List of publications on a keyword: «language»
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TEACHING SPECIAL VOCABULARY AND TERMINOLOGY TO FOREIGN MEDICAL STUDENTS
ProceedingThe Topical Issues of the Humanities and Social Sciences: from Theory to Practice- Author:
- Larisa V. Balakireva
- Work direction:
- Теория и методика обучения и воспитания
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- This article deals with the issues related to the use of special vocabulary and medical terminology in the classes of Russian as a foreign language in a non-language university. Foreign students should be familiar not only with the basic vocabulary of the Russian language, but also with the basic terminology of their specialty, read and understand special literature. It helps to develop speech competencies in the professional field. The author focuses on the gradual introduction of special vocabulary at classes of Russian as a foreign language (RFL).
- Keywords:
- foreign students, interdisciplinary relations, professional activities, language for special purposes, term
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Formation of the value attitude of 6th grade students to the Russian native language in the process of working with the text
ProceedingThe Topical Issues of the Humanities and Social Sciences: from Theory to Practice- Author:
- Elena A. Riabukhina
- Work direction:
- Теория и методика обучения и воспитания
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- The article deals with the problem of forming the value attitude of students to the Russian native language. One of the ways to solve it is to work with text. It is indicated that special attention is paid to the linguistic and cultural and aesthetic perception of the text, the analysis of the ethnocultural units included in it. Diagnostics of 6th grade students helped to identify difficulties associated with the axiological component of text analysis. Based on the diagnostic results, comprehensive training exercises have been developed in three main areas: actualization of background cultural knowledge for understanding the text, working with the word in the text, selection of linguistic means of representation when creating a text.
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- value attitude to language, axiological component of working with text, background cultural knowledge, linguistic units with an ethno-cultural component of content, linguistic means of representation
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Teaching preschoolers the logic of natural language as a method of scientific cognition
Book ChapterPedagogy and Psychology of Modern Education- Author:
- Nikolai N. Zhaldak
- Work direction:
- Глава 10
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- In the field of teaching preschool children speech and logical thinking, the problem of transition from spontaneous to purposeful teaching of natural language logic as a conscious method of cognition, especially scientific, is being solved. The logic of a natural language is defined as a system of all its logical means and rules for understanding and using these means. The main research methods are pedagogical experiment, sociolinguistic research and this logic. The author has developed forms of tasks and exercises for targeted teaching from early preschool age to the correct understanding and conscious use of conjunctions, quantifiers, question words and the rules of natural language logic. The forms are shown with the help of which adult parents or educators can themselves understand what is included in this logic and purposefully teach it to children.
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- preschool education, purposefulness, logic of natural language, scientific knowledge, conscious method
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In these (end) times: Sh. Idiatullin's Volgaic fantasy fiction
Review ArticleEthnic Culture Volume 5 No 4- Authors:
- Maria S. Savelyeva, Alexander V. Savelyev
- Work direction:
- World languages and literature
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- The paper discusses the development of ethnic fiction in the modern Russian literature, focusing on Shamil Idiatullin's 2020 novel “Poslednee vremja”. We show that the tendency towards switching from ethnic to regionalist agenda can be observed in the works by both Russian authors, such as Denis Osokin and Alexei Ivanov, and authors having a non-Russian ethnic identity, such as the Tatar novelists Guzel Yakhina and Shamil Idiatullin. We adopt an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together techniques from literary studies (analysis of the genre and the literary situation as well as the historical and cultural context) and linguistics (an etymological analysis of proper names, in the first place). Our commentary on various linguistic, historical and cultural aspects puts Idiatullin»s novel into the discourse of the contemporary ethnic fiction as a text that expresses the positions of both the Conquerors and the Conquered. The analysis of personal names and other words of non-Russian origin that are used in the Russian text allows to identify the fictional ethnic groups with the actual peoples of the Volga-Kama region and places the novel within a present-day context. One of the key themes of “Poslednee vremja” is language loss, and some scenes, such as the self-immolation of the pagan priest Arβuj-Kuγə̑za, make a clear reference to the contemporary history of the region. The novel»s title can be translated as both “End times” and “These times”; thus, it includes simultaneously an apocalyptic allusion and a hint to the events of the recent past.
