507 research outputs found
New English Words for Describing the International English as a Current World Language Reality
Full text linkThe evolution of the English language, its changing in the situation of language contacts and functioning of English as an international means of communication have created a need for a more systematic analysis of related phenomena. In this paper, new English words which apparently appeared due to globalization and internationalization, have been considered. On the basis of authoritative theoretical approaches and several e-dictionaries, the words selected by means of continuous sampling method (more than 200 units) were analysed in terms of their semantics, morphology and spelling. Then they were classified into several thematic groups: 1) new words for naming natural and artificial versions of current English; 2) words classified with regard to social accents and dialects; 3) neologisms that reflect the English language domain and its interaction with indigenous languages. The morphological analysis revealed the application of different processes of word-formation, including neologisms and forms created according to traditional English patterns. Sometimes play on words and homo-acronyms were used in order to reinforce the meaning and connotation. Compounding and blending were found to be the most productive means of words formation within the corpus, and stylistic neologisms, used to mark a certain underlying sense proved to be the second most frequent process. It is demonstrated that studying of the currently active processes of word formation in the English language used as an international communication tool emphasizes the interdisciplinary aspect of such research programs
Parametric and Non-parametric Approaches to Exits from Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes
Full text linkFollowing the demise of the Bretton-Woods increasing number of countries has been opting for flexible exchange rate regimes. Exiting from fixed regimes however is not without costs. Regime transitions have often been occurred in the midst of a crisis which has considerable economic costs in terms of output contraction and exchange rate depreciation. Given the big number of countries having still fixed regimes and financial markets that are fairly close and expected to be liberalized sooner or later, issue of exiting a peg without incurring crisis is a real challenge confronting these countries. The aim of this paper is to determine the conditions under which orderly exit is possible. The paper employs Binary Recursive Tree and standard regression frameworks. Analysis shows that countries with higher output gap and overvalued real exchange rate, among others, are doomed to exit in a disorderly way. Following their exit output collapses and exchange rate depreciates considerably. The ill-managed financial liberalization and macroeconomic stabilization programs seem to lay the seeds of instability. An interesting finding is that the conventional strengths of parametric regression analysis can be dramatically improved by utilizing findings of non-parametric BRT technology. Sample contains all countries depending on the data availability, and covers 1975-2004 period.Exchange rate regime choice, Exiting, Non-parametric Binary Recursive Tree Methodology
Nadezhda Ivanovna Gainullina: In Memoriam
No full textThe article is written in memory of an outstanding philologist and an amazing person - Doctor of Philology, Professor Nadezhda Ivanovna Gainullina. The text does not have one author; it is a polyglossia of memories and impressions about the Person, who for many years set the standards of higher education of the Republic of Kazakhstan. As an application, the reader is offered a list of works protected under the guidance of N.I. Gainullina. This is a kind of navigation map on modern lexicology of Kazakhstan, which can be useful to anyone who explores the state of the Russian language in the post-Soviet space
Estimation of the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate in Russia: Trade-Balance Approach
Full text linkThe paper estimates the equilibrium real exchange rate (ERER) in Russia for 1995-20065 using the partial-equilibrium version of the trade-balance approach. The three-good framework is applied, allowing distinction between the RER for imports and RER for exports. The terms of trade are viewed as exogenous. Russia’s export demand is regarded as infinitely price elastic, implying the estimation of export supply function. Russian imports are assumed to be demand determined. The estimation of the trade-volume equations is based on the search of cointegrating relationships. The import elasticities are in line with estimates obtained in other studies. The estimations for the export supply equation confirm “supply elasticity pessimism”. The ERER simulations reveal the degree of rouble overvaluation of 25%-40%, depending on the measure of the RER used, before the August 1998 crisis. In recent years, given the surge in oil prices and pro-active exchange rate policy of the Bank of Russia, the rouble appears to be substantially undervalued. In 2004-2006, given the surge in oil prices and pro-active exchange rate policy of the Bank of Russia, the rouble appears to be substantially undervalued: by 40-70% on average, depending on the measure of the RER used.Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate, Trade Elasticities, Russia
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: From Tetraalkylphosphonium Ionic Liquids to Phosphonium Ylides: How the Ionic Sizes Influence Carbon Dioxide Capture?
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
From Tetraalkylphosphonium Ionic Liquids to Phosphonium Ylides: How the Ionic Sizes Influence Carbon Dioxide Capture?
