{"title":"Comparative Constructions with Images of Flowers in Modern Russian Prose","authors":"Natalia Nikolina, Z. Petrova, N. Fateeva","doi":"10.35785/2072-9464-2023-62-48-58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35785/2072-9464-2023-62-48-58","url":null,"abstract":"The subject of study are comparative constructions (metaphors and similes) which include the names of flowers. The material for the study is the texts of modern Russian prose, as well as contexts extracted from the Russian National Corpus. The purpose of the paper is to analyze these constructions in comparison with the tropes of the previous period. The images of comparison, the objects of comparison and the bases for comparison of comparative tropes have been considered, their semantic classification is presented. In the course of the study, the \u0000following conclusions were drawn: images of flowers are not as productive in modern prose as compared to other semantic classes of images of comparison, such as classes of zoonyms and names of artifacts; at the same time, they form a \u0000significant fragment of the metaphorical world image in modern prose. New elements appear in the composition of metaphors and similes with images of flowers, the range of objects of comparison is also expanding. In modern prose, traditional metaphorical models are preserved, but they are rethought and their character is partially changed. The use of flower images in modern texts is predominantly anthropocentric with an emphasis on the human bodily plane, which distinguishes them from functioning in the previous period. Modern prose is characterized by a tendency to lower the image when using the considered comparative tropes. \u0000Comparative constructions with images of flowers act in modern texts in various functions: a function of figurative characteristics of various objects, an evaluative function, and, more rarely, an intertextual one.","PeriodicalId":211127,"journal":{"name":"Izvestia of Smolensk State University","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138965291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Transport Route Dnieper – Oka («Passage along the Ugra») \u0000at the End of the 9th – Beginning of the 11th Centuries","authors":"Anatoliy Mayorov, Evgeniy Shinakov","doi":"10.35785/2072-9464-2023-61-1-125-139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35785/2072-9464-2023-61-1-125-139","url":null,"abstract":"The subject of this article is the route of the Oka trade route of the 9th-10th centuries AD. The path along the Oka River was an organic continuation of the wellknown Volga and Don trade routes. In most of the works of researchers, for a number \u0000of reasons, it was not considered as a route that directly went to the upper reaches of the Dnieper River, capable of acting as a direct transport route between the south and southeast of the Russian Plain on the one hand and the archaeological complex \u0000of Gnezdovo and the outskirts of Smolensk - from another. The analysis carried out by the authors of the article offered to the attention of readers shows that by now researchers have data at their disposal that allow us to talk about finding weighty \u0000arguments in favor of the previously unpopular hypothesis. These data are obtained by archeology and numismatics. The presence and functioning of the route described above in the last centuries of the first millennium does not at all negate the significance of the well-known trade routes – the Volga-Baltic, as well as «from the Varangians to the Greeks» – but was, apparently, their logical and effective addition.","PeriodicalId":211127,"journal":{"name":"Izvestia of Smolensk State University","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138996224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}