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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 ...

Today information space is a natural human life environment. Almost unlimited technical capability of modern interactive gadgets allows people to become co-authors or even creators of their own virtual reality. General availability of personal data makes it possible to interfere in other people’s private lives, forming their values and sense attitudes. So, the problem of psychological safety of a person in information space has become of vital importance. As a theoretical ground of the research we use such concept...

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...

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...

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 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;...

The study is done because in Latvia supervision rapidly takes its place between professions recognized in the national level, becoming an integral part of professional components. As there is an increasing demand for supervisors, the aim of this study is to find out attitudes about the supervision service and consumer social representations. The main tasks of the research paper are to analyse scientific literature on supervision, consumer social representations and attitude towards supervision, create to gather da...

Having a child with chronic illnesses or developmental disabilities have a transformative impact on each family member and can affect a family’s psychological quality of life. But the effects of the disease severity on quality of life have not been shown in some previous studies. So the question why does the quality of life differ in different families with “special” children still exists. This study aims at evaluating the factors that can affect the quality of life in families having a child with chronic illnesse...

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...

Is it necessary to worry about ageing and old age? Can we do something to enjoy well-being in a mature age? These questions are being answered by scholars of positive psychology who study the factors of successful ageing and happiness in old age. The outcomes of their research sound promising. They state the number of people in the so-called third age is increasing and that people are not born wise but they become wise due to living a full life. Additionally, the elderly are often happier than the young and in old...

Psychological approach in the research of the inter ethnic relations increased, and takes central places in researches, especially among the middle that are multicultural. Taking into consideration the previously research for the existence of different types of nationally or different form of a national closeness Rot and Havelka are noted the existence of five forms of national closeness [1]: 1. Exceptional closeness national 2. Eminent national closeness 3.Increase reusable national closeness 4.The general (all h...

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 results of a comparative study of preferences in coping strategies are presented, as well as their connections with the characteristics of the frustration of four groups of Russian urban student youth - students of the senior classes of the secondary school, students of the construction college, psychology students and working young men and women who receive further education in the field of "Psychology". The relevance of studying the stated topic is explained. We used the methods of survey, testing ("Ways of ...

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...

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...

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,...

There are only a few instruments related to career among the Hungarian sample from Transylvania. Moreover, instruments that assess career maturity are not available in Hungarian language. That is why the main purpose of the study was to translate and adapt Career Maturity Inventory form C for Hungarian students from Transylvania. In addition, the effects of gender and age on career maturity were examined. Both university students and high school students were assessed. During the Bachelor program, university stude...

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...

Background. The relevance of this work is determined by modern trends in the development of society: the socio-psychological aspect - with each year the number of organizations and the number of specialists grow. Extremely topical are the problems of raising and maintaining a high level of psychological security in an organization associated with loyalty. However, the analysis of the relationship, the conditions that determine its formation, typology, planning of actions aimed at increasing loyalty and focused on ...

The problem of choice practically affects all aspects of human life. Public interest to the topic of decision-making process has been continuously and extensively escalating over the last decade. This study explores the basis of conflict in choice of decision-making strategy and provides a thorough research analyzing how matriculates choose what universities to apply to and what strategy they are inclined to use when doing so. The article provides results of such research and represents collected data on more than...

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...

The research is determined by the increase of the quantity and changes in qualitative characteristics of developmental disorders in children with cognitive epileptiform disintegration. According to the definition of K.Yu.Mukhin, cognitive epileptiform disintegration (CED) is considered as a symptomatic complex of acquired disorders of higher mental functions (HMF) in children associated with severe epileptiform activity on the EEG in the absence of epileptic seizures. There are several actual problems connected wi...

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...

Objectives: The main goal of the current study was to analyze the structural validity of the parent version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). The instrument was used for a general screening to identify children with behavioral, social, emotional problems and ADHD symptoms, in a Hungarian minority population from Transylvania. Methods: A sample of 102 parents completed the SDQ questionnaire for elementary school children, mean age M(SD)=7.55(1.54), 57.3% female, 42.7% male, being a Transylvania...

