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Fairy tales have their roots in archaic society and archaic thought, thus immediately succeeding myths. Myths have close connection to their bearers and folktales are ‘displaced’ in time and space. The timelessness of the tale and lack of geographic specificity endow it with utopian connotations. The spatiotemporal indefiniteness, or such a definiteness, which is not characteristic to reality is the most essential feature of the tale genre. The particular construction of fictional space and time, the chronotope, i...

Reminding us of the title of the French author Jean Giono’s novel “Joy of Man’s Desiring” (1936) and Johann Sebastian Bach’s chorale “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”, the author Cornelia Golna has chosen an intriguing name for her first novel which is related to the story of culturally marked individuals, like the Greek girl Theodora Vlachos, the Russian Natalya Petrovna and the American professor John Townsend. Having as major focus the struggle for adaptation to a new life after the Young Turk Revolution, the book ...

The article justifies the classification of professional-business letters for linguodidactic purposes. Discourse analysis of business letters is a way to establish methodically significant features of the texts of this genre and analyze their essence and significance for learning the reception and production of business letters. The features of professional-business letters include their function, subject, composition, social characteristic and communication channel. The performed analysis of 80 texts also allows ...

Cultural linguistics is one of the fast developing fields of modern linguistics which studies different concepts of different property. Gender approach is considered to be the most interesting and important in study of concepts. The aim of this research is to describe important questions of modern concepts and aspect of gender concepts functioning in the Russian picture of the world etymologically connected with the names of fairy creatures (Baba Yaga, Zmey Gorinich, Tsarevna Lyagushka, Fox, etc.). For the sake of...

The article is dedicated to representation of such a characteristic personality trait as intelligence, particularly the image of a clever person shaped and perceived by Russian native speakers. Theoretical grounding for the research is the integration of functional and psycholinguistic approaches. The data were obtained through ???????????? ?????? ???????? ????? (????) ‘Russian National Corpus’ [7]) data (syntagmatic level), dictionaries of modern Russian language (word and phrase levels), two surveys based on con...

It has always been a common place that learning phrasal verbs is the hardest English vocabulary for students. To learn phrasal effectively either on their own or in class, students must be made to elaborate an appropriate approach to deal with the new notion and use it naturally and properly referring to the executive functioning skill of organizing thoughts. As many teachers may know, it takes a lot of experience to present phrasals to students to be accepted in the right and long-term way. To develop own methods...

The article is devoted to intonational patterns of the speech of modern Australian business environment (businessmen, economists) representatives and the dependence of intonation on social characteristics of communicants. In our opinion, this issue is one of important directions of modern linguistics. The target audience of economic discourse has a particular impact on the tonal composition of language. The material of the study included several sources, containing samples of natural speech representing interview ...

As a universal communication tool the English language plays a key role in consolidating and unifying the world community into a sole, integrated information superpower. Due to this phenomenon the English language is extending its geography and implementation areas which include business and interpersonal interaction along with further computerized integration of international relations among various countries worldwide. All these processes condition the inner changes in the language system structure itself, impac...

It is generally accepted that advertising is one of the fundamental issues, which plays an important role in a rapidly globalizing world. Numerous investigations have highlighted that advertising effects processual quality of language and means of communication. The evolution of media language and its peculiarity are determined by its important influence on the national language diversity affecting mainly material, spiritual, economic, political and social development of the society. The research of the advertisin...

Last decades are characterized by an appeal to the text as a way of understanding the person, his aspirations, logic of thinking, value orientations. In this context, the study of the folklore texts, including a people's will, are seem to be extremely valuable. The resistance to its shape and lexical composition, as the content of the small genre is transmitted from generation to generation, respecting the original vocabulary and syntagmatics. The subject of this article is the names of air masses in the Russian a...

This paper presents a description of the main characteristics of the German banking language, especially from the perspective of lexicology. The paper classifies the banking and finance language, which is characterized by the specific lexical features and terms, as a language for special purposes. The banking terminology and other words relating to banking are used in various forms of the internal and external banking communication, such as documents for bank clients, contracts, printed forms or announcements but ...

Comparison of metaphors in various national discourses is one of the most dynamic research areas that aims at unveiling the interplay between the increasing globalization of the metaphorical toolkit and the drive for the preservation of cultural identity and national traditions. We analyzed over 300 publications devoted to the comparative analysis of political metaphors and revealed the following approaches: (1) comparison of original metaphors and translations thereof, (2) parallel comparison of metaphors with a ...

Many factors distort teachers’ assessment and evaluation of students in the process of education. These distorting factors include the phenomenon where teachers stigmatize the varieties students bring from home, and according to my hypothesis during educational assessment students’ performance is judged against this variety even in cases where factual knowledge is to be measured. Therefore, in my research I examine the extent to which students’ vernaculars influence the validity of the evaluation and teachers’ att...

