No 1 (2016)

The article examines problems associated with a specific perception of Russian phrases and sentences by foreigners and provides a set of principles for teaching Russian syntactic standards to foreign students. The teaching aims at developing students’ communicative competence and skills of adequate verbal behavior in sociocultural, professional and business areas.

In this article we observe possibility of formation migrants’ behavioral rules according to modern cultural traditions in Russia. Comprehensive examination in Russian as a foreign language, history of Russia and fundamentals of Russian Federation legislation became an instrument of state policy of Russian Federation which promotes the Russian language and culture.

Folklore texts analysis is very important not only for folklore studies, but for linguistics on the whole. Such texts can be analyzed through the linguistic personality of their authors. The article studies the specificity of author’s linguistic personality on the example of verbalization of the concept ‘Space’ in Russian chastushka. The authors conclude that combining of collective and individual features of linguistic personality in chastushka results in special linguistic means representing concept ‘Space’.

The article analyzes about 150 business letters of correspondence between Russian business partners. We note that the unity of business writing genre is supported at the expense of traditional use of standardized structural elements relating to introductions and endings business letter. However, the basic, informative part of the letter, the text of the remain standard only at the level of general structure (ascertaining part and new information); the style of the same vocabulary and syntax is transformed. Changes are associated with the strengthening of position of the author in business correspondence.

This article deals with the main ways of forming slang vocabulary in English. In the research process, the author has used extensive scientific literature in order to identify the group of derivatives of words formed by morphological method, namely by means of affixation representing a process of adding affixes to the root or base of the word; by means of combining the bases of two or more words producing a compound word; by using such methods as contamination and shortening, as well as by using method of concatenation, meaning to acquire a new connotation and the expansion of the semantic “chain” of the word. In addition, borrowing plays not unimportant part in building slang vocabulary in English. For this reason, the author demonstrates basic information about the national history and language situation of Great Britain, the USA, Canada, New Zealand and other countries in the English - speaking world in order to identify similarities and differences in their indications.

This article argues that language contacts may influence linguistic view of the world. The hypothesis was formulated by Russian linguists, but did not attract enough attention. On the example of German calques in the Czech language we propose a set of methods for proving the hypothesis.

The article deals with the problem of how to organize interactive activities in the process of teaching consecutive translation and offers the scheme ofcase analysis. The present model of interactive activities on the base of the case-study method proves its positive influence not only on the effectiveness to achieve the final goal but students’ motivation as well.

The article treats some particularities of Basque national humor that we investigate on the material of jokes. Due to the anthropocentric orientation of modern science, including linguistics, the study of a particular linguistic world picture through discourse analysis is of particular importance for the development of human knowledge. The selected framework of investigation not only permits identify the common characteristics of the concept of “humor”, but also lets us clarify the values of a certain ethnic group, in this case of the Basque one, distinguish the particularities of their life, traditions and behavior. The analysis of Basque linguoculture is of great practical importance since this ethnic group is one of the least studied in the anthropological and linguistic aspects, and therefore represents a broad field of research. The information that we can obtain while investigating Basque jokes can be used in the following in teaching linguoculture and can be a secret clue to successful intercultural communication.

This paper studies the difficulties of stress, which Chinese students meet during the process of learning Russian language. A detailed description of Chinese and Russian stress and analysis of typical mistakes made by Chinese students are mentioned in this paper.

The article deals with the problem of learning the culture of scientific speech in technical university. Mastering the basics of scientific writing culture runs parallel with the development of a professional competence of the student and therefore involves: acquaintance with the methodology and technology of scientific work, the specifics of the scope, forms and methods of scientific research; the specifics of the language of science, sub-genres and academic typology of genres; especially in science and technical sublanguage: the scope of its use, the nature of the presentation and submission of scientific information. An important aspect of the language of the group work is to introduce graduate students to the peculiarities of written scientific communications, secondary (reproductive) and primary (productive) scientific texts and the stages of their creation. Students get acquainted with the structure and components of the scientific work, the rules of the speech processing of certain types of text and illustrations, including standardization of the presentation of bibliographic apparatus of scientific work.The above material is put by the author in a basis of formation of the communicative competence of students in educational and scientific sphere of communication, in the development of training manuals on the culture of scientific speech. The article describes the goals, objectives and structure of the manual that reflects the content of the discipline “Communicative and stylistic features of oral and written scientific speech”. The given manual is designed for classroom and extracurricular work of undergraduates, graduate students and young teachers enrolled in further educational program “Teacher of high school”. The manual was prepared by the author in the course of professional development for1 year post-graduate training in the Bauman MSTU. The theoretical material and practical tasks of the course help students to master the language by means of the scientific style of the Russian language, improve the skills to create and design their own scientific texts (thesis, article, final qualifying work, dissertation research).