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Today society feels urgent need for the experts knowing one or several foreign languages both within daily communication and in the professional sphere in view of rapid process of globalization and informatization of society. Actively developing in the European countries the theory of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and only starting its movement the process of integration of professional disciplines and foreign languages in Russian higher education is considered as a necessary condition for traini...

Context. Nowadays an increasing number of students are heading to professional sports; at the same time, many students are not engaged in leisure physical activities, which is a serious alarm signal for the health of young populations and for sports. The aim of this study is to determine the bio-motric potential of secondary school students, rural and urban residents, on the assumption that Body Mass Index (BMI) is an indicator of health and it can also indicate the possibility that subjects with healthy weight ac...

Due to the existing disproportions in the current ecological and economic condition of the territories within the Arctic zone, high supply of natural resources in the continental and off-shore Arctic areas, ecological fragility of Arctic ecosystems, as well as the need to respect the rights of indigenous peoples, it is necessary to implement differentiated approach when selecting scenarios for strategic development and management. This study examines the economic and mathematical models for the development of the ...

The article raises the problems associated with the abundance of information in the modern prefigurative society, and also formulates the main methodological tasks facing the teacher today, namely: (1) to carefully select educational material, i.e., what must necessarily enter the students’ “knowledge base”; (2) to structure this database in terms of the significance of its contents; and (3) to find cost-effective ways of supplying information. Having substantiated the conclusion that the modern generation is radi...

The article is devoted to research on epigraph and its function in a fictional text. The epigraph-text interactions may be of great importance for decoding the meanings of both. The epigraph is reported to perform a dialogic, a structuring and an informative function in the text, the latter function introducing two types of information: subjective and content-related. While the subjective information is mainly about the author of the text, the content-related information is considered to fall into factual (develop...

At present, the patients' safety is the key parameter of quality of health care provided. Falls of hospitalized patients constitute the most frequently reported accidents in health care facilities. A fall may occur for different reasons, e.g. due to weakness or balance disorder, sudden change of health condition, sight disorder, effects of medicines, slipping due to unsuitable shoes, disorientation in unknown environment. The prevention of falls constitutes the base of nursing care for a fall-endangered patient. E...

Literary proper names (poetonyms) are universal functional-semantic word signs intended for individualizing and characterizing single objects of artistic reality in the space of literary texts. The semantic-stylistic potential of onomastic units within a literary text is enormous, making them both a significant means of interpretation and an important constructive element of a literary text involved in the processes of text production and meaning-making. Poetonyms become an essential means of text construction, po...

The current age is characterized by the leadership of professional as well as layman discussions about the nature and importance of education, about its quality and direction as one of the most important premises for the creation of a knowledge society. Issues related to raising the level and quality of university education are gradually coming to the forefront. Regarding this, it is important to emphasize that the main purpose of university education is to increase the knowledge, cultural, scientific, technical a...

Developing intercultural communication competencies in the process of teaching business communication at multicultural workplaces requires competent planning and execution of training programs. This is to enable participants to become efficient users of language and skills in international contexts. Therefore, a variety of ways to develop their international skills and competencies during their studies need to be employed in classrooms. This especially applies to the in-house corporate training settings where need...

The article deals with a specific form of organizing and providing the information in the sphere of business, in particular, presentation. In the article the author focuses on a communication strategy – this is a term which unveils the principles of speech organizing from the viewpoint of rhetoric and pragmatics. The author, in the article, considers specific rhetorical techniques, which arrange these means so as to enhance the entire quality of a speech by expressing the key ideas and producing a certain logical ...

The article explores lexical-semantic and functional aspects of intercultural professional communication from the perspective of opposing identities exposed in the context of professional communicative exchange effectuated by people of various national backgrounds. In an age of multiculturalism, peoples’ linguistic identity goes hand in hand with their mentality, which is why the study also considers professional language as a component of both general linguistic system and a type of social dialect. For the purpos...

The article is devoted to the first literary texts of the Khanty written language of L.P. Vologodskiy “Matve? elta jemy? a?kol-jastypsa” (Sacred legends of Matthew in the Obdorsk dialect, 1868), the publication is available at http:// lingvodoc.ispras.ru/dictionary/1167/4/perspective/1167/5/view?page=1, I. Egorov, I. Popov "????? ???????” (Sacred History, 1900), available at http:// lingvodoc.ispras.ru/dictionary/902/27/perspective/902/28/view and A.A. Dunin- Gorkavich "??????-???????-????????i? ??????????i? ?????...

