RUSSIAN COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION
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PROJECTS AND PUBLICATIONS
Teaching cross-cultural communication in Russian universities
The manager of the Volkswagen funded project (Hannover, Germany) for creating
and introducting the course "Cross-Cultural Communication" in Russian high schools
is Dr. Juliana Roth, an instructor at Munich University. Her assistant is Galina
Kopteltseva. The Russian partner is Kaluzhsky State Pedagogic University
represented by A.P. Sadokhin, T.G. Grushevitskaya (Ethnology Department) and
V.D. Popkov (Institute of sociologic research).
The goal of this project is creation and teaching of a six-month course on crosscultural communication (36 academic hours) which could become a basis for
curricula in Russian high schools, especially for humanities and social-studies
faculties. Ten-years of experience of teaching cross-cultural communication in
Munich University is used. The Munich program is based on research in cultural
antropology and ethnology. Much attention is paid to the questions of non-verbal
communication, culture theories, contact between culture and communication and to
the issues of interpretation and stereotyping. An additional component, which is
dedicated to basic parameters of Russian culture and specifically of RussianAmerican and Russian-German communication (especially social and business
communication), is included into curricula for Russian universities.
The program "Cross-cultural Communication" developed within the framework of
this project was taught for students of Kaluzhsky State Pedagogic University,
International Tourism Faculty twice (in March and September). It was an intensive
ten-day course, in Russian. Special emphasis was paid to the questions of didactics
and methodology, the experience of the Munich program was adjusted to the teaching
in Russian high schools.
Additionally, the goals of the project are preparation and advising of Russian partners
for introduction of the "Cross-cultural communication" course as well as compiling a
bibliography on questions of communication (in Russian, English, German and
French). At present our German partners are working on creation of a manual, which
includes the description of the theoretical basis, methods of cross-cultural teaching as
well as practical tasks for teaching cross-cultural communication in high schools. The
Russian partners, for their part, work on creating an introductory textbook on basic
questions of cross-cultural communication.
For more information about the project in English, German or Russian please contact
Dr. Juliaha Roth, email: j.roth@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
or Galina Kopteltseva, email: galka@web.de
Main publications of scientific and research laboratory "Language & Personality",
scientific works by scholars of Volgograd State Pedagogic University.
MONOGRAPHS
V.I. Shakhovsky "Kategorization of emotions in lexical and semantic system of
language". - Voronezh: Voronezh State University publishing house, 1987. - 192p.
This monograph reveals the main laws of semantics and functioning of vocabulary of
English language in which person's emotions are illustrated. Analysis of emotives is
realized according to the plan: from dictionary to field and then to the text, i.e. in both
systematic and active plans. Categorization of man's emotions in lexical and semantic
system (by components of semantics, types of vocabulary, its grouping) as well as the
functioning of this system with the expression of emotions is investigated for the first
time in contrast to their description and indication. A wide scope of issues on emotive
semantics of language is surveyed. The answer to these issues is an urgent task for
modern linguistics; it has an important applied meaning for lexicography,
interpretation, for pragmatics of interpersonal and international communication, for
practice of conducting propaganda and contrpropaganda in mass media.
V.I. Karasik "The language of social status". - Moscow: Institute of linguistics
(Russian Science Academy); Volgograd State Pedagogic Institute, 1992. - 330p.
This monograph is dedicated to the linguistic study of a person's social status on the
basis of the modern English language. Problems of sociolinguistics, pragmalinguistics
and linguistic semantics in description of lifestyle, verbal and non-verbal indicators of
a social status, norms of behaviour and etiquette are examined. Conversational
postulates, speech acts and genres are analyzed as applied to disparity of status
relations.
T.A. Ivushkina "The language of the English aristocracy: social and historical
aspect".Volgograd: Peremena, 1997. - 157p.
The monograph is dedicated to sociolinguistic study of the speech of English
aristocracy. Historical and social reasons of variability of the English language in
Great Britain are taken up here. The features of English aristocracy's speech, which
are illustrated in works of English writers of XIX century, are analyzed here. Some
tendencies of developing the speech of the English aristocracy, especially the
vocabulary of the English nobility, linguistically meaningful characteristics of
utterance and voice styles of the British high life representatives are revealed here.
