Vol 15, No 4 (2018)

Among the great number of functions that forms of address perform are the following: to attract attention of the person one wants to speak to, to express the addresser’s attitude to the addressee, to remind of the spiritual relations between the speakers, to empathize the speakers’ professional status, and many others. Within the boundaries of the World English theory, study of the forms of address used by speakers of East Asian Englishes is supposed to prove that these terms reflect the cultural identity which is expressed by means of the variety of the English language these speakers use. By means of observation, descriptive and quantitative analysis methods, the authors of the article analyze forms of address used in Hong Kong English. Our previous classification of the forms of address used in Hong Kong English was made on the basis of the questionnaire analysis conducted in Hong Kong [1] and it made it possible for us to single out 6 major groups of forms of address in Hong Kong English: 1) kinship terms of address; 2) forms of address used to strangers; 3) forms of address used by friends and acquaintances; 4) forms of address to people of certain professions; 5) forms of address to animals; 6. unique forms of address. This article is the result of analysis of direct and indirect forms of address presented in “A Dictionary of Hong Kong English”. Now, forms of address are classified into 7 major groups with the forms of address empathizing the addressee’s national identity, insulting forms of address, and Hong Kong traditional forms of address among them. Forms of address presented and analyzed in this article prove our hypothesis that greatly influenced by Cantonese, English spoken in Hong Kong is the reflection of the cultural identity of its speakers.

This paper is a continuation of articles’ series devoted to understanding and describing the science of translation in the Central Asian region. Our previous work “From the History of Translation Activity in Central Asia (XVI-XIX)” covered the formation of a translation in Kazakhstan from the XVI to the XIX and early XX centuries. The project is still open. It is aimed at studying the history of translation, reproduction of “lost knowledge” and does not lose its relevance due to the special attention of postSoviet Turkic-speaking states to translation activities.

The essay, which does not pretend to comprehensive development of the theme “Language and thinking”, focuses the reader’s attention on important issues, including the history of ideas in geographically distant centers of world culture and education of the past; the broad context of the cultural universe; language logic and some others. As an illustration, the author cites historical and philological facts as well as her own understanding of the concept of outstanding researchers, such as G.V. Kolshansky.

This article discusses the use of mnemonic techniques in teaching Russian as a foreign language to bilingual students in the polyethnic groups. A brief history of the mnemonic is described in the article, the modern mnemotechnics, that are used in teaching foreign languages, in particular Russian as a foreign language, are detailed in the work. The article also describes the experimental work carried out by the authors and its results on the mnemonic technics usage during the process of teaching Russian to the bilingual students in the international groups of the preparatory faculty in RUDN.

The article deals with the positive practice of introducing the system of interconnected adaptive events in Tyumen region. The events target at inclusing children of immigrants, who study at local schools, in Russian educational space. And this inclusing should be gradual and consistently organized. The authors of the paper describe the project concept. Its topicality is due to migration flows, which are constantly increasing in Tyumen region. The project has been successfully tested. It proves that the strategy in acculturation of immigrants has been correctly chosen. The basis of the project is a multipurpose approach to the problem of adopting children of immigrants in Russian social and cultural situation, which is new and unfamiliar for them. It shows that integration events are more effective, if various target groups are covered. Among them there are school children themselves, adult immigrants, who are their parents, school teachers, working in heterogeneous classes, and representatives of Government bodies and diasporas. The technologies and methods, which are used during the project, can be reproduced in the regions with significant migration flows.

The article devoted to the study of an art bilingualism - its nature, structure - with the considerations of creation ways of a national world’s picture. The problem research, which is based on the lyrical collection of Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov “Vekzametry”, gives a possibility to establishment of communication between genre synthesis of its poetry and traditions of the Kazakh mythology, the Kazakh folklore, the Russian literary traditions, including futurism and socialist realism, military lyrics and a political thaw culture. The main aim of the article is developing a model of an art bilingualism. For this purpose it was required to describe the bilingual poet specifics of philosophical and world outlook system of thinking systemically and for the first time. In order to solve the designated tasks, authors applied methods of the philological, formal and complex lyrical text analysis. The research of Kanapyanov art bilingualism allows to reveal sources of genre synthesis, which is based on the original strategy system. Among them are: synthesis of symbolical images, metaphorics of the Kazakh mythology and the hero-romantic epos, syllabic verse with poetics of the Russian futurism and with the tendencies of the socio-realistic plan. The prevailing motives, subjects and lyrical plots of poetry of Kanapyanov were generalized. Signs of an autobiographical genre, combined with a form of a monologue and dialogue with the implicit reader and the world - were revealed. The chronotope of the lyrical world of Kanapyanov was characterized. Historical and cultural mythemes in Kanapyanov’s poetry were shown in terms of the social and national resonant events. Connection with stylization of east tradition and a hyperbole of a socialist realism canon were established. Obtained results introduce practical and theoretical value for application the techniques of the art text analysis, studying of modern Kazakh literature, for understanding the specifics of cross-cultural communication processes.