• The Material Culture of the Karachai People and its Transformation in the Context of Socio-Cultural Processes in the Second Half of the 20th and the Beginning of the 21st Century

  Research Article

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 8 No 2

  Authors:

  Larisa K. Tekeyeva, Dakhir D. Chotchaev, Shamil K. Tambiev

  Work direction:

  Ethnography, Ethnology and Anthropology

  Abstract:

  This article examines the impact of modernization processes on the material culture of the Karachay people, which have unfolded in Russia in recent times. Using fieldwork, this study examines the preservation of traditional elements and the introduction of innovations in the housing, clothing, and food of the Karachay people. The study utilized a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach and specialized methods (observation and interviews). According to observations, Karachay dwelling types have undergone the greatest transformation. By the 20th century, single-chamber log houses with gable roofs were already rare and were used as auxiliary utility rooms. Among the Karachay, home interiors are also undergoing changes, aligning with urban standards. Transformations also affect traditional dress: its ethnically defining function has been diminished; traditional dress is used primarily in wedding ceremonies, and elements of it may also be present in modern clothing. Despite all this, the Karachay people maintain a traditional diet. In general, the socio-cultural processes occurring in the 20th−21st centuries have directly or indirectly affected the elements of material culture, completely or partially changing them.

  Keywords:

  traditions, material culture, modern times, Karachai people

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• Religious Prigins and Specific Regional Culture of The Mennontes

  Research Article

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 8 No 2

  Author:

  Yulia V. Berezina

  Work direction:

  Ethnography, Ethnology and Anthropology

  Abstract:

  This article examines the Crimean Mennonites, a distinct ethnoreligious group of the German people. The study aims to trace the historical and religious evolution of the community and determine the extent of its influence on the ethnicity, linguistic culture, and lifestyle of the group’s members. The empirical basis of the study is the memoirs of the head of the family, whose first language was the Low German dialect in its oral form. The study outlines the history of Mennonitism, identifies the main features of its local existence in Crimea, and notes the adaptation of Anabaptist principles to the natural, economic, and sociocultural conditions of the peninsula. Particular attention is paid to the typology of the group, the systematization of its external and internal names, and the identification of key markers of religious identity and attitudes toward their native language. The study also characterizes the lifestyle of the Mennonite family within the context of the historical community. The study's results demonstrate a profound interconnection between religious affiliation and the ethnocultural characteristics of the group. Historical changes in group identification indicate the preservation of clear community boundaries. Language, however, remains a key marker of cultural continuity. Proficiency in the native Low German dialect serves as an important marker of self-identification even in the absence of a written language. The Low German dialect is currently ceasing to exist as a means of everyday communication, but it persists as an element of cultural memory and a marker of ethnicity.

  Keywords:

  German language, low German dialect, Crimean German Mennonites, ethno-religious community, Mennonitism

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• Ethnicity in Urban Space: Representation Practices and Research Approaches to Studying the Topic

  Research Article

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 8 No 2

  Author:

  Ekaterina A. Iagafova

  Work direction:

  Ethnography, Ethnology and Anthropology

  Abstract:

  The article examines research experience in the representation of ethnicity in urban environments, analyzing the work of Russian and international scholars on the topic. It identifies and characterizes the main forms and methods of demonstrating ethnic culture, explores the role of representational practices in shaping the sociocultural space of the city, and outlines the principal areas of research. The material is analyzed in terms of its thematic focus, subject area, and the methodological approaches employed by the researchers. The results demonstrate that the representation of ethnicity is linked to the formation of an ethnic image (“one's own”, “the Other”). The subject of the research encompasses the methods of ethnicization of urban space as a symbolic and functional “appropriation” of the urban environment; the means of representation expressed in textual, visual, and material forms; and the role of ethnic communities and the national-cultural public organizations representing them in this process. Technologies for representing and preserving ethnic culture, understood as a set of methods and tools for its preservation — including through its construction — involve practices such as staging public events (“staging ethnicity”), urban design, and the symbolic development of space in the creation of ethnically marked community canteens and retail outlets.

