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Most current studies in the psycholinguistic analysis of universal values have only focused on the representation of those values in everyday linguistic consciousness. Little attention has been paid to professional linguistic consciousness. This indicates a need to identify the strategies of understanding universal values used by different professional groups as well as the dynamics of linguistic consciousness. Consideration of the contents of the universal value “Safety” is of vital importance for any modern soci...

As journalism is viewed as a source and transporter of the values of the society and “the transfer of knowledge”, the study of its language is crucial when attempting to give a comprehensive analysis of the changes in axiological assumptions of the society concerning migration processes. This paper sets the goal of sorting out the most common communicative strategies used by political writers and analyzes by what language means and tactics they are mostly achieved. More than 200 articles dedicated to the problems ...

Being a multidimensional and complex issue metaphor has been considered frequent in fiction but rare and even non-existent in official discourse by classical books on stylistics for many years. Though many researchers still describe official communication as unemotional different political and business leaders nowadays often use various language ways of making their speeches more expressive including such figure of speech as metaphor. The research analyzes the use of the metaphor in business discourse which is rev...

The aim of our study was to reveal the relationship between visual perception of the painting during free viewing and the following verbalization of the perceived information. Eye movements were recorded while 30 subjects were looking at the classic painting of a genre scene, and then they were asked to compose coherent verbal description of this painting. Comparative analysis revealed strong correlation between distribution and duration of the gaze fixations during free viewing and the following narration. The mo...

The author of the article suggests an analysis of the names of a person in modern Russian from the point of view of words’ structural and semantic features and she made an attempt to separate neostructured words in accordance with their derivational-semantic models, according to which semantic derivation took place. In each model subgroups of nouns (united by the word-formation potential and similar semes) are observed. All neostructured words are examined from the point of view of the basic processes of semantic ...

Investigation of dynamics of language in use, representing an important tendency that contributes to forming of modern predominant approach in linguistic science, meets the cherished objective of solving a wide range of issues arising from the functioning of language, which can be efficiently viewed in the context of cognitive approach. In the theoretical framework of the cognitive paradigm of linguistic researches the cognitive approach in translation, as we opine, is to be profiled through the prism of intertext...

The article is devoted to the problem of prosodic interference in the situation of artificial (classroom) multilingualism which is characterized by interaction of three languages with different prosodic systems. The article reveals how intonational transfer of English special question manifests itself in the speech of students, the bilinguals of the Yakut and Russian languages, who learn English as a foreign language. The results of comparative analysis of English special question, produced by the Yakut-Russian bi...

Paper will shortly define the notion of minority, identify the basic issues of a sense of identity, and clarify the role of language in the maintenance of minorities and their identities. We will ask what the role of language in different state formations is and whether identity maintenance plays a role in the maintenance of minority languages and linguistic diversity. The data are provided as results of a questionnaire survey. The target groups of the research were university students as future intellectuals cons...

The text theme is one of the integral units of the text information space, representing one of the types of text compression. As such information constructs, one can consider the idea of a text, the concept of a text, the meaning of a text- each of them is based on a special method for processing textual information. We believe that the explication of mechanisms for processing information using the above constructs is relevant for modern linguistics. The subject of this article is the explication of mechanisms for...

This article deals with the specific features of medical net discourse. To identify these features, a comparative analysis of literature was made and texts posted on the Internet were also studied. These studies made it possible to identify the following specific features of medical net discourse: its linguo-therapeutic focus (i.e. focus on assistance to patients, prevention or correction of pathological conditions); subjective sphere heterogeneity and targeted openness (different educational background of patient...

Quantitative methods applied to corpus data allow researchers to evaluate the represented results. Statistical association measures are used to evaluate the collocation strength and to produce lists of most plausible collocations. Such information about words’ collocability supplied with statistical data can be used in many areas of computational and applied linguistics. The paper deals with the description of an integrated Russian collocations database that will contain automatically extracted collocations evalua...

The article discusses the history of the emergence of axiology as a science, the interrelation of axiology and culturology, describes the basic terms and concepts of linguistic and cultural axiology; in particular the problem of values is discussed from the perspective of the approaches existing in cultural studies and linguistics. The author analyses the linguistic status of the value and evaluation categories and examines the expression of axiological meanings in language. The aim of the study is to examine the ...

The article deals with alien linguistic phenomena as one of the actual and poor studied aspects of the Tundra Yukaghir language spoken by people of the exremely small ethnic group in Yakutia, Russia. Available statistics as a result of the analysis of a corpus allows detecting over nine hundred lexical units transferred to Yukaghir from Koryak, Chukchi, Evenki, Evens, Yakut and Russian languages. Moreover, Yukaghir borrowed some affixes that assist in word-formation and inflection. The author describes the peculia...

