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История английского языка и введение в спецфилологию: Учебно-методический комплекс

The article considers one of the main concepts in the English language – the concept time – in a diachronic way. The concept time belongs to universal units of thinking and to fundamental units of knowledge that causes the importance of its studying. The article studies how this concept changed in Early Modern English. It compares the concept in Early Modern English with its state in Middle English and gives similarities and differences. The article analyzes the ideas of Early Modern English speakers about time. It shows what devices were used to represent the concept, involving borrowings from Latin and Greek, and the key metaphors of it in Early Modern English. It considers the representation of the concept in Early Modern English literature using the example of W. Shakespeare. In conclusion, the article assumes that the concept time in the period under consideration was quite similar to its contemporary state.
The article features analogies in text generation tools identified across English legal texts generated in temporarily distant periods. Examples are provided which are indicative of the sustainability of the synonyms-based syntagmas in the legal text generation tools applied over a vast period of time.
The paper is focused on the study of reaction of italian literature critics on the publication of the Boris Pasternak's novel "Doctor Jivago". The analysys of the book ""Doctor Jivago", Pasternak, 1958, Italy" (published in Russian language in "Reka vremen", 2012, in Moscow) is given. The papers of italian writers, critics and historians of literature, who reacted immediately upon the publication of the novel (A. Moravia, I. Calvino, F.Fortini, C. Cassola, C. Salinari ecc.) are studied and analised.
In the article the patterns of the realization of emotional utterances in dialogic and monologic speech are described. The author pays special attention to the characteristic features of the speech of a speaker feeling psychic tension and to the compositional-pragmatic peculiarities of dialogic and monologic text.