Course: Evolutionary Trends in Current Russian

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Course title Evolutionary Trends in Current Russian
Course code KSR/7VTSR
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Russian
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
Course content
Divergent attitudes towards the concept of contemporary Russian language. The language and the development of the society. The influence of political, economic and social changes on the language. Currently ongoing processes in Russian pronunciation. Currently ongoing processes in morphology. Currently ongoing processes in syntax. Newly borrowed words. The proportion of the words of slang origin in contemporary Russian vocabulary. Currently ongoing processes in semantics. New Russian phraseology. Russian from the point of view of cognitive linguistics.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
  • Attendace - 13 hours per semester
  • Homework for Teaching - 25 hours per semester
  • Semestral Work - 12 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to provide a complex overview of the development trends in contemporary Russian: new processes in morphology, syntax and pronunciation, new Russian vocabulary; borrowed expressions (especially americanisms), jargonisms, eufemisms, new phraseologisms.
The students learn about the general development trends in contemporary Russian and the most recent vocabulary.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of Russian, at least B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The course is designed primarily for the students of consequential master study programme, or the students of upper years of the bachelor programme.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Written exam

attendance in class (maximum 2 absences per semester) passing the final test
Recommended literature
  • (2004). Sovremennaja russkaja reč: sostojanie i funkcionirovanie.. Sankt-Petěrburg.
  • (2008). Sovremennyj russkij jazyk. Aktivnyje processy na rubeže XX-XXI vekov /red. L. Krysin.. Moskva.
  • Bierich, A., Mokienko, V., Stěpanova, L. (2005). Russkaja frazeologija. Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarj.. Moskva.
  • Kostomarov, V. G. (1999). Jazykovoj vkus epohi.. Sankt-Peterburg.
  • Mokienko, V.M., Nikitina, T.G. (2000). Boljšoj slovarj russkogo žargona.. Sankt-Peterburg.
  • Mokienko, V.M. (2003). Novaja russkaja frazeologija.. Opole.
  • Romanov, A.Ju. (2000). Anglicizmy i amerikanizmy v russkom jazyke i otnošenie k nim.. Sankt-Peterburg.
  • Škapenko, T., Hubner, F. (2003). Russkij "tusovočnyj" kak inostrannyj.. Kaliningrad.
  • Valgina, N. S. (2003). Aktualjnyje processy v sovremennom russkom jazyke.. Moskva.
  • Walter, H. a kol. (2004). Slovarj: Zaimstvovanija v russkom substandarte. Anglicizmy.. Moskva.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Russian for translators (2016) Category: Philological sciences 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -