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Vol 8, No 4 (2022)
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https://doi.org/10.32603/2412-8562-2022-8-4

PHILOSOPHY

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Introduction. The policy of European multiculturalism includes the obligatory study of two foreign languages from elementary school. In France, the hours devoted primarily to mathematics are constantly decreasing for this. But fewer and fewer children are able to cope with such a “lightweight” and “interesting” program, and for many years there has been a decline in the level of general education. The aim of the study is to find out the connection of this level with multilingualism, both objective and imposed on the school by political decisions. Methodology and sources. The study uses the methodology of philosophical anthropology and philosophy of culture, through which a philosophical reflection of the formation of personality is carried out. A philosophical understanding of the data of sociology, cultural anthropology, social psychology (on the example of France) on the problem of school education as one of the mechanisms for the transmission of culture in the context of multilingualism is proposed.

Results and discussion. Based on the data on the dynamics of the results of school education and academic studies of bilingualism and multilingualism, a hypothesis was formulated about the correlation of children's performance in school with their multilingualism and pedagogical support. It is shown that in France over the past hundred years as natural bilingualism (French and regional languages) was overcome, the level of general education increased. Its decline began and continues as a result of the reverse process – the spread of multilingualism since the 1990s as a result of the acceleration of immigration, but also European integration, within the framework of which a political decision was made on the compulsory study of two foreign languages in all schools. In the absence of the necessary pedagogical support, a growing number of children, especially from low-income families, cannot withstand this psychological, intellectual and cognitive pressure. Conclusion. Political activity in education in France is carried out in weak cooperation with science. Despite the fact that even among specialists in multilingualism there are opposite opinions on various aspects of personality development in childhood and adolescence. Further research is needed, as well as the study of potential and latent risks of the current educational policy.

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Introduction. The article attempts to identify the main trends in the development of modern works of Scottish prose. The main aim is to consistently identify linguistic means and mechanisms for implementing the characteristic features of metamodernism, comprehending changes in the authors’ views on the text as well as their choice of tools for interaction with recipients.Methodology and sources. The starting point for the methodology is the description by Robin van den Acker and Timotheus Vermeulen of the key vectors of modern literature development under the umbbrella of such a phenomenon as metamodernism, which reveals both its inevitable kinship with postmodernism and its own philosophical and aesthetic aspirations.Results and discussion. When compared with writing samples exemplifying innovations and traditions of other times and related cultures, the set of modern Scottish prose texts under analysis reveals trends towards the regular use of such techniques as intertextuality, rhizome as a structural model, rejection of traditional methods for constructing time and space, rethinking of the motives and plots from the cultural archives. The introduction of innovative storytelling styles provides opportunities for addressing acute social issues and previously tabooed topics.Conclusion. It is the texts of Scottish literature that seem to facilitate a vivid illustration of modern metamodernist, and in particular neorealist tendencies: the desire to turn to the past in order to deconstruct it, experiment with genre, create opportunities for free reading. However, the culture and traditions of Scotland invariably manifest themselves in the literary practices implemented by the prose writers. Thus, in Scottish prose, the general literary trends and the cultural specifics of the country are intertwined in a unique combination.
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Introduction. In modern life sciences, it is impossible to ignore the problems of viruses, bacteria, parasites and their impact on the ecosystems. But the interface is a human ecosystem of the digital age and a new formation of life, which means that it also needs to be understood from subdiscursive elements, such as digital analogues of viruses, bacteria, and parasites.

Methodology and sources. Methodologically, the work is based on a philosophical analysis of the challenges and precedents of the digital field, examples of research literature, the methods of media philosophy, anarchist epistemology, and philosophical epidemiology are applied (M. Foucault, K. Kukso).

Results and discussion. The article shows that the epistemological understanding of the interface should be supplemented with an epidemiological understanding, otherwise the principles and forms of life translated into numbers will elude theory.

