scholarly journals ADDRESSING THE PRINCIPLE OF LINGUISTIC ECONOMY AGAIN

2017 ◽  
pp. 50-75
Author(s):  
Lydia A. Stanovaïa ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Language Change ◽  
Language Evolution ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Russian Linguistics ◽  
Language System ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Different Levels

After a long and very heated discussions in 60s-70s of the last century, the term «linguistic economy» is firmly established in Russian linguistics. However, the analysis of modern publications of Russian linguists indicates «embarrassing» polysemy of the term, which is used in different meanings: 1) ordinary, determined by the meaning of the word «economy» in the Russian language as frugality, thrift; 2) special, determined by A. Martinet theory, where economy is considered as the principle of organization and evolution of the language system; 3) mixed due to the mixture of different terms, ideas and concepts. The article discusses the main issues related to defining the essence of linguistic economy, its place and role in language evolution. Many postulates concerning these issues contradict well-known facts of language change on different levels of language system. However, if we strictly separate economy in speech from economy in language many contradictions disappear.

The Russian Language at the Turn of the Century: Semantic Capability and Development Prospects

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 150-169
Author(s):  
Svetlana N. Perevolochanskaya
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Language Evolution ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
First Century ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Current State ◽  
Linguistic Sign ◽  
Development Prospects ◽  
The Russian Language

The article considers the current state of the Russian language. Information technologies in the twenty first century present diverse forms of linguistic knowledge and modalities of knowledge quantisation in a linguistic sign. The Russian language develops from a standard, direct expression of thoughts to a nonstandard, psychologically complex, associative deep statement of thoughts. In the early nineteenth century, during the democratisation of the Russian language, a national genius, Alexander Pushkin, emerged. Thanks to him, the unique informational, cultural, and artistic evolution of the language took place. Nowadays, while democratisation and globalisation, processes which resemble the language evolution 200 years ago, are occurring. These processes suggest some patterns: overcoming stylistic disparity, changes in linguistic sign boundaries and semantic extension.

scholarly journals SYSTEM OF DERIVATIONAL CHAINS IN RUSSIAN NOUNS: LINGUISTIC AND METHODICAL ASPECTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalya S. Subbotina ◽  
Venera G. Fatkhutdinova ◽  
Elena I. Koriakowcewa
Keyword(s):  
Language Teaching ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Russian Linguistics ◽  
Active Perception ◽  
Systemic Organization ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Semantic Properties ◽  
The Russian Language

The article describes the phenomenon of consistent derivation of words. The concept "word-forming chain" is used for its description in Russian linguistics. The subject of the study is the word-forming chains of nouns as a methodologically relevant means of language teaching. The purpose of the work is to characterize the structural and semantic properties of word-forming chains in the sphere of Russian nouns and to reveal the ways of their systematization. The presentation and the description of derivative groups forming word-building chains is carried out using the system-structural and functional-semantic methods. The study found that the typology of the substantive word-building chains of the Russian language is based on their system-structural reproducibility. The system is formed by binary and polynomial, linear and annular, complete and incomplete chains, as well as the chains that include monomotivated and poly-motivated derivatives. It is proved that the word-forming chain is one of the ways to cognize the systemic organization of the language word-forming level, the morphemic structure of derived words, the idiomatic nature of their semantics, and the linguocultural specifics of linguistic nomination.The purposeful methodical work on the study of consistent derivation as a language phenomenon promotes an active perception of many lexical and grammatical phenomena, as well as the development of the necessary skills of Russian derivative use in speech practice

VERBAL ASPECT IN TEACHING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liudmila Valova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Verbal Aspect ◽  
Risk Zones ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Different Levels

Verbal aspect is one of the grammar “risk zones” of the Russian language. The purpose of this paper is to familiarize the reader with the author’s teaching method which makes it easier for foreign students to grasp the concept of Russian verbal aspect. The techniques and recommendations described in this paper can be applied while teaching students of different levels (A1 – C2).

scholarly journals A CASE STUDY OF DEFINITENESS AND INDEFINITENESS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

2021 ◽  
pp. 174-179
Author(s):  
Marharyta Alsultan
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Different Levels

The definiteness and indefiniteness is an important communicative category. This category is universal and is expressed in different languages by various means. There are no special indicators of definiteness / indefiniteness such as articles in the Russian language. However, these values are expressed by various means related to different levels of the language. Due to this fact, word order is an important and an interesting subject for a linguistic research. As a grammatical means, word order can convey not only information, but also the attitude to this information or communicative situation of the speaker, and also to concretize the content of the spoken message from the point of view of definiteness / indefiniteness. This study focuses on describing the means of expressing the category of definiteness and indefiniteness in Russian and the ways of conveying its semantic shades.

