Intangible Factors of U. S. Influence in Latin American and Caribbean Countries in the Entertainment Industry Context
... aim of the study is to determine the role and assess these factors, considered through examples of cinema, streaming service content, and the video game industry. The author adopted a constructivist approach and employed the method of statistical data analysis from open sources. A comparative method was used to identify common trends in the examined sectors of the entertainment industry in the context of the U.S. intangible influence and to provide a forecast regarding the extent of this influence in the medium term. The use of ...
General legal principles in modern Russian law: concept and features
The article examines the main theoretical approaches of legal scholars related to the essence and understanding of general legal principles, and analyzes the distinctive aspects of general legal principles compared to others. The relevance of the article is due to its contentious nature regarding the content and essence of general legal principles among different authors. The novelty of the article lies in the analysis of contemporary general legal principles, and the identification of the relationship between legal principles and doctrinal principles. The aim is to define general legal principles, explore the place and role of general legal obligations in ...
Migration policy of the Baltic states in the context of EU and Russian interests
... states — Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia — all of which border Russia. This study aims to identify the key features of these policies, considering both Russian interests and those of the EU. To this end, this article undertakes, for the first time, a comparative analysis of the Baltic States’ relevant strategic documents for the 2020s: Lithuania’s Strategy for Demography, Migration and Integration 2018—2030, Latvia’s Guidelines for the Development of a Cohesive and Civically Active Society 2021—2027 ...
The story Coward by V.M. Garshin and the novella The Yoke of War by L.N. Andreev: linguistic and stylistic analysis
Researchers of L. N. Andreev’s work agree that the artistic methods of the first expressionist in Russian prose were significantly influenced by the work of V. M. Garshin. Taking this continuity into account, the article compares the texts of Garshin’s story Coward and Andreev’s novella The Yoke of War. The aim of the study is to identify similar features in the idiolects of the “forerunner of expressionism” and the “singer of horrors and nightmares”, while ...
The choices of readers and writers in Russian fanfiction
... Although the research draws primarily on established concepts of the communicative component of fanfiction, it also offers a novel perspective on the relationship between readers and writers. This study presents the results of an internet-based survey and compares them with data from previous research efforts. It focuses on currently popular works, with particular attention given to fanfics based on Russian and Soviet literature. Of particular interest are those interactions between the author and the ...
Principles and systems for commercial classification of amber from ancient times to the present day
Amber classification plays a crucial role in its study, extraction, use in jewelry and amber art, various industrial sectors, and trade. This article provides a comparative analysis of classification systems and principles that have existed historically and are currently adopted in the main amber-producing and amber-processing countries (Russia, Poland, and Ukraine). The study does not address geological and mineralogical ...
Development of career guidance tourism in the Kaliningrad region (on the example of the implementation of the regional project “PRO Possibilities”)
... not only from local governments but also from businesses operating in the regions. The goal of this study is to track the dynamics of the transformation of the Kaliningrad region’s career-guidance project “PRO Opportunities.” The study employed comparative analysis methods to assess annual results and cartographic methods for a visual presentation of the distribution of career-guidance tourism sites across the region.
career guidance tourism, career guidance for schoolchildren, socio-economic development ...
Dynamics of the Russian diaspora in the Baltic republics in 2018—2023
... research is based on official data from national statistical departments, including the results of population censuses (both national and all-Union since 1959). The methodological foundation of the study includes general scientific methods (generalization, analysis, comparison), as well as statistical and cartographic methods. The study finds that the rate of decline in the number and share of Russians significantly increased after 2021, particularly in Estonia — by a factor of 10 in 2021 compared to 2020. Negative trends are observed across all regions. The highest representation of Russians in the ethnic structure of the Baltic republics remains in the capitals, border municipalities adjacent to Russia, and historically Russian-settled ...
Transformation of directions of international educational migration in the Kaliningrad region
... influence of geopolitical factors and sanctions, the flows of educational immigration to Russia are transforming and reorienting by country. Central Asian countries, China, and India occupy leading positions. Using the example of the Kaliningrad region, a comparative analysis of the transformation of volumes and directions of international educational migration is conducted, and the reasons for these changes are examined. The region is characterized by the expansion and diversification of flows, as well as a decrease ...