The interface is thought of as a condition of possibilities: discursive, instrumental, demonstrative. The interface is seen as an epistemological configuration (from the Greek ῐ̔ѧστημῐ, i.e. not just “possessing knowledge”, but “possessing”, – to establish, appoint) – as a form of power, i.e. as a series of forced measures, reacting to something not completely determined, spontaneous, but imperceptibly limiting and transforming the will, the very logic of the act, or the pragmatics of the action.

Conclusion. To understand the interface, it is necessary to shift attention from various plugins, drivers, interactive mechanics that determine epistemological possibilities to microprocesses that build the interface as a user experience based on epidemiological restrictions.

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Introduction. The modern digital reality imposes its own requirements to the modern paradigm of knowledge acquisition, which with necessity objectivizes the role and importance of social-humanitarian and educational components of the educational process, including through teaching digital etiquette – behavioral culture in practices, networking. The article analyzes the specifics of educational strategies in relation to teaching digital etiquette within school and higher education.
Methodology and sources. The paper is based on the application of axiological, interdisciplinary, institutional and systemic approaches to the consideration of digital etiquette learning processes depending on the specifics of each subsystem of the educational process, in particular school and higher education. The research is based on the materials of domestic and foreign sources, scientific publications and websites. In particular, papers of such specialists as D. Stillman, Jo. Stillman, P. Doherty, V. Shi, O. Lukinova, R.I. Mamina and many others are analyzed.
Results and discussion. Based on the presented in this article analysis of the specific educational strategies of such institutional structures as school and WSB, the specificity of digital etiquette learning in relation to each of these subsystems of the educational process is analyzed, the main trends of digital etiquette as a digital humanistic knowledge are determined. The main trends include: active attempts to introduce digital etiquette into the educational process, as well as the emergence of new strategies for teaching digital etiquette to generation Z, as the main subject of learning in the modern educational environment within school and higher education.
Conclusion. The new realities actualize the role and importance of behavioral culture in the digital space of modern society; first, it concerns the representatives of the young generation – generation Z, which has defined personal freedom as the main value in the practices of their existence. In this regard, the role and importance of the educational component of the modern educational process, an important component of which is the teaching of digital etiquette in the framework of school and HS-education, is increasing. In this case we are talking about different educational strategies in school and HS. In general, regardless of the specifics of educational subsystems and their strategies, teaching digital etiquette is the teaching of digital humanities knowledge, which is a unity of educational and educational, which with necessity reflects the challenges of the new era.

SOCIOLOGY

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Introduction. The sociological content of the concept of social atmosphere remains unclear, it is constantly refined and supplemented. An attempt is made to consider the social atmosphere as a set of strata of social interaction mediated to varying degrees by material, non-material and psychological (psychosomatic) factors.Methodology and sources. The conceptual theoretical and methodological positions of the study are represented by a set of ideas of M. Weber, A. Lefebvre, L. Althusser, A.V. Petrovsky,

A.I. Dontsov, as well as the provisions and conclusions of interdisciplinary studies of the relationship between social processes and psychosomatics, in particular, expressed in the works of R.G. Khalitova, V.V. Vasina and others. The social atmosphere is considered as a set of strata of interactions that develop between subjects under the influence of a wide variety of factors. The authors used official statistics and secondary data for a thirty-year period of turbulent socio-economic transformations from 1990 to 2020.

