scholarly journals Running out of words: tactics for maintaining conversation among Russian-German bilinguals

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-299
Author(s):  
Katharina Meng ◽  
Ekaterina Protassova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Language ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
Family Language Policy ◽  
Small Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Linguistic Integration ◽  
Family Language ◽  
Family Home ◽  
Russian Germans ◽  
The Russian Language

The study combines analysis of social interaction between bilingual RussianGerman speakers competent in the two languages to different degrees with assessment of the levels of oral and written proficiency of the young Russian Germans who came as small children to Germany or were born here. This is a part of a larger longitudinal project dedicated to the linguistic integration of the Russian Germans in Germany conducted since shortly after their arrival as repartees to the historical homeland. The communication took place at the family home after 25 years of immigration. It was interesting to discover bilingual practices and means that are in use to achieve certain goals of communication. Questions were asked about different aspects of their life and their attitudes toward the previous and actual situation. The peculiarities of the oral and written German as well as of the oral Russian and of the ability to read were tested and analyzed. The results obtained allow to understand bilingual development of children, now young adults, without systematical support for the literacy in the Russian language. Even if they hear a lot of Russian from their relatives, it is not important to maintain the language and they do not make additional efforts to do it. This is an outcome of the family language policy and the consequences of parents’ comunicative practices.

Family Language Policy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Family Language Policy ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Political Environments ◽  
The Family ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Family Language

The family is a social unit which has its norms for speaking, viewing, acting, and believing, thus providing a cornerstone for language socialisation and language development. This chapter begins with a brief introduction to the theoretical conceptualisation of family language policy (FLP) currently used by most researchers. It then provides a discussion of the major contributions to the field by focusing on three major themes: FLP and language-in-education policy; FLP and language ideology; and linguistic practices and the processes of language change. This discussion is followed by an overview of recent developments in research methodology employed in the field. Finally, future directions in research resulting from increasing transnational migration and evolving political environments are outlined.

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 Conceptual Signs in the Structure of the Husband (Muzh) Concept (According to the Explanatory Dictionaries of the Russian Language)

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 831-840
Author(s):  
A. M. Kiseleva
Keyword(s):  
Russian Language ◽  
Family Status ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mental Abilities ◽  
Moral Qualities ◽  
Russian Linguistic ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Mature Person

The article introduces conceptual signs of the concept husband (muzh) on the basis of eight Russian explanatory dictionaries: 1) S. I. Ozhegov and N. Yu. Shvedova’s Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian language; 2) V. I. Dal’s Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Vernacular; 3) D. N. Ushakov’s Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language; 4) Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language; 5) Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian language edited by D. V. Dmitriev; 6) T. F. Efremova’s Interpretative and Derivational New Dictionary of the Russian Language; 7) S. A. Kuznetsov Great Dictionary of the Russian Language; 8) L. G. Babenko’s Big Explanatory Dictionary of Russian Nouns. The author analyzed the relevant vocabulary entries of the words representing the concept and described the selected conceptual signs with examples from the language material. Examples were taken from the National Corpora of the Russian Language (www.ruscorpora.ru). The research owes its scientific novelty to the fact that domestic and foreign linguistics has never featured the concept in question. The author appealed to the Russian linguistic culture from the perspective of the conceptual sphere of the family, marriage, and kinship. The research revealed 26 conceptual signs of the husband (muzh) concept: a spouse, a head of the family responsible for bringing the groceries from town to the country cottage where the family dwells, a mature (person), a scientist, a public figure / statesman, a person, male gender, a master, a worthy (person), valiant, courageous / bold / brave, physically strong / mighty, patient, sane, persistent, calm, decisive, hardworking, commoner / peasant (plowman / farmer / tiller), a peasant, a family man, a man (uneducated / ill-bred / rude / ignoramus / ignorant), a breadwinner. The following conceptual signs were represented by material from XVIII–XIX centuries: a public figure / statesman, a commoner / peasant (plowman / farmer / tiller), a peasant. All the conceptual signs of the husband (muzh) concept were concentrated in several aspects: family status and family responsibilities, anthropological and physiological characteristics, mental abilities, social status, moral qualities, and character traits.

scholarly journals Od biernego odbiorcy do aktywnego mediakreatora – małe dzieci i TIK w świetle badań własnych

2018 ◽  
pp. 143-160
Author(s):  
AGNIESZKA IWANICKA
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Media Content ◽  
School Age ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Early School ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
Early School Age ◽  
Family Home ◽  
Over Time

Agnieszka Iwanicka, Od biernego odbiorcy do aktywnego mediakreatora – małe dzieci i TIK w świetle badań własnych [From passive recipients to active mediacreators: small children and ICT in the light of own studies]. Interdyscyplinarne Konteksty Pedagogiki Specjalnej, nr 23, Poznań 2018. Pp. 143-160. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 2300-391X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/ikps.2018.23.08 Small children show a lot of media activity: they are perfectly capable of handling new technologies, they have been using them since the first years of their life. What activities they show depends on the family home and the behaviors they observe with their parents. With their support and providing positive patterns, the child can become not only a passive media user, but also an active media content creator, a kind of mediacreator, which over time will have a real impact on the reality in which he grows up. In the article, I present some of the results of the my research, in which I checked what role the media plays in the life of a child in an early school age. I try to answer the question, what media activities are displayed by children – whether it is only passive and imitative, or maybe they are actively creating media content.

