DOI: 10.7256/2454-0749.2017.1.21865

Abstract: The article is devoted to the image of Russia in the minds of German people and bases on studying conceptual metaphors that can be found in jouranlistic texts and represent numerous stereotypes that have been formed in the minds of German people through many centuries of state-to-state relations. The conceptual metaphor  represented in modern cognitive linguistics as a mental operation and way to get to know and explain the world is one of the language means that provoke adoption and representation of stereotypes. The author of the present article analyzes conceptual metaphors that develop the image of Russia in German mass media taking into account the aggravation of Russian-German relations. The author used the continuous sampling method to define metaphors used by journalists of German newspapers and journals in 2014 - 2015 and then classified those metaphors according to the following stereotype spheres: geographical location, foreign policy relations, domestic policy relations, soc io-economic environment, culture. The author concludes that German stereotypes that have been existing in the minds of German people for many centuries are still actual and working. German journalists actively use metaphors to actualise these stereotypes of Russia. Taking into account the aggravation of international relations between these two countries as a result of the Ukranian conflict, journalists have started to use more metaphors that create a negative image of Russia.   

Keywords: metaphor, metaphoric modelling, Ukraine, stereotypical representation, Russian-German relations, German mass media, image of Russia, conceptual metaphor, stereotype sphere, stereotype

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0749.2017.4.24164

Abstract: The article presents a content analysis of Venedikt Erofeev's poem «Moscow – Petushki» from the standpoint of intermedia poetics. Postmodern construct has a large number of musical inclusions (reminiscences, allusions, inkling, paraphrases, quotations) that create multiple versions of readings and interpretations. Relevance the topic is caused by the fact that the author provides a synthesis of the aesthetic categories that shape a text array. The combination of the poem's Ven. Erofeev with a number of classical music defines the originality of the research. The methodology of work is based on principles of comparative, structural analysis, comparative studies and receptive aesthetics. Functions of intermediality in the «Moscow – Petushki» is focused on the stabilization of the narrative and the variance of signification. The multiplicity reality of the text is achieved by accretion of allusions, reminiscences, paraphrases from the music context. «Moscow – Petushki» by Venedikt Erofeev is a significant phenomenon, which will realize the birth of new principles of perception reality. Consequently, aesthetics of the poem literally in synthesis of linguistic, literary and discourse-intermedia.

Keywords: author, literary discourse, intermediality, poem, Moscow-Petushki, Venedikt Erofeev, reader, style, reception of the text, cultural code

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0749.2015.3.17249

Abstract: Ernst Junger (1895-1978) is very little known in our country even though he was a famous philosopher and writer. His ideas, thoughts, direct and indirect prophesies were of great interest to the society of the pre-war and today's Germany. Ernst Junger started his creative path in the early 20th of the XXth century. It was the time of expirements in the social sphere and spheres of art, literature and philosophy. It was also the period of intensive scientific, technological and industrial development and violent attempts to conquer nature. At the same time, while already trying on the gown of the world master, human has suddently discovered that he was on the margins of the path being made by global forces and that the world development does not always depend on human. In her research Egorova has used approaches of philosophical anthropology that analyzes modes of human existence. This has allowed the author to compare heroics to existential experience of human fear. Ernst Junger was a very productive and significant philosopher. His creative work is understudied because he was considered to be a reactionary philosopher after the war. In 1920 his book 'The Storm of Steel' was published. Being published in 1922, his second book 'Der Kampf als inneres Erlebnis' ('The Struggle as an Inner Experience') described the war in a broader sense. Ernst Junger also wrote another book 'Sturm' ('The Storm') shortly after. In 1925 Ernst Junger resigned his office, in 1926 he quit University and in 1927 he moved to Berlin where he joined the conservative revolutionary movement. He wrote the article for the national socialist newspaper 'Völkischer Beobachter' ('People's Observer') called 'Revolution und Idee' ('Revolution and Idea'), in which he discussed revolutionary nationalism and emphasized the need for dictatorship. He also published his articles in 'Standards', 'Arminius' and 'Attack'. He had contacts with Friedrich Hielscherand Ernst Niekisch. Apart from writing numerous political essays, Junger also spoke of politics in his books about the war. The third edition of 'The Storm of Steel' was written according to the principes of radical nationalism within the framework of the totalitarian structure. His essay 'Der Arbeiter' ('Worker') published in 1932 was the turning point of his totalitarian views, however, by that time Junger had already started to be rather disappointed in politics. 

