2026. Volume 19. Issue 2

Russian Literature

Value dominants of the hagiography tradition in the works of Denis I. Fonvizin

• V. B. Sorokin

The specificity of the images of Solovki saints and oppressors in B. N. Shiryaev’s “The Unquenchable Lamp”

• V. A. Sotkov

Floral symbolism in A. I. Kuprin’s novel “The Wheel of Time”

• N. A. Darenskaya

The mythopoetic context of V. O. Pelevin’s book “Pineapple Water for a Beautiful Lady”

• O. Y. Osmukhina

Metamodernism as an interpretive context for character poetics in A. Salnikov’s novel “The Petrovs in and Around the Flu”

• Chen Lu

Pretexts of symbolist poets in the work of V. V. Nabokov: dialogic discourse (A. Blok, A. Bely)

• Hongping Zhang
• A. G. Kovalenko

Creation and existence of social myths in literature: N. A. Dobrolyubov in the perception of M. O. Menshikov

• N. I. Krizhanovsky

The material field of the skomorokh during a historical turning point (based on V. I. Belov’s trilogy “The Sixth Hour”)

• A. P. Belova

“The Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich, the Young Oprichnik, and the Merchant Kalashnikov” in historical and functional light

• V. G. Mekhtiyev

The problem of the Millennium in Dostoevsky’s thought

• T. V. Kovalevskaya

National Literatures of Russia

Combination of motifs of sad love and orphanhood in Crimean Tatar folk songs

• V. I. Humeniuk
• O. M. Humeniuk

Non-canonical forms of the sonnet in contemporary Adyghe poetry (based on the works of Kabardian and Circassian poets)

• L. B. Khavzhokova
• I. E. Zhugova

Foreign Literature

Psychological trauma of characters in P. Vogel’s play “How I Learned to Drive”

• K. M. Baranova
• O. Y. Fedorenko

Heroes of the era of Malay national consciousness formation: the character system in short stories by Abdul Rahim Kajai (1894-1943)

• K. V. Tabunova

The interplay of courtly literary canon and Buddhist ideology in Sanskrit Jātakamālā collections (examining battle scenes)

• A. V. Fiveiskaia

Reception of the Middle Ages in the novels “The Napoleon of Notting Hill” and “The Return of Don Quixote” by G. K. Chesterton

• L. V. Pisarev
• S. A. Nesteryonok

Theory of Literature

Implicit archetypal predicates and their implementation in the sketch story “At Rest” by P. D. Khvoshchinskaya

• K. V. Smirnov

Russian Language

Semantic-pragmatic markers of direct evidentiality in Russian-language perfume blogging

• P. A. Katyshev
• Ming-Chun Li

Derivational potential of the suffix -ак in the modern Russian language

• E. V. Shapovalenko

The mental image of the toponym OLKHON ISLAND in the advertising tourism narrative

• E. E. Men’shikova

Semantic and grammatical features of French vocabulary in the assimilation of the category of gender: based on the works of A. S. Pushkin

• L. P. Gordeeva

Languages of Russia

Motivational models in the dialectal lexicon of the Yakut language (by the example of denominations of constructive types of Yakut fences)

• E. R. Nikolaev

Polysemy as one of the ways of forming antonymous relations in the Crimean Tatar language

• Z. M. Sattarova
• S. S. Bilialova
• G. S. Ablialimova

Germanic Languages

Mechanisms for neutralizing potentially conflict meanings in English interviews

• O. A. Yakimova

Constructive features of the generic nature of contemporary English-language media discourse (based on media texts of the “features” genre)

• I. O. Syresina
• A. N. Medvedeva

Structurally inseparable nominative units in English-language judicial discourse: a structural-semantic aspect

• O. V. Belyakova

Specific features of written institutional complaints in British linguistic culture

• D. A. Khaydarova

The linguistic-ecological potential of Rammstein’s poetics: strategy of verbal destruction and discursive functions

• D. A. Datsko

Precedent phenomena in contemporary German parliamentary discourse

• M. I. Doynikova

Synsemantic word classes in the topological scheme of the German sentence

• A. V. Averina

Discursive asymmetry between headline and text in the multimodal news complex (based on the German daily press)

