The article examines the new anthropopractice of methodological linguoconceptology which is methodologically oriented towards the theory of precedence and research in the field of creative linguistics. The study is relevant as the linguocreative speech activity component of the digital generation is increasingly connected with the Internet space. Therefore, there is a need for methodological exploration of new communication areas. The article aims to consider the methodological potential of mastering linguocultural concepts through the prism of precedent phenomena of Internet discourse mini-texts (pie rhymes and powder rhymes1) in the context of the linguoconceptocentric approach. The author correlates the features of such texts with some modern network discourse characteristics. They include ostentation expansion, communication juvenilization, polycoded and visualized presentation of information, the leveling of stylistic differences between oral and written speech, and rejoinder-based communication. Using concrete examples based on precedent units, the paper demonstrates the work of language game techniques within the framework of creative linguistics. The main research method is analysis of the associative cultural context of precedent phenomena. The research reflects on the significance and relevance of new didactic materials as a metamodernism culture product in the development of Internet generation representatives’ creative linguistic personality within the boundaries of a single cultural code. The article concludes that it is pedagogically appropriate to use mini-texts as thought-provoking materials popular with the digital generation. On the one hand, such rhymes can foreground the precedent meanings of the Russian culture concepts which are the basis for forming one’s own gestalt in the harmonizing dialogue conditions. On the other hand, mini-texts facilitate linguocreative ability development in high school or university students taking in the role of a player-creator or player-interpreter.

The article examines the issue of using quotations in modern Russian language textbooks for middle school. The research is relevant since many studies analyse quotations primarily as a linguistic phenomenon, while their methodological potential has not been studied yet. As quotations have considerable educational potential, they become part of the background knowledge and intertextual thesaurus of the linguistic personality. The research materials included two textbooks and one complex of teaching materials on the Russian language for years 5–9. The study pays close attention to three aspects, namely the textbook definitions of a quotation, the functions of quotations, and their sources. The article describes specific features of working with textbook quotations, as well as analyses and summarises the types of proposed assignments. The analysis reveals that in modern textbooks, quotations are included in the theoretical text as arguments and references to expert opinion. If a quotation is used as an epigraph or the basis for creating one’s own speech product, its axiological and educative potential comes to the fore. In general, the tasks the authors of the textbooks propose are similar and of a reproductive type. Questions aimed at explaining the statement meaning do not fully reveal the value potential of the quotation. The paper concludes that systematic work with quotations should be based on the following principles: 1) taking into account the formal and semantic aspects of the statement; 2) establishing a connection with the source text and the sociocultural context of the statement; 3) dialogicality; 4) focus on students’ personal experience and interests; 5) conscious memorisation.

The author aims to analyse two projects of the artificial language Uniling. They were created by students of years 5 to 11 within the linguistic framework of the "Formula de Integreco" training camp in June 2017 and January 2018. The research methods included structural analysis of the artificial language, as well as its creation process in comparison with Russian, i. e. the native language for all participants in the experiment. Research results: the specific conditions for artificial language development enable us to trace the stages of its accelerated "evolution" and complexity buildup at all levels. The latter becomes possible by shifting the initial focus away from observing the economy principle in language and raising randomly occurring exceptions to the status of a rule. Such rules are further extrapolated to other same-level units of the artificial language. This indicates that children attach importance to the concept of linguistic norm, as well as the possibility of clear grammatical differentiation when the grammatical meaning is secondary relative to the lexical-conceptual one. Children give no less significance to the inner form of words, which makes it possible to create lexemes employing the means of the artificial language itself without relying on the material of natural substrate languages. Moreover, the inner form helps to outline the systemic connections within the thematic groups. However, the hypernym/hyponym relations are obviously weak as generic concepts are not found in the Uniling lexis. At the same time, the aesthetics and euphony notions often come to the fore, which is reflected in the expression plane of artificial language lexemes and in the idea of the pragmatic potential of the language. This is most clearly seen at the syntax level due to the introduction of particular semantic role markers not typical of the Russian language (benefactives and malefactives). Conclusions: artificial language analysis enables us to identify the strengths and weaknesses of children’s metalinguistic representations, which can be considered in the process of teaching Russian at school.

