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The paper describes the results of denominal verb analysis. Corpora of media texts provide material for the analysis. The author explores patterns of novel meaning formation in denominal verbs. The proposed method is based on the notion of ‘seme-symbol’. The author reconstructions the semantic structure of motivating nouns and determines the role of different elements in the semantic structure of the verb. It is stressed that context contributes to the actualization or neutralization of particular...

This article is devoted to the means of presenting argumentation in literature focusing on judicial matters. In such texts, theses and relevant arguments are often in an implicit form, which emphasises the particularities of the functioning of judicial reasoning. In addition, the argumentative function, which is integrated into the discourse, is combined with the aesthetic function and thus it can serve as a means to create the literary image of a character. 1. Брюшинкин В. Н. Когнитивный подход...

In the XXI century, the prevailing trend towards analytical forms creates absolutely new conditions for adverbial vocabulary development in general and confix adverb development in particular. The article considers semantic, structural and syntactical classification of substantive-adverbial phrases belonging to the thematic group “Dish recipes”, many of which include confix adverbs. The article considers the peculiarities of these structures in the diachronic perspective. The author analyses contexts...

The author discusses personal traits of adolescents and the development of somatic reactions. The author confirms numerous survey data concerning the association of dysfunctional personal characteristics and the severity of somatic symptoms in the adolescent population. Multiple regression analysis demonstrates that a high degree of somatic reactions are typical of adolescents with emotional instability and a hostile view of the world. The author proves a "buffer" role of social support;...

The author analyses different approaches to the conceptualization of events in cognitive science, describes the types of events and their structure. Special attention is given to the integration of the frame analysis tools and corpora data and the opportunities this combination presents for analyzing the process of event conceptualization. The author explores the structure of an event frame and studies its frame–frame relations. 1. Болдырев Н. Н. Когнитивная семантика : курс лекций по английской...

The author analyzes a series of verses by A.Skidan of a “Delirium” collection (1993) and establishes the equality of semantics between giving/gift and parting, breaking apart, which allows to bring the concept of “giving/ gift” to the core of the poet’s concept structure. The article defines a semantic invariant and studies the ways of its invariant development, analyzes connection between the relevant concepts and categories of space and movement, life and death. The semantic reconstruction is performed...

The article deals with the corpus of problems reflected in the first edition of Abel Matthieu’s «Devis de la langue francoyse» (1559). Author’s views on the actual for the French renaissance problems in linguistic tradition, such as the origin of language, it’s defense and illustration, interpretation of foreign texts are studied. The particular attention is paid to Abel Matthieu’s attempts to prove the self-sufficiency of French language. 1. Гуковская З. В. Из истории лингвистических воззрений...

The aim of this article is to examine linguistic manifestations of gender in complimentary utterances in English. The author uses modern fiction as an object of research. Linguistic manifestations of gender characteristics are analysed against the target-related orientation of the complimentary utterances. The author concludes that the overwhelming majority of compliments are paid from men to women. Hence, gender characteristics of the speaker manifest themselves in his language behaviour in general...

This article focuses on the particularities of prophetic dreams, namely, the a priori awareness of the prophetic nature of the dream and its semantics, possible individuality of image semantics, deformation of the temporal sequence of the dream and related event, rootedness in the emotional, and the genetic ability to have prophetic dreams. The study is based on K. Jung’s theory of the unconscious and concept of synchronicity. 1.Берестнев Г. И. О новом корпусном словаре сновидений // Слово.ру. Балтийский...

The article deals with some issues of translating technical, in particular, programming texts. The author pays special attention to the polysemy of certain English IT terms. An important problem is adapting such terms to the system of the target language. Translators working in IT are required to have extensive expertise in informatics. Only this will guarantee the choice of a translation strategy adequate for the task of pragmatic adaptation. 1. Ваулина Е.Ю. Информатика. Толковый словарь. М., 2005...

