bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A proposal method for reducing the order of general heat conduction equation
Authors: Tran Thanh-Phong
Published: October 2018

In the context of investigating methods dedicated to identifying unknown parameters of the system described by partial differential equations, particularly in the field of heat transfer, it has been realized that the heat transfer process in particular three-dimensional features is really complex and takes longer to calculate. Therefore, an equivalent mathematical model which is simpler proposed to reduce the calculation time and the costs of experimental activities. We observe that the mathematical models of the diffusion equation can be minimized in three-dimensional space into a similar two-dimensional pattern within certain limits did not change the physical properties of heat transfer process. A mathematical model and the numerical results of simulation experiments in order to prove effectiveness the proposed method will be presented in detail in this article.
Hypothesis Testing on the Location Parameter of a Skew-Normal Distribution (SND) with Application
Authors: Thiuthad Phontita , Pal Nabendu
Published: October 2018

This work deals with testing a hypothesis on the location parameter (μ) of a skew-normal distribution (SND) based on a random sample of size n. The details of this work can be summarized in four major components: (a) First we review some useful results on SND, including the approximate probability distribution of the sample average. (b) Next, we develop several tests to test a hypothesis on μ based on the sample mean when the scale (σ) and shape (λ) parameters are known. (c) The tests for the known scale and shape are then extended for unknown scale and shape. (d) Finally, the test methods have been used for a real-life data set.
Measure and compare the convergence time of network routing protocols
Authors: Bolanowski Marek , Byczek Tomasz
Published: October 2018

Currently, IT systems require more and more reliability. It can be guaranteed only by using redundancy both in the connectivity and network devices. The authors attempted to measure the convergence time for EIGRP and OSPF routing protocols after link or network nodes failure. Research have been conducted with the real devices and hardware traffic generator. In case of both protocols, failures have been simulated in various places in the network topology. On this basis, time in which tested protocol restored full connectivity for a specific topology with backup links have been precisely determined. Knowledge of the time required to restore the network after a failure can be useful during designing services based on networks with implemented routing. This can improve a tolerance of connectivity interruptions.
Load balancing algorithms in cluster systems
Authors: Imiełowski Andrzej
Published: October 2018

The beginning of XXI century brought dynamic rise in popularity of the Internet. It was connected with the development of telecommunications technology, especially the spread of broadband access to the global network. The key issue became ensuring satisfactory access to the services available through the network. Therefore, the challenge caused the development of various clusters. The paper presents an overview of algorithms for load balancing used in modern cluster systems. Load balancing is a key issue in cluster systems. It is a method that uses multiple nodes (servers) and dynamically distributes the load between them so that no node is not overloaded. The main goal of load balancing is the optimal use of resources, thereby enhancing system performance and minimizing resource consumption. This allows for reducing operations costs of information systems and is also compatible with Green Computing. The paper focuses on analysis of existing algorithms in terms of load balancing and comparing them on basis of various quality indicators, such as throughput, reliability, energy saving, performance, scalability, etc. The paper takes into account the specificities of different solutions, from the classic cluster through systems of blade servers with virtualization to cloud systems.
Preparation of industrial grade MoO2 by the reaction between industrial grade MoO3 and activated carbon
Authors: Zhang Guo-Hua , Wang Da-Hang , Wang Lu , Chou Kuo-Chih , Dong Anping
Published: October 2018

In this study, the reaction between industrial grade molybdenum trioxide powders and activated carbon has been investigated in order to produce industrial grade molybdenum dioxide (MoO2). Effects of activation carbon addition and reaction temperature on the product compositions are both illustrated. Increasing the reaction temperature can significantly improve the reaction rate. It is difficult for them to react completely when the temperature is lower than 550 °C. However, industrial grade MoO2 powders can be obtained when the temperature is up to 650 °C. It is also found that there is no intermediate product Mo4O11 formed during the reaction process of MoO3 by activated carbon, which is different from the case of hydrogen reduction of MoO3 to MoO2. The crystalline size of the obtained MoO2 becomes very small relative to that of the raw material MoO3.
Evolutional behavior of carbonaceous material during dissolution in molten iron of COREX
Authors: Xu Runsheng , Zhang Jianliang , Wang Wei , Dai Bowen , Zuo Haibin , Xue Zhengliang , Song Mingming
Published: October 2018

