Ekaterina A. Glebova’s research while affiliated with Volgograd State Technical University and other places

Against the background of the serious geopolitical changes in the country and in the world, vocational education, especially the aspects related to a foreign language training of students, is undergoing a significant transformation. The very clearly manifested tendency to reduce the classroom-based activities of communication with students remains the prevailing factor, which forces methodologists to focus their attention on finding some new effective tools to compensate for the number of hours that are obviously insufficient for the development of communication skills in a foreign language. The authors believe that the indicated problem can be solved in the widespread use of the method compression by involving the patterning method in the study process. The purpose of the study is to investigate the potential of the patterning method as a means of method compression implementing in the professionally oriented foreign language training of students at non-linguistic universities. The authors are convinced that despite the widespread use of the patterning method in the practice of teaching foreign languages, it has not received worthy theoretical consideration in the domestic linguistic and didactic field, especially within the framework of university foreign language education, which predetermined the relevance of the study. In the article, the authors consider in detail the patterning method and its use technology in a professionally oriented environment at non-linguistic universities when implementing a foreign language training of students. The results of a pedagogical experiment on the introduction of the method under study into the process of education are also presented. The article suggests a possible block of the patterns when studying the topic «My University». In the conclusion part, the authors identify the components of the patterning method that affect the effectiveness of mastering course content and contribute to the level increase of a foreign language communicative competence among students at non-linguistic universities.

The article describes the results of the pedagogical experiment organized and conducted on the basis of the principles and main statements of the concept of cognitive-systematizing development of foreign language communicative competence. It is shown that pedagogical process based on the gradual development of cognitive strategies and communication is built on the integration of a wide range of methods, allowing for individual psychotypologic characteristics of students. It was found that under the conditions of monitoring of the foreign language proficiency level it provides a more efficient development of educational material and major improvements in the level of foreign language communication effective competence of students studying at non-linguistic University.

The article is devoted to the analysis of little-studied specific in functioning of irony in the speech of English social elite. The aim of the study is to conduct sociolinguistic analysis of Julian Fellowes’s TV series script "Downton Abbey" to identify the language markers of irony, used by English aristocrats in the early XXth century, describe tactics and types of speech acts attached to irony, its impact on communicants. The main methods used in the study include sociolinguistic analysis of character's speech by means of sociolinguistic categories. Analysis of the contexts, where irony is used, allowed us to come to conclusion that the information plan of the ironic statement is expressed implicitly, includes methods of labeling, devaluation of interlocutor’s merits, humiliation, and mockery by means of hyperbolic metaphor, ironic pejorative, allusion and antithesis. The data, obtained in the process of research, can be used in the course of intercultural communication, stylistics, translation and semiotics.

The relevance of the given research can be explained by the fact that concepts of colour represent significant information about the hierarchy of values within the linguistic community and contribute to the notion «colour picture of the world». It is reasonable to conduct a research of colour from the perspective of cultural linguistics, in particular, of its branch, linguistic conceptology. The article provides a linguo-cultural analysis of the colour conceptual sphere, represented by phraseological units with colour attribute and colour words in the english, french and russian languages. The objectives of the research are to carry out a comparative analysis of phraseological units with colour attribute and colour words in the english, french and russian languages and reveal their universality, difference and their unique character in the linguistic cultures under consideration. The main methods of the research are comparative and interpretation analyses as well as etymological and quantitative methods. The main sources for the research are phraseological units with colour attribute and words denoting colour collected from english, french and russian phraseology dictionaries using the continuous sampling method. The research has led to the following conclusions: man perceives the world around through colours, because colour accompanies almost all manifestations of human life; every language culture is characterized by its own ethnic-priority and ethnic-relevant colours; colour acts as an expression of universality, difference and uniqueness in the perception of the outside world. The theoretical significance of the study lies in the development of linguistic and cultural conceptology with regard to the conceps of colour.

The article under analysis studies the modern youth subculture in the time of rapid development of Internet technologies and granted opportunities for communication and pastime among young people. The objective of the article is to study characteristics of the modern youth subculture undergone the transformation influenced by internetization processes. To achieve the purpose, the following points were determined: 1) characterize the modern youth subculture existing on the basis of the Internet application “Instagram”; 2) analyze the results of the survey aimed at bringing to light a great popularity of the Instagram community among students and aimed at specifying the impact of the given application on participants; 3) find out the peculiarities of the modern subculture at the modern-day stage of the society development. The main methods of the study are the interpretation analysis of Russian and foreign scientific works and internet materials on the problems of modern youth subculture and its influence on the youth; the questionnaire method and the method of quantitative analysis. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the characteristics of the modern youth subculture in the time of the society internetization are specified and its possible impact on a personality development and youth behaviour is demonstrated. The practical implication of the study results is in their possibilities to be used as topical information about the modern youth subculture in the time of the digital society by psychologists, any teaching staff and social care teachers in their scientific research and teaching-educational work with representatives of the young.

The article is devoted to the analysis of little-studied specific in functioning of irony in the speech of English social elite. The aim of the study is to conduct sociolinguistic analysis of Julian Fellowes’s TV series script “Downton Abbey” to identify the language markers of irony, used by English aristocrats in the early XXth century, describe tactics and types of speech acts attached to irony, its impact on communicants. The main methods used in the study include sociolinguistic analysis of character’s speech by means of sociolinguistic categories. Results. Analysis of the contexts, where irony is used, allowed us to come to conclusion that the information plan of the ironic statement is expressed implicitly, includes methods of labeling, devaluation of interlocutor’s merits, humiliation, and mockery by means of hyperbolic metaphor, ironic pejorative, allusion and antithesis. Practical implications. The data, obtained in the process of research, can be used in the course of intercultural communication, stylistics, translation and semiotics.

Stress in the Russian language is traditionally considered to be primarily quantitative. The role of other acoustic parameters, intensity in particular, involved in producing the prominence effect, has not been sufficiently covered. Thus, the use of temporal and dynamic parameters of emphatic stress is of special interest. Duration and intensity in words with neutral and emphatic stress are analyzed. The speech material for analysis comprises the word 'Stas' embedded in the carrier phrase 'Stas ne byl tihoney' ('Stas was not quiet') with the target word occupying initial, medial and final positions in the phrase; in each position the word was pronounced with neutral and emphatic stress. Praat software was used to extract the duration and average intensity of the sound [a] in the word 'Stas'. The Student paired t-test was used to note the significance of difference between neutrally and emphatically stressed vowels. The analysis has shown an increase in vowel duration in emphatically stressed words. A general trend is observed to temporally mark the vowel in the phrase initial and phrase final positions. The emphatically stressed vowels were pronounced with higher intensity. This is achieved through an increase of either absolute or relative intensity values. The degree of both duration and intensity increase varies among the speakers. Due to a high correlation between the duration and energy curves of vowels, it does not seem expedient to describe stress with the energy parameter.