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THE ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT STATE OF GERMAN WITHIN THE MAIN CONTINUUM // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2010. Issue 7 (97). P. 51-54

The goal of the article is to analyze the status componentґs state of modern German within the main continuum. The descending status of German in its motherland is caused by the tendencies of Germanyґs Americanization and, as a result, by language democratization. This problem can be solved by a balanced model of German language policy.

Keywords: language state, state analysis, language policy, the social prestige of languages, vertical media, exoglossy

THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE CHOICE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TITLE LANGUAGE // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2011. Issue 3 (105). P. 162-165

The article deals with the phenomenon of language choise in the aspects of language culture and sociolinguistics upon the example of the exoglossic development character of literary German since 1950 due to assimilation to American English.

Keywords: language choise; prestige language; forced and reflected types of language choise; subjectivity of language election

STANDARD BRITISH-AMERICAN ENGLISH AS LANGUAGE OF THE MODERN GLOBALIZATION // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2011. Issue 9 (111). P. 20-23

The article considers the sociolinguistic status of Standard British-American English in view of its extralinguistic function in the cultural world space as well as intralinguistic conditions of its acquisition in different communicative areas.

Keywords: English language, intermediary language, global language, vertical medium, exoglossy

LINGUISTIC FRAMEWORK AND APPARATUS OF EXOGLOSSIC THEORY // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2011. Issue 9 (111). P. 24-27

The article substantiates the phenomenon of exoglossy in the aspects of social, contact linguistics as well as structure and function; the linguistic specialization of exoglossic theory is indicated regarding the enlargement of interpreting the nature of borrowings; levels and the apparatus of the presented theory are described.

Keywords: borrowings, language development, exoglossy, endoglossy, metaglossic parametrology.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: ORIGIN OF THE TERM AND WAYS OF ITS INTERPRETATION // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2014. Issue 10 (151). P. 46-50

The article gives an overview of origin and development of the term “political correctness”, based on both linguistic and historical aspects, for the period from the 18th century to present. Having analyzed the data from several studies, the author offers a few published definitions for consideration and development of the term within centuries. Different interpretations and perspectives on the subject are also presented herein. The issue of political correctness effect on the contemporary English language tendencies is investigated; moreover, introduction of specific corrections to the language code due to PC are analyzed, as well as impact of the political correctness phenomena on culture and social life.

Keywords: political correctness (PC), political literacy, linguistic tact, tolerance and feminism

TYPES OF TERMINOLOGICAL UNITS OF SCIENTIFIC STYLE IN LEXICAL-SEMANTIC FIELD ‘RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES’ OF AMERICAN VARIANT OF ENGLISH // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2015. Issue 4 (157). P. 17-20

The author considers the results of typological analysis of terminological units of scientific style of American variant of English in lexical-semantic field ‘renewable energy sources’ in the present article. Types of terminological units of scientific style in lexical-semantic field ‘renewable energy sources’ of American variant of English were defined. Among terminological units single component terminological units and multi-component terminological units, acronyms and acronymous compounds, nomenclature units, preterminological units, and occasionalisms were found in the texts of scientific style of American variant of English in the sphere of ‘renewable energy sources’. Linguistic characteristics of terminological units of scientific style in lexical-semantic field ‘renewable energy sources’ of American variant of English were given.

Keywords: terminological units, preterminological units, occasionalisms, acronyms, acronymous collocation, nomenclature units, renewable energy sources

THE QUESTION OF ETYMOLOGY OF LEXICAL UNIT “PARALYMPICS” IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2017. Issue 5 (182). P. 174-177

The article analyses etymology of the lexical unit “Paralympics” in the English language over a period of 1950–2017 years. The analyzed lexical unit initially meant sports competitions for athletes affected by paralysis but since 1950-s its meaning has undergone substantial changes due to the extended program of the Paralympic Games. Currently “Paralympics” does not only mean an athletic event for sportspeople with various disabilities, this lexical item is also used to designate the movement uniting able-bodied and disabled athletes, politicians, journalists, etc. It is directed at creating comfortable and friendly environment for people with impairments, helping them realize their potential, involving them in various not necessarily sports activities. The authors have identified new potential for using the productive prefix para- , which was originally a Greek preposition, to designate Paralympic events and disabled athletes, redefined the meaning of the prefix throughout the evolution of the designator (from the idea of an impairment to revealing impressive abilities of para-athletes sometimes exceeding those of able-bodied sportspeople), provided the data on distribution regulations of using the prefix in modern English language and forecast probable expansion of its intensional meaning conformable to expanding content level of the lexical unit “Paralympics” designator.

Keywords: lexical unit «Paralympics» in the English language, etymology, de-etymologisation, blending, prefixation, renaming, expansion of intensional meaning

ONOMASIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO ANALYZE CORPORA OF TOMSK REALIONIMS IN TRANSLATION PERSPECTIVE // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2017. Issue 10 (187). P. 132-135

The article reveals results of the onomasiological approach to analyze corpora of Tomsk realionims elaborated in Russian. This article covers issues of a great importance such as onomasiology as a study of designations where linguistics forms can stand for a given concept, idea, and object, theoretical components of an onomasiological approach to categorize required vocabulary segments. Moreover, the research also considers various realia classifications elaborated since 1950s that are crucial for modern linguistics and widely spread. The article anticipates detailed and careful examination of such classifications and criteria of their formation and elaboration to select the basic one. In accordance with the research, the most reliable classification has been selected and applied during systematization and categorization. In such a manner, an onomasiological approach and the one realia classification specified in the article became the basis to systemize realionims associated with Tomsk and Tomsk Region in compliance with corresponding classification groups. Furthermore, the article defines thematic content of realionims` corpora dedicated to Tomsk and Tomsk Region. Thus, the article reveals statistic data and quantitative parameters of lexical groups that have been selected by continuous sampling method, analyzed and systemized by means of an onomasiological approach and realia classification selected during research.

Keywords: onomasiological approach, Tomsk realionims, realionims corpora, thematic groups, classification of realionims, hard-to-translate endemic units, parallelization of corporas of different languages

SEGMENTATION OF GERMAN LITERARY LANGUAGE STOCK THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL APPROACH // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2019. Issue 4 (201). P. 66-76

Introduction. The practice of segmentation of vocabulary is traditionally based either on a certain (situational) set of criteria for this procedure, or on a larger methodological basis for example the apparatus of a separate linguistic discipline, which often defaults to lexicology as a science about the lexical structure of the language. Being limited to the object of observation, lexicology is hardly capable of independently solving the question posed for the entire linguistic science or, at least, for such a macroscopic discipline as stylistics that urgently needs a reliable criteria base, despite their various functional specialization: stylistics studies the expressive, whereas lexicology the nominative function of language. The aim of the paper is to propose segmentation of the vocabulary fund of the German literary language through the prism of the environmental approach. Material and methods. The implementation of the epistemological (rational-empirical) framework of the environmental approach, which far exceeds not only the limits of the science of language, but also humanitarian knowledge in general, is determined by the specifics of being and development of the language itself as an anthropological phenomenon (loquens), erroneously attributed by poststructuralists exclusively to man. The basis of the environmental approach is the thesis about the environmental origin of the human language and the impossibility of its existence outside the Herder environment. Language exists in the “nutrient solution” of culture and acts as a connecting element of the social interaction of all individuals inhabiting this artificial world. The environmental approach is a capacious epistemological platform that is used to account for the various functional varieties of the language that serve as the basis for its vocabulary segmentation. Results and discussion. The following criteria have been developed for more weighted and general linguistic segmentation of a vocabulary on the example of the German literary language: a) selectivity, b) naturalness, c) reproducibility, d) temporality, e) age. The lexical system of the German language is taken as a model not by chance: the hybrid nature of this language idiom and the high heterogeneity (hybridity) of its resources correlating with it are an advantageous dialectical field of observing the phenomenon of a lexical system functional stratification. The apparatus of the environmental approach is formed by extensive interdisciplinary data that have become commonplace clichés in scientific use and help to obtain interdisciplinary meaningful and objective segmentation of the German literary language vocabulary. The scientific novelty is determined by the implementation of a fundamentally new set of criteria for identifying the components of the vocabulary system of the specified language based on the enlarged epistemological basis of the analysis. Conclusion. The proposed segmentation is intended to expand the boundaries of the lexicology apparatus of the German language, the ideas about the heterogeneity of its lexical system and its evolutionary laws. The data obtained can be used as a material for theoretical courses in lexicology and stylistics when training specialists in the field of German linguistics at all educational levels.

Keywords: German literary language, vocabulary, segmentation, heterogeneity, strata, environmental approach

UNKNOWN OBVIOUS TRICHOTOMY: ROLE OF LOGIC IN GLOTTOGONY // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2019. Issue 7 (204). P. 115-129

Introduction. The oxymoron in the title of the paper expresses the evidence of the trichotomy proposed in the work and its obscurity to a wide range of poststructuralists who in one way or another touch upon questions of glottogenesis. The dominance in the world linguistics of the intracorporal vectors of language search from the middle of the past century led only to the mystification of this field of knowledge. However, the turn of research at the change of millennia towards extralinguistics is capable of dispelling the myth rooted in a wide audience about the intracorporal (cognitive, psychological, mental, etc.) origin of the language and leading the extralinguistic determinism of glottogony and language evolution processes to the first positions in linguistics. Nevertheless, contrary to the repeatedly verified data of interdisciplinary research, at present, one can still observe the confrontation of the sophistic tradition of idealism, defending the idea of intracorporal origin of the language, and the completely forgotten in linguistic circles theory of socially determined genesis of language, that had solitary status still in the middle of the last century. Post-structuralism, which has thoroughly entered into a “cognitive dead end”, has condemned itself to deserved criticism, to which a fair amount of this work is devoted. The aim of the paper is to propose a new trichotomy of structural systemic linguistics “language system – grammar – speech”. Material and methods. Structural-systemic and semiotic approaches form the epistemological framework of the study, during which the methods of logic (analysis, synthesis, comparison, etc.) were used, as well as the general scientific method of triangulation, that allows to single out a common third for two objects of observation. Results and discussion. The proposed trichotomy of the structural-system linguistics “language system – grammar – speech”, where grammar is understood as a set of rules, and speech – as a result of combinations of system elements, deepens understanding of the functioning of sign communication systems in the language community, as well as co-evolution of language and society. The language is designed so that the minimum of speech combinatorics can contribute to the assimilation of the rule, and the learned rule, in turn, is the key to mastering the maximum of the system itself. The rule, as an additional third and transitional link between the system and the function, acts simultaneously as an extra-linguistic binding of the virtual system of signs, invisible to a person, and the speaker. The sign nature of a language is understood through the semiotic conditionality of glottogony, in which logic plays a leading role not in the Aristotelian sense, but as a system of principles, laws, and operations for performing a certain activity — in this case, communicative. The participation of logic in the processes of speech-generation refutes the existing ideas about grammar as part of a language construct and prompts to consider it an additional third (instruction) in relation to the language system and individual speech repertoires. Conclusion. Glottogony is not a cognitive, but a logical-semiotic process. The sign, which lies at the base of all three elements of trichotomy, precedes both the processes of understanding (awareness) and the production of speech. In addi tion, through the sign and logical (non-mental or speculative) rule of its use, the speaking population becomes itself: the sign and rule unites users of the language, realizing its main function in the environment – the integrative one.

