Russian journal of cultural studies and communication
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Moscow State Institute of International Relations (RU) |
| ISSN | 2949-6330 |
| OpenAlex | S4404670084 |
| MAG | 4404670084 |
| Website | https://cultures.mgimo.ru/jour/index |
| Total publications | 69 |
| Coverage period | 2022 - 2025 |
| Country | RU |
| Language | EN |
| Impact factor | 0.021 |
This journal explicitly covers "cultural studies," which is a cognate social science and humanities field with regular intersection with social anthropology. Its focus on communication also allows for anthropological perspectives on cultural practices
Central Asia Education and Culture · Central European and Russian historical studies · Cultural Differences and Values · Digital Communication and Language · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Diverse Scientific Research in Ukraine · Educational Innovations and Challenges · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · European Cultural and National Identity
Hegel in the Mirrors of Soviet Philosophy
The attitude towards Hegel in Soviet philosophy was contradictory and depended to a considerable extent on the ideological state of affairs. Waves of love and hate for Hegel alternated periodically. At different times, emphasis was placed on the “revolutionary” method, or on dialectics, or on the “reactionary” system, the justification of the old world. On one page, Lenin would admire Hegel’s logical discoveries, on the next, he would scold him i…
Precedent Name
In this article, we consider the metaphorical use of precedent names from the source spheres “literature” and “cinema” in the political discourse of modern Spanishlanguage mass media. The names of heroes of ancient mythology, works of classical Spanish and foreign literature, including children’s literature, as well as movie characters, carriers of certain qualities and properties, are widely used as precedents. As a result of the study, the grou…
Mastering English Economic Discourse
This article addresses the challenge of acquiring professional economic discourse among students pursuing a bachelor’s degree in economics. This type of institutional economic discourse is not merely a collection of terminological units, but a complex and evolving system that exhibits a broad spectrum of genre, stylistic, and pragmatic relevance. Discourse in the economic field represents the interconnections of knowledge, various language units,…
The Impact of the Parameter Individualism versus Collectivism on the Formation of Behavioural Characteristics in People of Various National Cultures
Different theories of cross-cultural communication developed by researchers in the field of humanities including cultural anthropology, social psychology, cognitive science, etc., offer a variety of ways to classify national cultures. At the same time, many agree that there is a need to find clear and measurable fundamental parameters that underlie any national culture. This article substantiates the use of the parameter of “individualism versus …
Who is a “True Dane” in Modern Denmark? The Danish Language within the Concept of “Danishness (Danskhed)”
This article is dedicated to the role of the Danish Language in the Kingdom of Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, in the light of the changes in Denmark’s ethnic composition throughout the past 200 years. Initially, this issue was raised in the 19 th century, after Denmark suffered a number of tragic events: the defeat in the Napoleonic and the Second Schleswig Wars, and the dissolution of the Denmark–Norway Union. The loss of the territor…
Getting a Handle on Hansard with Python and NLTK, or How to Tame the Linguistic Picture of British Politics with NLP
This article proposes an optimised starter’s set of basic Python and NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) methods that are essential to the analysis of massive textual corpora conducted as part of research investigating linguistic images of the world. The need to specify and detail these applied techniques stems from the nature and scope of the inexorable challenges confronted by contemporary cognitive linguistics and lexicology in the realm of unstru…
Syntactic Expressivity in Cultural Reporting
This article aims to study the use and influence of expressive syntax within a variety of culture-related articles featured in contemporary Australian digital media. Leveraging textual analysis on online articles sourced from prominent Australian newspapers such as The Sydney Morning Herald, Alice Springs News, Katherine Times, and The New Daily, the present study provides insights into the frequency and novelty of expressive syntactic elements e…
Dynamics of Multimodal Components in English Educational Discourse
This article aims to identify the linguistic features of English-language educational discourse in terms of structural, descriptive, semantic, and cognitive-pragmatic analyses. The relevance of the study stems from the need to identify trends in the representation of language components in modern grammar textbooks within the communicative-pragmatic paradigm of educational discourse. The authors focus on the linguosynergetic potential of the Engli…
Language, Politics, and Identity
The present article discusses an interdisciplinary approach to the study of political discourse using the example of linguistic and political science studies into the mani-festation of national identity in the speeches of German politicians. The relevance of the study lies in the fact that it is the first to consider the use of an interdisciplinary approach in the analysis of professional discourse by specialists from different scientific fields.…
