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This paper deals with the comparative analysis of the possibility to apply both linguo-cognitive and quantitative methods in the study of structure of mental units, e.g. concepts. The current research continues our overall and integrated study of English ecological discourse and is the next in a number of logical research series of this scientific challenge (Ковалик 2017; Ковалик, Тимочко 2018). The study object of this paper is WATER concept in English water management metadiscourse. The research is carried out on the basis of the original text of the EU Water Framework Directive 2000/60 / EC. The aim of the paper is not only to conduct a frame-based analysis of WATER concept using Svitlana Zhabotynska’s methodology of conceptual analysis (Жаботинська 1999) but also to analyse the concept occurrences in the researchable metadiscourse. In the present investigation, the conceptual structure of WATER concept is modelled through basic frame schemas and is considered as an open system. The research takes a new look at the application of linguo-cognitive and quantitative data analyses in the study of WATER concept in English water management metadiscourse.

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]

This paper analyzes the dynamics of usage of the lexical units ксива and малява (types of slip) in Russian criminal discourse. We are led to believe that, despite the large variety in understanding of the term “discourse,” it can be defined as a sphere of human linguosemiotic experience which is determined by the pragmatics of activity carried out within it, the socio-psychological features of the participants of interactions, the specifics of time and space, and topics according to the methodology proposed by O. Leszczak. Nowadays, a growing interest in criminal discourse has been observed and implies “complex research on the discourse about crime, which enables better understanding of its participants, their criminal positions and functions, the problematics and issues for discussions about crime, along with its influence on modern criminology and crime prevention” (Жалинский 2009). All these factors should be taken into account, making the researcher verify the sources of language material in order to avoid distorting meanings in the word usage under study. This is caused by the notional sphere itself, which, in certain types of discourse, can be verbalized by the word group, which may be represented by a word expression, phrase, speech segment, etc. Words and word expressions considered as phraseological units of criminal discourse were analyzed in this paper.

Political linguistics attracts attention of many researchers, including exponents of cognitive approach, to discourse analysis in linguistics. Within the framework of this approach, metaphorical representation of agents of political communication, namely of countries, political institutions and politicians, is absorbedly studied. At this, political and media discourses created by politicians, journalists, reporters, speechwriters, etc. are put to analysis. We believe that one more agent of political communication is still beyond the scope of cognitive research. That is people, SOCIETY. Many aspects of political communication depend on society -- character and quality of addressant-adressee interaction, effect that power bodies and mass media have on public, public reaction and judgement of this or that social phenomenon, possible direction of this reaction, etc. DISCOURSE OF PUBLIC OPINION is a unique discourse unit, absorbing traits of institutional, media and popular discourse - it occurs as a reaction of projection of institutional and media discourse, and exists and flourishes in popular discourse. Therefore, communication within discourse of public opinion is quite specific and has its own characteristics that are in focus of this research. DISCOURSE OF PUBLIC OPINION represents attitudinal interpretation of a socio-political event and/or its participants, opinion exchange, participation in solution of significant problems of the state and society, influence on conception and stereotypes of communicators, formation or specification of their world outlook. PUBLIC OPINION is often represented in comments to some articles in mass media, in chats, blogs, talk shows, surveys and other interactive kinds of communication. This communication usually abounds in conceptually marked linguistic units. In this paper, we consider main theoretical issues of PUBLIC OPINION DISCOURSE and present results of our cognitive analysis of the public opinion discourse in the situation of the Russian-Georgian military conflict and the information war of 2008 found in comments to corresponding articles on websites of the central British media. Namely, this article considers conceptual metaphors presenting the image of the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, so rich in attitudinal interpretation of international society that was so preoccupied by his personality and actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is devoted to the cognitive analysis of linguistic means, representing the primary human needs in extreme conditions. The nominations denoting the concepts of “food” and “warmth” are subjected to the lexico-semantic, grammatical, stylistic consideration. A choice of the discourse for analysis is due to describing a human life in detention when the primary adaptive needs prevail all others and become the most valuable. The representation of human basic biological need in food and warmth is considered in the given contexts. The use of colloquial vocabulary, grammatical norms violation, as well as figurative comparisons and transformed phraseological units in the contexts determine peculiarities of the verbal explication of the concept “food”. The author pays attention to the stylistically reduced vocabulary, which stands out the lexeme “belly”, acquiring new semantic shades in the analyzed fragments. With the nomination of warmth as another important human need for existence, the lexeme “stove” is associated. The paper identifies and analyzes the factors that cause the life values changes at the cognitive level of a person experiencing deprivation of basic biological needs.