Keywords: trichotomy, glottogony, semiotics, logic, grammar, system, function

SOCIOLINGUISTIC CHARACTERISTIC OF THE SPEECH OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GERMAN ETHNOS OF KOLPASHEVO DISTRICT OF TOMSK REGION // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2020. Issue 2 (208). P. 7-13

Introduction. The preliminary results of a sociolinguistic analysis of the language situation in the territory of Kolpashevo district of the Tomsk region are presented. This area is one of the places of compact residence of German immigrants who underwent forced displacement primarily in the XX century. The Tomsk region identifies subjectspecific areas that indicate the communicative power of the studied idiom. The purpose of the paper is to reveal the peculiarities of the sociolinguistic questionnaire of representatives of the German ethnic minority in Kolpashevo district of the Tomsk region. Material and research methods. The material of the study is the analysis of the language situation obtained as a result of a sociolinguistic survey of Russian Germans in Kolpashevo district of the Tomsk region conducted in 2017. The main methods of research are the descriptive method, the method of comparison, interpretation of the obtained data, the method of observation and construction of classifications. Results and discussion. Sociolinguistic survey showed that in places of compact residence of Russian Germans in Kolpashevo district there is a language situation characterized by the loss of the German language spheres of its use. Quantitative calculations show that only 9 % of respondents use German in everyday communication. The dominant role is played by the Russian language (99 %), which serves as the main means of communication among the considered informants. According to the results of the sociolinguistic survey, the question of giving a special status of the German language at the regional and Federal levels is of great importance. 18% of Kolpashevo Germans positively supported the implementation of this initiative at the national level due to the significant reduction of Germanspeaking descendants of German immigrants. Within certain subjects of Russia, in particular the Tomsk region, (27 %) of respondents positively reacted to the equal status of the German language with other languages spoken in the territory of the Siberian region. The survey also found that 81 % of the polled ethnic Germans of Kolpashevo district positively assess the activities of the Russian-German House in Tomsk in terms of providing elderly Russian Germans of the study area with various types of assistance. Interesting is the position of Kolpashevo Germans regarding the teaching of subjects in school for Russian Germans in German. 54 % of the surveyed informants in Kolpashevo district of Tomsk region were in favor of promoting such an initiative in order to achieve a high level of young Russian Germans’ proficiency in the German language. According to the results of the survey, 41 % of representatives of the German ethnic minority identified the German language used for reading the Bible. 27 % indicated Russian, explaining that the transition from German to Russian is due to the factor of forced displacement from the former republics and regions of the Soviet Union to Siberia and prolonged stay in foreign environment that influenced the nature of the use of the Russian language for religious purposes. The theoretical significance is determined by the fact that the obtained results contribute to the further development of the theory of involution of languages, the deepening of the apparatus of sociolinguistics, sociology of language and the provisions of German linguistics in the aspect of the study of small forms of the German-Dutch dialect continuum. The practical significance lies in the possible application of the results to analyze the language situation in other regions of the Russian Federation, where there are places of compact residence for representatives of the German ethnic group. Conclusion. The paper outlines the prospects for research of areas of Tomsk region which previously were not subjected to a sociolinguistic survey.

Keywords: Russian Germans, Tomsk region, involution, status of the German language, survey data

NEOLOGISATION EXTENT OF LEXICAL-SEMANTIC FIELD “SMART ENERGY SYSTEMS” IN MODERN ENGLISH // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2020. Issue 4 (210). P. 9-15

