The process of digitalization of higher professional education actualizes the need for theoretical understanding and justification of the established and sustainable pedagogical phenomenon of interaction between participants in the educational process in the new conditions. The State standard of higher education requires a modern graduate to have a high level of competence in foreign language communication. Therefore, improving the quality and efficiency of the educational process is currently an important part of the educational process at the university. Pedagogical interaction, as a structural component of the educational system, which allows increasing the level of students` knowledge of a foreign language, is becoming an object of growing scientific interest. The purpose of the article is to reveal the level of students` motivation for the interaction with teachers in foreign language lessons at the university, considering work in a digital educational environment. Methods of studying, generalizing, analyzing pedagogical literature and pedagogical experience were used in the study as well as the method of questionnaire survey. As a result of the study, empirical data on the students` motivation to interact with teachers in the digital educational environment of the university were obtained; the concept, the essence, the structure and specifics of the interaction between teachers and students in the process of teaching a foreign language were clarified. The materials of the article can be useful for undergraduates, graduate students, researchers in the field of pedagogy. 

It is generally known that the importance of the formation of foreign language academic literacy is the most significant component of successful academic communication of a future specialist’s research activities. The IELTS essay is one of the most effective ways to practise foreign language academic literacy. The article explores lexical and grammatical features in academic essays among Russian bilinguals. The purpose of the article is to give practical recommendations to the students in order to avoid and minimize lexical and grammatical errors. The authors have done the research of the linguistic peculiarities of this genre. The article investigates scientists’ views concerning the same issue. The object of the research is English written academic discourse of native speakers, and the subject of the paper is the grammatical and lexical structures of academic essays. The research is also based on an objective analysis: two native English IELTS examiners were invited as experts. They identified lexical and grammatical errors and corrected them. The results showed that the most common mistakes were mistakes in complex grammar constructions (tenses, word order, etc.), cases of redundancy, incorrect use of connecting elements of discourse, violations of stylistic norms, irrelevant sentence variety, incorrect use of vocabulary, improper collocations. The authors have come to a conclusion that systemizing such data enables English language teachers to develop an effective methodology that can be used to overcome most lexical and grammatical mistakes. 

The present article deals with a discourse analysis of the book “March of the Lonely” by S. Dovlatov. Compositionally consisting of 66 text parts – “editor's columns”, is carried out in order to identify the discursive heterogeneity, or interdiscursivity, of the artistic text field, realized through the “dialogue” of artistic and journalistic discourses. The research interest is focused on the identification and systematization of content and style markers perceived as author's “hints” that contribute to a more accurate “identification” different types of discourse (journalistic and artistic) in a single artistic whole by the addressee. In the course of the study, the following markers of journalistic discourse were found: the nature of the addressee, citation and autocitation, ideological interpretation of the events presented, explicitly expressed S. Dovlatov’s position. The author's originality in the book under study is ensured by the free switching of the narrative from the institutionality of journalism, that is, the realization of the writer's intention aimed at the ideological interpretation of the event, to fiction and imagery, explicating irony, comic effect. As a result of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that S. Dovlatov’s artistic method can be qualified as a discursive heterogeneity, which allows whimsically switching the ways of narration with the help of content and stylistic markers of journalistic and artistic discourses.  

The article examines how the idea of death as “departure”, being typical for the Russian medieval mentality, was transformed in Russian literature of the second half of the XX – beginning of the XXI century. It allows us to identify changes in modern public consciousness. The article reveals that the idea of death as “departure” is characteristic of the Old Russian literature, and, in particular, of the hagiographic tradition based on the ideas of Orthodoxy. Continued in the literature of the XIX century, this tradition gained newfound relevance in the middle of the XX century in the works of authors who survived the Second World War, in particular, Y. Kazakov, in whose mind there is a struggle of opposing ideas about death. A meaningful acceptance of death is distinctive for the authors representing so-called “village” prose of the second half of the XX century. The strengthening of naturalistic and postmodern trends in the literature of the late XX century deprives the image of death of the aura of sacredness. However, along with this, there is a return to the hagiographic tradition, for example, in the prose of M. Paley, in which death as “departure” appears as a measure of the moral assessment of characters again. The article can be useful in the theoretical aspect for further development of methods of interdisciplinary analysis of essential phenomena of human existence. 

In the article, a new structure of feeling, called by its creators metamodernism, is applied to the analysis of novel “Love” by Elif Shafak. An important stage of our research was the consideration of Melvina’s ideas through their reflection in modern literature. Since the majority of modern researchers explore Safak’s work within the framework of postmodernism, the scientific interpretation of the novel is limited by the conceptual apparatus of postmodernism. Therefore, the adaptation of the medieval poet’s ideas is defined as the “exploitation” of the heritage of Eastern culture in order to popularize the novel. The “new aesthetics” of the metamodern, in our opinion, can form a new understanding of the novel in the light of its perception in society. The information field created around the text of the novel after its release indicates a highly positive perception by the public not only as a world bestseller, but also as a text referring to Eastern mysticism, Sufi heritage and instructive history. This study is aimed at re-evaluating the Sufi positions in the novel from a new perspective, and identifying the possible positive effects of such a narrative on society. The article proves that Elif Shafak uses selected Sufi positions and “metamodernization”, legendarization, of existing historical figures to create a “new myth” in the metamodern plane. In addition, we conducted an analysis of hypertextual space of the novel.

