Abstract-This article is aimed at investigation of the principle of "understanding" within linguistic reflection. Understanding is connected with interpretation of the context and knowledge of the interpreter, which is socially determined. Expediency of the discourse approach to studying the principle of text "understanding" is set and peculiarities of understanding in different types of discourse are shown. It is established that the cognition refers to psychic phenomenon and represents a method of social and humanitarian understanding and an integral component of social life, practical skill connected with social life. Understanding discourse is based on two constituent partstext's properties and specifics of linguistic personality. Understanding is also viewed from the point of view of its fullness (complete understanding and incomplete understanding). In the article, factors determining the possibility and effectiveness of speech influence are revealed: linguistic and extralinguistic (semiotic, social, cognitive, psychological) factors.
The article deals with the characteristics of religious discourse and peculiarities of religious consciousness; it is noted that religion and religious consciousness influence many constituents of culture and as a result of such influence religious philosophy, religious morality, religious art arise. Religious principle forms the basis of any culture. Main features and levels of religious consciousness realization are considered in the article. A large number of lexical units having religious origin and functioning in the language are evidence of the impact of religion on the culture formation. The impact of religion on the formation of culture is also manifested in common features of the normative base of a particular religion and culture in which it functions and the basis of which it forms.
The article is devoted to the investigation of religious values development and transformation at the modern stage of society's development. The functioning of values is the influence of the latter on human activity, human behavior, on social life and on the development of culture. Religious values are the most fundamental part of any culture and society and don't change quickly. The change of values is a long process which is determined by social factors and culture of society. Values of Christianity, Islam and Buddhism show different degrees of transformation. Values of Islam turn out to be the most stable in comparison to other religions.
Questions of globalization process which influence various aspects of human life are considered in the article. Destruction of cultures and cultural values act as a result of this process. Destruction of family values is an important problem in the modern world. Religion presents a restraining mechanism of such destruction. Islam turned out to be the strongest in the ability to confront new tendencies which allowed to preserve and strengthen the family institute in Muslim countries. Christianity couldn't totally avoid the process of destruction of family values (in spite of some recent attempts to improve traditional institute of the family). Buddhism does not pay particular attention to the institute of the family and corrects ethical and moral behavior of a person through other religious mechanisms.
Any type of discourse, along with its characteristic concepts, operates with its own values. The basis of religious discourse form universal values providing moral guidelines that represent a standard for people of different cultures and eras, which are associated with the ideals of justice and are timeless. Among the universal are cultural, social and moral values. The bulk of religious values form cultural ones in any modern society. Religious beliefs form inner culture of a person. Some religious values can be referred as social and include: meaningful (meaning of life, happiness), universal (life, health), values of interpersonal communication (benevolence), values of public recognition (hard work), democratic values (freedom of speech). In modern society among religious, social and moral (mercy, compassion) values can be distinguished. Religious values can be found within each subgroup of universal human values. The article interprets phenomenon of suffering in modern society, which is an integral component of any world religion and forms the category of value in Christianity. The analysis of suffering in the article was carried out along with the analysis of religious discourse - a special type of institutional communication that combines features of institutional-oriented and personal-oriented phenomenon. The article shows reasons for the occurrence and existence of suffering in any modern society, as well as approaches that exist in various religious systems (Christianity, Islam and Buddhism) to interpreting suffering, attitude to it, need and possibility to overcome it as well as linguistic means to express phenomenon of suffering in world religions.
The article is devoted to the peculiarities of communication in modern society. The following spheres of a religious discourse functioning are defined: communication in church, communication in small religious groups, communication of the person with God. Besides, each religion has its system of values. The system of values of each religion is not a stable phenomenon and can change with the change of society. Communication in a multi-religious society has some peculiarities. In order to overcome difficulties during communication in multi-religious space of modern society, it is important to know and consider the values of people professing this religion.
The article considers the problems that arose in the situation when the world’s system of education has been forced to transfer into distance learning mode because of the pandemic. For the first time mankind had got an experience when it became necessary to abandon traditional training. In such situation, it was possible to continue providing education both in schools and in the universities due to the advantages that “digitalization” of education carries, though a number of shortcomings that both teachers and students faced were also revealed. Empirical experiment allowed to find out that distance education has significant shortcomings which affect both quality of knowledge and physical and mental health of people as well as socio-cultural adaptation and socialization of foreign students. Abandonment of traditional education in favor of distant one carries significant losses in the quality of education and, as a result, decreases the ability to create a harmonious and comprehensively developed personality. Authors of the article come to the conclusion that distance education should be used as an additional form of education in comparison to basic one (traditional), that is, it can provide positive results only in the complex (traditional plus distance).
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