Reclaiming the “Cultural Mandate”: The Idea of Sustainable Development in the Kantian Perspective
... philosophy of Enlightenment. Next, I outline the history and content of the notion of “sustainable development” and offer an analysis of the sources of progressivist commitment to the conquest of nature which lie outside Modern Times in the idea of the ... ... I present the Kantian diagnosis of the causes of the crisis which attributes it to humankind’s failure to “mature”. I compare the idea of “the full world” formulated by the authors of the report with the idea of the “the world come of age” ...
Kant’s Concept of Enlightenment and Its Alternatives
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‘Definition of poetry’: Frege vs. Jakobson
This article presents a comparative analysis of two approaches to describing the reference within poetic statements: the pragmasemantic approach, which builds upon Gottlob Frege's ideas of the poetic sign as "a sign with meaning but without reference," and aesthetic-functional ...
Gustav Shpet, Immanuel Kant and Terminist Logic
In his book Appearance and Sense Gustav Shpet, comparing Immanuel Kant’s transcendental logic with the traditional probleтs of the philosophy of language, thought it appropriate ... ... the fruitfulness of this approach to his concept of the inner form of the word. Terminist logic is based on the definition and analysis of such terms as significatio, suppositio, expositio, exponibilia, and Shpet, in examining them, demonstrates the consonance ...
Ideas about private space boundaries and tact in Russian communicative culture: results of a sociolinguistic experiment
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Kul'tura obshcheniya v studencheskoi srede vuza
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Current practices in French poetic discourse: Christian Prigent, Michèle Finck and Anne-James Chaton
At the core of the contemporary literary process is the search for an effective extratextual communicative situation, which is especially relevant for books of poetry, whether in paper or electronic form.
This article examines current practices of delivering poetic texts to readers through auditory perception. It focuses on contemporary French poets active between 1990 and 2022, representing three different groups and movements; in Russia, they are known only to a narrow circle of specialists...
Language of digital poetry description: the semiotic and literary aspects
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The alien and (or) one’s own: modern hidden calques (based on the collocation Kak po Mne [as for me])
... existing model of signification is illustrated using the example of the collocation kak po mne and its interaction with the original Russian marker of personal opinion po mne, which has a long history of use. A corpus study and contextual semantic and comparative analysis led the authors to conclude that the collocation kak po mne is a calque of the Anglo-Americanism 'as for me / as to me', competing with another form of hidden borrowing — po mne [for me / to me]. Coexisting in the recipient language with the ...
Linguistic and sociological perspective on the perception of profanity in Moscow in 2024
... purposes for it, as well as the evolution of the attitudes toward profanity over different life stages. The study is based on the analysis of 20 interviews and 182 questionnaire responses. It also offers a concise overview of scholarly and lexicographical ... ... admit to using obscene language in the presence of children, while 10 % more people are likely to limit its use with strangers compared to close friends or acquaintances. Opinions on profanity regulation vary, with 14 % supporting a strict ban, 44 % supporting ...
Who and how produces the future (Alexander Fedorov’s new philosophy of common cause)
... meaning-making and institutionalization, unfolding through a series of interfaces that enable interaction across socio-cultural practice contexts. In this framework, subjectivity is identified as a crucial interface for such interactions. Moreover, a comparative analysis of natural and artificial intelligence underscores the complex potential inherent in this research problem. While human beings possess advantages stemming from bodily experience, sexual dimorphism, and other forms of vitality over artificial ...
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Evaluation of the lactic acid bacteria and yeast consortium efficiency to increase the productivity of Triticum aestivum L.
... acid bacteria and yeast is attributed to their capacity to synthesize phytohormones. Field experiments demonstrated that the microbial consortium increased grain yield, protein content, microelements (Zn, Fe), and nutrients (N, P, K) in wheat grains. A comparative analysis of the efficacy of the bioproduct “Baikal EM-1” and the microbial consortium showed that treatment with the consortium led to greater accumulation of macroelements in the grains, higher yield, increased protein content, and protein output....
