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This article presents a methodology of academic staff certification based on the qualimetrics approach to the assessment of objects and phenomena that are hardly subject to algorithmisation. This approach is used to identify the quality levels as individual components of the performance and overall ranking of the academic staff. The methodology was developed in the course of a study carried out by the authors at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in the framework of the project “The development...

This article focuses on the features of professional athletes’ ideas of family relations. The authors analyse the relation structure, role distribution, ways of communication, and egocentrism tendencies in professional athletes’ families. The authors’ idea of the counselling process lies in addressing the features of athletes’ families with the help of the hardware methods of neuromodulation, projective techniques, and corporal therapy. The authors identify four areas of counselling and offer recommendations...

This article studies trends in the development of the German language and their manifestations in spoken language. It is established that, under the influence oral discourse conditions, the antinomies of language development are resolved in regional spoken languages predominantly in favor of the system (usage vs system), the speaker (speaker vs listener), expressivity (regularity vs expressiveness), and the code (code vs text). 1. Едличка А. Теория языковой культуры сегодня // Новое в зарубежной...

This article analyses the linguistic characteristics of similes in the works of modern American writer Khaled Hosseini. It provides an interpretation of the semantic, structural, and pragmatic features of comparative structures containing a comparison concept and a concept under comparison that have a referential correlation with the spheres of the spiritual and material world. It is concluded that that that stylistic device of simile, which helps to deliver the intention of the author of a literary...

This article explores the ways of updating and restructuring the methodological framework of the “Human Anatomy” discipline as taught to undergraduate students in physical education. The author presents the structure of the methodological framework created to improve the quality of training process organisation and development of knowledge in students. An assessment of the efficiency of using the methodological framework in the training process is presented. 1. Гнитецкая Т. Н. Современные образовательные...

This article discusses the problems of a linguistic study into personal names based on hagiographic hymnography. The author describes the methodology of cultural linguistic representation of the name of Saint Basil of Moscow based on anthroponyms and vocatives nominating the saint in the August Menaion from the collection of the Wojnowo Monastery (Poland). 1. Азбука веры : православная энциклопедия : [сайт]. URL: http://azbyka.ru (дата обращения: 30.04.2014). 2. Бугаева И. В. Агионимы в ономастическом...

N. Kononov’s short story “Anastasia’s amnesia” is used to study the mythopoetic code forming the basis of the writer’s works. The article considers the semantics of human life as vegetation in its connection to the “life-death”, “young-old”, and “top-bottom” oppositions. The author’s approach consists in reconstructing the writer’s method of meaning and text generation based on the game potential of language up to using a multilingual anagrammatic code and reconsideration of language category. 1...

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...

Present paper is an endeavor to analyze the outcomes of the celebrated experiment Violin, expressing the structure of associative-semantic links in human brain. Based upon evidence gained from objective neurophysiological methods, certain dictionary articles of the Associative Thesaurus of the Russian Language have thus been analyzed. A comparative analysis of behavioral experiments is offered based on which associative dictionaries have been compiled-alongside with objective experiments of the data...

This article provides a detailed definition of cultural identity – a modality and an essential component of identity and its types. To this end, the study differentiates between the notions of individual and collective cultural identities as phenomena of individual and collective consciousness. Such definitions shape the trajectories of research into identity as an interdisciplinary category within the cognitive-discursive paradigm of modern linguistics. 1. Грушевицкая Т. Г. Основы межкультурной...

This article deals with the problem of public opinion manipulation through creating a positive image. Special emphasis is given to the description of the manipulative technique. The research is based on the texts of the 2012 Russian presidential election campaign. 1. Кара-Мурза С. Г. Манипуляция сознанием. М., 2011. 2. Колесникова Г. И. Манипуляции: техники успешного общения. Ростов н/Д, 2011. 3. ЛДПР заставила относиться к нам как к людям // ЛДПР : [общественнополитическая газета]. URL: http://www...

This article considers the problems of development of sports as a social phenomenon and a means of cross-cultural communication and international business development. The authors present data on the experimental testing of the developed corporate sport model.

This article focuses on the interpretation of occasionalisms motivated by proper names through references to background knowledge, and cultural and historical context as presented in the poetical works of 20th century poets (V. Khlebnikov, V. Mayakovsky, etc.). The author addresses the problem of the lexicographical description of these lexical units. 1. Барковская Н. Стихотворение Велимира Хлебникова «Усадьба ночью, чингисхань!..» в историко-литературной перспективе // Интерпретация и авангард...

