Reminiscences of Russian culture in A. S. Byatt’s novel The Children’s Book
Having considered one of the interviews, given by A. S. Byatt, the author concludes that the writer’s attitude to Russia is largely mediated by the Russian literature from Dostoevsky and Tolstoy to Pelevin. The researcher brings forward the problem of mythologization and demythologization of the image of Russia, and stresses the fact, that the fictional (Tatarinov) and real (Stepnyak, Kropotkin) images of Russian anarchists are given in the perception of the British. The author comes to ...
The Praed model sentences: meaning and speech functions.
The study of formal samples of sentences in the real modern colloquial speech is one of the topical linguistic problems. Having considered the classical and modern research papers, the author examines the grammatical status of uninflected words, which are the main members of the sentences of the Praed structural scheme. The author considers that such words should ...
Art as a means of developing professionally important qualities among the psychology students
The article describes the problems of development of professionally important qualities for psychology students. These qualities are dynamic, should be analyzed and subjected to conceptual and quantitative transformations, because they depend on the socio-historical context. The ...
Semantic invariants of prophetic dreams and signs
... shows that such invariants do exist, and they stay with the other side of the language, belong to the deep sphere of human mentality (unconscious), have a special sign nature (they are both semantic signs and images). From this point of view, the problem of synchronicity — acausal semantic coincidences, is considered. The article suggests that the domain of semantic invariants of dreams will be close to quantum reality, which is of particular interest to researchers today.
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Readiness for mediation among the students with the degree in Humanities: a structural-functional model
The article analyzes the problem of determining readiness for mediation as a professional activity in the works of Russian and international researchers, in view of the growing popularity of this social and humanitarian practice both in Russia and all over the world. The author ...
Evolution of the special question in English (based on examples from the Gospel of John)
... John — the Wessex Gospels of the late 10th century, the Gospel of the Wycliffe Bible (the end of the 14th century) and the Gospel of Tyndale Bible (the beginning of the XVI century). The analysis focuses on the structural and formal aspects of the problem. To demonstrate language dynamics the author identifies specific contexts containing various kinds of special questions in the three versions of the Gospel. These contexts are compared according to a number of parameters. The author structures ...
Social inclusion of people with disabilities de jure and de facto: the included, the self-inclusive and the non-self-inclusive
... aim of this research work is to study the impact of self-identification of people with disabilities on their social integration and inclusion. The complexity of internal contradictions of these processes and a limited number of research works on the problem determined the need for a new integrative analysis and synthesis of the existing theories and empirical facts. The evolution of the concepts of social integration and inclusion of people with disabilities is described as a socio-political trend ...
Reflections on the dictionary of an integral type
... independent two-sided and multifunctional unit of a language, respectively, it raises the issue of the amount and type of information about the lexical unit in the dictionaries of an integral type. The author of the article offers a solution to this problem. 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,...
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 of the source and the target texts, the author establishes a set of criteria for the identification...
The problem of memory in the novels of T. McCarth
This article analyses works of a modern English writer T. McCarthy who is considered to be a phenomenal 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.
1. Асланян А., Волчек...
School conflict as a subject of historical and pedagogical research
The paper analyses the problem of school conflicts and provides a theoretical substantiation of the possibility of their historical and pedagogical investigation in pedagogy. Using pedagogical writings of the early XX century, the authors explore the conceptual foundations ...
Non-standard problems in competence-based mathematics teaching
The authors analyse various types of non-standard tasks, identifies their main characteristics related to the formation of cognitive competence in mathematical education. The article explores ways of solving heuristic, research, and creative problems. A comprehensive approach to the definition of the nonstandard task is proposed. The proposed structure of the problem is based on the following scheme: content — form of presentation — process of solving — result. The authors give examples ...
Foreign culture images and the civilisation/barbarianism opposition in Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall
... цивилизация и ее наследие. Прага, 1961.
10. Хорев В. А. Польша и поляки глазами русских литераторов. Имагологические очерки. М., 2005.
11. Dyserinck H. Imagology and the Problem of Ethnic Identity // Intercultural Studies. 2003. № 1. P. 285—294.
12. Leerssen J. Imagology. The Cultural construction and literary representation of national characters. A critical survey. Amsterdam, 2007.
