This book is dedicated to *oberegs*—magical means of protecting an individual and their world from danger. Drawing upon the pan-Slavic tradition, it presents—for the first time—a comprehensive model of the *obereg*, describing its semantics and the specific forms of its manifestation in ritual texts, actions, objects, and ceremonies; it also provides an analysis of the pragmatics of the verbal...

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The 'Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases' contains over 17,000 common loan words and expressions, as well as words which are formed from loan words. Each entry contains detailed commentary and information about the word's origin. The dictionary contains the newest loan words which have entered Russian within the past 10-15 years. There is a special section devoted to 'catch phrases,'...

'The Dictionary of Correct Speech' contains words which are often used incorrectly in written and oral speech. The dictionary will help you determine stress and pronunciation of several difficult consonant clusters, correctly create grammatical forms, and truly construct a phrase. There are around 85,000 words and more than 400 commentaries, which explain difficult aspects of the Russian...

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