The paper is devoted to a relevant problem: how literature influences the students’ cultural self-identification in process of its study. purpose this scientific work identify criteria modern textbook must meet, and demonstrate educational role plays identity formation, illustrated with example books on literary theory Russian history 19th – 20th centuries. most appropriate approach problem cul...

Unstressed vowel reduction figures centrally in recent literature on the phonetics-phonology interface, in part owing to the possibility of a causal relationship between a phonetic process, duration-dependent undershoot, and the phonological neutralizations observed in systems of unstressed vocalism. Of particular interest in this light has been Russian, traditionally described as exhibiting tw...

Progrsss in Linguistics is often made by applying results from one area to a different domain of inquiry. In this articles, I bring together three distinct ideas, independently proposed in the literature in three distinct domains, and show that when taken together, they shed significant light on the properties of Russian scrambling and on word order freedom in general. By bringing together thes...

In recent years, post-feminism has become an important element of popular media culture and the object of feminist cultural critique. This article explores how post-feminism is domesticated in Russia through popular self-help literature aimed at a female audience. Drawing on a close reading of self-help texts by three best-selling Russian authors, the article examines how post-feminism is made ...

The paper deals with the application of the activity theory in describing psychological determinants of the information searching activity. The notions of information behavior, information retrieval, information competence, information retrieval activity given in Russian and English scientific literature are compared. The research approach to the information retrieval activity based on the prin...

THE ideal of prophecy is central to the life and works of the religious philosopher and poet Vladimir Solov'ev (I853-I900). Although its importance is generally acknowledged, little attempt has been made to analyse the way in which Solov'ev constructed his ideal and came to be regarded as a prophetic figure in his own right. And yet this subject is of profound interest, not only for our underst...

IN THE VARIOUS PROPOSALS for word-forword machine translation of Russian scientific literature into English, each word in the sentence is considered as a separate entity. If a word has more than one English equivalent, or more than one possible syntactic value, the alternatives must be listed. The chief difficulty with the resulting translation is its prolixity: the reader finds himself confron...

The aim of this paper is investigating and studying of geopolitical dimensions of Russia in the Caspian Sea. Russian post-Soviet geopolitics invokes euroasianism as its inner rationale and meaning, as a greater good that imbues pragmatic, interest based politics with a sense of mission. Eurasianism as a particular tradition of theorizing Russia’s identity and place in the world has a momentum o...

This study delved into the application of proper nouns as terms of address in Russian and Persian. In other words, it examined the rules governing the application of terms of address expressed as the names of individuals in different speech situations in both languages. The comparative study of the cultural features of languages spoken by Russians and Iranians called for the investigation of th...