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- Idiatullin, Yakhina, ethnic fiction, regionalism, the Mari language, the Turkic languages
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“The song helps us to build and to live”: the role and functions of the ethnic song in Moscow Chuvash and Mari diasporic groups
Research ArticleEthnic Culture Volume 5 No 4- Author:
- Marina V. Kutsaeva
- Work direction:
- World languages and literature
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- The paper studies the role and functions of songs in an ethnic language in the life of representatives of the internal diaspora. The article is based on the results of sociolinguistic surveys conducted in Chuvash and Mari diasporas of the Moscow region in 2014–2017 and 2019–2021, respectively. The researcher employed the following sociolinguistic methods: direct observation, participant observation, structured interviews of respondents, documentary recording of responses, statistical data analysis. One of the blocks in the sociolinguistic questionnaire included such aspects as the language – in – culture and ethnic culture maintenance in the context of the vitality of ethnic language. Ethnic culture, along with the ethnic language, is one of the key markers of ethnic identity in both samples. As the results of the survey demonstrate, songs in Mari or Chuvash occupy a significant place in the respondents’ life. Several functions of the ethnic song were identified: adaptation to new living conditions; co-optation of new members (i. e., through cultural ethnic events); creative self-realization; language learning (i. e., ethnic songs used for educational purposes in language courses); initiation into language and culture for new speakers of Chuvash and Mari. The role of ethnic song in the revitalization of the language has been equally determined.
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- Chuvash language, ethnic culture, ethnic identity, Mari language, ethnic language, internal diaspora, sociolinguistic survey
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The regional component of the jargon of street groups of the 1980s and 1990s (based on the speech material of Yoshkar-Ola)
Review ArticleEthnic Culture Volume 5 No 4- Authors:
- Elena G. Tonkova, Elena S. Yarygina
- Work direction:
- World languages and literature
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- The work is devoted to the study of the vocabulary of youth groups in Yoshkar-Ola in 1980–1990. The purpose of this article is to characterize the local features of the language of Yoshkar-Ola youth unofficial groups. The research material was the jargon of participants in street gangs in the capital of the Republic of Mari El at the end of the twentieth century. The sources of language material were documentary literature, journalistic articles, dictionaries of substandard vocabulary and recordings of live speech of former group members. During the research, methods of linguistic observation and description, dictionary interpretation, and contextual analysis of lexical units were used. As a result of the study, the authors come to the conclusion that a number of jargons discussed in the article have become part of the unofficial microtoponymy of the city of Yoshkar-Ola. The likelihood of such lexical units appearing in dictionaries of non-literary vocabulary published by leading publishers is extremely low. The collected material contains information about the etymology of the unofficial toponymy of the city of Yoshkar-Ola, the communicative preferences of local youth and the linguistic realities of 1980–1990. The sublanguage of hooligan youth is very close in nature to Russian argot. A more detailed study of the jargon of street gang members may help change the uncritical attitude of Russian speakers towards the language of the criminal world.
