

The article considers the international experience of studying of the upper class (USA, UK, Norway, Sweden). On the ground of the foreign studies we can try to highlight the main criteria for the identification of a given social class and formulate its essential definition.В статье рассматривается международный опыт изучения высшего класса (США, Великобритания, Норвегия, Швеция). На основе анализа зарубежных исследований выделяются основные критерии идентификации данного социального класса и формулируется его сущностное определение