Application and essence of the development

The research in loanwords as a natural and ongoing phenomenon of interlingual, cross-cultural communication in modern conditions of globalization is relevant and significant; consideration of language specifics of loanwords at various levels in the German and French languages is also important. Loanwords the German and French languages are studied both in diachronic, and in synchronous aspects taking into account the traditional and modern directions of linguistics (ethnolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, gender linguistics, computational linguistics).

Lines of research:

  • Definition of the main regularities of the process of adoption and its features in the German and French languages;
  • Consideration of ways of adoption in the German and French languages, taking into account relationship between the language source and the borrowing language;
  • Identification of the thematic structure of the studied cases in the German and French languages and its representation in these languages;
  • Application of methods of cognitive, gender and computation linguistics in studying of loanwords in the German and French languages;
  • The characteristic of functioning of loanwords in the German and French languages in the conditions of realization of their pragmatic and communicative opportunities with the use of computer technologies.

Offer

Assistance in scientific research of the influence of foreign-language loanwords on the development of language consciousness of native speakers as well as in the development of bases of the adequate use of the borrowed lexicon which doesn’t influence the identity of the native language.

 

SVETLANA KOLOTSEJ
HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ROMAN AND GERMAN PHILOLOGY
CANDIDATE OF PHILOLOGICAL SCIENCES, DOCENT

tel. +(375 232) 57 98 28, fax +(375 232) 60-30-02
e-mail: kolotsej@gsu.by

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