Issue 3, 2009 Study of literature Igor V. SilantevLyrical motif in a text written in verse and prose (second paper) Victoria V. Trubitsyna"Pastoral" songs by A.P. Sumarokov Elena E. PrikazchikovaFavouritism as a historico-cultural and literary phenomenon in the Russia of the second half of the 18th century Svetlana M. Kozlova, Marina A. ZiminaHistorical dynamics of the madness discourse in the comedy "Wit Works Woe" by A.S. Griboyedov Eugenia A. AdamFrom the history of the translator transformations of A.P. Chekhov's drama "Three sisters" in Germany Elena L. SuzryukovaThe narrowed field of vision in the prose works by A.P. Chekhov Elena V. Shishparonok The existentional problem of man's quest for his own faith in A.P. Chekhov`s works in the late eighties and in the early nineties of the 19th century Nina E. Razumova, Antonina Y. KarpovaGerhart Hauptmann's Comedies in Russian Critique's Perception Yuliya Y. VlasovaReception of Gerhart Hauptmann's drama "The Lonely" in the Russia of the early twentieth century Marina A. BologovaConcerning Kafka (On some of F. Kafka's reminiscences in the book of collected stories "That country" by E. Shklovsky Yuliya G. KhazankovichWays and jams of critique: On the present-day state of affairs in the research into literatures of smaller peoples of the North and Siberia Linguistics Lyudmila I. Gorbunova Semantic structure of the adjective prefix сверх- in the light of the localistic theory Simchit Kyzyl-Maadyr On the lexeme haiyrakan in Tuvinian shamanism Tatyana B. TagarovaFunctional-stylistic differentiation of phraseological units in the buryat language Irina V. EvseevaA formative family of words as a question-answer dialogical unit Anastasia A. ShumilovaWord-formative synonymy: cognitive vision of the problem Elvira S. DenisovaProblems of word creation in the context of V. von Humboldt's anthropological theory of language (genetic and functional aspect) Galina V. FedyunevaPronouns in a cognitive aspect Gansukh Khiis Morphological peculiarities of verbs in the Tsengel subdialect Tatyana N. PermyakovaOn the components of the informative structure of conjunctions Vera M. TelyakovaOne-actant passive and causative constructions of the Shor language (comparative analysis) Larisa V. Ozolin′Communicative aspects of the sentence (on the materials of the Orok language) Mira V. Bavuu-Syuryun, Ulamsurengiyn Tsetsegdar, Kh. Gansukh, B. Bayarsaikhan On the classification of the dialects of the Tuvinian language Natalia A. SivtsevaA.E. Kulakovsky's view on the compilation of a practical grammar of the Yakut language Aleksandra M. GrebnevaSemantics and dialect synonimics of words nominating grass plants in Mordovian languages Review Natalia A. NepomnyashchikhThe re-read Leonov. Review of the book; L.P. Yakimova. Narratives by Leonid Leonov about the Revolution and the Civil War as a genre-thematic and semantico-poetic cycle. Novosibirsk. Publishing House of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Scie Scientific life Irina I. PlekhanovaThe International scientific conference dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Irkutsk State University and the Department of philology and journalism "Modern Times in the Reflection Mirror: Language - Culture - Education." (Irkutsk, October 6-9, 2008)