Research
Since 2023, the department's research has focused on the topic "Communicative Grammar and Stylistics of Specialised and Literary Texts in Professionally Oriented Native and Foreign Language Teaching in Higher Education."
Project duration: 01.01.2023 – 31.12.2027.
The research project was officially registered in the state official register of research, development, and technological works at the Belarusian Institute for System Analysis and Information Support of the Scientific and Technical Sphere on 17 January 2023.
Main Objective
To analyse and describe selected aspects of communicative grammar and stylistics involved in working with texts of scientific, publicistic, and artistic styles, as part of professionally oriented teaching of native and foreign languages at university level, within the context of the current anthropocentric paradigm in modern linguistics.
Tasks:
- To explore the relationship between systemic-structural and functional approaches to analysing the semantic organisation of specialised and literary texts, i.e. to investigate the full communicative and pragmatic potential that enables the construction of associative chains.
- Within the cognitive-discursive approach, to examine specialised and publicistic texts from an activity-based perspective that assumes the reader's creativity as a co-participant in the dialogue between the author's and the recipient's consciousness.
- To determine the functional significance of lexical and grammatical devices in specialised and publicistic texts, which reveal the author's stylistic intent and conceptual stance.
- Using language models that provide metaphorical transfer in specialised and publicistic texts, to identify the formation of connotative features that contribute to associative enrichment of meaning.
- To present the findings of this research at academic conferences, webinars, roundtable discussions, seminars, etc.
- To implement the research outcomes in the university teaching process in the form of lesson plans, textbooks, practice books, teaching and learning kits, electronic educational materials, audio materials, etc.
Belarusian-Russian Project
The project is carried out by an international research team comprising staff from the Department of Belarusian and Russian Languages and the Department of Latin at Belarusian State Medical University, the Department of Russian Language and Speech Culture at the Military Academy of Belarus, and the Department of Russian Language and Speech Culture at Kursk State Medical University.
Expected Outcomes:
Development, publication, and integration into the teaching process of professionally oriented textbooks, teaching guides, and practice books; research publications on the project topic; organisation of and participation in international academic conferences and methodological seminars; holding international student readings and supervising students' research work; and completion of candidate (PhD) dissertations.