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The issue of the effectiveness of speech communication is considered, which is largely de­termined by the adequacy / inadequacy of verbal and non-verbal behavior of communicants, as well as the problem of organizing dialogical interaction as a process of social, communicative, and discursive nature. The research aims to identify the essential characteristics of active lis­tening techniques used in organizing verbal communication based on the analysis of material in English, French, and Russian languages. The scientific novelty of the work lies in specify­ing and identifying distinctive features of active listening (listening in the interest of the in­terlocutor) — a phenomenon that is not well-studied in domestic linguistics. The position is justified regarding the constructive nature of active listening techniques as a strategy for mutual understanding and coordination of communicants’ actions. The effective use of active listening techniques is conditioned by a set of communicative-pragmatic factors, including socio-psychological characteristics of communicants, the situation, and the interaction topic. The obtained results showed that non-compliance / violation of active listening rules and principles hinders the establishment and maintenance of contact between interlocutors throughout the communication process. Such deviations lead to a disruption of the unity be­tween the speaker and the listener, a disturbance of the semantic coordination of communica­tive partners’ utterances. As a result, the full realization of communicative intentions and speaker’s attitudes is not ensured, leading to the ineffectiveness of verbal interaction and typi­cally resulting in the emergence of pseudo-communicative contacts.

The professional activity of translators is most often realized in specialized professional discourses, especially those regionally conditioned. Specialized discourses, as an institutional type of discourse, exhibit a poly- and inter-discursive character, determining a complex, poly­valent translational process. This study, based on the author’s extensive translation experi­ence, focuses on horticultural discourse in two non-cognate linguistic and cultural environ­ments (Russian and German), with the research subject being the discursive and translational features of this discourse. The goal and research tasks are centered on identifying the features of the poly-discursive nature of specialized translational discourse (using horticultural dis­course as an example). Hermeneutic-interpretative methods and discourse analysis allowed for the determination and modeling of a three-component field structure of specialized transla­tional discourse, its nuclear and allied types of integrated discourses. This emphasizes the distinction from monodiscursive translational actions. Within the poly-discursive space, a translator constructs translational strategies and a comprehensive translation technology in accordance with criteria, features, dominants, values, chronotopes, participants, and other discursively determined characteristics of all integrated discourses, both nuclear and allied. Thus, the translator forms the archetype of a multivalent professional personality. The varia­bility in the interaction between nuclear and allied discourse types is demonstrated. Constitu­tive features of discourse such as poly-discursiveness, glocality, and multilingualism are iden­tified and described. The specific features of translational action, comprising analytical and operational activities, as well as groups of difficulties encountered in translational actions within specialized discourse, are outlined. This research, situated within the discourse trans­lation studies, contributes to the description of applied aspects of translational activity in professional specialized discourses. It advances integrative translation studies as a whole and opens perspectives for the didactic verification of the obtained results in the practical training of translators.

The article examines the informational and functional potential of lexical combinations in the macrostructure of Boris Ryzhy’s Digital Frequency Dictionary, which is currently in the active development stage. To identify lexical combinations in the material of Boris Ryzhy’s poetry, the computer program “Hypertext Search of Satellite Words in Author’s Texts” was used. As a result of the conducted research, recurring groups of words were discovered in different poems, forming the implicit composition of the analyzed poetic corpus. The applied significance of lexical combinations in the focus of authorial lexicography is determined: the obtained information about hidden intertextual connections refines the role of keywords and complements the dictionary’s card file, opening up broad prospects for a multi-dimensional analysis of Boris Ryzhy’s lexical heritage.

The article has identified the main functions of clinical recommendations for patients (presented in written printed form and computer-mediated). It is determined that depending on the dominant function, clinical recommendations for patients can be classified into several types: those containing information about the disease — informative (leading function — informative); created to encourage patients to take care of their own health, engage in disease prevention — persuasive (leading function — pragmatic); created to attract potential clients to a medical institution, shape the organization’s image, promote medical products and ser­vices — advertising (leading function — representational). Based on the analyzed material, recommendations of the first two types are proposed to be grouped together and qualified as an informative-imperative hyper genre. Through the analysis of texts, it is proven that the linguistic features of clinical recommendations for patients are determined by the functions they perform (pragmatic, attractive, personifying, explicative, regulatory, phatic). Informa­tive, representational, and cumulative functions do not imply any linguistic specificity in the texts. It is revealed that the specificity of clinical recommendations for patients as a particular medical genre (a genre of scientific document) lies in the combination of persuasive and in­formative intentions with the dominance of the latter. The established specificity of the lin­guistic organization of clinical guidelines complements existing information about the lin­guistic properties of a hybrid text (a text of a scientific document, the linguistic features of which are revealed in the realization of its genre elements and in the interaction of features of official-business and scientific styles of the Russian language), refining the typology of docu­ment systems.

The article analyzes the metaphorical conceptualization of intercultural space in French and Russian lyric poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries. The research goal is to determine the cognitive potential of poetic imagery as a means of exploring the space of another culture. Based on classical (S. A. Askoldov, A. J. Greimas) and contemporary (V. V. Feschenko, M. Freeman) linguistic, philosophic, and semiotic approaches, the cognitive status of poetic imagery is substantiated. The definition of intercultural space is proposed as a conceptual domain and the object of artistic interpretation. The combination of the identification proce­dure of figurative word usage with the techniques of metaphorical modeling allowed for the identification of conceptual domains-sources of imaginative interpretation of the space of an­other culture in the texts of twelve French and twelve Russian poets. The prevalence of the conceptual domain of HUMAN / LIVING BEING made it possible to specify the cognitive nature of intercultural space — not as an object of interpretation but as a subject, equivalent to the author’s poetic consciousness. Cognitive equality between sensory and creative experi­ence is established, defining the role of the creative process as a cognitive guide in the course of poetic exploration of the world. The identification of abstractions as conceptual domains-sources of poetic exploration of reality allowed for the complementation of the thesis about the “unidirectional” nature of metaphorical conceptualization and constituted the novelty of this research.