Today’s graduates of pedagogical faculties often exhibit little interest in a career in education and unwillingness to work at school. An effective solution to this problem is the formation of successful pedagogical experience in future teachers at university, in particular, in the course of practicum. The study sets out to identify the role of practicum in the professional training of future teachers as well as the content of all types of practica in the continuous training of a teacher of informatics...

The problem of education quality is of particular importance in modern conditions; it must be assessed based not only on the mastery of educational programs, but also on the successful implementation of and demand for the professional knowledge obtained. The region’s geopolitical position makes it necessary to provide university graduates with competitive competences. Therefore, active cooperation between a university and employers makes it possible to modernise the process of training specialists...

This article is devoted to the important theoretical issues of cross-cultural competence. Particular attention is paid to the UK education system as one of the oldest structures in the world. Based on an analysis of a teacher’s cross-cultural experience at Durham University and the University of Manchester, as well as different approaches of Russian and international educationists, it is shown that cross-cultural competence is an integral part of the professional educational activity. Further, the...

Based on the materials of the handwritten Vesti-Kuranty newspaper, this article analyses the functional significance of evaluative lexis — adjective, adverbs, and nouns with subjective modal meanings conveying expressive emotional reactions of the author of a newspaper text to the described histori-cal events, as well as the temper and actions of its participants. 1. Арутюнова Н. Д. Типы языковых значений: Оценка. Событие. Факт. М., 1988. 2. Балли Ш. Общая лингвистика и вопросы французского языка...

The particularities of the key collision of H. G. Wells’s short story “The door in the wall” is considered in the spiritual axiological aspect. The issues of true and false values, the visible and invisible worlds and the border between them, and the meaning of human life are examined as the central problem of the text. It is shown that the image of Wallace and the related plot are deter-mined by the choice between the eternal and earthly values, this and the other worlds. The image of the narrator...

This article focuses on the issue of psychological violence among adoles-cents, in particular, on the problem of bullying. A new threat to psychological security of teenagers – cyberbullying – is identified. The authors believe that, going through fundamental personality transformations, adolescents are espe-cially vulnerable to psychological violence. The article analyses the notions of ‘bullying’ and ‘cyberbullying’ and identifies the features of the latter necessi-tating new cyberbullying prevention...

This article analyses the results of an international project aimed at fa-miliarizing Kaliningrad teachers with the Polish multicultural education practices. The author stresses the potential of a number of methods and tech-niques, including the project method. The article addresses the teachers’ pre-paredness for multicultural and intercultural education. The author analyses the applicability of the European – in particular, Polish, practices – in the Ka-liningrad region. 1. Жуковский И. И., Клемешев...

This article presents a general model of involving the research, educa-tional, and other expert communities in implementing the state educational policy. The authors consider the organization of public and expert discussion of sample primary and secondary education programmes. The model describes the nonlinear space of expert interaction, including the key processes, forms, and results thereof. 1. Remorenko I. M., Burov V. V., Parfenov R. V. On Modern Technologies of Citi-zens’ Participation in...

The cases of two Kaliningrad universities are used in a forecast study of the interpersonal aspect of culture of students’ and teachers’ trust within higher professional education. The author gives a definition of the culture of trust between the agents of educational process and outlines the structure of this notion. The article presents the students’ and teachers’ forecasts of the culture of trust between the agents of educational process in future. 1. Педагогический энциклопедический словарь...

This article focuses upon the 'time' and 'space' concepts in Boris Paster-nak’s poem “When it Clears up” (1956) and its English translation by Lydia Pasternak-Slater. Special emphasis is laid upon the significance of the 'holi-day' concept for the structural unity of the poem. In the atemporal dimension of a ‘holiday,’ visible images of the natural world become symbolic representa-tions of the invisible. In the English translation, the overt concreteness of some of the poetic images results in the...

