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“Can I have a cup of tea please?” Politeness markers in the Spoken BNC2014
Journal of Politeness Research. 2023. Vol. 19. No. 2. P. 297–322.
Islentyeva Anna, Pesendorfer L., Tolochin I.
The focus of this study is four frequently-used politeness markers: please, thank you, thanks, and sorry. The paper aims to precisely identify the different senses of these words in the newly released corpus of spoken British English, the Spoken British National Corpus 2014.
Borkina A., Russian Japanology Review 2026 Vol. 9 No. 1 P. 30–48
The article examines the novel by Japanese writer Qudan Rie Tokyo Sympathy Tower, which was awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Literary Prize in 2024. The award sparked a wide discussion due to the writer’s use of generative artificial intelligence in her work, which not only suggested some ideas, but also became the prototype for one of ...
Added: September 2, 2026
Bodrova A. S., Русская литература 2026 № 3 С. 64–75
The article discusses the previously ignored parallels between The Same Old Story by I. A. Goncharov and a fragment of V. F. Odoyevsky’s unfinished novel Year 4338. Letters from Petersburg published in Issue 1 of Moskovsky Nabliudatel magazine in 1825. A detailed analysis of plot, motif, imagery similes between the two texts is provided, the ...
Added: September 2, 2026
Tsygunova M., Вестник Томского государственного университета 2026 № 525 С. 56–66
This article examines examples of metaphorical creativity in the works of contemporary American writer Chuck Palahniuk, particularly in the context of describing psychoemotional states. The study examines twenty-six works by Palahniuk (twenty-three short stories and three novels) and identifies examples of metaphorical creativity in the conceptualization of mental states. The analysis focuses on Palahniuk's unconventional ...
Added: August 31, 2026
Chernov A., Философические письма. Русско-европейский диалог 2026 Т. 9 № 2 С. 217–230
This publication introduces a previously unpublished note by prominent conservative thinker and diplomat Alexandru Sturdza, "The Application of the Holy Alliance to the Current Situation," written in October 1820. The document emerged in the context of an acute crisis of the Vienna system caused by a wave of revolutionary uprisings in Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal, ...
Added: August 31, 2026
Malinov A. V., СПб.: Интерсоцис, 2009.
This monograph is devoted to the development of history as a science in Russia in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It focuses on concepts of the historical process, the sociology of history, historical cognition, the structure of historical knowledge, the understanding of history as a scientific discipline, and the methodology of history. It ...
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Tulyakov D., Professional Discourse & Communication 2026 Vol. 8 No. 3 P. 114–130
Although epistemic stance in academic discourse has been extensively researched
in linguistics, relatively little is known about diachronic change and variation in its expression
across disciplines, and still less about the grant proposal abstract, a genre produced under strong
promotional pressure. The present paper addresses this gap by testing whether the widely reported trend towards research “hype” is ...
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Павел Успенский, Новый мир 2026 № 5 С. 181–192
This paper is devoted to the influence of Chodasevič’s poetic technique on Mandel´štam’s poetry. In this work we make an attempt to analyze Mandel´štam’s late Novye stichi (“Ne govori nikomu…”, “Kuda kak strašno nam s toboj…” and “My s toboj na kuchne posidim…”), which are connected to each other through the theme of fear. From ...
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Uspensky P., Горький 2026 № 28.05.
During the Soviet period, Vladislav Khodasevich’s poetry was not widely known, yet his poems had a significant influence on many writers, including the front-line poet Yevgeny Vinokurov. On the occasion of the 140th anniversary of Khodasevich’s birth, Pavel Uspensky, Professor at the School of Philology of the Faculty of Humanities at HSE University, wrote specially ...
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М.: Редакция Елены Шубиной, 2026.
This volume brings together two novels by Avdotya Yakovlevna Panaeva (1820–1893), Trifles of Life (1854) and A Woman’s Lot (1862), neither of which has been republished since its first appearance. At a time of sweeping social change, Panaeva offered a unique perspective on the “woman question.” Her novels portray remarkable women whose right to happiness ...
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Павлина С. Ю., Милащенко Н. Г., Дискурс профессиональной коммуникации 2026 Т. 8 № 3 С. 40–65
Verbal and visual metaphorical and metonymic images are key instruments of political satire, enabling the concise and expressive conveyance of evaluative attitudes toward socio-political realities. However, the multi-level mechanism of creating and decoding such figurative constructs in polycode cartoon texts has not yet received a systematic account. The aim of this study is to identify ...
Added: August 30, 2026
Павлина С. Ю., Милащенко Н. Г., Дискурс профессиональной коммуникации 2026 Т. 8 № 3 С. 40–65
Verbal and visual metaphorical and metonymic images are key instruments of political satire, enabling the concise and expressive conveyance of evaluative attitudes toward socio-political realities. However, the multi-level mechanism of creating and decoding such figurative constructs in polycode cartoon texts has not yet received a systematic account. The aim of this study is to identify ...
Added: August 29, 2026
Tikhomirova A., Professional Discourse & Communication 2026 Vol. 8 No. 3 P. 66–84
Given China’s rise as the world’s leading automotive producer and the radical
transformation of the Russian market, societal acceptance of new market entrants remains a dif
ficult communicative task. Against the backdrop of growing sales and persistent consumer am
bivalence, this study examines how Russian consumers discursively construct, challenge, and
renegotiate the legitimacy of Chinese automobile brands in online ...