Results and discussion. It has been empirically confirmed that the overall mortality rate depends on the political and socio-economic events in the country. The extreme points of the take-off of mortality rates have been identified, which are the psychological reaction of people to significant socio-political events (the breakdown of the social system, a coup d'état, default). After 2000, the income of the population began to grow, but mortality did not decrease to the level of 1990. Throughout the analyzed period, the incidence rates of socially significant diseases also remain high.Conclusion. The analysis of statistical materials indicates the importance of non-material, mental-emotional determinants of public health and life expectancy, which are associated with the social atmosphere.
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Introduction. The article considers the modern Russian Cossacks as a complex social object in the trinity of interpersonal, intragroup and intrapersonal communications. The ethno markers of the Cossacks that influence the perception of “friend or foe” are determined; the problem of the concept of the network capital of the Cossacks is formulated.Methodology and sources. The section formulates the construction of network capital from the point of view of structuring social relations in the network approach, and from the point of view of the culture of interactive communication in the network space. The main approaches to the definition and measurement of network capital are shown, its specificity for the social group of Cossack youth is revealed. The network model of the Cossacks and Cossack youth is described as a whole and its part. The role of state-forming values in the Cossack environment is shown. The largest network Cossack youth organizations from different regions of Russia are presented.Results and discussion. The article describes the methodology for researching network capital, organized at the All-Russian Gathering of Cossack Youth in the fall of 2021 in the city of Krasnoyarsk. On the basis of four groups of values of the Cossack youth, namely social, personal, values of the Cossacks and values of the direct contact environment, a network analysis of positive and negative relationships, as well as relationships in subgroups of values, is carried out. As a comparative analysis, the results of measuring the network capital of students of the IT faculty of the evening department are used, which show a clear professional orientation and belonging to a generalized supranational community of IT specialists and a low team-building potential. The authors conclude that the construction of “network capital” is more often used in an empirical sense to obtain information about the mechanisms of access to resources or some kind of influence through network relations.Conclusion. In general, the theory of “network capital” is in the process of its formation and requires further scientific understanding. In the ongoing process of institutionalization of the Cossacks, contradictions often arise between the traditions and values of modern society, which the Cossack youth seeks to resolve in a compromise way. It is concluded that the network capital of the Cossack youth is in the stage of its active accumulation and continuous transformations.
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Introduction. This article examines the possibilities and limitations of applying the concept of civil science on the example of constructing a map of the location of the infrastructure to meet the national and religious needs of Dagestan youth living in St Petersburg.
Methodology and sources. In addition to the conceptual developments of foreign researchers of civil science (C.B. Cooper, J. Dickinson, T. Phillips, R. Bonney, K. Purdam, L. Richardson, K.L. Prudic, J.C. Oliver, B.V. Brown, E.C. Long, etc.), the article contains review of domestic publications (E.V. Bryzgalina, F. Arevalo Leon, A.G. Gazoyan, E.G. Grebenshchikova, V.N. Zheleznyak, E.V. Seryodkina, etc.). It is concluded that the review of domestic publications demonstrates the analytics of predominantly foreign research projects of civil science, while the most recent works are aimed at understanding the experience of Russian projects, including the difficulties of applying civil science in Russia. It also compiled an extensive overview of the directions of civil science projects in modern scientific research. Results and discussion. Data collection took place through the social network VKontakte based on a large Dagestan group focused on fellow landsmen living in St Petersburg. The result of the study is the compilation of a map of food outlets and the sale of halal products in St Petersburg, based on the opinion of Dagestan youth, the map includes 87 objects. Based on the benefits of the study, the acquired benefit for science, society and civil scientists is considered. In general, the attempt to create this map with the involvement of citizen science has allowed us to test the resources provided by citizen science for research purposes, thereby we have identified the advantages and disadvantages of the use of citizen science in sociology, contributing to the popularization of the use of citizen science in practical studies.
Conclusion. It is concluded that engaging citizen science is an effective way to explore urban spaces, since it tends to operate on a large scale, relying on spatially dispersed participants, but at the same time it has serious limitations, therefore, its application requires preliminary research. Since the main limitation of its application is the interest of civil scientists in the research itself.

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Introduction. The aim of the study was to assess the share of teaching staff with various work experience in teaching positions in higher education institutions in the total number of teachers in higher education organizations in each of the regions of Russia. The scientific novelty is connected with the analysis of spatial aspects of the formation of teaching teams of higher education organizations, taking into account the teaching experience of employees. The relevance of the problem under consideration is due to the need to reduce the existing imbalances in the personnel of universities and attract young specialists to teaching.

Methodology and sources. During the study the author used official statistical information on the work experience of university teachers in 82 regions of Russia in 2020. The author's methodological approach was based on the use of normal distribution density functions as mathematical models. In the course of the work, there were determined the indicators characterizing the share of teachers belonging to five groups by experience of pedagogical work.

