The article examines the impact of the Romani language in particular and the Roma culture as a whole on the language and culture of Spain. Particular attention is paid to the problem of linguistic expansion, but also introduces interesting infor­mation about the original phenomenon of Andalusian culture – flamenco.

Some basic principles of complex analysis of communicative behavior are presented in this part of the article. The analysis in question allows to reveal – through the prism of the text being produced – existence / absence of psychological setting for joint / common activity.

The analysis of the modern european literature concerns with the attempt to find out common features in west european and Russian prose of the beginning of the XXI c. Both literatures had many typological signs in the past, both have national peculiarities. At the same time it is evident that after postmodernistic experiment both literatures tend to classic tradition and especial interest to the image of the main personage and the narrative, construction of a plot. The prose became more lyrical and psychologic and turned to a mass reader.

The author examines the pre-revolutionary works of Aleksei Tolstoy in the context of the trends that dominated in the literary life of the Russia of the 1910s. Emphasis is placed on changes in the «genre politics» that were characterized the works of Russian prose writers, overcoming the influence of aesthetics of symbolism and making an attempt to combine the achievements of symbolistic art with the traditions of Russian realism, in particular in the realization of the thesis of acmeists of the «vershinnyi» («apical») novel.

The article examines intensifying adverbs as an object of theory and methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language. It analyses the Russian langu­age­textbooks and tutorials for foreigners as well as functionally oriented linguodidactic dictionaries and determines the primary directions of designing a multiaspect aca­de­mic dictionary of intensifying units.

This text analyzed the usage of the frequently found neutral impersonal reflexive verb sluchi se // sluchva se (‘to happen’) and its derivates in contemporary Bul­garian language. Apart from their normal use, which is mainly explained by means of the synonymic order in which the verb is dominant, these verbs are often found with (to a certain degree) irregular uses. Their appearance is due to the influence of English language (syntagms with ‘to happen’) and is typical for the journalistic style and political discourse. The influence of this innovation in other language styles (mainly the scientific) poses the question if this phenomenon is just a linguistic fashion or marks a tendency.

The author presented the survey of the history and current state of Slavic studies (linguistic) at the University of Wroclaw, outlined the main directions of research in linguistics.

The paper presents the project of a trilingual (Church Slavonic – Rus­sian – Italian) lexicon of religious and philosophical-theological words, stemming from the observation of an editorial lack. Religious and philosophical-theological terms used in modern Russian are derived from Church Slavonic, a language that contains many loans and calques from Greek and Latin. Thatʼs why these terms can be correctly understood and translated only through the reconstruction of their origins, semantics and use. General dictionaries often fail to provide satisfactory solutions, since they do not consider the question of correspondence or lack of correspondence in concepts and contexts of reference. Aiming at compiling a trilingual lexicon, in previous articles the authors analyzed some groups of lexemes. In particular they analyzed some words belonging to agiographical vocabulary and some attributes referred to the three persons of Christian God and to the Mother of God. In the present article they examine nouns and attributes referred to the devil.

Review of the codification of grammatical rules of Bulgarian literary language from the last spelling reform of 1945 to the spelling dictionary of 2012 presents the dynamics of the processes. On the material of oral and written official public speech is found that the rule of the long and the short article, the a rule for the ending -м in 1 pers. pl. present tense of the verbs 1-th and 2-th conjugation and the rule of using of reflexive possessive pronoun are accurately respected. The rule of using forms кого, когото, някого, никого isn’t respected in 1/4 of cases. The sus­tai­nability of grammatical rules of the modern literary language results from of exten­sive social basis of the literary language.

The author analyzes the creative destiny of the Russian writer of the second half of XX – beginning of XXI c. V.V. Orlov. The verge of the personality of the main character of his novels were Investigated due to the specific writerʼs worldview.