Introduction. Quantitative and qualitative changes in the modern English vocabulary and regular production of extensive neogenic lexical segments in its content demonstrate the viability of this language and are vivid evidences of its dynamic evolution in the modern society confirming its leading position in the development trend indicators in the synchronous perspective. Coinciding with innovations in special areas of knowledge, modern English acts automatically as a vocabulary producer for new forming onomasiologic structures to which the lexical-semantic field “Smart Energy Systems” belongs. Material and methods. Author’s corpus consisting of 1 144 lexical units served as a material resource for this research. The corpus was selected from authentic scientific and technical publications over the period from 2015 to 2019. The neologism status in the specified corpus segment was determined through lemmatic articles taken from representative lexicographical references books like “Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering”, “Dictionary of Technical Terms”, “Electropedia”, “Encyclopedia Britannica”, “Encyclopedia of Energy Engineering and Technology”, “Engineering Dictionary”, “Power Engineering Dictionary”, “Cambridge Dictionary”, “Collins Online Dictionary”, “Urban Dictionary”, etc. Structural and systemic approach constitutes the rational and empirical platform of this study enabling to interpret structural relations of lexical aggregates as a system (subsystem) of elements and the language as a structural and systemic formation. To determine the neologization extent of the lexical-semantic field “Smart Energy Systems” some traditional methods of logic (analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization, contrasting, etc.) and statistics (quantitative, grouping method) as well as linguistic methods (descriptive and structural for component and constituent analysis) were used. Results and discussion. The formation of terminological neologisms is continuous while their lexicographical documentation is characterized by an impressive delay. Based on the quantitative and comparative analysis, the neogenic growth rate in thematic groups was determined and the localization of terminological neologisms in the lexical-semantic field was specified. The knowledge of neological distribution makes it possible to predict the trends of terminology formation in the field of smart energy systems in the modern English. Two and three component wordformative models are predominant in thematic groups which reflect their nominative function and display their tendency to specification. The vocabulary enhancement of the lexical-semantic field “Smart Energy Systems” follows two ways: the extension and abridgement of words and collocations lexical length reflecting current trends in the lexical enrichment in the modern English. Conclusion. Upon the analysis of the lexical-semantic structure of the lexical-semantic field “Smart Energy Systems” the following conclusion is made: the peripheral zone, formed around the core, contains the language material imported from allied onomasiologic fields and, therefore, distinguishes by the fastest pace of neologization.

Keywords: neologization, terminological neologisms, lexical-semantic field “Smart Energy Systems”, thematic groups, Contemporary English

PSEUDO-BORROWED ONYMS IN THE GERMAN LITERARY LANGUAGE: ASPECT OF WORD FORMATION // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2022. Issue 4 (222). P. 7-14

Introduction. The onymic vocabulary in the category of German pseudo-borrowings is currently understudied. While pseudo-borrowings are traditionally considered in the etymological and word-formation aspect, in the practice of analysis of the onymic category and its etymological segments a great role is played by the selection of onomastic subclasses of pseudo-borrowed onyms, the constellation of which is determined by the nature of the empirical material. The appeal to ways and models of word formation is conditioned by the necessity to highlight the structural and systemic features of the studied units and their role in the pseudo-foreign naming by means of the German literary language. The aim of the paper is to identify the ways and models of onym formation in the German pseudo-borrowings class. Material and research methods. The empirical basis for the study is 190 pseudo-borrowed onyms, selected according to the criteria of posteriority, impaired reversibility and belonging to the class nomina propria from a number of German-language print and online editions, including translated comics, onomastic registers and regularly updated dictionaries Duden and DWDS. The dictionary search was carried out mainly with the use of marker words containing the German confix “pseudo-”. The epistemological basis of the analysis is the structural-systems approach, the implementation of which is aimed at revealing the structural features of the studied vocabulary set. A corpus of general and special scientific methods was used to analyze the material. General scientific methods were the methods of logic (analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization) and statistics (quantitative methods, the method of grouping), private scientific (linguistic) – methods of structural linguistics (method of component analysis and traditional-complex method). Results and discussion. Most of the empirical corpus segments of this study consist of pseudo-Gallicisms of the first and second groups as well as pseudo-Latinisms. Although the Gallicisms of the second group and Pseudo-Latinisms are derived from elements borrowed from dead Gallic and Latin, they continue to be used in German literary speech. A great variety of subclasses are represented by pseudo-Latinisms, among which there are anthroponyms, a large number of ergonyms, pragmatonyms, peisonyms and a class of fictionyms in the subclass of anthroponyms. The names of comic book characters translated into German, represented by the class of fictionyms and the subclass of anthroponyms, are formed using a variety of word-formation models. In addition, one of the fictional character names considered in this paper, in the segment of pseudo-Hispanisms, has the greatest lexical length (11 elements). Thus, it can be assumed that thanks to such a variety of ways to form lexical units the authors and translators of comics manage to convey the expression and, to a certain extent, the distinctive features of certain characters. The word-formation possibilities of pseudo-usage onyms in German depend on which segments and sub-classes form the empirical corpus. Conclusion. The proposed material is intended to expand the understanding of the nature of pseudo-borrowings in German literary speech and to deepen the differentiation of onymic and appellative categories of this class of vocabulary. The results can be used for lexicographical and educational purposes, in translation practice and in the teaching of modern German.

