Keyword: «national mentality»

The paper is devoted to a problem of “translation” of the classical text on the language of cinema in different national traditions and in system of different national film schools. The author analyzes the screen versions of F.M. Dostoyevsky’s “White nights”, which poetics combines the realistic and sentimental beginnings. Special complexity is connected with removal of a dreamer’s image on the screen.

The article analyzes the processes of formation of economic ethics. The article analyzes the factors that shape business ethics in terms of socio-economic transformation. The peculiarities of religious consciousness of the Russian merchants and manufacturers of the Xxx century. The marked characteristic differences of the business ethics of Russian and Western European entrepreneurs. Business ethics is presented as a communicative phenomenon, formed by the national mentality and religion.

The problem of learning and acquiring good command of foreign languages by students of non-linguistic universities has many aspects of consideration and new approaches, but it has not been fully researched. One of these approaches is related to the national mentality of students. The relevance of this study lies in the fact that the relationship between mentality and language from a scientific point of view is investigated recently. Despite the available research works in this area, this issue has not yet been sufficiently studied. Hence it can be concluded that the mentality and learning foreign languages are interrelated and require further research. The aim of this work is to study the influence of national mentality on learning a foreign language by students of non-linguistic universities (on the example of the mentality of the Sakha people). Leading approaches to achieve the objectives of the study are: linguistic-cultural approach that will help to determine the influence of living national language, material and spiritual culture on language processes; process approach, determining the whole complex of continuously running mental processes in foreign language learning for simulation of the activity results; situational approach, identifying the opportunity to improve learning of a foreign language, taking into account the influence of the student’s national mentality. The study will result in determining the level of the national mentality influence on a foreign language learning. The national-specific features of the mentality of Yakut and English linguistic and cultural communities representatives will be revealed and the ways of their influence on the process of teaching a foreign language will be determined. The comparative analysis of Yakut and English national mentality features (national character, socionic types and concept spheres of Yakut and English languages) contributes to the development of a foreign language teaching model, taking into account the peculiarities of students’ mentality in order to overcome their difficulties in learning a foreign language. Our proposed approach to determining the influence of national mentality on foreign language learning by students of non-linguistic universities will provide an opportunity to develop a model of effective foreign language teaching, taking into account the peculiarities of the national mentality, namely the mentality of the Sakha people.

The author presents an analysis of first published multilingual diaries of the Slovak Tolstoy’s follower Albert Shkarvan from the late 19 – early 20 centuries according to the forming of the worldview of this outstanding personality. A. Shkarvan served as a link between Western European and Russian religious and philosophical thought. Shkarvan’s different interpretation of Tolstoy’s philosophy as well as the characterization of the mentality of the Russian and Slovak peoples are presented.

The article is devoted to the comparative analysis of the vocabulary denoting the terms of kinship in the Uzbe and Russian communication culture. The terms of kinship, the peculiarities of their functioning, allows us to identify national specifics, its role in the etiquette of treatment in Uzbek and Russian. Examples of their functioning in communication in the family and outside it are given.