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The article is devoted to the transformation of contemporary Russian art-media discourse, manifested in a change in the genre-speech presentation of such an institutional characteristic as evaluative. Authors believe that the modern art-media discourse is aimed at broadcasting the evaluation of art­works and at including the addressee in the multistage evaluation process and imposing its results. The inception stage of assessment acquaints the audience with the work, forms a basic evaluation, and...

The article analyses linguistic and cultural features of specialised transla­tion in the steel industry. Technical translation has always been in high de­mand and occupies a significant niche in the translation services market. At the same time, experts mention the frequency of low-quality translations, which indicates certain issues in this type of practice. The authors attempt to consider the most frequent challenges in technical translation focusing on the texts and communicative situations of...

This article describes ways to semanticise the biblical quasi-anthroponym ‘prodigal son’ in a poetic text, using the frame approach as a means of cognitive modelling and description. This approach helps to identify and characterise meaning construction mechanisms in a prec­edent onomastic sign, which conveys the conceptual meanings of the biblical text. The study proposes a new methodology for analysing the biblical anthroponym in a poetic text. The results obtained suggest that the realisation...

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...

The famous work by K.Ryleyev is analysed using an axiological approach that allows the authors to interpret its main conflict in a new way. K.Ryleyev pays special attention to an antithesis, showing that Prince Igor concedes to passions throughout his life whereas Princess Olga is always guided by a moral imperative. This antithesis is the main artistic means, and the cornerstone of the plot. The analysis of the main characters shows that Princess Olga, the ruler of the Russian land, is the epitome...

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 shows the differences in the interpretation of readiness for activity as well as in the requirements for training mediators in Russia, the United Kingdom and the USA. The researcher states the need for a humanist ...

The author describes basic sentence models and their transformations in Russian and Polish academic texts. Sentence models are defined as structural and semantic types of sentences. Transformations employ such syntax means, as passivization, nominalizations, the use of participial constructions and oth­ers. The author points out the most popular transformed models in the ana­lyzed ac­ademic texts and reveals the systemic nature of the described process­es. 1. Бабенко Н. Г. «Национальные постмодернизмы»:...

The article draws attention to the problem of inclusive education of disa­bled students. The analysis of statistical data, as well as research in the field of inclusive education in different regions of Russia (Moscow, Kaluga, Kostro­ma, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Samara regions and the Caucasus) show that there are barriers to the implementation of inclusive education in Russia. These bar­riers are: negative attitudes towards the introduction of inclusion,...

Current processes in the stylistic system of the Russian language are related to qualitative (changing the language functional styles) and quantitative (the emergence of new styles) transformations. The author explores the correlation of styles and different types of discourse as communicative speech formations. Special attention is given to the cognitive and awareness factors as criteria for the identification of styles and types of discourse. 1. Барг М. А. Эпохи и идеи: Становление историзма....

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, communication theory,...

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 on the theory of social representations and the concept of ethnic identity. This article presents the results of a study on the impact of Russian students’ ethnic...

... education and the higher education reformation concept. The article also demonstrates scientific contribution and the influence of pedagogical views and ideas of outstanding Naval commanders onto the foundation and development of maritime education in Russia. 1. Бойко В. Н. Морской Его Императорского Высочества Наследника Цесаревича Корпус в Севастополе. Севастополь, 2013. 2. Высочайше утвержденное ...

This article is devoted to the lexis of the Russian language denoting mental states. The study of the words and their functions rests on the psychological interpretation and classification of mental states. The author describes how a person’s mental life is expressed as a system of interacting and interdependent mental states in the language picture of the world. The semantics and history of the words chuvstvo, etmotsiya, and oschuschenie are investigated. It is concluded that the words chuvstvo...

The article deals with linguistic aspects of localizaton, in particular, with cultural adaptation of non-equivalent lexis in the translation of computer games from Russian into English. The research is focused on the types of nonequivalent lexical units typical of game discourse and their translation into the Russian language. 1. Esselink B. A practical guide to localization. John Benjamins Publishing, 2000. 2. O’Hagan M., Mangiron C. Game Localization: Translating for the global digital entertainment...

This article analyzes the dialogue between D. S. Merezhkovsky and Fedor Sologub that showed their vision of “poshlost’” (vulgarity, banality), which in turn had been informed by the legacy of N. V. Gogol. The author traces the analogies in the artistic depiction of poshlost’ by Sologub in his novel “The Petty Demon” (1905) and the critical interpretation of the phenomenon of poshlost’ by Merezhkovsky. The connection between Merezhkovsky’s study “Gogol and the Devil” (1906) and “The Coming Kham” (1906)...

