No 3 (2011)

Article is devoted to the consideration of the phenomenon of variability in English at the formal level and the exploration of the phenomenon at the semantic level.

In the article the distinctive features of filling of verbal part in space of concept lie/deceit (with using frame structurization) in Russian and Chineeze language perceptions are represented.

The article covers matters concerning system-based approach to train foreign students' communicative competence in the LSP field at the pre-university level.

Comparative analysis of poetic texts not only demonstrates the similarities and differences of linguistic nuances that implement common to two poems about photography, but also reveals the hidden meanings of poems through transformation of spatio-temporal relations, focused around the subject of the photo.

The article presents study of the concept man in the Russian and English linguistic pictures of the world. The study is based on semantic and conceptual analysis of the synonymic sets with the dominant lexeme man in English and Russian. The semantic analysis shows that the traditional classification of semantic components has to be adapted to the specific features of the lexemes and it should include integrative, distinguishing, opposing, relevant and implicit components. The new approach enables us to do comparative research of the semantic changes within each synonymic set as a result of shifts in the structure of the underlying concept.

The article deals with style differentiation of languages for special purposes (LGP). The research determines and describes functional stylistic differences between languages and it characterizes the following styles of the language such as functional styles of the language, technical style, scientific style, belles-letters style, official style, publicist style, colloquial style.

The article studies the possibility of looking at students' videos as a new format of testing. In this case things like setting up tasks and objectives, choosing the topic, selecting material and outlining general requests (ex., the length of the video, the deadlines, the evaluation criteria, etc.) are of prime importance. The contest of students' gives good material for the analysis of strengths and weaknesses of this new type of testing. Developing such competences as educational, communicative, cognitive and professional subject related is taken as the benefit of the project within foreign language teaching curriculum.