Vol 18, No 2/1 (2012)

The article considers the ancient concept of lies and deception. This is done in the context of the Greek dispute, «who is better»: truthful Achillesus or cunning Odysseus. Analysis suggests that despite the ambiguity of the relationship to the phenomenon of lying, the Greek philosophers considered the very ability to lie as one of the most important mental abilities, and attraction to deception, as a fenomenon of a free mind.

This article contains an investigation and an all-round analysis of peculiarities of religious views, traditions and rituals which were wide-spread in Chuvash villages before the October Revolution. The exceptional combination of an Orthodox Christianity, paganism, islam and another religions and also an atheism in a Chuvash country before the October Revolution is shown.

The article is devoted to the development of armed forces of the Russian state in towns of the lower reaches of the Middle and Lower Volga region at the turn of XVIIth-XVIIIth centuries. The changes in structure and number of urban garrisons from 1660 to 1704 years are analyzed, relations between different groups of service class people are considered. Previously unpublished archival documents were used at writing of this article.

 In the article the formation process of tax inspections of Kazan province in 80-ies of the XIXth century is analyzed. The basic tendencies, features and problems of the initial stage of its existence are defined.

The article is devoted to the activities of party organizations of Southern Urals to involve village women in social and political life. The paper shows how the authorities tried to find a footing in the village, in the building of socialism in the face of a woman.

The article is devoted to the study of formation and interaction of Kazan image sides which characterized city as capital and provincial at the same time. The problem is analyzed on the materials referring to the beginning of the 60-ies - first half of 80-ies years of the ХХth century.

The article addresses the innovative approach to teaching English at University with respect to the modern «Global English» context. In phonetic terms, this refers mainly to the necessity of introducing both British and American diatopic variants into the teachinglearning process. This also implies a special emphasis on the rhetorically oriented speech of BBC news and debates, whose phonetic, lexical-phraseological and morphosyntactic adaptation requires special pragmalinguistic modelling.

The article deals with the study of the general mechanism of emotion appearance from a cognitive perspective. An artificial metalanguage called AFFECT was invented for this purpose. Scenarios of typical situations in which emotions appear are described using this metalanguage.

In the article the mechanisms of formation of semantics of the derivative word on the material of lexemes with the root morpheme *laz- in modern Slavic languages and dialects are investigated. It is revealed that the derivational paradigm of considered lexemes submits to the metonymic logic of development, possesses high semantic potential and shows the interrelation of such important categories, organizing a conceptual picture of the world, as space, movement, activity.

In the center of this article is creative perception of incomplete texts of A.S. Pushkin «Mermaid», «Egypt nights» by A. Veltman, V. Nabokov, G. Sapgir, V. Shenderovich. In the referred type of reception the producing force of creative potential of an incomplete text becomes stronger. The main options of continuation are being revealed, which offer a game with incomplete text: original code conversion of creative potential and parodic reduction of predecessor’s text.

In this article novelization is considered as the process of appearance of new genre forms as the consequence of applying new area in forming an image by the subjects of creative knowledge. This process leads to the actualization of the problem of aesthetic reality border, which is in constant formation and development, and as a result - the problem of genre border as well as the comprehension of its openness.

The article is concerned with the features of educational activities of social services agencies which are examined through the examples of different types of agencies of social services to children and families. The article defines the typical properties which are peculiar to the educational activities provided by social services agencies in comparison to the activities of educational institutions. The article discusses the aims, the content, the results and the social effects which are achieved in the process of delivering the educational activities by social services agencies. The types of educational activities which are distinctive of specific types of agencies of social services to children and families are given here definition.

The problem of improving the quality of training of teachers of preschool education that meets the demands of modern society is viewed in the article. The problem of purposeful personal development in the preschool years is directly related to the issue of organization of personality oriented system of training and professional development of teachers.

In this article we present a research of using a term «internal dialogue» in Russian and foreign psychology. We suggest a scheme of interaction of this term with similar or synonymous terms: «inner speech», «intrapersonal communication», «self-talk» and others.

The article describes the approach to the problem of understanding of interpersonal perception through the disclosure of individual characteristics of protective mechanism of perception of the subject. It is suggested to consider psychological defense as one of the leading components of social-perceptional mechanism that affects perception and evaluation of attractiveness of the object of perception.

 In addition comparative analysis of modern and Soviet Criminal Procedure Codes is made and controversial provisions of this article in scientific and law enforcement plans are researched. The author offers the ways of improving the said article.