On the type of Magadan climate
... climate types are mentioned. Thus, in scientific and educational literature there are mentions of subarctic and temperate climatic belts, as well as different types (kinds) of climate, namely: maritime, monsoon, continental with wet cold indicators. The analysis and assessment of the main climatic variables and prevailing winds allowed to specify the type of climate of Magadan, which corresponds to the temperate monsoon climate. The study, conducted in comparison with other cities typical for different ...
Problems of investment attractiveness of resort facilities in the North Caucasus Federal District in the context of their irrational territorial location
... inefficient spatial distribution of resort facilities, which generate significant environmental threats and negatively affect the sustainable functioning of the region’s tourist and recreational systems. The research methodology employed systemic, comparative, and structural analysis. The study identified the key obstacles to investment development, including environmental degradation, irrational use of natural resources, and deficiencies in the territorial management system. The practical significance of the research lies ...
Peripetien der Erfahrung. Kants „Erfahrungserkenntnis“ und Hegels „Erscheinungen“
... rigid. Only for this reason can it form the basis for a critical reflection on the validity of knowledge. However, Hegel’s analysis of object experience “dynamises” Kant’s concept in various ways: firstly, he provides an interpretation of the ... ... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Reception Heiner Müller’s drama “Cement” in Russia at the turn of the XX and XXI centuries
... and significant as it systematically organizes materials on the reception of this play, providing a comprehensive analysis of how it has been perceived and interpreted. The key themes and dominant aspects of “Cement” are identified through a comparative analysis of current Russian research on Müller’s work, as well as insights from modern Russian electronic media. The study draws conclusions about the nature of Müller’s reception in Russia and the specific perception of his drama in this context....
Axiological objectification of death denial in humorous discourse
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Emotive politeness in face-threatening speech acts: cross-cultural perspectives
... English emails are more focused on mitigating refusal and its negative effect on the addressee’s feelings, thereby saving face, compared with the Russian ones. This can be observed in the structure of refusal, its supporting moves and politeness strategies.... ... kommunikatsii: Sopostavlenie angliiskikh i russkikh lingvo-kul'turnykh traditsii
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Pragmatics in the digital age: the Routinicon database
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Olfactory opposition of “one’s own — another’s” in the context of the war
The study is aimed at describing and interpreting smell as a sign of “one’s own” and “the other” in the context of war. The material for analysis consists of text fragments in Russian and German that contain references to olfactory processes; the factual material was extracted from works of fiction devoted to the events of the two world wars. The research vector was built taking into ...
Case technologies as a means of assessing the skills of students in China and Russia
... changes in the content of the knowledge acquired and used. This creates the need to apply relevant tools for assessing students’ skills that meet the demands of societal expectations. The novelty of the research lies in the lack of studies conducting a comparative analysis of diagnostic tools aimed at evaluating the learning outcomes of Chinese and Russian students, used in both countries. The purpose of the study is to examine the experience of using and integrating case-based technologies to assess students’ ...
The relationship between agency, self-regulation and self-management in high school
... self-regulation strategies, as well as metacognitive strategies (planning, monitoring, and reflection). However, their agency is lower compared to those not involved in self-governance. No statistically significant differences were found based on the type of self-governance.... ... cognitive strategies than boys, but no differences were found in other indicators. This study emphasizes the importance of further analysis of the role of student self-governance in the development of agency and self-regulated learning.
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Creative laboratory of V.A. Sosnora (using the example of the poem Such merriment it was…)
... after 2001. The study confirms the hypothesis about the heightened significance of the phonetic level in V. A. Sosnora’s poetic texts, the semantic function of punctuation marks, and repetition as a device structuring the composition of the poem. A comparative analysis of drafts and all accessible versions of the poetic texts provides material that will enable the development of a model of V. A. Sosnora’s creative process, thereby contributing to a deeper understanding of the poet’s works.
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Figures of national and regional history in the cultural memory of Kalinin-graders
Based on the analysis of the data from a mass survey of the population of the Kaliningrad region conducted in 2023, a preliminary hypothesis ... ... feature of the regional variant of cultural memory is the lower popularity of outstanding representatives of Russian culture compared to the “statesmen.”
