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Book Review: Paul Baker and Gavin Brookes, Masculinities and Language
Discourse and Society. 2026. Vol. 37. No. 2. P. 355–358.
Islentyeva Anna
The review discusses the book that reflects upon a blend of classical and modern studies related to language and masculinities from different cultural contexts and in different languages.The reviewed book provides authors’ own illustrative studies, in which they draw on a range of methods, including conversation analysis, ethnography, visual analysis, (critical) discourse analysis and corpus-linguistic methods, among others.
Gabrielova E., Шевякова Ю. С., Вестник Удмуртского университета 2026 Vol. 36 No. 2 P. 344–354
In today's globalized world, the effectiveness of sales and the success of products largely rely on well-crafted advertising texts. Influenced by this factor and the growing competition, advertising continuously evolves, incorporating various linguistic, psychological, and cross-cultural techniques. This study focuses on the linguistic and stylistic analysis of perfume advertising texts within English and Russian discourses, ...
Added: May 25, 2026
Bulakh M., Aethiopica 2025 Vol. 28 P. 39–52
The article deals with the curse formula belonging to the sixth-century inscription by an Aksumite king Wʿzb (RIÉ 192 B, ll. 5–9). After summarizing the extant interpretations, the author proposes a new reading and interpretation, arguing that the text under scrutiny follows the same pattern and employs the same rhetoric devices as the curse formulas ...
Added: May 23, 2026
Bocharov Y., M.: -, 2025.
This textbook is designed for students improving their Spanish proficiency at levels B1-B2. It consists of five topics and a selection of texts to reinforce them. The first topic covers the morphology of the four tenses (present, perfect, imperfect, subjunctive perfect) and exercises on the formation of forms. The remaining topics are devoted to exploring ...
Added: May 23, 2026
Novikova A., Бережная М. А., Кирия И. В., КноРус, 2026.
The aesthetics of journalism is substantiated as a necessary component in the professional training of specialists in audiovisual media. The factors and trends of historical and current changes in the aesthetics of journalism are presented, and the aesthetic practices of audiovisual journalism are characterized in terms of their social functioning. Criteria for aesthetic evaluation are ...
Added: May 22, 2026
Logvinova N., Russian linguistics 2026 Vol. 50 Article 11
This paper presents the first in-depth corpus-based study of a previously overlooked syntactic variation in Russian: the competition between juxtapositional (Nominative) and possessive-like (Genitive) encoding of the second noun (the term) in specificational constructions (e.g., ponjatie čest’ (notion.NOM honor.NOM) vs. ponjatie česti (notion.NOMhonor.GEN) ‘the notion of honor’). While typological research has established cross-linguistic preferences for one encoding strategy over another, intralinguistic variation ...
Added: May 18, 2026
Gorina O. G., Kucherenko S., Larisa K. et al., St. Petersburg: Asterion, 2026.
This textbook is an integrated teaching and learning resource for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in the field of economics of tangible and intangible assets. Its design employs (i) modern corpus linguistics methods, including frequency analysis and keyword extraction based on authentic texts reflecting current trends in professional discourse, and (ii) artificial intelligence technologies for ...
Added: May 16, 2026
Зелинская Ю. Ю., Когнитивные исследования языка 2025 № 4(65) С. 180–186
The article focuses on the study of the onym as a cognitive stimulus that facilitates the decoding of the language of urban space across two ethnic groups. The research is grounded in the analysis of results from an onomastic associative experiment, aimed at identifying the dominant types of associative responses to anthroponyms, oikodonyms, hodonyms, and ...
Added: May 16, 2026
Рязань: Частный издатель П. А. Трибунский, 2025.
The collection presents research and materials designed to highlight more vividly the phenomenon of the "displaced persons" who found themselves in the West after World War II, their relationship with representatives of post revolutionary refugees and the official late Soviet emigration. The collection is intended for everyone interested in the history and culture of Russia. ...
Added: May 15, 2026
Мартынов А. В., Emigrantica 2025 № 3 С. 267–281
The article reconstructs the history of the creation of the novel Before the Deluge based on the diverse, including previously unpublished, epistolary heritage of M.A. Aldanov. It covers the period from 1942, when the writer began writing the text, to 1948, when he made the last edits to the manuscript of a separate edition. Before the Deluge was conceived ...
Added: May 15, 2026
Starchenko A., Toldova S., Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2023 Т. 6 № 1 С. 130–148
The study focuses on a previously unrecorded model of split agreement in the mirative paradigm in Kazym Khanty. Split agreement is found when comparing active and passive mirative constructions, as well as
in a limited set of uses of non-finite forms. In the passive voice, unlike the active voice, the 3rd person is unmarked and the ...
Added: May 14, 2026
Fedorov D., Jezikoslovni Zapiski 2026 Т. 32 № 1 С. 23–52
This article describes verbs denoting motion of liquid and dry substances in Slavic languages. The research explores how Slavic languages lexicalize different situations within the semantic field of substance motion and identifies the parameters that drive this lexicalization (e.g., type of substance, intensity and quantization of flow, and causation). Adjacent grammatical phenomena such as argument ...
