Teaching code

4S002974

Credits

9

Coordinator

Maryia Pinchuk

Language

Russian

Also offered in courses:

• Russian for publishing of the course Master’s degree in Publishing and Journalism
• Pазновидности русского языка (Varieties of Russian) - Часть 1 of the course Master’s degree in Comparative European and Non-European Languages and Literatures
• Pазновидности русского языка (Varieties of Russian) - Часть 2 of the course Master’s degree in Comparative European and Non-European Languages and Literatures

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning outcomes

The course aims at reinforcing the morphological and syntactical knowledge that students have learnt in their previous language courses and at increasing linguistic reflection on the varieties of Russian language. The course is aimed as well at giving students the practical possibility to read, analyze and translate Russian texts representing different varieties of speech. During the course various translation techniques and strategies will be illustrated and used.

Program

Object of the Course - the most important phenomena in today's Russian language, the present changes will be illustrated in the Russian language due to the dissolution of the rigid linguistic regulation. The texts of different stylistic registers will be read and analysed: literary works of contemporary authors, newspaper articles, documents of political and economic nature, the language of social network will be examined. Some sectorial languages will be taken in examination.
The basic themes are:
- Theoretical introduction on the variety of Russian language
- Styles of Russian language:
Spoken language / colloquial language
Written language (artistic style - literary, scientific, journalistic language, commercial language)
- Present linguistic situation, changes at lexical, morphological and syntactic levels.
- Relations between Russian and English languages, influence of globalization culture.
- Colloquial language in the era of Internet and the linguistic rules.
- Slang of young people
The didactic modalities of the Course include the professor’s lectures, the group work and will be performed as a seminar.
The students will be provided with a choice of critical readings through the e-learning platform and/or during the practical lessons.

Bibliography

Examination Methods

Assessment will be by oral exam. Students will have to demonstrate a knowledge of the topics dealt with during the course. Students are also expected to analyze and illustrate one text among those analyzed and translated during the course.