Vitaly V. Chaban and Nadezhda A. Andreeva
(a) Yerevan State University, Yerevan, 0025, Armenia.
(b) Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Corresponding author: [email protected].</p
A methodology for research on international cooperation on marine environment protection: application of the Baltic Sea practices to the northern seas
No full textThis article is dedicated to the methodology for the study of international cooperation on marine environment protection. The author suggests applying the practices of marine environment protection in the Baltic Sea to the northern seas as well as examining earlier projects for the effective implementation of interdisciplinary initiatives bringing together international law, international relations and world politics
Recent studies in transition and operation in Central and Eastern Europe
No full textKirjoittajat: Arenkov I.A., Rakhmatullina,
Sutyrin Sergei F., Trofimenko Olga Y., Boiko Ivan,
Tzenzharik Maria, Liuhto Kari, Vensel Vello,
Ziacik Terri L., Elenurm Tiit, Sõrg, Ivanova Nadezhda,
Larimo Jorma, Nieminen Jarmo, Lesakova Dagmar,
Wallusch Jacek, Wysokińska, Witkowska Janina,
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Concept of „death" in the lyrics of Nadezhda Teffi
No full textNadezhda Teffi (former Buczynska, born as Lochwicka, 1872-1952) - poet and novelist, one
of the most interesting characters in Russian literature of the first half of the twentieth century. In
1920 Teffi left Russia supplying the same community of thousands of Russian immigrants. In
Paris, still accompanied by the opinion of eminent satirist, but a poetic works can trace many
aspects of the Teffi creative attitude, and especially reflective and nostalgic nature of the emigration
work. The experience of exile provoked to think about the country, the world and herself in
this world. Similar sentiments reflect the poems included in the books of poetry: Шамрам. Песни
Востока (Songs of the East, Berlin, 1923), Passiflora (Berlin 1923) and in the poems published
in collective volumes and anthologies.
The article analyses the concept of death in the lyrics of Teffi. Semantical structure of this
concept includes both objective senses and individual imaginations of the author
“LIFE IS A DREAM...” AN ONEIRIC WORLD IN NADEZHDA TEFFI’S POETRY (1872-1952)
No full textThis article’s topic is the analysis of the theme of sleep and ways of his linguistic representation in Nadezhda Teffi’s poetry. The author distinguishes various updates of the selected motif, divided them according to their meaning and thematic scope and
pointed out their importance in the poetic achievements of the Russian emigrant. The subject of the analysis is the context of direct nominations of the lexeme, its derivates, semantic words and antonyms, appearing in the debut volume of poems Seven Fires (1910) and in Poetry Poems published in Exile: Passiflora Shamram. Songs of the East (1923). The research concept adopted by the author remains in line with the communication style of the text, whose tasks cover various aspects of the analysis of the literary text perceived as a form of communication reflecting both the stylistic standard and the individual style of the author
A. Brusilov's Wife Portrait: N. Brusilova at Her Motherland and in Emigration
No full textThe author reveals the life and personality of an outstanding fignhting commander of World War I, Aleksei Brusilov’s wife. Her role in his life was shadowed during the Soviet period because of her anti-soviet position mostly due to her orthodox religious views. The paper is based on the unpublished correspondence between Nadezhda Brusilov) and her husband in 1914–1917 when A. A. Brusilov was at the front, and his wife was engaged in charity work in the rear, as well as her diary written during the years she lived in Czechoslovakia as an emigrant (5972 GARF F. A. A. and N. V. Brusilov). The letters show a great emotional unity of the couple although the relationship between them has not always been smooth. N. V. Brusilov had a strong character, tried to infl uence her husband, give recommendations how to conduct military operations, to avoid casualties, but she managed to brighten up the loneliness of the commander in the last period of his life, taking care of him, preserved and published his memoirs. Brusilov believed their marriage happy. After Aleksei Brusilov’s death in 1926, Nadezhda Brusilov went to Czechoslovakia (1930) under the guise of treatment and did not returned to Russia. She was marginalized in the emigrants’ milieu because of Alexei Brusilov’s position during the Soviet — Polish War in 1920 when he joined the Red Army. The position of her husband she unequivocally justified patriotic motives. She fixed her nostalgic feelings for the lost homeland and her loneliness in a foreign land in her diary. It was not intended to be published as N. V. Brusilov feared damage to people stay in Russia. Her diary is an important source on her life abroad as an emigrant, her thoughts about her lost homeland, her views on Orthodox Church, both in Russia and abroad
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