Keywords: German literary language, pseudo-borrowings, pseudo-borrowed onyms, segments, ways and models of word formation

Features of the translation of military–administrative and military-historical realionyms in «Taras Bulba» by N. V. Gogol into English, French and Tatar languages // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2023. Issue 3 (227). P. 48-57

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the translation of socio-political vocabulary in the context of the analysis of the strategies used by translators J. Cournos, L. Viardot, A. Faizi in the translation of «Taras Bulba» by N. V. Gogol, the special significance of which currently prompts the search for criteria for assessing the degree of compliance with the subject content of the original and translations in English, French and Tatar, respectively. The military-administrative and military-historical realionyms of the subject-thematic area «socio-political relations», the group «military-administrative structure of society» are recognized as the exponent of the implementation of these strategies. These realionyms and their trilingual equivalents are compared in terms of the use of domestication and foreignization strategies. The aim of the article is to identify convergent and divergent strategies in translations of military-administrative and military-historical realionyms of the original text in order to assess the quality of translations. The corpus of 28 military-administrative realionyms of «Taras Bulba» (1842) by N. V. Gogol selected from the point of view of belonging to the subject area «Social and political relations», taking into account symptomatic statistics, that is, the frequency of occurrence in the original text. The object of the article is formed by 84 equivalents of the indicated realionyms recorded in the texts of translations, which were made in English by J. Cournos (1952), French by L. Viardot (1853) and Tatar by A. Fayzi (1953). The subject of the article is the strategies of convergence and divergence of the subject content of N.V. Gogol «Taras Bulba». The work used general and particular scientific methods. The methods of logic (analysis, induction, comparison, grouping) and statistics (sampling method, analysis of correspondences) belong to general scientific ones, and the comparative method belongs to private scientific ones. Foreignization increases from the English translation of J. Cournos from 43% of socio-political vocabulary to 93% in the Tatar translation of A. Faizi. L. Viardot foreignized 53% of realionyms in the French text of the translation. 12 out of 84 translation solutions are divergent to the original text, six of them are contained in the English translation. 54 out of 84 units were borrowed by translators using the methods of transliteration and transcription, as well as unreasonable capitalization of realionyms. It can be stated that the quality of the translation was affected by the following translation errors: the omission of the realionym, its replacement, inappropriate modernization (use of anachronism), incorrect capitalization, the presence of «false friends of the translator»; factual errors. The analysis of translation strategies for realionyms from the point of view of the implementation of convergence and divergence strategies can be one of the criteria for the quality of a translator’s work. The choice of a convergent strategy is a basic condition for the implementation of a better translation and, thereby, the reproduction of the original author’s intention by means of the target language, while the choice of the opposite, divergent, strategy is highly likely to distort the realities of the source text, misleading the recipient about the subject content of the original. The expression of the strategies of convergence and divergence at the elementary (microstylistic) level in the translation of realionymic vocabulary is domestication and foreignization.