Cultural Perceptions of Russia and Russians in China Today
The study of the cultural perception of countries and peoples has been gaining momentum in history, literary studies, ethnopsychology, journalism, imagology and other fields of scientific knowledge over the past decade. Cultural perception is constructed by ethnic, religious, political, ideological and artistic frames of perceptual consciousness. In connection with the development of Russia–China relations, the topic of rethinking Oriental studie…
Basic Communicative Strategies and Tactics of Russian and Armenian Medical Media Discourse1
This article explores the deployment of various communicative strategies within prominent medical blogs. The study analyses 400 texts in Russian and Armenian, sourced from diverse social networks. The selection of these materials is justified by the growing popularization of medical knowledge and the escalating public interest in health, which motivates physicians to undertake active educational initiatives across all accessible information platf…
Cultural and Educational Policy of Sweden as an Element of Nation Branding
This article examines the relationship between soft power, nation branding, and educational and cultural cooperation within the framework of the Swedish Institute’s policy of international cooperation to promote the country’s image abroad and strengthen its reputational capital. The relevance of this topic is due to the significance of the stated agenda, which, as our research has shown, has influenced both the development of cultural cooperation…
Metadiscursive Boosting in Russian Courtroom Discourse
Recent studies are revealing new aspects of courtroom discourse, examining the specifics of its production and applying novel analytical methods. Yet, despite their significance and complexity, the use of metadiscursive tools remains scarce. These tools offer substantial promise for analysing discursive practices, which increasingly seen not only as informative, but also interactive and impactful. The inherently interactive and persuasive nature …
Russian Clergy in the United States (late 19th – early 20th centuries)
This article, through archival materials, develops the understudied theme of clergy recruitment and motivation for service in the North American diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. It explains why the recruitment of the clergy for the diocese was a serious problem: the church did not have enough resources to train priests in America, while candidates from Russia were deterred by such factors as the language barrier, the lower social status of…
Cancel Culture in Constructing the National identity of the Countries in the Caspian Macro-Region (Based on the Example of Textbooks in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan)
The process of the formation of independent states on the territories of postSoviet republics raised the problem of the construction of their national identities. This process was propelled by the rejection of Soviet identity and the cultural legacy of the Soviet era. This rejection necessitated a reinterpretation of the historical past of the nations and a revision of the pantheon of national heroes. And the mechanism of cancel culture was used …
Pragmatic Basis for Utilitarian Evaluation in German Engineering Discourse
This paper investigates how engineering discourse evaluates technical developments based on their utility, uselessness, or harm. It examines German-language specialized texts that report on contemporary scientific innovations, using a functional- pragmatic analysis method to explore the propositional structure of statements that convey utilitarian information. The article, published in a scientific journal, is considered in this study as a situat…
Desyatova Olga V., Andrianova Olga A. Digital Educational resources in Teaching professional English Communication
This article considers the issue of using the digital environment in teaching professional communication at a non-linguistic university and aims to specify the role of digital educational resources in business English courses and improve the standard of higher education. The relevance of the issue under consideration is due to the intensified introduction of digital resources in higher education. In this paper, the authors apply theoretical and e…
Emotional and Psychological Aspect of Cross-Cultural Communication with the Japanese
This article is devoted to the problem of developing communicative competencies to create an emotional atmosphere of communication with Japanese people based on an understanding of mentality and socio-psychological intelligence that corresponds to specific goals and situations. The purpose of the article is to systematize the intra-communicative features of communication in Japanese society, the consideration and study of which are important from…
Typological Passport of Basque as a Minority Language
The aim of this paper is to make an inventory of the most salient typological traits of Basque as an extant minority language, whose origin and typological status have been debated ever since the 16th century. Despite the well-meaning attempts to compile a unified standard of Basque, the majority of its speakers communicate using one of its numerous dialects. Apart from that, most of the contemporary coursebooks of Basque convey contradictory mes…
On the Impact of Extralinguistic and Intralinguistic Factors on the Vocabulary Enrichment of the French Language During the Pandemic