The dissolution behaviours of lumpy coal and coke used in COREX gasifier in molten iron were investigated. The time-dependent interfacial reaction products were observed and the microcrystalline structures of solid fuels were identified. The results showed that the rate of carbon dissolution in molten iron using lumpy coal was significantly less than that when the coke was used. The ordered carbon microcrystalline at the reaction interface would be a priority to dissolve. The interface thickness of the eroded coke was larger than that of coal char due to the uneven microtexture distribution and the irregular pore structure. The amount of attachments on the erosion interface was positively related to the dissolution time regardless of the type of solid fuel. Although the amount of ash phases on the coal char surface was less than that on the coke surface, the final carbon content in molten iron and dissolution rate of coal char were still less due to its microstructure of carbon matrix. This study contributes to understanding the dissolution mechanism of the solid fuels used in COREX gasifier and improving the fuel utilization.
Determination of global kinetic parameters by optimization procedure using burning velocity measurements
Authors: Grenkin Gleb V. , Chebotarev Alexander Yu. , Babushok Valeri I. , Minaev Sergey S.
Published: October 2018

The optimization procedure was developed to derive the global kinetic parameters using experimental dependence of burning velocity on the equivalence ratio. The simple model of laminar premixed flame propagation with assumed constant parameters was used to demonstrate the features of the suggested procedure. The suggested method allows finding optimal parameters for the defined functional dependence of the reaction rate on the temperature and reactant concentrations. The dependence of combustion adiabatic temperature on equivalence ratio is assumed to be known from the flame equilibrium calculations. The global kinetic parameters of combustion reaction were determined for methane, ethylene and propane mixtures with air on the basis of experimental data on burning velocity as function of the equivalence ratio. The calculated overall kinetic parameters are compared with parameters obtained by other methods within similar global model.
Convex Grey Optimization
Authors: Tilahun Surafel Luleseged
Published: October 2018

Many optimization problems are formulated from a real scenario involving incomplete information due to uncertainty in reality. The uncertainties can be expressed with appropriate probability distributions or fuzzy numbers with a membership function, if enough information can be accessed for the construction of either the probability density function or the membership of the fuzzy numbers. However, in some cases there may not be enough information for that and grey numbers need to be used. A grey number is an interval number to represent the value of a quantity. Its exact value or the likelihood is not known but the maximum and/or the minimum possible values are. Applications in space exploration, robotics and engineering can be mentioned which involves such a scenario. An optimization problem is called a grey optimization problem if it involves a grey number in the objective function and/or constraint set. Unlike its wide applications, not much research is done in the field. Hence, in this paper, a convex grey optimization problem will be discussed. It will be shown that an optimal solution for a convex grey optimization problem is a grey number where the lower and upper limit are computed by solving the problem in an optimistic and pessimistic way. The optimistic way is when the decision maker counts the grey numbers as decision variables and optimize the objective function for all the decision variables whereas the pessimistic way is solving a minimax or maximin problem over the decision variables and over the grey numbers.
Russian Official Reflection in Russian Language Winged Units
Authors: Anokhina Svetlana , Kozko Natalia , Pozdnyakova Natalia , Tulina Ekaterina
Published: October 2018

The article analyzes functioning of winged units nominating officials in literary and publicistic texts included in the Russian National Corpus. The authors consider that every winged phrase is a combination of mental ideas of the nation. Thus, winged units are important concepts verbalisators though they are found at the semantic field periphery. The article brings out the differences in the usage of winged units with the common seme “official” in texts by native Russian speakers which allows to reconstruct the image of an official existing in the Russian linguistic picture of the world. Most units can be found at the periphery of the semantic field and thus cannot claim to be universal in nominating officials because of low frequency of their use. The most universal nominations for officials are the following ones: Derzhimorda, Kuvshinnoe rylo, Schvonder, Sergeant Prishibeyev, Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, that can be related to the near periphery of the concept “Official” field verbalisators. The analysis of winged units’ meanings with the seme “official” allows specifying ideas of an official in the Russian linguistic picture of the world: the majority of the winged units convey a negative attitude of native speakers to officials.
Opportunities of Multifunctional Centers for Formation and Development of Digital Society
Authors: Andreeva Irina , Ciuvashin Yurii , Khoperskov Alexander
Published: October 2018

This article discusses the possibilities of using blockchain technology to modernize and improve the operation of work, which provides federal and regional services to citizens. The work of multifunctional centers of the Volgograd region and modernization of services are considered. In the article, the authors paid special attention to the analysis of the principles of developing the information infrastructure of the regional administration. In particular, the experience of building the information infrastructure in the regions of the Russian Federation was examined, the main components of the information infrastructure were identified, the structure of its main elements was examined. The work analyzed the existing problems faced by regions in the construction and implementation of the information infrastructure of the regional government.
Psycholinguistic Research of Creolized Advertising Texts: Age Factor
Authors: Lebedeva Svetlana V. , Annenkova Antonina V.
Published: October 2018

