This issue of SibScript touches upon various aspects of language studies, from cognitive linguistics to interdisciplinary research projects.

A. V. Degaltseva, M. A. Kormilitsyna, and I. P. Falomkina studied the discourse of media texts and online reviews. A. V. Degaltseva and M. A. Kormilitsyna focused on the function of media texts as a metagenre while I. P. Falomkina described the Internet review as a new online genre with evaluativeness as its genre-forming feature.

In the Cognitive Section, V. A. Katysheva and E. Yu. Kunitsyna introduce a thematic classification of metaphorical terms, S. A. Lunina examines the euphemisms of death in Old English, G. I. Lushnikova and T. Iu. Osadchaia analyze the dystopian worldview in modern American prose, and M. A. Samkova reconstructs the associative-verbal field of the verbal stimulus migrant. All the authors introduce their linguistic material from cognitive perspective.

The Interdisciplinary Section contains various issues that occur at the intersection of different disciplines. Ya. A. Dudareva examines textual copyonymy as an important concept of law and legal linguistics. M. A. Kravchenko studied the ever-relevant correlation of language and thinking, i.e., metalinguistic reflection as the activity of consciousness in comprehending various speech facts.

The section of Political Linguistics is represented by A. V. Alekseev and A. V. Belyaev, who applied the theory of lexical-semantic fields to corpus research of protest movements. E. A. Vdovichenko and V. A. Kameneva described political terminology in news texts aimed at children and teenagers. Both studies reflect a modern scientific view of political language in different types of discourse.

The last two sections feature Fiction Analysis and Literary Theory. I. V. Kuznetsov, S. V. Rudakova, and A. I. Lebedeva analyzed famous works of fiction to clarify some major theoretical issues, e.g., how Alexander Pushkin’s poetic code was interpreted in different film adaptations.

We thank our authors and invite philologists to publish their research results in our Journal.