The article is devoted to the problem of development of linguistic personality of a speech therapist in the system of continuous professional education. Speech, communicative and subject-activity qualities of the linguistic personality of a speech therapist serve as the basis for formation of his professional competence, which determines the relevance of the study. Objective: to generalize theoretical and practical issues of development of the linguistic personality of a speech therapist in the system of continuous professional education. Objectives: to analyze the essence and content of the concept "linguistic personality" in professional activity; to describe the specifics of professional communication and professional speech of speech therapists; to identify the essential characteristics of the linguistic personality of a speech therapist; to determine the pedagogical and linguodidactic conditions for development of the linguistic personality of a speech therapist in the system of continuous professional education. Results and conclusions: the phenomenon of linguistic personality has a significant development resource for the development of innovative models of language teaching from the position of mastering the linguistic means of professional discourse by the subject of learning; The linguistic identity of a speech therapist is formed within the framework of professional and pedagogical discourse, which has structural and semantic features and is reflected in the phonetic, lexical-phraseological, and textual-grammatical characteristics of speech. The development of the speech, communicative, and subject-activity qualities of the linguistic identity of a speech therapist is possible through the development and implementation of a linguodidactic model for the development of the linguistic identity of a speech therapist, which integrates the technologies of defectological and linguistic training of speech therapists within the system of continuous professional education.

The article contributes to the consideration of the role and place of artificial intelligence in the educational activities of university students. The article analyzes the motivation for using artificial intelligence by university students. The research methods used include systematization and theoretical analysis of pedagogical literature on the research topic, interview, modified method for identifying the motives for using AI in educational activities. The authors provide a review of the pedagogical literature on the use of AI in education. The theoretical provisions of the study are based on a comparative analysis of approaches to defining and role of AI in educational activities, as well as the identified motives for using AI by students, and are illustrated by pedagogical practice of using artificial intelligence in the educational activities of university students. The article provides a quantitative analysis of the diagnosis of students' motivational orientation towards the use of AI in educational activities. The questionnaire developed by the authors and the modified method can be practically used in pedagogical research. The results of the work can be used to expand and deepen the content of various courses at the university, in particular, the course on information technology in education, etc.

The depiction of the bourgeois family occupies a prominent place in the work of F. Mauriac. This article explores the ideal image the author creates in his lyric cycle «Farewell to Adolescence». The article focuses on the depiction of the family as an idyllic microcosm that is shaped in the writer's early poetry and how this image is connected to key motifs of childhood, the painful experiences of adolescence, and religious quest. The goal of the research is to identify the specifics and evolution of the family ideal in the lyric cycle and in Mauriac's subsequent prose. The problem of the duality of the family is raised: on the one hand, it is a source of divine love and spiritual support, on the other hand, the captivity of tender childhood.

The analysis establishes a connection between the lyric cycle and the novel «The Frontenac Mystery». It demonstrates how «Farewell to Adolescence» develops a model of family based on selfless love, the key image of which is the figure of the mother. Despite the pain of parting with childhood, this ideal becomes the lyrical hero's moral foundation. «L’adieu à l’adolescence» is a semantic and figurative precursor to Mauriac's mature prose, where the themes of family, faith, and the preservation of spiritual purity in the bourgeois world are further developed.

The article is meant to analyze ways to establish a trusting relationship in gossip. The research focuses on the communicative strategy of solidarization, as well as ways of its implementation in speech which are communicative tactics. For each of the identified tactics, linguistic means and techniques of verbalization in English communication are determined. The tactic of clarifying common views is used to clarify the addressee's attitude towards the person being discussed, which allows to save face if opinions differ. For this purpose questions of a personal nature but de- void of an evaluative component are used. One of the ways to unite communicants is the tactic of creating a we-community. Its linguistic means include personal and possessive pronouns of the first person plural and lexemes with negative connotation to describe persons who are not part of the group. To support the narrator, the tactic of expressing consent can be used, which is verbalized with the help a number of lexemes, and at the syntactic level, rhetorical questions, repetitions, and sentence completion for the speaker. To mitigate harsh statements, the tactic of expressing a subjective opinion is used, which consists in using words with a broad common meaning, modal verbs and adverbs expressing uncertainty and tag-questions. Tactic of a joke supports the harmonious development of communication. Periphrasis, allusion, irony, and other techniques can be used to implement it.

The article examines the phenomenon of abbreviation as one of the most productive ways of word formation in Chinese Internet discourse. The relevance of the research is motivated by the growing interest of linguists in the study of Chinese Internet vocabulary and the peculiarities of their functioning in communication in a digital environment. The aim of the work is to identify the structural and semantic features of Chinese Internet abbreviations, as well as to determine their functional role in online communication. A focused study of Chinese abbreviations allows us to open ways to a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the development of the Chinese Internet language and to form a theoretical basis for the standardization of linguistic norms and effective social regulation in the digital age. The empirical basis of the study is Internet abbreviations extracted from texts of Chinese social networks (WeChat, Weibo, TikTok, Bilibili, etc.), forums and messengers for 2020-2025. As a result of the study, the reasons for the large-scale spread of Chinese abbreviations are summarized: an increase in the speed of information exchange during online communication, the desire to save speech efforts, the influence of the Internet environment and the playful nature of online communication. The main groups of abbreviations have been identified: 1) hieroglyphic abbreviations; 2) alphabetic abbreviations; 3) numerical abbreviations; 4) abbreviations of mixed type; 5) letter emojis; the main problems caused by their excessive use are noted.

