Issue 4, 2008 Study of folklore Rufina P. MatveevaThe folklore version of Christian plots in the oral prose of the Old Believers of Transbaikalia (semey) Yuliya A. EmerThe spatial component of the folklore concept-sphere Study of literature Tatyana B. FrickPushkin's magazine «Contemporary» as a single text Irina A. Poplavskaya The interaction of poetic and prose in M.Yu. Lermontov’s novel «Hero of our time» Natalya L. ZelyanskayaCultural and semiotic tendencies of Russian prose of the 1850s Nina E. RazumovaFedor Fedorovich Tyutchev, «ordinary talent» (to the definition of the concept of «fiction») Ilya V. KuznetsovLev Tolstoy: the turn «from artistry» Sergey A. TashlykovThe Russian writer Aleksandr Kuprin’s walking A.V. Shchitov Audiovisual expressiveness in N. Erdman's play «Suicide» Elena N. ProskurinaG. Gazdanov's novel «Flight»: from paraphrase to improvisation Dmitriy V. MarinRussian-Japanese war in V.М. Shukshin’s works Tsyndema Kh. Tsyrenova Mythological consciousness as a stylistic aspect of modern Buryatian prose Anna S. KlimutinaA. Korolev’s novel «Aaron» in the aspect of intertextual relations with the novels of Petronius and Apuleius Linguistics Natalia M. SabelfeldLanguage of the Pogodinsky Chronicler: on the relationship of texts of Siberian chronicles Tatyana B. Bankova Culinary code of Siberian family rituals: objectification in language Inna V. Tubalova The text of the folk-speech culture as a polyphonic structure Yuriy A. Tambovtsev Sound pattern of the Russian language from the point of view of frequency of occurrence of phonemic groups Alina E. Hadanovich The category of gender of the Russian nouns functioning in Kamchatka dialects Yulia B. DyundikSemantic features of the functioning adverbs of intentionality Natalya V. Lesonen The semantics of forcing in various speech genres Natalia V. Gagarina On the question of the principles of analysis of grammatical categories of verb forms in children's speech Galiya G. Khisamova The artistic dialogue from the standpoint of text linguistics (on the material of the artistic prose by V. M. Shukshin) Anna O. TrofimovaMeans of expression of evidentiality in the Udege language (in comparison with the Samoyedic languages) Anna L. Elsakova.On the Ancient Germanic concepts of ‘wealth’, ‘money’ in the light of Indo-European representations Alexander P. Maryukhin "Hedging (hecke)" - a new semantic category? Elena A. Chuykina Assimilation of a new word: self-reflection of the speaking subject Irina A. Babaskina The postmodernist program of philosophizing and its grammatical presentation Anna V. Kurianovich The epistolary discourse as a means of modern interpersonal and social communication Review Olexander ChyrkovInvitation to reflect about the epic drama: V. E. Golovchiner. Epic drama in Russian literature of the 20th century. 2-nd ed., Tomsk: Publishing House of the Tomsk State Ped. Univ., 2007. Scientific life Kovaleva T.I., Nepomnjaschih N.A.[Untranslated] Muratova N.A., Ostanina S.N., Rusanova O.N.[Untranslated]