The implementation of the English Access Microscholarship Program (ACCESS) in the Kaliningrad region is based on the principles of inclusive education. It makes the study of the English language more accessible to ado-lescents from an economically disadvantaged background and children with special needs. A greater sensitivity to cultural differences, coupled with the acquired language skills, enable the participants to take advantage of opportu-nities that had previously been unavailable to them...

This article consdiers the problem of mass media influence on the process of health behavior development, in particular, in the field of nutrition. The authors address the possibilitues and features of mass media as a factor of health protection. The article presents the results of an experiment relating to the availability of health programmes on Russian television and the assessment of synamics of student behaviour in the field of healthy nutrition under the influence of various television programs...

This article addresses the problem of training specialists in elasticity theory. The author suggests parallel studying of mathematics and mechanics, in particular, elasticity theory. The author considers the case of organizing training process for solving a two-dimensional problem of the theory through an inversed method. It is shown that the analysis of inversed problems of elasticity theory can contribute to the efficient solution of methodological issues of teaching mathematics and mechanics....

This article deals with affectedness, a semantic category which underlies particular syntactic phenomena determining syntactic rules and tendencies but having no morphological markers, not unlike other covert categories. It is relevant to direct object selection in various languages, be-passives and getpassives in English, some types of impersonal sentences in Russian, etc.,which reflects general typological patterns. 1. Арутюнова Н. Д. Введение // Логический анализ языка. Образ человека в культуре...

The article is devoted to analysing possible filling of the semantic valence of a verb by the participants of a situation (actants) performng various roles. The problem of the semantic and social role correlation is the focus of our attention.Moreover, the principles of marking semantic cases are considered; role and non-role actions are described; shortcomings of the role nomenclature are specified. 1. Апресян Ю. Д. Избранные труды. Лексическая семантика: Синонимические средства языка. М., 1995...

This article analyses the theoretical framework for supporting activities at cultural and leisure establishments, particularly, teen clubs. The authors present a model of socio-pedagogical support for children at teen clubs and describe its goals and objectives, principles, stages, and ways of practical implementation. The article emphasizes the need to create a program for socio-pedagogical support for teenagers based on the model presented and offers the key characteristics of the program, as well...

The article deals with parentheses and particles as one of the ways of expressing certainty and uncertainty in Russian and their equivalents in English. The research is based on the poem by N. Gogol "Dead Souls" and its two translation versions. 1. Беляева Е. И. Достоверность // Теория функциональной грамматики: Темпоральность. Модальность. Л., 1990. С. 157—170. 2. Ваулина С. С. Языковая модальность как функционально-семантическая категория (диахронический аспект). Калининград,...

The article provides a critical analysis of some cognitive semantics theories, particularly the prototype theory and the theory of dynamic construal. It is stated that the source of the theory of dynamic conceptual semantics were formulated in the works by A. F. Losev and G. Guillaume’s mental grammar. 1. Бондарко А. В. Теория значения в системе функциональной грамматики. На материале русского языка. М., 2002. 2. Боярская Е. Л. Категоризация как базовая когнитивная процедура. Калининград, 2011...

This article considers the enlightenment strategy of Yekaterina the Second aimed at introducing the nobility to basic values, in particular, family consolidation and devotion to the interests of the state. A literature means of implementing this strategy was the comedies of Yekaterina II, which combined the satirical depiction of court morals and a mockery of human weaknesses. 1. Сочинения Екатерины II. М., 1990. 2. Лонгинов М. Драматические сочинения Екатерины II. М., 1857. 3. Мадариага И. Екатерина...

The article considers the determination of executive officers' psychological stress and the role of temperament in stress emergence and management at work. The author offers the scheme and results of the research conducted in Kaliningrad with the participation of business managers. 1. Вяткин Б.   А., Жданова С.   Ю. Психология познания индивидуальности. М., 2007. 2. Китаев-Смык Л.   А. Психология стресса. М., 1983. 3. Люшер М. Цветовой тест Люшера. М., СПб., 2007. 4. Мерлин В.   С. Психология...

This article is devoted to the problem of selecting the content of the “for-eign language” university course, in particular the selection of textbooks on the basis of modern psychological and pedagogical approaches. In order to im-prove the quality of teaching languages at university, the author suggests considering the content and structural component of textbooks from the pers-pective of the formation of students’ autonomy — one of the key notions of modern pedagogics. 1.  Байденко В.   И. Компетентностный...

The article analyses the textual function of tolerance zones of particular modal meanings in Anna Akhmatova's poetry. The author pays special attention to the zones involved in the development of the author's verbal image, determines the explications of the zones describes and their interrelations. 1.  Бабенко Л.   Г., Васильев И.   Е., Казарин Ю.   Б. Лингвистический анализ худо­жественного текста. Екатеринбург, 2000. 2.  Бенвенист Э. Общая лингвистика. М., 1974. 3.  Ваулина С.   С. Языковая...

The article is dedicated to research on individual and typological features of female convicts. Mentally-deviated and drug-addicted female convicts participated in the study as respondents. The results obtained allow speaking about the similarity of individual and typological characteristics of mentallydeviated and drug-addicted female convicts, which should be taken in account in psychic treatment in penal colonies. 1.  Собчик Л.   Н. Диагностика индивидуально-личностных свойств и межлич­ностных...

This article considers the peculiarities of pleonastic phrases containing reported speech in Southern Slavic and Old Russian works of the Pletenije Sloves' style. The author detects the interrelation between these peculiarities and the tradition followed by the scribes: Biblical (Epifanij Premudryj) and Byzantian rhetorical (the Tyrna school scribes) ones. Жт. Ил. Мегл. — Житие Илариона Мегленского // Kałużniacki  E . Werke des Patriarchen von Bulgarien Euthymius (1375—1393). Wien , 1901...

This article attempts to solve two interrelated problems: to analyse the correlation between the body image disturbance and such self-relation characteristics as time competence, autonomy, self-respect, self-acceptance, selfconfidence, social boldness, initiative in social contacts, aggression, and hostility; to consider the opportunity of psychological management by means of eurhythmics. The comparative analysis of the results of eurhythmics application proves that this method is effective in the...

The term event-driven concept is analyzed in the dynamic process of its tructuring in a recipient's consciousness; the functional semantico-syntactical frame of event-driven concepts with various categorial functional relations between the participants of corresponding events is shown and the linguodidactic aspect of the use of even-driven concept derivation theory for concepts of event-driven nature is demonstrated. 1. Богданов В. В. Моделирование семантики предложения // Прикладное языкозна­ние...

The article focuses on the symbolism of colour terms in European languages. The authors explore and analyze similarities and differences in the use of particular colours as symbols in fixed colour collocations in Russian and English. This analysis helps to establish common microsystems of symbolic meanings in both languages. 1.  Алимпиева Р.   В. Семантическая структура слова «белый» // Во­просы се­мантики. Вып. 2. Л., 1976. С. 17—27. 2.  Гвоздарев Ю.   А. Рассказы о русской...

The article focuses on the representation of the concept «family» in English poetry for children. Particular attention is paid to the national and cultural component of the concept under study. 1.  Виноградов Г.   С. Страна детей. СПб., 1998. 2.  Краткий словарь когнитивных терминов / под ред. Е.   С. Кубряковой. М., 1996. 3.  Кустова Л.   С. Тайна национального характера. М., 2003. 4.  Любарт М.   К. Семья во французском обществе: XVIII — начало XX века. СПб., 2005. 5.  Маслова В.  ...

The key aspect of incorporation of Prussians, who inhabited the South-East of Baltic region, into the social system of the State of Teutonic Order in the second half of the XIIIth—XIVth centuries was the distribution among them of land estates in exchange of military service and/or taxes. The military duties of Prussians involving defense of lands and participating in the campaigns against political rivals of Order raised the issue of the composition of their weapons which indicated either preserving...