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- jargon, argot, literary language, speech substandard, regional dictionary
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Bosnian phraseological units with a component-orientalism of the thematic group “Names of sweet dishes”
Review ArticleEthnic Culture Volume 5 No 4- Author:
- Irina V. Kuznetsova
- Work direction:
- World languages and literature
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- The work is devoted to the analysis of Bosnian phraseological units with orientalism – the name of a sweet dish. The purpose of the article is to show the phraseological potential of borrowings-orientalisms naming sweets in the phraseology corpus of Bosnian Muslims. The relevance of the work is due to the need for a comprehensive study of phraseological units to identify common and idioethnic. The role of orientalisms in creating the imagery of phrasemes is shown in terms of ethnolinguoculturology. The material of the study is non-comparative phrasemes existing in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Methods of material processing: component analysis; linguoculturological analysis; structural and semantic modeling; comparative and synchronous descriptive. Structural and semantic models illustrate the interlanguage commonality of motivational ideas and at the same time specific, revealed at the level of imagery of phraseology. The research material shows a different phraseological potential of the names of sweet confectionery products of oriental origin. Arabisms and Persiisms as part of phraseological units are «indirect» borrowing: they entered of the inhabitants of Bosnia and Herzegovina through Turkish; they, like Ottomans, are more frequent in Bosnian phrasemes due to various historical and relevant reasons today. Some of the analyzed phrases are recorded by lexicographic sources and in other regions of Southern Slavia, but the activity of their use in live colloquial speech is typical precisely for the language of the inhabitants of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who have the so-called Bosnian Turkish.
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- culture, phraseology, Bosnian language, oriental borrowings, oriental cuisine, thematic group, sweets
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On the process of standardization in an unwritten language (based on the example of the Shughnani language)
Research ArticleEthnic Culture Volume 5 No 4- Author:
- Leyli R. Dodykhudoeva
- Work direction:
- World languages and literature
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- The article analyses graphic and orthographic variability, as well as issues concerning the standardization process, in an unwritten Pamir language – Shughnani. The source data include a corpus of published and archival Shughnani texts of the 19th–21st centuries and their translation into Russian, as well as dictionaries, and field materials resulting from the author’s field research. We systematise linguistic data by applying an in-depth comparative method, in particular, comparative analysis of culturally marked units, as well as component analysis. There exist no state-institutional structures for regulating social speech activity, and thus no ability to solve theoretical and practical issues in terms of public policy through measures taken in the field of speech culture and language. This situation incentivizes the creation of a written tradition with a unified normative writing system, the compilation of Shughnani-Tajik-Russian, etc. dictionaries reflecting key national vocabulary, and the publication of normative grammars. It also encourages the creation of prose literature, and on this basis, the development of a literary standard. These measures serve to improve the sociolinguistic status of the language and ensure its preservation.
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- Tajik language, norm, minority language, unwritten language, Shughnani language, writing system
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Foreign language textbook as semiotic phenomenon
Review ArticleEthnic Culture Volume 5 No 4- Authors:
- Elena E. Chikina, Valeria A. Averina
- Work direction:
- Ethno-Cultural Problems of Education
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- The aim of this paper is the semiotic analysis of a foreign language textbook as a semiotic phenomenon reflecting the cognitive attitudes of its authors and aimed at forming not only external but also deep layers of the learner's linguistic personality, responsible for motivation, intents and attitudes. The material to be analysed is a popular line of EFL textbooks “English file” by British authors Ch. Latham-Koenig and C. Oxenden. The scientific novelty of the work is that for the first time a foreign language textbook is considered not as an educational and methodological text, but as an alternative reality, a dynamic complex sign, similar to the discursive space of a fiction book. The study is conducted by applying the method of contextual analysis, the method of cognitive-pragmatic analysis, and the interpretive method to the polycoded texts of EF-textbooks. The authors conclude that the semiotic complex of EF-textbooks exhibits the characteristics of an educational novel of fiction, where the learner assumes the function of a fairy-tale hero, acting in the space of English-language cultural mythologems, reference-metric elements, topoi and narratives. As a result of active realisation of the happy end narrative, supported by the system of topoi and precedent names characteristic of the English-language conceptosphere, the textbook uses the suggestive potential of the so-called soft power to form changes at the motivational-pragmatic level of the linguistic personality.
