Khrushcheva O.A.
MODERN RUSSIAN BLENDS REFLECTING CULTURE ^{[№ 2 ' 2017]}
Language study on the ground of cultural linguistics is a promising and popular activity; its results provide the basis to judge not only the language itself but also its speakers' mind. The paper analyzes language units of the secondary word building type, i.e. blends. Meanwhile they are getting more widespread in various languages due to their extraordinary form and content. The author focuses on blends functioning in the modern Russian language and their links with national culture, in particular the way culture concepts are reflected in language units. The paper defines and describes culture blends, as well as provides the analysis of their potential source words. A standard word unit as well as a precedent phrase or an idiom may serve the basis for culture blends. The given lexemes are characterized by specific emotional and attitudinal shades of meaning. Appealing to the term everyday culture has allowed pointing out thematic fields of Russian blends. Analyzing Russian blends with culture connotations allows to figure out speakers' nature and current circumstances in the country and to evaluate historical events and innovations through the insider's eyes as well as to observe the people's attitude to some realia. Culture blends are key words of the epoch that need to be studied on the ground of political and social sciences.

Toropchina E.A., Khrushcheva O.A.
LINGUOPOETIC PECULIARITIES OF JAMES JOYCE'S COLLECTION OF POEMS "CHAMBER MUSIC" ^{[№ 11 ' 2015]}
James Joyce and his literary works characterized by deep content and extraordinary choice of language means have been exciting strong interest on the part of readers and motivating scientific research. His prose has been studied in details by linguists and literary scholars, but this paper deals with the analysis of his poetic collection entitled "Chamber music". The authors have carried out linguopoetic research of the poems and analyzed a range of means depicting music and colour schemes in particular. The study has proved the interconnection between music and lexemes, as well as between sounds and colours in the collection of poems. It has also stipulated the colour scheme value in Joyce's poetry. It is claimed that a definite shade of the palette mentioned in the poem presupposes the increased frequency of vowel sounds, and conversely. The research has relied on the evidence that intervals provide the basis for music pieces and serve as their basic palette. Given that music language structure is measured in semitones or intervals the colour scheme identified in the poems can be imprinted on the musical staff. The paper stipulates peculiar features of James Joyces' collection of poems are as follows: sound and colour synesthesia, musical sense, a great style of verse rhythms and metres, adaptation to genres of classical love lyrics and appeal to its mythological background. Linguopoetic peculiarities of James Joyce's poetry are supposed to produce an aesthetic effect and reveal the author's message and vision.