scholarly journals Lithuanian language discourses and family language policies of Lithuanian families in Sweden: A case study

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 126-142
Author(s):  
Frederik H. Bissinger
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Family Language Policy ◽  
Ethnic Language ◽  
The Family ◽  
External Threat ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Family Language

Lithuanian language discourses and family language policies of Lithuanian families in Sweden: A case studyThis case study shares first insights of the family language policy of a Lithuanian family in Sweden. It identifies Lithuanian language discourses that might affect this policy and analyses discourse strategies applied by the family members. The aim is to shed some new light on the negotiation processes of family language policies that either support the maintenance of an ethnic language as the means of intra-family communication in immigrant contexts or, conversely, work against it. Applying a linguistic ethnographical approach, the study indicates that in this case the family language policy is mostly shaped by the mother in a protective and monolingual way in order to foster the maintenance of the Lithuanian heritage in anticipation of an external threat for Lithuanian language and identity. Litewskie dyskursy językowe a polityki językowe litewskich rodzin w Szwecji. Studium przypadkuNiniejszy artykuł przedstawia wstępne uwagi analityczne dotyczące polityki językowej litewskiej rodziny mieszkającej w Szwecji. Autor identyfikuje litewskie dyskursy językowe, które mogą mieć wpływ na jej politykę językową, i analizuje strategie dyskursu stosowane przez jej członków. Celem studium jest nowe spojrzenie na procesy negocjacji rodzinnych polityk językowych (family language policies), które mogą być pomocne w utrzymaniu ojczystego języka jako środka komunikacji w rodzinach emigrantów lub temu nie sprzyjać. Przedstawione badania opierają się na metodach etnografii lingwistycznej (linguistic ethnography) i wykazują, że w tym przypadku rodzinna polityka językowa jest kształtowana głównie przez matkę, jest jednojęzyczna i ma charakter ochronny – jest nakierowana na zachowanie litewskiego dziedzictwa kulturowego w związku z przewidywanymi zagrożeniami zewnętrznymi dla języka litewskiego i tożsamości litewskiej.

scholarly journals Stress signals of water scavenger beetles Berosus frontifoveatus Kuwert, 1888 and Berosus spinosus Steven, 1808 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-316
Author(s):  
Elena Yu. Rodionova ◽  
◽  
Alexey S. Sazhnev ◽  
Semen Yu. Kustov ◽  
Alexey A. Miroliubov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Signals ◽  
Dominant Frequency ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Frequency Of Occurrence ◽  
Maximum Frequency ◽  
Ecological Studies ◽  
The Family ◽  
Stress Signals ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Language Literature

The study of acoustic signals from various representatives of insects, and in particular coleopterans, has a long history. In the Russian-language literature, systematic, faunistic and ecological studies on aquatic beetles, including those on the family Hydrophilidae, are widely known; however, studies on the bioacoustics of the coleopteran group are quite rare. The aim of our study was to study stress signals of two species of Hydrophilidae – Berosus frontifoveatus Kuwert, 1888 and Berosus spinosus Steven, 1808. The sounds of adults were recorded using a Behringer ECM8000 measuring condenser microphone. The sounds of B. spinosus males have a maximum frequency of occurrence in the range of 3729.31–4013.75 Hz, sounds of B. frontifoveatus is 4895.42–5842.76 Hz. The sounds of B. spinosus females have a maximum frequency of occurrence between 2585.98 and 2807.82 Hz. The sounds of B. frontifoveatus females have a maximum performance of the dominant frequency in the range of 2745.21–3476.23 Hz.

Features of the wedding ceremony in the village of Dankovo, Voronezh region

Neophilology ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Lubov V. Nedostupova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Language ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Significant Group ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
The Family ◽  
Voronezh Region ◽  
Deep Meaning ◽  
Wedding Ceremony ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Russian Language

The work considers the wedding ceremony and the features of its performing that existed in the village of Dankovo, Kashirsky district of Voronezh region in the middle and second half of the 20th century. The vocabulary reflecting this ancient custom is described. The language material of the article was the speech of the indigenous inhabitants of the named settlement. It was established that ritual actions consisted of several stages and carried specific content. They were interconnected and represented a certain structure. The wedding ceremony included: the stage of frets, the preparation of the dowry (it was treated in a special, creative way), the actual wedding with blessing and wedding, festive clothes and shoes of the bride and groom, musical instruments used to accompany the fun, the stage of giving gifts, the ritual of chicken and other. Food and spirits prepared by women for the guests of the event are considered. Undoubtedly, the custom of holding a wedding has a deep meaning, because the family at all times has been the most significant group in society, and its creation is one of the most important events in the life of every person. The value of marriage and its preservation is beyond doubt. The theme of traditional folk culture becomes interesting to all those who study the Russian language, which exists in its various forms.

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