In the article, rhetorical devices in a Turkish singer Simge’s pop discourse are considered. The existing definitions of the concept of discourse are considered. The grounds for singling out pop discourse as a variation of the song discourse are provided and its main features are discussed. In the practical part of the work, the characteristics of Simge’s songs are determined. For this, the methods of linguo-stylistic and contextual analysis are primarily used. As the result of the research, it is concluded that such stylistic figures as rhetorical questions, rhetorical exclamations, antitheses, parallel constructions, anaphors, epiphoras and are particularly important for pop discourse. It is found out that in Simge’s songs rhetorical questions are among the most common rhetorical devices. Most likely, this is a feature of Simge’s individual musical style. It is also assumed that the active use of rhetorical questions is typical for Turkish pop-music in general.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the interpretative role of mind and language in creating some terminological nominations to represent expert knowledge in the field of information security. This part of the paper considers the interrelation of cognitive and language mechanisms. It is proved that different types of knowledge are involved in term-formation. 

In the article, using an integrated approach to the analysis of linguistic facts, a fragment of the lexical structure of a hagiographic text formed by verbal units is characterized in a paradigmatic aspect. The material for the study was the lives of the synodal edition, included in the May cycle of the Four minas. It is shown that the lexical structure of the hagiographic text is formed by verbs of different lexico-semantic groups, commonality and differences in the use of verbal vocabulary due to the type of monastic or martyr asceticism are revealed. It is established that the systematic organization of verbs and stable verb-nominal combinations within the boundaries of the hagiographic text is provided by their synonymous, antonymic and hyper-hyponymic relations, the specifics of the implementation of which depends on the type of life. 

This article focuses on the study a person's worldview under the influence of their mother tongue and the culture it reflects. The article examines the notion of a picture of the world as a set of concepts, which includes a cultural and historical component and has an emotional colouring. The notion of the language picture of the world, which lies in the ethnospecific totality of human knowledge, imprinted by him in the language form, is also considered in close connection with the concept of the picture of the world. The article presents a comparative analysis of the concepts of insect parasites: "flea", "louse", "bedbug" in the Russian and French language pictures of the world. While examining these concepts the author studies signifier of a lexical unit and ethno-cultural layers, without which a lexical unit is not conceived by native speakers. A special role in the analysis of the concepts "flea", "louse" and "bedbug" is played by phraseological units and proverbs containing these lexical units. Finally, there are conclusions about the similarities and differences in the perception of the studied concepts in the Russian and French language pictures of the world. 

Significant anthropogenic changes in the environment have exacerbated the contradictions between man and nature and caused the urgency of the transition to ecocentric consciousness. In this regard, there was a need to ecologize the educational process at all levels of education. The systematic introduction of an ecological component into the practice of teaching Russian at the stage of pre-university training helps students to understand their role in the cycle of nature, feel responsible to nature, strengthen the desire to preserve its riches. To implement the task, it is effective to regularly conduct environmental minutes in various forms (vocabulary dictation of an environmental orientation, analysis of similar sentences or texts, search for speech errors and their correction in a given text). The experience of using various methodological techniques presented in the article allows to strengthen environmental aspects in Russian language classes and makes it possible to draw the attention of students to environmental problems.