The article shows the negative consequences of the reforms of the humanitarian component of higher education carried out in Russia in the post-Soviet period. The urgent need to strengthen and modernize the humanitarian component of Russian higher education is emphasized. Key words: growth of rates of technical and technological progress, reforming of Russian higher education, […]
Shilova E. A. General tendencies of English tourism terminology development
Formation of the terminology of tourism domain reflects the development of tourism as a separate type of professional activity. The article deals with questions of word-building of English tourism terminology. The diachronic approach allows to specify most productive ways of term formation characteristic of certain periods of the given terminology system development. Key words: Language […]
Tsimbal A. Yu. Intonation figuration of introductory and inverse disjunctive question in the academic presentational speech
The article deals with the peculiarities of intonational figuration of introductory and inverse disjunctive question in the academic presentational speech. Special attention is paid to the specifics of communicative tasks of the above-mentioned interrogative constructions and intonation patterns of their implementation by native speakers of American English. Key words: introductory and inverse disjunctive question, academic […]
Filatova E. A. Distant methods of teaching english phonetics in conditions of auditary bilingualism
The present article deals with the problem of effectiveness of distant (computer) methods of teaching of segmental and suprasegmental phonetics at school in conditions of auditory bilingualism. Based on the analysis of the concreate computer programs advantages and disadvantages of distant learning of phonetics in connection with the FSE in English are revealed. Key words: […]
Uzhova O. A. English dictionaries of VIII—XVI cc. as cultural information providers
The article is devoted to the analysis of the early flowering of the English lexicography. It deals with the study of the dictionaries that emerged in the periodbetween VIII and XVI cc. It is emphasized that cultural information can be traced even in the early lexicographic products, thus proving the fact that any dictionary can […]
Polyakova E. A. Linguocultural and poetological analysis of the nouns denoting “sky” in the Old English poem Beowulf
The given paper presents a detailed linguocultural and poetological analysisof the nouns denoting “sky” in the Old English epic poem Beowulf. The paperstudies semantic characteristics of the Old English nouns denoting “sky”, namely heofon, rodor, wolcen, swegl. The meanings of these nouns are defined and specified, their etymology and such peculiarities of Old English poetry […]
Milovskaya N. D. Anekdote and Witz as viewed from the angle of transformation
The article shows that the transformation of the German language historical anecdote into the format of a language everyday anecdote is not a frequent phenomenon that has only one vector of development, namely: the language historical anecdote is transformed by the national consciousness into the format of a language everyday anecdote. The article deals with […]
Manik S. A. Ambiguity in english political media discourse
The article deals with ambiguity in political media discourse as exemplified by publications on the events in the Kerch Strait in 2018. It describes the differencebetween the meaning and sense, polysemy and ambiguity, and defines the phenomenon under study. By the example of the word “aggression” the paper illustrates its dictionary definitions, as well as […]
Kokurina I. V., Khoretskaya N. Yu. The framing and the U. S. image in the German Media
Article is devoted to framing as one of ways of impact on the point of view of the person. On material of texts of the German media the fact that updating of separate frames at the description of various facts connected with the USA «forces» the recipient to interpret the facts as it is favorable […]
Kvashnina D. S., Suvorova N. V. The semantic shift in the names of spring months (On the example of the East Slavic languages)
The article examines the diachronic process that happened in the names of the months. Based on the analysis of the East Slavic names of the spring monthsboth similarities and differences of the kindred languages are revealed. One of the differences is caused by the semantic shift, which occurred in the inner form of those lexemes […]
Grigoryan A. A., Grigoryan A. Yu. On a Version of CLT in English
The idea of interdependence and interplay between lexis and grammar can hardly be considered a new one. Based on recent research in corpus linguistics andcommunicative language teaching, the article attempts to outline a practical use of grammar/vocabulary merging in teaching English as a foreign language. Key words: lexical grammar, corpus linguistics, communicative method, set expressions, […]
Grigoryeva E. M. Australian Lexicography: Beginnings, Formation, Perspectives
Australian lexicography peculiarities from the beginning up to the present moment are studied in the article. First Australian dictionaries were glossaries, theirauthors were not professional lexicographers, dictionary microstructure can be characterized by laconic manner. Nowadays the situation is completely different. Dictionary microstructure includes not only a head word and its definition but various components such […]
Trofimenko T. M. Man of science in the French literature of the end of XIXth century (Based on the Villiers de L’isle-Adam’s novel «Claire Lenoir»)
French literature of the XIXth century produces contrasting types of people of science, reflecting different points of view on scientific progress. The article deals with the work of the French writer Villiers de l’Isle-Adam in the context of the confrontation of various aesthetic and literary trends at the second half of the XIXth century in […]
Kiseleva I. S. The transformation of the narrator and the problem of existential freedom in the novel by Max Frisch «Call yourself gantenbein»
The key to deciphering this work is to play at all artistic levels. His hero chooses roles, in one life he can change several scenarios, but some key moments remain unchanged in these roles: old age, illness, love, death. Complex and multifaceted phenomenon of the game is considered by the writer, first of all, from […]