The purpose of this research is to study English language learning autonomy of the tertiary students with English major, faculty of humanities and social sciences, Suan Sunanda Rajabhat University. The sample of the study consists of 261 English major students (freshmen n = 74, 28%, sophomore n = 71, 27%, junior n = 67, 26%, senior n = 49, 19%) The data collection includes distributing the questionnaire the students. Mean and standard deviation are applied to analyze the data. These statistics work on the assumpti...

In the paper two different models describing distribution and change of the linguistic information in some Indo-European communities are considered: nonlinear dynamic system model and the wave model described by system of the integral-differential equations. Within the frames of these models numerical research of distribution of the linguistic information has been carried in some Indo-European language community, including the initial stage of its formation. We take into consideration two main hypotheses: Anatolia...

Throughout the life people have always been treated with care and caution to such phenomena as thunder storm. This fact associated with that person in a long time could not explain the nature of these phenomena. However, these acoustic and optical phenomena formed the basis of many people's predictions. The authors of this article explored the question of the main characteristics to which attention in the preparation of the forecast was drawn. It is established that the frequency response is the first thunderstorm...

The research objective is in revealing thematic affiliation of standards of stable comparisons, motivation of comparison, the importance of these units in the Russian language consciousness according to questioning of native speakers, as well as to investigate features of their functioning in the modern Russian speech. The analysis of Russian language units was carried out against the background of kindred and not kindred languages. To achieve the goal, the authors have identified the structure of standards of the...

The article addresses the issue of implementation of innovative technologies in the field of language-and-humanities education offered to the technical degree students, as well as the new trends in education available to the young specialists of the 21st century. The new technologies and strategies of teaching a foreign language are offered and explained. The strategies tested in practice are demonstrated via five additional educational modules that are geared towards the educational (linguo-culturological) prepar...

The article deals with phonetic characteristics of Georgian language islands, embedded in Tsovatush (Bats) matrix language. Research focus is on phonetic processes in relation to the stages of bilingualism. Phonetic production of code switching is paid less attention by the scholars, comparing with other domains of the language. Previous studies have generally examined segmental features of code switching, recent researches deal also with suprasegmental level, but phonetic processes have remained relatively unstud...

The purpose of the present article is to meditate on the teaching methods used in the two faculties where our teaching takes place (at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University and at George Enescu National University of Arts from Ia?i), based on ongoing evaluation, entrance and final tests, didactic activities during the last four academic years (2013-2017), insisting on the specific methods used for addressing students in a scientific and humanistic approach.

Collocation extraction is a prominent task in natural language processing, its results are important in various areas of applied linguistics. The research focuses on a comparison between seven statistical measures based on the large Russian ruTenTen corpus. The paper examines the bigrams with a number of Russian high-frequency nouns that were extracted by the given measures. The analysis is organized in two ways. First, we ranked the lists of bigrams obtained by each measure and evaluated the results against the R...

The present study is devoted to those Arabic verbs whose roots are not traditional for Arabian morphology by three-part ones, but have either one more consonant or one less consonant in the root. Together with their few derivatives, they form an obvious vocabulary minority, but this is only quantitative, since it is an inalienable, frequency, replenished and most expressive lexical layer of modern Arabic. Quite the contrary, it is of great research interest to consider verbs with such roots from the point of view ...

The article researches the question of extralinguistic factors and the role they play in the development and functioning in the ancient Russian language. This research presents special importance and significance when studying original pieces of art of the ancient Russian literature and chronicles as well. In the article language characteristics of the “The Tale of Bygone Years” and “The Novgorod First Chronicle” are compared. The choice of language means such as lexical, word building and syntactical ones and pec...

The article is focused on studying phonetic peculiarities of economic discourse of New Zealand English. The topic seems to be understudied and is extremely important due to the special status of this national variety of the English language: the progress of its pronunciation system was highly influenced by a number of extralinguistic factors – historic, cultural, territorial, socio-economic and socio-political. The issues of phonetic, intonational and prosodic arrangement of speech in the framework of business com...

The present work is devoted to the problem of functional systemity of the English discourse in terms of linguosynergetics, which presents a dynamic and systemic approach to the language and speech analysis. The objective of the work is to reveal the functional properties of different means of expression of possessiveness in the process of formation of possessive meanings and modification of the discursive functional space. The reasons for special attention to possessive nominations in the English discourse are qui...