  Keywords:

  ethnicity, representation, urban space, research approaches

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• Russian Language in the System of Language Policy of Uzbekistan: Historical Transformation and Current State

  Research Article

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 8 No 2

  Author:

  Umida K. Khudaybergenova

  Work direction:

  World languages and literature

  Abstract:

  The article presents a comprehensive analysis of the transformation of state language policy in Uzbekistan from the 20th to the early 21st century. It examines the dynamics of the Russian language's functioning through an interdisciplinary approach and the lens of language planning theory. The study analyzes the historical stages in the formation of the language situation — from the korenizatsiya (indigenization) policy of the 1920s to contemporary institutional reforms. Special attention is paid to the genesis of the legal and regulatory framework and the changing socio-communicative functions of the Russian language amid the strengthening status of Uzbek as the state language. Based on a comparative analysis of Soviet census data and current statistical indicators, the study identifies enduring trends in the preservation of the Russian language as a vital intellectual and communicative resource. The article concludes that the modern linguistic model of Uzbekistan is characterized by a tendency toward a balanced combination of the dominant role of the state language and the preservation of the functional potential of the Russian language in education, science, and international relations. A stable model of national-Russian bilingualism is emerging in Uzbek society, grounded not in administrative coercion but in practical expediency, genuine necessity, and citizens' need to enhance their social status. The national education system serves as the key institutional mechanism for reproducing this bilingual environment.

  Keywords:

  Russian language, bilingualism, language policy, Uzbekistan, language status, language planning, linguistic landscape, sociolinguistic transformation

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• Russian Language in the System of Language Policy of Uzbekistan: Historical Transformation and Current State

  Research Article

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 8 No 2

  Author:

  Umida K. Khudaybergenova

  Work direction:

  World languages and literature

  Abstract:

  The article presents a comprehensive analysis of the transformation of state language policy in Uzbekistan from the 20th to the early 21st century. It examines the dynamics of the Russian language's functioning through an interdisciplinary approach and the lens of language planning theory. The study analyzes the historical stages in the formation of the language situation — from the korenizatsiya (indigenization) policy of the 1920s to contemporary institutional reforms. Special attention is paid to the genesis of the legal and regulatory framework and the changing socio-communicative functions of the Russian language amid the strengthening status of Uzbek as the state language. Based on a comparative analysis of Soviet census data and current statistical indicators, the study identifies enduring trends in the preservation of the Russian language as a vital intellectual and communicative resource. The article concludes that the modern linguistic model of Uzbekistan is characterized by a tendency toward a balanced combination of the dominant role of the state language and the preservation of the functional potential of the Russian language in education, science, and international relations. A stable model of national-Russian bilingualism is emerging in Uzbek society, grounded not in administrative coercion but in practical expediency, genuine necessity, and citizens' need to enhance their social status. The national education system serves as the key institutional mechanism for reproducing this bilingual environment.

  Keywords:

  Russian language, bilingualism, language policy, Uzbekistan, language status, language planning, linguistic landscape, sociolinguistic transformation

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• Linguistic Means of Marxist Ideology Expression as Axiological Orientation of the Author in Joe De Graft’s “Sons and Daughters” and the Peculiarities of Their Translation into Russian

  Research Article

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 8 No 2

  Author:

  Artem I. Yakovlev

  Work direction:

  World languages and literature

  Abstract:

  The article is devoted to the linguistic-axiological and translatological analysis of the first play by Joe de Graft “Sons and Daughters” from the perspective of Marxist theory. The research identifies linguistic and textual markers of the author's unique expressiveness, which illustrate J. de Graft's Marxist criticism of five key capitalist ideas: classism, commodification, individualism, consumerism, and imperialism. Eleven axiologically driven text fragments are subjected to stylistic and textual analysis, revealing various stylistically marked units operating at all linguistic levels. These units then undergo translatological analysis, identifying the translation transformations applied to the original text in order to convey the axiological content to the Russian reader. The results of the research confirm that the Ghanaian playwright uses an array of expressive means and stylistic devices to express his harsh criticism towards capitalist ideology; these EMs and SDs often enter into the relationship of convergence. It is worth noting that words expressing day-to-day realities are also used by the playwright axiologically; they help J. de Graft demonstrate his dissatisfaction with imperialism in Ghana, then a young African country. The text is significantly transformed in translation, which seems unsurprising since axiologically charged units pose a major difficulty while translating literary texts. Still, it is confirmed that the translator manages to convey the axiological meaning of the original text.