This article is devoted to the study of neologisms that emerged in the French language from 2020 to 2023, as well as of the role of factors that caused the enrichment of everyday French language during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the study is to establish which lexical units created during the COVID-19 pandemic were included in the dictionaries of Le Robert and Larousse; identify which vocabulary items (in terms of sphere of use) were u…
The Harvest is Great and the Labourers are few (Father John Nedzelnitsky’s Report on the New York Deanery of the Aleutian and Alaskan Diocese in 1898)
The document published here is a report on the New York Deanery of the Aleutian and Alaskan Diocese in 1898 submitted by the Dean John Nedzelnitsky to Bishop Tikhon (Bellavin). It is deposited in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division as a part of Alaskan Russian Church Archives (Cont. D 452–453, New York, N.Y. Nedzelnitsky John, 1896–1899). Father Nedzelnitsky (1866–1946) is not widely known, and this paper thus serves as a short biography.…
Morphology and Semantics of Derivational Metaphors in Spanish Media Discourse
The cognitive and pragmatic potential of derivational metaphorical nominations, actively used in Spanish media discourse, represent a relevant direction of Discursive and Cognitive research that requires scientific comprehension. This article is devoted to the study of the linguo-cognitive specificity of derivational metaphors that verbalize new meanings, name new realities and frequently function as nomination neologisms or occasionalisms. Deriv…
The Diplomat, Strategist, Intelligence Officer, Historian – in the Service of Russia. Prince Alexey B. Lobanov-Rostovsky
This article is devoted to the life and various activities of the outstanding diplomat Prince Alexey B. Lobanov-Rostovsky (1824–1896). The name of Lobanov-Rostovsky was not mentioned in the academic literature until the first decade of the 21st century. Then Lobanov began to be remembered thanks to the efforts of his descendant Prince Nikita D. Lobanov-Rostovsky, who initiated a number of studies about the prominent diplomat. A fundamental monogr…
Commemorative Albums of the Higher Communist Schools of the GDR in the 1950s (Based on Materials from the Personal Fund of Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences A. I. Lepeshkin)
Historic artifacts speak to the fact that various cultural forms existed in different historical periods. The recently discovered works presented in this article are unique artifacts of the cultural history of post-war Europe. Alexey Lepeshkin, who was a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and a specialist in the field of Soviet public law, was presented with two commemorative albums of the higher communist schools…
Linguistic Means of Speech Manipulation in the Discourse of Modern German-Language Media
This article touches upon the problem of identifying and analysing speech manipulation in the texts of the German-speaking media. The media determines linguistic and cultural pictures of the world, so the analysis of media language will help to establish trends of influence on the cognitive consciousness of society. In today’s geopolitical environment, the basic functions of the media transform, as it uses specific techniques of speech manipulati…
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Digital Diplomacy in Russia–Europe Relations
The development of information and communication technologies and the formation of the global information society give rise to the study of new directions in the evolution of diplomatic practice in the digital environment, including in the context of intercultural communication. The modern information revolution is characterized by the widespread and ever-growing use of social networks, blogs, wiki resources and other media platforms (labelled un…
Manifestations of Natural Written Speech
The main purpose of this article is to consider certain genres of natural writing. The very concept of “natural written speech” at the present time has not received a complete and comprehensive interpretation. However, there are fewer examples of it today. In part, the disappearance of the genres of natural writing is associated with the onset of the digital era, when people stopped writing physical letters and notes, ceased making notes for them…
Interaction of Cultural and Language Competencies in the Development of Non-Native Speech Skills in Educational Discourse
The article aims to analyse the cognitive aspect of educational discourse conducted in a non-native language, specifically the effect of cultural competence on linguistic competence in the process of speech generation. The author considers the problem of transmitting knowledge about the world by means of language from generation to generation in the mental and linguistic ontogenesis. In contrast to the prevailing opinion, the author proves that l…
Dynamic Properties of Blurbs to Works of Fiction in English
This article is devoted to dynamic transformational processes within contemporary English mini-texts (small-format texts). The paper reflects the findings of research that encompasses 500 advertising blurbs to works of fiction. Transformational dynamics is disclosed in terms of linguosynergetics based on a dynamic and systemic representation of evolutionary developments in blurb discourse. In particular, the conventional invariant discourse featu…
Nationally Orientated Communication as The Basic Function of Professional Activity in English Mass Media