V.I. Shakhovsky, U.A. Sorokin, I.V. Tomasheva "Text and its cognitive-emotive
metamorphoses (cross-cultural understanding and linguoecology)". Volgograd:
Peremena, 1998. - 149p.
General theoretic issues of text linguistics and translation studies are considered
together with some emotive text's regularities and pragmatics as well as the categories
of its emotive sense and emotive lacunas. Some new terminological series are offered
for the description of cognitive-emotive components of the text. Reconstruction of G.
Orwell's quazi-linguistic paradigm and some principles of verbal and non-verbal
behaviour of representatives of Chinese linguistic-cultural community is attempted.
E.I. Sheigal "Semiotics of political discourse". Monograph/ Institute of linguistics
(Russian Science Academy); Volgograd State Pedagogic University. Volgograd:
Peremena, 2000. - 368p.
Complex analysis of political discourse as an object of linguistic-cultural studies is
given in this monograph; constitutive characteristics and functions of political
discourse are determined, its basic concepts are revealed, the principals of modeling
its semiotic area are showed here too. The typology of political discourse' signs is
being worked out and its intentional and genre aspects are being analyzed.
G.G. Slyshkin "From text to symbol: linguistic-cultural concepts of precedent texts
in perception and discourse". Moscow: Academia, 2000. - 128p.
The monograph is dedicated to linguistic-culturological studying of intertextuality.
Linguistic-cultural concept as a base of synthesis research of the culture, perception
and discourse is examined here. The notion of a linguistic-cultural concept of a
precedent text is introduced, the classifications of precedent text concepts along with
the text reminiscences are designed. Much attention is paid to illustration of
precedent texts in parodies and anecdotes. The connection between precedentity of
texts and working manners of textual violence is being studied here.
DICTIONARIES
O.A. Leontovich, E.I. Sheigal "USA life & culture: linguistic-geographical
dictionary". - Volgodrad: Stranitsa-2, 1998 (first edition); 2000 (second edition). 416p.
This dictionary contains over 8000 words and combinations explaining notions, which
are connected with social life, government, geography, history, literature and art,
education, way of life, sport and customs in the USA. The translations, definitions and
culture comments of US real life are give here. The difference between British and
American English is explained in the dictionary.
TRANSLATIONS
R. Vodak "Language. Discourse. Politics"/ translation from English and German;
Volgograd State Pedagogic University. - Volgograd: Peremena, 1997. - 139p.
The issues of critical linguistics, social inequality in communication, communication
manipulations which representatives of high class always use to control their nationals
are taken up in articles of a well-known Austrian social linguist Ruth Vodak. The
language of instructions, mass media is analyzed, methods for discourse analyses of
modern political situation in Austria are shown here.
COLLECTIONS, SCHOLARLY WORKS
Linguistic personality: issues of meaning and sense: Collected scientific works. Volgograd: Peremena, 1994. - 204p.
(N.F. Alefirenko Methodological issues of theory of interaction between
consciousness, meaning and sense; I.V. Sentenberg Linguistic personality in
communicative-active aspect; V.I. Karasik Linguistic personality in category of
language; V.V. Gurevich Semantic contrasting of verb and noun; V.M. Savitsky Usage
of figurative tools in argumentative discourse; N.A. Krasavsky Colour sense of
emotions in Russian and German; T.A. Ivushkina Linguistic peculiarities of characterforeigner in English fiction; T.N. Snitko Modeling of an action in nominalyzing
processes (logical arguments and linguistic mechanisms);
T.N. Astafurova
Pragmalinguistic aspect of business communication; E.I. Sheigal Anthroponymsslang words in the linguistic world image; etc).
Language and emotions: Collected scientific works. /Volgograd State Pedagogic
University. - Volgograd: Peremena, 1995. - 252p.
(V.I. Shakhovsky About emotions' linguistics; B. Volek Typology of emotive signs;
V.I. Zhelvis Several emotiogenic peculiarities of invective communication; R.S.
Sakieva About issues on emotional resources in German grammar; G. Eitchison
Linguistic representation of love, anger and fear: chains, nets or containers?; S.G.