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...

In the field of dramatherapy interventions aimed at addicted persons in detoxification units, no relevant methodology is available. At the same time, the implementation of dramatherapy approaches in the healthcare sector is problematic. Last but not least (according to scientific research), very little attention is paid to the specifics of dramatherapy designed for these clients. The paper deals with the application of dramatherapy designed for persons with addiction in detoxification units. The author presents a ...

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...

In a knowledge-intensive economy, the ability of the individual knowledge worker to produce high quality decisions is perhaps one of the most valuable assets organisations today has and organisations are increasingly concerned with ways of making better decisions, because an organisation’s ability to make high quality decisions is of utmost importance for its success. Consequently, a knowledge worker’s primary deliverable is a good decision, which emphasises their essential role in producing high quality decisions...

Background: The study of psychological strategies of network activity and attitudes of student youth towards the Internet is actual and practically significance. Personal characteristics in the network interaction are occurred in the motives of behavior and communication, in the psychologically to the use of electronic technologies, and also in the preference for activities. For most students the Internet is a space in which you can achieve social comfort and have the opportunity to communicate with others and dev...

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...

Emotional wellbeing during professional activity is the basis of psychological comfort at work and in life. Stress at work is an important problem because it affects the professional abilities, health of the staff, and the quality of their work. The European Union has issued a directive on the necessity of lowering work-related stress. Stress tolerance of mobile and operational staff of private security companies is becoming an acute issue. The following research question was formulated: Are there any differences ...

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 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 article is devoted to analysis of the specific of negotiation between adults and adolescents in conflicts connected with teenagers’ misbehavior in different social situations. These are the survey’s results and practical counselling and mediation experiences presented in the article. Possibilities to negotiate difficult issues between teenagers and their peers, teenagers and adults depending on their age, education, experience and gender were explored. The factors of negotiations’ failure and success have been...

The purpose: a comparative study of the type and direction of reaction in conflict situation among masculine men and feminine women of Russian and Armenian nationalities. Design: kind of gender identity and ethno-cultural characteristics may condition differences in types and directions of reaction in conflict situation among both men and women of Russian and Armenian nationalities. The technique: 1. Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study which is aimed at identifying the type of reaction to the conflict situation a...

The author of the study analyses the formats of reality shows broadcasted by Slovak media with emphasis on the psychological and communication aspects intentionally employed by their creators and which recipients knowingly or subconsciously reflect. Based on observations of media content produced by Slovak and foreign media, there is an assumption that emotion and extremity can be found practically throughout the entire composition of the program, i.e. in various program formats, in the actual content and form of ...

This paper specifically addresses the key elements that constitute the subphase 1.2 “struggling for survival in the streets” of the original grounded Theory “surviving the streets”. The first section addresses the particularities that comprise each phase of the GT. The specific features of phase 1 are presented in more detail. The second section of the papers summarizes the research method, specifically: (i) characterization of participants [homeless (n = 38), professionals (n = 47) and previously homeless (n = 11...

This article aims to analyse the relation between individual values and satisfaction of life that can be seen not only as personal constructs, but also as indicators of social processes in Bulgaria. It presents the results from an empirical research conducted in 2015-2016 among 1913 Bulgarian citizens of active working age – 18-65 y.o. Some of the most complex methods in the social sciences to study values and life satisfaction, such as Schwartz Value Survey, SVS [14] and Satisfaction With Life Scale, SWLS [4] hav...

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...

This article is dedicated to the 10th anniversary of Bulgaria’s accession to the European Union – EU (01.01.2007 – 01.01.2017) and the 60th anniversary of its creation (25.03.1957 – 25.03.2017). The aim of the study is to compare the Bulgarian cultural model with that of the EU member states and to outline the value similarities and differences among them. On the basis of the method for diagnostics of cultural value orientations proposed by Schwartz [8] it can be established that while the cultural value ideal of ...

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 (...