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English Business Slang as a Component of the Business Language (in a Comparative Aspect with Russian Business Slang)- Pages 984-988

Dilyara Sh. Shakirova and Gulyusa K. Ismagilova

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6000/1929-4409.2020.09.105

Published: 06 November 2020


Abstract: In business dealing in an English-speaking background, you can often find some abbreviations, acronyms, and special vocabulary exceptionally related to business and business life. The present article is concerned with the problem of the formation and use of English business slang in modern English business discourse in respect of the comparative aspect with Russian-language slang. We have analyzed the following main problems: theoretical aspects of the concept of “slang”, special aspects of the study of this issue by modern linguists, the use of slang in business discourse. We have made conclusions about the compositional, structural, lexical, and semantic features of the business language, and also analyzed the role of English business slang.

Keywords: Business slang, linguistics, ethnicity, set expression, business discourse, business communication.

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Educational Potential of Multicultural Language Teaching (on the Russian Language Teaching Experience)- Pages 989-993

Ekaterina Gennadievna Shtyrlina, Ekaterina Sergeevna Palekha and Julia Vladimirovna Kapralovа

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6000/1929-4409.2020.09.106

Published: 06 November 2020


Abstract: The educational potential of the language teaching environment does not often become the object of a special scientific description due to several objective reasons. The model of subject-subject educational relations between the Teacher and the Student in the conditions of the multicultural educational environment is analyzed in this article. This model is focused on supporting the relative autonomy of the individual in the process of teaching within the pedagogical process and is aimed at creating conditions that ensure the formation of humanistic value orientations based on the principle of cultural appropriateness.

The article emphasizes the equivalence of the positions of participants in the educational space, the need to build a psychologically comfortable and humanistic interaction between them. The authors note that a new type of educational interaction should be of a dialogical nature and should be based on the principles of pedagogy of cooperation. Dialogue as the main form of interaction between subjects of the educational process implies a meeting of positions and points of view, in the process of which the views, ideas, opinions that could form the personality are determined, specified, enriched and transformed. The socio-cultural aspect of dialogue is important, where the dialogue participants are interpreted as the subjects of the dialogue of cultures.

The discursive model of learning allows us to consider the text as a means of involving the individual in the cultural heritage and spiritual values of one's own and other peoples (from text to culture and from culture to text). Using the pedagogical potential of the text, the teacher contributes to the formation of the learner’s necessary general educational competencies and his socio-cultural worldview. The article concludes that the educational text can be considered not only as a didactic unit but also as a unit for modeling cultural code, as a key tool for the formation of a person's spiritual culture of the learner.

Keywords: Language multicultural teaching, subject-subject educational relations, a dialogue, the dialogue of cultures, linguistic-sociocultural educational aspect, a pedagogical potential of a text.

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Social Protests in 2011: International Perspective and Information Access- Pages 994-999

Lilia E. Ilikova and Anna Svirina

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6000/1929-4409.2020.09.107

Published: 06 November 2020


Abstract: The paper analyzes the interrelation of social protesting and informal economy, core values of protesting class and the level of information accessibility for the ones involved in social unease. To perform this analysis we have used both quantitative and qualitative data: qualitative data was related to the core values of protestants and was collected via semantic analysis of their social media posts. To perform quantitative evaluation, we have used the rankings on Internet freedom and mass media transparency; yet as the main analytical tool was semantic, the conclusion on how core values influence person’s desire to be involved in social protests was made on the basis of qualitative analysis. The research had confirmed that growth rate of informal economy is a good predictor of possible unease based on dignity-based values.

Keywords: Communication, information accessibility, Arab spring, social protests, Internet, social networking, Central Asia.

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The Semantic and Etymological Peculiarities of the Verbs of Blame- Pages 1000-1005

Tamara M. Timoshilova, Elena N. Morozova, Elena V. Shemaeva, Natalya B. Kudryavtseva and Julia V. Golubeva

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6000/1929-4409.2020.09.108

Published: 06 November 2020


Abstract: The article deals with the semantic analysis of the verbs of blame (brawl, castigate, condemn, curse, damn, lecture, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprove, row, strafe, swear, trounce) in the perspective of semantics, as well as etymology. In accordance with the dominant cross-disciplinary approach to the linguistic research, the semantics of the verbs under study is analyzed in correlation with the relevant extra-linguistic data. It reveals the necessity of using some data of cognitive linguistics together with etymological methods of semantic analysis. The complex of cognitive and etymological methods helps to determine the functioning of the verbs in different kinds of discourse, and to find the closest equivalent in the Russian language.

Keywords: Semantics, verbs of blame, semantic analysis, etymological analysis, social impact, moral and psychological harm, synchronic and diachronic approaches.

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