Issue 1, 2013 Study of literature Elena V. Kapinos Short literary form: semantic condensation, author as character, lyricism Valeriy V. Maroshi Nominal prototypes (syncrisis) for protagonists and authors in the Old Russian literature Nina L. Panina «The Book about the Tikhvin Icon of the Virgin Hodigitria»: Increasing the Narrative Space of the Authoritative Text Tatiana A. Dragaykina The reconsideration of fairy-tale motifs in the tale «Bakhariana» written in verse by M.M. Kheraskov Irina A. Aizikova Historical-literary significance of «Collection of verses related to unforgettable 1812» Gevel Olga EvgenyevnaLeo Tolstoy’s Caucasus: Oriental Roots and Textual Parallels of Dolokhov as a Character Anna S. Vatutina Entomological images in fantasy: H. Wells and A. Tolstoy Alexandr I. Kulyapin Stylization and parody in the early works by Mikhail Zoshchenko Vyacheslav A. Boyarskiy The Return of the Idiot: G. Gazdanov and F.M. Dostoevsky. Paper two Darya A. Samoylova On some aspects of perceiving the novel «The master and Margarita» in the network environment Irina S. Zhigulina The poetics of the «alien» word in the lyrics of A. Galich Natalya V. Kovtun The patriarchal myth in the traditionalistic prose at the turn of the 21st century Bologova Marina AleksandrovnaThe motif of the frustrated communication in the plot of E.D. Aipin's novel «Mother of God in Blood-Red Snows» Linguistics Iraida Ya. Selyutina, Nikolay S. Urtegeshev, Tatyana R. Ryzhikova, Andrey I. Shevela, Andrey Yu. LetyaginThe sound systems investigations of the Siberian peoples’ languages by the latest research techniques Efanova Larisa GeorgievnaThe subject of normative estimation expressed by the semantics of language units as the possessor of the national linguistic picture of the world Gorbunova Ludmila IvanovnaLinguistic conceptualization of the physical appearance of a person (based on Russian adjectives derived from somatisms by adding the prefix без- (бес-) Grebneva Aleksandra MikhailovnaThe role of dialectal data in word-formative processes of the Mordvinian languages (on the basis of flora vocabulary) Tsyrenov Babasan DorzhiyevichDialectisms in translative dictionaries of the Mongolian languages Telyakova Vera MikhailovnaMultiplicative and distributive meanings and the means of expressing them in the Shor language Ozolin’ Larisa ViktorovnaThe category of aspectuality (based on the Orok language material) Il’yina L’udmila AlekseevnaThe Selkup verb grammeme of «indirect visual evidentiality»: an exception or a typological regularity? Tazranova Alyona RobertovnaAnalytical converb constructions in the Altai language Koviazina Natalia ValerievnaFeatures of the semantics of socialized movement and location Kuppa Natalia SergeevnaLanguage representation of phasal meaning and its cognitive foundations Skulimovskaya Daria AnatolyevnaOn different approaches to studying the predicates of sentences categorizing the situation of warning Tochilina Julia NikolaevnaOn some characteristics of the nonverbal behaviour of Germans and Russians Orlova Olga Vyacheslavovna«Eternity smells of petroleum» as a precedent text of modern culture in the Internet discourse (Part 1) Vladimirova Polina ValentinovnaMotivational features of the concept INSPIRATION in the Russian culture (based on the Russian tradition) Dvizova Anna VladimirovnaThe linguistic means of representing the situation of visual and auditory perception in Boris Pasternak’s poetry (comparative aspect) Sharikova Ludmila AnatolyevnaHeterogeneity of the image-symbol of the dragon in the German world of myths Review Kulikova Yelena YurievnaThe review of the book: D.I. Cherashnyayа. Osip Mandelshtam's lyrics: the problem of reading and perusal. Izhevsk. Publishing office «Udmurtiya University». 2011. 288 p. Scientific life Pecherskaya Tatiana Ivanovna, Poplavskaya Irina AnatolyevnaThe 3rd International Scientific Conference «Russia – Italy – Germany: literature of travels» (Tomsk – Novosibirsk; September 26 – October 2, 2012). Bavuu-Syuryun Mira ViktorovnaOn the phenomenon of the linguistic behaviour of shamans-Tuvinians of Mongolia The Collective of the Philology Institute of the SD RAS.The Editorial Board of the «Siberian Philological Journal».Yelena Konstantinovna Romodanovskaya (6.03.1937 – 15.01.2013)