Language learning provides vast opportunities for formation and development of multicultural personality since language is a source and method of learning culture. However, sometimes this process may be hindered by lack of crosses between cultural awareness and negative pragmatic transfer resulting in culture shock. Cross-linguistic influence makes learners transfer their pragmatic and sociocultural knowledge from their native language into a target language without differentiating them. From this point of view, the speech act of request presents one of the areas that due to cultural and linguistic specifics of the Russian language might with great possibility be affected by negative pragmatic transfer on the part of Englishspeaking RFL learners. This paper contains results of research aimed at answering the question whether negative pragmatic transfer influences the production of Russian requests by English-speaking students and, if not, what other factors may hinder this process. The findings show that negative pragmatic transfer is an important but not the sole factor jeopardizing students' production of Russian requests. What is much more important is students' insufficient knowledge of means to express requests in the Russian language, which are vital in terms of pragmatics, i.e. linguistic means that affect politeness of requests in a positive or negative way, as well as a range of standard constructions for requesting in communicative situations with different sociolinguistic variables. Thus, developing pragmatic competence in this sphere can be a key factor facilitating cross-cultural awareness and formation of multicultural personality through language learning.
Analyzed is the protest activity of women. The authors conducted a study among girls at leading universities of Yaroslavl. It was found that the growth of protest mood among the female part of student youth is associated not with an increase in feminist sentiments in society, but with a drop in the level and quality of life over the past 5-6 years. Protest activity among girls (women) is less intense, than among boys. In addition, girls are more likely, than boys to show sympathy for the protesters. It was also revealed, that girls more regularly take part in permitted meetings, demonstrations, pickets than boys. Girls tend to mobilize political participation to a greater extent than young men. It has been established that those who are not satisfied with the government's policies are usually from families with low or unstable incomes. The part of female students, who are from wealthy families and are unsatisfied with the policy of the state noted, that the main motive for participating in unauthorized actions is the desire to obtain more political rights. In addition, it was found, that the higher the level of education of the parents, the higher the political activity of students. The study allows to conclude that the growth of political activity among girls will increase every year and this must be taken into account, when implementing youth policy.
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