This article covers some basic issues that have to do with the modern interpretation of the professional translators competence concept examining in reasonable detail its basic components, and comes out with some ways and resources to shape it when training native professionals in the field of the theory and practice of translation with regard to the research by both Russian and foreign scientists.

Locative is considered as one of the most important category of Russian linguoculture. Some locative pecularities of national and mental character in the lexical field are revealed. Locative is defined as an element of language sphere of concepts.

The universal construction of scientific text is composed by integration of new old and precedent knowledge. Functions, discursive markers, the intertextuality and continuity are investigated.

The article deals with some lexical peculiarities in Canadian English.

Melodic characteristics of Hill Mari intonation constructions were investigated. Intonation constructions, based on formal signs, were described with the help of instrumental and acoustical analysis of Hill Mari speech.

The article investigates the phenomena of phonetic interference, which appears as a result of the contact of English and oriental languages in the consciousness and speech of bilinguals - speakers of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. The data of the comparative acoustic analysis of the samples from the accented lingua franca speech corpus (RACE) are given. The article also includes recommendations on applying the results of the research to studying the variability of lingua franca in the Asia Pacific Region. It determines the significance of comparative studies of differently structured languages for developing practical recommendations regarding the development of strategies needed for the perception of accented speech and regarding the instruction of English with respect to the learner's native language.

The article is devoted to linguostatistic analysis of deverbatives usage in different types of English and Russian texts.

By taking a cognitive approach, the article seeks to sort out metaphors within the generic-level category of metaphor in science with a focus on proper scientific metaphor. We assume that science-institutionalizing concepts of scientific paradigm and scientific discourse may support our attempt at doing this and provide the ground for distinguishing paradigm-oriented from discourse-oriented metaphors.

In this article author researched, analyzed and compared characteristics of official speeches of politicianss in Japan to find out the most typical ways of theirs development and reciprocal influence.