Conceptualization of prayer in the diary discourse of L. N. Tolstoy
... reconstructs the primary image of “Person”: figuratively, prayer is attributed to procedural features inherent in a person. They are characterized by positive connotative evaluation. It is proved that the categorization of prayer using an anthropomorphic cultural code is a consequence of implementing a communicative cognitive strategy. Tolstoy names the following functions of prayer: it helps to achieve harmony, avoid complex emotional states, makes a person strong, spiritually elevates them, protects ...
Axiological potential of figurative units of the Russian language, translating the plant code
... expressions possessing imagery, semantic dualism, and an associative nature of expression are characterized. The aim of the research is to identify the axiological meanings of an extensive group of linguistic units representing the plant code in Russian culture. Attention is given not only to the core but also to peripheral “plant” semas, allowing the inclusion of extensive layers of vocabulary and phraseology in the study. A methodology for axiological analysis of figurative units is developed, ...
The issue of interfaith interaction between the Old Believers and Islam in the works of A.S. Pushkin and L.N. Tolstoy
The issue of reflecting the ethno-cultural interaction between the Old Believers and Muslims in regions with a traditional prevalence of Islamic culture in the 18th—19th centuries is considered in the works of A. S. Pushkin and L. N. Tolstoy. The conclusion is substantiated that both writers leaned towards the necessity of uniting Christianity and Islam based on common moral principles inherent ...
The use of the photo corpus in the study of word-formation processes (on the derivatives with the prefix super-)
..., which allows us to assert that the addition of the prefix super- to the nominal parts of speech has been an active word-formation practice in the Polish language since the beginning of the XX century. The influence of Anglo-American linguistic and cultural globalization has led to an increase in the productivity of this model and to semantic specification of the prefix, which serves as a marker of an exclusively positive evaluation.
Education in orthodox comprehensive schools in modern Russia: the issue of choosing methodological principles of research
The development of Orthodox comprehensive education schools in Russia at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries, as part of the religious education system, makes them a new and relevant subject for scientific research. The necessity of restoring the full educational function of modern schools and the search for effective educational means in contemporary socio-cultural conditions require a reference to the history and theory of Orthodox education. The accumulated experience in...
The inclusive function of translation in the digital space of a modern museum
..., virtual museum visits have become especially relevant. The implementation of principles of accessibility and inclusion among foreign-speaking tourists / viewers requires museums and galleries to adapt exhibition texts and labels linguistically and culturally. The purpose of this study is to describe translation functions in a museum on the labels for exhibits presented on the Artefact digital platform within the framework of the Culture national project. Linguistic equality of museum visitors in ...
The unexpected someone in Nobel history
... symbolic and at the same time dialectical method supposing that the Phenomenon of Handke is the living antithesis of the post-structuralist theory of the “death of the author” and that being is still “breaking through” into the narrative of modern culture. The work is relevant due to the scientific, literary and linguistic and cultural uniqueness of Handke, as well as the fact that it is a living proof of the connection between the cognitive potential of art and politics.
Borrowing inter-cultural concepts in the context of mass media and social networks synthesis
... through contextual discourse analysis, new global concepts that function in a synthetic communication space with the view to exchanging information in the public space. The study aims to identify and describe some new concepts German borrowed from foreign cultures and to search the most significant linguistic associations in German-speaking media in order to identify the valuable of the new concepts.
Phraseological units as a means of information compression in the American election discourse
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The conflict of the intellectual and the boor in the plays by S. Mrożek “Tango” and A. Chekhov “Cherry orchard”
This article examines the social and cultural conflict, the essence of which lies in the opposition of the intellectual and the boor in Chekhov's play “The Cherry Orchard” and in S. Mrożek play “Tango”. The comparative analysis of the works reveals the national, historical and social ...
Ontology of the «new world» in the work of Friedrich Hölderlin (to his 250th anniversary)
The work raises the issue of Hölderlin’s creative secret of, interpreting its connection with the transformation of German culture into ontology of “new light”. Considering the essence of the “poet of poets” (Heidegger), the authors relate complex discourses to the hermeneutic key for understanding the mystery of Hölderlin. They make an attempt at interpreting ...
“Svetotomy” N. М. Kononov and Plato’s “The feast”: a dialogue of cultures
The article is devoted to comparative analysis of N. M. Kononov’s short story “Svetotomiy” and Plato’s dialogue “The feast”. The research aims at identifying intertextual links between these text while the analysis establishes the dialogic nature of the texts on a conceptual level and they are united by the motifs of Feast and Love. The feasting narrative in Plato’s dialogue is a celebration of the elite, described in the traditions of ethics and philosophy of antiquity. The characters of “The feast”...
State verbs in the progressive aspect in the contemporary Indian English
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Phraseological potential of the somatism сердце / cœur / Herz in the Russian, French and German languages
The article offers a comparative analysis of phraseological units with the component cердце / cœur / Herz in the Russian, French and German languages. As a result, not only the similarity of semantic attraction in the idioms of the languages of unrelated families is revealed, but also the factors that determine the difference in the semantic charge of both nuclear and differential semes. The proposed corpus of illustrative material allows us to solve a number of problems of the national-cultural...
German spiritual lyrics in the allusive space of Clemens Brentano’s fairy tales
... carnival parodying of spiritual lyrics in The Tale of the Tailor Seven-in-One-Blow. The key, meaning-forming value of allusions to spiritual lyrics in two Italian fairy tales is revealed, which contributes to the transfer of Italian plots to German culture.
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Onomastic component of a linguistic identity of a Russian military officer
The article verifies the proposal that the study of the onomastic component makes it possible to reveal more fully the specific of the language personality of the Russian military officer. Theoretical analysis of existing papers results in a generalized concept of a language personality as an image of a bearer of knowledge, models of behavior and reactions, cultural-linguistic and communicative-activity values. The vocabulary activated in communication is considered from the point of view of...
A literary image as a cognitive phenomenon
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Academic and professional discourse in higher professional education and the literacy concept
... and the problems of academic and scientific communication of students including the ones which arise when information and communication technologies are used for the purposes of the discourse. Meta-subject, linguistic, operational, critical, and cultural dimensions of literacy competencies are defined as indicators of the formation of the student's academic and discursive Self. The research also specifies necessary conditions for the organization and implementation of the discourse practices....
Escapism: non-constructive ways of teenage personal self-determination
... motivation, self-concept clarity and tendency toward problematic gaming // Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace. 2018. Vol. 12, № 1.
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Poetry as a space for cognitive research: Czesław Miłosz and Howard Nemerov
... signs. The thinker's task is to incorporate the visual image into the mental construct, to create the topology of the world, not represented in the world itself.
Finally, the author considers the value of Miłosz and Nemerov’s texts for modern culture and states that they are illustrations for cognitive research, generators of scientific ideas and they create the marginal area of contemporary cognitive science; meanwhile there is an uncertainty whether the morphological type of language ...
Cognitive space of the Russian romance
The article contains a short history of the term “romance” and the genre of Russian romance, describes the problems of studying the romance. Russian romance is presented as a social-cognitive construct with a particular set of historically and culturally conditioned cognitive indicators. A comparative analysis of the texts of the Russian romance and Russian lyrical songs revealed the national characteristics of the lyric song, as well as the cognitive characteristics peculiar to the romance: ...
The mythopoetics of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel The buried giant
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The image of the mirror as the semantic centre of Neil Gaiman’s collection Smoke and Mirrors
The short stories from Neil Gaiman’s collection Smoke and Mirrors are considered in the context of the cultural tradition of understanding the symbolism of the mirror. The article aims to determine the main functions of the mirror in Gaiman's texts and describe the system of parallel images associated with the mirror and the reflection. The study concludes ...