The article addresses the relationship between the gender factor and the individual factor in communicative mitigation in American political discourse. The tenet of gender linguistics that links the density of mitigating devices to the speaker's sex is put to the test. The aim is to establish which parameters of a politician's mitigative behavior vary with the generic frame. The material comprises five events of the 2020 and 2024 election campaigns featuring K. Harris – two television debates and three television interviews, amounting to 16,469 words, in which continuous sampling identified 198 mitigative uses in 125 microcontexts. The unit of description is the notion of the individual mitigative profile introduced by the author, which combines mitigation density, the ratio of the propositional and deictic strategies and the composition of preferred tactics. With the gender variable held constant, mitigation density ranges from 5.9 to 24.6 uses per 1,000 words and the generic differential amounts to +13.5 uses; the ratio of the strategies stays within a narrow corridor, the tactical core retains its composition, and the increase falls on deictic devices. The findings restrict the inference of mitigation density from gender at the level of the individual linguistic personality.

This article aims to understand, first of all, the constitution of the notion and concept of subject based on linguistic experiences and social relations. The concepts of subjectivity, linguistic acquisition, cultural immersion, theory of knowledge and social subject shall be of fudamental importance to clarify the assumptions here intended. The concept of subject refers to a discursive reality and, therefore, does not coincide with the subject of reason whose experiences are located in consciousness or pragmatic rationality. This understanding shall lead us to subjectivity, since, in the field of linguistics, it is about the speaker's capacity to propose him(her)self as a subject, that is, it refers to a thinking self, to consciousness, to the spirit or to the mind as a cognitive faculty and foundational principle of knowledge. This article shall also seek to explain the different notions of subject and the production of meaning between them. To do so, the contributions of González Rey are taken into account in his argumentation on the subjective dimension of personal meaning and individual and social subjectivity.

This article focuses on the professional intercultural communication practiced by renowned German scholar V.G. Admoni. The aim of the study is a hermeneutic-narratological analysis of the means of explicating the holistic subjective-modal tonality associated with the evaluative judgments of the protagonist of the autobiographical narrative regarding his participation in a foreign scientific event and communication with European colleagues. The scientific novelty of the study's results is determined by the interpretation of the subjective modality of the narrative as a holistic axiological coloring “dispersed” throughout the autobiographical narrative. Furthermore, the approach to V.G. Admoni's autobiography as a work created by an elite linguistic personality is innovative. An analysis of empirical material revealed dominant, axiologically marked overtones of meaning that constitute the subjective-modal tonality of the autobiographical narrative of an elite linguistic personality of the Soviet period. These overtones include humanism, recognition of a colleague's ability to correct his worldview, and the impressions of a Soviet scholar on a foreign assignment. These components of the subjective-modal tonality are manifested in V.G. Admoni's narrative through epithets with emotional-evaluative connotations and syntactic expressive devices (repetition, parentheses, sentence parcellation). The application of the hermeneutic-narratological interpretation of autobiography used in this article to research on factual and fictional narratology appears promising.

The article presents a contrastive analysis of the functional-pragmatic characteristics of the speech act of gratitude in Vietnamese and Russian. The relevance of the study is determined, firstly, by the key role of gratitude as a universal mechanism for maintaining interpersonal harmony and regulating communicative processes; secondly, by the need to identify both universal and culturally specific patterns in the context of intensifying intercultural contacts; and thirdly, by the insufficient investigation of the contrastive aspect of these linguacultures, which differ in their value orientations and politeness norms. The aim of the work is to identify the universal, nationally specific, and functional-pragmatic features of the speech act of gratitude in the languages under study. The material comprises fictional and publicistic texts from the late 20th – early 21st centuries, totaling 2,000 utterances (1,000 in Russian and 1,000 in Vietnamese), extracted from the Russian National Corpus and the Vietnamese language corpus. The methodological framework of this study includes methods of continuous sampling of linguistic material, as well as componential, contextual, interpretive, and contrastive analysis, which ensured a comprehensive approach to describing the functional-pragmatic characteristics of the speech act of gratitude. The findings establish that in the compared languages, gratitude realizes a wide range of pragmatic functions: from the basic expression of appreciation for a service to a ritualized response to a compliment, congratulation, or well-wish; it also serves as a means of agreement, polite refusal, encouragement, termination of communication, and indirect request. The obtained results deepen the understanding of the its role in interpersonal communication and reveal the specifics of its verbalization in structurally different linguacultures.