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- semiotics, semiology, pedagogical discourse, foreign language textbook, cultural mythologemes, narrative, precedent phenomenon
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Teaching English using the subject-language CLIL methodology (on the example of the Republic of Tuva)
Review ArticleEthnic Culture Volume 5 No 4- Author:
- Choduraa K. Irgit
- Work direction:
- Ethno-Cultural Problems of Education
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- The purpose of this work is to substantiate the ethno-cultural orientation in teaching English among bilingual students of Tuvan State University as the basis for the formation of intercultural competence. The strengthening of internationalization and mutual influence of polylinguocultural social communities in different spheres of life actualizes the question of the need to solve educational problems in a broad socio-cultural context and the dialogue of cultures. It is possible through a discipline in English, aimed at studying Tuvan culture by students in the context of the past and the present. We have defined the purpose of the discipline, the content of cultural knowledge, the planned competencies as a result of studying the discipline by students, and also formulated principles. The discipline is based on the application of the innovative subject-integrated methodology CLIL, combining content and language. Its combination with the ethno-cultural component in teaching English creates the potential not only to improve the skills of foreign language communicative competence, but also contributes to the formation of intercultural competence of students.
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- intercultural competence, bilingualism, English language teaching, ethno-cultural orientation of teaching, Tuvan culture, Republic of Tuva, integrated subject-language methodology CLIL
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Traditional approaches and innovative technologies in teaching students of non-linguistic specialties
Book ChapterDirections for educational development in the Year of the Teacher and Tutor- Author:
- Olga N. Narykova
- Work direction:
- Глава 7
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- The chapter discusses the main approaches and principles of teaching a foreign language in a non-linguistic university. The author pays special attention to the description of innovative technologies used in teaching students of non-linguistic specialties of the university, justifies their role in improving the quality of professional training of future specialists. The chapter provides an analysis of various organizational forms of work in teaching a foreign language, discusses the features of their use for the development of students' language competence.
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- intercultural communication, students of non-linguistic specialties, cross-cultural competence, university foreign language education, individual-differentiated approach, sociocultural approach
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Teaching Dialogical Oral Speech in English at a Non-Linguistic University
Book ChapterDirections for educational development in the Year of the Teacher and Tutor- Author:
- Elena G. Liakhova
- Work direction:
- Глава 8
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- The relevance of the chapter is determined by the fact that foreign language teaching in a non-language university should be aimed at the formation of intercultural communicative foreign language competence, an important part of which is the ability to communicate in a professionally-oriented environment. The purpose of this study is to determine the natural learning of spoken language in a foreign language using communicative gestalt situations. The results of the study allow us to conclude that when organizing foreign language teaching by using communicative gestalt situations, it is necessary to take into account the features of modern psychological principles of the formation of bilingual consciousness of students and the national specifics of the communication culture of the people of the language being studied.
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- bilingual consciousness, foreign language speaking training, a communicative gestalt situation, national characteristics of the English style of communication
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Language game as a means of manipulating in the political discourse.
ProceedingPedagogy, Psychology, Society- Author:
- Elli T. Salimova
- Work direction:
- Социальные процессы и образование
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- This article studies language play in the modern US electoral discourse. In the research, the author considers the concept of electoral discourse, its significance and role in society and also raises the question of the importance of studying the language play. The author studies the language play at the lexical, syntactic and lexico-syntactic levels in the first and final presidential debates between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Numerous examples illustrate the language play in the candidates’ speeches. In conclusion, the author decides that the language play allows candidates to manipulate the audience in order to achieve their goals.
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- political discourse, electoral discourse, political linguistics, language play
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Vocational-oriented teaching a foreign language as a necessary condition for the professional socialization of students of non-linguistic universities
ProceedingStrategies of Sustainable Development: Social, Law and External-economic Aspects- Author:
- Natalia I. Eremkina
- Work direction:
- Влияние системы образования на активность общества
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- The article is devoted to the peculiarities of teaching a professional foreign language in a non-linguistic university. Involving a student in the professional world through the understanding of special foreign language terminology is an important part of his communication and adaptation. To improve the efficiency of mastering a foreign language, it is proposed to use a logical and conceptual scheme of the terminology of the studied field of knowledge.
