Linguistic and Cultural Commenting of a Russian Fairy-tale with Foreign Philologists

The article is devoted to actual problems of teaching a Russian folk text (a fairy - tale) at RFL lessons with foreign philologists. The article deals with theoretical and methodical issues of commenting Russian fairy-tales in education process; we also analyse notions lacuna and linguistic cultureme in linguistic culturology as units with linguistic and cultural meaning and their functions in Russian fairy-tales.

lexis without direct equivalents in other languages, lexical and grammatical groups, lexical units with national and cultural meaning, linguistic and cultural dictionary, linguistic and cultural commenting, a folk text