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This paper explores the profound and enduring influence of the Bible in the development of modern phraseology in the German, English, and Macedonian languages. As one of the most translated and influential texts in human history, the Bible has shaped not only religious and moral thought but also the idiomatic and metaphorical structures of European languages. Through comparative linguistic and cultural analysis, the study identifies and interprets biblical idioms and phraseological units that remain present in con...

This study is devoted to the description of psycholinguistic features of Chinese students, the purpose of which is the successful implementation of intercultural communication in the process of teaching them Russian as a foreign language at the pre-University stage of training. At the pre-University stage, many foreigners face problems of adaptation due to the huge difference in national consciousness, cultural traditions and rules of conduct. To help foreign students to adapt to a different language and socio-cul...

The research of allusions in economic discourse has assumed importance; a great number of researches is devoted to this subject due to interest in the issue of manipulating publicВ’s opinion and forming peopleВ’s worldview by means of stylistic devices. The purpose of the present research is to identify regularities of usage of allusions in English-language newspapers. Theoretical background of the research includes critical analysis of linguistic works on economic discourse and allusions. The article includes sta...

The article considers the peculiarities of Russian and Turkish etiquette, since it is very often that Turkish students perfectly knowing the Russian grammar and having a good vocabulary find it difficult to communicate with both Russian students and teachers. One may assume that the cause of these difficulties lies in the peculiarities of the national etiquette; in order to reveal these peculiarities, we have performed a comparative analysis of the Russian and Turkish etiquettes. Various examples were taken from d...

The notion of “concept” is currently widely used in linguistics (cognitive and psycholinguistics, theory of intercultural communication and sociolinguistics, etc). We ventured to investigate the ways the concepts ‘downshifting’, ‘travelling’, ‘space’ and ‘time’ are interpreted in the modern British fiction created by the female authors. At first, these concepts might seem incompatible and even antagonistic (belonging to either emotional sphere, to the abstract or philosophical stratums), but still thei...