Current processes in the stylistic system of the Russian language: style vs discourse
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 ...
History of professional duet dance and the development of the ‘Classical duet dance’ academic discipline
This article focuses on the history of professional duet dance from the 17th cen¬tury to the present. The author traces the development of the ‘Classical duet dan¬ce’ discipline as a special discipline at professional dance schools in the 1920-60s.
1. Серебренников Н. Н. Поддержка в дуэтном танце : учеб.-метод....
‘Learned helplessness’ in older preschool children with arrested mental development
This article presents the results of a pilot study into learned helplessness in preschool children with arrested mental development. The authors describe the testing of methods for studying a child’s behavior models and identify key characteristics of older preschool children with AMD, typical of learned helplessness. The features of emotional, cognitive, conative, and motivational deficiencies ...
Merezhkovsky and F. Sologub: Gogol's imprint in the dialogue about poshlost’
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 ...
Informational Field of Proper Names
The present paper considers a complex and onomastically underexplorwed issue of proper names' (PN) informational field. The article highlights the author's view of singling out aspects of the PN informational field as well as their heterogeneity, mutual intersections and interpenetrations. A prospective variant has been offered for a complex information analysis and determination of its communicative ...
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, which function in public service announcements in the Russian and German languages.
1. Виноградов В. В. Русский язык (Грамматическое учение о слове)....
The features and stages of developing educational programmes at a university: The practical aspect
This article focuses on the features of developing an educational programme in accordance with legal and educational standards. The author identifies and describes the stages of educational programme planning.
На пути к сопоставимости программ высшего образования : информационный обзор / под ред. И. Дюкарева ...
The journey mythologem in the poem «Mazeppa» by John. G. Byron
The author analyses challenges that the main character faces during his involuntary journey. The challenges result in not only the character’s social climbing, but also lead to the development of his personality. A comparison of the journey story models ...
Functional and semantic aspects of threat in requestive speech acts (based on the Soviet and Russian feature films)
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 ...
Means to express implicit judgements about characters in N. V. Gogol’s poem Dead Souls and its translation into German
Irony is considered as a means to express implicit judgements in N.V. Gogol's poem Dead Souls. The author analyses lexical units comprising the ironic semantics of judgements about characters. Special attention is paid to comparing irony explicators used in the original text and the poem’s translation into German.
1. Коковина Л.В. Модальные ...
Social identity in the conditions of cultural diversity: A search or imposition? (the case of the Kaliningrad region)
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 ...
Dialogue of cultures in Alina Bronsky’s novel «Broken glass garden »
In the article the author attempts to consider some demonstrations of the dialogue of cultures in the works of arts of German-speaking authorsby the example of the novel by Alina Bronsky “Broken Glass Park” (“Scherbenpark”). The point lies in theidentification of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 with representatives of other cultures and ethnic groups. It is shown that a higher intercultural sensitivity is ...
The concept of individuality and models of qualimetric competence
The author describe the notions of “competence”, “competency” and “qualimetric competence”. The existing models of the qualimetric competence are analysed. The authors introduce their own model of qualimetric competence using the concept of the ...
Grammatical aspects of depersonalization in Yegor Letov's idiostyle
The article discusses several strategies of Egor Letov’s idiostyle associated with his subjective position, which is expressed in a literary text. The authors analyze some models of Letov’s poetic syntax — subject-predicate relations and the prevalence of infinitives. The article describes certain constants of the Egor Letov’s poetic model of the world, characterizing the position of the author’s ...
On the correlation between the terms poly-discoursivity and inter-discoursivity
Based on a word formation analysis of the ‘poly-discursivity’ nomination, the author stresses its superiority over other synonymous terms used in the Russian research literature. Poly-discursivity and inter-discursivity are considered as different aspects of the same phenomenon. The proposed definition is based on the meaning most ...
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 education in primary school. The practical results of multicultural ...
Linguistic aspects of the treatise by Abel Mathieu «Devis de la langue francoyse» (1559)
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 ...
Moral and spiritual education in the conditions of civilisational challenges
This article stresses the central position of moral and spiritual education in the modern educational paradigm. The values and meanings associated with the notion of ‘moral and spiritual education’ are considered. The author stresses the relevance of reintroducing moral and spiritual education and ex-presses concerns about the national system of education losing its values and targets. The article proposes ways to increase the efficiency of moral and spiri-tual education ...