The purpose of this study is to provide a description of the nature of palatalized and nonpalatalized consonants in the Russian and Japanese languages on the basis of comparative-typological studies as well as to characterize the manifestations of Russian-Japanese interference at the speech perception level. The basic research methods are the comparative-typological method, empirical method, generalization of analysis results to identify the phonetic interference, method of phonological oppositions, and rules for ...

The paper discusses baseline principles of education in the sphere of forensic linguistics in Russian Federation on the example of the discipline “Forensic linguistics” which is included into Master’s Degree Program “Applied linguistics” for the students of philological faculties and institutes. The authors present the content of the course, its basic topics, such as a) linguistic expertise – its general characteristics, main methods, the object, goals and the subject; the problem of abuse in linguistic expertise;...

Mental lexicon is a complex system that reflects in a linguistic form the processes of cognition and structuring the surrounding reality. Mental lexicon can be represented in form of a multidimensional network; its structural units are nodes (fragments of information fixed in individual consciousness) and internodal connections (ways of these elements’ interaction). Internodal connections can have different direction and diverse activation levels. The strongest connections are the semantic ones. They form semantic...

The institutionality of discourse as a qualitative parameter of its functioning has already become an axiom for linguists. However, the problem of studying the mechanisms of discourse impact in social practices remains relevant. The instrumental function of discourse is not limited to influence. It is active in the construction of many types of social and interpersonal relationships. What mechanisms and technological programs can control the process of discourse influence? What is the role of event concepts, cogni...

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the preferable qualifications according to the needs of entrepreneur in various careers and Thai Qualifications Framework of Higher Education (TQF). This framework focuses on 5 aspects of learning which are ethical and moral development, acquisition of knowledge, development of cognitive skills, development of interpersonal skills and personal responsibility and development of analytical and communication skills. This exploratory research investigates 55 workplace...

The article tackles the problem of linguistic means that correlate to the cinematic art of montage. Within the research, we focus on linguistic means that make elements of narrative discourse look like a film. The author chiefly draws on Theory of Montage initially developed by N. Utilova and expanded upon by contemporary Russian linguists. The author also relies on the works of R. Richardson’s ‘Literature and film’ (1969), B. Kawin’s ‘Telling it again and again. Repetition in literature and film.’ (1972), J.L. Fe...

The article deals with the problem of semantic relations of definite/indefinite nouns based on the example of the Russian printed mass media. These relations have rich potential for the investigation of this category from the point of cognitive approach. The novelty of the study is in the authors' attempt to represent the frame structure of morpho-syntactic category of definiteness/indefiniteness in the language of modern Russian media texts. The ground for the study of the above mentioned category is in its conce...

In the near-native proficiency stage[26], the oral production of L2 and subsequent speakers is slightly different from the native speaker production, phonetically (foreign “accent”[13], [24]), pragmalinguistically and sociopragmatically[16]. The standard Italian language in the Croatian Istra is a minority language of lesser sociolinguistic prestige and reduced domains of usage[7], [14], [21], [23]. Language contact occurs between Italian, the Istrovenetian dialect, the Croatian standard language and the Chakavian...

Foreign-language education quality improvement demands the search for effective forms, means and methods in teaching foreign languages, including the teaching of a second foreign language. Unlike in schools where teaching a second foreign language started not so long ago, providing language education in higher institutions in Russia, a second foreign language has been taught for a long time, since the middle of the 20th century. Despite this, the specifics of teaching a second foreign language are still not suffic...

This article analyzes taxonomic strategies that are most frequently used in academic medical discourse: classification of objects, identification of their types, groups, species and varieties as well as assignment of objects, processes, states, signs, etc. to a particular classification unit. There are three main types of structural-substantive discourse taxonomic strategies which are observed in academic medical discourse: classification strategies, systematization strategies and typologization strategies. A deta...

In the context of globalization the media have a significant impact on the language. The modern society is characterized by the rapid pace of development in the sphere of literature and art, as well as by scientific discoveries and the uprising of new realities and definitions, linguistic and extralinguistic forms of reflecting the reality. Understanding the language as a part of the culture of any modern society and a primary means of communication cannot but have specific features of mass culture development as ...

The foreign students’ phonetical and graphical adaptation to Romanian is extremely difficult given they belong to some phonetical and phonological systems sometimes totally different from the Latin one, to which Romanian also belongs. The difficulty of adaptation resides not only at the writing level but also at the pronunciation one, uneasy for those who belong to Slavic, Arabian or Asian languages with an obvious differentiation on all language levels. Still, one must notice that due to the knowledge of English,...