The Anglo-Saxon traditions in the educational system: educa-tion as a commercial enterprise
... Russia either selected features of the US educational system or its goals and objectives, it is necessary to analyse the literature, to identify the key characteristics of the US educational system, and to track their evolution in the US pedagogical culture. This article examines a major tradition in the US education system — market-like behaviour. An attempt is made to analyse the historical background of traditions in US education and its market orientation. The study considers the critique ...
An innovative approach to increasing the financial literacy of non-economics students
... approach to teaching the Money and Money Management gamified distance-learning course to non-economics students. The results of course development and implementation at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University are described.
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John Bunyan’s allegoric tradition in Clive Staples Lewis’s novel The Pilgrim’s Regress
In his allegorical travel novel, Clive Staples Lewis tells the story of a hu¬man soul wandering in search for god. The medieval form of the allegorical novel helps the author to speak plainly about complex things: he explores the cultur¬al attitudes of a 20th-century person from the perspective of the Christ-centric axiological system of the Middle Ages. This article considers Lewis’s novel as a complicated intertext, which both serves as a palimpsest of John Bunyan’s The ...
Eschatological intertexts in E.Wichert’s report from “Dead forest”
... basic intertextual links of this text with Dante’s “The Divine Comedy”, Dostoevsky’s “The House of the Dead” and “Revelation of John” are considered. The authors emphasize the issue of two disjunctive ontologies, forming two fundamental cultural codes of the artistic process in the culture of Germany and Russia.
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The concept of Joy in C. S. Lewis's autobiography
The author's individual perception of the concept of Joy is identified in C. S. Lewis's spiritual autobiography «Surprised by Joy». The correlation between the author's individual and cultural-linguistic perception of the concept of Joy is analysed. The research shows that Evangelic meaning of the concept is actualized whereas a secular linguistic meaning of the concept of Joy as «pleasure, worldly happiness» is de-actualized in Lewis's text.
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On some challenges in teaching foreign language to visually impaired children
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The archetypal space of the palace in E. Zola’s novel «The Ladiesʼ Paradise»
The article reveals the connection between the artistic space of the naturalistic novel with the archetypical forms of mentality and culture. The author used the structural-semiotic method of text analysis, as well as the analysis of archetypical images that are regularly repeated in the European cultural experience. The concept of “archetype” in literary analysis is proved to ...
Verb collocations of the semantic field «Memory» with the component ‘Vergangenheit’ in the German media
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«Only when asleep you feel alive»: life and death in the Russian linguocultural consciousness (based on Russian proverbs and sayings)
The article describes the set of maxims, revealing the attitude to life and death, typical for the Russian linguistic-cultural consciousness, on the basis of Russian proverbs and sayings. The author explains the specificity of these maxims, and provides an additional interpretation of several examples. In conclusion, the author explains the reasons for the general sense of pessimism of the Russians and reveals the fundamental intellectual basis for black humor in the analyzed linguocultural tradition...
The facets of German mentality and the search for a national identity in Germany’s sociocultural context at the turn of the century
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Lexical chellenges of computer games translation
... Anastasiou D., Schäler R. Translating Vital Information: Localisation, Internationalisation, and Globalisation // Journal Syn-thèses. Traduction: médiation, négociation, communication. 2010. № 3. P. 11—25.
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Reflections on the dictionary of an integral type
... The proposed model of the integral dictionary is designed to embody the following ideas of modern lexicography: 1) the semantic principle of vocabulary organization, 2) the multidimensional description of the word, 3) the inclusion of encyclopedic, cultural, linguistic, and, if necessary, historical information, following the compex description principle, (4) “live” word functioning principle, i. e. the functional approach.
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Parallels of psychoanalysis in the intellectual and creative biography of Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Sigmund Freud and Hugo von Hofmannsthal are among the most important representatives of the world culture of the beginning of the 20th century, which was equally influenced by science and arts. The creative work of the Austrian poet Hofmannsthal, also a dramatist and a writer, is a good example of this kind of symbiosis. The remaining part of ...
