Issue 2, 2003 Study of folklore Vera S. KuznetsovaAbout King Herod and about fevers-shiverers: folklore versions of the Bible plot in a charm and a legend (Russian Siberian records) Jenmarie Rouhier-Willoughby«Don't send me to a foreign country»: mournful aspects of a Northern Russia wedding in the eyes of an American researcher (after the 19th century records) Yuriy I. SmirnovEruslan Lazarevich's awake Igor V. SilantevAbout the concept of a motive in N.P. Andreev's article «The problem of identity of a plot» Study of literature Evgeniya N. RogovaElegiac chronotop and elegiac motives in a literary work Yuriy V. ShatinA hidden motive of «Light breathing» by I.A. Bunin Elena N. ProskurinaThe motive triad «genuineness, truth, lie» in M. Gorky’s drama «The lower depth» Valentina E. GolovchinerThe «protoplot» in the fairytales by E. Shvarts (transformation and functioning) Tatyana L. RybalchenkoThe semantics of the text structure in the novel «Capture of Izmail» by M. Shishkin Linguistics Nikolay S. UrtegeshevCombination of consonants in the Shor language Tatyana I. SteksovaTendency towards "broken syntax" in the columns of the modern press Tatyana I. BytevaA brief outline of the history and present-day state of the periphrasis problem Zoya I. RezanovaCognitive-functional analysis of language and text (problems of internal and external determination) Review Viktor G. OdinokovReview of the book "Moral and aesthetic searching of Russian romanticism and religion (1820s-1840s)", Novosibirsk, 2001, by the Tomsk investigators F.Z. Kanunova and I.A. Aizikova Nina E. MednisThe soul of a city. Review of the collected papers "Moscow and Petersburg. The city in Russian culture". Edited by Ian K. Lilly. Nottingham: Astra Press, 2002 [Untranslated] Scientific life Olga I. Blinova, Tatyana A. Demeshkina, Galina N. StarikovaTomsk dialectological school. Chronicle of the anniversary year Tatyana I. KovalevaA literary work: a plot and a motif. The All-Russian scientific conference. Novosibirsk, IFL SD RAS, November 26-27, 2002 Tatyana I. KovalevaThe Conference of Young Scientists. Novosibirsk, IFL SD RAS, April 3-4, 2003 Aleksey A. Chuvakin"The Russian language and the culture of speech as the discipline of state educational standards of higher professional education: experience, problems, prospects". The All-Russian Scientific-Practical Conference. Barnaul, ASU, April 7-11, 2003 Aleksey A. ChuvakinRecommendations of the All-Russian scientific-practical conference "The Russian language and the culture of speech as the discipline of the state educational standards of higher professional education: experience, problems, prospects" Aleksey A. KazakovN.V. Gogol's works at the intersection of traditions. The scientific conference. Tomsk. TSU, May 14, 2003 Научно-образовательные центры Сибири Nina S. BolotnovaScientific and educational-methodological work of the Modern Russian Language and Stylistic Chair of Tomsk State University