Philology, pedagogy, and psychology

2012 Issue №2

Core explicators of the modal meaning expressing certainty/uncertainty in the poem "Dead Souls" by N. Gogol and their equivalents in translation versions

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The article deals with parentheses and particles as one of the ways of expressing certainty and uncertainty in Russian and their equivalents in English. The research is based on the poem by N. Gogol "Dead Souls" and its two translation versions.

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The competence building approach to the regionalization of the Bachelor of Linguistics training programme

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The article is devoted to the issue of regionalization of the Bachelor of Linguistics programme organized according to the competence building approach. The article analyzes the thematic and the processual aspects of foreign language teaching in the regional context. It also describes the regional component in the structure of professional competence of the linguist.

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The derivative forms of personal names in Swedish antroponymics

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The article is devoted to derivative forms of personal names in the Swedish tradition of giving names to individuals. The research is focused on explaining the following terms: short name, short form of a name, ‘pet name’, and diminutive form. Syncopation and affixal derivation are considered as the most frequent derivative models for personal names.

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Communicative semantics theories by A. F. Losev and Z. A. Vardzelashvili

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The article deals with a comparative analysis of the foundations of the theory of invariant communicative interpretive semantics by the Russian scholar A. F. Losev and the semantic concept developed by Z. A. Vardzelashvili, professor of Tbilisi State University of Economics.

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