EUPHEMIZATION AS PART OF RUSSIAN MEDIA OPPOSITION DISCOURSE

Language Features of Russian Texts of Engineering Discourse

The Article is devoted to the applied problem of identifying the linguistic features of engineering texts. The study of Russian-language texts of engineering discourse is usually of an applied nature, in our case, this applied research is caused by the need to teach foreigners who receive professional engineering education in Russia and in Russian language. The object of the research is the Rus...

Constitutive Features of the Russian Political Discourse in Ecolinguistic Aspect

The article offers a comparative description of typological mechanisms used in political communicative practice and methods of verbal explication of its axiological and symbolic constituents determining universal mental features of individual/collective consciousness. The research position based on a systemic multilevel analysis of the component structure of discourse facilitates the identifica...

The study of metaphor as part of critical discourse analysis

Indirect Discourse in German, Russian, and English

In his article "Indirect Discourse in German, Russian, and English" Henry Whittlesey Schroeder analyzes the different tenses of indirect discourse in these three languages. Indirect discourse in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century adopts a different time in English, German and Russian. English indirect discourse reports in the preterit; German indirect discourse hovers in the subjunctiv...

Knowledge Media Institute Scholarly Discourse as Computable Structure

In their initial proposal for structural computing (SC), Nürnberg et al. [18] point to hypertext argumentation systems as an example of an application domain in which structure is of first-order importance. In this paper we summarise the goals and implementation of a knowledge based hypertext environment called ScholOnto (for Scholarly Ontologies), which aims to provide researchers with computa...