Results and discussion. The results of the study showed that approximately every fourteenth teacher had less than five years of teaching experience, every ninth teacher worked on such positions from five to ten years, every seventh teacher worked on such positions from ten to fifteen years, every fifth teacher worked on such positions from fifteen to twenty years. It is proved that the number of teachers with work experience up to twenty years was 52% and it is slightly more than the number of teachers with work experience of twenty years or more. The analysis showed the presence of a certain differentiation of the indicator values under consideration by region.

Conclusion. The proposed methodological approach and the results obtained are characterized have originality and scientific novelty. They can be used by federal and regional authorities in the development of measures for the formation of teaching staff in higher education organizations.

LINGUISTICS

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Introduction. The study analyzes the systemological adequacy of the cognitive approach to language and on this basis suggests a method of cognitive-systemological interpretation of linguistic facts. The cognitive approach is in a good agreement with the functional nature of the object of linguistics. At the same time the theoretical and methodological guidelines of cognitive linguistics allow us to reveal more deeply and holistically the ontological properties of language as a system phenomenon.Methodology and sources. The research tasks involve assessing the role and novelty of cognitive linguistics in description language as a system, in substantiating the significance of interpreting thought-language interaction in the context of certain parameters of the system nature of language and, as a consequence, in developing a possible method of such interpretation. The paper used the axiomatic-deductive method, as well as the descriptive method with its techniques of observation, generalization, systematization and interpretation. In addition, at the stage of presenting the method, we resorted to the modeling its procedure. The research material consists of the methodological principles of cognitive linguistics, philosophical dialectics and general theory of systems presented in domestic and foreign sources.Results and discussion. The analysis of the methodology and subject area of linguocognitology suggests that cognitive models of language have the great explanatory power and completeness in terms of representing this phenomenon as a naturally developing complex and large open-type system. In this sense, linguocognitology appears as a logical continuation of the development of a system approach in linguistics at a new level. The work proposes a structural and logical organization of the method of cognitive- systemological interpretation in the form of a number of procedures.Conclusion. As a result of the conducted searches, the author comes to the conclusion about the practicability of cognitive-systemological interpretation of multilevel phenomena of semantic space, which is due, on the one hand, to the close links of natural language with the cognitive environment and, on the other hand, its system-wide nature. The systemological aspect of the consideration on the cognitive essence of language corresponds both to the ontology of the object itself and to the value orientations of the philosophy of science and the modern paradigm of linguistics. The research aspect, emphasizing the cognitive causality of system parameters or the systemological status of linguistic facts, underlies the identification of two versions of this method.
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Introduction. The study attempts to reveal the role of the dialect as a linguo-cultural phenomenon through the prism of its semantics. The lack of studies on dialects from the linguo-cultural point of view – modern cultural linguistics is mostly focused on standard languages and national cultural codes – determines the novelty and relevance of this issue. Methodology and sources. The research content consists of more than 100 Bavarian and Swabian dialect words which reflect culture specifics of each region, selected from the 20th- 21st centuries fiction, regional media materials and local advertising by using the systematic sampling method. To identify the regional culture specifics, the study provides a two-level method, based on the analysis of lexicographic sources and results of the interview and questionnaire of 66 respondents. The updated range of denotative and connotative meanings of each lexeme is considered within 10 thematic groups.Results and discussion. It has been found out that the researched dialects clearly reflect the South German regional tradition and history which can be traced in the semantics of the dialect words. Despite the globalization, a partly similar historical development of the two regions, as well as the belonging of the Bavarian and Swabian dialects to the same dialect continuum, the analysis of the dialect semantic structures within thematic groups revealed some similarities and differences which lead to conclusions regarding the specifics of the South German linguo-cultural code.Conclusion. It has been concluded that the further study on linguistic variety from the interdisciplinary point of view, including cultural linguistics and pragmatics, allows to better understand the role of dialect in modern communication.
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Introduction. The article presents the findings of a study on establishing the sound symbolic status of individual phonemes and phonesthemes in the designations of “noisy and greedy consumption of food and drinks”, carried out on the material of the Russian dialect language at the junction of iconicity and dialectology and is a continuation of the joint work of the authors on the research of the sound symbolic role of certain phonemes in designation of the concepts of “biting, gnawing”, “chomping, smacking” and “sucking in” in the three corresponding lexical-semantic groups of the English dialect lexemes.Methodology and sources. The material for this work is the corpus of lexemes denoting swallowing, obtained by continuous sampling from the Dictionary of Russian Folk Dialects, ed. by F.P. Filin. The research was carried out using phonosemantic analysis.Results and discussion. The study clearly demonstrated that the lexicon of the Russian dialects, similar to the dialect vocabulary of the English language, contains quite an impressive number of iconic words and contains sets of lexemes that, having similar or virtually identical semantics, differ from each other by only one or two phonemes. The analysis of the corpus of the material allowed the authors to conclude that in cases with iconic vocabulary we do not actually deal with two (or more) different words, but with the same word, that can be described in terms of sound symbolic hyperlexems.Conclusion. The dialect lexicon of the Russian language, like the dialect lexicon of the English language, possessing such a distinctive feature as expressiveness, gives us a particularly rich and interesting sound-symbolic material that can be studied within the framework of dialect phonosemantics since it contains numerous and diverse groups of sound-symbolic words and can contribute to the theory of iconicity.
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Introduction. The paper presents a synchronous snapshot in the development of the vocabulary of the German language during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study examines the sources and composition of neologisms, reveals specific features of current derivational processes and analyses the functional features of linguistic metaphor in the process of reflection on a new reality.

