Keyword: «story»

The article outlines the features and scientific and methodological framework for the development of empathy in children of senior preschool age children in a multicultural society through author, folk and other tales.

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 is devoted to the analysis of the colour-naming words “silver” and “gold”. The author researches symbolic meanings of these colours in the early stories by American writer John Updike, as well as the peculiarities of silver and gold colours using for creating associative- subjective and objective images of the surrounding world. The means of each colour expression links, contexts of usage, as well as the role of colour motives in describing the appearance of heroes, objects and phenomena are studied. Moreover, their role for creating imagery of the actions, states, environment of narrative world in the writer's stories is also explored.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the linguistic features for creating retrospective and prospective images in the story «The solitaire» of American writer John Updike. The notion of polyreality is considered as a place in the fiction text where a combination of three temporary layers – the past, the present and the future – is actualized. The analysis of the story reveals the linguistic peculiarities of the presentation of events, facts, images, psychological condition that embraced the main character. The main focus is made on language with the help of which temporal shifts, segmentation of literary space and psycho-narration are formed.

The article reveals the peculiarities of texts content understanding by junior schoolchildren with hearing impairments. To assess this ability, a complex of three diagnostic tasks is proposed. The results of children examination are presented. It is reported that junior schoolchildren with hearing impairments distort the content of the texts read. Children focus on individual words, and not on the content of the story as a whole. Students do not define semantic links between parts of texts.