The space of heaven in the poetic world of M. Tsvetaeva is considered as a hierarchically and semantically complex space structure. The author identifies the specific features of the heaven spacium levels and describes the three main tiers of heaven, namely, the entry to heaven, the mountain space of the “divine youths, and the top of the mountain. The article justifies the reasons behind the rapid movement of the poet towards the space of ‘other’ being. The author addresses the issue of the poet’s...

This article stresses that the teacher’s interest as a phenomenon is a unity of both the objective, which - being the meaningful component – serves as the focus of attention, and the subjective, which reveals the teacher’s motives for ducation and training activities. As a concept, the teacher’s interest registers their attitude to the important as the objective; at the same time, attitude generates individual, selective, and conscious connections between the teacher and the objective and is generalized...

The article considers the distinctive features of technical training with apparatus in groups of initial rhythmic gymnastics training. These features include the characteristics of children’s’ training session organization and the requirements for the technical performance and training of students. The author comes to the conclusion that the availability of equipment and persistent mastering of new techniques is of great importance in working with children. The development of manipulative skills...

This article analyses the large-scale renaming campaign held by the German leadership in the late 1930s in order to Germanise the Prussian territories of the state. It is concluded that the puristic activities of German National Socialists widely discussed in the modern scientific community were inconsistent. 1. Басовская Е. Н. Советский лингвистический пуризм: слово и дело (на материале периодики 1920—1930-х годов) // Вестник Российского государственного гуманитарного университета. 2011. Вып. 7...

This article discusses the verbal behavior of the German President, Joachim Gauck, in political communications. The author analyses the linguisticstylistic and pragmalinguistic means employed in the texts of his political speeches. Special attention is paid to the strategy of dialogue with supporters, which includes the tactics of cohesion, promises, compliments and praise, "indirect positive pressure”, question formation, and behavior regulation through giving advice. 1. Гаджиев К. С. Политическая...

This article considers prerequisites for the development of cross-cultural interaction in the fields of physical education and sport between the Baltic region states. The author describes the geopolitical characteristics of the Kaliningrad region and its opportunities in forging and developing international connections in the field of sport. The author justifies the need to study the problem of expanding opportunities in this field. The methods of regulatory document analysis and interviewing were...

This article considers the adverb odnazhdy as an element of “narrative syntax” of D. Kharms’s prose. The author analyses its role in the creation of narrative space in the texts of experimental type. 1. Ефремова Т. Ф. Новый словарь русского языка. Толково-словообразовательный : [сайт]. URL: http://www.efremova.info (дата обращения: 29.05.2014). 2. Лотман Ю. М. Структура художественного текста // Лотман Ю. М. Об искусстве. СПб., 1998. С. 14—285. 3. Ожегов С. И. Словарь русского языка / под ред...

This article examines two short story cycles — J. Andrzejewski’s Night and Tadeusz Borowski’s This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen — and reconstruct the authors’ literary and philosophical dialogue about the paradoxes of hope in the conditions of Hitler’s occupation of Poland. 1. Бердяев Н. А. Новое средневековье // Бердяев Н. А. Философия творчества, культуры и искусства : в 2 т. М., 1994. Т. 1. 2. Британишский В. Я. О Милоше и об этой его книге // Библиотека Якова Кротова: [сайт]. URL:...

This article considers the regional aspect of educational and research culture development and the possibility of its formation under certain pedagogical conditions. The development of educational and research culture is planned in view of certain features of the Kaliningrad region through introduction of research problems and development of students’ critical thinking. The authors used a number of pedagogical conditions for the development ofeducational and research culture for the successful application...

In the conditions of the modern sociocultural reality, inclusive education is one of the most relevant forms of education for all children, including nontypical ones. This study aims at conducting a comparative analysis of the conceptual framework of the social and pedagogical determinants of inclusive education. The article describes the author’s understanding of the concept of non-typical children and compares different interpretations of key factors of inclusive education. The main pedagogical...

This article deals with the key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu’s literary domain theory as applied to post-1989 German literature. The major extra-literary factors that affected fictional discourse after the Unification of Germany are described. Special attention is paid to the inter-discursive nature of contemporary literary landscape. 1. Emmerich E. Das literarische Feld Deutschland — 15 Jahre nach der Wende //Revista de Filología Alemana. 2006. Vol. 14. S. 113—130. 2. Greiner U. Die deutsche Gesinnungsästhetik...

This article considers effective models of interaction between social and cultural institutions that can be used in developing a common educational space of the CIS countries. Of special significance are the models that involve public organizations. Through establishing mutual connections, domain models create more complex globule structures. Network projects initiated within globules and involving different domains contribute to the emergence of a selfdeveloping common space. 1. Григорьян Э. Р...

