scholarly journals Assumptions of mass-media contributors about sources of language norms and rules of language use (based on survey materials)

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 512-527
Author(s):  
Sergey A. Belov ◽  
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Nikolay M. Kropachev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
National Language ◽  
State Control ◽  
Comprehensive Information ◽  
Language Norms ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Contemporary Standard

The article represents the results of a survey among mass-media contributors (journalists, editors, content-managers) on their assumptions about compulsory requirements to use the national language in mass-media, inter alia — what legal limitations are established for this, which sources are used for the norms of the Russian language, those necessary to follow, and if mass-media contributors are specially trained on these norms in editorials offices. The survey showed that only a quarter of respondents knew about the compulsory rule to follow the norms of contemporary standard (literary) Russian in spheres where the national language (including mass-media) is used, and only 6% knew about the necessity to adhere to the official norms. A comparable number of respondents knew the sources for these norms. This leads to the conclusion that requirements to follow the norms of contemporary standard language established by legislation on national language are not effective. The widespread use of the Internet, primarily the site gramota.ru, articulately indicates the need to update the source of official norms of contemporary standard Russian language for its use as the national language. This source should be electronic and freely accessible, uniting different dictionaries and reference books, in order to provide comprehensive information on the norms for using acertain word in a particular language situation. More than 50% of respondents knew about the existence of mechanisms of state control over compliance with the requirements of language legislation, but they were not familiar with the actual requirements of this legislation. Editorial offices of media organizations do not pay due attention to this question.

Dynamics of Communication in the Sphere of Speech Etiquette

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
N. Basko
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
English Language ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Communicative Act ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Modern Russian

The article discusses the changes in communication that have occurred in the Russian speech etiquette, on the example of etiquette forms of greeting. Speech etiquette is the most important element of a communicative act. Compliance with the rules of speech etiquette largely ensures success in solving communicative problems. Based on the analysis of lexicographical sources and materials of modern Russian mass media, a shift in the use of greeting forms is noted. It is expressed in the transfer of old forms of greeting to a passive stock and the emergence and active use of new forms of greeting The author concludes that the dynamics of changes in speech forms of greeting reflects the general trends in the development of the Russian language at the present stage, such as a) the active neologization; b) the influence of the English language; c) the impact of computer technology on the language.

scholarly journals Sociolinguistic Aspects of the First Translations of the Bible into the Russian Language

Slovene ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander G. Kravetsky
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Language Translation ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
National Language ◽  
Language Version ◽  
The Bible ◽  
European Languages ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Russian Language

The first translations of the New Testament into the Russian language, which were carried out at the beginning of the 19th century, are usually regarded as a missionary project. But the language of these translations may prove that they were addressed to a rather narrow audience. As is known, the Russian Bible Society established in 1812 began its activities not with translations into Russian but with the mass edition of the Church Slavonic text of the Bible. In other words, it was the Church Slavonic Bible that was initially taken as the “Russian” Bible. Such a perception correlated with the sociolinguistic situation of that period, when, among the literate country and town dwellers, people learned grammar according to practices dating back to Medieval Rus’, which meant learning by heart the Church Slavonic alphabet, the Book of Hours, and the Book of Psalms; these readers were in the majority, and they could understand the Church Slavonic Bible much better than they could a Russian-language version. That is why the main audience for the “Russian” Bible was the educated classes who read the Bible in European languages, not in Russian. The numbers of targeted readers for the Russian-language translation of the Bible were significantly lower than those for the Church Slavonic version. The ideas of the “language innovators” (who favored using Russian as a basis for a new national language) thus appeared to be closer to the approach taken by the Bible translators than the ideas of “the upholders of the archaic tradition” (who favored using the vocabulary and forms of Church Slavonic as their basis). The language into which the New Testament was translated moved ahead of the literary standard of that period, and that was one of the reasons why the work on the translation of the Bible into the Russian language was halted.

scholarly journals LANGUAGE PERSONALITY OF OTHER THAN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE ORIGIN YOUNG CHILDREN LEARNING RUSSIAN: LEXICON

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Irina A. Buchilova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
National Language ◽  
Semantic Level ◽  
Speech Input ◽  
Language Origin ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Russian Language

The present article aims to study the problem of linguistic personality formation in children of other than Russian language origin learning Russian at Russian primary school. The structure of the language personality is also observed. The focus of this study is lexicon as an important structural component of the language personality. The results of an empirical study of the vocabulary of such children are presented. First, the results of the survey with the questionnaire enabled to determine that the perception of a national language or the Russian language as the native one depended upon the language used for communication in the family which in its turn was a result of a family being international or mononational. The survey also showed that more than 61% and 72% experienced writing skills challenges in dictation and essays in Russian, at the same time, 72% cannot write their national language at all. Third, in the course of ascertaining experiment, it was found that the targeted category of children demonstrated certain specific features of language personality formation: flaws occurred in the structure of verbal-semantic level (gaps in vocabulary, agrammatism), features of the lexicon were determined by the speech input, gaps in lexicon reduced the quality of writing performance (dictations, expositions, essays) because of difficulties in understanding. Recommendations are offered for this category of learners to improve and enlarge their vocabulary.

scholarly journals Features of the implementation of set expressions with integral component-toponym in mass media sports focus

2019 ◽  
pp. 46-48
Author(s):  
Olga Anatolevna Dychinskaia ◽  
Natalia Aleksandrovna Segal
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Integral Component ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Language Text

This article discusses set expressions with a component-toponym used in media texts of sports topics. The source for the analysis was the mass-media Russian-language text on sports taken from the National Corps of the Russian Language.