People daily deal with creolized texts that have become an integral part of life in modern society. One of such texts examples is advertising in educational sphere. The purpose of production and use of such texts is the formation of ideas, images and special relationship to the world or subject / object which is mediated by personal characteristics of an individual. Achieving this goal is possible by influencing the human consciousness and perception with the variety of psychological, psycholinguistic methods and other ways depending on the specific task. It should be noticed that subjective perception of a particular creolized text image is influenced not only by linguistic characteristics, but also by a large number of extralinguistic factors. The article shows some results of the experimental research which was conducted to prove “age” factor influence on the perception of creolized texts. In addition, some key issues related to practical application of a systematic approach for experimental data analysis as well as its application to linguistic science are discussed in the article.
Priority Directions of Ensuring Strategic Competitiveness and Sustainability of Industrial Enterprises
Authors: Arkhipova Tatiana , Afonasova Margarita
Published: October 2018

The paper presents the directions of sustainability and competitiveness improvement of industrial enterprises through the use of project management tools. Special attention is given to consideration of the prospects of application of project management methods at the enterprises of the aviation and rocket and space industry. Problems that enterprises face when implementing the project management tools are identified in terms of the analysis. Advantages of implementing the tools of project management at the enterprises of the aviation and rocket and space industry are determined. The paper shows that the Russian rocket and space industry loses competitive strength in the global market for space technologies and space services. This is due to a trend towards stagnation with respect to industrial enterprises. All of these in turn lead to an obstacle to fostering of enterprises based on innovation.
Commensurability of Human and Web Resources Scale in Development of Socio-Cultural Systems
Authors: Barkova Eleonora , Ivleva Marina , Buzskaya Olga , Buzsky Marat
Published: October 2018

The purpose of this article is to study the correlation of human resources and web resources in the current stage of the information society development through the prism of intersubjective relations in a communicative environment. As methods of research, the authors used methods of comparative analysis and data synthesis, based on the anthropic principle and holistic philosophical methodology. This article analyzes the specifics of the modern information space and concludes that the focus of the space-time continuum of the modern world is the practical and theoretical development of Web resources and related forms of worldview. In these conditions, when the Web-space is not able to disclose the inner experience of the individual, its existential dimension, the task of restoring the subject as the center of the socio-cultural space that sets and transmits information becomes urgent. One of the most important means of solving this problem is the reflection of information ecology, within which human and Web resources interacting represent a whole in which all types of human activity and communication are realized and express the initial relation of the subject and the object, the person and his object environment.
Spirituality and Moral Values
Authors: Erenchinova Evgeniia , Proudchenko Elena
Published: October 2018

Since ancient times philosophers have been concerned with the issues of spirituality. The characteristic of the personality from the spirituality viewpoint gives the chance to see in a person the already created moral values. These values are reflected in his/her education and reactions to the arising situations demanding instant actions. It is important to underline that the spiritual world of a man is formed both within the religious and the secular system. In this article, the authors tried to show the difference between spiritualty and morality and to present spirituality from the perspective of such moral values as “freedom” and “conscience”. In this regard, a theoretical analysis was carried out and the definitions of “spirituality” given by philosophers of some epochs were proposed. Moreover, the authors find it necessary to present such concepts as “spirit”, “morality” associated with the concept of “spirituality”, as well as views of some ancient, Western and Russian philosophers. The article also describes spiritual values such as «morality», «freedom», and «conscience». The authors come to the conclusion that conscience is the highest measure of morality, which determines man’s spiritual world and culture.
Organization of Educational Process for Students of Humanitarian and Electrical Engineering Majors on Basis of Moodle Environment
Authors: Iakovets Diliara , Kusnetsova Yulia , Zainutdinov Rustem
Published: October 2018

The authors of the article draw attention to the relevance of the use of e-learning tools to improve the quality of student preparation, as well as they consider the specifics of pedagogical communication within the framework of the information and educational environment. The language of education changes: there is a transition from written forms to audiovisual ones. In addition to traditional actors of the educational process (a teacher and a student), the third actor appears. It is learning tools that operate on the basis of information and communication technologies. The use of e-learning resources in the learning process allows to provide flexible forms of students’ interaction with a teacher and educational content; to organize interactive learning, follow-up and final assessment; to facilitate the management of the educational process for a teacher. The combination of in-class and online (extramural) forms of attendance is most effective. Also, it is necessary to include a cooperative learning approach in the e-learning model. The article describes the experience of using the virtual learning environment (Moodle) in organization of the educational process in a number of subjects (“Psychology of Lying”, “Ergonomics”, etc.) for the students of humanitarian and electrical engineering majors.
Communicative Approach to Interactive Foreign Language Lesson at University
Authors: Isakova Alla
Published: October 2018

