No 2 (2016)

The article deals with the relevance of research of the peculiarities of linguistic consciousness (LC) of an ethnic group from the positions of psycholinguistic theory of intercultural communication as a new ontology of the analysis of LC. The aim of the investigation is the search of the ethnic identity of an ethnos, on the basis of which goals to identify elements of a community and ethno-cultural specificity of the language consciousness of contacting ethnics groups are set. The associative dictionaries of the Russian and Kazakh languages which reflected linguistic consciousness of the compared linguocultural communities, having been contacting with each other for a long time were used as research materials.Identified similarities in the process of comparison of associations to the same word stimuli may indicate the inevitable generality of the ethical, moral, family and kinship relations due to the basic human values, on which the human society is formed and kept.On the other hand, the differences and divergent strategies of the association are subject to the national and cultural peculiarity of the life of an ethnos, its traditions and customs. It itself is interesting from a historical, social and cultural points of view and may not necessarily lead to misunderstanding and cultural conflicts. This diversity and “otherness” may contain special heuristic potential, be a source of research interests, the reason for the attraction of ethnic groups to each other and a search for inter-ethnic tolerance.

In this paper the author describes the derivational processes found in the families of equivalence in the abbreviation group “auto” in the Russian language. On the basis of three approaches of comparison of the family units (quantitative, semantic and onomasiologic) there are six kinds of such processes (univerbalisation, modification, pseudouniverbalisation, compression and secondary abbreviation).

Modern methods of stylistic teaching are generalizations of teaching experience in the traditional style, developed by V.V. Vinogradov, and modern approaches, which include cognitive stylistics. The article shows the necessity of introducing the elements of cognitive stylistics into school curriculum in stylistics of the Russian language. It allows to see the connection between the stylistic nature of language and basic cognitive processes, it teaches techniques and shows their role in oral communication. One of these techniques can be considered the foregrounding, with the particularly important part of the message in the foreground, that is very important for the processes of understanding and interpretation of messages (text).

The central task of the author of the article was to analyse the forms of appraisal and evaluation materials presented in the training programmes of social and humanitarian subject areas. institutions implementing vocational further education of pedagogical workers in the city of Moscow. These programmes are submitted by institutions that implement additional professional education of teachers in Moscow. It was made random sampling of training programmes of social and humanitarian subject areas from the existing data base on the institutions that implement additional professional education of teachers in Moscow. They were developed the criteria of analysis of the forms of certification and assessment materials presented in the programmes. Further, based on the proposed criteria analysis of training programmes was held proper. The article presents the results of analysis in visual form, produces statistical processing of the results of the analysis. In the end, we have formulated a scientific and practical conclusions on the feasibility to be used in the practice of additional professional education forms and controls. In the future we will make detailed recommendations for improving the system of control for the continuation of research work.

The article is concerned with loose translations in the context of linguo-stylistics and intercultural communication. It provides definitions of the term “a loose translation” and a step-by-step comparative stylistic analysis of two poems by B. Okudzhava and their English-language equivalents. The comparative analysis of their semantics, rhythmo-metric characteristics, rhymes and vocabulary outlines the main features of a loose translation: the adequacy ratio of not lower than 20%, a system of maintained semantic connections with the original, a relatively high artistic value of the translation itself. The identified features enable to mark this type of translation very high in the hierarchy of poetic translation typology and recognize its significant role in an adequate dialoguing of intercultural communicants.