Abstract Religious controversy in English has always been marked by ideologically charged lexicons. Developments the analysis of machine-readable corpora have enabled more robust conclusions to be drawn about nature these vocabularies, relating particular usages confessional orientations. In this paper, part a long-term research project on history religious vocabulary, an attempt is made identi...

Abstract Nuclear stress (or sentence stress) as a prosodic feature marks information flow in spoken English, and has received some treatment the linguistics literature, most notably pragmatics, but less so newer phonological paradigms. Current theories might shed light on this feature, such Optimality Theory (OT) cognitive grammar (CG). This paper compares potential insights likely predictions ...

The research is dedicated to the texts of riddles in diverse languages, particular Russian and English, as representatives small folklore genre. authors note that main task riddle genre familiarize bearer folk culture with system. One features modeling reality under study image objects from their pragmatic features, well external characteristics. specific a special choice belonging realities ma...