The article is devoted to communicative methods of the foreign language teaching, examining of reflexive practice and modelling of a communicative situation, conducting of an experimental study and revealing of a new teaching method efficiency. The communicative method based on the author’s own teaching experience is analysed. The purpose of our experimental program is to define psychology and pedagogical conditions for empirical and theoretical model of communicative approach training in foreign languages training. The appeal of educational process focused training assumes change of ideas not only development of communicative abilities. The purpose of our experimental program is to define psychology and pedagogical conditions for empirical and theoretical model of communicative approach training in foreign languages training.
Russian and Siberian-Tatar language contacts in middle of XX century
Authors: Isakova Anna
Published: October 2018

This article is devoted to the language contacts between the Siberian Tatars and the Russians in the XX century. We have executed a research of the Russian borrowed lexicon in the dictionary of dialects of the Siberian Tatars, written by D.G. Tumasheva in 1992. 93 borrowed lexemes from Russian and Western European languages relating mainly to the household sphere of language functioning of the Siberian Tatars have been revealed. We assume that there were Russian loanwords in the language of the Siberian Tatars in the third period of the development of the Tatar people’s spoken language, namely in the 40-60s of the XX century. The author revealed several borrowed lexemes from the dictionary of dialects of the Siberian Tatars, pertaining to the household lexicon of the language of the Siberian Tatars. The direct permanent intense and stable contacts between the Russian and Tatar unrelated languages led to the emergence of broad and thematically diverse formation of Russian loanwords in the Tatar language. The household sphere of functioning of the Siberian Tatar language is less susceptible to intrusion of foreign vocabulary. Thus, in order to analyze its structural and semantic development, there was an attempt to analyze the identified borrowing according to two corpuses of the Tatar language, namely to identify the right words and confirm the use of the language, as well as to determine the frequency of their usage. According to the Tatar National Corpus “Tugantel” and the Corpus of written Tatar, the most frequent borrowings are өstәl (TNC 4682, CWT-16155), kөpkә (TNC -1242, CWT 9547), Torba (TNC -206, CWT-1141).
Cognitive Activity: Philosophical Analysis, Psychological and Pedagogical Characteristics
Authors: Korobova Ekaterina , Kardovich Irina , Konysheva Marina , Mironova Dina
Published: October 2018

Cognition is an integral part of a person’s orientation in the world. It is studied by different sciences – philosophy, sociology, pedagogics, and psychology. In information society, the role of cognition and the ways it is realized are becoming extremely important. Cognitive activity is an essential part of cognition. It is formed and developed in the process of education. Cognitive activity is traditionally regarded as a special kind of mental activity. There are different components of cognitive activity and levels of its development. The higher the level of cognitive activity is, the more efficient the whole process of education is as knowledge is acquired more quickly and at a higher level. Cognitive independence combined with cognitive activity can radically improve the whole process of cognition. Thus, the task of an educational process is to activate cognition and develop cognitive independence by different methods and approaches.
Literary and Philosophical Heritage of Symbolism (on Problem of Searching for Truth)
Authors: Korobeinikov Evgeny , Khabibulin Denis , Tsapov Evgeny , Golubeva Olesya
Published: October 2018

This paper examines the cultural heritage of the end of the 19th- the beginning of the 20th century, which period is known for the crisis that struck all the spheres of life of the time – social and economic, political, philosophical, aesthetic. It is for this reason that the intellectuals of the time reflected on the crisis in their artistic, philosophical and spiritual search. In particular, this can be traced in the works of Russian and foreign modernists. In that period, the problem of creative cognition as a special ideology and a way to create life becomes of particular importance. The relevance of this work is defined by striving to outline certain approaches to solving this problem. The aim of this research is to identify the particularities of the subject-object relationship and how it forms in a literary work while enabling the author to build an adequate symbolist picture of the world, to transform and create it. The aspect examined by the authors of this article will help analyse the system of symbolism, just like any other theory, from the philosophical standpoint. One can use the results of this research when developing new programmes for basic and special courses in the history of 20th-century Russian literature and culture to be taught at university or at school.
Perspectives of Spoken Grammar in Case Government
Authors: Korobova Olga , Generalowa Larissa , Yanina Victoria
Published: October 2018