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- foreign language, vocational-oriented teaching, professional socialization, logical and conceptual scheme, special terminology
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Choosing a programming language for high school students
Review ArticleDevelopment of education Volume 6 No 3- Authors:
- Sergei A. Povitukhin, Elena N. Guseva
- Work direction:
- Pedagogy and Modern Education
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- Currently, special attention is paid to the content of the training of schoolchildren in computer science. Interest in software development and code writing methods is growing every year. This is due to the change in methods and means of training in the field of writing program code associated with the emergence and development of new paradigms and programming languages. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the choice of a programming language for the preparation of high school students in the field of programming and solving the tasks of the Unified State Exam in computer science. Materials and methods of research: in the course of the research, a theoretical approach was used: the study, systematization and analysis of theoretical materials, scientific and methodological resources for teaching programming to schoolchildren, demos, test tasks, manuals, educational websites for preparing for the Unified State Exam in computer science, as well as many years of experience in teaching schoolchildren and students the basics of programming. Research results and their discussion: Programming languages PascalABC.NET and Python are currently the most popular in school education. The article analyzes the possibilities of these programming systems and the prospects of their application in teaching high school students the basics of programming. Examples of solving typical problems from the Unified State Exam in computer science in both languages are given to compare the speed and efficiency of the code. Conclusions. Language PascalABC.NET it has a number of advantages and can be recommended as a language for teaching programming. The language is high-performance, well structured, has strict typing and is adapted to the tasks of the Unified State Exam in computer science. When teaching future programmers, the basics of writing code, it is advisable to combine languages PascalABC.NET and Python.
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- digitalization of education, Python, programming systems and paradigms, programming training, algorithms, programming languages, PascalABC, NET, preparation of high school students, the Unified State Exam in computer science
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The linguodidactic potential of podcasting in a non-language university: an analysis of learners' attitudes
Book ChapterTheoretical and practical aspects of pedagogy and psychology- Author:
- Viktoriia V. Vlasicheva
- Work direction:
- Глава 3
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- Podcasting, a digital educational technology based on the use of authentic and educational podcasts, is described in this study as a way to enhance learning and increase student motivation. Considering the educational value of podcasting from the point of view of its integration into modern pedagogical paradigms, the author justifies podcasting in second language learning in non-linguistic higher educational institutions, highlighting the criteria for its effectiveness: accessibility and thematic diversity, usability, development of metacognitive and language skills. The chapter presents the results of a quasi-experiment involving 146 students that aimed to identify students' attitudes towards podcasts before and after their introduction into the educational process.
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- teaching foreign languages, language skills, educational technology, podcast, podcasting, metacognitive skills
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Digital security as an integral component of foreign language teaching in a non-language university
Book ChapterTheoretical and practical aspects of pedagogy and psychology- Authors:
- Elena G. Liakhova, Aleksandr B. Glagolev, Irina V. Dushina
- Work direction:
- Глава 5
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- The objective of the research consists in developing and substantiating scientifically a necessity of such disciplines as digital literacy, digital safety, digital standardization, encryption means and Runet peculiarities embedded into the process of foreign language teaching in non-linguistic universities. The results of the conducted research allow to conclude that mastering a competent specialist during digitalization era requires the changes in the foreign language teaching content. It is especially crucial to take this factor into account to teach future journalists a foreign language. The chapter focuses on the method to develop the new competency in the area of digital safety while teaching journalists a foreign language.
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- digital literacy, digitalization, foreign language teaching, digital safety
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Formation of speaking skills in English lessons
Book ChapterTheoretical and practical aspects of pedagogy and psychology- Authors:
- Iuliia S. Vasileva, Nina S. Shvaikina
- Work direction:
- Глава 8
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- In this chapter, we examined such a phenomenon as speaking and methods of developing speaking skills in foreign language classes. One of the effective and productive means of developing these students’ skills in the process of learning English is the immersion method. This method helps to overcome the fear of starting communication, makes the learning process more exciting, increases the motivation of students and gives rise to the desire of learning all the nuances of the language being studied. As practice shows, this method is the most effective and allows you to provide ever-increasing confidence, facilitate the transition from learning to self-learning.
