No 4 (2016)

The article substantiates necessity of the proposals tiered analysis for foreign students for the purpose to detect denotative and significate components in content. The theory of speech activity (psycholinguistics) by A. Leontiev should be considered as a methodological basis of teaching Russian syntax for foreigners.In this article are related, on the one hand, the stages of speech production and, on the other hand, levels of proposals as remarks in Linguo-didactical language model in M. Vsevolodova’s concept. It is concluded that there is a complete correspondence between the Linguo-didactical description of sentence as a remark in functional-communicative grammar (M. Vsevolodova’s and others approach) and the Theory of Speech activity by A. Leontiev. Explanation syntactic semantics should be done not only “from the form” (specify the type of “follow the pattern”), but also taking into the denotative roles account, that is, the way from content. This Linguo-methodical approach is communicative in nature, since it corresponds to the mechanism of human speech production.

The scientific relevance of the paper is justified by the lack of known research on frequency and functioning of the Russian and English personal and possessive pronouns in authentic and translated fiction (from English into Russian). The paper deliberates on the differences in frequency named pronouns, by conducting a statistical analysis of British and American fiction with its high-quality Russian translations, along with original Russian fiction of the same period. By means of quantitative and correlation dependency analyses, the author assumes that ‘good’ Russian translations contain fewer personal and possessive pronouns than their English originals, while the figure correlates with the pronoun rate in original texts by Russian authors. The paper concludes with corroborating the proposed hypothesis and setting goals for future research based on the achievedresults, which will enable us to further examine frequency and functioning of the Russian and English personal and possessive pronouns and formulate recommendations for fiction translators, which might help them to avoid common mistakes and improve the overall quality of their translations.

The article is devoted to a comparative study of medical herbal plants names in the Kazakh and Russian languages.Our purpose - to establish the main modes of transmission and conservation of meanings in case of switching interlanguage codes. The result: the ways of transformation of equivalent and non-equivalent names in the Kazakh language - transliteration and calquing (full and partial) have been analyzed. The author reveals cultural and specific grounds of non-equivalent names.

This article briefly describes the history of the study of the kinship terms by blood in Chinese language. Kinship terms are the basic unit in spoken communication. Even in modern written communication kinship terms have been widely used, but Russian readers can not fully understand all the terms, because the Chinese and Russian readers have different cultural background knowledge. This study is useful for analyze of spoken and written communication, compiling dictionaries, as well as for the teaching of the Russian language.

The article deals with the cognitive structure of PR-discourse, which is characterized by its coordinates in the functioning of the process of symbolization and mythologizing that the most representative in the production of image and brand. These phenomena are cultural texts for which the obligatory is the presence of a symbolic language, as well as socio-cultural codes and symbols in general. Symbolization and mythologization take part at all levels of PR-discourse, these tools represent the synergistic nature, because of its symbolic, textual and communicative-dialogical essence.

The article considers some meaningful and artistic features of the creativity of young Russian- speaking writers of Kazakhstan on the example of the anthology «Nihilist», published by Pavlodars literary society «Mercury». Self-reflection, subjectivization and anthropocentricity are the characteristic features of the creativity of this authors.

The essay is devoted to understanding such complicated philosophical and cultural categories as “absurd” and “grotesque”. Author reflects on them through the literary text by Erken and Harms. Many examples of minutes and stories, personal observations, diachronic analysis of “absurd” phenomenon allows the author to come to unexpected conclusions, in particular, to put the category of absurd in evolutionary paradigm of human culture.