The issues of English intonation patterns are a significant part of phoneticians’ research. However, much in this field remains a matter of considerable debate. This can be largely attributed to the multifunctional nature of intonation, as well as the complex emotional and volitional aspects involved. Prosodic arrangement of business speech is a separate topical research issue. The speech of business people is typically characterised by some specific features, including intonation peculiarities, and reflects the s...

Linguopolitical personology is a relatively new field of Russian linguistics, which focuses on the phenomenon of professional linguistic personality in the political sphere. This research discipline helps reveal new facets of homo loquens and contributes to political communication studies, enabling to highlight its discursive and national specificity. The present article reports the results of an analytical review of recent papers on politicians' speech behavior. The objective of the review was to specify basic te...

The article considers the peculiarities of Russian and Turkish etiquette, since it is very often that Turkish students perfectly knowing the Russian grammar and having a good vocabulary find it difficult to communicate with both Russian students and teachers. One may assume that the cause of these difficulties lies in the peculiarities of the national etiquette; in order to reveal these peculiarities, we have performed a comparative analysis of the Russian and Turkish etiquettes. Various examples were taken from d...

In this article we analyse non-verbal behaviours of Russian-speaking respondents who are describing their own experiences of happiness. Non-verbal behaviours include representing gestures of different kinds. The analysis is carried out using a method of cognitive-matrix analysis which is an extension of a method that already exists, but was developed for linguistic data only. We have modified the method to meet the needs of multimodal communication studies so that it allows to analyse both speech and co-speech ges...

This article is based on the theoretic ideas of Kazan linguistic school about syntagmatic relations and describes the syntagmatic relationships of the lexemes meaning “morality” contained in the novels of one of the most shocking and replicable modern writers Sergei Minaev. Realizing the author's intent, Minaev's novels are always a kind of challenge to the conventional wisdom; they seek to provoke the reader's reflection about ongoing social changes, in particular, in terms of moral principles and criteria. The m...

One of the important goals set up by school is the formation of communicative-aesthetic, cognitive and creative abilities of students. Moreover, Russian schools have practically no specialization subjects (apart from the lessons of drawing and singing) aimed at the solution of this problem, hence, the skills and forms of aesthetic understanding the world and aesthetic communication are actively developing in the process of the Russian language studying. In this situation visual texts, namely the reproduction of fi...

Having as a starting point the multiple choice test passed at the beginning of the academic year, the results of the present statistics will underline the fact that the level of knowledge of English in the case of Computer Science from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University is a very good one, ranging from B1 to C2, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The test contains varied multiple choice questions, including vocabulary, reading comprehension and use of English, it has 80 questions to...

The purpose of the research was to study the category of argumentation as a framework for the process of design and transfer of knowledge as mental representations of real world situations, events, etc. to its addressee in discourse-making process. The study was based on the application of the cognitive model of world perception. The analysis of texts on economics from the point of view of their argumentative organization showed argumentation as one of the main categories that organizes the internal cognitive stru...

The paper considers the importance of university students’ socialization via foreign language learning. Young people are destined to make their contribution to the society development at each stage of its progress. To fulfill this task younger generation has to inherit and enrich basic social and intellectual values and gains following the path of socialization. That is why the problem of the current state and the potential development trajectories of the students’ socialization in the educational process based on...

The study is focused on the process of searching bilingual terminology on the Web in the translation process. The experimental data were gathered using computer monitoring (keylogging) and post-translation interviewing. A group of translators was given a short text containing educational terminology with multiple equivalents in the target language. The task was to translate the text with a focus on terminology equivalence and consistency. The computer monitoring data include keyboard activity, a list of Web resour...

The article focuses on pragmatic effects of boulomaic text-worlds as a variety of modal worlds created in advertising discourse. Text-worlds are treated as a type of pragmatically-orientated representational structures of advertising discourse establishing and maintaining relationships between agent and client as main discourse participants. The paper presents an element of a broader World-Modelling Concept [7] – one of the contemporary theories of discourse representation based on Text World Theory initially deve...

The problems of pain diagnosis and treatment through the use of language are really acute all over the world nowadays. The quality of diagnosis and treatment directly depends on a person's ability to accurately define it. Verbal communication is one of the most powerful tools in psychology, and this tool has speech and language specific features. In Russia there is a lack of instruments for the evaluation of pain and other sensations, especially in patients with alexithymia [1] who often have psychosomatic disorde...

The paper studies the features of structure, content and representation means of microfield "natural time" in individual style of I.A. Bunin. Complexes of individual-author's associations that reflect the features of aesthetic cognition of nature phenomena are revealed. Along with the traditional ideas about seasonal changes in nature, there are peculiar signs of the author's style, characterized by psycho-emotional coloring and figuratively descriptive attributes. The image of nature as a national constant of Rus...