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- foreign language, method, skills, communication, speaking
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The Tatar layer of words in the system of kinship terms of the Besermans
Research ArticleEthnic Culture Volume 5 No 3- Author:
- Sergey A. Maksimov
- Work direction:
- World languages and literature
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- The purpose of this study is to identify and systematize the terms of kinship of Tatar origin in the Beserman dialect. The terms of kinship in the Udmurt language are relatively well studied. However, the terminology of Tatar origin as a separate lexico-semantic layer has not previously been considered in publications. Meanwhile, the study of such vocabulary can help shed light on the problems of the ethnogenesis of the Besermans, which is very important. This study was carried out mainly on the basis of T. I. Teplyashina’s monograph “The Language of the Besermans” and her field notes. The goals were achieved using descriptive and statistical methods, as well as the method of etymological analysis. Thirty-two Beserman terms of Tatar origin were identified and systematized, which allowed a new look at Besermian-Tatar contacts. In one of the periods, Besermans and Tatars had very close relationships up to interethnic marriages. The presence of special terms denoting the relatives of the husband among the Besermans, which are absent in other Udmurt dialects but correspond to the terms of the Chepetsk Tatars, may indicate that not only Besermian women married Tatars, but also Tatar women married Beserman men.
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- language contacts, Udmurt language, Beserman dialect, dialect vocabulary, kinship terms, Tatar borrowings
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Poetic topolectization in the formative years of the Chinese “new poetry”
Research ArticleEthnic Culture Volume 5 No 3- Author:
- Yulia A. Dreyzis
- Work direction:
- World languages and literature
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- The paper explores the infiltration of topolect into the poetry of Liu Bannong and Crescent Moon Society authors, induced by the Folksong Collection Movement, often labeled as introducing vernacular into poetry. The language of Liu Bannong’s New Poetry presents a complex hybrid between the emerging literary norm, local Beijing vernacular and his native lect of the northern Taihu region. Many contemporaries noted his poetry’s merits and his invaluable contribution to New Poetry development, greatly facilitated by Liu Bannong’s professional linguistic training. Following Liu Ban Nong’s footsteps, the Crescent Moon Society suggested experimenting with a new poetic language through the prism of the vernacular. Theorizing was supported by poetic practice: the authors of the Crescent Moon Society included topolect vocabulary in the texts abundantly, and directly marked individual poems as colloquial. In addition to inlaying topolect vocabulary or including large fragments of text written in topolect, topolectization was also carried out through rhyming. Despite the fact that further influence of this topolect poetry remained underestimated, the emerging connection between topolect and the authentic embodiment of the idea of a national language has become important for any discussion about language reform in the new China.
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- oral and written dichotomy, Chinese language, contemporary poetry, topolect poetry, vernacularization, Liu Bannong, Crescent Moon Society
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University lecture: experience of teaching chemistry to foreign students
Research ArticleDevelopment of education Volume 6 No 2- Authors:
- Irina A. Shtobbe, Olga V. Azarova
- Work direction:
- Pedagogy and Modern Education
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- The article presents the experience of teaching chemistry to foreign students of a medical university. To facilitate the understanding of educational material in chemistry by foreign students, the didactic potential of university lectures has been expanded. Every year, Russian universities accept citizens from more than 170 countries to study. The annual growth in the number of foreign students corresponds to the national course for further integration into the educational and scientific community of the allied states. The relevance of the study is determined by the need of Russian universities to develop educational and methodological materials in a foreign language for training programs for foreign students. The aim of this study is to facilitate the understanding of lecture material, and, as a result, to increase the effectiveness of teaching chemistry to foreign students of a medical university through the use of an English-language course of lectures in the learning process. Within this work, using the method of students questionnaire survey, a pedagogical study of the attitude of foreign students to the use of a course of chemistry lectures in English was carried out. The study involved 80 foreign students of Altai State Medical University, citizens of far abroad countries. It was found that the described course of lectures minimizes the difficulties of foreign students' perception of large amounts of educational material (97.5% of respondents), increases the efficiency of independent work (92.5%), helps to overcome the language barrier when teaching in an intermediary language (67.5%), as a result, there is a general interest of foreign students in chemistry as a science (95%), facilitating of educational material understanding and an increase in academic performance (96.2% of those who successfully passed the exam in chemistry compared to 60% of students in the control group). Thus, we came to the conclusion that the use of a developed English-language course of lectures in the teaching chemistry makes it easier for students to perceive the lecture material and improve the quality of chemistry education for foreign students.