Added: August 28, 2026
Fedorov D., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2026 Т. 22 № 1 С. 134–166
The article addresses verbs of the semantic field of change in Serbian which is covered by various derivates of the Proto-Slavic *-měn. Starting with perfective verbs of change (izmeniti, promeniti, zameniti, smeniti, razmeniti etc.), the article moves to imperfective verbs, separately discussing verbs prefixed with iz-. While the perfective verb izmeniti is primarily used to ...
Added: August 28, 2026
Kolmogorova A., Явшиц Е. В., Сугян А. Х. et al., Вестник Новосибирского государственного университета. Серия: Лингвистика и межкультурная коммуникация 2026 Т. 24 № 1 С. 113–127
Технологии автоматического распознавания речи (АРР) к настоящему моменту стали базовым компонентом бэкенд-инфраструктуры различных голосовых и когнитивных ассистентов, обеспечивая доступ пользователей к коммерческим сервисам и государственным платформам. Однако из-за неравномерного распределения данных, на которых модели АРР обучаются, острой становится проблема предвзятости моделей при работе с атипичной речью. Цель исследования заключается в оценке качества распознавания и сравнении ...
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Мн.: Нацыянальная бібліятэка Беларусі, 2026.
Зборнік змяшчае матэрыялы VI Міжнароднай навуковай канферэн цыі, прысвечанай 395-годдзю з дня нараджэння Сімяона Полацкага і 30-годдзю Музея-бібліятэкі Сімяона Полацкага. Канферэнцыя адбылася ў лістападзе 2024 г. у Нацыянальным Полацкім гісторыка-культурным музеі-запаведніку. ...
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Fufaeva I., Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 2: Языкознание 2025 Т. 24 № 4 С. 78–90
This study delves into speech acts utilizing diminutives for politeness, focusing on their discursive and genre-related aspects. It draws on authorial recordings of spoken discourse, data from the National Corpus of the Russian Language, and recordings of urban speech from the 1970s and late twentieth century. The research highlights the potential usage of polite diminutives in ...
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Klokova K., Krongauz M., Shulginov V. et al., Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии 2023 No. 22 P. 233–244
Communication involves an exchange of information as well as the use of linguistic means to begin, sustain, and end conversations. Politeness is seen as one of the major language tools that facilitate smooth communication. In English, politeness has been an area of great interest in pragmatics, with various theories and corpus annotation approaches used to ...
Added: November 8, 2024
Пономарёва А. А., Немецкая филология в Санкт-Петербургском государственном университете 2023 № 13 С. 358–375
Dialect is used not only as a means of spoken interpersonal communication, nowadays it can be found in advertising, media and political discourse. Dialects, not being
the main language of political communication, can be used in contrast to the standard
language for explicit and implicit transmission of emotions and evaluation as well as
(im)politeness strategy in regional political ...
Added: January 31, 2024
Krongauz M., Клокова К. С., Shulginov V. et al., Слово.ру: балтийский акцент 2023 Т. 14 № 4 С. 105–124
In the semantic theory of Gottlob Frege, the content of a linguistic sign is determined by the connection between the meaning and a set of subjective perceptions that form the mean- ing. Our study aims to reveal the influence of individual perceptions of the meaning on the extension of the semantic structure of a word, ...
Added: October 30, 2023
Shulginov V., Алянский К. А., СибСкрипт 2023 Т. 25 № 4 С. 481–490
Conflict discourse studies provide a valuable insight into linguistic and sociocultural ideologies of online communities. They also may offer effective approaches to linguistic detoxification. This research featured online communication of sport fans. Their discourse is interdiscursive, possesses a certain netiquette, and reflects the social and ideological diversity within the community. The authors explored common speech ...
Added: October 29, 2023
Gritsenko E., Кузюткина М. В., Гриценко В. И., Вопросы психолингвистики 2019 № 1(39) С. 82–101
One of the under-researched areas of linguistic globalization is the expansion of American English communication norms into other cultural contexts. This phenomenon is especially obvious in the service sector where the interaction of English and Russian is quite intensive. The impact of Global English reveals itself, among other things, in the individual-focused customer communication and ...
Added: October 5, 2020
Somin A., В кн.: ВЕЖЛИВОСТЬ И АНТИВЕЖЛИВОСТЬ В ЯЗЫКЕ И КОММУНИКАЦИИ: Материалы международной научной конференции, состоявшейся в Институте лингвистики РГГУ 23-24 октября 2018 г.: М.: Политическая энциклопедия, 2018. С. 254–263.
The paper deals with the development of the pragmatics of the Russian construction potrudites’ (lit. ‘take the effort’) + infinitive. It is shown that in the 18th and the first half of the 19th century this construction was used as a polite request between the people of the same status, and also as an invitation. ...
Added: August 28, 2019
Piperski A., Aplonova E. S., Grabovskaya M. et al., / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2018.
This paper discusses terms of address that are used in Russian child-parent communication focusing on the gender of the speakers. The data for the study come from a large-scale online survey completed by 1103 subjects. We identify 10 basic patterns of addressing parents and six basic patterns of addressing children. The results show that females ...
Added: December 14, 2018
Nagornaya A., Вопросы психолингвистики 2018 № 3 С. 50–63
The paper considers the use of ironic simile in S. King’s prose. Ironic simile is defined as a type of simile, which formally states a similarity between two objects and semantically subverts it. The topicality of the research is accounted for by the need to study ironic simile as a phenomenon and by the increasing ...
Added: September 30, 2018