Stereotypes are an essential part of everyone’s perceptions and judgments in modern culture. A stereotype is a component of the linguistic image of the world, an element of the linguistic and cultural code. The purpose of this article is to present and discuss the linguistic determinants of the stereotypical image of men and women in modern Russian society. The research material was taken from media messages and various texts from the Russian-language Internet. The method of linguistic analysis used made it possible to isolate 62 stereotypes, which were described in structural and semantic terms. The beliefs about women and men discussed in the article confirm the existence of a stereotypical way of knowing the world in the Russian community.
Knowledge of foreign languages plays an important role in the competence structure of a university graduate. Equipping students and graduates with effective communicative competences is the basis for the development of social cooperation skills which allow them to understand and interpret cultural, social, economic and political phenomena and processes. The article is an attempt to discuss the place of spelling and punctuation in the process of teaching and learning communication in a foreign language. The placement of these issues accounts for their importance in the process of teaching and learning Russian as well as confirming the need for their presence in the teaching process from the very beginning. The research material consists of syllabuses of the course Practical Russian Language Teaching implemented in the first year of undergraduate studies in Russian philology. The subject of the analysis will be spelling and punctuation issues as elements of integrated Russian language teaching in higher education.
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