Vorkachev Semantization of love concept in Russian and Spanish lexicography
(comparative analysis); M.A. Yagubova Assessments and emotions in spoken
language; E.I. Sheigal Linguistic-creative personality and innovation processes in
English slang; V.I. Karasik Paradox as emotional text; N.S. Bolotnova About issues
on pragmatics of fiction: communication universal words compared with P. Graise's
maxima of quantity; V.A. Maslova Some ontological aspects of text's emotivity; Z.E.
Fomina Words-khronofacts in the language of political texts; I.V. Bydina Poetic text
as an emotive kind of text; O.P.Vorobyova Emotivity of fiction and readers'
reflection; etc).
Linguistic personality: cultural concepts: Collected scientific works /Volgograd
State Pedagogic University, PMPU. - Volgograd - Arkhangelsk: Peremena, 1996. 260p.
(V.I. Karasik Cultural dominants in language; S.G. Vorkachev Ethnosemantics of
paremia: comparative analysis of metaforizated indicators of indifference in Russian
and Spanish; E.V. Babaeva Lexical meaning as a way of expression of culturallinguistic concept; O.G. Prokhvacheva "Private" space in the linguistic world image
(on basis of Russian and English phraseology); N.A. Krasavsky, I.M. Kirnosov An
image of a woman in German fund of proverbs and sayings; G.G. Slyshkin Honor
concept in American and Russian cultures (on material of explanatory dictionaries);
S.M. Voronina Theme of competition: English-Russian assessment parallels; E.A.
Kurchenkova Ethnic-cultural values in newspapers' advertisements; V.I. Shakhovsky
Emotional cultural concepts: parallels and contrasts; A.A. Khudyakov Concept and
meaning; V.P. Moskvin Classification of Russian metaphors; V.V. Dementiev
Deductive and inductive studies of fatic communication; T.N. Snitko Predicates of
comprehension in Japanese; D.N. Medrish Ethnic-cultural associations in titles'
poetics; E.I. Sheigal Computer slang as linguistic-cultural phenomenon; O.A.
Leontovich An issue of comprehension in cross-cultural communication; etc).
Linguistic personality: semantic and pragmatic issues: Collected scientific works.
Volgograd: RPO, 1997. - 182p.
(V.I.Shakhovsky Linguistic personality in linguistics of emotions; N.A. Krasavsky
Gradual characteristics of emotional nominations in German; L.I. Wilms Essays on
interpretation of emotions in love proverbs (on Russian and German stuff); F.P.
Sergeev Usage of the word ideology in Russian; R.I. Kudryashova About modern
processes in Russian dialects; U.V. Fedosov Relations of integrality and differentiality
in the lexical-semantic system of the Russian language;E.V. Bobyreva Cluturological
aspect of replicas in dialogues; S.V. Ionova Elements of textual emotivity's matter (on
fiction material); E.A. Popova About publicistic style; V.I. Karasik The language of
the post-writing era; E.S. Buneeva About culturology unit; I.V. Tomasheva Emotive
lacuna: linguistic aspect; etc).
Linguistic personality: verbal behaviour: Collected scientific works. Volgograd:
RPO, 1998. - 212p.
(V.I. Karasik, V.I. Shakhovsky About estimated presuppositions; N.A. Krasavsky The
ways of semantic explications of emotions' nominants in Russian explanatory
dictionaries; Y.A. Pokrovskaya Conceptualization of anger in English and Russian;
N.N. Panchenko National and specific interpretation of the words "deception" in
paremiological aspect; V.V. Leontiev The English linguistic personality: verbalization
of intentions of complement and praise subjects; S.V. Ionova Emotive background and
emotive tonality as elements of a text's contents; V.P. Moskvin Types of dissonance in
Russian (experience of classification); M.P. Zheltukhina Differentiation of comic
kinds in the structure of lexical connotation; V.A. Buryakovskaya Usage of ethnonim
in ethnically prejudiced discourse; E.V. Kozlov Verificational synsemantic relation in
a comic strip; O.V. Koroteeva Social and communication characteristics of members
of a pedagogic discourse; E.V. Mikhailova Categories of text and some aspects of
studying the system of text categories; G.G. Slyshkin Etiquette, motivation and
provocation strategies of usage of the concept "honor" in discourse; etc).
