Keyword: «linguocultural aspect of language ego»

The article deals with the problem of language ego, which is being actively developed in modern language education. This problem is a topical issue in connection with the fact that at present time of active intercultural communication and interaction between people there arises a problem of teaching a foreign language with a view to perform work and study activities within a designated period, and reaching concise and gaugeable level of well-formedness of skills, including extensive intercultural skills. It is necessary to build up such a methodological system which will allow both sides of the process of education to construct a language ego of the students at the level of linguocultural competence and make a reality of the linguocultural approach in education which is of primary importance at the present time. The theory of language ego makes it possible to build up such a system of methods. The goal of the article lies in the theoretical generalization of scientific works devoted to the subject of language ego and in the development of aspects of its study, the provision of a rationale for the potentiality and necessity of working out elements of a system of methods of developing a linguocultural aspect of language ego on the basis of allusive names. The leading methods of the study are the theory of language ego, thesaurus and conceptual view of the world and the communicative activity-oriented approach, widely used in contemporary Russian and foreign language education. The author of the article makes generalizations about the three-stage structure of a language personality, about the possibility of study of language ego aspects and peculiarities of the developing of a linguocultural aspect of a language personality. As a result of the study the author poses a question of the possibility of the elaboration of the system of methods of teaching linguocultural competence of language ego. On the basis of analytical generalization of the selected corpus of allusive names from the classical and modern English literature the author comes to the conclusion that it is possible to regard allusive names as presuppositions, that is the units of teaching and learning a foreign language at different levels of language ego. Academic value of the article lies in the fact that it contributes to the development of the language ego theory, practical relevance of the research consists in the possibility of using its results in the process of teaching English to senior high school students and at the faculties of foreign languages. The academic novelty of the paper lies in the fact that the author presents theoretical grounding of accentuating a linguocultural aspect of language ego and the possibility of building up a system of methods of its formation drawing on the corpus of allusive names selected from classical and modern English literature.