• O. M. Kunitsyna

The image of the mother in John Steinbeck’s novel “The Grapes of Wrath” in a linguocultural aspect

• G. F. Kovalenko

Theory of Language

Cognitive foundations of the semantics of coordinative units (based on French-language material)

• Y. V. Auseichyk

Hybridity as a specific characteristic of advertising-tourism discourse

• L. M. Goncharova

Chairman’s messages in Russian-language banking discourse: corporate framing strategies

• A. V. Drozhashchikh
• N. V. Drozhashchikh
• L. M. Osinovskaya

The periphrastic potential of colorative collocations in contemporary newspaper discourse

• L. V. Tsvenger

The speaker’s fascination strategies in the diegetic space of cinematic discourse

• O. V. Golovko

Military mapping of the 1984-1985 miners’ strike in the British media as the main method of the protest metaphorical conceptualization

• D. V. Malagin
• I. A. Kurbanov
• E. A. Nakhimova

The dynamics of the cultural code of ethnophaulisms naming the French

• A. E. Lupina

Classification characteristic of the English lexeme “IT” in the Internet space of the modern Russian language

• A. G. Dediukhina
• A. A. Dediukhin

The metaphorical model “gambling → socio-political and economic realities” in Russian, English, and French media space: a cognitive aspect

• N. Y. Borodulina
• M. N. Makeeva
• O. A. Glivenkova

Expressive collocations as an object of linguistic research in conflict situations (based on the Azerbaijani language)

• L. S. Djabieva

Ecological informativeness of English phytonyms with the ornithological component

• N. A. Kurashkina

Features of lexicographical description of terms in the 18th century (based on the works of J. Ch. Adelung and J. H. Campe)

• F. E. Gumbatova

Comparative and Contrastive Research

Foreign-language borrowing as a mechanism of neologization in the beauty-industry discourse (based on English and Russian materials)

• E. Y. Melnikova

Strategies for conveying coherence in sight translation from German into Russian

• V. E. Porubilkin

The sociolinguistic aspect of authorial speech in literary texts and the problem of translation (from the experience of a philologist and translator of Dutch literature)

• I. M. Mikhailova

Language Teaching Techniques

Developing skills for clear and empathetic physician communication in medical students using artificial intelligence tools within the “Russian Language and Culture of Speech” course

• R. A. Arzumanova
• G. K. Bokizhanova

Barriers to English language speaking confidence among Chinese students of Russian universities

• M. O. Belova
• O. A. Zhuravleva

Eliminating lexical lacunae in landscape design when teaching Russian as a foreign language to Chinese students

• M. M. Davlatova
• N. V. Gabdreyeva
• Lixiao Hao

Principles of Waldorf pedagogy in the context of foreign language teaching in primary school

• M. Y. Kislina

The linguocultural concept “Theatre” as methodological material for studying the Russian worldview by international philology students at the B1 proficiency level

• K. A. Ermolova

Training future English teachers in methods of translating creolized humorous texts

• E. P. Belkina

Algorithms for performing interpreting exercises in the Chinese-Russian language pair using artificial intelligence technologies

• D. R. Biryukov

Teaching the scientific style of speech to international philology students based on specialized academic texts

• A. A. Karagodin
• I. A. Karagodina

Book Reviews

Series “Chekhov and Pushkin: literary dialogues”. Moscow: Helios ARV, 2025. 160 p.; “Chekhov, Bunin and others: dialogues on the mysteries of love”. Moscow: Helios ARV, 2025. 272 p.; “Chekhov and Turgenev: dialogues about failed love”. Moscow: Helios ARV, 2025. 224 p.: Book review

• O. M. Skibina

Isachenko T. A. Memorial books of the last Romanovs: from the collections of the Grand Duchesses: based on materials from Russian and international libraries and auction sales. Moscow: Azbukovnik, 2025: Book review

• E. A. Kuzminova

“The lexicon of Russian lyrics” by Irina Surat. Moscow: IMLI RAS, 2024. 472 p. ISBN 978-5-9208-0734-2: Book review

• S. M. Skibin