Voprosy Jazykoznanija. 1997. No. 1

CONTENTS
M.V. Nikitin
The limits of semiotics 		3 - 14
R. Rathmayr
Functional and cultural-comparative aspects of pragmatic clichés (founded on the materials of Russian and German) 		15 - 22
T.K. Abdiev
Constructions with causative verbs in Kyrgyz 		23 - 30
M.G. Gal’chenko, A.N. Yatsenko
Paleographic and orthographic features of the Lestvitsa’s of 1421 and 1424 written in Constantinople and in Athon by the Russian monk Euseuius Ephraim (the second South Slavonic influence) 		31 - 47
A.L. Semenas
On lexical loans in Chinese 		48 - 57
E.I. Shutova
Composition of meaningful monosyllables as a grammatical means of contemporary Chinese (based on the materials of nominal polysyllables) 		58 - 72
Mark M. Makovskij
Language — myth — culture. Symbols of life and life of symbols 		73 - 95
Heritage
Heritage
L.V. Knorina
Linguistic aspects of the Jewish tradition of commentary 		97 - 108
Overviews
Overviews
Vadim V. Dementyev
The study of speech genres. A survey of works in contemporary Russian studies 		109 - 121
Reviews
Reviews
T.Z. Cherdantseva
[Review] T.S. Aristova, M.L. Kovšova, E.A. Ryseva, V.N. Telia, I.I. Čerkasova. Dictionary of figures of speech in Russian 		122 - 125
Valerii M. Mokienko
[Review] J. Petermann, R. Hansen-Kokorus, T. Bill. Russisch-deutsches phraseologisches Wörterbuch 		125 - 131
Vladimir M. Alpatov
[Review] J. Edwards. Multilingualism 		131 - 136
Academic life
Academic life

Chronicle notes 		137 - 140