Olga Voronicheva

The article analyzes the experience of speech competence development among students of the Bryansk branch of the All-Russian Institute for Advanced Training of the RF Ministry of Internal Affairs Personnel in the course of the discipline "Russian language in business documentation. Culture of speech”. The ways and means of mastering the correct speech are determined; the specificity of basic abstracts methods use and activation of thinking (discussion) for the acquirement of appropriate knowledge, skills and increasing motivation to master the expressive means of language is revealed. Within the framework of the considered problem, the author offers arguments justifying the need to support the language component in the retraining of the police officers.

There is a little-studied but the widely used type of the Russian literature – the type of the sponger in the center of the research. By the example of the character of Foma Fomich Opiskin is discovered a symbolic importance of the system of his spatial and temporal characteristics testifying to the personage hard localization in the context of the social chronotopic. The author analyzes the peculiarity and importance of showing the spatial and temporal details of reality. The character of Opiskin is reviewed against a background of the other spongers of the literature of the middle and the second half of the XIX-th century.