Linguistic personality: social-linguistic and emotive aspects: Collected scientific
works. /Volgograd State Pedagogic University, Saratov State University. - Volgograd
- Saratov: Peremena, 1998. - 234p.
(O.B. Sirotina Social-linguistic factor in formation of a linguistic personality; K.F.
Sedov Communication strategies of discursive behaviour and formation of a linguistic
personality; M.A. Kormilitsyna About relevant differences in the speech of native
speakers from different cultures; M.A. Yagubova An appraisal of men's and women's
speech; E.I. Sheigal Political scandal as a narrative; M.P.Zheltukhina Realization of
the comic in discursive strategies of a struggle for the power; V.I. Shakhovsky
Emotions-thoughts in fiction communication as a stylistic method; L.V. Balasheva
Metaphor and world language image in diachrony (by the example of division "space
- time" in Russian; O.A. Dmitrieva The change of an evaluative concept sign; O.A.
Leontovich The influence of Indian culture on formation of an American variant of
British English; V.P. Moskvin The ways of euphemistic encoding in modern Russian;
V.I. Karasik About discourse categories; G.G. Slyshkin An appeal to the precedent
texts in a discourse; O.V. Koroteeva The issue of definition in pedagogic discourse;
O.S. Syshikov Communication competention and business discourse; etc).
Linguistic personality: aspects of linguistics and linguistic didactics: Collected
scientific works. /Volgograd State Pedagogic University. Volgograd: Peremena, 1999.
- 196p.
(V.I. Karasik Characteristics of pedagogic discourse; G.G. Slyshkin Text
conceptosphere and its units; E.V. Mikhailova Intertextuality: aspects of issue
studying; O.V. Koroteeva The riddle as a kind of training definition in a situation of
live communication; L.A. Kochetova Valuable characteristics of promotional
discourse; E.V. Tryapitsyna About faithfulness of a fictional text; O.A. Leontovich
Paradoxes of cross-cultural communication; V.A. Buryakovskaya The valuable
component of ethnonim's meaning; O.V. Tolochko "Education" frame through irony
prism; M.A. Tulnova The ways of introduction of social-cultural connotations into
modern dictionaries; V.K. Andreeva, L.V. Kozuchenko The expression of dynamics of
the English nouns of "sensitive activity" in a text; I.A. Sidorov About functional
method to periphrasis; etc).
Linguistic personality: issues on linguistic culturology and functional semantics:
Collected scientific works. /Volgograd State Pedagogic University. Volgograd:
Peremena, 1999. - 272p.
(V.I. Karasik Religious discourse; O.V. Koroteeva Definition and difining within
pedagogic discourse; M.U. Kochkin Manipulation in political discourse; E.U. Ilyinova
Social-cultural area of the text and its dimension; E.V. Kozlov Literal text of a comic
strip; G.G. Slyshkin Concepts of precedent texts: classification according to degree of
indirect perception; T.A. Ivushkina The English aristocracy today: on basis of surveys
and interview; N.R. Surodina Ontology of poetic language; I.V. Permyakov The sense
of a lyrics; E.I. Sheigal The language and the power; E.V. Vershenya The evolution of
the language in culture context; O.A. Dmitrieva The kinds of moral in the texts of
proverbs and aphorisms; N.A. Krasavsky Semantic structure of emotions in German
and Russian; N.N. Panchenko Metaphor comprehension of lie and deception; V.V.
Zhura The ways of explication emotional dexis of a linguistic personality in threat
context; V.K. Andreeva, T.V. Maximova Language means of representation of basic
concepts in modern social area (on basis of the English language); etc).
Linguistic personality: the problems of creative semantics: on 70th anniversary of
professor Sentenberg: Collected scientific works /Volgograd State Pedagogic
University. - Volgograd:Peremena, 2000. - 215p.
