Concepts «vozduh» and «air» in Russian and English Literature. System of concept methodology tasks in adjectives study. Linguistic-Cultural Approach. Oksana Legostaeva. Senior Lecturer. Department of Foreign Languages

Concepts «vozduh» and «air» in Russian and English Literature. System of concept methodology tasks in adjectives study. Linguistic-Cultural Approach. 2.adj. with low temperature sem. 4.adj. with lightness sem. air 1.adj. with high temperature sem. 3.adj. with weight sem. 5.adj. with smell sem. 6.adj. with freshness sem. 7.adj. with humidity sem. 8.adj. with density sem. Lexical-semantic Field Semantic groupAdjectives with high temperature semantics warm, hot, sultry, balmy with low temperature semantics cold, cool, chilly, chill, frosty, freezing, icy, arctic with heaviness semantics close, stuffy, stifling, thick with light semanticsthin with smell semanticsbalmy, fragrant, stale, musty with freshness semantics cool, fresh, crisp, bracing, mild, pure, polluted with humidity semantics humid, damp, sticky, dank, muggy, moist with smell semanticscompressed, rarefied 2

Concepts «vozduh» and «air» in Russian and English Literature. System of concept methodology tasks in adjectives study. Linguistic-Cultural Approach. 2.пр. с сем. низких температур 4. пр. с сем. лёгкости vozduh 1. пр. с сем. высоких температур 3. пр. с сем. тяжести 5. пр. с сем. запаха. 6. пр. с сем. свежести. 7. пр. с сем. влажности 8. пр. с сем. плотности. Lexical-semantic Field Semantic groupAdjectives с семантикой высоких температур тёплый, горячий, знойный, жаркий, ароматный с семантикой низких температур холодный, прохладный, свежий, освежающий, морозный, ледяной, леденящий, арктический с семантикой тяжести тяжёлый, душный, спёртый с семантикой лёгкости прозрачный, чистый, лёгкий с семантикой запахаароматный, душистый, благоухающий, затхлый, гнилой с семантикой свежести живительный, бодрящий, свежий, освежающий, прохладный, чистый, загрязнённый с семантикой влажности мокрый, сырой, влажный с семантикой плотности сжатый, разряжённый 3

Concepts «vozduh» and «air» in Russian and English Literature. System of concept methodology tasks in adjectives study. Linguistic-Cultural Approach. Quotations: Зимний воздух 4 В слегка морозном воздухе пахло весной… А.П. Чехов. «Хитрец» Winter air Sometimes in winter the air scorched the throats of the people, coming in from the freshness. Mr. Winterbottom was rather small and fat, and very bald. D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers

Concepts «vozduh» and «air» in Russian and English Literature. System of concept methodology tasks in adjectives study. Linguistic-Cultural Approach. Quotations: Весенний воздух 5 В комнатах душно, а в саду лёгкий воздух, майский, сирень скоро распустится, - на воздухе-то приятно чайку попить. И. С. Шмелёв. «Лето Господне» The sweetness of the air and the greenness of the leaves daunted him. Already on the walk from the station the May sunshine had made him feel dirty and etiolated, a creature of indoors, with the sooty dust of London in the pores of his skin. George Orwell Spring air

Concepts «vozduh» and «air» in Russian and English Literature. System of concept methodology tasks in adjectives study. Linguistic-Cultural Approach. Quotations: Летний воздух 6 Her voice floated upward with the sweet summer air, very tuneful, charged with a sort of happy melancholy. George Orwell Нам хорошо. Пока еще в постели Все старшие, и воздух летний свеж, Бежим к себе. Деревья нам качели. Беги, танцуй, сражайся, палки режь!.. М.И. Цветаева Summer air

Concepts «vozduh» and «air» in Russian and English Literature. System of concept methodology tasks in adjectives study. Linguistic-Cultural Approach. Quotations: Осенний воздух 7 And I began to dream of unpacking my clothes in a little white room, and getting into a kimono and lying on a white bed, watching the curtains float out from the windows in the delicious autumn air that smelled of apples and honey…until the door opened and a tall, thin woman in a lilac pinafore came in, smiling in a vague fashion. K. Mansfield. Pension Seguin Целый день сырой осенний воздух Я вдыхал в смятенье и тоске. Я хочу поужинать, и звезды Золотые в темном кошельке! О. Мандельштам. «Золотой» Autumn air