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- foreign students, English language, teaching chemistry, lecture course, pedagogical research
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Local history organizations in the study and preservation of the native language and ethnoculture of the Chuvash in the 1920s
Review ArticleEthnic Culture Volume 5 No 2- Authors:
- Tikhon S. Sergeev, Ekaterina V. Agaeva
- Work direction:
- Ethnography, Ethnology and Anthropology
- Abstract:
- The establishment of the Soviet power on the territory of the Russian empire led to a new system of values, activation of the population in all fields of the social life. In the sphere of museum building in the 1920s a noticeable role was played by such public scientific and educational associations as the Society for the Study of the Local Territory in Cheboksary (1921-1931) and the Society for the Study of Chuvash Culture in Moscow (1927-1931). The main aim of the article is to reveal the history of the formation and work of these organizations. The material is presented chronologically. Having established close contacts with scientific institutions throughout Russia and with famous scientists, the local history organizations with a wide network of branches and cells promoted an in-depth study and development of the economy and culture of the Chuvash region and the spiritual culture of the Chuvash, half of whose population lived outside the territory of the autonomy. The special attention these societies paid to the development of the native language and culture of the Chuvash people that allowed the Chuvash people to realize their national identity. During the first decade of the Chuvash Soviet autonomy some successes in the formation of local lore as a science were achieved. On the territory of Chuvashia local history institutions and organizations made a significant contribution to the study of nature, economy, productive forces of the region, as well as the spiritual life of the people. In this period it was the Society for the Study of the Local Territory in Cheboksary and the Society for the Study of Chuvash Culture in Moscow that promoted the preservation and development of the Chuvash language.
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- bilingualism, native language, local history, diaspora, ethnoculture, Chuvash Autonomous Region, Chuvash ASSR, Society for the Study of Local Area, Society for the Study of Chuvash Culture, writing
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Seasons in the Russian-language writing of the Udmurt poet V. Ar-Sergi
Research ArticleEthnic Culture Volume 5 No 2- Author:
- Evgeniia V. Panteleeva
- Work direction:
- World languages and literature
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- The article is devoted to the study of the semantics of the seasons in the Russian-language poetry of the Udmurt poet and prose writer V. Ar-Sergi. The relevance of this work is caused by the fact that today artistic texts of national authors require a holistic conceptual analysis, since they are strongly influenced by Russian literature, which in turn affects their ethnocultural identity. The issue of preserving, strengthening and developing national language in the multilingual space of the Russian Federation is acute. The author undertook an analytical review of the problem on the material of the Ar-Sergi Russian-language poetry. During the study, traditional methods of literary research (quantitative, structural-semiotic, comparison and collation, method of holistic text analysis) were used. Both traditionally mythological and individual authorial realia associated with the perception of calendar natural changes are reflected in the poetic texts of Ar-Sergi. The degree of their semantic connectedness with traditional canons of Udmurt culture is determined. Comprehension of the natural passage of time is closely intertwined with the emotional and psychological plan of the works. The natural landscape axiologically becomes a theme for constant artistic reflection in the poetry of Ar-Sergi. The lexical units from the lexico-semantic group “seasons” have not only a certain temporal semantic load but also denote the internal emotional state of the lyric subject in the poetic texts of the Udmurt poet. The attention of the author is turned not only on his own worldview but also folk-mythological contexts of the whole ethnic group.