The article analyses advertising discourse with an emphasis on the pragmatic properties of Russian language units belonging to different levels of the language system. The author focuses on the rhetoric impacts made by advertisements on the potential customer. To this end methods of functional linguistics are applied to advertising samples in Russian (given in transliteration and translated into English). Within this framework units of the phonetic, lexical and syntactic levels of the Russian language are under an...

The article is devoted to the research of woman names in the phrasicon of Russian linguoculture. The topicality of the study is determined by the effort to bring into sharp focus the specific features of the analyzed phraseological semantic group in Russian phrasicon. The scientific novelty lies in consideration of the Russian phraseological woman names in different aspects – structural-semantic, functional-stylistic and linguocultural. In the article a classification of the phraseological group units is presented...

The paper focuses on modeling the macrostructure of discourse-world of the political event as derived from G20 Leaders’ Declaration and publications united by the theme of 2017 summit. The purpose of the authors is to reveal basic macroframes that are viewed as cognitive ‘pillars’ of discourse world of one of the most crucial political events of the past year – international forum for economic cooperation. The notion of discourse world macrostructure draws on World-Modelling Theory initially inspired by Text-World...

In the given article, the lexical units associated with the umbrella concept “clothes” in medieval Germany and its further development in idioms are considered as the material under study. The purpose of the work is to trace the influence of the concept “clothes” on the changes in the lexical composition of the language. According to the authors, this topic is studied insufficiently and may be of interest for further research, with a view to a more detailed understanding of the constituent components of idioms. Th...

Problems of studying dependence of cognitive processes on language, the concept of language as a key to understanding thinking and knowledge, to solving problems of modern life are presented in the article. The explication of main approaches to the study language philosophy of the twentieth century, analysis of language problems, which received an insignificant degree of researchers’ reflexion, is discussed. The authors considered attempts to explain the complexity of modern life through the study of language, inv...

The article deals with the topic of the mobility of socially excluded Roma women. It is aimed at analyzing how mobility can work as a reaction strategy of solving social exclusion and the related poverty. The topic is based on the theories describing space mobility as motivation for improvement of life conditions, particularly in case of poverty. The study was implemented by the qualitative research strategy, the method of questioning and the technique of biographic-narrative interview. The research set consisted ...

The elaborate treatment of the issues as the role of ethnic information as well as other information, the contexts of the use of ethnos names – ethnonyms in mass media products, the linguistic presentation of ethnic positive / negative data, their influence on consciousness of information consumers and their functions in press media of any country is considered very topical. Since the role of mass media along with other factors in giving corresponding or conflicting characteristics to interethnic and intercultural...

The purpose of this article is to identify the main speech characteristics that mark the British linguistic identity in business discourse. The authors analyze the concept of linguistic identity, determine the role of the identification of business representatives with ethnic, professional, political groups, identify speech markers of linguistic identity. For the analysis of speech characteristics methods of functional-pragmatic analysis, continuous sampling and contextual analysis were applied. The material of th...

The relevance of the subject and the research problem is conditioned by the following needs: (1) in the sociocultural context, to convincingly substantiate the pedagogical effectiveness of the dialogue system of higher professional education; (2) in the theoretical context, to substantiate the dialogical organics of pedagogical discourse, the methodological provisions of the dialogue concept of education, and radically revise the educational goals and results of training professional managers in the face of increa...

The article presents research outcomes of the strategies and ways used to encode predicative possession in two vernaculars of Khanty: in the Kazym dialect and the Tegi subdialect of Kazym. Data for analysis – 54 texts totaling in 4112 sentences – have been elicited mainly from the text corpus of West Khanty dialects. The present study of possessive constructions in Kazym dialects is conducted within the methodology of the functional theory of grammar. In Kazym and Tegi, three predictive constructions for coding po...