The communicative approach in teaching languages presuppose studying the forms of speech etiquette, rules of behavior in everyday life and rules of communication with people of different social groups. Knowledge of the ways to express different illocutionary acts and the ability to use these means is a key to successful communication. The "compliment" is one of the most important categories in the theory of speech acts. The purpose of this study was to describe an illocutionary act "compliment" on Russian language...

One of the urgent problems of modern linguistics is the question of how language picture of the world is reflected in the grammatical level. Traditionally, it is mainly discussed the issues related to lexical semantics. This content vocabulary plan serves as the material for the finding and further study the specific features of the national perception of the world, national thinking. The article throws light upon the omens with the structure of syncretic sentences (transition between simple and complex) in which ...

The paper presents the concept of genres structure in Russian oral scientific communication and is aimed at researching their specific linguistic and extralinguistic features including prosodic aspect of speech. In the frames of the development of pragmalinguistics and the theory of speech genres during the last decades, the concept of “oral scientific (professional) communication” gains the important place in society linguistic life and becomes more and more relevant in studies of academic discourse and public sp...

The theme chosen by us (in this case, learning French language by Russian students of Agro-Technological Institute and Environmental faculty of RUDN University, Moscow) should make an accent on cultural aspects of gardening helping students to solve their life and professional situation, to be integrated into the professional world community. The main theoretical position is the idea that the incorporation of historical and cultural aspects helps to form flexibility and tolerance, and at the same time, self-belief...

The evolution of political metaphorical systems is one of the growing areas of political discourse studies, metaphor being the main mechanism of discourse formation. The authors stress the importance of the diachronic approach for the theory of political metaphor as national systems of political metaphors are constantly developing: each period brings new metaphors and changes national metaphorical systems. The aim of the diachronic analysis is the reconstruction of the historical course whose national systems of p...

The present research is an attempt to analyze a fragment of the language consciousness of the modern youth of Latvia through the prism of the concept “law” in a contrastive aspect. The basic method of the research is a free associative experiment, which involved students whose native language was either Russian or Latvian. Language is one of the ways of forming concepts in the human consciousness. The language situation in Latvia is interesting in socio-political and linguocultural respects. The theory of E. T. Ha...

Social space is heterogeneous; it is represented by a variety of different cultures and subcultures. All the variety of subcultures represented in the modern urban space can be divided into groups, depending on the nature of the prevailing activity linking the members of the subculture. Recently many subcultures related to the use of computers have emerged. The entertainment industry offers a huge variety of computer games to a modern person, which predetermines the number of people involved in this subculture. On...

The author describes the results of the study of language features of communica-tion during the job interview. The material for the study is transcripts of the real inter-views presented in the series "Cadres decide" on the online “UspehTV” channel. Such nomenclature units as official names and ergonyms including job titles and titles of or-ganizations are active lexical markers of speech strategies for recruiters and job seekers. The actualization of the nomenclature vocabulary in the course of oral interaction (...

In our article we would like to dwell on ‘the system typology of languages’ created by the Russian scholar G.P. Mel’nikov. He revealed ‘the internal determinants’ of four morphological types of languages as four internal forms which characterize morphological types of languages selected by V. Humboldt: a situational – incorporating languages (or polysynthetic) (qualitatively) indicative – agglutinative type, eventive – fusional (inflectional) type, occasional – root-insulating (analytical or root-insulating langua...

Diplomatic discourse as a specific type of discourse attracts the attention of many researchers because it quickly reflects global changes in the world community and constructs a special reality. It is obviously that in the era of global world conflicts the correct choice of words in international communication is crucial. The right words can help to solve conflict situations and make peaceful decisions. In another case, a careless word or violation of the rules of a diplomatic protocol and diplomatic ceremonial c...

The article highlights some of the issues of teaching Russian and Tatar languages in the Republic of Tatarstan in the late twentieth and the beginning of XXI century. It is emphasized that the education system in Tatarstan requires special attention to the improvement of bilateral Turkish – Russian and Russian-Tatar bilingualism. The urgency of the problem lies in the fact that in modern conditions of development of bilingualism it is necessary to strengthen attention to language preparation of students, improving...

The article deals with the analysis of modern film review as a genre with particular focus on its structural and linguistic features in the light of the author’s category. Film review being the sub-genre of reviews (theatrical, literary, musical, technical, and many others) is a type of text that combines pure functionality (its primary task is to evaluate and guide) with elements of belle-lettre style, particularly when review focuses on a work of art. Today various types of film reviews are one of the most popul...