(V.I. Karasik About creative semantics; V.K. Andreeva, L.V. Kozuchenko Semantics
of the verb and its voice characteristics; S.G. Vorkachev "Two fates" - two concepts of
happiness; V.I. Suprun Freqiental characteristics of Russian surname anthroponomy;
N.A. Krasavsky Emotional conceptosphere of the German language (etymological
analysis of basic emotions); O.A. Leontovich Time: comparative aspect (Russians and
Americans); O.V. Tolochko, G.G. Slyshkin The concept "A-student" and Russian
world image; O.G. Prokhvacheva Frame introduction of privacy concept in linguistic
culture of the USA; V.P. Moskvin Stylistically proved repeats and its classifications;
V.M. Savitsky Pseudo-informational statements (logic aspect); A.V. Karasik The
kinds of humor speech act; O.V. Koroteeva Study definition as a speech act; E.I.
Sheigal Euphemization in political discourse; I.V. Permyakov Symbolicalness of
lyrics; E.B. Ivanova Fiction video film as a text and its categories; E.N. Galichkina
About constitutive characteristics of a computer discourse; etc)
Linguistic personality: institutional and personal discourse: Collected scientific
works /Volgograd State Pedagogic University. - Volgograd: Peremena, 2000. - 228p.
(V.I. Karasik About types of discourse; V.V. Dementiev Indirect communication indirect ? - indirect influence (to the issue on systematic introduction of indirect
communication); G.G. Slyshkin Discourse and concept (about linguistic-cultural
approach to the studying of discourse); E.I. Sheigal Functional structure of a political
discourse; R. Vodak Critical analysis of a discourse: political rhetoric; V.N. Bazylev
Politic phrase and politic text; M.R. Zheltukhina Voluntative function of comic and
politic discourse; V.B. Kashkin Who should be taken to the railing? (to the issue on
authorship in political and advertising discourse); N.N. Troshina Cultural
ethnocentrism as an issue of an international business communication; O.S. Syshikov
Conventional implicity in business discourse; L.S. Beilinson Medical discourse; O.V.
Koroteeva Quasi- and pseudo-definitions in pedagogic discourse; E.V. Bobyreva
Dialogues in a science text: its nature and linguistic ways of realization; I.V.
Aleshyanova Publications a kind of informational discourse; L.A. Isaeva Indirectly
linguistic means of literary text's implied sense presentation; E.V. Kozlov Annotation
of paraliterature (its structure, strategies, narrative configurations); K.F. Pchelintseva
The features of vanguard composition of texts; G.I. Bogin Pop song in cultural and
culturological discourse; L.V. Sheglova, V.V. Sheglov Philosophic discourse and the
problem of the Russian metaphysic language; V.P. Belyanin Linguistic personality of
an author in date advertisements; O.A. Leontovich Computer discourse: linguistic
personality in virtual area; V.V. Leontiev Complement as a genre of personal
discourse; A.V. Zanadvorova The usage of communication within family: some
features of nominations).
CONFERENCES
"Cultural Conditionality of Linguistic Communication", Opole, Poland
KULTUROWE UWARUNKOWANIA KOMUNIKACJI JEZYKOWEJ
Organizers: The stylistic council of Linguistic Committee (Poland Science
Academy) together with The Institute of Slavonics (Brno University of Masarik) and
The Institute of Polish Philology (Opole University).
Dates for the conference: September 20-22, 2001
Themes: Besides the issues of cultural context in communication (fiction and nonfiction - everyday, science, religious etc), organizers anticipate the discussion of some
issues connected with modern status and interaction between poetics and stylistics
(including comparative poetics and stylistics).
Please address your applications to Professor Stanislaw Gaida up to April 15, 2001
Stanislaw.Gajda@uni.opole.pl
The program of the conference will be presented by the end of June 2001. The
publication of the materials from the conference in the international journal
"Stylistyka" (XI, 2001, Stylistyka a poetyka) is planned.
Unfortunately, the organizers are not able to reimburse the accommodation and
participation expenses for the members of the conference in Opole. Estimated cost of
a three-day stay (a night and dwelling) is about 100$.
"International Pedagogic Lexicography in Theory and Practice of Study in
Secondary School" (August 25-26, 2001)
Rostov State Pedagogic University - Linguistic Institute
Send your applications before April 1, 2001
The deadline for submitting papers is May 1, 2001
You may get more details about the conference on the official website of Rostov State
Pedagogic University
http://rspu.edu.ru/conference/conf2.htm
This information furnished by Victoria Igorevna Tuzlukova.
Email: tuzlukov@jeo.ru
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