This article highlights the need to address the stylistics of scientific writing when teaching a foreign language to future scientists. The author presents a historical overview of the key stages of development of functional style theory and describes the modern perspective on scientific writing in the following aspects: field of use, topic and content, characteristics of the sender and recipient, purpose and forms of speech, and general properties, linguistic features, and types of texts. 1. Кожина...

This article considers the discourse of university websites as a type of computer mediated communication. It is shown that university website discourse is of heterogeneous nature. The author analyses the interaction of educational, scientific, and advertising discourses. Special attention is paid to the employed communication strategies and the linguistic means of their implementation. The study is based on the official websites of the leading Russian universities. 1. Денисова Н. В. Рекламные тексты...

This article studies the semiotics of the ship as an image of the world in cases of the novels To the End of the Earth by William Golding, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by J. Barnes, and The Ship of Fools by Gr. Norminton. The ship is considered a new version of the Biblical Noah’s Ark – a miniature society. The authors believe that the avantext integrates the new “generative model” creating at the same time new forms of fictional conditionality and types of literary generalisation. 1....

This article focuses on the interconnection between the individual and typological characteristics of an individual and the features of adolescent social contact networks. It is shown that adolescents with a high level of hostility, expressed perfectionist attitudes, low self-esteem, and insufficient perceived self-efficacy have smaller and poorly differentiated social contacts networks. These characteristics of social networks can subsequently lead to increased narcissistic tendencies in adolescents...

This article considers the interaction between the functional and semantic categories of theme and rheme forming the basis for the generation, information deployment, and functioning of discourse. It is emphasized that the communicative structure of a political text incorporates several types of the themerheme progression formed through replacing the theme with the rheme and the transformation of the latter into the theme. It is concluded that the effective communicative impact of discourse is achieved...

This article deals with the balance and misbalance of the English and Russian biblical idioms as regards their stylistic colouring. The idea is put forward that the misbalance can be accounted for by the different priorities of the Western and Eastern cultural traditions. 1. Апресян Ю. Д. Образ человека по данным языка: попытка системного описания // Вопросы языкознания. 1995. № 1. С. 37—67. 2. Береговская Э. М. Очерки по экпрессивному синтаксису. М., 2004. 3. Берестнев Г. И. Ценностные концепты...

This article considers the issues relating to the construction of a transference training process system proposed by S. I. Arkhangelski using the modern tools of automated data processing. For the first time, the author presents a method for analysing the pedagogical monitoring data using OLAP technology, which makes it possible to find patterns in large data sets without imposing limitations on the aspects considered, operation parameters, and level of detailedness. 1. Архангельский С. И. Лекции...

This article addresses the problem of promoting students’ health as a teacher’s activity within the educational system; special attention is paid to the pilot study into social attitudes to psychological health and its promotion in primary school teachers. The author analyses the classical ternary structure of social attitude to health promotion and identifies inconsistencies in the system of primary school teacher’s attitudes to the teaching process and the role of schoolchildren’s health in this...

This article presents the results of a communicative study of the charter documents of “Proryv” volunteer centre. The author describes the main communicative strategies and tactics used in the regulations on the centre establishment and job descriptions to express the communicative purpose of regulating department and employee activities. The author identifies the linguistic means of implementing said strategies and tactics in the texts of these documents. 1. Баландина Н. А. Дискурс переговоров...

This article addresses the problem of the character’s personality development in the novels of G. Meyrink in the context of the modernist reconsideration of the Entwicklungsroman tradition. In view of the concepts of “subjective” novel, as well as the literary feature of Meyrink’s prose, the character is considered as a subject in the course of development, whereas the author’s variant of the Entwicklungsroman is interpreted as an initiation novel. 1. Cersowsky P. Phantastische Literatur im ersten...

his article presents a didactic model of development of inclusive education values in future teachers as an element of the behavioural component of psychological and pedagogical readiness for working with children with special education needs in the conditions of inclusive education. 1. Ананьев Б. Г. Человек как предмет познания. М., 1989. 2. Зимняя И. А. Ключевые компетентности как результативно-целевая основа компетентностного подхода в образовании. М., 2004. 3. Дьяченко М. И. Психологические...

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

This article considers the discursive models of developing the synergetic potential of economic metaphors. A cluster model of metaphor synergy is built on the basis of intertextual metaphor, which creates a powerful field of conceptual tension. It is shown that the economic metaphor acts as an instrument of sense production in the interdiscursive space. A study into the intertextual metaphor helps to describe the process of sense saturation and compaction of a text through creating new sources of...