The article reviews some similarities of the present tense categories in the indicative mood in two unrelated languages. Unrelated languages (for example, French and Japanese), remotely related (French and Russian), close related (French and Spanish), variations of one language (French language in France and Canada), different stages of one language (modern French and Old French languages) can be an object of comparative and typological linguistics. In our article, we consider similarities of the present tense cat...

The object of the study is specific language means used in internet communication of foster parents. The main aim of the investigation is to reveal peculiarities of language representation of the topic “bringing up an adopted child” in internet discourse messages dedicated to the problems of foster family and adoption. Russia pursues the politics of rising of popularity of adoption, i.e. an idea to bring up children deprived of parents care in families and not in specialized institutions. That is the reason in tur...

The paper provides a construction grammar perspective to identifying meaning of prepositions in Russian. It describes performance of an interpreter uncovering meanings of prepositions in “master” — preposition — “slave” constructions. In contrast to the classical linguistic methodology focusing on the simplest units of different language levels, modern studies practice synthetic methods trying to catch and describe language structures which integrate different language units: words, collocations, etc. Construction...

On the material of two speeches pronounced by two Spanish Kings with 39 years interval there is made an attempt to analyze their discourse, to compare its pragmatic, syntactic and lexical value. The speeches are discussed as cross-discourse what gives us certain possibility to reveal a special discourse genre. paper also deals with a problem of royal speech, more precisely, with speeches of two monarchs – father and son, Juan Carlos de Borbón and Felipe VI. The speeches of the two monarchs were delivered on the sa...

Stereotypic ideas about social characteristics of a person have universal and nationally specific features. The research objective was in revealing stereotypic ideas of the one who is considered ‘a successful person’, ‘a successful man’ and ‘a successful woman’ in the Russian linguistic culture against the background of the Chinese one. To achieve this goal, a questionnaire was submitted to young and middle-aged people, speakers of Russian and Chinese languages with higher education. The survey involved 76 Russian...

At the Kazan Federal University annually study the Russian language a few hundred Chinese students. In the article the authors consider the project as one of the most effective forms of training, the Chinese trainees Russian as a foreign language at an advanced stage of training (B2). The urgency of the problem is that students come with a weak level of Russian language proficiency, lack of skills of free communication in Russian, and teachers will have very short time to improve their level of proficiency. The ai...

The research purpose is to propose a model for developing the sociocultural competence of profession-oriented text translators as part of translator professional competence. For this purpose, an analysis was made of the specifics of sociocultural competence of profession-oriented text translators in order to redefine the concept of “sociocultural competence of profession-oriented text translators” and consider the content of the proposed model for forming this competence. Based on the cognitive approach, the autho...

The article describes the positive experience in preserving and developing the Tatar language in computer technologies. Two main directions for fundamental and applied research are represented: localization of computer technologies for the Tatar language, and developing linguistic resources and NLP for the Tatar language. The first direction implies creating technical and terminological standards for language representation in computer technologies. The second direction involves the development of new electronic l...

The region of Latgale historically has existed as a multicultural region, where one of the most important spheres is connected to the Jewish culture and history. Members of other ethnic groups form their own system of views about the world of Jews, with positive or negative connotations, based mostly on stereotypes. Historically these views transform, leaving behind traces in the world view. The aim of the paper is to research one of the linguistic world view spheres of Latgale inhabitants that is connected to the...

The article’s focus is to evaluate language education in terms of formation of multilingualism as one of the factors of successful internationalization. The questions of language education are discussed in the article as well as the modern language policy of the Republic Sakha (Russia) has been considered and the activities implemented at the University level are evaluated. The research was conducted on the base of state policy documents analysis, reports on modern position of Russia in the international market of...

The article performed from the position of psycholinguistic school gives the full and detailed analysis of similarities and differences of the dynamics of modern family images exciting in the language consciousness of Russian students. Persistent interest to this problem is caused by anthropocentric focus of modern science and understanding that a person lives in the changing social and economic conditions that steadily find reflection in all spheres of life. A person perceives and fixes the world in his conscious...

The lexical-semantic group of nouns with the metaphorical meaning of quantity in English and Russian is characterized in the article from the viewpoint of connotational markedness. The study uses the method of dictionary definitions, the method of continuous sampling, the method of componential analysis, the method of contrastive analysis, the descriptive method. Relying on the analysis the author identifies that the studied group is heterogeneous: some lexemes are neutral, and others are connotationally marked. T...

The modern society is characterized by multilingualism. The English language as a language of international communication cannot be considered as the only linguistic tool of interpersonal and professional relations. More and more people realize the importance of the knowledge of two or more foreign languages. That explains the students’ interest to learning a second foreign language. The paper presents the experience of the Department of Foreign Languages, Institute of Law, RUDN University in teaching German as a ...