The theme of migrants in Europe in general and in Germany in particular has been relevant in the past few years more than ever. A large number of migrant authors in different generations put this problem at the forefront of their creativity. However, it is somewhat of a taboo theme among EU native authors. It is interesting that even if they address the topic of migration, they consider it not from the point of view of migrants themselves, but the attitude of Europeans towards them. For example, Maxi Obexer creates her documentary play Illegal Helpers with the help of interviews with Austrians, Swiss and German who help refugees. The characters help because of various motives, while breaking the law. It turns out that helping illegal migrants is important not in itself, but as a kind of protest against the state. In addition, the theme of Nazism is crucial. They draw a parallel with the past of Europe, when many Europeans had to hide from the authorities.

The article discusses the features of the dish names with toponyms in Chinese, Japanese, English, and Italian. The relevance of the presented work lies in that the study of food culture in different countries plays an important role in intercultural communication. The aim of the work is to establish the types of such names and analyze their linguistic features, identify the cognitive mechanism of thinking and highlight the commonality in the form of expressing the dish names with toponyms between the above-mentioned languages. The names of dishes with toponyms in Chinese, Japanese, English and Italian are used as the research material. This study uses descriptive, comparative, deductive and inductive methods. In Chinese the names of dishes with toponyms, indicating the origin of the kitchen raw materials or the method of cooking are common. The factors influencing the formation of such names are divided into intralinguistic and extralinguistic. Extralinguistic factors include the structure of encyclopedic knowledge and people’s subjective attention. Intralinguistic factor includes the special tendency of bilingualization for the Chinese language. The cognitive process of the formation of these dish names includes the conceptualization and formulation of important semantic elements. We agree with the views of Cornelia Gerhardt and her co-authors, that the construction of food names with toponyms N₁N₂ (toponym+main kitchen ingredient/main kitchen ingredient+toponym) is common in the languages of the world. But in Chinese there are also other patterns for naming dishes: N₁N₂N₃, N₁VN₂, N₁AN₂, N₁A₁A₂N₂, N₁N₂VN₃, N₁VAN₂ and et al. It can be seen that, there is a common ground between the ways of thinking and knowledge structures of different nationalities, and on the other hand, it shows the difference between them. Chinese dishes are famous for the variety of cooking methods and the unique taste combinations. 

The article is devoted to the study of the semantic field “Alimento” in the thesaurus of the Spanish language and the reflection of national culture in pragmatics, the constituent units of this semantic field. The specificity of this field is determined by the significant role that the corresponding denotative area plays in the life of the Spaniards: the biological and civilizational components are inseparably linked in it - they largely form the way of life of the people, which acquires a unique ethical and aesthetic content in national cultures. The vocabulary of this semantic field is characterized by specific patterns of constant-semantic organization, pragmatic mechanisms that contribute to the enrichment of the linguistic picture of the world, the development of areas of human experience, and the building of the symbolic foundations of ethnocultural semiotics. A comprehensive analysis of the pragmatic properties of the studied semantic units of the Spanish language allows us to apply the information obtained to the tasks of improving the methodology for translating texts that contain vocabulary related to nutrition as a special area of human experience and culture. As the study showed, the lexical units of the field “Alimento” are actively involved as a component of phraseological units (PU) of the Spanish language and are often anthropocentric.

The purpose of this article is to study the gender specificity of the selfpresentation strategy of modern politicians in the UK, identified during the election campaign of Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss from June to September 2022.The material of the study was the texts of political debates published on the Internet.The relevance of the research is determined by the insufficient study of the politician's self-presentation strategy gender aspect in the texts of preelection debates. After analyzing the debate materials, it can be stated that Liz Truss's speech is distinguished by assertiveness and moderate emotionality, expressed through such communicative means as the usage of the first person singular personal pronoun, demonstrative pronoun, anaphora and metaphor. In 75% of the considering cases, the personal pronoun of the first person singular is dominated, in 12% Liz Truss uses the demonstrative pronoun, in 6% – the metaphor and in 6% the politician uses the anaphora.In addition, the candidate for prime minister demonstrates his own competence in matters of domestic politics and economics, actively using the terminological apparatus, which contributes to a successful self-presentation. In turn, Rishi Sunak's speech is characterized by confidence, particularity, reasoning, focusing the attention of the electorate on his best qualities, represented by the use of the first person singular pronoun, the active use of verbs in the future tense, as well as stylistic means such as metaphor. As a result of the analysis, it was found that in 55% of the examples the candidate for prime minister uses the personal pronoun of the first person singular, in 33% verbs in the future tense dominate, and in 11% – metaphor. The study showed that the gender characteristics of the two politicians at the verbal level do not have significant differences. Both policies generally use the same set of language features. 