Methodology and sources. The research is based on the theory of neology, cognitive word- formation and the theory of conceptual metaphor. The sources for the linguistic material collection are the online dictionary of pandemic neologisms, created at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, IDS), news and journalistic texts in the German mass media placed in the Internet.

Results and discussion. The semantic content of neologisms and loanwords, and their functioning have been identified. The analysis of the word-formation categorization of the pandemic reality showed the productivity of traditional word-formation models and frequent use of the terminological elements “Corona”, “Covid” in the process of formation of vocabulary in common use. The authors argue that newly appeared words are features of the German language.

Conclusion. The article concludes that appearance of new and metaphorically rethought vocabulary is a way to adapt to the new reality and express an emotional attitude to it, as well as a way to overcome the fear of getting infected.

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Introduction. The article considers the problem of modelling of the frame HEALTHY LIFESTYLE applying the methods of corpus linguistics. The scientific novelty of the study is determined by the fact that up to now no attempts have been made to identify the frame structure of the HEALTHY LIFESTYLE concept. The relevance of the study is conditioned by its focus on describing the national specifics of the concept in American culture, as well as implementing the collocation analysis to obtain verified conclusions about the frame structure.Methodology and sources. The research is carried out in line with the methodology of frame modelling of concepts based on the analysis of their discursive representations. In order to identify the frame structure of the concept in focus the collocation method was applied. The approach consists in analyzing the frequency of joint occurrence of linguistic units. The study is drawn on the collocations obtained from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA).Results and discussions. A hierarchical model of the frame HEALTHY LIFESTYLE is presented, the following main slots (subframes) of the frame structure were identified: “healthy/unhealthy eating”, “physical activity”, “healthy/unhealthy habits”, “healthy lifestyle promotion”, “keeping healthy lifestyle”, “healthy/unhealthy relationships”. As a result of the analysis of the collocations representing the slots of the frame HEALTHY LIFESTYLE in COCA, the subordinate subframes were modelled.Conclusion. It was found that each slot (subframe) of the frame in focus has a complex structure including terminal and non-terminal slots. The structure of terminal slots at any of the hierarchical levels of the frame can be represented as a radial model, where each of the subordinate terminal slots is to varying degrees removed from the centre. Conclusions about the degree of remoteness of the frame slots from the centre of the radial model can be made based on the frequency of collocations representing a particular slot. The prospects of this study include further detailed consideration of subordinate frame slots and clarification of the hierarchical model of the frame HEALTHY LIFESTYLE.


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