Issue 2, 2009 Study of literature Ekaterina G. PaderinaCloseness of a Speech Series in "Gamblers" by Gogol. On the Statement of the Question about the Specificity of a Dramaturgic Motif Tatiana I. PecherskayaSpatial-semiotic Function of Pictures in the Poem "Dead Souls" by N.V. Gogol Igor V. SilantevLyrical motif in a text written in verse and prose (first paper) Oleg A. KovalevThe subject of a narrative in the light of the problem of identity Evgenij A. SurkovThe image of a discourse, "the memory of culture," a text and intertext links Natalia N. KormishinaSome aspects of V.G. Benediktov's metapoetics Natalia V. NalegachChinnov's dialogue with I. Annensky (on the statement of the problem) Guzel M. IbatullinaThe Mythologem Eros-Logos and its sense generative functions in the story "Garnet bracelet" by A. Kuprin Elena Y. KulikovaThe motives of voyages and ships in the essay "Belfast" by V. Khodasevich Еlena A. Ivan'shinaOn a distorted text in the structure of the play "Crimson Island" by M. Bulgakov: on the problem of translation Nadezhda K. Khuziyatova Development of the subject category in the Chinese literary criticism of the 1980s Nikolai N. SabyaninOn the problem of classifying the genres of adver tising Study of folklore Nikolai G. DenisovOn the poetic structure of divine service texts of Old Russian psalms/canticles Linguistics Olga I. BlinovaThe structure of the "Dictionary of Synonyms of the Siberian subdialect" Dmitry V. MaryinRussian etymology and lexicography in D.Yu. kobyakov's investigations Natalia D. FedyayevaNormal vs abnormal = expected vs unexpected Larisa B. BadmayevaOn the syntactical peculiarities of Ts.Sakharov's cronicle Аziyana V. Bayyr-oolOn the syntactic word deerge in the Tuvinian language Nadezhda D. SuvandiiInternational anthroponomy in Tuvan naming practice Natalia N. FedinaThe category of possession in the Chalkan language Gulnara N. NiyazovaSuffixally formed names in the material culture vocabulary of the Tobol-Irtysh dialect of the Siberian Tatars Еvgenia V. ChaichinaDerived nouns formed by productive affixes after the pattern Tn = chy, Tn = lyk in the modern Altai language Еlena Y. PozdnyakovaThe language space of the town; linguo-culturological description Еlena V. BeloglazovaPolydicursiveness as a text characteristic conditioned by an addressee (as an addressee-conditioned characteristic of a text) Sergei P. KushnerukNonterminological multicomponent units of document texts Daria I. Navil'nikovaPresenting paradigmatic and syntagmatic bonds as a way of interpreting the results of an associative experiment Оlga V. ОrlovaOn a cognitive-stylistic and a cognitive-discursive approach to the research of concepts Мaria F. ShatskayaSemantic variation of the predicate in generating a linguistic game Review Viacheslav A. SukhanovShukshin: experience of a complex description of creative work. Preliminary results and prospects. Review of the book: V.M. Shukshin's creative work. Encyclopaedic reference dictionary. Barnaul, 2004-2007. T. 1-3 Scientific life Tatiana I. Kovaleva, Natalia A. NepomnyashchikhNarrative traditions of Slavonic literatures: narrative forms of the Middle Ages and of the new time