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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. Co...

Many factors distort teachersВ’ 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 studentsВ’ 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 studentsВ’ vernaculars influence the validity of the evaluation and teachersВ’...

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...

The paper deals with academic discourse as a process and product in the higher education institutions, with focus on academic writing. The introductory part of the paper contains the literature review of the linguistic background to the topic of academic writing, in particular approaches in Slovak, British, and American sources. The features and genres of academic discourse are discussed from theoretical and practical aspects, and the need for developing learnersВ’ knowledge and skills in this area is justified. T...

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 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...

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...

Introduction. A significant percentage of children (i.e., 5 to 8%) may present a significant language delay and/or impairment (Tomblin et al. 1997) which is not directly linked to any intellectual or cognitive disability. In such cases, children receive a diagnosis of Primary Language Impairment (PLI). Considering these numbers, it is extremely important to have reliable batteries of tests suitable to characterize and quantify such linguistic impairments in affected children. To the best of our knowledge, however,...

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 ...

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 this article is to identify the difficulties of written medical discourse genres that may be encountered by a medical discourse translator and should be introduced to the intended translators in this field. For this purpose, a survey of professional translators was conducted to identify the most common genres of medical discourse which they encounter in their professional activities. It resulted in the following list of medical discourse genres: instruction for medical use, case history, medical dru...

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.

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 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...

This article is dedicated to the study of water archetype in the poetic texts of the Silver Age. The paper presents a theory of the study of the concept “archetype”. Philosophers, linguists and psychologists have been interested in a matter of what an archetype is for a long time The majority of scientists agree that an archetype is an archaic phenomenon, which manifests itself in myths and folklore. Special attention in the article has been given to the distinction between the linguistic and artistic metaphor...

The foreign studentsВ’ 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 following article is devoted to structural, semantic characteristics of brands and trade mark nominations. The linguistic pragmonim status is not accurately defined because itВ’s a periphery class in proper name space (onomastics). The purpose of the research is to examine the trademark function in Russian mental space. The selection of study material is caused by methodology and a technique of the analysis. We use the interpretive method to identify the general linguistic and onomastic concepts, the formalizi...

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...

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 ...

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 ???????????? ?????? ???????? ????? (????) В‘Russian National CorpusВ’ [7]) data (syntagmatic level), dictionaries of modern Russian language (word and phrase levels), two surveys based on c...

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 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...

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 probl...

The report describes effective and non-effective communication tactics that implement a basic communicative strategy of the main communicant (tourism manager) a persuasion strategy. The specific nature of verbal reasoning strategy is determined in comparison with a persuasion strategy. The response (reactive) actions of the passive communicant - a client of the travel agency - are presented. A comprehensive analysis of cooperative and confrontational strategies using methods of interpretation and description, gene...

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 authorВ’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 popu...

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 ...

{{The aim of the present study}} is to trace the logic of selection and the specificity of the actualization of the names of professions as a basis of comparison (the component, to which something is compared) on the Russian and Latvian literary material. {{The material of the study}} is the comparisons used by two chronologically and thematically related writers – Anna Brigadere (1861 – 1933) and Ivan Shmelev (1873 – 1950). The Latvian writer and playwright A. Brigadere surprisingly actively introduces comp...

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 paper considers the importance of university studentsВ’ 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 studentsВ’ socialization in the educational process based ...

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...

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...

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 Revolutio...

The author of the article suggests an analysis of the names of a person in modern Russian from the point of view of wordsВ’ 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...

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...

It is difficult to translate the poem by Heinrich Heine "Lorelei" due to its special intonation and fine sense. Despite of this, many translators nowadays have tried their hand to deliver all the beauty of this poem to the Russian language. The actuality of this work is in the fact that a lot of attention in linguistics is paid to stylistic means which open up the poems, and many translators are interested in complete translation of stylistically painted devices in their works. The aim of this work is to identify ...

The object of the given study, which defines the topic of our research, is the discursive creolized metaphor as a cognitive key to decoding a semiotically complicated (polycode) text. The present-day scholars focus on the problem of correlation of signs of different semiotic systems and different codes, which leads to the appearance of the term “the creolized (or polycode) text”. The creolized text is a text with a complex form combining elements of two or more different semiotic systems that, being interconne...

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 perceptive image of a concept, according to I. A. Sternin, reflects both the way a concept is perceived by an individual with any of the five senses and the result of such perception. It appears that with regard to the concept “Body” the results of perception are objectified somewhat differently than the results of perception of other concepts. This is due to the fact that the body in this case is perceived (as an object of perception) and perceives (with the organs of perception) at the same time. Thus, w...

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...

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 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 studentsВ’ 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...

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 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...

The paper analyses the functions of modern media in the situation of information confrontation. It shows that the media may play an increasingly destructive role exacerbating political conflicts between nations creating negative stereotypes of opponents and even demonizing them. Manipulation of public opinion, which has become an important function of the media, is getting more explicit and takes more aggressive forms. As aggression in the media discourse can be performed by both verbal and non-verbal means, we of...

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 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...

Senior education, which has its specific features, is becoming one of the priorities in the present era of ageing of population, especially in Europe. Different kinds of courses are offered to seniors by so called Universities of the Third Age which have been established in the Czech Republic. Courses in foreign languages belong to the most popular and most demanded ones. Teaching at courses in foreign languages offered to seniors has to be adapted to the specific features of adult learners but it also cannot igno...

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...

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 ...

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...