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0749.2015.3.67178

Abstract: Ernst Junger (1895-1978) is very little known in our country even though he was a famous philosopher and writer. His ideas, thoughts, direct and indirect prophesies were of great interest to the society of the pre-war and today's Germany. Ernst Junger started his creative path in the early 20th of the XXth century. It was the time of expirements in the social sphere and spheres of art, literature and philosophy. It was also the period of intensive scientific, technological and industrial development and violent attempts to conquer nature. At the same time, while already trying on the gown of the world master, human has suddently discovered that he was on the margins of the path being made by global forces and that the world development does not always depend on human. In her research Egorova has used approaches of philosophical anthropology that analyzes modes of human existence. This has allowed the author to compare heroics to existential experience of human fear. Ernst Junger was a very productive and significant philosopher. His creative work is understudied because he was considered to be a reactionary philosopher after the war. In 1920 his book 'The Storm of Steel' was published. Being published in 1922, his second book 'Der Kampf als inneres Erlebnis' ('The Struggle as an Inner Experience') described the war in a broader sense. Ernst Junger also wrote another book 'Sturm' ('The Storm') shortly after. In 1925 Ernst Junger resigned his office, in 1926 he quit University and in 1927 he moved to Berlin where he joined the conservative revolutionary movement. He wrote the article for the national socialist newspaper 'Völkischer Beobachter' ('People's Observer') called 'Revolution und Idee' ('Revolution and Idea'), in which he discussed revolutionary nationalism and emphasized the need for dictatorship. He also published his articles in 'Standards', 'Arminius' and 'Attack'. He had contacts with Friedrich Hielscherand Ernst Niekisch. Apart from writing numerous political essays, Junger also spoke of politics in his books about the war. The third edition of 'The Storm of Steel' was written according to the principes of radical nationalism within the framework of the totalitarian structure. His essay 'Der Arbeiter' ('Worker') published in 1932 was the turning point of his totalitarian views, however, by that time Junger had already started to be rather disappointed in politics. 

Keywords: philology, philosophical anthropology, nature, worker, life, politics, totalitarianism, heroics, fear, emotional experience

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0749.2014.3.12334

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DOI: 10.7256/2454-0749.2014.3.65669

Abstract: The article is devoted to the reconstruction of the vocabulary of students of the 50th – 60th of XX century. The author of the article compares verbal expressions reflecting the speech of that period with Nikolay Gogol’s lexicographical experiences. Based on the great writer’s practice and partly adopting his methods, the author of the present article has tried to create his own ‘catchwords’ and expressions reflecting a particular epoch. Noteworthy that he shares Gogol’s feeling for the importance of the language and the word. The author is based on famous notes written by Nikolay Gogol (‘Russian minor lexicon’, ‘Materials for the Vocabulary of the Russian Language’, vocabularies from his notebooks of the 1840th) and their interpretations by V. Podoroga. In particular, the author has used Podoroga’s approach to literature as a historical material and an associated method of participant observation. The author notes that the teenager vocabulary of that time has the situational nature typical for everyday life: plenty of words and expressions used in the 50th – 60th were created based on concrete life circumstances. The author of the article also underlines the connection between the ‘social dialect’ with the social environment of the aforesaid period and states that that connection was rather indirect.

Keywords: language, literature, slang, vocabulary, social dialect, participant observation, everyday life, artifact, Gogol, Podoroga.