This paper deals with analysing the case government as a grammar category and explaining the contradictions in its interpretation with the main postulates of cognitive linguistics. The main idea of the paper is that grammar is considered to be a by-product of the language use when reality reflected in language consciousness finds its way in language grammaticalisation. It is suggested that case and prepositional and case structures are not connected with concrete verbs, but they express semantic arguments at the level of sentence. As a result, the case government is considered as forms of realization of semantic arguments of the significative structure. Its choice is caused by the use of the language in social interaction by mental modelling the reality.
Cognitive-Semantic Analysis of Linguistic Objectifications of Possessive Situations in Russian, English, German
Authors: Palashevskaya Irina , Leontiev Vladimir , Stepanova Elizaveta , Kulichenko Yulia , Kurchenkova Elena
Published: October 2018

In this article, possessivity is considered to be a linguistic way of integrating an object (thing) into a relation, connected, first of all, with the idea of owning, wealth and property. Owning a thing is one of the most important concepts regulating social relations. The grounds on which a thing belongs to its holder, in various legal and cultural traditions, often serve as justification of the material advantage and the manifestation of privileges. The relations of possessivity aimed at holding the object in the subject’s sphere are proposed to be constructed in the form of cognitive models, the content of which is the multidirectional process, which is reflected in the semantics of linguistic units and has lingua-cultural specifics. The article proposes cognitive models of possessive relations and describes the language tools representing the structural components of the constructed cognitive models. The relevance of various characteristics to the compared languages and cultures based on the comprehensive analysis of verbalization of the structural components of these models has been identified in this work.
“Smart Things” in Child-Parent Interaction: Statement of Problem
Authors: Laktyukhina Elena
Published: October 2018

This article is devoted to the problem of modes of interaction between parents and children in conditions of using digital gadgets. The relevance of the proposed study is that in the last few years, new media technologies are being adapted to specific groups. In recent years, the use of gadgets for parents with children of different ages is spreading. These gadgets monitor the child’s physiological parameters and inform parents about them. Using the methodology of STS, we can say that the introduction of technological artifacts in the daily life of child-parent relations gives rise to the problem of disentanglement - increasing the number of technical intermediaries of interaction. These gadgets, like any other technological device, are a part of the “embodied ideology”. This means that technologies outstrip the development of the users’ interests, their attitudes, motives and practices in a particular way, direct and prescribe actions to their users. The study was funded by RFBR according to research project No. 18-011-00692 Parenthood in the era of “smart things”: a sociological analysis.
Realization of Pragmatic Function of Informing of Reporting Category (as exemplified in English and Russian)
Authors: Lutfullina Gulnara , Sabitova Veronika
Published: October 2018

This article considers the pragmatic potential of reporting category as a core component of the indirect evidentiality field. The purpose of the article is to determine methods of realization of pragmatic function of reporting category informing. The article analyses examples taken from mass-media programs about information technologies news and determines 2 analysing strategies for pragmatic potential. The example analysis demonstrated that common pragmatic function of informing is a priori specific for mass-media news programs; in this case examples of informing about latest news and updates in science and technology. The essence of informing process suggests retelling of another’s information or the realization of reporting category. In English, anonymous sources are represented less within informing process and the category of inference is used. In Russian language information is often given as the fruit of labour, the achievement, the activity result of particular subjects who are suggested to be sources of information.
Forest as Area of Communication in Arctic Context – Pre-Study
Authors: Magnusson Magnus , Polikarpov Alexander
Published: October 2018

This paper introduces a short pilot study on the concept FOREST COMMUNICATION in an Arctic or Boreal context. The study presents the preliminaries for more extensive comparative studies between Russia and Sweden. Basic data about different interpretations of the central concepts ARCTIC, FOREST, BOREAL and COMMUNICATION are presented and introduced as the base for the study and continuations in the future. The work is based upon qualitative methodology and foremost phenomenology. The main idea is to present the essence of the concepts used. The authors make a statement that the original concept ARCTIC has extended its connotation and that presently the idea of the forest as a major part of the Arctic has to be investigated. The importance of considering special forms of communication in the extended context is discussed and will be the start of future more specialized studies.
Self-Confidence of Students with Disabilities in College Level Linguistic Class
Authors: Melnikova Elena
Published: October 2018