13. Waugh Ev. Decline and Fall....
Personal determinants of somatic reactions in adolescents
... 1998. № 8(1). С. 94—102.
8. Цыгин А. Н. Артериальная гипертензия у детей // Российский медицинский журнал. 1998. № 9. С. 574—578.
9. Bolger N., Schilling E. A. Personality and the problems of everyday life: the role of neuroticism in exposure and reactivity to daily stressors // Journal of Personality. 1991. Vol. 59(3). Р. 355—386.
10. Costa R. T., McCrae R. R. Neuroticism, somatic complaints and disease: Is the bark worse than ...
Chinese view on modern Russian literature in the context of tradition and modernity
Through analysing the mechanisms of reception of modern Russian literature in Chinese literary criticism, the author shows that a Chinese reader has a predisposition to understand texts in the context of the urgent national problem of preserving traditions. This predisposition affects the interpretation and perception of new rustic prose, female prose, and postmodernist literature. The study’s methodological framework combines the principles of comparative literary studies,...
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 ...
Developing applied competences in students of psychology and pedagogy through fulfilling professional tasks
... development of students’ key competences through fulfilling professional tasks relating to the mathematical and statistical processing of psychological and pedagogical research data. The author describes the stages of progress in, and solutions to, the problem of studying anxiety levels in primary school students.
1. Гришкина Т. Е. Динамика формирования готовности бакалавров психолого-педагогического образования к ...
Musical analogies and poetics of H. Broch’s novel «The Death of Virgil»
... Positivismus und Dichtung (ca. 1934) // Broch H. Kommentierte Werkausg. Bd. 10 : Philosophische Schriften. Kritik. T. 1. Frankfurt a/M, 1977. S. 191—239.
12. Broch H. Logik einer Zerfallenen Welt (1931) // Ibid. T. 2. S. 156—172.
13. Broch H. Gedanken zum Problem der Erkenntnis in der Musik (1934) // Ibid. S. 234—245.
14. Broch H. Briefe: 1938—1945 // Broch H. Kommentierte Werkausg. Bd. 13 : Briefe. T. 2. Frankfurt a/M, 1981.
15. Broch H., Vietta E. «Sich an den Tod heranpürschen...»: Briefwechsel ...
Migrant children in the system of education in Russia: A new research trend
This article analyses trends in, and approaches to, research into problems associated with teaching migrant children at Russian multi-ethnic educational institutions. The author stresses the need to study emotional expression in non-native speakers and bilingual children and to develop their emotional intelligence. ...
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 ...
Representation of emotions in literary texts (based on ‘La carte et le territoire’ by M. Houellebecq)
The author explores the ways of expressing emotions in the literary text using the novel ‘La carte et le territoire’ by Michel Houellebecq as an example. The main problem of research is the identification of specific way of expressing emotions in the literary text. The author proceeds from the assumption that interjections as well as emotive and affective lexical units play an important role in the representation ...
Big data in modern education
... development of technology. The author explores new approaches to the modernization of the system of education, which are based on big data technologies, including unstructured data. The article offers techniques and tools that could help to solve the existing problems in education and describes some negative consequences of the massive use of big data in modern digital society.
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Semantics of P. B. Shelley’s artistic imagery in the Marque of Anarchy poem
... П. Б. Избранное. М., 1962.
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10. Kuiken Kir. Shelley’s Mask of Anarchy and the Problem of Modern Sovereignty // Literature Compass. 2011. Vol. 8, iss. 2. P. 95—106. URL:
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The formation of a multicultural educational environ-ment in primary school: Experience and prospects
This paper considers the problem of multicultural education development in primary school. The authors justify the idea that multicultural education begins with the national traditions of a family. The article identifies and describes the key goals, means, and forms of multicultural ...
Pragmatic characteristics of complex sentences with relative clauses (based on German media discourse)
The purpose of this article is to describe pragmatic characteristics of complex sentences with relative clauses in the German media discourse. The author selects the following pragmatic schemes of hypotaxis structures of the studied type: specification, problematization, irony, simplification, complication, prevention and argument. The single-model and double-model types are identified as pragmatical types of complex sentences with relative clauses.
