Research Result. Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

This study examines the pragmatic features of interaction with the voice assistant "Alisa" in the context of intimate-personal communication, in comparison with written Internet communication on psychological forums. As ...

AI as a literary author from the reader’s perspective: findings from a psycholinguistic experiment assessing synthetic amateur prose

Anastasia Vladimirovna Kolmogorova

Large language models (LLMs) are performing an increasing variety of tasks, including generating long texts that aspire to literary quality. The aim of this article is to compare subjective ...

Discourse-Organizing Metadiscourse in ELF Academic Speech: A Corpus Study Across Speech Events

Leyla Can, Erdem Akbaş

This corpus-based study examines how English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) speakers utilize metadiscourse (MD) features to structure and regulate the flow of academic spoken discourse across various speech ...

Cognitive-semantic mechanisms of collective conceptualization in English animal community nominations: a corpus-based analysis

Madina M. Zhemileva, Enrique Federico Quero Gervilla

English animal group nouns not only denote groups of animals but also reflect different ways of construing multiple entities as a unified whole, making their role in the conceptualization ...

Spearman's rank distance as a tool for stylometric attribution: a comparative analysis on heterogeneous corpora

Volume 12, Issue №2, 2026

Vladimir V. Bochkarev, Anton S. Afanasev, Rinat A. Bakirov

This paper presents an empirical comparison of a metric based on Spearman's rank correlation coefficient with traditional and relatively new distance measures (Burrows's Delta, Cosine Delta, Labbé distance, Soergel ...

Distribution of Evidential Meanings in Elicited Narratives in Native and Non-Native Russian

Sofia Viktorovna Krasnoshchekova, Elena Vladimirovna Galkina, Yiling Wang

The study provides a quantitative and qualitative comparison of evidential strategies in written Russian narratives produced by native and non-native speakers. Despite a substantial body of research on evidentiality ...

Metaphor Analytics: A neural network approach to automated identification of metaphorical speech impact

Volume 12, Issue №2, 2026

Oleg Igorevich Kalinin, Olga Alexandrovna Solopova, Alexander Dmitrievich Solopov

Metaphors are powerful tools in discourse, shaping how we interpret events, issues, or concepts. Consequently, developing methods for automated and comprehensive analysis of metaphors in large-scale textual data becomes a critical task. In this ...

Post-Relativism as a New Paradigm in Linguistics: A Bibliometric Review

Olga V. Glukhova

The relevance of the study is determined by the emergence of post-relativism as a new scientific paradigm in modern linguistics. This approach, originating at the turn of the 21st ...

Diachronic representation of rural China in mainstream Chinese news media: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis

Limin Chen

This study presents a comprehensive corpus-assisted discourse analysis that examines the diachronic representation of rural China in People’s Daily from 2000 to 2025, utilizing the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA). The ...

Metrics for Cultural Semantic Integrity in LLMs: A Low-Resource Perspective

Tatiana A. Litvinova, Galina A. Zavarzina

Multilingual large language models (LLMs) are predominantly trained and evaluated within English-centric pipelines. However, the semantic consequences of English-language mediation at the level of textual representations remain poorly understood ...

Argument in Academic Writing: A Systematic Scoping Review

Elena V. Tikhonova, Daria A. Mezentseva

Background: Argumentative writing represents a core dimension of academic literacy within higher education; however, research concerning “argument,” “argumentation,” and “argumentative writing” remains dispersed across distinct disciplinary paradigms and commonly ...

Automatic keyphrase extraction and annotation: modern theoretical approaches and practical solutions for text and speech

Daria D. Guseva, Olga A. Mitrofanova

The exponential growth of textual and audiovisual information has made the task of automatic keyphrase extraction (KE) increasingly significant. This article provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary theoretical approaches ...

Inducing grammar change: can input frequency modify acceptability judgments in an experiment?

Anastasia A. Gerasimova

This study experimentally investigates the role of statistical learning in grammatical change. We test the hypothesis that speakers adapt their grammatical intuitions by tracking distributional frequencies in variable linguistic ...

Move-Step Structures in English vs. Persian Research-Article Abstracts Across Three Disciplines (2022-2024)

Vahid Shahidipour

Researchers often have to develop abstracts in both English and their native language when intending to get their research articles (RAs) published in scholarly journals. Some, however, encounter challenges ...

Linguistics of algorithmic logic in viral communication

Natalia A. Akhrenova, Vladimir A. Serbin

The article presents a linguistic analysis of the mechanisms underlying viral content dissemination in an algorithmically governed digital media environment. The relevance of the study is determined by the ...

Trust in information recorded in digital text: perception by the youth audience (experimental study)

Anna V. Khiznichenko, Ekaterina A. Ivanova, Anna A. Kudashova, Sofia A. Roshchupkina

This article focuses on identifying patterns of trust explication as a key factor in how information expressed in digital, economically oriented Telegram channels is perceived and evaluated. In light ...

How Environmental Activists Persuade: A Multimodal Speech Act Approach

Elena V. Murugova, Artyom Иванович Khodyka

Given the rising prominence of youth climate activists in global discourse and the lack of research on how they persuade multimodally, this study examines the integration of speech acts ...

Computer methods in the study of translingual concepts: differentiation of the terms translanguaging
and translingualism

Olga N. Gich

This paper uses applied linguistics methods to present a computational analysis of the terms ‘translanguaging’ and ‘translingualism’ in Russian academic discourse. The research is motivated by the intensification of ...

Lexical-semantic clustering in the diagnostics of culture integration in discourse