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The sociolinguistic situation in the Greek-speaking Republic of Cyprus is described as ‘diglossia’ (reviewed in Rowe & Grohmann, 2013). That is, the ‘high’ variety is Standard Modern Greek, whereas the ‘low’ variety is the vernacular, Cypriot Greek. The differences between the two varieties go beyond vocabulary, pronunciation and prosody components. Distinct differences between Cypriot Greek and Standard Modern Greek are lexical, phonetic and (morpho)phonological properties of the languages (e.g. Newton, 1972; Arvaniti, 2001; Petinou & Okalidou, 2006; Okalidou, et al., 2010). Given the complex linguistic situation in Cyprus, the language status of Greek Cypriot children is referred to as bilectalism (Rowe & Grohmann, 2013). This is the term used by language researchers for typical and atypical language acquisition (e.g. Kambanaros, et al., 2013; Antoniou, et al., 2016; Theodorou, et al., 2016; Theodorou, et al., 2017). Accordingly, children from Cypriot Greek-speaking environments, grow up with the dialect from birth and are exposed to Standard Modern Greek as a second language or ‘lect’ from an early age. Exposure to the latter comes mainly through children’s exposure to TV broadcasts, followed by formal educational instruction in school settings. Crucial to the study of developmental language disorder (DLD) in Cyprus is the need for appropriate identification using appropriate language assessment tools. In this context where the availability of norm-referenced language tools is sparse (Kambanaros & Grohmann, 2013) and the state does not clearly define access to services (Kambanaros & Grohmann, 2011; Theodorou, et al., 2016) there is a high risk of misdiagnosis.

The paper is devoted to the study of dialogism means in one of the most popular genres of journalism today – interviews. The dialogue form of this journalistic text type determines the choice of language means, which allows us to talk about the general principles of communication between the journalist and the interviewee. At the same time, the peculiarities of language means’ functioning are caused by other factors: the information policy of the publication, the author’s (interviewer’s) intentions, the conversation topic, the respondent’s personality. Comparative analysis of interviews published in “Arguments and facts”, one of the most popular Russian publications, allows us to determine different types of dialogism in media linguistics aspect. Particular attention is paid to the so-called two-level dialogues: the first level is the question-answer format of communication between the journalist (interviewer) and the interlocutor (interviewee); the second level is a more complex communicative act – the dialogue with the audience.

Феномен родного языка : коммуникативно-лингвистический, социокультурный, философский и психологический аспекты : сб. науч. статей [по материалам II Междунар. науч.-практ. конф., посвящ. Международному дню родного языка, 20-22 февраля 2019 г.]. - Витебск : ВГУ имени П. М. Машерова, 2019. - С. 28-31. - Библиогр.: с. 31 (7 назв.)., В статье охарактеризовано состояние языка рекламы на билбордах г. Витебска на современном этапе, проанализированы механизмы рекламного воздействия, определен комплекс лексических средств и приемов создания сообщений рекламы. Исследование показало, что тексты рекламы на билбордах отличаются краткостью, образностью, запоминаемостью. = The tendencies of the development of advertising on Vitebsk billboards are shown, the mechanism of advertising impact is presented, a set of lexical strategies to create effective billboard advertising is revealed in the article. The study showed that the texts of advertising on billboards are short, figurative, memorable.

В статье проводится количественный и качественный контрастивный анализ средств выражения прямого побуждения в русском и китайском газетных рекламных дискурсах и обнаруживаются их сходства и различия, обусловленные как структурными особенностями сопоставляемых языков, так и этноречевыми нормами сопоставляемых лингвокультур., The article presents a quantitative and qualitative contrastive analysis of the expressive means for direct inducement in Russian and Chinese newspaper advertising discourses, finding out their similarities and differences, conditioned by the structural features of the compared languages and by the ethnic speech norms of the compared linguocultures.