This article aims to disclose the communicative essence of English media discourse and the specificity of the information transmitted, which is determined by both interrelated parties (i.e. media sources and readers) involved in this socially valid communicative process. English media discourse is examined in the British and American variants. The three parts of media communication comprising the author, the addressee, and the information itself …
Social Distancing and the Deficit of Presence (a Philosophical Reflection on the Covid-19 Pandemic)
This paper argues that if the COVID-19 pandemic turns out to be a man-made risk (А. Giddens), i.e. an unforeseen consequence of a person's behavior and actions, then, in order to avoid such fatal contingencies that occur so unexpectedly, it is necessary to change the type of behavior and actions that have been established in the culture of the Modern Period. People have been forced to observe the spatial order during the pandemic. Social distanci…
Religions for Peace or Religion of Peace? Some Reflections on the Trends in the Development of Inter-Religious Dialogue
In the increasingly entangled, interdependent, and digital world, religion is still of utmost importance, and for some societies worldwide, it plays a critical role. The new reality poses novel challenges: the issues we face today call for an investigation into current trends in the dialogue of religions. In this way, followers of various religions willing to cooperate to solve major problems of religious diversity would have reference points wit…
Engineering Psychology in the Cultural Context of the Soviet Science of the 1960s
This article examines the Soviet project of engineering psychology developed by Boris Lomov. Its origins, which can be traced back to Lomov’s book Man and Technology, and the subsequent practical development and implementation of its ideas are analysed. The central emphasis of the paper is on the ways in which this special Soviet project was positioned in the context of the key trends that marked the development in the humanities in the 1960s, as…
Autopoiesis of The Discourse of Religious Tolerance (Early Intercultural Communication in the 19th Century)
The problem of religious tolerance is becoming increasingly relevant both for the Russian Federation and the modern world as a whole, since not only the media, but also academic publications inform us almost every day about conflicts between religious communities on a local and global scale. This article examines a number of new aspects of the phenomenon of religious tolerance that are revealed when it is described as an autopoiesis of a specific…
Pejorative Lexis as a Means of Criticism of 16th-century Russian Realities in the Treatise of the Russe Common Wealth by Giles Fletcher
This paper aims to analyse the lexical aspect of foreign criticism of Russia at the early stages of establishing international relations. It focuses on the role of pejorative lexis and phraseology used by the English diplomat Giles Fletcher to criticize Russian social, cultural and common phenomena in his treatise On the Russe Common Wealth written in 1591. The research establishes the main objects and grounds of the country’s negative evaluativi…
Phraseological Units as a Reflection of Ethnic Stereotypes in Spanish Culture and Professional Activities
The purpose of the paper is to give an overview of phraseological means incorporating ethnic allusions in the framework of the Spanish world model as a whole, and in professional activities in particular. The author proceeds from the premise that the professional education of participants in international processes should attach critical importance to the awareness of the nation’s associative thinking, especially as it relates to ethnic stereotyp…
Media Construction of the Image of the Immigrant
This paper discusses the issue of discursive construction of an immigrant image in media discourse on the basis of the content on the Immigrants in EU Facebook group and Daily Mail publications. Through Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the authors claim that the image of the immigrant can be viewed as a discursive construct, and the main discursive strategies involved in its construction include the reference strategy and the prediction strateg…
The Sociolinguistic Situation in Spain
This article analyses the influence of the processes of globalization and regionalism on the sociolinguistic situation of minority languages that obtain a special value as the sole and main depositories of the national culture. As national minorities begin to claim their linguistic rights, the international community addresses the problem at all levels: the EU level, national and regional. The article examines the linguistic situation in Spain, w…
Storytelling in the Inclusive L2 Classroom
This paper examines storytelling as a technology of teaching foreign languages with the help of fascinating stories in the inclusive environment. The relevance of developing inclusive education, i.e. integrating students with different individual characteristics (in particular, disabilities) into the learning process, is highlighted. In this regard, the concept of cognitive learning styles and Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences are charac…
Radicals with Diplomatic Semantics in the Ancient Chinese Dictionary Shuo Wen Jie Zi