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Correlation of the principles of law: expediency in legality
The article addresses the pressing issue of the relationship between legality and expediency as principles of law. The objective of the study is to determine the correlation between these principles within legal science. Based on a comparative analysis of scholarly perspectives on expediency and legality as principles of law, and employing the method of abduction, the author attempts to define the place of the principle of expediency within the multi-level system of legal principles, including ...
A part outside the whole? (To Anton Zimmerling's article “Really: syntactics without semiotics?”)
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Semio-poiesis: on the birth of the semiosphere from the biosphere
... discusses a possible development of Yuri Lotman’s concept of semiosphere by supplementing it with the idea of semio-poiesis. Analysis of the processes of origination, evolution and functioning of the genetic code makes it possible to describe the main ... ... the genetic code, its simultaneous biochemical and linguosemiotic organization, and the processes of gene expression can be compared with what Lotman considered to be the basic principle of semiosphere functioning — the interaction of oppositely ...
Сorrelation of the oral and the written in topolect poetry
... in a special category of language systems that occupy an intermediate level between the standard and the rather homogeneous territorial dialects in a kind of multilingualism that is characterized by the distribution of functions between idioms. The analysis of the poetic tradition of topolects makes it possible to reveal some general patterns of text functioning for the texts on de facto normalized, but not subjected to strict standardization, semi-autonomous idioms. Different modes of correlating ...
Cultural discrepancy within Russian-speaking community in Israel
... children and teenagers who came with their parents, so called 1.5ers) and representatives of the ‘Putin Exodus’ who arrived in the country in 2014—2018. The divergence in preferences and attitudes was revealed thanks to the discourse, semantic and comparative analysis. The research was conducted on the material of the free association test and blogs of the Russian Israelis. The association test revealed cultural stereotypes of the Russian Israelis who did not write blogs. The ‘1990s wave’ immigrants revealed ...
Between phenomenology and futurism: Roman Jakobson’s poetics before the WW 2
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English as a lingua franca — a paradigm shift for Translation and Interpreting
... translation and interpreting and examines how fundamental a change it is navigating between non-native speakers and listeners, as compared to the traditional situation of mediating between speakers and listeners operating in their respective first languages.... ... pp. 217—238.
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“The point of departure of peoples determines their fate”: Peter Chaadaev and Alexis de Tocqueville
... special significance for Tocqueville, was also important for Chaadaev, who used this phrase in different contexts. Having compared Russian translations of the texts by Tocqueville and Chaadaev, the author concludes that although the translators used ... ... in all cases, to a greater or lesser extent, there was a threat of violation of the intentions of both authors. Based on the analysis of the word usage in the texts of both thinkers, the author suggests a number of recommendations aimed to clarify the ...
Translation of sociolect texts
... interventions, which a translator needs to perform to render the specificity of the Soviet camp social dialect in English. The analysis of the ways in which translators processed the source texts under consideration reveals the twofold strategy aimed at ... .... Harvill: HarperCollins.
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Discursive practices of the Russian diaspora in Estonia: language contacts
... (referential shifts, semantically re-oriented vocabulary, etc.), and pragmatic features. The results of the diasporic speech analysis show that the key components of a typical diasporic discourse are the following ones: spatial-temporal localization (space: ... ... Petersburg, pp. 85-106 (in Russ.).
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The functioning of the vladyka lexeme in the Ostromir Gospels of 1056—1057
... words, the way the matching Greek lexemes were selected, and the effect of semantic inconsistencies on the formation of the idea of the ruler in the consciousness of Slavs. The study employs the methods of etymological, lexicographical, lexical-semantic analysis, as well as methods of modern comparative studies. The author identifies the integral and differential significance contained in the semantics of the paired Church Slavonic and Greek lexemes. This helps to determine the effect of the identified semantic differences on the variations ...
Conceptualisation of transfer and translation in modern linguistics
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Energy and the Ways of its Conceptualisation in Cognition: an Attempt at an Epistemological Analysis
... notions, concepts, terms, models, theoretical schemes, etc. — are known. In the latter case, the conceptual sources of the borrowed elements are unclear. The author addresses the need to develop a special epistemological discipline — conceptual comparative studies — aimed to analyse the ways of, and principles behind, the reality studied within discourses of various types.
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On the Dual Role of the Translator of Poetry and the Division of Roles
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