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Yerevan State University is 90 Years Old 

On Preconditions of Medieval Armenian Schools  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

The State of Armenian Education in Brief  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Armenian Higher Education in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Founding People’s University of Yerevan  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

On the Way to Yerevan State University  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

The Rectors of Yerevan State University  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Renowned Graduates of Yerevan State University  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Linguistics 

Essence and Phenomenon in Linguistic Content and Expression  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Ashot Abrahamyan (Armenia)

Stereotypical Statements as Social-Psycholinguistic Phenomenon  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Liana Matevosyan (Armenia)

Meaning and Association  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Rouzanna Arakelyan (Armenia)

The Problem of Thinking and Language: Concept  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Stela Israyelyan (Armenia)

Strategies and Tactics in Gaining Public Opinion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Armine Simonyan (Armenia)

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Metaphor in Political Discourse  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Anna Arakelyan (Armenia)

Stylistic Devices in Marriage Vows  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Astghik Chubaryan, Stella Arakelyan (Armenia)

On Some Functional-Stylistic Peculiarities of the Language of Religion  . . . . . . . . 84
Naira Gasparyan, Arevik Ajamoghlyan (Armenia)

On Ways of Expressing Persuasion in Discourse  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Siranoush Ghaltkhchyan (Armenia)

On Refusal Strategies in Modern English  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Sirarpi Karapetyan (Armenia)

Verbal Art: From the Polyphony of the Word to Non-Verbality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Seda Gasparyan (Armenia)

Metaphor: an Element of Imagery in  Gerald Durrell’s 
“My Family and Other Animals”  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Armine Matevosyan, Narine Nikoghosyan (Armenia)

Similes in D.H.Lawrence’s “Sons and Lovers”  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Armine Matevosyan, Anna Melkonyan (Armenia)

Ways of Expressing Causation in Modern English  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Robert Khachatryan (Armenia)

Cohesive Properties of Modal Adverbs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Naira  Martirossyan (Armenia)

Reported Speech as a Supraphrasal Unity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Zara Kostanyan (Armenia)

The Psycho-Grammatical Description of the Existential Locative 
“there” Constructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Armine Suvaryan (Armenia)

Structural-Semantic Patters with Suffixes Expressing Resemblance in 
Modern English and Modern Armenian.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Lili Karapetyan, Armine Yakhnyan (Armenia)

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The Semantic Field of Phraseological Units Expressing Kindness and 
Malice in Armenian, Russian and English  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Hasmik Ghazaryan (Armenia)

Etymology and Word Decoding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Susanna Baghdasaryan (Armenia)

Deixis as a Significant Element of Human Communication  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Yelena Yerznkyan (Armenia)

Methodology

Democratizing and Dehegemonizing Literature: 
Endeavours of Empowerment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Sivakumar Sivasubramaniam (United Arab Emirates)

On Some Issues of Foreign Language Course Modeling 
and Theory Designing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Karen Hayryan (Armenia)

Culture Studies 

The War and Peace of  Languages and Cultures. 
The Teacher and the Student, 21st century Russia  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Svetlana Ter-Minasova (Russia)

The Subjunctive Mood: Linguo-Cultural Approach  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Chubaryan Astghik, Karapetyan Rouzanna (Armenia)

On the Cultural Peculiarities of Proverbs and Their Classification  . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Kristine Gevorgyan (Armenia)

Literature

The Woman Artist in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Poetry  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Aleksandra Nikèeviæ-Batriæeviæ, Marija Kneževiæ (Montenegro)

Literature and Medicine: Asperger Syndrome in Mark Haddon’s Novel  . . . . . . 226
“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
Janko Andrijaseviæ(Montenegro)

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Rehabilitating Martius: 
Audience Response to the Hero of “Coriolanus”  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Terence McCarthy (France)

Muslim Romance in Diaspora: Leila Aboulela’s “Minaret” (2005) 
and the Ethics of Reading in the West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
John A. Stotesbury (Finland)

Armenological Studies

An Important Source of Information about Islamized Armenians  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Sergey Vardanyan (Armenia)

Mutual Influences of New Julfa and 
Isfahan Mural Paintings in the 17th Century  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Ani Babayan (Armenia)

Some Glimpses of the American-Armenian Press 
Published in English in the 1990s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Marina Chalyan (Armenia)

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