The article focuses on a crucial issue, namely it aims to analyse the scientific and pedagogical activity of M.T. Baranov (1924–1999), an outstanding Russian scientist, teacher, methodologist-Russianist, who popularised the science of language and created the methodological school of thought "Linguistic worldview formation". From a modern linguodidactic perspective, the study presents his scientific heritage analysis and considers the most significant works on Russian language teaching. Moreover, the paper outlines the main methodological ideas of M.T. Baranov and highlights the content of some of the scientist’s significant writings, including the study guide "A Methodology of Vocabulary and Phraseology in Russian Language Lessons", which has great scientific methodological potential. Professor M.T. Baranov’s contribution to the methodological science development was deeply appreciated by his followers, like-minded scientists, and contemporaries. In modern conditions, methodological writings by M.T. Baranov enable us to continue the search for creative solutions in the field of Russian language teaching as well as other issues of school and university pedagogical education. Research methods included analysis, synthesis, scientific generalisation. As a result, the paper has analysed the scientific legacy of the scholar and objectively evaluated his works from a modern standpoint. The valuable experience of M.T. Baranov should be considered in the process of training language and literature teachers in modern Russia.

The article aims to show the evolution of the significant structural semantic features dominant in the poetics of Yu.V. Bondarev’s works about the Great Patriotic War. The principal research methods are structural semantic and comparative-contrastive analysis. To achieve the goal, the study consistently reveals the specific features of the poetics of the writer’s early novellas "The Battalions Request Fire" and "The Last Shot", as well as the novel "The Hot Snow". Based on the comparison of the obtained results, the paper concludes that the poetics of the writer’s works about the Great Patriotic War evolved in the course of time. Moreover, specific forms of such changes are indicated. The dominant features of Yu.V. Bondarev’s poetics are the protagonist’s specific confessional discourse, the chronotope locality, the leitmotif opposition between the images of lyrical and tragic planes, the expressiveness of the eclectic detail, cinematographicity, sensory language, the semantic significance of the finales. These features are manifested in the writer’s early works about the Great Patriotic War, as well as in his novel "The Hot Snow". The novellas "The Battalions Request Fire" and "The Last Shots" are considered within the framework of the leading genre model of "lieutenant prose", i. e. the genre of the frontline lyric novella. "The Hot Snow" is studied as a lyric-epic novel about the Great Patriotic War. The novel retains some features of the frontline lyrical novella, while others are taken to a new level. In "The Hot Snow" novel, the confessional discourse is enhanced with a rational-analytical component; the chronotope of the work, while retaining its locality, acquires the specificity of a documentary one. Details (object, portrait, landscape, interior, psychological) are actively used, but at the same time they are generalised to a symbolic level. Yu.V. Bondarev’s cinematographic vision is enriched with new forms and techniques; the linguo-sensory system becomes intricate and includes components previously not used by the writer. The novel finale is not abstract, but conceptual. These dominant structural semantic features of the poetics of Yu. V. Bondarev’s works make it possible to determine the genesis of his novelistic creativity and conclude that the writer’s artistic thinking evolved.

Based on linguo-stylistic analysis, the article examines the evolvement of the Russian soldier and the defender of the Motherland in the novel by B.L. Vasilyev "His Name Was Not Listed". The chosen subject is relevant due to the insufficient study of linguistic means and their specific features in the writer’s artistic work. The article aims to identify linguistic means of different levels with the help of which the author depicts the personality formation of a Red Army soldier who found himself on the front line from the first day of the war. The article uses contextual and structural semantic analysis of lexical units. On this basis, the means of transforming lexeme meanings are identified, which proves to be important for creating the protagonist’s image in the work. The system of character names, their comparative analysis, and quantitative estimation make it possible to draw a conclusion about the devices that reveal the formation stages of the Russian soldier’s image. The paper concludes that the following expressive linguistic means help to characterise the main character’s personality formation process: repetition at different language levels (situational, phrasal, lexical, morphemic); contextual transformation of the semantics of lexical units; the system of names for the main character of the novel, the frequency of character names; details reflecting the changes occurring in the protagonist’s mind; oppositions that perform a structural and characterological function in revealing the image of Nikolai Pluzhnikov.

