Philological Treatises

12-18

Authors: H. P. Kalantaievska,Y. S. Obelchak

The article deals with phobias as part of the inner world where the heroine of short stories of Y.Kononenko – a Ukrainian woman with post-colonial conscience lives and asserts herself. It considers the influence of atmosphere of fear and anxiety on behavior and value preferences of middle-aged woman; attention is also paid to her psycho-emotional state as an indicator of the individual traits of the personality. Keywords: inner world, fear of loneliness, self-evaluation of personality, self-respect, psycho-emotional state.

25-31

Authors: I. A. Masliy

The article deals with the typological analysis of the images of a miser in the G. F. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko’s novel «Stolbikov’s life and adventures. Manuscript of the XVIIIth cent.» and in the N. V. Gogol’s poem «Dead Souls». We investigate differences and similarities in the characteristic portraits of the heroes, the artistic means in the ways of expressing author's attitude to the depicted characters. Keywords: author, hero, image, novel, plot

39-45

Authors: Cherkashyna, T. Y.

The article is devoted to the study of the phased formation of the Ukrainian autobiographical novel’s main genre features. The author of the article analyses novels «Childhood» by Yurii Smolych, «Without Roots» by Natalena Koroleva and «Charmed Desna» by Olexandre Dovzhenko as the most representative patterns of this genre. Documentary autobiographical basis, fictionalization of narration, presence of one principal and some supporting characters, predominance of static components such as description, reflection, monologue, dialogue, polylogue, identity of author and principal character and others were principal genre signs in the Ukrainian autobiographical novel of the XXth century. Keywords: autobiographical novel, structure, narrator, chronotop, marker of identity, fictionalization.

55-60

Authors: M. O. Kushnerova

Ivan Drach’s film scripts as the interpretation of "Gogol’s text" are analyzed in the article. Peculiarities of writer’s creative understanding of M. V. Gogol and the artistic world of his works are defined. Keywords: "Gogol’s text", Gogol’s story, interpretation, film script.

67-73

Authors: O. L. Bessonova, G. O. Gaydash

The semantic and structural peculiarities of the phraseological units with cultural semantics in British and American variants of the English language are described in this article. The most productive groups of phraseological units with national-cultural component in both variants of the English language are singled out in the course of analysis. Linguistic and cultural interpretations of their meaning and structure are suggested. Keywords: phraseological unit, national cultural component, British English, American English.

81-84

Authors: O. N. Kopylova

The article investigates the essence and peculiarity of the British English language as the standard language and its role in forming the regional English language. The article investigates public significance of British variant of the English language. Keywords: British variant of the English language, linguistic standard, language standard, linguistic types

91-94

Authors: H. P. Kumeda

The separate case forms of nouns ІІ declinations are examined in the article based on the material of Kulish’s first printing in view of a language environment from which the writer has grown.

103-108

Authors: Lobachova, І. М.

The functioning of synecdoche in the Ukrainian texts of the Holy Bible of the ХХth century is investigated in the article. The lexical groups of nouns that more frequent come into quantitative replacement ratio in the Ukrainian translations of the Bible by I. Ohiyenko and I. Khomenko are determined. The identity and difference in the use of synecdoche in the correlative biblical contexts of the indicated authors are found out. Keywords: the Holy Bible, synecdoche, tropeimagery, quantitative replacement ratio.

114-117

Authors: Y. Nazarenko,A. Rakitina

The article is devoted to the question of proper names, deviation and dependence of proper names chosing on society, social position and personal qualities of characters. The main attention is paid on assimilation of borrowed proper names in the chosen fairy tale discourse. Keywords: proper names, communicative aspects, semantics, fabulous discourse, pragmatic orientation, allusion.

124-129

Authors: I. Filatenko

The article is devoted to description category of «speech event» in the political discourse of mass media of Ukraine. The author proposes classification for this phenomenon. Attention focuses on meaningful classification parameter. During the analysis the author comes to the conclusion that speech events are represented by focal speech event and background speech event in the political discourse of mass media of Ukraine. Keywords: event, focus speech event, background speech event, political discourse of mass media.

139-144

Authors: N. Chernyuk,D. Trofimets

The article deals with the role of different syntactic devices in making advertisements emotive. Examples of usage of the most common syntactic figures in the advertising discourse are being analyzed. Main ways of translating of such figures are outlined. Keywords: text-regulative, emotiveness, syntactic figures, translation.

149-153

Authors: S. Shvachko,L. Kravets

This article deals with the lexical means of negation in the English artistic discourse. A special attention is paid to mono- and polynegation, to explicit and implicit ways of exteriorization of the mentioned category. Keywords: category of negation, mononegation, polynegation, lexical means of negation

160-168

Authors: R. P. Zorivchak

The article offers a concise description of the research activities of Prof. Yu. O. Zhluktenko (1915 – 1990), the most brilliant scholar in Germanic Studies in Ukraine in the second half of the 20th сent. He pioneered in researching the American and Canadian territorial dialects of the Ukrainian language. Professor was the first to contrast the Ukrainian, German and English languages on lexical, grammatical and stylistic levels in the light of current scholarly paradigms. The researcher elaborated the methods of teaching Ukrainian to students of the English-language linguistic background. He has also made a substantial contribution to Ukrainian lexicography. He essentially developed the theory, methods and linguostylistics of translation studies analysis, elaborated the principles of researching the history of Ukrainian literary translation. To enrich the Ukrainian translated literature he learned rarely known languages of limited diffusion – Frisian and Flemish. Keywords: linguist, translation studies, contrastive linguistics, lexicography, literary translation