Text localization as a task of translation
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Social assumptions about the future of participants of the World Youth Festival — 2017
The article describes the results of a socio-psychological research of assumptions about the future of participants of the World Youth Festival (2017). The authors used the method of associations, which allowed them to reveal structural elements of reality in the future, in 10 years time, as it is imagined by youth, including the expected changes in society and personality. The authors analyse the data describing gender-specific assumptions about the future. The analysis of international data made...
Linguo semiotics of the city: cross cultural dimension of place branding
Place marketing and regional branding play an important role in contemporary global interactions. This research attempts to study the urban spatial linguosemiotic potential influencing city brands from the crosscultural viewpoint. The author aims to determine ways of how Russian and German city brands are created using three main sources of branding: people, events and architectural heritage. The authors identify dominant factors of the branding potential of German and Russian linguocultures through...
Culture-specific words in the poem «Dead Souls» by N. V. Gogol: the problem of translation
Using the poem “Dead souls” by N. V. Gogol and its two English translations made by D. J. Hogarth and R. A. Maguire, the author considers lexical units having a cultural component and belonging to the following semantic fields — Clothes, Transport and Food. The lexical units selected are examined from the point of view of their translation into English in the target texts. By means of a comparative analysis ...
The problem of memory in the novels of T. McCarth
... occurrence of the postmodern discourse with its emphasis on the fragmented structure of the human experience of ‘beingin- the-world’. The authors explore the main idea of the novels. On the one hand, the novels reflect the entropic nature of modern culture, and, on the other hand, they raise the question of a withdrawal from the ‘inner cave’ by means of memory stimulation.
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On the function of biblical anthroponyms David and Goliath in poetic texts of A. I. Polezhaeva and V. Ya. Bryusova
... from the author’s individual assessment and the reader’s perception. The author demonstrates the dependence of the functioning of the two biblical anthropoetonims on the character of text-reader communication, and on the formation of the common cultural space of the author and the reader.
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Ethnic identity of students as a determinant of their understanding of other cultural groups
The article highlights the problem of interaction between representatives of different cultures, which is influenced by their social representations and ethnic identity. The aim of the work was to analyze the content of students' social ideas about members of other cultures in the context of ethnic identity. In this paper, the authors rely ...
Age-related dynamics of competence formation in social work
The article analyses the formation of social competences in the field of education and social work in Kaliningrad. The author identifies performance indicators according to age and the dynamics of competence formation in representatives of three age groups. The three age groups analyzed demonstrate significant differences in both the overall competence as such and its individual components. The results of the research can be used in education, in the work with asocial adolescents and in the resocialization...
Personality in a multicultural world
The article considers problems faced by the individual as the bearer of social and cultural patterns. The article focusses on the issues of the conscious formation of tolerance and interconnections between understanding and the individual’s adaptation to reality. General knowledge, reflection, the extension of meaning, self-esteem,...
On the development of the naval education in the south of Russia in late XVIII — early XX centuries
... the evolution of educational concepts and modification of training maritime experts in the context of significant historical events that affected the quality of training of maritime personnel at various stages of the strategic, military, political and cultural development of the region. The methodological and theoretical basis of the study is a systematic approach, the social-conditioning theory of maritime education, the concept of continuous professional education and the higher education reformation ...
Professionally oriented project as a means of developing the language competence in bachelor students
The article deals with the problem of professionally oriented language training. The authors analyze the methodology of teaching a foreign language to BA students of the Institute of Physical Culture. The authors hold that the professionally oriented project «Guide to the sports facilities of the Kaliningrad region» can significantly improve the quality and efficiency of language training and make it more professionally oriented.
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Ekphrasis in contemporary English novels
... framework makes it possible to speak of a connection between ekphrasis and various structural levels of a work and its contribution to the creation of literary meanings.
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The thematic field of black humour
Wry humor as cultural phenomenon thematically is organized as a semantic field and focuses on six major components: death and associated with it, destruction of human physiology, fear of danger, threats to beloved ones, social catastrophes, necrophilia. A “play ...
Non-verbal elements of a film text in the semiosis of power
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