There are several signs that contain “diplomatic” semantics among the 540 most ancient radicals of Chinese writing, presented in the Shuo Wen Jie Zi dictionary (1st century AD, Han era). Before the dictionary was created, Chinese writing had already existed for several thousand years. Therefore, some researchers (Zou Xiaoli, 2007; Oshanin, 1943) consider that the etymologies of the radicals in Shuo Wen were formulated under the influence of the l…
The Specifics of Modern Political Communication in Germany
This article highlights some aspects of modern political communication in Germany. Various linguistic and extralinguistic factors determine the relevance of the problem. The main purpose of the article is to look at the sphere of “language and politics” from the point of view of their interrelation, to demonstrate the power that the language of politics has over public opinion and the political situation in the country. To this end, the article d…
The Dynamic and Systemic Principles of Synergistics in Functional Linguistics
The present article describes the specifics, principles and methods of synergetics as a promising area of modern research. Synergetics is presented by the author as a holistic integral paradigm used in many sciences, which confirms its interdisciplinary and even universal nature. The object of this paradigm is the interaction of complex systems, and since the mere concept of “system” is widely used in many scientific fields, the relevance of syne…
The Theory of Ecotranslatology in the Development of Translation Skills of Chinese Students
The present study aims to analyse the theory of ecotranslatology developed by the Chinese translator and theorist Hu Gengshen. The authors pay great attention to the application of its basic principles to teaching translation in general, and to the development of translation skills of Chinese students in particular. The main research methods are descriptive and comparative analysis, the systematization of language material, contextual analysis, a…
Elements of Anti-World in the Game Universe of The Witcher
The significance of the study of philosophic aspects of building a new game universe in an RPG (role-playing game) stems from the popularity of this type of virtual reality entertainment. The paper gives an analysis of the anti-world, a key concept of role-playing gaming, based on The Witcher video game series. The game is founded on an original series of works under the same title created by Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski. The case unde…
Clickbait as a Linguistic and Cultural Phenomenon (Based on Russian-, French-, and English-language Material)
This article considers a specific type of headline that is common in modern mass media discourse, namely clickbait. The novelty of the research is in the object of study and the material represented in three languages – Russian, English and French. Clickbait as a phenomenon has not been investigated before, nor has its national and cultural specificity in the three analysed linguistic cultures; this fact determines the relevance of the study. The…
Sociocultural Analysis of Millennials in Russia
The present article provides a sociocultural analysis of parameters of the millennials, the generation which will become the main workforce in Russia in the next ten years. This is what gives the paper its relevance. The paper focuses on the market and micro-interactionist influence of basic traits of millennials. The issue of how to behave towards millennials is faced both at the sociological and managerial levels. It is said that the large numb…
Mission Possible
The present paper dwells on the modern phenomenon of the clergy going online and exploring new audiences. The empirical study conducted by the author concerned the activities of popular Russian-speaking Orthodox bloggers whose heightening media presence is aimed at digital missionary work and catechism. The research was organized in accordance with the theoretical framework of the concept of communicative figurations that was coined by Andreas He…
Antinomic Understanding of the Secular in Georges Florovsky's Works
The present article analyses the approach of Georges Florovsky to the problem of the secular (worldly, earthly, immanent). Georges Florovsky gave the secular tendencies in the Christian world a negative assessment as they led to cultural crises. He proposed to seek their origin in the antinomic (God–human, both earthly and heavenly) nature of the Christian church. He deduced that the origins of secular culture stemmed forth from the medieval atte…
The Diplomat, Strategist, Intelligence Officer, Historian – in the Service of Russia. Prince Alexey B. Lobanov-Rostovsky
This article is devoted to the life and various activities of the outstanding diplomat Prince Alexey B. Lobanov-Rostovsky (1824–1896). The name of Lobanov-Rostovsky was not mentioned in the academic literature until the first decade of the 21st century. Then Lobanov began to be remembered thanks to the efforts of his descendant Prince Nikita D. Lobanov-Rostovsky, who initiated a number of studies about the prominent diplomat. A fundamental monogr…
Commemorative Albums of the Higher Communist Schools of the GDR in the 1950s (Based on Materials from the Personal Fund of Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences A. I. Lepeshkin)
Historic artifacts speak to the fact that various cultural forms existed in different historical periods. The recently discovered works presented in this article are unique artifacts of the cultural history of post-war Europe. Alexey Lepeshkin, who was a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and a specialist in the field of Soviet public law, was presented with two commemorative albums of the higher communist schools…