How can the ability of six-month-old infants to learn words, meanings, and referential categories be explained?
... conceptual template of the meaning”, in which the name and the meaning are initially connected. As infants accrue speech experience, this structure is transformed into a referential word in two stages. First, by using the name template, infants isolate a specific name in an adult's phrase and form a specific word with an unknown meaning: “the specific name + the meaning template”, and then, based on the referents of this word suggested by adults, infants form its meaning, thereby obtaining a referential ...
Implementation of the principle of learning though speech patterns in profile-oriented foreign language training
One of the leading special methodological principles of professionally-oriented foreign language training — the principle of teaching based on speech patterns of a specific subject area — is highlighted. A theoretical analysis of the essence of this principle, its place and role in the system of principles of professionally-oriented foreign language teaching is presented, along with an attempt to practically implement ...
The features of metaphors in “prophetic” dreams
This article addresses the issue of the specific features of the metaphor in “prophetic” dreams. The following features are identified as specific: the representation of the specific through the specific (abstract semantics is ensured by metonymy), spontaneity, integration into cultural ...
Initiative as a type of document
The article is dedicated to identifying factors that determine the documental specificity of an initiative. An initiative is characterized as a document aimed at engaging the addressee in solving a socially significant issue and convincing them of the necessity of societal changes.
The analysis of the text is conducted using ...
Legal nature of marketplaces
The advancement of information technology and the digital economy pose a challenge that calls for developing specific legal approaches to comprehend phenomena such as marketplaces. This article reviews the stances adopted by Russian and international legislators regarding the understanding of marketplaces. It is shown that legislators apply a similar legal regulation ...
Speech features clinical guidelines for patients
... features of clinical recommendations for patients are determined by the functions they perform (pragmatic, attractive, personifying, explicative, regulatory, phatic). Informative, representational, and cumulative functions do not imply any linguistic specificity in the texts. It is revealed that the specificity of clinical recommendations for patients as a particular medical genre (a genre of scientific document) lies in the combination of persuasive and informative intentions with the dominance ...
Emotive politeness in face-threatening speech acts: cross-cultural perspectives
The discursive approach to the study of politeness has expanded its scope by incorporating the hearer, in addition to the speaker, as well as the context of interaction, which determines various aspects of communication, including the emotional/emotive dimension. This article examines politeness through the prism of the emotional component of communication. It contributes to the study of emotive politeness, which focuses on the recipient's feelings, in face-threatening acts. The purpose of this...