This article is devoted to the adoption of the idea of continuing education by modern Russian society and state, as well as the need to promote its development for supporting cultural continuity and socioeconomic development. Through analysing the legal framework of the modern development of education in Russia, the author identifies the legislative resource for promoting informal education in multi-age communities, which makes it possible to support educational initiatives aimed at stimulating a...

This article addresses the role of the native language in learning Russian as a foreign language. The author describes the role attributed to the native language by the modern methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language in the training process or preparation thereto. It is concluded that addressing the native or an intermediate language is methodologically justified in the process of learning Russian as a foreign language if it helps to increase the efficiency of the training process. ...

This article deals with the functional and semantic features of performative verbs in the texts of documents. Performatives are defined as significant structure and content components of text solving the pragmatic task of establishing the contact between the addresser and addressee. The author identifies the communicative and pragmatic features of this genre of documents in view of its subgenre types. 1. Апресян Ю. Д. Перформативы в грамматике и в словаре // Известия АН СССР. 1986. № 3. С. 211—216...

This article analyse the motif-image of the mirror and its functions in the novel of the American writer O. Grushin. The author identifies the plot structuring role of the reflection as a method of creating the psychological portrait of the character and the reflection phenomena as a means of the personality’s self-identification and a marker of its disintegration. 1. Бахтин М. М. Проблемы поэтики Достоевского. М., 1994. 2. Грушина О. Жизнь Суханова в сновидениях. СПб., 2011. 3. Зеркало. Семиотика...

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

The English adjective GOOD is under study in the article. Samples of its meanings found in dictionaries are compared with those from the Oxford English Corpus. As a result of the contrastive analysis, considerable changes were found. This spectrum of differences as well as combinative potential of GOOD gave occasion to rubricate this adjective as eurysemic. 1. Авдеев А. А. Проблемы широкозначности и ее соотношение с полисемией и дейксисом (на материале имен существительных английского, русского...

This article considers the notion of interdisciplinarity in general and in relation to practical German classes. Special foreign scientific texts and basic models of the linguistic components of training process contribute to students’ awareness of the interdisciplinary connections in science. 1. Потёмина Т. А. Специальный текст для аспирантов в междисциплинарном аспекте // Вестник Балтийского федерального университета им. И. Канта.2013. Вып. 2. С. 108—114. 2. Потёмина Т. А. Современные методы...

This article considers education as a phenomenon of inclusive educational space. The notion of “inclusive educational space” is defined, its general and specific characteristics are outlined, and the principles of organizing an inclusive educational space are formulated. Special attention is paid to the results of a SWOT-analysis that made it possible to identify the hierarchy of opportunity and threat positioning in inclusive educational space within corresponding matrices and develop strategies...

Based on the modern Russian and Polish texts of different genres and styles, the authors consider the functioning of the Russian verb мочь and the Polish móc as main explicators of the modal meaning of possibility within their respective microfields. The article identifies the universal characteristics and intralinguistic features of the verbs’ functioning. 1. Барентсен А. О русских глаголах смочь и суметь // Основные проблемы русской аспектологии. СПб., 2002. С. 7—29. 2. Ваулина С. С. Языковая...

This article identifies the cognitive tactics behind the interpretation of dreams in the ancient Assyrian text known as the Dream Book. Its basic characteristics include belief in the prophetic power of dreams, ritual orientation to men, regard for image polysemy and the use of symbols, employment of such mechanisms as metaphor, metonymy, pragmatic shifts, patronymic attraction, replacements based on the antonym principle. These mechanisms are identified as underlying the formation of symbolic content...

The article considers the allegorical image of Berlin in the contemporary german novel. It is discussed how apocalyptic images are used to create the urban space of Berlin by the western ad eastern writers after the reunification. Special emphasis is given to the contemporary concept of the antiutopian urbanization. 1. Baumgart R. Quasi Stasi. Wolfgang Hilbigs Vermutungen über die Welt und sein Roman «Ich». URL: http://www. zeit. de/1993/41/quasi-stasi (дата обращения: 05.12.2012)...

This article considers the features of mathematical education in Russia in the 18th-19th centuries. The focal point is the significance of children’s physical activity for the development of spatial perception and mathematical thinking. The author makes recommendations on the development of motivation in schoolchildren for studying mathematics and the use of interdisciplinary approach to developing mathematical thinking and arousing interest in acquiring mathematical knowledge. 1. Юшкевич А. П....