The article discusses innovative techniques for constructing descriptions in V.V. Nabokov’s texts "Camera Obscura" ("Laughter In The Night") and "The Enchanter". The relevance of the topic is due, on the one hand, to the unsettled issue of identifying invariant description features and attributing the peripheral forms of description. On the other hand, there are no works that fully reveal V.V. Nabokov’s technique of creating descriptions. The research is based on advances in the study of this author’s visual poetics, interest in which has been growing in recent years. The article used lexico-semantic, morphological, syntactic analysis of individual linguistic units. Moreover, linguostylistic text analysis, intertextual and semiotic analysis, content analysis were employed in conjunction with a comparative analysis of the two texts reflecting the dynamics of V.V. Nabokov’s individual style. The study has shown that descriptive fragments in the texts by this author mostly do not have clear boundaries and can overlap or alternate with the narrative even within the same sentence. The article proposes to call this technique "fusion style". It is concluded that one of the important functions of V.V. Nabokov’s descriptions is the embodiment of the film of life mega-metaphor. The language of description borrows techniques from the cinematic language, for instance, montage techniques, double exposure through superimposure, and sound images. The research has identified stylistic devices that can iconically embody cinematic language elements. These include blending, ellipsis, extended allusions, double similes, and paronomasia. The paper concludes that the density of these techniques in V.V. Nabokov’s texts increases as he gains mastery. It is shown that the writer objectifies visual poetics with the help of such linguistic means as embedded structures and absolute constructions, enumerations, groups of nominal sentences.

The article examines the bread and wine image in the epic "The Sun of the Dead" (1923) by I.S. Shmelyov (1873–1950). The relevance of the research is connected with studying the culinary and gastronomic code represented in the work by the lexical units of the bread series and wine. The topicality is also proved by studying the poetics of the text and determining the role of everyday details in it, thus making it possible to trace the character’s spiritual world and his environment. The article aims to consider how the lexical units bread and wine function in the text of the epic and to identify the specific features of the individual authorial interpretation of these lexemes and their derivatives. The research employs lexico-semantic, contextual methods and partly statical analysis using data from the National Corpus of the Russian Language. It is shown that bread names (khleb, khlebets, khlebushko/khlebushek, khlebniy) are key in the epic and carry an axiological load. Bread is a form of payment, a method and unit of measurement, the highest value. The article concludes that bread turns out to be the centre around which people’s relationships are built and certain aspects of character manifestation, as well as a person’s attitude towards animals (as to a comrade in grief, and not a piece of meat) are depicted. It has been established that bread symbols (for example, future coulibiac/kulebyachka budushchaya, gingerbread/pryanik) can be a way of expressing ethical evaluation. The article also highlights that the motif of transforming wine into blood modifies its sacral function. The Eucharist sacrament is carried out in the reverse order: blood becomes wine. The objective world and the animal world are often depicted allegorically, revealing relationships between people.

The article examines the lexical semantics of personal names and the modality of "internal predicates of meaning" hidden in this semantics on the material of the modern Russian language. The study is relevant due to the insufficient knowledge of the modality of internal predicates of personal names. The article aims to identify and analyse the temporal and modal semantics of internal predicates of lexical meanings. The theoretical significance of the research is determined by the observational results the authors arrive at while studying the semantics and modality of the lexical meanings of personal names and their internal predicates in modern Russian. The article concludes: 1) direct and metonymical meanings of personal names in dictionary entries have "internal predicates" of real modality in their semantic structure although they are characterised by emotional-expressive modality to varying degrees; 2) implicit predicates of irrealis modality are inherent in metaphorical meanings; 3) functional names and relatives contain predicates of real modality in their semantics; 4) some personal names include predicates with perfective semantics; 5) a group of names designates a person by a visually observable actual action; 6) different meanings can include a predicate in different modal-temporal aspects in the semantic structure of a polysemantic word; 7) the semantic structure of one meaning may combine the perfective meaning of the predicate and the meaning of the usual present. The practical significance of the study lies in the fact that it attempts to resolve the issues of correctness, ambiguity, or even nonstandardness of certain types of syntactic constructions. Such language structures include the analysed personal names with one or another modal-temporal characteristic of the internal predicate.

