No 4 (2013)

The article aims at establishing the status of applied linguoculturology. The author characterizes the object and tasks of the science in focus.

The article is devoted to the problems of speech image discredit on the Internet in connection with speech aggression strengthening in online texts. So it is necessary to accurately differentiate speech statements and information containing in them. The author presents an original systematization of speech image discredit types.

The article is devoted to the problem of using proper names in terminological systems of such sciences as philosophy, physics, chemistry, geology, etc. The author considers terms-eponyms, or eponymic names, which of different historical period, structure and meaning. The author recommends using terms-eponyms with relevant meanings for scientific purpose.

The article deals with the peculiarities of argumentation in the artistic texts of Tatiana Tolstaya’s creative work including her symbolic argumentation. The writer uses different ways of argumentation in artistic social and political essays where four techniques of argumentation such as description, expressiveness, evaluation and orectic means dominate in the text. In all these cases the combination of the above mentioned ways of argumentation result in expressing conviction.

The article deals with publicist texts, containing slang words, it also raises the problem of including slang in the process of teaching foreign students.

The article considers difficulties which Turkish students meet in asking questions in Russian. The author presents ways to overcome the difficulties.

The article deals with some gaps in English and Russian languages which are revealed through comparative analysis, and states that culture specific vocabulary requires particular attention in foreign language teaching as it is a rich source of information about a target culture and language.

In the article three kinds of succession (organizational and methodical, substantial, motivational and professional ones) in continuous education concerning foreign languages in the system “secondary school-high school” are presented. A model of efficient training in foreign languages at high technical school and knowledge estimation system predicting the knowledge level of every student on the basis of minimum initial data are suggested.

The article describes a new textbook for foreign students on the scientific speech style. The textbook was written jointly by Tatiana Timoshenko, Vadim Shuvalov (the Chair of the Russian language, NUST «MISIS») and Olga Ushakova (the Chair of Physical Metallurgy, NUST «MISIS»). The textbook includes 16 authentic texts on the Materials Science and Metallurgy. Each text is followed by a system of tasks, containing lexical, grammatical and communicative exercises. The exercises help foreign students to prepare for lectures and seminars on Materials Science and Metallurgy. A distinctive feature of the textbook is a system of problem-solving exercises.

The article is devoted to the project of a textbook on the unit “Syntax” taken in the course of “Practical Grammar,” which is intended for the students of Linguistics. Presented exercises are various and are divided into reproductive to creative ones. The material is taken from the authentic audio-courses of VOA and BBC.