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Formal and Informal Russian Invitation: Context and Politeness Strategies
Get PDFInvitation is a speech act which is perceived differently across cultures. Understanding the pragmatics of invitation requires knowledge of the notion of politeness and politeness strategies which comprise culture specific elements. Politeness is realized in various discourses, social contexts and speech acts. The purpose of the study is to identify politeness strategies in Russian invitation in formal and informal contexts in three age groups and see how they correspond to the understanding of politeness in Russian communicative culture. The empirical data for the study were obtained through discourse completion tests with 101 participants (issuers of the invitation) of different age and social status as well as through ethnographic observation. The research is based on Discourse Analysis and Politeness Theory (Brown & Levinson 1987; Larina2009, 2015; Locher 2006, 2013; Leech 2014; Mills 2003, 2017; Sifianou 1992; Terkourafi &Kadar 2017; Watts 2003, among others). We used discourse analysis to analyze the impact of the social and cultural context on the performance of invitation, the descriptive method which was used to analyze the pragmatic functions of invitation, as well as contextual interpretation of this speech act and the method of quantitative data processing. The study revealed some differences between a formal and informal invitation concerning politeness strategies and linguistic means of its expression. It also showed that in Russian culture issuing an invitation is not perceived as a face threatening speech act; in the analysed social contexts the preference is given to direct invitation, and the inviter’s imposition, as a rule, is perceived positively. The results contribute to a better understanding of Russian politeness and communicative style and can be implemented in intercultural pragmatics, intercultural communication and SL teaching
Реалізація регулятивних комунікативних тактик у ситуаціях неопосередкованої торгівлі
No full textThe article focuses on the research of the communicative behavior manifestations of the Ukrainians in the direct trade situations. The constructive and destructive regulative communicative tactics used by sellers and buyers have been separated and classifi ed. The communicative methods and linguistic means with the analyzed manipulative potential have been described
The Donatio Constantini in Church Slavonic Translations of the 14–15th Centuries: toward the Problem of their Dating and Localization
No full textSynthetic artistic culture as a fundamental principle of culturally-oriented teaching of the Russian language in Slovakia: to Eva Kollarova’s anniversary
No full textThe report is devoted to culturological research in foreign-language education, issues of working at masterpieces of Russian art in connection with a systemic-chronological presentation of ingenious representatives of Russian culture in the dialogue with Slovak culture. The communicativecultural concept constitutes the basis of long-term research and educational work of the remarkable Slovak specialist in Russian philology Eva Kollarova. An analysis of Eva Kollarova’s textbooks and monographs presented in the article shows her significant contribution to the Russian language diffusion not only in Slovakia, but also in other European countries
The Reflection of the Hierarchy of Values in the Proverbial Fund of the Russian and French languages
Get PDFThe paper deals with the research focused on the reflection of Russian and French basic values in proverbs — language units that most clearly demonstrate the value systems. Based on the fact that each nation has a certain hierarchically organized set of values, which partially coincide with other cultures but can have their own characteristics, it is important to identify both their universal and culture-specific features. This will allow us not only to build the hierarchy of values of a certain nation but also to conduct a comparative analysis of different languages and cultures from an axiological perspective. To get a general idea of the reflection of values and their hierarchy in proverbs, we have conducted our research on the basis of Russian and French lexicographical material. According to our hypothesis, the thematic classification of proverbs in dictionaries and the corresponding category titles enable us to reveal directly or indirectly the values of a particular nation, and the quantitative correlation of proverbs within each theme can give us an idea of the hierarchy of values: a bigger or smaller number of proverbs on a certain topic indicates the degree of their importance in the consciousness of native speakers of a corresponding linguistic community. The paper presents the preliminary data of the research carried out on a limited material in order to test the methodology chosen by the authors. The research was based on the card index of 2400 Russian and French proverbs elicited from specialized lexicographic sources by means of continuous sampling. The emphasis was made on the French practical material, and the Russian material served as a background for comparative analysis. The paper presents the number of proverbs within each topic, the data giving a general picture of the hierarchy of values (the topics are listed in the descending order of the quantitative indicator). It also contains the results of the comparative analysis. The research has confirmed the possibility of identifying basic values, building their hierarchy and determining the dominant value based on the analysis of the proverbial bank, in particular, the headings of the thematic classification indicated in the lexicographical sources, and the number of units in each topic. The results make it possible to clarify the understanding of the Russian and French linguistic worldviews and can be used in the process of the linguistic and axiological analyses of different languages
Средства массовой информации в социолингвистической перспективе Рецензия на монографию И.П. Лысаковой «Социолингвистическое исследование советской прессы: теория и практика. СПб.: Изд-во РГПУим. А.И. Герцена, 2019. 335 с.
Get PDFReview of I.P. Lysakova (2019). Sociolinguistic Study of Soviet Press: Theory and Practice. St. Petersburg, RGPU Publisher, 335 p
The Cassandra Motif in Szymborska and Miłosz
Get PDFThe article presents a close reading of Wisława Szymborska’s poem “Monolog dla Kasandry”, "Soliloquy for Cassandra". The view of Cassandra as expressed by the poet is compared with the corresponding motifs in Miłosz and more generally with examples from Polish and Eastern European literature and cultural history. It is argued that Szymborska does not agree with the common and traditional Polish image of Cassandra, but instead polemizes against it in a complex and contradictory manner
Aspekt poznawczy w przekładzie artystycznym — na przykładzie powieści Herty Müller i ich przekładów na języki polski i czeski
Get PDFThis article deals with cognitive aspects of artistic translation based on the example of translations of Herta Müller’s oeuvre into Polish and Czech. The reader of Herta Müller’s novels in translation seeks to get to know / acquaint onself with otherness in / through translation, which will be familiar to him or her in a manner consistent with the idiomaticity of the source language. Cognitive values are especially present in the topic offered by Herta Müller, that is, what living in a communist dictatorship means: constant fear of the secret police, reporting to authorities, individual incapacitation, censorship, thus — topics known to Czech and Polish readers from their own history
Prowokacja czy metoda? O przekładzie literackim na język nierodzimy na tle poezji semantycznej Stefana Themersona
Get PDFThis article attempts to give literary translations into non-native languages not only permission and acceptance but justification and theoretical legitimacy. While referring to Stefan Themerson’s postulates of semantic poetry, it explores his philosophy of language to focus on the possible independence of the translator
Фрагменти демонологічних уявлень слов’ян у фразеології української, польської та словацької мов
No full textPhraseological units of the Ukrainian, Polish and Slovak languages motivated by folk beliefs of the Slavs about demonic and semi-demonic female creatures are analyzed in the article. The common Slavic and specific national features of encoding the ethno-cultural information in the phraseological units of the languages under study are singled out and described. It has been established that the phraseology of the Ukrainian, Polish and Slovak languages mostly encodes the ethno-cultural information about external and internal features of demonic and semi-demonic creatures and their malicious activity towards humans