Added: May 13, 2026
Мартынов А. В., Вопросы литературы 2025 № 6 С. 134–147
The article considers problems that plagued the book publishing industry of Russian émigrés in the late 1940s, following the destructive Nazi occupation of France during World War II. The study examines the personal experience of Nina Berberova, a ‘first wave’ émigré poet and writer, to identify the strategies used by authors to represent their output ...
Added: May 13, 2026
Gabrielova E., Максименко О. И., Социальные и гуманитарные науки на Дальнем Востоке 2026 Т. 23 № 1 С. 241–249
The article presents a diachronic analysis of the representation of women in Russian advertising, based on agitation posters from 1917-1990 and social and motivational advertising materials from 2000-2020. The aim of the study is to identify the evolution of verbal and visual strategies for constructing the image of women in the changing socio-political and cultural ...
Added: May 13, 2026
Назарова А. Е., Болонина В. А., Редакция журнала “Скиф. Вопросы студенческой науки, 2025.
The article focuses on understanding reflection in the context of narrative analysis as a means to achieve deepself-awareness of personal well-being. The focus is on the analysis of reflexive activity as a dual process, where reflectionsimultaneously serves as a means of self-understanding and a tool for cognitive cognition of the moment of happiness.The idea is ...
Added: May 12, 2026
Абдулаев А. Д., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2026 № 2 С. 259–283
This paper examines the relationship between various forms of state market presence and the intensity of conflicts between residents and management companies in multi-family housing in St. Petersburg. State entities are conceptualized as multi-level agents operating within the housing and utilities market, functioning not only as regulators but also as service providers and consumers. Conflict ...
Added: May 12, 2026
Velichkov B., Nikolova-Koleva I., Slavcheva M., Shumen: INCOMA Ltd, 2025.
The RANLP 2025 Student Research Workshop (RANLPStud’2025) is a special track of the established international conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP’2025).
The RANLPStud is being organised for the 9th time and this year is running in parallel with the other tracks of the main RANLP 2025 conference. The target of RANLPStud’25 is to be a ...
Added: May 12, 2026
Рябова Т. Б., , in: Russia as Civilization: Ideological Discourses in Politics, Media and Academia.: L.: Routledge, 2020. P. 115–141.
Tatiana Riabova analyzes textual and visual representations of the idea of “clash of civilizations” in Russian, Western European, and American online media focusing on gendered textual and visual discourses about Russia-Western relations. Drawing on theories of masculinity and popular geopolitics, she shows how gendered perceptions of the “other” are reshaped and reinforced in the Russian-Western ...
Added: March 29, 2026
Рябов О. В., Рябова Т. Б., Полис. Политические исследования 2010 № 5 С. 48–63
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Islentyeva Anna, Scheffler T., Discourse and Communication 2024 Vol. 18 No. 2 P. 216–243
This paper represents a comparative study that explores the governmental vaccine advertising campaigns that were authorised by two English-speaking and two German-speaking countries – namely Australia, Britain, Austria and Germany – within the context of the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The data set in question comprises 40 vaccination posters issued by each country’s respective government between ...
Added: March 9, 2026
Islentyeva Anna, Zimmermann E., Schützinger N. et al., Critical Discourse Studies 2024 Vol. 21 No. 4 P. 418–441
This study investigates the strategies employed in the representation of masculinity in a sample of 50 advertising campaigns launched between 1999 and 2020. The chosen posters advertise products targeted at men that fit into five categories: beverages, food, daily care products, male fragrances and clothing. ...
Added: March 9, 2026
Псков: Псковский государственный университет, 2025.
В коллективной монографии обобщается научный опыт отечественных и зарубежных исследователей в области лингвистики, межкультурной коммуникации, современной образовательной парадигмы. Издание может быть полезно научным работ- никам, специалистам-практикам, преподавателям всех уровней образования, интересующимся проблемами развития совре- менной науки и образования. ...
Added: February 11, 2026
Рябов О. В., Journal of Cold War Studies 2017 No. 1 P. 193–219
Analyzing Soviet films and film criticism from the late Stalin period, this article shows how Soviet cinematographers exploited gender discourse to produce Otherness. Cinematic representations of U.S. femininity, masculinity, love, sexuality, and marriage played an important role in constructing external and internal Enemies. Cinematography depicted the U.S. gender order as resulting from the unnatural social ...
Added: January 27, 2026
Elizaveta Shmidova, Mikhaylova O., Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 2026 Vol. 50 Article 6
This cross-sectional qualitative study investigates how Russian men with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) experience and manage mental health stigma, focusing on differences between those with a clinical diagnosis and those who self-identify with the disorder. Through in-depth interviews with eleven participants, the research explores meaning-making, disclosure practices, coping strategies, and the impact of masculine norms on ...
Added: January 13, 2026
Рахманова Л. Я., Этнографическое обозрение 2024 № 6 С. 41–65
The article explores ethnographically how taiga and river huts in the Middle Ob River, which exist in their rhythms in parallel with rural and urban forms of life, transform gender roles and qualities that do not fit into the notions of proper behavior and practices of men and women – neither as understood by local residents nor from ...
Added: November 11, 2025