No 11 (879) (2023)

The article looks into the problem of subdialect language assimilation, the author describes the current state of two Buryat language island subdialects in the context of a linguistic shift in the non-ethnic environments such as Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (PRC) and Russia. The peculiarities of linguistic and ethnic assimilation are revealed on the basis of two ethnoterritorial group dialects of Shenekhen and Nizhneudinsk Buryats, with the focus on linguistic changes in terms of phonological and lexical shift under the influence of Chinese and Russian.

The article deals with the phenomenon of stylistic interference not in the traditional sense of language contact, but within the framework of the theory-hypothesis of linguistic spectrum and the frequency-typological model. The English popular science articles on physics, their translations into Russian and originally Russian works of 2016-2017 were taken for analysis. It concludes that stylistic alignment in translation is necessary as it brings the translated text in line with the tradition of the target language.

The problem of studying interference is very important in the field of language contact. Understanding the essence of interference is necessary for a comprehensive study of language interaction. However, despite the importance of this phenomenon, there is no consensus among scholars as to what can be considered interference and how interference differs from other related concepts, in particular borrowing. In this paper, interference is understood as all kinds of changes (including borrowing) that occur in contacting languages in any direction in speech and in the language system.

The article is a completion of a series of articles within the framework of a comprehensive study of the problems of Spanish diplomatic discourse in the second half of the 18th century. The article deals with the compositional and stylistic specificity, functional, pragmatic and strategic aspects of the genre of the diplomatic report. The article has been written using the methods of stylistic, communicative-functional and statistical analysis. The results of the study may be of interest to specialists in the humanities and social sciences.

The article analyzes a translation of polycode text, the first part of Chu Homin’s webtoon “Along with the Gods”. The work is a subject of great interest for research since the author borrows elements of traditional religious culture, namely the Buddhist and shamanistic views on the afterlife. Focusing on the characteristic aspects of the original work and features of the target language, the paper examines linguistic and extralinguistic translation challenges according to functional-communicative approach and approximation of the translation.

The French language proves to be very adaptive to cognitive and communicative demands of today. It demonstrates the ability to combine different approaches to language change: it resists innovation in some cases and allows continuous updating in others. Language stabilization is provided by the French Academy’s policy, while language updating is realized within modern institutional types of discourse. The present article describes language updating on the material of French commercial advertising.

The article discusses features of the semantic transformation of the linguistic and cultural concept of “Christ” as part of the phraseological units of the modern Spanish language (the Pyrenean version). Starting from the semantic reconstruction of the biblical image of Christ, the authors analyze the destruction of the primary semantic structure of the concept, its linguistic and extralinguistic prerequisites.

In the process of intercultural communication, situations often arise when representatives of one culture incorrectly read culturally significant meanings from a layer of information perceived in specific discursive conditions. In the case of fiction, a translator can help avoid such an undesirable outcome. Using such type of metacommunicative activity as commentaries, he becomes an intermediary between the author and the reader and ensures successful implementation of the dialogue. The article discusses the structural and functional features of translator’s commentaries, as well as inappropriate examples of commenting on the basis of modern Korean literature translations.

The article is devoted to the semantics of Chinese direction motion verb 来 based on parameters identified by L. Talmy. According to the analysis of the motion event components interaction (Figure, Ground, Path, Motion) with speaker in the verb's semantics, its egocentric features were revealed. The material for the research is contexts from online Chinese corpora. The research methods include component and context analyses.

“The quarrel of ancients and moderns” which flared up at the turn of the 17th -18th centuries between the French “archaists and innovators”, is seen as a reaction of the intellectuals of the era of Louis XIV to their realization of the fact of the “foundless” of the man of the New Age. The search for ways to overcome “suspension” (Deleuze) divided the debaters into admirers of Antiquity and apologists for progress. The accumulation of pro et contra arguments spontaneously involved them in the ongoing discussion on the “problem of man” (Buber), which is the province of philosophical anthropology.

The article is devoted to the consideration of the problems of the correlation of culture and morality through the paradigm of the relationship between truth and lies. The author draws attention to the difficulties in the processes of generating lies and the need to preserve cultural traditions and codes of the triumph of truth. The phenomenon of the dialogue of moral opposites needs to search for an instrumental structure of the universality of intercultural communication in the history of culture and modern reality. Universal and individual stereotypes are formed into planetary processes based on education and upbringing in conditions of dynamic transformations using information capabilities.

The article is devoted to the consideration of the goals and vectors of China’s modern cultural policy (2018-2022). The author aims to analyze some features of China’s modern cultural policy: orientation of the policy, goals of foreign cultural policy, and its cultural dynamics. The author analyzes some project documents on the modern cultural policy of China, some of the documents are translated from Chinese for the first time.