The article considers the main milestones of the formation and develop­ment of forensic medical expert activity in the structure of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Following a series of articles, the cur­rent one highlights the most significant cases of individual investigative ac­tions with the participation of a specialist in the field of forensic medicine. The five-year practice has been re-examined: from the first forensic medical exami­nation in 2015 to the establishment...

The article analyses cultural life and leisure activities in the Kaliningrad region during the Soviet period. The concepts of “leisure”, “free time” at different times were different in contents. On the one hand, leisure was understood as time when people recharged after hard work, and on the other hand, it meant their spiritual development. On the basis of archival and published sources, as well as interviews with immigrants, the author attempts at reconstructing the idea of leisure time activities...

Ignacy Jan Paderewski was born in the Russian Empire, for many years he was working for the glory of the world-famous composer and pianist, and during the World War I he suddenly plunged headlong into politics, becoming one of the “founding fathers” of the Polish state, which revived in 1918. The article attempts to identify Paderewski's views on the borders and foreign policy of Poland, to assess his contribution to the process of restoring its independence. The views and activities of Paderewski...

... the rigidity of politics, etc.); at the same time, the desire of the Chinese for harmony, the philosophic nature of their thinking, greater traditionalism cause a smaller number of factions in the CPC, possibly "soft" cooperation with other parties (with a small number of the latter), etc. The flexibility of Chinese thinking in a very traditional coun­try is surprising by the very fact of the "unexpected" and effective, in fact, re­placing the government of the party movement ...

As many as six parties made a precedent to be simultaneously elected in post-war German history in the elections to the Bundestag in 2017. Moreover, the right-wing radical party, Alternative for Germany, was able to enter the Parliament for the first time. The emergence ...

The article analyzes the approaches to understanding the term “economic policies”. The author proceeds from the fact that the state acts as a specific economic agent and, as such, on the one, is eligible to develop formal institutions of the national economy, and on the other hand, it itself is one of the elements of this sector of the global socio-economics system. The author defines the economic policies regime as a set of rules, measures, norms to achieve the macro-goal of the country’s development...

Through publications in the German Democratic Republic newspapers from 1949—1990 the article reveals dominant images of residents of the Kaliningrad region, such as ocean fishing pioneers, builders of a new city on the ruins of Königsberg and keepers of German heritage, particularly the Immanuel Kant's grave and other historical monuments in Kaliningrad. The author of the article describes factors that influenced the representation of the images of the Kaliningrad region’s population as the Soviet...

The article deals with the problems of personal pension provision of M. A. Ivanova, the niece of F. M. Dostoevsky, granted for the merits of her famous relative. The main information sources are the documents of the pension file stored in the State Archive of the Russian Federation, confirming the right of the writer’s niece to a personal pension for the merits of her uncle and containing information about the size of the pension and the payment plan. The studied documents, together with regulatory...

The article reveals the problems of political communication in modern Poland, the role of the Internet in the dialogue between the authorities and society. Particular attention is paid to the impact of social networks on the quality of political communication. The characteristic features of the position of ordinary users and representatives of political elites in the communication process are singled out and described. As a research task, the authors identified the main characteristics of political...

The article explores the history of chess in Königsberg in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The author gives the data on competitions held in the capital of East Prussia, as well as biographical data on players and chess composers who lived there and visited Königsberg. The reconstruction of the history of the chess movement includes the localization of chess clubs in the city. The researcher states, that in the 1850s — 1870s chess clubs with general and specialized membership...

The author of the article analyzes the shaping of the Russian identity of the region’s inhabitants on particular examples and personal impressions and experience. A common term “the site of memory” applied to the Kaliningrad region, makes it possible to speak of a strong regional, or Kaliningrad, component of identity. The regional public consciousness and particularly its collective memory, which is in the process of its shaping, is influenced by the previous German (East Prussian) history. The...