Issue 2, 2008 Study of literature Svetlana K. Sevastiyanova Patriarch Nikon's letters to the Greeks and traditions of late Byzantine epistolography Maria M. Budylina Dialogue as the main structure forming principle in Archpriest Avvakum's biography Margarita N. Klimova"Oedipus plot" in Russian ancient literature (stories about an incestuous person) Svetlana V. MelnikovaThe records of Altai missionaries and their genre specificity Irina A. Aisikova The development of narrative strategies in the translated prose by V.A.Zhukovsky and "intermediate" genres (on the material of "Journal Europe" 1807-1811) Oleg A. Kovalyev Three ekfrasis: the ozhivshaya (living) picture motive in the aspect of artistic anthropology of F.M. Dostoevsky Elena A. MakarovaThe formation of Siberia image in the creative conscience of V.G. Korolenko Natalya G. MedvedevaThe inversion of the plot archetype in the poetic book by O. Sedakova "Old songs" Marina A. KhatyamovaMeta-text structure of M.A. Osorgin's novel "Free masonry" (1935) Linguistics Valentina N. SolovarOne-act elementary simple sentences with the semantics of speech activity in the Khanty language Ludmila I. GorbunovaThe cognitive basis of the adjectival prefix polysemy Yu. V. TrubnikovaThe experimental investigation of derivation mechanisms of the interaction between primary and secondary texts Erzhen V. KhilkhanovaThe ethnic identity as a subjective factor of a collective language choice: theoretical-methodological aspect Nataliya V. Lesonen The functioning of utterances with semantics of a forced action in speech Dmitriy V. Mariin The Russian-Japanese war in Siberian urbonimiya of the 20th century Tayiana B. TagarovaPhraseological units as an art means in the language of Buriat prose Lubov I. FedyaninaThe associative experiment as a method of defining the structure of German concept "Geld" Anna S. ZentnerAutoreferenceness and typology of oral speech it written text Ludmila A. SharikovaWelt versus welten (the conceptuality of the world through the verbalization of many worlds) Arno Mustaioki, Tatiana I. SteksovaThe observation of non-standard Subjects: what can science, politics and economics do? Marina V. YagodkinaThe formation of virtual reality in the advertising language Cvetlana P. Petrunina Et cetera: functional-stylistic aspect Scientific life Tatiana I. Kovalyeva, Nataliya A. NepomnyashchikhThe Annual Russian scientific conference of young scientists of Novosibirsk, the Institute of Philology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 26-27 April, 2007