No 1(895) (2025)

The aim of the research is to establish the perception of melodic attunement in speech interaction and its acoustic correlation. The experimental corpus for the study includes conversations in British English obtained from podcasts. The results of auditory and acoustic analyses make it possible to identify perceptual features of melodic consonance in speech and establish their characteristics at the acoustic level. Coordinated interaction between interlocutors manifests itself in prosodic convergence and imitation of melodic and dynamic parameters of speech.

The article deals with the speech rhythm of a particular Canadian population category – Chinese Canadians, who make up the biggest foreign language speaking community in Canada. Interaction of stress-timed English and syllable-timed Chinese offers a wide and perspective field for research of speech rhythm, in particular, the localization of word stress. The article provides the results of the experiment, which dealt with the interviews with Chinese Canadians. The findings show that Chinese Canadians’ speech embraces the rhythmic tendency, that is more typical of the Anglophone population of Canada.

The purpose of the research is to outline the basic state-of-the-art information about the status of such a sociolinguistic variable as rhotacism in the diversity of Englishes. Both diachronic and synchronic analyses of the problem are provided. The topicality of the problem lies in the necessity of choosing the type of pronunciation in terms of “rhoticity-nonrhoticity” in teaching English. In the Inner-circle countries the degree of rhoticity depends on the history of the language development, on the speakers’ age, gender, socio-economic status. In the Outer circle countries it depends on the substrate language influence, the norm orientation of mass media and education, the government policy, on mixed marriages. It is important to note that rhoticity in Great Britain and in the United States develops in opposite directions. 

The paper presents the experimental data on non-modal (creaky) phonation viewed as a marker of social variation in English. The objective of the research is to analyse sociophonetic functions of creaky phonation and to collect data on the perceptual and acoustic features of this type of nonmodal phonation. The research is based on voice samples of young British and American female speakers (n=6). Methods used in the research are: perceptual, acoustic and comparative analyses. Fundamental frequency (F0), jitter, shimmer and harmonics-to-noise ratio data revealed creaky phonation correlates at the acoustic level. The results demonstrate the highest frequency of creaky phonation occurrence in American female speech.

The article deals with such a problem as the translating of Persian realias through two main translation strategies: domestication and foreignization. The purpose of this study is to determine the most frequently used strategy in translating Persian realities in fiction. The author gives examples of realias from Persian literature and the ways of translating them into Russian. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the comparison of the language picture of Russia and Iran. As a result of the study, the main strategy for translating Persian realities and the methods of translating them were determined.

The article reveals the specifics of the influence in the modern educational media discourse in different linguocultures. The research material includes media messages selected by continuous sampling, broadcast in Russian and foreign media as part of educational media communication. The goal of the article is to identify the main features of the influence in the modern educational media discourse. The goal is achieved by applying the following research methods: descriptive method, inductive-deductive method, lexical analysis, grammatical analysis, stylistic analysis, discourse analysis, content analysis, interpretive analysis, quantitative analysis. It has been established that in educational media communication such aspects of impact as value, evaluation, functionality, imitation and suggestiveness are updated.

The present study aims at analyzing the cross-linguistic influence of the rising tone realization in native and nonnative speech in the tone placement in the phrase and its pitch contour configuration. The comparative and speech acoustic analyses were employed. The material consists of the speech recordings provided by the Russian- and English-speaking respondents. The findings evidence the cross-linguistic influence of the rising tone realization. It is manifested in the converging phrase illocutionary force and the tonal meaning. The nonnative speech pitch contour has its own parameters rather than being an echo of the native contour.

The paper reports on the new results of corpora analysis of stress in polysyllabic words based on the speech of Australian and New Zealand residents. The aim of the study is twofold: to explore specific features of rhythm in either country and to compare actual realizations of word stress patterns with dictionaries’ data. Australian English demonstrates features of syllable-based rhythm due to the speakers’ habit of prolonging unstressed syllables; New Zealand rhythm is faster and accent-based. In reading most of the patterns in both countries are British-oriented; the presence of secondary stresses which were found in reading by perceptual acoustic method is not consistently reflected in the Australian dictionary.

The cycle of articles deals with the perception of the work of F. M. Dostoevsky in Sweden in the 1880s, when the Scandinavian countries became actively interested in Russian culture. In the second article, the method of quantitative analysis of Dostoevsky’s translations and the analysis of the “countercurrent” of so-called “crime literature” is chosen. The author pays particular attention to the reception of “Crime and Punishment”. The article mentions Swedish works of art written under the influence of F. M. Dostoevsky. As a result the reasons for the interest of the Swedes in F. M. Dostoevsky and aspects of his work that were relevant to the Swedish reader of the 1880s were found.

The article deals with hybridity of the Russian-speaking Nenets writer Anna Nerkagi’s texts. The purpose of the study is to identify the parameters of the author’s language hybridity applying the methods of computational / corpus linguistics. They incorporate semantic complexity of texts, folklore substrate of culture, cultural syncretism, and duality of perspective. The representation of parameters is carried out through the inclusion of foreign language vocabulary and the nomination of indigenous Nenets realia that form the ethnic dominant of Nenets culture semiotic space. Linguistic mechanisms of hybridization include reconceptualization / interference of linguistic items and creolization / deterritorialization of cultural codes of the text.

The article examines the category of “successful woman” based on the comparative material of modern Russian and Chinese linguistic cultures. The purpose of the study is to find out how the concept of “successfulness” is implemented in the Russian and Chinese linguistic cultures, in particular, such its fragment as “successful woman”. The material for writing the article was the work of domestic and foreign researchers in the field of axiology, sociology, social psychology, sociolinguistics, cultural studies and linguoculturology as well as the research of the author of the article. The article confirms the hypothesis that the characteristics of “successful woman” are not permanent and depend on the characteristics of the national cultural development of a particular ethnic group.