Sociolinguistics

Author: Wu Guohua
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Russian Linguistic and Cultural Studies is currently a prominent field in Russian studies between China and Russia. This discipline evolved from Russian linguistic geography and holds guiding significance for the research and teaching of the Russian language, particularly in teaching Russian to non-native speakers. The author provides a relatively detailed discussion on the subject and tasks of linguistic and cultural studies, as well as its research methods. It also introduces in detail Vorobiev's linguistic and cultural system, Prokhorov's sociocultural stereotype theory, Kostomarov's linguistic information unit theory, and the research on prototype phenomena by Krasnogor and Kudorkov. Finally, it dedicates a section to analyzing and interpreting metaphor, symbol, and cultural connotation, the linguistic worldview as a research object of linguistic and cultural studies, and the cognitive semantics of spatial relationships.