- Keywords:
- Udmurt Russian-language poetry, Udmurt folklore, mythopoetic of the seasons
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General extralinguistic factors reinforcing specific ideas about the Cheboksary regiolect of the Russian language
Research ArticleEthnic Culture Volume 5 No 2- Author:
- Eduard V. Fomin
- Work direction:
- World languages and literature
- Abstract:
- The study is devoted to the study of the conditions for the formation and functioning of the Cheboksary regiolect of the Russian language, which is distinguished by a number of stable linguistic parameters. The peculiar sound of the speech of the Cheboksary people has developed under the significant substrate influence of the Chuvash language, among the speakers of which there are currently active processes of a linguistic shift in favor of Russian. The work is written in the aspect of sociolinguistics and is based on the author’s long-term observations of the self-esteem of Cheboksary residents and their assessment by visitors. The purpose of the research is to expand the understanding of extralinguistic factors that do not directly affect the specifics of the speech of Cheboksary people, but at the same time enhance the impression of it from outside observers. The article deals with non-linguistic specific features inherent in the capital of the Chuvash Republic, including geographical, climatic, anthropological, technological and other components. Their presence greatly enhances the perception of the sound of the Russian speech of the inhabitants of Cheboksary and its agglomeration as a unique phenomenon of modern Russian culture. In turn, the specific conditions that support the Cheboksary regiolect are the result of a long historical and social process, including the mass migration of the population in the past, the mixing of different ethnic groups among themselves and the formation of modern peoples in their visually fixed physical features, anthropological impact on the ecumene, etc. in relation to the territory of Chuvashia and nearby regions.
- Keywords:
- Chuvash language, Russian language, language contacts, regional variants of the Russian language
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Ontological Models of Proverbs as Precedent Texts (on the Material of Different Structural Models in the Russian and Chuvash Languages)
Research ArticleEthnic Culture Volume 5 No 2- Authors:
- Aleksei R. Gubanov, Ekaterina A. Kozhemiakova, Galina F. Gubanova
- Work direction:
- World languages and literature
- Abstract:
- This article presents an analysis of proverbs as precedent texts and their ontological (conceptual) models in the Russian and Chuvash languages as having different structures. The relevance of the work is due to the cognitive-pragmatic approach to the linguistic picture of the world of proverbs, as well as the need to determine the status of the ontological model of precedent texts of proverbs as a special structure of knowledge that characterizes the features of ethno-linguistic consciousness. Based on the material of Russian and Chuvash proverbs, a conceptual analysis of the precedent texts of proverbs is carried out. The basic models of the subject's cognitive decision-making strategy are distinguished: 1) cognitive setting for a low / high degree of argumentative impact: a) with the axiological dominant “gradation”; b) with a stereotypical dominant; c) with adaptive dominant; 2) cognitive attitude with the axiological component “positive – negative”. The identified types of axiological components of conceptual objects act as factors, grounds that ensure the use of proverbs as an argument, reflecting the values and traditions of the Russian and Chuvash cultural communities. Characteristic for acts of argumentation in which proverbs are used are such basic structures as one-sided argumentation and two-sided argumentation. In the discourse in the relationship of communicants in the languages under consideration, simple and complex speech acts with proverbs are used, which have the same pragmatic features, but differ in quantitative terms and communicative conditions of functioning. The structure of the precedent text of proverbs is presented as an ontology in the Protégé ontology editor system, since in modern research ontology is considered the leading paradigm of information content structuring.
- Keywords:
- conceptual analysis, proverbs, precedent text, ontological model, argumentative discourse, languages of different structures, ethno-linguistic consciousness, cognitive-pragmatic approach, speech act, Protege system