Concepts «vozduh» and «air» in Russian and English Literature. System of concept methodology tasks in adjectives study. Linguistic-Cultural Approach. Extra examples from English literature 8 Extra examples from Russian literature Except for a slight feeling of sickness and her consciousness in the child, herself melted out like scent into the shine, pale air. D.H. Lawrence. Sons and Lovers The air was motionless, but you open your mouth there was just a faint chill. K. Mansfield. Miss Brill … в мягком воздухе разлит осенний запах, подобный запаху вина, тонкий туман стоит вдали над жёлтыми полями … И.С. Тургенев. «Записки охотника» Ясный день, осенние листья, холодный воздух …покрепче в дорожную шинель, шапку на уши, тесней и уютней прижмёшься к уму … Н.В. Гоголь «Мёртвые души»

Concepts «vozduh» and «air» in Russian and English Literature. System of concept methodology tasks in adjectives study. Linguistic-Cultural Approach. Linguistic Research. English Air. Conclusions: 9 Linguistic Research. Russian Air. Conclusions: English air is wetter. Seme humidity is included into the core body of the concept air and for its nomination 6 adjectives are used: humid, moist, damp, dank, muggy, sticky. They have negative connotations. On the basis of negative connotations of these synonymous adjectives there are different signs: cold, closeness, heat, warmth, bad smell and absence of wind. Russian air is lighter. Seme light is included into the core body of the concept vozduh and for its nomination 3 adjectives are used: лёгкий, прозрачный, чистый. Difference of these concepts is not exactly in linguistic factors but in unsimilar schemes of reality perception or in other words in schemes of reconstruction of world pictures. Nonidentity of scopes of concept meanings vozduh and air in Russian and English is mainly displayed on semes humidity and light

Concepts «vozduh» and «air» in Russian and English Literature. System of concept methodology tasks in adjectives study. Linguistic-Cultural Approach. System of tasks of the concept methodology in adjectives study 10 Tasks Tasks with Culturological Component Logical- grammatical Creative LG tasks are aimed at students teaching to differentiate adjective as a part of speech considering its semantics (skill to single out one-rooted words of different parts of speech: studying typical adjective suffixes). Creative tasks are aimed at students development of creative mentality and figurativeness of speech. Tasks with CC are aimed at students teaching to find and single out dominant and minor properties of adjectives in Russian and English consciousness.

Concepts «vozduh» and «air» in Russian and English Literature. System of concept methodology tasks in adjectives study. Linguistic-Cultural Approach. Structure of the 1st group 11 Logical- grammatic al On lexical collocation On understanding level of linguistic theory On comparison and differentiation of studying phenomenon On identification of studying phenomenon in the text On generalization and classification of studying phenomenon

Concepts «vozduh» and «air» in Russian and English Literature. System of concept methodology tasks in adjectives study. Linguistic-Cultural Approac h. Structure of the 2d group 12 Creative On text construction On matching ones own examples of studying phenomenon On sentence construction

Concepts «vozduh» and «air» in Russian and English Literature. System of concept methodology tasks in adjectives study. Linguistic-Cultural Approach. Structure of the 3d group 13 On association On knowledge connotat ion Tasks with Culturological Component

Concepts «vozduh» and «air» in Russian and English Literature. System of concept methodology tasks in adjectives study. Linguistic-Cultural Approach. System of Concept Methodology Tasks. Conclusions: 14 System of tasks stimulates development of linguistic and cognitive the 1 st year students abilities of non-philological specialties in the following directions: a)Development of students perception of different parts of speech, training of differentiation skill of the lexical and grammatical meanings. b)More competent use of linguistic terminology in speech. c)Perfection of connected monologue statement construction skill on the linguistic topic. d)Perfection of connected dialogue statement construction skill on the linguistic topic. e)Enrichment of active students vocabulary with adjectives of different semantic groups. f)Perfection of mental operations: abstraction, classification and differentiation, etc. g)Development of conceptual aspect of Russian and English consciousness. System of tasks also influences perfection of extra-linguistic knowledge, background realias, connotations which are constituents of culturological world picture; it also affects students recognition of differential and prototypical properties of adjectives in Russian and English linguistic world pictures and also exerts influence on accumulation of linguistic experience of a linguistic personality which is necessary for understanding and speaking.

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