1. Любимова А. А. Языковые аспекты воздействия...
The content of practicum for bachelors and masters of education
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 methodological framework for development of specialists in advertising and public relations
... analyses and defines the essence of professional culture of specialists in advertising and public relations. The author describes the content of methodological approaches to its development and considers the significance of each approach to studying the problem. The author stresses the need to use the axiological, cultural, integrated, context, professional, and image approaches to the formation of professional culture in future advertising and public relations specialists.
1. Балакирева Э....
Peripheral means to express incentive modality in the public service announcement discourse
Public service announcements attract attention to social problems and encourage the general public to solve them, which requires influencing the recipient using speech methods. The means to exert such influence create a functional and semantic field. The authors focus on the periphery constituents of this field,...
Cooperation between a university and employers as a condi-tion for high-quality training of specialists in physical education and sports
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. ...
A programming language and translation
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....
The work of the dissertation panel D 212.084.03 in 2011—2015
The article presents a brief analysis of the topics of dissertations, defended in the Council 201.084.03 at the I. Kant Baltic Federal University in 2011—2015. Problems solved, regional applications and propagation of results, as well as future prospects are discussed.
1. Состав диссертационного совета 212.084.03. URL:
https://www.kantiana.ru/
postgraduate/doc/sostav%20soveta.doc ...
The problem of training a teacher to maintain Federal State Educational Standard in basic education
This article analyzes a number of studies concerned with training teachers for meeting the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard (FSES) and presents a system of interconnected components identifying a teacher’s readiness to introduce new standards. Special attention is paid to diagnosing a teacher’s readiness to maintain new standards. An advanced training programme “The organization of educational process in compliance with the FSES” is being developed in view of the identified...
Innovations in higher education
The article presents the results of the analysis of research on problems of development of innovative activity of teachers in the University. It discusses the involvement of teachers in innovative activity as a purposeful process of overcoming innovation barriers. Selected subjective and objective factors of innovative ...
Correction of students’ knowledge in lectures
This article is devoted to the little-studied problem of correction of uni¬versity students’ knowledge. The notion of knowledge correction is intro¬duced, the opportunities and methods of correcting students’ knowledge lec¬tures are analysed. The use of knowledge correction tests is discussed ...
On the problem of semiosis in the borrowed sign
The data of empirical research of the borrowed sign evolution are ana-lyzed in the article. The study focuses on"creativity"as an Anglo-American borrowing. Reversive nature of semiotic process, typical for interpretation of borrowed words — from sign to it’s meaning, from signifiant to signifie is shown. Different ways of assimilation of "alien" cultural experience in the consciousness of a target language are described.
1. Аристова В. М. Морфологическая структура английских...
Sensitivity to cultural differences in students with different cross-cultural experience
This paper offers a theoretical justification of the problem of intercultural sensitivity and analyses Russian and international approaches to studying the phenomena. The author presents the results of an empirical study into the in-tercultural sensitivity of students with different experiences of interacting ...
Memory phenomenon in the German literary criticism after 1989
... Literatur: Intertextualität in der russischen Moderne. Frankfurt a/M, 1990.
15. Lützeler P. M. Vorwort in Gegenwartsliteratur I // Lützeler P., Schindler S. (Hrsg.) Ein Germanistisches Jahrbuch. Tübingen, 2002. S. 13—19.
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17. Neumann B. Literatur, Erinnerung, Identität // Erll A., Nünning A. (Hrsg). Gedächtniskonzepte der Literaturwissenschaft. Theoretische Grundlegung ...
On the problem of interpreting the concept of SPACE in Russian and foreign linguistics
This article considers the relationship between the TIME and SPACE concepts. The features of modeling space parameters in human cognitive ac-tivities and the universal ways of verbalization of space structures and attri-butes are analyzed. The research is focused on the theory of primary and se-condary space deixis put forward by the German linguist A. Friderici, which presents a system of coordinates giving the subject of cognition the possibility to navigate in the surrounding space.
1. Беседина...