The article analyses certain types and results of the categorization of system objects reflected in the modern Russian language. Using methods of traditional and cognitive semantics, the author explores linguistic representations of categorization levels in the understanding of the ‘system’ phenomenon. The author attempts to correlate the identified classification rubrics with various knowledge formats as well as to consider the structure and content of these rubrics in the context of everyday and...

Mass cinematography reflects the cultural and mental state of any nation as well as the state of its language. Based on the analysis of the fragments of the Soviet and contemporary Russian films, the author determines the role and purpose of the requestive threat as a speech act, and identifies the composition and role of various components of requestive threat speech acts as a type. Requestive speech acts are a means of indirectly derived expression of a corresponding meaning. 1. Крючкова Г. Н...

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...

This article discusses the development of social identity in the modern Russian society in the case of the Kaliningrad region. Based on an analysis of the regional public discourse and the data of surveys and case studies, the author considers the process of promoting and imposing a model of normativity and social identity marked as one characteristic of the “overwhelming majority” of citizens, “traditional” for the Russian society, and morally true, but nevertheless contradicting the actual state...

This article presents a brief analysis of the causes of transition to compe-tency interpretation of vocational education outcomes in Russia and abroad. The authors consider the interpretation of the basic categories of ‘competence’ and ‘competency’ in the education systems of the USA, the UK, Germany, France, and Russia, as well as the understanding of their structure and func-tion ...

This article considers the key lines of historical and pedagogical research on the notion of thesaurus in science, including that within Russian pedagogy. The author focuses on the problems of interpreting the notion of thesaurus and the key stages of its development 1. Белянин В. П. Основы психолингвистической диагностики. (Модели мира в литературе). М., 2000. 2. Воробьев Г. Г. Кибернетика стучится в школу. М., 1986. 3. Гинецинский В. И. Основы теоретической педагогики : учеб. пособ. СПб., 1992...

The article deals with the functioning of anthroponyms and the condi-tions for the realization of their cognitive potential in the Russian and English cultural contexts. In this survey-based research an attempt is made to demon-strate how the flexibility of anthroponymical models reflects both the represen-tation and perception of an individual in the two cultures, and how communi-cation is handled with the help of personal names’ variations. 1. Березович Е. Л. Русская топонимия в этнолингвистическом...

This article identifies and analyses the linguistic features of the genera-tion and perception of complimentary phrases in different age groups belon-ging to English, American, and Russian cultures. The language of representatives of different age groups is dissimilar, therefore, there is a need to consider the effect of age parameters on language. 1. Булгаков М. А. Театральный роман. Алма-Ата, 1988. 2. Вахтин Н. В., Головка Е. В. Социолингвистика и социология языка. Гендер. Язык и возраст. URL:...

The second article of the series considers the role of the vegetative code in conveying the core of N. Kononov’s hidden semantic system, namely, the de-velopment of the dual and the plural from the singular I (ego). The paronymy between the Russian koren (root) and the English corn makes it possible to progress to the Russian ovyos (oats), which represents this development in different linguistic transformations. It is shown how the description of the vegetative cycle of oats (or the singularity/duality...

This article discusses the features of the author’s modal evaluations in the texts of the first Russian newspaper Vedomosti. The article identifies modal evaluative meanings and the language means of their implementation and analyses the mechanism of interaction between objectively modal and subjectively modal meanings aimed at fulfilling the author’s intentions in the framework of newspaper information. 1. Ваулина С. С. Эволюция средств выражения модальности в русском языке (XI—XVII вв.). Л., 1988...

This article addresses the problem of choosing a methodology of Russian language teaching as a subject at a school with multicultural students. The author emphasises the need for a new integrative methodology corresponding to the needs of a multicultural school. 1. Лысакова И. П. Русский язык для мигрантов: РКИ или РКН? (к вопросу о содержании терминов) // XXXVIII Международная филологическая конференция. 16—20 марта 2009. СПб., 2009. Вып. 21 : Русский язык как иностранный и методика его преподавания...

The paper deals with some peculiarities of translating colloquial and lowcolloquial vocabulary functioning in the novels of S. Maugham into Russian. The features of translation equivalents are identified at the stylistic and semantic levels. The ways of compensating for the lost components of meaning are shown. In spite of that the colloquial and low-colloquial elements belong to typologically different languages, some similarities are observed at semantic and stylistic levels. 1. Кожина М. Н. Стилистический...

The article focuses upon basic means of the 'time' category explication in the English and Russian lexicon and grammar; special emphasis is laid upon linguistic instantiations of axiological sense. 1. Балашова Л. В. Метафора в диахронии (на материале русского языка XI—XX веков). Саратов, 1998. 2. Бондарко А. В. Временные категории (на материале русского языка) // Категоризация мира: пространство и время. М., 1997. С. 31—34. 3. Бондарко А. В. Теория значения в системе функциональной грамматики:на...