scholarly journals The use of algorithmic elements to improve the quality of foreign cadets vocational training at military universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-308
Author(s):  
Anatoly Vladimirovich Tarasov ◽  
Tatiana Evgenjevna Tarasova
Keyword(s):  
Training Session ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
First Year ◽  
Preliminary Training ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Different Levels

This paper examines the use of elements of the theory of algorithms in order to improve the quality of foreign cadets education. A number of problems noted in teaching first-year cadets from Asian and African countries associates with poor knowledge of the Russian language at the time of training. Cadets have different levels of preliminary training that they have received in their countries. Algorithmic constructions help cadets to master the courses of the first year of study. The paper provides a methodological basis on scientific works of leading scientists and professors. According to the management of quality training theory, a respective approach is implemented in the organization of classes. The purpose of this work is substantiation and practical application of the proposed measures for managing the quality of foreign first-year-cadets training through graphic models based on the theory of algorithms. There are options for conducting a training session using a comprehensive teaching methodology, including systematization of knowledge, development of algorithmic thinking and the use of computer technologies. The results of conducting classes according to the proposed methodology show its effectiveness in training groups of foreign cadets.

Relics of Some Old Russian Linguistics Features in Modern Russian

2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (8) ◽  
pp. 59-65
Author(s):  
E. A. Galinskaya
Keyword(s):  
Russian Language ◽  
Russian Linguistics ◽  
Standard Language ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
Colloquial Language ◽  
Linguistic System ◽  
Russian Linguistic ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Modern Russian ◽  
Indefinite Pronouns

This paper‘s aim is to identy some Old Russian lingustic relics in present-day Russian. For this purpose, the method of comparison of synchronous linguistic levels is used. Most elements of the Old Russian linguistic system have undergone some kind of evolution; some of them disappeared completely (e.g., relativizers to and že), or stayed unchanged (e.g., the declension in singular of feminine *ĭ-stem nouns), or survived only in some dialects (e.g., infinitive r’uti), or are absent from the standard language, but exist in the colloquial language and dialects (e.g., indefinite pronouns identical to interrogative pronouns). Some features are present in the Russian language as unique relics only. Such relics are manifold and sometimes not easily recognizable.

CONTRAST IN POLITICAL CARTOONS OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-91
Author(s):  
Galina L. Denisova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional State ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Political Cartoons ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Past ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
The One ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Different Levels

The article has for an object to determine themes of the Great Patriotic War cartoons based on the contrast between of two pictures and to detect and describe aims that cartoonists try to achieve with help of the political cartoons under study. The author conducts research of the Great Patriotic War cartoons created by Kukryniksy, a group of caricaturists, which M.V. Kupriyanov, P.N. Krylov, and N.A. Sokolov belonged to. They often involved S.Ya. Marshak in the work on the verbal part of their political cartoons. Some of the political cartoons under study give an example of wholeness of his rhymes and the painter’s pictures. The author treats the political cartoon of the Great Patriotic War as a message that is addressed to the Russian language personality and is a polycode one, which presupposes that information, which caricaturists code into the cartoon, is a result of cooperation between iconic and verbal means. Using Yu.N. Karaulov’s idea about the structure of the language personality, the author describes the encoding-decoding process of political cartoons meaning, in forming of which codes of different semiotic systems take part, as projections onto different levels of the language personality where these projections activate a certain string of associative links. The analysis of the political cartoons under study made it possible to detect five themes discussed in them: change of the state of things, change of personage’s emotional state, personage’s intention and results of its realization, action-and-reaction, personage’s mask and his real identity. Describing the political cartoons, the author ascertains that, combining two pictures based on the contrast within the bounds of a political cartoon, the caricaturists fulfill specific range of tasks. (1) The contrast of pictures, which contain both similar and different elements, furthers directing and holding of addressee’s attention. The caricaturists stimulate the addressee of the message to an active search for similar and different elements on those pictures, which diverts the addressee. (2) The contrast in the political cartoon can produce comical effect or increase it. The more cloudless the situation is for the personage on the first picture, the clearer it is to everyone how abased he is on the second one. (3) The contrast of situations with different characteristics (the one in the past and another in the present / the real situation and its hypothetical projection) in a message in the form of a political cartoon can have an explanatory function. The evil depicted on the first picture serves as proof of rightfulness and necessity of counteraction to it. If the form of such counteraction is shown on the second picture, the message contains an indirect appeal to the addressee for his active counteraction to this evil. (4) The usage of contrast for discussion of the theme “personage’s mask and his real identity” enables to show the true face of him, to give his personality a certain estimate and to form addressee’s opinion of the characterized person.

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