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This article provides a brief analysis of Tobias Smollett’s ‘The Expedition of Humphry Clinker,’ which is considered to be his best novel. Similar episodes and literary portraits had been featured in his previous works, but the epistolary form, used exclusively in this novel, contributed to lively and extremely convincing characters, as well as vivid and picturesque descriptions.

The article examines the insufficiently explored phenomenon in word-formation synthesis – the intra-linguistic affixal lacunae i.e. lexical gaps. The nature of lacunar units is described as a unique type of semantic modifications that display a similar structure, semantics, and characteristics. From the standpoint of derivative codification, the major lacunae groups are identified, analyzed, and mapped out based on their lexicographic properties. The glossary selection criteria for the experimental Lacunae – Modifications Dictionary are determined. Relying on the data from the Russian National Corpus, nearly 5,000 lacunae and sound verb modifications, combined, were researched using a web-scraping algorithm from a special project at Missouri S&T. The results of this study may serve as a foundational platform for this novel dictionary of affixal lexical gaps in the Russian language.

In this article, the problem of declining reader interest among high school students is considered. A way of solving this problem is proposed: increasing high school students' interest in reading by using modern technologies. The research methods used in this paper include theoretical (analysis of scientific, non-fiction and fiction literature, followed by analysis and synthesis of obtained data), as well as empirical (a survey in order to determine the reading activity of students, comparison and analysis of obtained data, systematization and statistical processing of research materials) methods. The author has examined several modern information and communication resources, of which those most suitable for the purpose of this study have been selected: an online survey, a poster, a book trailer and an Internet forum. The results of this study demonstrated a positive dynamic in 10th grade students' reader interest, thus confirming the hypothesis.

The primary goal of this paper is to study of the features of the linguistic representation of nature-related vocabulary in Anna Akhmatova’s lyric poems. The principles of compiling a frequency list of plant names are described, a classification of floristic vocabulary is given, and the lexical and semantic subgroup ‘trees’ is analyzed in detail. The specific features of the poet’s individual vision of floristic vocabulary are revealed, taking into account the author’s imagery explicating plant nominations in the literary text.