Keywords: convergence, divergence, domestication, foreignization, realionyms, translation strategies, story by N. V. Gogol «Taras Bulba», English, French and Tatar

IV International Scientific and Practical Conference “Linguistic and Cultural Aspects of Modern Engineering Education” // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024. Issue 3 (233). P. 152-155

The IV International Scientific and Practical Conference “Linguistic and Cultural Aspects of Modern Engineering Education” was held on November 15–17, 2023 at the Department of Foreign Languages of the School of Social Sciences on the premises of National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (the city of Tomsk). The Conference was dedicated to the memory of Nikolai A. Kachalov, PhD in Pedagogy, Associate Professor. Traditionally, its directions were: current research vectors and approaches in modern linguistics; the profession of translator: challenges of our time and experience in teaching translation; linguodidactic, psychological, pedagogical and cultural aspects of training engineers of the future; the relationship between language and culture: society, literature, translation and traditions and innovations in methods of teaching foreign languages. The partners of the event are the Belarusian National Technical University, the Belarusian State Economic University and the Novosibirsk State Technical University. The Conference work was conducted in 5 round tables and 4 seminars dedicated to teaching electives for developing generic skills within engineering training, Chinese language studies, design and implementation of dedicated didactic tools in blended learning, and sociocultural adaptation of international students in Russian universities. Plenary reports were devoted to assessing the quality and consideration of criteria for written translation, writing competencies in engineering training: “Translation solutions for scientific and technical documentation”, “Science for society”, “Current state of combinatorial linguistics”. The main panel of the conference “Nikolai Kachalov: Creative Legacy” was held with the participation of members of the family of N. A. Kachalov, his colleagues and graduate students. In her report, Olga I. Kachalova highlighted the most significant milestones of Nikolai A. Kachalov personal and professional development. Veronika M. Rostovtseva, candidate of pedagogical sciences, associate professor spoke about the investments of Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kachalov in the development of education and science not only in the city of Tomsk, but also in the entire Siberian region. This contribution is due to the organizational, pedagogical and scientific-methodological aspects of the activities of N. A. Kachalov as an individual, researcher, leader and “institutionalist” – an innovator of university management in teaching and learning foreign languages.

Keywords: international conference, linguistics, cultural studies, engineering education, Nikolai A. Kachalov, Tomsk Polytechnic University

The History of the English Language Origin as a Clue to Understanding its Current Status // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024. Issue 4 (234). P. 75-83

The paper draws comparisons between the stages in the history of the English language developing in the multilingual environment and its status of a macromediator in the modern world. The research is based on two fundamental methods: the comparative historical method that assists in observing the development of English in the diachronic perspective and its co-existence with other languages in anisotropic linguistic situation of that time and the dialectical one directed at identifying such contradicting directions of the language system evolution as integration and disintegration, standardization and individualization, centrism and acentrism. The evolution of classifying English language origin (Teutonic group in the 17th and 18th centuries, Anglofrisian group in the 19th century and West Germanic group in the 20th century) is rooted in the changes of intralinguistic nature caused by a range of extralinguistic factors. On the one hand, island distribution of the language areal, hard accessibility of the territory, and therefore their isolation, and on the other hand, attractiveness of this land due to favorable conditions (mild climate, diverse landscape, rich flora and fauna), Christianization, active trade relationships leading to permanent polyglossia of linguistic environment (Celtic, Germanic, Scandinavian dialects, classical and vulgar Latin, various languages of Roman legionaries, French) were the reasons why the English language obtained and has maintained till the present time such peculiar distinctive properties as acentrism, high level of lexical mobility, substantial derivational potential, economy of linguistic means and rather free manipulations with language standards. The latter is also connected with long-term absence of the unified national, political and language center in Britain and mostly marginal usage of the language predominantly in the oral form. The authors also insist on the need to further look into the grammatical structure of the English language throughout its evolution in order to better understand the consequences of the polyglossian environment not only on its vocabulary but also the status constituent.

Keywords: English language, historical development, status, periodization, glottogenesis, polyglossia, substrate