This article presents the results of a study on the user-generated content and online behavior of political group activists within Facebook's Russian speaking cohort, during the pre-election period. The material comprises 365 politically active groups (as at December 2017 - January 2018), with 496 active users as a core. An interdisciplinary approach was used to gather, refine and classify the data, while psycholinguistic and communicative analysis was adopted to analyze the content. The outcome of the research re...

The aim of the study was to identify the professional public`s opinion of general public`s health literacy and approach to their own health. A quantitative method using a non-standardized questionnaire was chosen to meet this aim. This questionnaire was based on the standardized questionnaire called The HLS-EU-47 of the HLSEU Consortium for the European Health Literacy Survey (HLS-EU), which is designed for the identification of health literacy. The questionnaire contained 38 questions arranged in individual areas...

This article describes a massive open online course (MOOC) for foreign doctors and pharmacists. Related literature sources show that MOOCs are a form of e-learning based on open (public) Internet courses using electronic educational multimedia content, interactive user communication and support of the community of teachers, assistants and students, with massive participation of the latter. The structure of the MOOC “Russian for foreign doctors” has includes: organizational, informationtraining, training-practical,...

Self-identification of young people essentially determines their life priorities, frequently preventing their harmonious socialization in the development of their life competencies. Hence, timely diagnosing attitudes may help to identify key problem fields in the perception of the personality, but also to create basis for the alignment of optimum ways of its full integration into society. In this regard the inherent extensive potential lies in the methods of linguistic diagnosing that are not perceived by young pe...

Business communication in English is getting more highlighted in the globalized context, as the English language spreads as the most dominant lingua franca in international business settings. While the volume of studies focused on business communication in various disciplines continues to increase, new strands of research emerge; some approaches are going out of focus. To improve our understanding and offer a more realistic picture of the field of business communication in English, we examined promising trends in ...

The article deals with the issues of professional communication directly related to the psychological problem of perceiving the outside world and, hence, to the linguistic world-image (LWI), which is already present in the mind of an individual. This fully applies to the professional linguistic world-image (PLWI). The authors propose a description of the PLWI as a system, structure this system and analyze its components and their interrelations. A necessary and sufficient set of skills and abilities is determined ...

Headlines, which are generally more available to readers than articles, were analyzed from the following media: BBC, The Economist, Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Independent, and The Guardian on the general topic “Education”, - basically, from the linguistic perspective. It was found that newspaper headlines tend to be longer (10-11 words, on average; and certain headlines reach the length of 17-19 words), incorporate direct speech and reporting clauses, and have the form of...

The article highlights the notion of synergism as applied to speech/discourse in terms of functional linguistics. The term ‘synergism’ denotes the ability of self-organising open systems (language and speech included) to combine elements in such a way that their overall effect exceeds pure linear addition of components. This non-linearity is inherent in speech, as the general sense of a text does not usually equal to a mechanically obtained sum of its units semantics. From the angle of functional linguistics, syne...

In this article the importance of listening skills in effective communication for language students is discussed and the benefits of using audiovisual materials in the teaching of English-as-a-second and foreign-language (ESL/EFL) are considered. To show the effective use of audio podcasts in teaching English for specific purposes a representative sample of undergraduate students of the Degree in Landscape Architecture Education were selected for the study. Data was gathered by means of questionnaires and intervie...

In recent years, some Russian scientific journals have noted that interest in texts and literature in general written in the language of the metropolis is becoming more and more actual, in particular, in foreign linguistics (English linguistics), the scientific interest in the so-called 'Contact Literature'. A well-known American scientist of Indian origin, the author of the term 'contact literature' Braj B. Kachru writes: "Language changes as a result of the contact of languages are not limited to grammar, vocabu...

Background: The number of foreigners living in the Czech Republic amounts to about 4-5% of the population (i.e. 493 000 persons by 31. 12. 2016, Czech Statistical Office, 2018). The largest numbers consist of persons from Poland, Ukraine, Vietnam, Slovakia, Germany and Russia. The generation of immigrants above 50 years of age is an interesting and diverse group of persons who are often perceived as seniors and face ageism in different areas of life. The generation of foreigners of that age constitutes a group of ...

