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Article name Sociocultural Aspects of the Study of Russian New Year Postcard
Authors Butylskaya L.V. Candidate of Philosophy, Associate Professor, larissa76@list.ru
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Section Linguistic worldview
UDK 811.161.1 / 316’28
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Annotation Russian New Year (and Christmas) postcard is considered as an object of research in the article. The author draws attention to the sociocultural aspects of its study which maybe of interest not only from the point of view of linguoculturology, but also from the point of view of methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language. This is due to the fact that in the process of linguocultural analysis of New Year (and Christmas) postcard, linguocultural and then sociocultural competence is formed. Thus, the article analyzes sociocultural features of Russian New Year postcard, gives cultural and historical commentary on the origin of Christmas cards in Europe and in Russia, identifies the main New Year symbols that serve as national cultural New Year discourse markers, and gives linguocultural comment on the New Year and Christmas wishes in Russia. The author concludes that the study of social-cultural features of Russian New Year postcards will help foreign students to penetrate deeper into the worldview of the Russian people.
Key words sociocultural, New Year (Christmas) postcard, linguocultural analysis, culturalhistorical commentary, symbols, wishes
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