Abstract: The article is devoted to the study of modern popular science literature in order to identify some lexical and stylistic features, as well as to figure out the specificity of the methodology of nowadays scientific and popular information presentation. The authors pay special attention to studying of undeclared implicit discursive elements of popular science texts. Printed versions of books with a total volume of 196,6 conventional printing sheets serve as a material of the study. The analysis of the material showed that the authors of popular science books try to increase the degree of trust of the audience in a variety of ways, for example, by making the process of communication with the reader more intimate, by demonstrating the proximity to official academic community and by positioning the produced text as scientifically significant. One of the most typical phenomena that has been noted in the popular science texts is making some lexical units (including terms) hypersubjective in relation to the context (and their future use in a variety of situations) together with the creation of implicit ideological pressure, as well as with the persistent demonstration of the universality of these lexical units. In all the texts that have been analysed, the unobvious discourse-forming telelogy is noted, which is a tool for soft promotion of meaning-forming and partly ideologically conditioned ways of understanding various facts. Typical of the analysed popular science literature is the presence of reduced argumentation with unjustified usage of the third-party axiomatics and the extension of the argumentation base to the interdisciplinary junction. The use of primitivized argumentation targeted for a dilettante philistine level is noted. It is not uncommon to omit the existing scientific and relevant links and patterns, or to interpret them in a way that does not contradict the information certainty projected in the text. It is also possible to note a distracting informational redundancy, which the authors of the article consider as one of the ways of splitting the text, deliberately created by the addressee of the text.

Keywords: primitivized argumentation, the effect of advance awareness, information certainty, the effect of transdisciplinary trust, unobvious discourse-forming teleology, hypersubjectivity, informal division of the text, undesirable discursive relationship, popular science discourse, mass audience

Abstract: The subject of the study is a parody text of the famous philologist, author of the fundamental monograph on the "Letters of the Russian traveler" N. M. Karamzin, V. V. Sipovsky (pseudonym – V. Novodvorsky), little known to a wide range of readers, "Erast Krutolobov's Journey to Moscow and St. Petersburg in the 30s of the XIX century" as a parody of the narrative model of travelogue. The purpose of the study is to determine the specifics of the description of the sentimental narrative model of the travelogue in the work of V. Novodvorsky (V. V. Sipovsky), to characterize the author's reflection on the way of organizing the narrative in a parody text about the journey. The theoretical basis of the research was the works of Yu. N. Tynyanov, A. Shenle, V. M. Guminsky, O. V. Kublitskaya, Yu. V. Shatin, I. V. Banach devoted to the theory of parody and the analysis of the narrative structure of parody travelogues. To understand the specifics of V.V. Sipovsky's parody of the sentimental narrative model of travelogue, the following research methods are used: biographical, structural-typological, historical-literary. The scientific novelty of the research lies in a special material that expresses the point of view of the author-philologist, researcher of the "Karamzin canon" in the genre of travelogue, which allows us to discover the "common places" of the sentimental tradition, significantly modified in the 30s of the XIX century under the influence of new literary trends. The analysis of the ways of self-expression of the writer-literary critic in the process of creating a parody reveals research reflection not only at the level of literary play, but also through modeling the narrative structure of the text, in which not only the stages of the journey of the protagonist, Erast Krutolobov, "the event of the journey" are parodied, but also the ambivalence of ideas about the "event of telling" about the journey is expressed, contrasted sentimental narrative model and realistic.

Keywords: methods of author's self-expression, research reflection, journey, author, Sipovsky, sentimental narrative model, travelogue, parody, XIX century, Novodvorsky

Abstract: The subject of this research is the peculiarities of organization of space in the novel “Dead Men Walking” by Steve Lyons from the perspective opposition “own – alien”. The research employs the cultural-historical method and comparative analysis. The article examines the peculiarities of perception of space in the novel. The basic conflict is association with intervention of the alien civilization on the planet of people. Emphasis is placed on the fact that the war erases the boundaries of “own” and “alien”, each of parties to the conflict has reason to believe that the planet is “their own”. The characters of the novel are divided into “living” and “dead”, which complicates the conflict and organization of space even more. Space in the literary text is the subject of multiple scientific articles. However, the works dedicated to examination of space in S. Lyons’ novel are not featured in modern literary studies, which defines the scientific novelty of this research. The conclusion is drawn that  for humanity and for alien civilization space is simultaneously “own” and “alien”, since other civilization existed on the planet for a long time prior to the arrival of humans. Moreover, the organization of space is complicated by the arrival of human forces of rom other planet, who were unfamiliar with the concept of “own” space at all, which affects the course of war and determines the fate of the characters in the novel. Such approach demonstrates that the concept of “own” and “alien” in the novel is vague due to the fact that it is impossible to unambiguously attribute the planet neither to “own” nor “alien” space.

Keywords: foreign, own, war, fantastic, myth, structure, novel, plot, space, setting