Vol 15, No 1 (2018)

The article distinguishes the notions of “communication” and “obshchenije” as relevant for determining the aim of Russian language teaching and learning. Reasoned choice in favour of “obshchenije” allowed to formulate the aim of teaching that reflects author’s holistic outlook on teaching-learning process. This outlook is based on phenomenological theory of personality and determines the choice of educational learning models, including methods, forms and tools to achieve the goal. Strong and sustained motivation is what cements all the components. The article outlines the features of motivational textbook that forms intention to study language and aimed at a continuous stimulation of obshchenije.

The problems of adaptation of childrenmigrants coming to Russia from near and far abroad do not lose their relevance in the context of increasing flows of migration in the world in general. In order to study the adaptation of children coming with their parents, we will highlight one of the important aspects - the introduction of such children in the educational process. In the course of the research, the data of the Department of Migration Accounting for the Astrakhan region were used, classes were attended in general educational institutions, the manuals and educational programs of schools receiving children who do not know Russian as a native language were analyzed. An analysis of the material indicates a methodological deficit for such children, the need to take into account the polyethnic composition of students in the educational standard, according to which the educational process of Russian-speaking schools is organized.

The article reviews the sources of the modern Russian patriotism and retraces the stages of its forming in Russian literature according to historical, political and social events of the first half of the XIXth century. The authors of the article accentuate the patriotic theme in literary works by A. Pushkin, M. Lermontov, N. Gogol, and analyse some texts of these writers. Topicality of these article’s theme is dictated with erroneous understanding the causes of the Russian victories in the Patriotic war of 1812 and the Great Patriotic War by foreign students.

The main points of view on the problem of bilingualism are considered in the article. The theoretical part of the work contains the most significant research positions in relation to this phenomenon. The practical part presents the results of an associative survey to identify the process of formation of a secondary linguistic personality among Korean-Russian and Russian-Korean subordinate bilinguals. Associative stimulus was the words of the thematic group “Time” (“long ago”, “recently”, “soon”, etc.). Respondents were subordinate bilinguals (B2 and higher). The results of the experiment suggest that in the consciousness of subordinate bilinguals (level B2 and higher), an intensive process of formation of a secondary associative system and a secondary linguistic personality begins.

Many scholars tend nowadays to agree with the statement that English language is diversified because of globalization and that it is represented by a number of varieties. In this connection, the problem of interactions between various languages and cultures is widely discussed today. This is reflected by the fact that there are a lot of newly introduced approaches in linguistics, for example, interlingaculturology and variantology. In order to compare these two approaches the author of this article tried to regard some of the processes that take place when these approaches are used and to give the explanation that is provided by these approaches to clarify the processes. Material for the research is majorly taken from the work by L.N. Tolstoy “War and Peace” in English translation. The result of the research showed that there is a contradiction between the two approaches. The author suggests a new communication model that allows to clearly see the point of contradiction. Moreover, there is a new understanding of what variety is presented in the article. Also, it is suggested by the author to look at the variantology approach from the position of synergetics, which is a rather unique twist is this discipline.

In the modern political system of Belarus the debates genre has appeared in public life of the country quite recently. The analysis of views, attitudes and beliefs of politicians is not only the special interest of political science but also of speech practice which gives a complex data to identify the image formation features of a politician’s speech. The article presents interdisciplinary approach to the verbal image phenomenon, including political linguistics, linguistics of conflicts, linguistic identity as the methodological basis. The analysis of political concepts, myths, frames of ordinary consciousness that form implicite basis of image-texts helps us to describe tactics and strategies, using by Speaker for impressinf His/Her Audience. The examples of TV debates, candidates’ speeches in other media have been taken from the latest election campaign in Belarus.

The study is devoted to the work of the contemporary Russian writer I. Abuzyarov, whose prose reveals the interaction of the traditions of Russian, European and Eastern cultures. This interaction is shown at the level of the world created in works of an image, their subject and composite structure, the existential and subject organization, figurative system, etc. The problem of interaction of different national traditions in an esthetic field of Russian-speaking literature which status causes discussions in modern literary criticism, is up to date. The research is in a context of the ideas of transculturality and productive cultural “hybridism” which are actively developed in foreign and Russian literary criticism. Theoretically significant and not studied in the concrete historical plan aspect - research of the sphere of characters and system of their nominations is chosen. Two main ways of designation of the characters used by the writer which correspond to two concepts of the personality are defined and come from the genre nature of works and the principles of the organization of their subject sphere.

With this article we attempt to understand the vitality/viability of the Russian language through the prism of Russian-language (translational) literature, created by non-Russian origin authors. By vitality, we mean the language’s ability to survive, develop, maintain its systemic-typological properties. According to sociolinguists, the vitality of any language is measurable. There is a number of parameters: socio-political, socio-demographic, linguistic, socially-functional, national-cultural. The present work is focused on a special parameter for measuring the vitality of the Russian language - Russian-language literature. In our opinion, Russian-language literature (alternative definition - translational literature) is a complex interaction of two (or more) language systems, producing a semantically and structurally enriched literary field. The corpus of translational art texts is a database that accumulates and develops the potencies of the Russian language. Main methods: deductive and evaluation-descriptive.

This discussion took place on December 3-6, 2017 in Karlovy Vary. Its initiator was the foundation “Culture”, headed by O.O. Suleimenov, a well-known poet and authoritative thinker of our modernity. Participants of the Polylogue were scientists from the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (Doctor in Philology, Professor Bakhtikireyeva U.M., Doctor in Philology, Professor Valentinova O.I., Director of the Institute of Hospitality and Tourism Dikhtyar S.V., PhD in Philology Valikova O.A.), Uzbek State University of World Languages (Doctor in Philology, Professor Dzhusupov M., Ph.D., Senior Researcher Ismailov G.M.), Eastern Institute of St. Petersburg State University (PhD in Turkology Dubrovina M.E.). The central theme of the discussion was the concept of O.O. Suleimenov about a new approach to etymology as a science. On the example of several time slices, the author reconstructs the routes of movement, phonetic modifications (in some cases - transformations) and word resemantization, citing illustrations and arguments from his own researches and observations.