Issue 2, 2014 Study of folklore Ozolinya Larisa VictorovnaOn the genre structure of Orok (Ool’ta) folklore Kuznetsova Vera StanislavovnaOn the plots and motives of the Slave Folk Bible in the in the hand-written books Study of literature Shunkov Aleksander Viktorovich«The Legend of the Virgin’s Assumption» as the literary monument of the transition period Tretyakov Evgeniy OlegovichPhilosophy and Poetics of the four elements in the story «Carriage» by Nikolai Gogol: absence and its sense Konstantinova Natalya VladimirovnaOn the parody background of F.M. Dostoyevsky’s story «The village Stepanchikovo and its inhabitants» Sopova Svetlana PetrovnaMotive components of the concept boredom in the narrative «A Boring Story» by A. P. Chekhov Efremova Olesya Alexandrovna«Capitals vs. Provinces» as the realization of the opposition «The Own vs. the Alien» in the works of the 1900s–1910s by A. M. Remizov Dvinyatina Tatyana Mikhailovna«Autumnal poem» «Leaf Fall» and aesthetics of I. A. Bunin in 1900–1920 Boeva Galina NikolaevnaSologub and Andreev as Reformers of the Theater: Aesthetic and Receptive Aspects Bichevin Anatoly GennadievichDynamics of the subject-and-object relations in the collection «To the Blue Star» by N. S. Gumilev Plekhanova Irina InnokentievnaVladimir Mayakovskiy as a socialist primitivist Kvashin Anatoliy VladimirovichA spell-poem as a type of a ‘word machine’ in the early works by Daniil Kharms (based on his poem ‘Govor’ (‘Patois’)) Ogudov Sergey AleksandrovichThe principles of N. V. Gogol’s grotesque composition in Y.N. Tynyanov’s script and film «The Overcoat» Kornienko Svetlana YurievnaThe Metapoetic Potential of Bettina von Arnim’s Image in Marina Tsvetayeva’s «A Living Word About a Living Man» Yakimova Lyudmila Pavlovna«The returned novels» by Vsevolod Ivanov «The Kremlin» and «U» as a genre ambilogy Golovchiner Valentina EgorovnaSergey Tretyakov – Bertolt Brecht’s teacher Nikolaenko Olga NikolaevnaEskhatological motives of the St. Petersburg and Venetian text. Correlation of St. Petersburg and Venice in the consciousness of Russian recipients Kamratova Marina AleksandrovnaTotalitarian systems of the past and present: intertextual analysis of the story Al-Efesbi’s Zenithal Codes by V. Pelevin Linguistics Novitskaya Irina VladimirovnaThe Word-formation Category of Abstract Nouns in the Old Germanic Languages Dambuev Igor AleksandrovichSome aspects of Mongolian place-names romanization Baradieva Svetlana Sukhe-BatorovnaHydrographic terms with the meaning ‘spring’ in Mongolian languages Shagdurova Olga Yuryevna, Ozonova Ayyana AlekseevnaVerbs of speech activity in the Turkic languages and dialects of the North Sayano-Altai Pchelintseva Elena EduardovnaThe grammatical status of the Polish verbal noun of action and the semantics of delimitativity Boldyrev Boris VasilievichOn the syntactic structure of the Tungusic languages Fedina Natalia NikitovnaOn the nominal predicates in the Chalkan language Shamina Ludmila AlekseevnaModus-dictum Comparative Bipredicative Constructions in the Tuvin Language Ilyina Ludmila AlekseevnaThe Phenomenon of Grammatical Marking of Non-observable Speaker’s Speech in North Asian Languages Darzhaeva Nadezhda BairovnaMeans of expressing mirativity in the Buryat complex sentence Viktorova Elena YurievnaThe role of oral and written forms of speech in the usage of subsidiary communicative units (based on Russian and English academic discourses) Voinalovich Elena VladimirovnaColloquial speech in the novel «The Nurse from Moscow» by I. S. Shmelev: stylometrical analysis of corpus data Tagarova Tatiana BoroevnaThe ascending amplification in the literary style of the Buryat language (based on the phraseological units) Bashkatova Yulia AlekseevnaSymbolic features of somatic concepts Sokolova Olga Viktorovna«Avant-garde PR-discourse»: strategy of disphemisation in the agitation / propaganda texts of the 1920s Review Nalegach Natalia Valerievna, Khodanen Lyudmila AlekseevnaNew paradigms of literary investigations. Review: S. V. Rudakova. Basic image-bearing semantic categories of E. A. Borstynsky’s poetic world: monograph. Magnitogorsk, 2013. 164 p. Scientific life Chuvakin Alexey Andreevich«Philology and communication sciences in the world of culture, science and education: 21st century»: International Seminar (Barnaul, April 8, 2014)