y article investigates the situation, goals, and discourse praxis of professors supervising doctoral students writing in English. It is part of a wider project examining student-teacher interaction which is designed to improve written communication, particularly at the higher levels of academic study. Like the students they supervise, the five professors studied are English as a Foreign Language users, and all give instruction exclusively in English. Based on separate interviews with each professor, my study demonstrates that there is a tendency among doctoral supervisors to focus on the content and form of the thesis to the detriment of socio-cultural practice, i.e., the discourse between the professor and student, as well as the recognition of the text as a piece of social practice, shaped by a particular kind of academic public and the rules of scholarship that have been developed over time. The type of social practice that students bring with them varies from culture to culture. I argue that a doctoral thesis bears witness not only to the student’s ability to conduct research at a high level, but also to the creation of a distinct scholarly identity that is the result of effective discourse between professor and student, whereby the professor communicates “the rules of the game” that lead to a successful career both at university and after. My paper reflects on how we as teachers/supervisors can promote the formation of scholarly identity through the medium of English as a Foreign Language. I do so by focusing on the five supervisors’ knowledge of English, their ability to provide guidance in English, and their awareness of the importance of promoting scholarly identity in English. The article concludes with some reflections on the type of support required, if any, from native English teachers.

My article investigates the situation, goals, and discourse praxis of professors supervising doctoral students writing in English. It is part of a wider project examining student-teacher interaction which is designed to improve written communication, particularly at the higher levels of academic study. Like the students they supervise, the five professors studied are English as a Foreign Language users, and all give instruction exclusively in English. Based on separate interviews with each professor, my study demonstrates that there is a tendency among doctoral supervisors to focus on the content and form of the thesis to the detriment of socio-cultural practice, i.e., the discourse between the professor and student, as well as the recognition of the text as a piece of social practice, shaped by a particular kind of academic public and the rules of scholarship that have been developed over time. The type of social practice that students bring with them varies from culture to culture. I argue that a doctoral thesis bears witness not only to the student’s ability to conduct research at a high level, but also to the creation of a distinct scholarly identity that is the result of effective discourse between professor and student, whereby the professor communicates “the rules of the game” that lead to a successful career both at university and after. My paper reflects on how we as teachers/supervisors can promote the formation of scholarly identity through the medium of English as a Foreign Language. I do so by focusing on the five supervisors’ knowledge of English, their ability to provide guidance in English, and their awareness of the importance of promoting scholarly identity in English. The article concludes with some reflections on the type of support required, if any, from native English teachers.

Textual reconstruction is a very peculiar linguistic discipline and, although scores of scientific publications profess to deal with it, there are still not many theoretical works dealing with its methodological foundations. In a number of works published since the early 1960s, several Russian linguists of the semiological school of Tartu University – V. V. Ivanov and V. N. Toporov – have developed a distinctive approach to textual reconstruction. Their hypothesis of the “basic myth,” as they call the Slavic myth about the duel of the Thunder God (*Perunъ) and his adversary (*Velesъ), is based on the comparative and structural analysis of a huge number of historical and folk texts of many traditions, as well as on typological confirmations and binary interpretations. Linguists such as T. M. Sudnik, T. V. Civ’jan and R. Katičić have been strongly influenced by this school. Actually, these elements are not found in the works of Radoslav Katičić, who has contributed a reconstruction of Balto-Slavic texts connected with pagan fertility rites as correlated with the myth of an incestuous marriage between the son of the Storm God and his sister; however, the way he uses folklore material owes a lot to Ivanov and Toporov. The author of this work focuses on the problem of the possibility of reconstructing mythological discourse as a method of paleolinguistic research. This paper is intended as a synthetic overview of one of the neglected topics of textual reconstruction – the intertextual analysis of literary Old Russian texts. The article is centred on the reconstruction of a fragment of pagan oral discourse on the basis of homiletic and paranetic literature. The result – a fragment of the myth about the Slavic god called *Rodъ – is compared with the theory of Indo-European textual reconstruction on the syntactic and paradigmatic levels and their corresponding contexts in various common Slavic languages. The article aims to use and examine theoretical ideas of this branch of Indo-European linguistics in a practical study of a text and its transformations.