This paper gives an analysis of national and cultural colour semantics in Yakut phraseology. The object of the study are phraseological units that have a colour component in their composition. The research topic is chosen due to the understudied Yakut phraseological units and the need to study the national specifics of the Yakut language worldview through a colour prism. This will allow us to apply the obtained results when reading lecture courses on linguoculturology, comparative lexicology, intercultural communi...

The study is devoted to the pragmatic meaning of environmental terms in French within texts on agricultural technologies. The intention to introduce neologisms has been analyzed and ways to update environmental terms in speech at different levels of communication have been discussed: in particular, within the expert community of specialists in agriculture (scientific publications); in communication of experts with decision-makers (administrative documents, reports, requests); in texts addressed to consumers (popul...

In modern society, the trend toward the spiritual impoverishment of a person, indifference, lies is firmly established. Meanwhile, it is well known the word has a moral nature. As a consequence, the study of language units with the projection on the moral principle is associated with the idea of the necessity of strengthening the spiritual foundations of the modern person, of a native speaker. Language, in turn, determines a person belonging to a particular national culture, which is reflecting his mental and mora...

In terms of linguistic exploration, the language of advertising has been thoroughly studied. Advertising as a form of communication in contemporary societies is discussed in its social and cultural context which is inseparable from the language itself. Although the visual in advertising has gained the supremacy nowadays, the language still has the important part as far as the impact of the advertisement’s message on the consumers is concerned. Regarding that, the research objective in this textual analysis is to o...

Both now and always people use verbal aggressiveness to achieve personal, social and professional goals. There are a lot of examples of different methods, tactics, means and strategies of inter-professional communication within pragmalinguistic approach. Staff members are confronted increasingly with verbal aggressiveness. Aggression at the workplace may either be caused internally by colleagues or by external persons not belonging to the company: clients, visitors, suppliers. Aggression is a very strong emotion, ...

The role of language is difficult to overestimate as it is the main tool of communication, both written and oral. Language ensures historical diversity. It is an important part of identity and can be observed as “a social event” (Mikhail Bakhtin). National cultures are best embodied through languages. Losing a language therefore means a loss of historical and social richness, as well as traditional values. Preservation of language provides tradition and continuity. Attitudes to language have changed over the centu...

The purpose of research is to study the linguacultural peculiarities of British national variant of English basing on the material of economic discourse. The methods include functional and pragmatic analysis of speech of representatives of economic and financial business circles. The major findings are that British economic discourse reflects such features of British mentality as evasiveness, ritualized nature, conventionality, individualism. The peculiarities of the national culture explain the tendency of the Br...

The metalinguistic project launched at Kazan Federal University is aimed at solving the actual problem of complex informatization of Russian linguistics in general and Russian lexicography in particular, as well as at creation of optimal conditions for the elaboration of various types of language references (dictionaries). The most perspective and effective direction of information support for linguistics is the creation of comprehensive corpora which provide the possibility to accumulate, optimally structure, rep...

The United Arab Emirates today is the country which demonstrates successful coexistence of different cultures, languages, traditions and religions. The unique situation in the region is characterized by linguistic diversity from one side and its fast development from the other. This article examines the peculiarities of the linguistic situation in the region in the historical perspective, as well as possible tendencies of its development are predicted. The key aspect of the topic is the study of the role and statu...

The paper identifies the discursive strategies which shape the migrant identity in Croatia. Within such a concept, discourse is seen as a linguistic fact, an area of the social power manifestation and the ideological tool of (de)legitimation. Because of the need for identifying the ways of the construction of migrant identity and the structure of the social images (ideologies) of that vulnerable group, the emphasis is on the analysis and the problem of discourse control and changes of the migrant perception in Cro...

Role played by political communication is hard to overstate today. Issues of power and authority are discussed openly within any social order built on the principles of transparency and democracy. Hence, solutions to a number of political problems largely depend on the adequacy of their linguistic interpretation. As a genre of political discourse, election discourse represents a type of communication marked by a high level of manipulation due to a number of reasons. That is why is seems important to single out the...

In the given article the socio-cultural aspects of learning English as a foreign language are viewed. By taking a socio-cultural approach to vocabulary teaching strategies the authors argue that social mobility, globalization, and the Internet cause changes in pronunciation, orthography, grammar as well as vocabulary. As over 1400 entries from all around the world have been published in the Open Dictionary during 2016, it spawned Brexit-inspired forms (flexit, Nexit, Quitaly, Scexit); social media (virtue signalin...