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The paper describes the results of the longitudinal experiment held at the department of the extracurricular education – the Further Study Training Centre – at the RUDN University, Moscow. The study was aimed at measuring the added value gained throughout the course in English as a foreign language in the context of Academic skills development. The urgency of the study derived from the growing popularity of score-based grading evaluation methods commonly implemented in Russian educational institutions and in m...

In the last decades the focus of linguistic research has been significantly moved from the study of the language as the so-called “self-contained” system to applying it as a tool of investigating the whole world. Understanding the real meanings of certain linguistic phenomena often leads to gaining the insights of what speakers’ attitudes, connections and associations stand behind them. In this paper, we focus on applying the cognitive linguistics notions to allusive epithets in literary discourse based on t...