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Th is book advances two major dimensions in discourse studies, which is studies of multimodal discourse and multimodal methods of discourse analysis. So, multimodality is regarded as a discourse construal strategy and a research tool. Featuring the studies in Russian, English, and German languages we address spoken and written discourse formats in spoken descriptions of paintings, drama and cinema discourse, novels, and social advertisement posters. We develop a cognitive approach to multimodal research in gestures and language, language and video, text and image specifying the

construal operations of focusing, conceptual integration, resonance, fi ctive communication which underly the mutual adaptation of diff erent semiotic resources in discourse.

The second issue of the ninth volume of “Dictionary of the language of Russian poetry (20th сentury)” contains 2290 entries.The y include poetic lines from the sources of the Dictionary based on works of ten outstanding poets of the Silver Age: I. Annensky, A. Akhmatova, A. Blok, S. Yesenin, M. Kuzmin, O. Mandelstam, V. Mayakovsky, B. Pasternak, V. Khlebnikov, M. Tsvetaeva. Within the entries, the lines are chronologically ordered; in total, they provide a wide range of data concerning the rhythmics of the headword context, as well as the “increments of meaning” in it and the history of the word in the poetic language of this period. All contexts are accompanied by special codes indicating the author and the creation date of the text; as in, for instance, Ann909, Akhm912, AB914, Yes915, Kuz916, OM918, M920, P921, Khl921, Tsv935. If necessary, the headwords of entries and contexts are accompanied by stylistic and other labels and short comments. The Dictionary demonstrates the variety and expressiveness of the language of poetry and the “artistic memory” of its words. Enriching our aesthetic horizons, it helps to clarify the impressions of the lines that the reader has long loved and to think about their connections with many lesser-known ones. The Dictionary is addressed to philologists, linguists and literary critics, cultural scientists, as well as to a wide range of fans of Russian poetry.