The paper provides some results of linguistic analysis of Men of Faith hagiography in synodal and modern periods of Russian hagiography, the Life of Saint Seraphim of Sarov and Optina elder Leonidas (schemamonk Leo), in particular. The authors focus attention on textual and language means that are used to present the image of the man of faith, educe some peculiarities of hagiographic scheme that is to describe the life of saint eldership. It has been stated that the canonical structure of the saint hagiography demonstrates some variations of its implementation in the texts that are referred to separated time periods thus contributing to a full coverage of the saint's image due to a partitive-scheme realization (with some toposes lacking), a transformed scheme (when toposes demonstrate various gradation in detalization), or may be expended (by including new toposes). In the men of faith descriptions the following word groups show regularities in co-occurrence: words that describe the intrinsic (unseen) world (emotive lexical units) or present relations with extrinsic (observed) world (perceptive lexis). The reliance of emotives to the object status is estimated as a tool that serves for presenting high emotional intensiveness and its reasons, coordination between quantitative markers of emotional states and their measurement is uncovered. The perception processes are defined as valuable for making the venerable image because the perceptive words definitely point to specificity of the object assumption, and altogether they show connection between the process of information perception and cognition.

The article deals with the issue of perception representation potential by Russian verbs. The study is focused on stylistically marked verb-and-nominal phrases with the meaning of visual perception (vperit' glaza / vzgljad / vzor; lupit' glaza; pjalit' glaza; taraschit' glaza). The analysis was based on various materials from lexicographic sources that reflect the state of the Russian language in various periods of its evaluation and the data from the National Russian Language Corpus on functioning of verb-and-nominal phrases. The complex approach made it possible to identify collocation potential of the language units under analysis in modern Russian language and to define limitations on their usage in fiction and media styles. Semantic changes in the meaning of verbal constituents define patterns aimed at constructing semantics of perception in a pair with the nouns of perception that represent intense visual ability to perceive. It is concluded that semantic changes are based on correlation between the process of visual perception and another process that is not directly associated with the instance of perceiving, but may be apprehended with the sight conceptualization (during movement in space or physical impact at an object). The results might become the basis for further studies in the field of sensory linguistics.

The article focuses on the potential of perception verb usage for creating the images of saints and godliness devotees. An integrated approach was applied to studying hagiographic texts of the 20 th – 21 st centuries, which comprise the research material. Special attention is paid to the verbs that directly nominate the process of obtaining information about the surrounding world (exteroceptive sensations). The analysis also involves the verbs that are etymologically related to the verbs of perception. The author introduces the structure of meaning of the verbs denoting perception and their corresponding subdivision into subgroups. The verbs employed in the description of the saints' and ascetics' abilities to comprehend the world intuitively, to foresee the forthcoming events in the lives of people, country, and the Church are analyzed, the peculiarities of their use are revealed. The subgroups of verbs denoting these processes in the studied texts have been identified. The contextually stipulated changes in the meanings of verbs are characterized. Lexicographic sources have been used to determine the meanings, which are actualized in the texts, and those not recorded in the dictionaries. The impressive semantic potential of the analyzed verbs is demonstrated. This makes it possible to use them for nominating the outstanding abilities of saints and ascetics, which distinguish them from ordinary people.

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просп. Университетский, 100, 400062 г. Волгоград, Российская Федерация Аннотация. В статье с использованием комплексного подхода к анализу языковых единиц рассматриваются особенности функционирования перцептивных глаголов в документах из фонда «Михайловский станичный атаман», датированных 1743-1755 годами. Установлено, что в изучаемых документах представлены глаголы зрительного и слухового восприятия. Глаголы зрительного восприятия используются преимущественно в распорядительных и уведомительно-просительных документах и обнаруживают в своих значениях совмещение компонентов, связанных с преднамеренным зрительным восприятием и осмыслением полученной в помощью органов зрения информации. Глаголы слухового восприятия отмечены в распорядительных и судебно-следственных документах. В распорядительных документах функционируют преимущественно глаголы преднамеренного слухового восприятия, реализующие прямые значения, тогда как в судебно-следственных документах чаще всего используются глаголы непреднамеренного слухового восприятия, обнаруживающие синкретичные значения (совмещающие компоненты, связанные со слуховым восприятием и мыслительной деятельностью). Показано, что лингвистическое оформление документов Области Войска Донского во многом определяется экстралингвистическими факторами, важнейшим среди которых является функция (назначение) документа в социальной коммуникации. Причем функциональная направленность документа задает не только отбор языковых единиц, но и особенности их использования внутри его композиционно-содержательных частей. Ключевые слова: история русского языка, деловая письменность, региональные документы, текст документа, глаголы восприятия.