Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education "Peoples 'Friendship Universityof " - RUDN University Philological Faculty

ANNOTATED PROGRAMME of the discipline General Linguistics Educational Programme: Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 45.04.01 Philology

TITLE OF THE General Linguistics DISCIPLINE Scope of the discipline 2 credits (72 hours) ANNOTATED CONTENT OF ТНЕ DISCIPLINE Topics and sections Annotated content topics Language as an object of 1. The evolution of ideas about the object of linguistics. linguistics. System The interaction of language and thinking, language and language concepts. reality. Language as а system. Language as а system- structural education. F orms of language existence. 2. The system concept of the language 1.А. Baudouin de Courtenay. Language as а system: units and relationships. The hierarchy of language units. Abstract units: phoneme and morpheme. Invariant and option. "The dual division of the current speech." Phonation and cerebration. The processes of morphologization, semasiologization and sociologization in the language. History, chronology and development as applied to the language. Dynamics and statics. Functions of the language. 3. The F. de Saussure founder of structuralism Speech activity, language and speech. Synchronyand diachrony. Language system: units and relationships: paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations. The principles and structure of the language sign. Sign, value and significance. The main "postulates" F. de Saussure (according to Yu.S. Stepanov). 4. Copenhagen structuralism, or glossematics. Algebra of language: paradigmatics and syntagmatics. Determination, constellation and interdependence. The concept of schema in language. Signs and non-signs in language. Configurationsin the language. Norm and

Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia” – RUDN University Philological Faculty ANNOTATED PROGRAMME of the discipline PHILOLOGY IN THE SYSTEM OF MODERN HUMANITIES Educational Programme: Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 45.04.01 Philology TITLE OF THE PHILOLOGY IN THE SYSTEM OF MODERN DISCIPLINE HUMANITIES Scope of the discipline 4 credits (144 hours) ANNOTATED CONTENT OF THE DISCIPLINE Topics and sections Annotated content topics Philology as a complex Philology as a complex of linguistic disciplines. of linguistic disciplines. Language and culture. Object and subject of philology as a science. Language and text. Principle philological methods. Philological and linguistic knowledge. Language and culture. Interaction of language and culture. The domain of cross-cultural studies. Herder’s hominid triad and its influence on the philological evolutionary paradigm. Universals and specificity in language and linguistic studies. Language and creativity as definitive human features: differences and similarities. Oppositional and component analyses. Philological hermeneutics. Philological reconstruction. Anthropocentric Language: its history and development. paradigm in philology Language, society and social environment. Language as a social institution. Literary language. Language styles and research and development of literary text studies. Main language functions. Norm and usage. Correlations of notions: history chronology and development. Dynamic processes in language and literary text. Speech strategies. Functional aspects of linguistic knowledge and their creative implementation. Functional language and speech styles Syntactical and semantic text analyses. Stylistic and compositional text analyses.

The author and implementor of the programme is professor of the General & Russian Linguistics Department Elena A. Krasina Head of the General & Russian Linguistics Dept.

______Vladimir N. Denisenko Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia” – RUDN University

Philological Faculty

ANNOTATED PROGRAMME of the discipline Educational Programme: Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

45.04.01 Philology TITLE OF THE Russian Literature DISCIPLINE Scope of the discipline 5 credits (180 hours) ANNOTATED CONTENT OF THE DISCIPLINE Topics and sections Annotated content topics Introduction to Studies of Main definitions and terms: Literature. Oral, written and electronic literature. Literary and Prehistory of Russian non-literary facts. Poetic function of language. Myth, Literature: Slavic folklore, literature. mythology, Russian Intertextuality. Literature as a system in diachronic and Folklore synchronic perspectives. Origins of Slavic mythology and of East Slavic folklore. Folklore motives in literature. Old Russian Literature and Origins of Old Russian Literature. Saints Cyril and Russian literature of 17-18th Methodius Mission and Tradition. Old Russian Centuries Literature on the background of Medieval literary tradition. The Bible and system of literary genres. Main works of the period: Hilarion's Sermon on Law and Grace, The Tale of Bygone Years, The Tale of Igor's Campaign, The Autobiography of Archpriest Avvakum. Classicism in Russian Literature: , Denis Fonvizin.

Russian Literature on Russian Sentimentalism and Enlightenment verge of 19-20th Centuries (, Nikolay Karamzin, Gavriil Derzhavin, Ivan Krylov). Russian Literature of the Russian Romanticism. Lyrics of Vassily Zhukovsky. 1st half of 19th Century Poets of Golden epoch of Russian poetry. Lyrics. Verse novel Yevgeny Onegin. Poem Copper Rider. Pushkin's prose and plays. Mikhail Lermontov Poems Mtsyri and Demon and Byronic poems in Russian Literature. Psychological novel Hero four Our Time. Nikolay Gogol Nikolay Gogol. Cycles. Comic, tragedic and mistic elements in Gogol's masterpieses: Nights on the farm-stead near Dikanka, Mirgorod, Dead Souls, The Inspector-General, Diary of a Madman, The Nose, The Overcoat.

1840s' Journal controversy of Slavophiles and Westernists. Authors and ideas of “Natural School“ Types of literary Realism in diachronic perspective. Realism of Russian classical novels. Russian Literature the 2nd Literary legacy and biography of Ivan Turgenev, half of 19th Century Nikolay Leskov and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. Leo Tolstoy. Autobiographic trilogy and Sevastopol stories. Epic novel War and Peace. Novels Anna Karenina and Resurrection. Tolstoy's philosophy and attitude to art. Fyodor Dostoevsky. Novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. Anton Chekhov. Novelty of his plays/ Undercurrent of motives and emotions, Chekhov's gun.

Russian Literature on Overview of the history of literature of the Silver Age. verge of 19-20th Centuries Principles of periodization of the literature of the Silver Age. Realism and Modernism in literature and art. The concept of decadence and its flow. Symbolism and the Silver Age. Issues, means of expression of characters in poetry and prose.

The author and implementor of the programme is assistant professor of the Russian and Foreign Literature Department Tatyana V. Korenkova

Head of the Russian and Foreign Literature Department ______Alexander G. Kovalenko