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This paper considers television discourse as a variety of genres. In spite of centrality of the visual image in television, this medium uniquely combines visuality with both oral and written varieties of language. Television thus distinguished from print media by its predominantly aural-oral mode of language use. Therefore, it is natural to make emphasis in the envisaged article on the underestimated aspect of television speech -- its intonation. The present research was directed at ascertaining of the linguistic status of prosody in the broadcast and describing speech prosodic organization of the genres under study. Theoretically, this article draws on the works of D. Crystal and D. Davy, J. Kenyon, L. Shcherba, scholars who laid basis for a phonological school of styles -- phonostyles, and whose important theoretical works were a ground for further detailed examination of phonetic styles of spoken speech. The material for research comprises news reading, comments, interviews of the reporters and correspondents, television journalists and newscasters of the leading Russian television channels RTR, NTV and ORT. The bulk of the experimental analysis constituted the recorded samples of broadcast discourse produced by 30 TV journalists in different genres. The amount of experimental material makes up 10 hours of recorded speech. In view of the aims of the investigation, the experimental material was liable to proven methods of prosodic study: auditive and acoustic analysis. It is expedient to outline the specifics of the television genres by means of the listening analyses of the phoneticians. The valid findings can be gained through the further acoustic analyses undertaken of the recorded sampling, highlighting trustworthy facts. The experimental investigation elicited that prosodic parameters are significant forming means of television genres. It appears that a genre is characterized by a specific combination of the definite prosodic features, which are not typical of the other ones. The melody configuration and its range, loudness, speech tempo, segmentation into short or long intonation groups, sort of pauses, their occurrence and duration, choice of nuclear tones and their location -- all these prosodic properties signal genres differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout the last decades, the notions of centre and periphery have become so deeply entrenched in linguistics that are normally taken for granted. The paper traces their origins back to field theory as laid down by the prominent German linguists G. Ipsen and J. Trier and works of Prague linguistic circle. Underlying space and force-dynamics metaphors are revealed. An alternative justification of the use of these notions in linguistics came up with cognitive research into the structure of categories as perceived by humans. E. Rosch's insights into prototypical organization of categories have been carried out to linguistics and proved valid for linguistic phenomena. Thus, the intuitively self-evident notions of centre and periphery have in fact a solid background in linguistics represented by three different scholarly traditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper investigates the Russian language spoken in Israel. The research on the integration of lexemes that switched from Hebrew into Russian, which is the matrix language, provides us with innovative material. The chief purpose of this research is to reveal the development trends of several morphological, phonomorphological and syntactic structures typical of modern Russian. In considering the morphological paradigm of switched nouns the problems of stress shift are discussed. The impossibility of the movable stress pattern in most switches demonstrates the difference between the integrated and non-integrated loan words. The switching of composita typical of Hebrew ( status constructus) became possible by the development of analytical adjectives typical of modern Russian and described by M. V. Panov, who considered them as a new part of speech. In noun phrases with switched adjectives the latter one follows the noun if there is no morphological agreement; thus the word order of Hebrew is preserved. The use of Hebrew nouns preceded by Russian cardinal numbers demonstrates the switching of a whole pattern, which corresponds to the Matrix Language Model. In a few examples of the switching of a verb several patterns of ad-nominal word formation can be observed. Finally, the question of semantic shifts in borrowing and switching is discussed. A comparison of our material with the cases of recent borrowing from several languages into Russian is also provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with the analysis of lexicographical representation of verbs denoting the process of talking, related to both the core of Russian language consciousness and overstepping the limits of literary use. Some aspects of the expression of their additional senses are revealed. These senses accompany the main meaning of speech verbs: the action of enunciation, which is produced by an individual and which has a communicative orientation. Associative meanings determine secondary metacommunicative functions of speech verbs and are actualized in parallel with the first-hand communicative action, named by the speech verb. A part of Russian speech verbs and verbal idioms with additional senses have sound figurative qualities, another part is arranged by verbs denoting a process of talking on the analogy of non-speech actions. Development of their figurative meaning is the result of interplay of sensory and emotional spheres, or synesthemy. The aim of the paper is to describe the foundations for selection of a special group of Russian synesthemic speech verbs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A calendar of international events related to linguistics from September 2009 to November 2009 is presented, including 2nd International Conference on "Political Linguistics" to be held in Poland and International Congress entitled "Aplied Linguistics Today: Between Theory and Practice" to be held in Novi Sad, Serbia.