A corporate website serves as a current business channel for presentation in Internet communication. The aim of this study is to determine the genre status and identify genre features of the “Company History” subsection on the corporate website. It has been estab­lished that the corporate website is a hypergenre, its sections are genres, and subsections are subgenres. Pragmatic, media-related, structural-semantic, and stylistic-linguistic subgenre parameters of the “Company History” subsection are examined. A comprehensive initial communicative goal of this subsection is identified: to shape a positive image, create a success­ful brand, and strengthen trust in the company. The research results contribute to under­standing the structural and compositional features of a corporate website, its genre specificity, and the mechanisms of presentation in Internet communication.

Not only in contemporary philological science but also among those in broader society in­terested in poetic creativity, commentary is one of the most sought-after genres of philological discourse that elucidates poetic works. This is linked to the distinctive position of the commen­tator in relation to the poem, characterized by flexibility, reliance on facts, and various inter­pretational possibilities. While numerous scholarly materials have been written in the genre of literary commentary, there appears to be a limited reflection on the parameters such commen­tary should possess, the goals it should set, and the factors it should consider. This article fills this theoretical gap, demonstrating that commentary on poetry should primarily be oriented towards the genre-specific nature of this type of artistic work. The main focus is on under­standing the two-stage character of commentary. The first stage relies on precise textological information, while the second takes on an explanatory-interpretative character. A balance is determined between interpretation and commentary, the pursuit of objectifying meaning, and the subjectively personal experiential aspect, which is realized in the aesthetic experience, in the encounter between the author and the reader in the work.

The material of the late poems by G. Shpalikov, one of the prominent representatives of poetry during the Khrushchev Thaw era, is singled out and examined in terms of the sphere of key images and motifs in the poet’s artistic world, which are encoded by the ontological-tragic situation of the lyrical subject in the enclosed chronotope of society. The central motifs of Shpalikov’s work during this period have been identified: motifs of loneliness, rootlessness, abandonment, vulnerability, farewell, hopelessness, and suicide. The semantic structure of the artistic world of the late (and not only late) poems is marked by a ternary model of “nature — human — civilization/society.” The movement of the “plot” in most late poems is determined by the internal catastrophic change in the psychological state of the lyrical subject, seeking voluntary departure from life, which is reflected in the expressive, emotionally evaluative, and reduced lexicon, the tightness of poetic lines, and tense syntax.

Theoretical justification for the model of legal competence formation for senior crew offic­ers is based on a competency-based approach, particularly relevant in the context of legal training for naval cadets. The proposed component structure of the model for legal competence formation for senior ship specialists not only allows for defining the content of legal disci­plines but also developing criteria for assessing the professional and personal qualities of ca­dets that influence their legal competence. The main assessment criteria include knowledge of basic methods and ways of solving legal problems, the ability to apply knowledge in choosing methods for collecting, structuring, and analyzing information, mastery of techniques for composing, formatting, and monitoring the evaluation of legal solutions, as well as the ability to independently apply knowledge for collecting, structuring, and analyzing information, work in a team, demonstrate persistence in solving legal problems, and evaluate the effective­ness of the decision made. The obtained data on the practical implementation of the developed model allow for a step-by-step assessment of the process of forming legal competence for senior crew officers during the training of cadets in naval educational institutions. It was revealed that as a result of the implementation of the algorithm developed by the authors into the edu­cational process, the most significant changes occurred in terms of the formation of the sub­stantive-procedural component of the legal competence of senior crew officers.

Drawing on comprehensive historical data about the system of music education in China in the 1920—1930s, the authors focus on the relevance of professional pedagogical values for the successful transmission of professional experience. Examining axiological dimension of the intense pedagogical activity of Boris Zakharov (1887—1943), the head of the piano de­partment at the Shanghai National Conservatory in 1929—1943, we claim that there is direct continuity between the system of professional values implemented by him and the traditions of Russian piano education established by Anna Yesipova (1851—1914), one of the great pi­ano virtuosos of her day and a distinguished professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. It is demonstrated that the success of pedagogical activity of both Anna Yesipova and Boris Zakharov, as one of her students, is conditioned by the comprehensive realization of a wide range of professional pedagogical values. Attitudes, means, knowledge, qualities relevant for the educational process are shown to be subordinated to the main value — the need to provide the student with the knowledge and skills necessary to achieve maximum technical freedom for a full artistic interpretation of a musical work. A conclusion is drawn that the rich axio­logical potential inherent in the Russian piano education is one of the key prerequisites for successful cross-cultural transmission of experience in professional education.

The article studies the organization of the pioneer movement from the perspective of the educational process, allowing for the identification of valuable experience for further use in modern conditions, when a new stage of development of children’s organizations is observed in the Russian Federation. Despite the primary goal of ideological education in the pioneer organization, its activities reflected comprehensive elements such as play, labor education, art, and social education. According to S. T. Shatsky, these are fundamental elements in organiz­ing children’s life. The connection between the theoretical views of S. T. Shatsky and practical work with children in the pioneer organization, created within the framework of the Com­munist Party ideology with the goal of educating a socialist individual, has been studied.