George Balanchine is a Russian-US dancer and choreographer who was invited to the USA in 1933 by Lincoln Kirstein's. Balanchine founded the School of American Ballet following the Russian ballet tradition. The author focuses his attention on several movements of classical dance as interpreted by Balanchine. 1. Суриц Е. Балет и танец в Америке. Очерки истории. Екатеринбург, 2004. 2. Martins P. Far from Denmark. Boston; Toronto, 1982. 3. Schorer S. Balanchine Technique. Florida, 1999. 4....

This article offers a comparative-historical analysis of the basic approaches to research on the creative abilities of a human being typical of Russian and international psychology. The author considers the reasons behind the development of conceptions and their influence on the trajectories of modern psychology. 1. Бердяев Н. А. Самопознание. Опыт философской автобиографии. М., 1990. 2. Богоявленская Д. Б. Психология творческих способностей. М., 2002. 3. Богоявленская Д. Б. Основные направления...

his article presents a comparative analysis of the factors of family education influencing children’s health behavior and life expectancy. The work is based on two empirical studies conducted in the U.S. (Utah) and the Russian Federation (Kaliningrad region), as well as the Republic of Belarus. 1. Мехович Г. А. Самосохранительное поведение детей 3—5 лет в условиях семейного воспитания // Вестник Балтийского федерального университета им. И. Канта. Калининград, 2012. Вып. 11. С. 146—149. 2...

This article reconstructs the image of a woman as presented in Russian modern chanson. The author identifies two female images – the mother and the lover. The image of the mother has hardly changed over the last seventy years. The image of the lover has inversed: earlier, she played with the man, now she is his plaything. Female images are analysed from the perspective of C. G. Jung’s analytical psychology. 1. Берестнев Г. И. Слово, язык и за их пределами. Калининград, 2007. 2. Николаева Т. М...

This article considers the genre poetics of the novels by the Polish writer of Belarusian descent, Sergiusz Piasecki. The authors identify the features of artistic incarnation of the actual autobiographical material, the genre forming role of Belarusian and Russian substrata, the influence of the tradition of Russian classical novel, as well as the manifestation of the elements of adventure and ideological novels. 1. Бахтин М. Эстетика словесного творчества. М., 1979. 2. Песецкий С. Человек, превращенный...

Official and business documents published in modern Russian and Polish periodicals serves as the material for analyzing the expression plane of necessity microfield. The authors identify its central and peripheral components, as well as common properties and intralinguistic features in the set of expressive means of the given microfield. 1. Ваулина С. С. Языковая модальность как функционально-семантическая категория (диахронический аспект). Калининград, 1993. 2. Дронова Л. П. Когнитивный аспект...

This article deals with the “border” concept, which is considered with the help of Russian language material from the cognitive point of view: as a prototypical spatial object and as a functionally important schema for the structuring of different parts of linguistic world image relating to space. 1. Бабенко Л. Г. Предисловие // Концептосфера русского языка: ключевые концепты и их репрезентации (на материале лексики, фразеологии и паремиологии): проспект словаря. Екатеринбург, 2010. С. 3—19...

This article focuses on the influence of rhetorical tradition on the development of categorical framework of Russian Formalism. The author proves that formalism borrows the idea of the poetical from the “deviation” from rhetorical theories. 1. Аверинцев С. С. Античная риторика и судьбы античного рационализма //Аверинцев С. С. Образ античности. СПб., 2004. 2. Аверинцев С. С. Христианский аристотелизм как внутренняя форма западной традиции и проблемы современной России // Аверинцев С. С. Риторика...

This article compares the theoretical treatises of representatives of Russian avant-gardism of the 1910s with the ideas of Yu. Tynyanov and R. Yakobson. The author shows the conceptual unity of metaliterature search of avant-gardists and formalists. 1. Гин Я. И. О «поэтической филологии» // Гин Я. И. Проблемы поэтики грамматических категорий: Избр. работы. СПб., 1996. 2. Гринцер Н. П., Гринцер П. А. Становление литературной теории в Древней Греции и Индии. М., 2000. 3. Крученых А...

This article considers the views of Russian philosophers on education in the late 19th — early 20th centuries. The author identifies an compares the key philosophical and pedagogical ideas of L. N. Tolstoy, V. V. Rozanov, V. K. Wentzel, M. Rubinstein. 1. Булкин А.   П. Социокультурная динамика образования. Дубна, 2001. 2. Валицкая А.   П. Как возможна общая теория образования, или о междис­циплинарном статусе понятия диалог // Диалог в образовании: сб. матер. конф. Сер. «Symposium»...

This article examines the development of education management system in Russia in the late 20th — early 21st centuries from the perspective of synergetic methodology. 1. Ельчанинов М.   С. Российская трансформация с точки зрения социальной синергетики ...