The article reveals the historical and sociocultural origins of the philosophical understanding of a person’s age in different cultures, in the context of the ideology of society in a particular era, and their reflection in languages as motivating foundations for phraseological units. The aim of the study is to describe the stereotypical patterns of thinking and behavior—both of the older members of society themselves and of the attitudes towards them—that have become ingrained in the proverbial fund of the language. The linguistic, cultural, and value‑semantic features of Russian, Turkish, and Bashkir proverbs that interpret a person’s age (the period of old age) are analysed. In the course of a linguoculturological analysis of proverbs, the ethnocultural specificity of the figurative description of the external, psychophysiological, and mental qualities of an elderly/old person, as well as their assessment in society in the Russian and Turkic (Bashkir and Turkish) languages, has been identified for the first time — in the context of culture, lifestyle, traditional beliefs, and customs of the peoples who speak these languages. It has been proven that ontological, cultural‑historical, and axiological factors form a certain linguocultural space in the linguistic consciousness of native speakers, which is reflected in the motivation of the semantics of set expressions. It has been established that Turkic cultures exhibit a more tolerant attitude towards old age, and their languages lack proverbs and idioms with pejorative connotations, compared to the Russian language, this is due to the natural and climatic conditions of living and the type of economic activity (sedentary versus nomadic lifestyle), which influence the attitude towards older members of society due to their inability to work. In the compared languages, there is a similarity in the characterization of such life parameters as its transience, the finitude of earthly existence, and the contrast between youth and old age. The research prospects lie in applying the algorithm for analyzing paremias using materials from other languages.

The article deals with a comparative linguistic analysis of the reports of Great Britain and USA leaders within the framework of the Munich Security conference and is aimed at distinguishing the role of language in shaping the speakers’ attitude towards the issues of global and national security. The research methodology is based on the critical, cognitive, comparative, descriptive and quantitative methods that has enabled us to single out the most efficient and reliable actual speech material that include personal pronouns, modal verbs, and emotive-evaluative vocabulary. It is proved that the country leaders make use of a certain set of linguistic tools and devices peculiar for their national identity and the policy of their country, which helps to deliver the thoughts, attitude, values and priorities of the speakers and model their political image and speech portrait. The authors come to the conclusion, that Biden’s speech was assertive and forward-looking, while Johnson’s rhetoric was more circumspect balancing criticism and optimistic perspective of Britain’s role on the international relations.

This study is aimed at analyzing the functional pragmatics of specific linguistic and creative poetic mechanisms of an individual author's conceptual-value system explication. The scientific novelty of the undertaken analysis lies in the introduction of conceptual and epistemic description elements within the parallel translation of episodic, ingroup and semantic components into the framework of dialectical-relational methodology. Metrics, rhythm and rhyme, combined with the accentuation of axiological dominants, are provided by models corresponding not only to the author's meanings (pertinences), but also necessarily tied to the correlative meanings of the linguistic and cultural community (relevancy), which brings linguocreative poiesis closer to the mechanisms of noesis. The division and intentional orientation of the elite language personality reflection are not only in the field of linguistic consciousness, i.e. conceptual and axiological space, but also in the speech thinking tissue, i.e. the threefold importance of verbalization forms, allows to identify multilevel techniques for translating author's pertinences in the relevance of the linguistic and cultural community. The elitism of poetic linguocreation is manifested in the convergence of phono-semantic techniques, rhythmic-rhyming structure, richness and intentional selectivity of lexical, syntactic and pragmatic elements, increasing the level of cultural, epistemic and social significance of the transmitted dominants. The linguistic consciousness of an elite personality appears as the basis for a creative rethinking of polymodal models of the personal axiosphere intensification, explicated in speech-thinking constructions in the process of poetization, accessible to the mass addressee.

Relevance. In today's media space, there is a trend towards pluralisation of opinions and viewpoints on socially significant issues, which leads to an increase in the role of polemical communication as a mechanism for transmitting and confronting different positions. The study of argumentative strategies in the discourse on energy is of particular importance, as this area touches upon a complex set of technical, economic, and geopolitical aspects that require convincing presentation in the mass media. Methodology. The research material consisted of a corpus of German-language articles published in periodicals in Germany and Austria in 2025–2026 and devoted to energy issues. Within the framework of an anthropocentric approach, descriptive methods, contextual stylistic analysis, discourse analysis, as well as comparative and definitional methods were used to clarify the semantics of statements, taking into account extralinguistic factors of communication. Analysis. The theoretical part of the work systematises existing approaches to the study of polemics and argumentation, highlighting interactive, communicative, cognitive-linguistic, logical-linguistic, and communicative-pragmatic approaches. The specifics of polemical communication in the media are considered, including the possibility of modifying the informative load of linguistic units under the influence of the discursive context. Results. During the analysis of empirical material, the dominant argumentative strategies were identified and characterised: legitimisation of a position through appeal to authoritative sources and facts, lobbying for corporate interests, strategies of positive and negative presentation of various energy technologies. It was established that argumentation in the discourse under study is a complex linguistic-pragmatic mechanism aimed at transmitting value orientations, persuading the recipient, and constructing a certain picture of the world in the media space.