No 4 (2013)

The concepts of a systematic approach to the educational aspects of translators` training. Elements of understanding the cultural problems of translation teaching. Asymmetry of the dyad language-culture.

There is no any unique approach to the understanding of the notion “culture-specific vocabulary”. The main techniques used for its translation include transcription, transliteration, loan-translation and mixed methods. The article contains a lot of examples.

The article analyzes the ethnic-lingvocultural processes in the age of Globalization in one of the most important and interesting civilization — mundo ibérico.

The paper concerns the phenomenon of interdiscourse communication and views it from the perspective of Linguistic Relativity Theory. The goal of the paper is to analyse the linguistic behaviour of non-native language users, who apply the English language for instrumental purposes in interaction, which establishes in multinational discourse among interactants having different cultural backgrounds. The paper reports on some of the research results that were acquired in the period from 2011 to 2013 during the ERASMUS Intensive Programme project Cross-Cultural Competence and Interaction . The focus of the study was on analysing the linguistic and pragmatic strategies prioritised by the tertiary level Latvian and Lithuanian interactants for whom the English language served as the instrument of communication in the multinational discourse community, which was constructed of students from Latvia, Lithuania and Turkey. The research findings reveal that non-native language users having the cultural background of the Baltic States construct their own mode of interaction related to the linguistic behaviour, in which the interactants apply clarity and directness as the prevailing strategies of interdiscourse communication.

The article studies some aspects of speech activity and the characteristic features of it’s realization by Arabic and Russian speakers in the framework of different situations of speech communication.

In this article the results of the computer-acoustic analysis of disyllabic Chinese words and the results of the study on prosody of disyllabic Russian words by professor Zlatoustova are compared; similarities and differences in prosodic word structures are exposed.

The article deals with the analysis of the characteristics of modern Chinese terminology. It also considers the Confucian philosophical conception «正名», «Zhengming». The term “Zhengming”, meaning rectification of names, was coined by Confucius for the purpose of establishing order and stability in society through correct use of language. The analysis of this conception provides to observe the role of this Confucian tradition in the building of modern Chinese terminology .