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Anthropocentric Measures and Some Ways of Representing Them in the English Language // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2005. Issue 4 (48). P. 36-41

The article deals with the origin of measuring and the ways of representing inexact measures in the English language.

The Ways of Representation of Time Perception as a Fragment of the Concept ‘Measure’ in English. // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2006. Issue 4 (55). P. 90-95

The article deals with the evolution of time measurements, subjectivity of time perception and ways of its representation in the English language.

NATIONAL MONEY UNITS AS NAMES OF A SEGMENT OF THE CATEGORY “MEASURE” (ON THE BASIS OF THE ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGES) // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2011. Issue 9 (111). P. 94-99

The article deals with the peculiarities of using the names of English and Russian money units for creating measuring valuation. Much attention is paid to the figurative meanings of the names of coins and banknotes in the English and Russian languages.

Keywords: Division of the substance into fragments and information into bits, category, lexical-semantic field, metaphor, cognitive valuation

TIME MEASUREMENT: PECULIARITIES OF REPRESENTATION IN MODERN ENGLISH // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2016. Issue 6 (171). P. 20-24

The article deals with the peculiarities of using language quantifiers which express time measurements in Modern English. According to a widespread conception in the literature of linguistics and philosophy, space and time are deeply intertwined with each other, both in language and in underlying concepts. As both space and time can be measured the category of measure and its language representatives are inseparably connected with space-time system. To gain a better insight into the relations between time and measure the revealed language means have been gathered into certain groups, which form the structure of the functional-semantic field representing the category of time. The core of the field is represented by the metric system of time measurements and some traditional units used in Englishspeaking countries. The latter part of the core is rather small in number. Of special interest are inaccurate and unspecified measures, forming the peripheral zone of the functional-semantic field under discussion.

Keywords: category of time, category of measure, time quantifier, unspecified measure, functional-semantic field

IN MEMORY OF LYUDMILA G. ANANYEVA // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2016. Issue 6 (171). P. 132-134

ENGLISH SEMIMARKED STRUCTURES IN THE SYSTEM OF SPACE MEASUREMENT // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2016. Issue 10 (175). P. 14-17

The article deals with the peculiarities of some specific structures which are characterized by the abnormality of lexical and grammatical agreement. The given structures referred to as ‘semimarked ones’ are widely used in the English language and, among other things, for expressing space measurements. To gain a better insight into the relations between the categories of space and measure the above-mentioned structures were included into the peripheral zone of the functional-semantic field representing the measures of length. The core of the field includes the metric system units and some traditional ones used in English-speaking countries. The periphery is formed, mostly, by various means of language expressing inaccurate and unspecified measures.

Keywords: category of space, category of measure, unspecified measure, semimarked structure, functionalsemantic field

METONYMIC SHIFT IN THE SYSTEM OF MEASURE (DATA OF ENGLISH) // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2017. Issue 10 (187). P. 103-106

The immense interest in metaphor has resulted in the emergence of a massive literature on the subject. From this academic interest in metaphor, a growing interest in metonymy has emerged over recent years, resulting in the formation of an impressive body of research, almost entirely from a cognitive linguistics perspective. The new works on metonymy show a consensus around a number of claims: that metonymy, like metaphor, is a conceptual phenomenon; that metonymy, like metaphor, plays a central role in conceptualization and communication; and that metonymy and metaphor can be identified as distinct, though related, phenomena. Metonymy is not just a type of language but reflects a significant form of human cognition. Metonymy differs from metaphor by the number of domains. In metaphor, there are two conceptual domains, and one thing is understood in terms of another. On the other hand, metonymy involves only one conceptual domain, in that the connection between two things is within the same domain, or within the same domain matrix. There are many types of metonymy and the least investigated of them is the relation between the metric system units and the means of inaccurate measures which can be used alternatively to indicate the space measurements within the same domain.

Keywords: measure, metonymic shift, space measurements, distance, conceptual domain