Issue 4, 2009 Study of folklore Vera S. KuznetsovaFolklore versions of legends related to biblical events and personages: sources and mechanisms of formation Liya V. RobbekProblems of selecting a word-list in performing the lexicographic elaboration of the language of the Sakha heroic olonkho epos Evgeny P. MatochkinVisual images of folklore in the creations by artists of the Gorny Altai Study of literature Alina V. PolonskayaRomantic heroine Pavel S. IvanovPoetic mythology of natural elements in an artistic picture of the world of A.S. Pushkin Irina A. MatveenkoThe Russian translations of E. Bulwer-Lytton's Newgate novel "Eugene Aram" Elena A. ZavershinskayaFrench space continuum in Leo Tolstoy's novel "Anna Karenina" Kapitolina V. SinegubovaSpecificity of the conflict in the play "Autumn Dream" by E. Guro Elena N. Proskurina"Crisis letter" in the novel by G. Gasdanov "The Return of Buddha" Anna V. Bobrova"Loneliness" and "solitude" as the key concepts in the artistic picture of the world by A.Bitov Marina A. BologovaF.I. Tyutchev's voice in the system of E.A. Shklovsky's "defensive" motives Linguistics Lyudmila A. InyutinaOn the methodology of semantic field recomposition from the data of the pre-national period manuscripts Viktoria P. Panchenko"Russian semantic dictionary" in solving the issues of modern word-building (on the basis of the verbs of the "primordial labour activity" semantic class) Vladimir V. FeshchenkoUnderstanding and misunderstanding absurdist text Svetlana A. OsokinaThe collocation as a unit of the language experience Valentina V. Bykonya, Olga V. SakharovaSelkup names of plants in the linguistic picture of the world Nadezhda C. SereedarMeanings of a direct object in the model of action in the Tuvinian language Svetlana K. SokolovaThe degree of articulation of a derivative as a determinant of polymotivation Emiliya A. MakarovaSubstantivized adjective новое (the new) as a means of lexical explication of the concept time in the novel "Doctor Zhivago" by B.L. Pasternak Irina A. BabaskinaHypertextual Perfect in the context of functional grammar Olga G. DubrovskayaLinguocultural aspects of "women seeking men" advertisements in the English and Russian languages Ludmila A. SharikovaConceptualization of the world in the human consciousness: the method of concept investigation Review Maria A. VasilyevaThe Russian Prague about Dostoyevsky. The review of the book: Around Dostoyebsky: in 2 volumes, Vol. I: About Dostoyevsky: Collected articles, ed. by A.L. Bem / Compilation, introduction and comments by M. Magidova. Moscow, Russian Way, 2007 Elena G. NovikovaComplete dictionary of the dialectal lingual personality / Ed. by E.V. Ivantsova, Tomsk: Tomsk State University Press, 2006-2007, Vol. I, A-З, Vol. 2, И-О Scientific life Lilia T. LeushinaAll-Russian Scientific Conference "Topical Problems of Classic Philology and Comparative-Historical Linguistics" Tatyana V. Chernyshova, Andrey A. ChuvakinThe 2nd International Scientific and Practical Conference "The study of literature in the modern world: the regulative nature of communication." Barnaul, Altaic State University, April 14-18, 2009