The biblical anthoponyms Jospeh the All-comely and Mary Magdelene in Marina Tsvetaeva’s poetic interpretation
This paper studies the informative and associative aspects of the precedent biblical anthroponyms Jospeh the All-comely and Mary Magdalene as units of Marina Tsvetaeva’s personosphere. The author characterizes the text formation and pragmatic functions of the mentioned anthroponyms in Tsevtaeva’s poetic text. The role of cultural contexts in the formation of the informative and associative field of anthropoetonyms.
1. Блох М. Я....
The psychological potential of beach volley-ball players depending on their sport qualification
... study into the psychophysiological characteristics of beach volleyball players – a recently introduced Olympic sport. Current research and methodological literature focuses primarily on competitive activities, training, and physical competences. The authors de-scribe the psychological status of a beach volleyball player and present psy-chomotor indicators that can be used as benchmark characteristics in selecting and diagnosing players. For the first time, the psychophysiological features of the ...
On the definition of "dichotomy" in linguistics
The author considers the functioning of the term "dichotomy" in philoso-phy, logic and linguistics; analyzes the essence of the concept of "dichotomy" and its semantic relatedness to the concepts of "antinomy", "antonymy" ...
Motivating students of secondary vocational educational institutions in the field of services to participate in sport
This article focuses on motivating students of secondary vocational edu-cation institutions in the field of services to participate in sport both as part of the curriculum and as an extracurricular activity. The author stresses the significance of physical education for the development of psychophysical pre-paredness of a medium-level specialists in the field of services. Analysis of sci-entific literature and a survey of students were used to study the current ...
Practical classes in mathematics as a means to develop the research competence in students of technical universities
The article is devoted to the formation of research competence in technical university students in accordance with the requirements of relevant federal state educational standards. The authors focus on the preparedness of future engineers to conduct technical experiments, whose important component is the mathematical processing of experimental data and performance of simulation experiments. It is proposed to develop such skills during ...
The impact of family education on the development of mental health in a primary school student within pedagogical process
This article considers studying families as a factor in the development of mental health in the educational process. The author analyses the impact of family education style on a student’s anxiety as one of the aspects of mental health. The article considers the basic method of developing mental health in the education process and identifies and analyses the methods of ...
Personalized learning in the information society
... presents a new approach, which improves the quality of train-ing of specialists in information technologies by considering the dominant special abilities to different lines of activity. It includes the scheme of the edu-cational process in high school. Authors focus on student's inherent special abilities as the dominant ones for the educational process. The paper describes in detail the issues of formation of learning motivation based on the personal characteristics of the individual learners.
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Development of the Olympic movement in the early 20th century in Germany
This study focuses on the development of physical education and sport in Germany in 1919-1939. The author analyses the contents of physical educa-tion and sport typical of Germany of the early 20th century and identifies spe-cific features of German athletes’ training. It is stressed that attitudes to sport underwent a dramatic change in the 1920s ...
The pedagogical conditions of self-care socialisation in primary school students
This article discusses the pedagogical conditions of self-care socialization in primary school children. The authors focus on the essence of these conditions and the need to ensure them in the process of socialization of primary school students.
1. Большой психологический словарь. СПб., 2004. С. 469.
2. Борытко Н. М....
The theoretical framework a teacher’s cross-cultural compe-tence: International practice
... 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 author emphasises the need to consider cross-cultural competences with the help of models and attempts to create a model of the development of a teacher’s cross-cultural competence
1. Чернецова О. В. Методологический анализ ...
The German agricultural discourse in the 17th century (based on the treatise «Stratagema oeconomicum oder Akkerstudent» by Salomon Gubert
This article explores peculiarities of the formation of the German agricultural discourse as a special type of scientific discourse of the seventeenth century. The author performs a discursive and cognitive analyses of the treatise «Stratagema oeconomicum oder Akkerstudent» written by the German pastor Salomon Gubert in Livonia in 1645. The linguocultural aspect of the institutional communication is considered ...
A model for involving the expert community in implementing the educational policy: The case of a major educational programme
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 ...
A comparative analysis of physical fitness in students of Kaliningrad schools by age groups
This article analyzes the monitoring of physical fitness of students of Kaliningrad educational institutions. The authors examine the indicators of basic physical qualities of students by age groups. The main trends and differences in the levels of physical fitness and development of physical qualities are identified. Indicators are considered by age group, separately ...
Regional identity as an important component of a bachelor of linguistics’ university training
The article is devoted to considering the significance of regional identity in the context of language education of a bachelor of linguistics. The authors identify the key requirements for professional training, the content of the no-tion of “regional identity”, and the learning environment of language univer-sities facilitating the development of regional identity.
1. Амосова М. А....
