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List of publications on a keyword: «German language»

  • Religious Prigins and Specific Regional Culture of The Mennontes

    Research Article
    Ethnic Culture Volume 8 No 2
    Author:
    Yulia V. Berezina
    Work direction:
    Ethnography, Ethnology and Anthropology
    Abstract:
    This article examines the Crimean Mennonites, a distinct ethnoreligious group of the German people. The study aims to trace the historical and religious evolution of the community and determine the extent of its influence on the ethnicity, linguistic culture, and lifestyle of the group’s members. The empirical basis of the study is the memoirs of the head of the family, whose first language was the Low German dialect in its oral form. The study outlines the history of Mennonitism, identifies the main features of its local existence in Crimea, and notes the adaptation of Anabaptist principles to the natural, economic, and sociocultural conditions of the peninsula. Particular attention is paid to the typology of the group, the systematization of its external and internal names, and the identification of key markers of religious identity and attitudes toward their native language. The study also characterizes the lifestyle of the Mennonite family within the context of the historical community. The study's results demonstrate a profound interconnection between religious affiliation and the ethnocultural characteristics of the group. Historical changes in group identification indicate the preservation of clear community boundaries. Language, however, remains a key marker of cultural continuity. Proficiency in the native Low German dialect serves as an important marker of self-identification even in the absence of a written language. The Low German dialect is currently ceasing to exist as a means of everyday communication, but it persists as an element of cultural memory and a marker of ethnicity.
    Keywords:
    German language, low German dialect, Crimean German Mennonites, ethno-religious community, Mennonitism
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  • National Specificity of German Secondary Nominations with Zoonyms Schwein or Sau in Their Composition

    Research Article
    Ethnic Culture Volume 6 No 2
    Author:
    Yuriy A. Vorobyev
    Work direction:
    World languages and literature
    Abstract:
    The article presents the results of the analysis of German secondary nominations with Schwein or Sau zoonyms. The aim of the analysis was to identify common and nationally specific features of these nominations against the background of their Russian equivalents. The relevance of this study is due to the need for a comprehensive study of secondary nominations, taking into account their axiological aspects, which have a certain cultural uniqueness and cause nationally unique semantic transformations in the lexical meaning of these units. The study used the methods of descriptive, comparative-comparative, component analysis, the method of critical dictionary analysis and dictionary definitions. These methods allowed us to conclude that the nominative potential of the secondary meanings of the German zoonym Schwein or Sau is more pronounced in comparison with their Russian equivalents. The analysis also showed a wider evaluative spectrum of German units and a greater variability of the axiological component in their lexical meaning both under the influence of the contextual environment and without it. Secondary nominations with the indicated zoonyms in their composition were selected as the main material of the study, identified by means of a continuous sampling from German explanatory, encyclopedic, phraseological and linguocultural dictionaries, German language resources, as well as German-Russian dictionaries.
    Keywords:
    semantics, secondary nominations, evaluative component of semantics, zoonyms, phraseological phrases, German language
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  • O vozmozhnostiakh i perspektivakh obucheniia nemetskomu iazyku v vysshei shkole

    Book Chapter
    Theoretical and practical aspects of pedagogy and psychology
    Author:
    Galina A. Sokolova
    Work direction:
    Глава 10
    Abstract:
    This chapter deals with the German language and its national variants which are spread in Switzerland and Austria. The work analyzes everyday situations of written and oral communication, emphasizes the important role in mastering the communicative and socio-cultural competencies by future teachers of foreign languages, highlights the importance of introducing the study of the national versions of the German language into the educational process.
    Keywords:
    competence, a foreign language, German, a national version, the Austrian version of the German language, the Swiss version of the German language
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