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The author of the article suggests an analysis of the names of a person in modern Russian from the point of view of words’ structural and semantic features and she made an attempt to separate neostructured words in accordance with their derivational-semantic models, according to which semantic derivation took place. In each model subgroups of nouns (united by the word-formation potential and similar semes) are observed. All neostructured words are examined from the point of view of the basic processes of semantic ...

The theme of action has to do with issues related to the dynamic of potential acts, hu-man action, agency and so on. It has a long history in philosophy, running through Aris-totle, Thomas Aquinas, René Descartes, David Hume, Johann G. Fichte, Max Weber, John Searle, to mention some famous thinkers on this topic from ancient times to the contemporary epoch. Philosophy of action has had and still has three major speculative interests: (1) the study of human action in connection to general theoretical or specula-tiv...

This article is dedicated to the study of water archetype in the poetic texts of the Silver Age. The paper presents a theory of the study of the concept “archetype”. Philosophers, linguists and psychologists have been interested in a matter of what an archetype is for a long time The majority of scientists agree that an archetype is an archaic phenomenon, which manifests itself in myths and folklore. Special attention in the article has been given to the distinction between the linguistic and artistic metaphors-ar...

The article deals with the topic of metaphoric aspect of flowers nomination, reflecting anthropological links between different semiotic systems. We regard the metaphoric field of flowers from the point of view of semiotics and symbolism. The main aim is to present the results of a comparison of two sign systems – the systems of linguistic and flower languages. The main task of our research is closely connected with the possibility of distinguishing and describing the so called language of flowers. We suggest that...