The motif of temptation in G. G. Byron’s mystery play Cain
This article considers one of the most complex works of Byron. The author focuses on the key motif in the plot of the philosophical drama. The analysis shows that Byron’s interpretation of the Biblical events makes it possible to conclude that, striving for absolute freedom, the human being is incapable of protecting ...
Social attitudes as a factor of delinquent behaviour in the underage
This article analyses the correlation between attitudes and social beha-viour and such factors as the strength/weakness and clarity/ambivalence of an attitude and the situation factor. The author considers the results of empirical studies into value orientations and moral and psychological attitudes based on samples of senior year school students and university students. The article studies correlation between social attitudes and asocial ...
Non-degree training of students under the new legislation on education, youth policy, and culture
This article considers the requirements for non-degree education of stu-dents contained in the current legislation regulating the activities of profes-sional education institutions. Based on the legislative provisions, the authors outline a system of modern non-degree education of students.
1. Государственная программа Российской Федерации «Развитие образования на 2013—2020 годы». URL: http://минобрнауки....
A comparative analysis of terminology of inclusive education
This article examines the terms used to denote the category of persons with mental and physical impairments in the legal, psychological, and pedagogical literature. The author addresses the impact of the uses of these terms on the public perception of this social category. An attempt is made to classify the notions relating to persons with mental and physical defects in accordance with the conceptual – medical and ...
Elements of science fiction in the French postmodernist discourse: The case of B. Werber’s novel The Thanatonauts
... 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. The practical material of the study is the works of the modern French postmodernist author Bernard Werber.
1. Иеронова И. Ю. Семиотическое пространство текста как методическая проблема // На стыке парадигм лингвистического знания в ...
Edward Stachura’s existential character and the Polish wedding chronotope
This article analyses the spatial and temporal structure of Edward Stachura’s short story “The Wedding” in an intertextual dialogue with Sta-nislaw Wyspianski’s play of the same name and in the existential literary-philosophical context. The author focuses on the problem of relations between the individual and the historical national community. The article analyses the logic of solving this problem in the romantic context of Wyspianski’s thinking and the existential context of Stachura’s ...
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. The article analyses the notions of ‘bullying’ and ‘cyberbullying’ and identifies the features of the ...
Features of the development of an individual educational trajectory in the framework of cluster approach
... interaction between the agents of educational process in the framework of traditional and cluster approach. It is stressed that cluster approach to organizing the training of specialists in mechanical engi¬neering can solve most urgent problems. The author identifies the features of and makes recommendations for the development of an individual educational trajectory.
1. Винокуров М. А. Модернизация высшего и среднего профессионального образования ...
The development of the notion of ‘thesaurus’ in Russian pedagogical science
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)....
Evaluative lexis as a component of subjective modality in the Russian handwritten newspaper Vesti-kuranty
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 ...
From the history of literary relationships: Cz. Miłosz and J. Putramen
... Milosz and Jerzy Putrament studied together at the Stefan Ba-tory University in Wilno and were members of the Żagary literary group. Later, their relationship faced certain challenges and was broken off as Milosz emigrated. The relationship of the two authors is considered based on J. Putrament’s letters to Cz. Milosz published by the latter in 1998.
1. Александров В. Путрамент // Краткая лит. энциклопедия : в 8 т. М., 1962—1978. Т. 6. С. 90.
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Helping relationships and diagnostics of attachment: A psychometric revision of the IPPA questionnaire
... the "Strange situation", "Strange situation for preschool children", and "End of story" techniques, Kerns’ scale, and Burmenskaya and Pupyreva’s questionnaire "Assessment of attachment to the mother". The authors emphasize the difficulties of using these tech¬niques in studying attachment in adolescents and adults and describe the main results of psychometric revision of the Inventory of Parent and Peer At¬tachment (IPPA, G. Armsden, M. Greenberg) based ...
East on the “mental map” of 18th century English essayists: The imagological aspect
This article attempts to identify the dominant oriental hetero-images of the eighteenth-century English essays. It deals with the imagological structures of the oriental essay, by means of which the author outlines the main oriental constructs on the Englishmen’s «mental map» as artistic methods of opening up the literary space of the era.
1. Duprat A., Picherot É. Récits d'orient dans les littératures d'Europe: XVIe-XVIIe siècles. P., 2008....
A competency-based interpretation of professional education results: History and objectives
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 to improve the ...
The role of discourse in modern linguistics
This article considers discourse as a category giving a new perspective on the text. The author analyses various concepts of discourse, which were developed over the last decades within the cognitive, constructivist-poststru-cturalist, and neo-rhetorical approaches. Despite being based on different methodological principles, the concepts ...