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This article investigates some functions of regional dialects in modern society. The aim of this study is to describe some features of speech communication among native speakers in Swabia in the field of education. The research has been carried out by the method of discourse analysis of directly observed texts. The study of Swabian regional dialect implementation in education discovered new social functions of regional dialects. According to the author they consist of expression of emotions, drawing attention and regulations of communicative distance. The research results could be of interest to sociolinguistics as a description of territorial dialect functioning in society.

The topicality of the research is caused by the need of technical texts translation, as well as with the need of studying the adequacy and equivalency of safety records translation. The study is an attempt of reviewing this problem on the example of a specific text.

The article deals with the metaphor, as an indicator of authorial personality and a component of the style. It examines the problem of idiostyle misrepresentation while adapting original texts. This paper also focuses on the degree to which metaphors can be preserved while adapting texts.

The article reveals the question of communication peculiarities in Spanish and English cultures using an example of comparison and collation of verbal and nonverbal linguistic behavior; describes cultural values and their expression in the language. The research is based on historic, geographic and climate components and perception of time, that are responsible for national and cultural specificity of expression and exchange of thoughts and help to avoid misunderstanding in the process of communication.

The article examines the predictability of Russian verbal modifications during the process of word formation synthesis. The main reasons for modifiers’ combinatorial irregularity with respect to semantically connected sound verbs are identified. For the first time ever, the sound source, as the primary factor in determining the word formation synthesis’ results, is described from three perspectives: semantic, lexicographic, and denotative. Using various parameters relevant for both sound source and semantic modifiers, the sound verbs are subjected to combinatorial testing. The nature of dynamic dependency between the results of word formation synthesis, the distinguishing characteristics of modifiers, and the semantic range of verbs is analyzed.

The article deals with the reasons for the loss of certain facts of language and culture while translating fiction from Russian into English based on the novel «War and peace» by Leo Tolstoy.

The paper focuses on the development of the social-realistic tradition in the culture of the early 1960s. Special attention is paid to the first full-length feature Gennady Shpalikov’s screenplay «Berth», which is an example of the development and the change of social-realistic «tropes» in the screenwriting of «Ottepel / the Thaw»: «a positive hero», «big family» and «war». The author concludes that these fundamental «tropes» define all Shpalikov’s work, the screenwriting and the poetry.