scholarly journals Political, media, everyday discourse: points of contact and language reflexes (on the basis of “The explanatory dictionary of russian everyday speech”)

2019 ◽  
pp. 42-56
Author(s):  
Elena Valentinovna Kakorina
Keyword(s):  
Russian Language ◽  
National Language ◽  
Standard Language ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Media ◽  
Institutional Communication ◽  
The Russian Language

The article addresses the problem of the interaction of political, media and everyday discourse. The object of the research is words and expressions from a politician’s idiolect that become precedential phenomena of the Russian language and facts of the Russian culture. These are peculiar language labels, aphorisms, which are associated in the consciousness of society with the name of a certain political person. The “Explanatory Dictionary of Russian Everyday Speech”, by virtue of its specificity, allows not only fixing such words, but also to note (in special areas of the dictionary) the stylistic, pragmatic features of a particular lexeme, and also briefly describe the history of their use in Russian. As a rule, such words are borrowed from distant, stylistically alien for public speech spheres of communication, such as everyday discourse or social and professional jargons. These language units, replicating through the media, are involved in common usage, which can lead to their rooting in the national language, the loss of slang or colloquial status, and other changes. The use of such words to make speech more expressive usually implies deviations from the standard language norm, as well as communicative norms of institutional communication. The article provides the analysis of speech manner of Soviet and modern politicians (N. Khruschev, B. Yeltsyn, V. Putin and others), mostly on the basis of the entries from The “Explanatory Dictionary of Russian Everyday Speech”

scholarly journals Religious Beliefs Reflected in Creative Word-formation Patterns of Russian Dialects

2020 ◽  
pp. 84-91
Author(s):  
С.Ю. Дубровина
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Lexical Analysis ◽  
Componential Analysis ◽  
Structural Types ◽  
The Russian Language

В современных русских говорах, несмотря на воздействие на них норм литературного языка, межкультурную контактность и деформацию в результате воздействия средств массовой информации, постепенное исчезновение диалектов в условиях цивилизации медиа, сохраняется лексическое ядро, в котором особое место занимает лексика нравственно-религиозной сферы. Наличие этого лексического пласта выделяет русский язык среди других в отношении аксиологической акцентированности земного и небесного. В настоящей статье обобщены наблюдения автора, касающиеся состава, семантики, сложения лексических гнезд, составляющих макрополе народного православия, формальной стороны словопроизводства единиц соответствующей лексики на общерусском фоне с привлечением материала, собранного автором статьи в Тамбовской области. Выделены разновидности структурных типов номинаций, определены особенности и приоритеты словообразовательной креативности. Для достижения целей исследования применялись методы сопоставительного, лексического, словообразовательного, компонентного анализа. Despite the influence exerted on them by the literary norms of the Russian language, despite the intercultural contacts promoted by mass media, and despite gradual annihilation of dialects provoked by media-propelled civilization, modern Russian dialects preserve their pivotal lexemes which are mostly related to the sphere of morality and religion. This lexical stratum, the axiological significance of the celestial and the earthly realms, distinguishes the Russian language from other languages. The present article summarizes the author’s ideas related to word formation, to the composition and semantics of lexical clusters of the macrofield of public orthodoxy. The analysis involves the material collected by the author in the Tambov Region. It singles out structural types of nominations, defines the peculiarities and priorities of creative word-formation. To achieve the aim of the research, the author employs such methods as comparative analysis, lexical analysis, word-formation analysis, and componential analysis.

scholarly journals Language consequences of modern psychological and information warfare in Russian mass-media: problem definition

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-400
Author(s):  
Galina A. Kopnina ◽  
Natalya N. Koshkarova ◽  
Alexander P. Skovorodnikov
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Psychological Warfare ◽  
Political Linguistics ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Neutral Language

The paper deals with the urgent and topical issue of political linguistics - the influence of information and psychological warfare on the Russian language. The aim of the paper is to describe the most frequent novices in the modern Russian language and speech which occur due to the domestic information and psychological warfare. The research was carried out on the basis of the mass-media texts, the traditional linguistic research methods were used (analysis and description, contextual and axiological analysis, etc.). As the result of the analysis the authors singled out both new and traditional words and word combinations which simultaneously serve as the weapon and the result of information and psychological warfare. Two groups of language (speech) means were defined: specialized (which perform the relevant evaluative function - either positive or negative) and non-specialized (which change the function depending on the context, the semantic ambivalent words and word combinations). The specialized means include pejorative words and word combinations: political labels, invectives, terribilitisms (bogey-words), delusions (trap-words), negatively connotative words, and euphemisms. Ameliorative means are not characteristic of information and psychological warfare, though words and word combinations are widely used which denote national concepts being the subject of information rivalry. Neutral language means in information and psychological warfare in the Russian language include terms and terminoids, naming various types of rivalries and technologies constituting them. The results obtained contribute to the development of the information and psychological warfare linguistics. Research perspectives encompass the refinement of some points and the analysis of information and psychological warfare language consequences in the light of linguistic ecology.

scholarly journals Bestiary of the Russian Language: Ways to Fill Gaps in the Designation of Females and Cubs

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-102
Author(s):  
Li Li
Keyword(s):  
Russian Language ◽  
National Language ◽  
The World ◽  
Active Processes ◽  
The Russian Language

The role of the bestiary of the Russian language in the national language picture of the world as a constantly expanding layer of vocabulary is shown. The bestiary is represented by three groups-basic paradigms (complete, incomplete, and unfilled). In complete paradigms, suppletive formations are of particular interest. For this group it is marked a tendency to a leveling of the paradigm by creating a motivated neoderivatives. In incomplete paradigms, represented by two varieties, there are also active processes of expansion due to differentiation by gender or designation of the cub.

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