Udmurt poet Flor Vasiliev's cycle “From a Norwegian Notebook” (1967) exemplifies the depiction of a Western country, in which the author and his protagonist clearly demonstrate their patriotism without resorting to rhetoric or declaratory statements. The aim of the study is to examine the artistic specificity of Vasiliev's cycle and to identify the peculiarities of the reception of foreign space within it. The leading method is the historical-cultural approach, employing techniques of reception theory. The central collective subject of the poetic cycle is the collective we, representing a Soviet citizen who has arrived in a NATO country as part of a tourist group. The image of the people is recurring, embodying the spiritual strength and industriousness of northern people who remember the horrors of World War II. The images of Nansen and Edvard Grieg are actualized in the lyrical cycle as embodiments of the finest Norwegian spiritual qualities. The Udmurt poet sympathetically portrays a female immigrant working as a tour guide in a foreign country. F. Vasiliev perceives the West not so much in opposition as in the search for points of convergence between different cultures.
This article examines the impact of modernization processes on the material culture of the Karachay people, which have unfolded in Russia in recent times. Using fieldwork, this study examines the preservation of traditional elements and the introduction of innovations in the housing, clothing, and food of the Karachay people. The study utilized a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach and specialized methods (observation and interviews). According to observations, Karachay dwelling types have undergone the greatest transformation. By the 20th century, single-chamber log houses with gable roofs were already rare and were used as auxiliary utility rooms. Among the Karachay, home interiors are also undergoing changes, aligning with urban standards. Transformations also affect traditional dress: its ethnically defining function has been diminished; traditional dress is used primarily in wedding ceremonies, and elements of it may also be present in modern clothing. Despite all this, the Karachay people maintain a traditional diet. In general, the socio-cultural processes occurring in the 20th−21st centuries have directly or indirectly affected the elements of material culture, completely or partially changing them.
This article examines agnonyms of English origin in modern Russian. This layer of borrowings is often unclear or obscure to most people, and can therefore cause communication breakdowns. As a result of such errors, communication partners become acutely aware of differences in education, upbringing, communication experience, and worldview. The study's material includes examples from shared news chats on instant messengers, announcements on information panels on public transportation and other public spaces in Perm, and television broadcasts. The selected material was also used in associative experiments. Respondents represented different age groups. General scientific research methods were used in the study—descriptive, comparative, survey, and questionnaire. Particular attention was paid to the problem of partial agnonymy, in which the speaker believes they understand the meaning of a lexical unit, but in fact uses it incorrectly. During the analysis, the main factors influencing the semantic adaptation of Anglicisms in the lexicon of a linguistic personality, as well as methods for preventing agnonymic errors, were identified.
The article aims to investigate the problem of linguistic incorporation, which remains an understudied phenomenon, causing difficulties in understanding and translation in modern English. The research objectives include establishing the distinction between incorporative constructions and compound words, phrases, and sentences; identifying and describing the lexico-semantic classes of incorporative constructions; determining the stylistic affiliation of incorporative constructions; as well as modeling and justification of optimal ways to translate corporate constructions into Russian. The conducted research is considered relevant, as the mechanism of incorporation in modern English remains debatable in terms of the interpretation of incorporative constructions, which represent atypical formations for the analytical structure of the English language. A working definition of an incorporative construction as a special morphosyntactic unit is proposed. The research was conducted on material from incorporative constructions selected through a continuous sampling method from newspaper, magazine, and literary texts of the XX–XXI centuries, using contextual, comparative, categorical, semantic, and logical-comparative methods. A typologisation of incorporative complexes was carried out at the structural, semantic, and syntactic levels. Nominative, nominative-communicative, and complexes with modal evaluation incorporative complexes were identified. The main principles and strategies for translating the studied constructions into Russian, including compensation and sentence splitting, are outlined. It is concluded that incorporative constructions, representing a unique linguistic phenomenon, actualize deep morphosyntactic connections in modern English, contributing to the interlingual correlation of translated individual speech formations into Russian. The obtained results will help in recognising, understanding the semantic scope, and stylistically correctly interpreting the meanings of incorporated complexes.
The article is devoted to the linguistic-axiological and translatological analysis of the first play by Joe de Graft “Sons and Daughters” from the perspective of Marxist theory. The research identifies linguistic and textual markers of the author's unique expressiveness, which illustrate J. de Graft's Marxist criticism of five key capitalist ideas: classism, commodification, individualism, consumerism, and imperialism. Eleven axiologically driven text fragments are subjected to stylistic and textual analysis, revealing various stylistically marked units operating at all linguistic levels. These units then undergo translatological analysis, identifying the translation transformations applied to the original text in order to convey the axiological content to the Russian reader. The results of the research confirm that the Ghanaian playwright uses an array of expressive means and stylistic devices to express his harsh criticism towards capitalist ideology; these EMs and SDs often enter into the relationship of convergence. It is worth noting that words expressing day-to-day realities are also used by the playwright axiologically; they help J. de Graft demonstrate his dissatisfaction with imperialism in Ghana, then a young African country. The text is significantly transformed in translation, which seems unsurprising since axiologically charged units pose a major difficulty while translating literary texts. Still, it is confirmed that the translator manages to convey the axiological meaning of the original text.