This paper examines cognitive structures of the selected proverbs in three languages as well as outlines their semantic and pragmatic aspects. Taking into account their rich cultural context and the ability to reflect the way knowledge and experience are processed and conceptualized, proverbs and their modern modifications are of interest to cognitive linguistics. The comparison of metaphoric models in three languages reveals the coincidence of the cognitive mechanism though cultural scripts tend to vary, but not ...

The article is focused on social work with persons after brain damage. A brain damage caused both by a disease or by an injury constitutes a problem in the whole society. The coverage of follow-up care for persons after brain damage and for their families, provided by social service organizations, is often difficult particularly from the perspective of availability, quality of financial demandingness of such services. The motive to research this issue consisted in the assumption that people after acquired brain da...

Intensified by poly-cultural space of translation, specific nature of scientific discourse, which increasingly invokes the phenomenon of intertextuality, precondition special relevance of cognitive text forming mechanisms aimed at ensuring scientific text perception and comprehension in what concerns semiotic and functional potential thereof. The aim of this study is to consider the intercorrelations between cognitive and linguistic structures of the medical concept “BoNTA naïve injections” within scientific infor...

The paper presents the results of a study of pejoration as a frequency type of evaluative statements in contemporary Russian media discourse. It is stated that the language means for expressing pejorative meanings have different level characteristics: they are heterogeneous, can express a different degree or intensity of negativity, and form a semantic field of pejorativity in the Russian language. In this work, the following research methods were used: descriptive analysis, continuous sampling, contextual analysi...

The research of interethnic interaction in the educational environment is especially relevant given the global academic mobility processes. The universities all over the world enroll international applicants - representatives of different nationalities and ethnic groups, and this tendency is growing. In view of the above, the fundamental problem of the efficient collaboration of the representatives of different nationalities in global universities is highly pertinent. The article focuses on the analysis of the spe...

This article is a contribution to the discussion and analysis of the law-students’ English language writing skills necessary for effective legal analysis. This paper covers some linguistic issues of lawyer’s writing skills developed at law-students studying English at the Institute of Law, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University). The actuality and relevance of this paper is based on the need for adequately prepared lawyers competent to write a speech and various types of legal documents. The goa...

Introduction Between 2010 – 2013 there were 255 478 patients with brain stroke in the Czech Republic (app. 2% from the Czech population). According to the WHO, in 2012 (the latest data) 6,7 million people all over the world died from stroke in 2012 (which represent 11,9 % of all deaths) – it can be called a silent [1]. This study is aimed at Coordinated Rehabilitation for people after brain stroke and it is supported by the Grant Agency of the University of South Bohemia (reg. No. 138/20146/S) with topic “Coordina...

The present study is referred to the necessity to provide a complex analysis of the language identity of British people in order to create the most influential and persuasive text based on the linguistic as well as extralinguistic factors involved in the process of the language identity formation together with the choice of speech strategies and tactics of their implementation that are able to have the most dramatic impact on British people and persuade them to perform some kind of actions. The relevance of this t...

The purpose of this article is to theoretically substantiate the project methodology for teaching students of medical specialties and its practical application at Russian lessons. At the Department of the Russian Language of the Medical Institute of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, students, together with teachers of the Russian Language Department, developed creative projects. The experiment was conducted in two groups of students. The first group used the project methodology in the classroom, and th...

It is common knowledge that intonation is not laid over a ready text. On the contrary, intonation forms and accompanies the text on the level of its birth in the speaker’s mind. As a result, intonation plays one of the fundamental roles in the process of transferring a thought into external speech. Intonation structure can highlight the semantic significance of textual elements and become a ranging mark in understanding the information structure of the text. Intonation functions by means of prosodic characteristic...

Using Unreal Engine 4 in linguistics to create standalone educational applications Creating customized standalone applications is one of the current trends in business that also started to have its influence on the sphere of education. It offers a large variety of opportunities to linguists and language teachers alike. In this publication the author explored the untapped potential of the latest technology that became available to a very wide audience due to the recent rapid development of mobile graphics processin...

Background: Health and health promotion in the old age are one of the hot topic both in association with the ageing population and in the context of providing complex health care of the elderly, not only in the Czech Republic. Health promotion in the old age, as one of the dimensions of health literacy, relates (1) to getting and understanding the health-related information, (2) to the ability to take care of one`s own health, and (3) to reducing the inequality in the approach to health in the elderly population. ...