  Keywords:

  text analysis, play, linguistic stylistics, linguistic axiology, literary texts, translation of literary works, Ghanaian literature, drama

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• The Reception of the West in Flor Vasiliev’s Poetic Cycle “From the Norwegian Notebook”

  Research Article

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 8 No 2

  Author:

  Victor L. Shibanov

  Work direction:

  World languages and literature

  Abstract:

  Udmurt poet Flor Vasiliev's cycle “From a Norwegian Notebook” (1967) exemplifies the depiction of a Western country, in which the author and his protagonist clearly demonstrate their patriotism without resorting to rhetoric or declaratory statements. The aim of the study is to examine the artistic specificity of Vasiliev's cycle and to identify the peculiarities of the reception of foreign space within it. The leading method is the historical-cultural approach, employing techniques of reception theory. The central collective subject of the poetic cycle is the collective we, representing a Soviet citizen who has arrived in a NATO country as part of a tourist group. The image of the people is recurring, embodying the spiritual strength and industriousness of northern people who remember the horrors of World War II. The images of Nansen and Edvard Grieg are actualized in the lyrical cycle as embodiments of the finest Norwegian spiritual qualities. The Udmurt poet sympathetically portrays a female immigrant working as a tour guide in a foreign country. F. Vasiliev perceives the West not so much in opposition as in the search for points of convergence between different cultures.

  Keywords:

  Udmurt literature, poetic cycle, Norway, Flor Vasiliev, reception

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• The Phenomenon of Linguistic Incorporation in Modern English

  Research Article

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 8 No 2

  Authors:

  Inna N. Dudii, Irina A. Demidova, Irina V. Ostroverkhaia

  Work direction:

  World languages and literature

  Abstract:

  The article aims to investigate the problem of linguistic incorporation, which remains an understudied phenomenon, causing difficulties in understanding and translation in modern English. The research objectives include establishing the distinction between incorporative constructions and compound words, phrases, and sentences; identifying and describing the lexico-semantic classes of incorporative constructions; determining the stylistic affiliation of incorporative constructions; as well as modeling and justification of optimal ways to translate corporate constructions into Russian. The conducted research is considered relevant, as the mechanism of incorporation in modern English remains debatable in terms of the interpretation of incorporative constructions, which represent atypical formations for the analytical structure of the English language. A working definition of an incorporative construction as a special morphosyntactic unit is proposed. The research was conducted on material from incorporative constructions selected through a continuous sampling method from newspaper, magazine, and literary texts of the XX–XXI centuries, using contextual, comparative, categorical, semantic, and logical-comparative methods. A typologisation of incorporative complexes was carried out at the structural, semantic, and syntactic levels. Nominative, nominative-communicative, and complexes with modal evaluation incorporative complexes were identified. The main principles and strategies for translating the studied constructions into Russian, including compensation and sentence splitting, are outlined. It is concluded that incorporative constructions, representing a unique linguistic phenomenon, actualize deep morphosyntactic connections in modern English, contributing to the interlingual correlation of translated individual speech formations into Russian. The obtained results will help in recognising, understanding the semantic scope, and stylistically correctly interpreting the meanings of incorporated complexes.

  Keywords:

  nominative and nominative-communicative incorporative constructions, incorporative constructions with modal evaluation, translation of incorporative constructions, incorporative constructions at the compound word level, word blends and sentence level

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• Agnonyms-Borrowings from English as a Communicative Problem

  Research Article

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 8 No 2

  Author:

  Irina V. Kochkareva

  Work direction:

  World languages and literature

  Abstract:

  This article examines agnonyms of English origin in modern Russian. This layer of borrowings is often unclear or obscure to most people, and can therefore cause communication breakdowns. As a result of such errors, communication partners become acutely aware of differences in education, upbringing, communication experience, and worldview. The study's material includes examples from shared news chats on instant messengers, announcements on information panels on public transportation and other public spaces in Perm, and television broadcasts. The selected material was also used in associative experiments. Respondents represented different age groups. General scientific research methods were used in the study—descriptive, comparative, survey, and questionnaire. Particular attention was paid to the problem of partial agnonymy, in which the speaker believes they understand the meaning of a lexical unit, but in fact uses it incorrectly. During the analysis, the main factors influencing the semantic adaptation of Anglicisms in the lexicon of a linguistic personality, as well as methods for preventing agnonymic errors, were identified.

  Keywords:

  neologism, agnonym, Anglicism, English borrowing, communicative failure

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