Antireflective tendencies of the information age as a trigger of conceptual flattening in the practice of literary translation

The article deals with the phenomenon of clip thinking which is characterized by a number of distinctive features that exercise a considerable influence on the perception of a literary text and its interpretation by the translator. The translational decisions that are the consequence of such antireflective tendencies have been analyzed on the basis of the translation versions of the titles of literary and cinematographic texts as those stylistically relevant elements which condition the conceptual expectations of the target audience and its overall impression about a novel or a film

Magical Realism: Language World Picture in the novel «One Hundred Years of Solitude» of Gabriel Garcia Márquez

The article focuses on the study of language world picture of the magical realism discourse in the novel «One Hundred Years of Solitude» of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The magical realism discourse depicts a realistic view of the modern world through the prism of mythological way of thinking and supplements mysterious, farial and mystical elements. The main conceptual characteristics of magical realism discourse are considered to be: fantastical elements, unity of reality and magic, possible words, mythical chronotope, author’s reticence, hyperbolization of the secret and metadiscourse

The structure of assessment and control activities of children before school age in the vector of modernity

The article positions the views of scientists on the structural components of assessment and control activities and the need for their development in preschool children in a specially created pedagogical environment. The essence of the concepts "evaluation", "evaluation actions", "evaluation judgments", "control", "control actions", "evaluation and control activities" is revealed. The pedagogical conditions of its implementation are determined, which will promote the effective formation of children's evaluation and control actions in various activities

Postcolonial Dimension of Venus Khoury-Gata’s Novel Les Fiancées du Cap Ténès

The article aims to analyze a novel by the Franco-Lebanese writer Venus Khoury-Gata Les Fiancées du Cap Ténès (1995) in the light of the postcolonial discourse. The text is viewed through the lens of the writer’s irony, carnival and travesty as essential components of the writing, as well as of rereading History within postmodernism. The paper illustrates how the writer’s ironic representation serves to question imperialistic patterns, whereas the strategies of carnivalization and travesty appear as powerful tools for the novel’s heroines to take revenge against the colonial patriarchal reality and, ultimately, mystify History written by men.

Text application as a marker of intertext links in modern Ukrainian poetry

In the article proposed, the researcher tries to characterize the main manifestations of text applications on the basis of Ukrainian poetry of the late XX - early XXI centuries. The author of the research concludes that the text application is actively used in modern Ukrainian poetry as a marker of intertextual interaction and an actualizer of precedent texts of religious content, various genres of Ukrainian folk art, as well as Ukrainian and world literature. The text applications found in the processed poetic works play an important role in the creation of poetic text and perform the function of setting, informative-signaling, meaning-making, plotforming functions, as well as the means of creating figurative and stylistic figures and the means of language play.

Adaptation Strategies for Chinese Names of Literary Characters in Russian Translation

The article analyzes the features of the translation into Russian of Chinese names containing a metaphorical or symbolic component. It argues the necessity of using, in addition to transcription and transliteration, contextual strategies of domestication and foreignization in order to adapt fragments of text containing names to the linguocultural mentality of Russian speakers, while preserving the cultural flavor and connotations of the original text. Such tactics of strategies of domestication and foreignization as structuralsemantic and lexical-semantic adaptation with the techniques of generalization and modulation are identified.

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): present and future (as a Finnish innovation)

The paper considers Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) as one of the approaches to achieve the purpose of learning foreign languages, represented in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages adopted by the Council of Europe in 2001. To acquire a language means not merely to obtain communication skills in one, two or even three languages, studied separately, but “to develop a linguistic repertoire in which all language skills are present,” as mentioned in the European Recommendations on Language Education. People who possess even little knowledge can achieve a certain level of communication proficiency using all their linguistic “tools”, experimenting with alternative forms of expression in different languages and dialects, using paralinguistic means (mimics, gestures, facial expressions, etc.) and radically simplifying their use of language [1; P. 19]. Researchers in Finland, whose success in the education system is recognized worldwide, are searching for methods and approaches to achieve this purpose of foreign language education. One of their attempts is Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). The paper reveals: the history and the origins of CLIL. According to C. Nieminen it includes the method of immersion, created and widely used in Canada. This research also outlines the advantages and factors limiting the usage of CLIL, as well as the prospects for further implementation of this approach to the study of foreign languages in different countries. In Ukraine this training method has not yet become widely applied, only some cases of CLIL implementation take place in specialized schools and in higher education institutions at foreign language departments. Therefore, according to national scholars Ukraine focuses on improving the level of foreign language proficiency, profound research and implementation of the CLIL methodology in schools and higher education institutions all over the country.

Assessment and peer assessment of foreign speaking production competence of the 1st year pre – service teachers

The article focuses on the assessment and peer – assessment of the foreign language speaking production skills of the 1st year pre – service teachers. The analysis of the existing evaluative tasks for speaking assessment has been done and best tasks for 2 types of monologues – a monologue – description and a monologue – narration have been collected. Successful assessment requires definite criteria to be chosen. In this paper criteria have been established and explained and 2 rating scales for a monologue – description and a monologue – narration have been developed.

P. Kulish’s epistolar contacts (based on archival sources)

The chosen topic is determined by an urgent necessity to look into Panteleimon Kulish’s achievements as a piece of the Ukrainian society’s history, especially in the field of humanities, with the archival science occupying an important place within. It is an important factor combining past, present and future through epistolary work. National revival in Ukrainian society is impossible without an objective reception of P. Kulish’s creative heritage. At present, the letters of famous people are put at the level with other archival documents: protocols, notes, petitions, orders, diaries, and memoirs, notes of party and state bodies. Nowadays, in general use and open access there are huge archival collections, among which one can find many unprintable handwritten materials. Therefore, through a systemic and scrupulous scientific research, we are to find out the mysterious figure of P. Kulish, full of contradictions and contrasts, as state the scientists who have been studying his activities and work for more than a hundred years. However, the present stage of studying P. Kulish’s activities raises a necessity of carrying out a more complete, deeper and more thorough development of documentary sources, including correspondence. The Kulish letters provide his researchers with reliable facts about the artist's biography and work, and allow them to study and analyze in detail the cultural space of that time, that is, one way or another, represented in today's reality, as history repeats itself. The modern researcher is attracted to P. Kulish’s personality by the infinity of handwritten material, now awaiting its publication. With the involvement of archival material, the proposed publication considers various aspects of P. Kulish's relationship with his surroundings, analyzes his epistolary heritage as Kulish's correspondence is of a literary-scientific and cultural-social nature. Covering the views and ideas of P. Kulish, based on historical archival sources, the research addresses to documentary materials while working with epistolary sources, as well as introduces the writer's correspondence into scientific circulation.