This article deals with the theoretical problems of learning and research culture, its functions and criteria, as well as possibilities of its formation in students of rural schools in the History of Western Russia classes in view of the specific features of the educational institution and the novelty of the discipline. 1. Кузьминых Я.   С. О пользе туристическо-краеведческой работы // Красное знамя....

This article discusses the technology of formation of learning and research culture at schools of the Kaliningrad region in lessons on the history of western Russia. The process of learning and research culture formation will be successful if more attention is paid to independent research of schoolchildren, namely, solving tasks with the help of acquired research knowledge and skills, as well as preparation ...

This article analyses the value foundations of pedagogy at the present stage and in historical development. The author offers a classification of the main value attitudes to personalities (to oneself, other equal subjects, and the world), which makes it possible to analyze the changing objectives of education. The article explains why pedagogical addresses the value priorities of Russian cosmism as a result of the expansion of society's value field. 1. Сластенин Г.   А., Чижакова Г.   И. Введение...

The article deals with the possibility of using the modular system in the process of teaching students a foreign language under the сircumstances orming the modern system of higher education in Russia. 1.  Юцявичене П.   А. Принципы модульного обучения // Советская педагоги­ка. 1990. №   1. С. 55—61. 2.  Шамова Т.   И., Давыденко Т.   М., Шабанова ...

The article examines the means of expressing impersonality meanings in the works of contemporary Russian, Polish and Bulgarian poets. The author determines typological characteristics defining correlations between the lexical and semantic and functional grammatical categories of linguistic units in contextualised expression of impersonality. 1.  Андреев А . Пътьом: поезия. София, 2000. 2.  Балева   В . Някъде вън от живота: поезия. София, 1999. 3.  Васильев   С.   А . Собрание сочинений: в 3 т...

The article analyses the pragmatic and onomasiological aspects of ‘indifference’ verbal reflexes in the contemporary Russian language. The author deals with the challenges of speech reactions studies connected with national peculiarities and indirect speech representations. 1.  Гак В.   Г. Речевые рефлексы с речевыми словами // Языковые преобразо­вания. М., 1998. С. 685—691. 2.  Гак В.   Г. Эмоции и оценки в структуре высказывания и текста // Там же. С. 645—662. 3.  Грайс Г.   П . Логика...

The article analyses Old Russian language in the framework of the interpretation of possibility modality as a semantic category. The author justifies the extension of possibility representatives list by non-specialized lexemes that reveal strong modality potential. Авв. Кн. бес. —  Аввакум . Из «Книги бесед» // Памятники литературы древней Руси (ПЛДР). XVII  в. Книга вторая. М., 1989. Александр. —  Александрия  // ПЛДР. Вторая половина XV в. М., 1982. Времен. —  Из «Временника»...

This article concentrates on the research of concept understanding as a mental and inter-cultural unit in collective perception, represented by means of set expressions and phraseological units. Specific ways of the formation of the phraseological concepts in English and Russian cultures are described 1. Алимурадов О.   А. Смысл. Концепт. Интенциональность. Пятигорск, 2003. 2. Демьянков В.   З . Когнитивная лингвистика как разновидность интерпрети­рующего подхода // Вопросы языкознания. 1994...

This article examines preparation for parenthood in Russian and Belarusian traditional upbringing. The author employs historical, ethnographic and literary sources. 1. Антонов А. И. Социология рождаемости: Теоретические и методологиче­ские проблемы. М.: Статистика, 1980. 2. Беларусы. Т. 5: Сям’я / В. К. Бандарчык, Г. М. Курыловіч, Т. І. Кухаронак і інш. Мінск: Беларуская навука, 2001. 3. Бойко В. В. Рождаемость: социально-психологические аспекты. М.: Мысль, 1985. 4. Борисова Е. Мудрость...

This article considers the motif of money in contemporary Russian prose and drama in the framework of its characteristic, axiological, and ontological meaning. The problem is examined through the examples of the works by V. Rasputin, V. Pelevin, and R. Senchin. 1.  Жданова В . Деньги и алчность в классической литературе // Литератур­ная учеба. 2008. №   2. С. 191—202. 2.  Романова Г.   И . Мотив денег в русской литературе. М., 2006. 3.  Ружицкий И.   В . «Деньги» Достоевского...

This article asserts that Russian avant-gardism translated the antirhetorical in the rhetorical having codified “error” as a poetic device. This phenomenon is considered in the framework of A. Kruchenykh’s theory of shift. 1.  Гаспаров М.   Л. Античная риторика как система // Гаспаров М.   Л . Об ан­тичной поэзии: Поэты. Поэтика. Риторика. СПб., 2000. 2.  Крученых А. 500 новых острот и каламбуров Пушкина. М., 1924. 3.  Крученых А. Заумный язык у: Сейфуллиной, Вс. Иванова, Леонова, Бабе­ля, И. Сельвинского...