No 4 (2013)

The article presents linguo-stylistic and communicative and pragmatic analyses of Russian philosophuical texts of the beginning of the XX century treated in the aspect of the typology of the shifters of movement of the thought observatuion and the typology of larger-than-the sentence, connected with this. The conclusion states on the attraction of narrative speech structures of philosiophizing to such models that shift the observation point from the forms of vividly exprexxed modality and deixis to the forms of “zero” deixis and veritable utterances.

The article analyzes the content of a five-volume edition “Russian poetry. XX century” in the aspect of creativity of inophone poets, who are writing their works in the Russian language, as of the example of Olzhas Suleymenov. In this edition there weren’t included such poets The Russian poetry of XX century is localized in border of Russia and European countries. It doesn’t observe countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan etc).

This article tries to reveal a universal cognitive model of the causal relations reflected in the language consciousness of a subject. The cognitive model as a frame is considered to survey a certain typical causal situation through a human perception as the case of the connection of cause and effect propositions. Frame models of internal subjective causality are being revealed; semantic types and means of verbalization of internal subjective causality of frame models in the German and Russian languages are established.

The article regards the content and correlation of such concepts as “speech”, “language”, “speech activity”, “speech and language ability”, “sense of language”, “metalinguistic awareness”, “language competence” in the context of substantiating the object of studying the problem of sociocultural dependence of speech and language development of a child. It is shown that the concept of language competence completely meets the principles of wholeness, subjectivity, psychological determinism, historical succession and practice orientation in the treatment of the given problem.

The article considers non-verbal means of communication, which play an important role in intercultural interaction. The authors choose to analyze the characteristics of the kinetic components of speech and support the idea that language is both universal in its basis and specific, national in different methods of expression.

The article examines lexical features of business correspondence in two languages — Russian and French. It emphasizes similarities and differences between them and also specificity of business correspondence in general.

The article deals with the analysis of stereotypes, in particular etnostereotypes, their role in the formation of Mexican linguistic picture of the world and the functioning of demonyms (gentilic) in phraseological units in the Spanish of Mexico.