Problems of preparedness of students’ parents for inclusive education
... of parents within a poly-subject educational space is defined. The article presents results of empirical research on the preparedness of parents of chil¬dren with and without special needs for inclusive education in the Republic of Belarus. General problems of preparedness of a group of parents for inclusive education, as well as specific problems of preparedness of each subgroup, are identified and formulated.
1. Андреева А., Тахаува А. К проблеме инклюзивного ...
Discursive and media borders of criticism in arts (based on written materials in German)
In the information society, criticism assumes a special role in the system of genre and stylistic differentiation of media texts. The media culture of new generation is faced with the problem of studying the discursive characteristics of criticism of modern media genres. The analysed examples of criticism from German press focusing on arts and culture make it possible to reveal certain trends in the media perception in the early 21st ...
Cyberbullying, a new threat to adolescents’ personal security
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....
Elements of science fiction in the French postmodernist discourse: The case of B. Werber’s novel The Thanatonauts
This article presents an interdisciplinary study on text linguistics, lingu-o¬poetics, and narratology. It addresses the problems of modern science fiction discourse and analyses the ideas of the leading theorists of postmodernism — J.-F. Lyotard and J. Derrida — as well as those of scholars focusing on the sci-ence fiction discourse — T. Todorov and R. Lachmann. ...
Preparedness of social workers to manage social facilitation
... Families and Children and student volunteers from the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University aimed at man-aging a special area of social activity of the Centre’s clients, namely, social as-sistance. The authors identify management connections and problems, as well as prospect for inter-institutional cooperation in the field.
1. Иванова Ю. В. Социальное обслуживание граждан пожилого возраста как социальный институт в современной ...
What Saussure wrote/did not write: A half a century discussion on the anagram theory
... rerum natura. Louvain; P., 2002.
10. Gasparov B. Beyond Pure Reason. Ferdinand de Saussure's Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents. N. Y., 2013.
11. Gronas M. Just what word did Mandel’shtam forget? A mnemopoetic solution to the problem of Saussure’s anagrams // Poetics today. 2009. Vol. 30, № 2. Р. 155—205.
12. Lestayo J. R. S. Les mots sous les choses: Starobinski, Borges, Saussure // Modern Language Notes. 2014. Vol. 129, № 2 (Hispanic Issue). Р. 330—351.
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Open and enclosed space in a romantic novel
This article analyzes the opposition of open and enclosed space in the novels of Jena and Heidelberg romantics, considering its relation to the problems of artist’s personality and freedoms. An analysis of similar space images used by several authors shows how the tradition was reinterpreted at different stages of romantic thought. Stepping out into the open, which expresses liberation from ...
The ‘Faust zone’ in the works of Goethe and Pushkin
This article considers the ‘Faustian motif’ in Pushkin’s life and work. The problem of the ‘Faust zone’ in history is emphasised in the context of compari-son of different ideological and poetic interpretations of the Faustian archetype in the works of Goethe and Pushkin. It is concluded that Pushkin’s poetic ge-nius is ...
Poet’s corporeal topography in M. Tsvetaeva’s cycle “The Sibyl”
... model juxtaposed with the structure of universe, on the one hand, and the being of the poet, on the other. The article explores the connection between this model and the image of Sybilmountain-cave-tree as a hollow body “inhabited” by God and the problem of overcoming the corporeal and achieving the true, out-of-body being.
1. Тульчинский Г. Л. Тело свободы // Эпштейн М. Н. Философия тела. Тульчинский Г. Л. Тело свободы. СПб....
The spiritual and moral collision in H. G. Wells’s short story “The Door in the Wall”
... 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 embodies the opposition between the catego-ries ...
The transformation of ethnic identity in the condition of post-Soviet development of the independent states
This article considers the problem of ethnic identity as a polymodal one and analyses certain social, historical, and psychological aspects of its context. Language is one of the major differentiating features in terms of ethnicity. In some historical situations, ethnic identity ...
Advanced training of teachers during the transition to universal secondary education (the 1960—70s)
This article addresses the issues of increasing teachers’ professional per-formance during reforms in school education. The author examines the func-tioning of teacher’s advanced training institutions. The article analyses the problem of content differentiation and development of advanced training courses for teachers in view of their education level, experience, interests, and needs.
1. Государственный архив Калининградской области ...