The article describes one of expressive syntax techniques, namely parcelled constructions, identified in B.L. Vasilyev’s novella "The Dawns Here Are Quiet". The stylistic and syntactic functions of parcelling are determined and analysed using structural-semantic and functional stylistic analysis. The article concludes that parcelling as a stylistic device is a universal phenomenon of a multifunctional nature. It facilitates the implementation of the author’s various pragmatic ideas. Besides the main stylistic function, i. e. the function of expressively highlighting a certain part of the utterance, parcelled sentences perform several additional functions in a literary text: figurative, characterological, emotional-emphatic, expressive-grammatical. It is revealed that the syntactic functions of parcels in the novella are diverse. In simple sentences, they can be both their main and secondary parts. In composite sentences, they function as the predicative part which is attached to the main utterance using a subordinating, coordinating, or asyndetic connection. The variety of stylistic and syntactic functions of parcelled constructions enabled B. Vasilyev to realistically convey the atmosphere of the pre-war and war periods. He managed to describe the protagonists’ characters and their actions in a true to life way, making the narrative sound natural.

Since the late 1990s, a number of new and actualised words and set expressions with the component war in their structure have appeared in the Russian-language mass media. For instance, we can give such linguistic units as examples: proksi-voyna/proksivoyna/proxy-voyna / English proxy war; kvazivoyna / English quasi war; kibervoyna / English cyber war; myatezhevoyna/myatezh-voyna / English insurgency; nedovoyna / English sub-war; para-war/para-voyna; poluvoyna / English semi-war; postvoyna / English post-war; gibridnaya v. / English hybrid war; setevaya v. / English network war; mentalnaya v. / English mental war; oposredovannaya v. / English proxy war; v. po dogovorennosti / English war by arrangement/proxy war; v. chuzhimi rukami / English proxy war, and others. The process is due to significant changes in the theory and practice of modern warfare and is primarily influenced by the English language. As a result, the basic meaning of war, i. e. ‘an armed struggle between states, nations, or social classes; military action’, has undergone some semantic widening. The article describes in detail the new English borrowing proxy war, as well as a few other new loanwords and derivatives formed from the word war and actualised lexemes with this component. The novelty of the study consists in the presentation of lexemes relevant in media discourse. They contain the word war in their composition, are related to the topic of modern interstate conflicts, and are not codified in dictionaries. The relevance is determined, on the one hand, by the high demand for these naming units in Russian-language mass media, and on the other hand, by the lack of their systematic linguistic description. The article aims to identify the range of words (containing the component war in their structure) significant for the Russian-language military and political discourse of the first twenty years of the 21st century. The other goals are to determine the mechanism of their appearance in the Russian language and characterise the semantic and stylistic features of these units. The paper draws conclusions about the role of English borrowing and actualisation in this process. Lexemes with the evaluative prefixes nedo-/sub-, polu-/ semi- and the initial components kvazi/quasi..., polu/half...) actualised in the modern extra-linguistic and linguistic context are members of the relevant word-formation patterns. The new anglicism proksi-voyna/proxy war is the semantic centre of this group. It indirectly, through the initial component proksi-/proxy-... in the meaning ‘relating to a proxy war, participating in its conduct’, influences the expansion of the vocabulary group associated with the new modern stage of interstate conflicts. Individual naming units have semantic doublets in the form of compound names. They also semantically converge with vocabulary outside this group. Changes in the semantics of the word war occur due to the loss of some features (an obligatory armed conflict, the absence of the conflict initiator on the enemy’s territory since the goal is to bring the enemy under control rather than to eliminate them, and so on) and the emergence of new ones (the use of new technical means, techniques, etc. of putting pressure on the enemy). The research material was obtained from the Integrum database, Google and Yandex resources. The study used classification in conjunction with descriptive, comparative, and componential analysis.

The article briefly outlines the selfless enthusiastic activity of Vladimir Viktorovich Kolesov, a Russian philologist, Professor Emeritus of Saint Petersburg State University. His work resulted in the creation of a new university discipline, namely conceptology. The study reveals the specific features of this synthesising branch of cognitive linguistics (cognitive science). Moreover, it shows the connection between V. V. Kolesov’s concept as a historical cross-section of cognitive science and previous philosophical and linguistic knowledge. The paper emphasises the need to rely on folk mentality when studying particular languages (primarily Russian). It also notes that V. V. Kolesov continued the fruitful Russian linguistic traditions which developed an inherently cognitive approach to linguistic facts. The structure features of the book Fundamentals of Conceptology and the nature of assignments are described. In addition, the study high-lights some concepts which are crucial for conceptology. The article ends with a generalised portrait of a Man, Scientist, and Citizen of his country.