The goal of this study is to determine the difference of linguistic literacy and self-confidence of students with disabilities in an English class. An enhanced understanding of how students’ self-confidence influences benefits of educational linguistic practice. In this article the concepts of linguistic literacy and the storytelling as one of the methods are examined and discussed. In linguistic field, self-confidence was predicted by various factors: current self-confidence of students with disabilities was most strongly predicted by received praise, current grades, and interest in linguistics. The number of under-confident students was reported consistently higher than the number of confident students, highlighting that under-confidence may ultimately be motivationally detrimental. The data for this study were collected through linguistic literacy test and a questionnaire at the English class which was distributed through a randomized sampling method. Students with disabilities who have had linguistic experience have a higher level of self-confidence in linguistic literacy than students who have not attended the class. This study provides means to improve self-confidence of students with disabilities’ and at the same time improves linguistic literacy which allow them to achieve higher personal, career goals and prosperous future.
Sociocultural and Linguistic Reflections on Post-colonial Studies of H.K. Bhabha
Authors: Milostivaya Alexandra , Nazarenko Ekaterina , Makhova Irina , Simonyan Armine
Published: October 2018

The article is devoted to the socio-cultural and linguistic analysis of the postcolonial theory of H.K. Bhabha, who attempted to explain the colonial discourse, based on the concepts of “hybrid space” and “the phenomenon of mimicry” in his work “The Location of Culture” (1994). According to him, the colonial discourse is a complex, ambivalent and often contradictory process. The movement in time and space does not allow different identities become frozen in the unity of opposite. The difficulty lies in the exact definition of hybridity, understood as a boundary between the fixed identities. Particular attention is paid to the interpretation of the concept of translation of H.K. Bhabha, who believes that the translational process goes through some previously established boundaries and therefore puts them into question. H.K. Bhabha argues that the process of translation leads to hybridity codes and verbal propositions, actualizing their semantics in the socio-cultural situation of the target language. In addition, the focus of research interest of the authors got some lexical and grammatical features of the monograph “The Location of Culture” as a representative sample of the type of the humanitarian scientific style with a primarily cognitive-dominant.
Hybrid ESP Courses as Tool to Improve Students’ Informal Learning and Educators’ Academic Mobility
Authors: Minasyan Eva , Grigoryan Armine , Kuznetsova Yulia
Published: October 2018

The era of advanced information and communication technologies is offering new opportunities and challenges for the integration of web-based authentic materials into the learning settings. Such teaching elements are regarded British Council LearnEnglish, BBC English, Ted-Ed, YouTube Edu, LearnOutLoud, LinguaLeo communicating and collaborating tools, which are integrated in course development to create blended learning context for ESP (English for Specific Purposes) auditorium. The article suggests strategies for implementing British Council LearnEnglish.org, BBC English, Ted-Ed, LearnOutLoud, LinguaLeo materials in order to foster learners’ awareness and cooperation in hybrid courses. The analyses of British Council LearnEnglish.org, BBC 6-minute English, Ted-Ed, LearnOutLoud, LinguaLeo online platforms illustrate the benefits and peculiarities of language learning process by using virtual sources.
Pragmatics of Translating Tourism Discourse Texts
Authors: Novozhilova Anna , Korolkova Svetlana , Shovgenina Yevgenia , Shovgenin Alexander
Published: October 2018

The article presents translation analysis of the texts within tourism discourse. According to the authors, the Internet is the most popular source of information and thus tourist websites are aimed at forming tourism attractiveness of a certain region as well as promoting regional branding. As illustrated by examples of multilingual hotel websites, the language component of website content is an essential factor for translation. As a result, the analysis of data shows that in many translations various errors are made, which are characterized by a violation of stylistic, lexical, grammatical, spelling and punctuation norms or rules, consequently, translated texts do not correspond to their original communicative and pragmatic function. Having studied the original examples, the authors prove that the translated text in the tourism discourse performs its main function, i.e. attracts a large number of potential customers only when a professional translator while translating generates a new text, taking into account grammatical and linguistic norms of the language of translation, as well as maintaining stylistic imagery and colour in accordance with a specific lingua-culture of a foreign recipient.
Corpus-Based Study of Discursive Representation of ‘Other’ in Diachronic Perspective
Authors: Kochetova Larisa , Plavina Anastasya
Published: October 2018