The authors analyze the coverage of the results of the parliamentary elections in Italy in 2022 in reputable mass media in Great Britain, Germany, and Italy. The aim of the authors was to study the attitude of journalists in different countries towards the results of the elections. The journalist’s position on the covered event should be impartial. Nevertheless, the authors of articles on the results of the elections often use emotionally coloured evaluative vocabulary, grammatical constructions (for example, Konjunktiv, absolute superlative degree) and stylistic devices (metaphors, epithets, allusions) in order to represent it to the disadvantage of the party that won. The texts of the articles are marked by implicitly and quite often explicitly expressed aggressive tonality. The authors widely use quotations and refer to authoritative opinions, label people and facts and create threatening emotional images to make readers' mistrust the new government. In order to obtain their goal, namely to create an extremely negative image of Giorgia Meloni and the representatives of her party, the authors of the articles also select facts very carefully and use specific techniques to present information. The results of the research can be used to study newspaper texts and linguistics of discourse.

The article presents the results of an experimental study on the interpretations of the colour red in British and American linguocultures, which was carried out on the material of the rock discourse of these linguocultures and consisted of three stages: preparatory; experimental; final. The goal was to establish whether the psychophysical, linguocultural and lexicographic data about this color in the British and American linguocultures, identified at the preparatory stage, correspond to the actual perception and interpretation of the red color by speakers of English as a second language. According to the results of the first block of the experimental stage (open question), the respondents' answers were divided into two groups – associative definitions and metaphorical associations. Most of them correspond to the data of the preparatory stage. In the second part of this stage, all of the three interpretations of red (“energy”, “revolution / radicalism”, “danger”), identified at the preparatory stage, were successfully established by the respondents when analyzing the proposed covers of British and American rock discourse. For each of the six studied rock covers, it was possible to establish additional interpretations of red. In the third part of the experimental stage (closed question), all interpretations of the color red, determined at the preparatory stage with the help of psychophysical, linguocultural and lexicographic data, were somehow chosen by the respondents, which confirmed their relevance in relation to the studied linguocultures.

Political linguistics is a relatively new branch of philological science in Russia. It is actively and productively developing at present, enriching the humanities and social sciences with its achievements. The results of research in thefield of political linguistics are in demand not only in philology but also in such areas of knowledge as political science and sociology. The article considers the question of communicative strategy of discrediting in modern German political discourse. The research material is presented by articles published in the well–known German newspapers and magazines: “Focus”, “Handelsblatt”, “Tageszeitung”. These articles are devoted to the assessment of events in Ukraine in March – May 2022. The author establishes that one of the main communicative strategies in the speech genre of "article" in the German media discussing the problem of relations with Russia is a strategy of discrediting. This fact is explained by the sender’s communicative intention to inflict maximum damage to the reputation of his opponent – the Russian Federation, to turn public opinion against its leadership, to justify modern foreign policy of Germany. The linguistic analysis of mass media’s texts shows the evaluative attitude of journalists, experts, state and political figures of Germany to the events in Ukraine, value orientations of the Western civilization’s representatives, as well as means of linguistic manipulation of the readers' minds used by them. The strategy of discrediting in the German media is implemented through a number of communicative tactics. The most commonly used are tactics of accusations, insult and highlighting the negative information. The reader is offered a justification for their active use by experts, journalists, German politicians and statesmen. The author of the article reveals main lexical-stylistic and syntacticstylistic means that are used to convey communicative strategy of discrediting in speech. 

This article offers the author's interpretation of the use of specific complex grammatical constructions of the Turkish language, usually causing significant difficulties in studying them with Russian-speaking students. We are talking about participles -dığı / -acağı (adjectiveverbs – “sıfat-fiiller”) and truncated infinitives -ması (noun-verbs / verbal nouns – “isim-fiiller”). 

The purposes of the study undertaken are to compare the interpretations of Turkish and Russian linguists; on the basis of morphological, morphemic, semantic and syntactic methods of analysis, to find out the origin and essence of adjective-verbs -dığı / -acağı and truncated infinitive ması in Turkish; correctly describe them in close terms of Russian grammar; find out the logic of use in Turkish and of translation into Russian.

As a result, it managed to find out that -dığı / -acağı / -ması structures undoubtedly have a high degree of specificity and unusual for Russian-speakers both in terms of the correct understanding of their essence and morphological correspondence and practical application. However, it turned out to be possible to find for them in the Russian language semantically and morphologically close parts of speech and syntactic constructions. Also to describe the main logic of their use as detailed members of the proposal (subject, predicate, definition, object, aderbial modifier) and to formulate proposals for Russian Turkologists by changes in approaches to teaching these topics.