Based on the corpus methodology the paper presents the results of diachronic analysis of the discursive representation of ‘Other’ by comparing two corpora, one comprising texts of travelogues dating back to the end of the 19th century and the corpus of present day blogs on travel. The key word tool of LancBox64 software allowed extracting the list of key words, from which lexemes that represent ‘Other’ were selected and categorized. The sketch tool was used to build word sketches for the lexemes identified to revel deffereces in patterns of meaning. The data obtained allowed us to contrast and compare the means of discursive representation of ‘Other’ in diachronic perspective, describe discursive strategies and determine historical and cultural patterns reflected in the discourse practice. Comparative analysis of statistical data in the periods under study revealed dynamic changes that are manifested in the use of peculiar nominative means that represent categories of social actors; employment of attributive and verbal evaluative lexemes that are used for discursive construing of other cultural society representatives in the consciousness of Western people.
Peculiarities of News and Analytical English-Language Media Texts About Russia
Authors: Yuzhakova Yulia , Polyakova Liliya , Suvorova Elena , Emets Tatiana
Published: October 2018

The article is devoted to the consideration of peculiarities of the English-language news and analytic media texts about Russia, which contribute to the formation of a certain attitude towards this country. It is noted that the scope of media texts in English prevails in the global information space, which cannot but affect the viewpoint of the “average” English speaking reader. The notion of ideological modality, which is often present in media texts about Russia, is considered. The media text compositional peculiarities and linguistic means are described in connection with the impact function implementation and the certain attitude towards Russia formation.
Professional Identity via Virtual Corporate Discourse: Linguistic Perspective
Authors: Poteryakhina Inna , Bagiyan Alexander
Published: October 2018

The article is devoted to the linguistic, social and psychological characteristics of the professional identity including its cognitive, behavioural and emotional components. The paper considers the role of virtual corporate discourse in the processes of formation, monitoring and developing of the professional identity. In authors’ opinion, corporate discourse can be considered as the exponent of the intentions, knowledge and skills of communicants and their level of professionalism, so the elements of virtual corporate discourse differentiating specialists and laymen, as well as linguistic means preferred by both groups in their professional interaction, are analyzed in the work on the material of official corporate websites.
Developmental characteristic of primary schoolchildren: traditional educational program or developmental one?
Authors: Ruslyakova Ekaterina , Slobozhankina Leysan
Published: October 2018

The following article presents a longitudinal research of mental state and intelligence of primary schoolchildren following different educational programs. Nowadays education in Russia has been undergoing lots of changes. New systems, methods and technologies for teaching children in primary school are being introduced. Therefore, children often display a high level of anxiety and school neuroses. So the problem of mental state of primary schoolchildren associated with the issues of education, upbringing, and development of junior schoolchildren becomes more urgent. Educational programs that take into account the mental state of children are able to improve health, social adaptation and their mental and personal development. Our empirical study has proved the hypothesis, which asserts that there are differences in children following different educational programs: “School of Russia” and “Perspective Primary School”, their mental state and intellect are also different.
Scientific Conferences as Way to Develop Students’ Foreign Language Communicative Competence
Authors: Savinova Yuliya , Akhmetzyanova Tatiana , Pozdnyakova Svetlana , Dvorak Ekaterina , Zarutskaya Zhanna
Published: October 2018

The issues of the student engagement in science-related activities and the development of students’ language communicative competence are especially relevant in a technical university, where due to the prevailing of the Sciences, the professional communicative competence has become increasingly vital. The goal of this article is to examine how interdisciplinary scientific conferences for students held in foreign languages can foster the foreign language communicative competence of students. In the article, we present the definition and the three basic models of communicative competence. A method of pedagogical observation is used that represents comprehension and analysis of goal-oriented preparation of students for practical scientific conferences. We reveal the fact that interdisciplinary scientific conferences for students held in foreign languages allow educators to foster the foreign language communicative competence of students and deepen their knowledge in professional area, as well as to equip them with research skills since students’ participation in the conferences increases their attention and focus, motivates them to practice critical thinking skills of high level.
Integrating Linguistic Diversity in Globalized Spanglish Communities
Authors: Semenova Marina Yu.
Published: October 2018

Globalization comprises a complex range of various processes and has a huge impact on many spheres of life, including languages and dialects. The paper analyzes linguistic phenomena caused by globalization which have resulted in a new language type which can be denoted as ‘poststandard languages’. English being a means of international communication has entered many standard language systems causing an extensive use of English loanwords and pseudo-English elements combined with a wordplay. This anglicalization results in two or more languages merging into a new poststandard language, a common means of communication in a multilingual diverse society. One of the most vivid examples is Spanglish, an English-Spanish merge in the USA and Latin America. It is characterized by a high degree of substrata merging and diversity levelling. Thus the article analyzes the identity of Spanglish speakers as well as linguistic features and functions of such ‘Glishes’ which differentiate them from standard English and Spanish.
Implementation of Competence Approach with Simulation Technology
Authors: Raptanova Irina N. , Shcherbakova Maria .V. , Fomichenko Anna S. , Strizhkova Olga V. , Mokritskaya Elena A.
Published: October 2018

The modernization of higher education is mandatory condition for the current stage of Russian society development and the ensuring of the Russian economy competitiveness. One of the priority issues of modernization is the strengthening of the significance of self-students studying. This is due primarily to the considerable reduction in the number of classroom sessions and the increase in hours provided for self-students studying. Self-studying becomes the basis for the professional development of a bachelor, encourage his cognitive interests, promotes the essential objectives of the training, that is, the formation of communicative and professional competences. The nature of the relationship between the teacher and the bachelor alters within the framework of competence-oriented education. The teacher, released from the mere transfer of knowledge, gets freedom in choosing forms of interaction or rather in choosing the methods used in such field of studying as “Foreign Language”. Classical teaching methods are replaced with new ones. The emergence of information and communication technologies led to their rapid introduction into the educational process. The organization of self-students studying through the use of information and communication technologies is of great interest to many educational specialists. The specific nature of information and communication technologies lies in the creation in the educational process of various kinds of relations and conditions of real life, requiring from bachelors not only the knowledge of work-related material, but also their familiarization with a given image, a holistic immersion in the professional environment. The use of simulation technology facilitates the formation of cognitive-search activity of bachelors, causes incentive for learning a foreign language.
Encyclopaedic Information in Ideographic Description of Language of Institutional Relations
Authors: Shchetinina Anna , Blinova Anastasiya
Published: October 2018

The issue of including encyclopedic information in the ideographic dictionary of social vocabulary is considered in the article. The relevance of the study is due to the active functioning of the vocabulary of the institutional sphere in the modern information environment. It is noted that modern explanatory dictionaries do not provide sufficient information about the nominations of realities from the political and social spheres. Thus, lexicographical sources do not include or fragmentarily include language units that fix the original (single) historical or cultural realities. It is argued that the absence of such nominations violates the systemic nature of the representation of lexical sets that represent fragments of social reality. It is noted that the ideographic description of social vocabulary in the dictionary by means of the method of ideographic reconstruction of nominative sets allows one to represent those language units (lexemes, phraseological units, non-idiomatic compound expressions) that call facts of reality important for a person, society or state. Such facts include, among other things, proper names, the fixation of which in the dictionary is interesting from the point of view of the linguistic-creative nomination of historical phenomena, events, personalities and is necessary for the full description of social vocabulary. It is noted that language units that call historical and cultural facts can be extracted from different idioms (literary language, dialects, jargon, urban vernacular), as well as from historical and modern dictionaries. It is concluded that the description of social vocabulary, differentiated from the point of view of stylistics and time of use, will create a more objective picture of the institutional interaction of people in different periods of history.
Role of Translation in Geopolitical Agenda:Translator’s Turns and Manipulation
Authors: Vedernikova Tatiana , Shchurik Natalia , Kunitsyna Evgenia
Published: October 2018

The problem of translation used for geopolitical agenda, translation as a means of mind manipulation has long been of substantial interest to translation scholars. This article focuses on conscious and unconscious types of manipulation in translation and aims to show their manifestation in political discourse. On the one hand, nominalizations, euphemisms, politically correct vocabulary and metaphors make a translator or an interpreter choose between multiple interpretations. It brings him/her to unconscious choice. On the other hand, translators sometimes deliberately omit some parts of the text or change the order of the original. It means that a translator/interpreter consciously makes this or that decision concerning what part or parts of the source text are ideologically relevant and should be brought into “due” perspective in translation and which are to be left out, and is therefore instrumental in shaping public opinion.
On History of Certain Indeclinable Nouns of Foreign Origin
Authors: Shisholina Albina
Published: October 2018

It is well known that borrowing is one of the most important universal sources of vocabulary replenishment of any language. The present work is a study of the indeclinable nouns, a special group of borrowings that to some extent contribute to the change of the grammatical structure of the Russian language in general, and the declension system in particular. The article describes the history of the emergence and reception in the system of the Russian language of certain indeclinable nouns of foreign origin. We studied the ways of the language units recorded in the lexicographic sources of the XVIII century. The reception of the prototypes of the studied units is reviewed in terms of the phonetic and graphic formalization of the word, the acquisition of its morphological characteristics, and the formation of its semantic structure. Due to the strong foreign language influence and multiple language contacts, the Russian language of the XVIII century is characterized by a high variability of the foreign language nouns, including the indeclinable nouns, often with the declinable doublets. The language can fix a declinable, as well as an indeclinable form.