FORMATION OF FOREIGNERS COMMUNICATIVE AND CULTURAL COMPETENCE BY ADAPTED PRECEDENT TEXTS

В статье предложены способы и критерии отбора прецедентных текстов русской литературы, используемых в учебных целях. Статья может быть полезна преподавателям РКИ, методика может использоваться и при преподавании любого другого языка. Автор предлагает использовать в учебных целях тексты авторов, чьи персоналии указаны в лингвострановедческом словаре, основанном на концепции прецедентности, а также использовать количественные критерии, в частности, учитывать результаты Wordstat и статистику тиражей. The article suggests methods and criteria for the selection of precedent texts of Russian literature used for educational purposes. The paper may be useful to teachers of the Russian language as a foreign language, the methodology can also be used when teaching any other language. For educational purposes the author suggests using the texts of writers whose personalities are listed in a linguistic-cultural dictionary based on the concept of precedence, as well as using quantitative criteria, in particular, take into account Wordstat results and book circulation statistics.

Elenco di libro dal porto del Pireo List of Books from the Port of Piraeus

The inscription, carrying part of a list of books, was found in the surroundings of the port of Piraeus. Some scholars think that it belongs to a library’s catalogue; according to others, it might record a donation offered to a gymnasium’s library. The inscription is of great interest as both a historical and paraliterary document. On the one hand, it is an asset for the study of book circulation and the emergence of public libraries in the Hellenistic age. On the other hand, it provides useful data about otherwise unknown or highly fragmentary texts, and it is a key witness in the history of tradition of all the books mentioned.

Analysis of Concentrations of Loans by Using Book Circulation Data in Korea University Library

In this paper, data of almost 8 million loans of books recorded for 15 years by the Korea University Library are analyzed by using big data analytic techniques. During this period, book circulation decreased with an average annual rate of decline of 4.4%. The use factor of books in each Dewey decimal classification (DDC) class was evaluated to measure how efficiently books were used by library users. Loan frequencies of books were analyzed and meaningful results regarding loan concentrations and the half-lives of books were obtained. It was observed that 50% of the total loans in each year were for 20% of all borrowed books in that year. This phenomenon will be called the 20/50 loan rule, and the set of the top 20% most borrowed books, whose cumulative loan frequencies reach 50% of total loans, will be called a core collection. The 20/50 loan rule shows the loan concentration of library books. The extent of loan concentration gets stronger if loans for two or more consecutive years are concerned. It was found that with high probability, books in a core collection at a specific year are also categorized as a core collection in next years. Moreover, books categorized as a core collection in consecutive years have longer half-lives compared with all other circulating books.

The Audience of Ammianus Marcellinus and the Circulation of Books in the Late Roman World

Since the late nineteenth century, studies of Ammianus’ audience have reached widely divergent conclusions. Research has focused on two opposed theses: while some scholars have seen the pagan senatorial aristocracy as the audience of the Res Gestae, others have assigned that role to the imperial bureaucracy. However, in thinking that a work could reach—or target—exclusively the members of a specific social group, the prevalent views on Ammianus’ audience contradict what we know about the circulation of books in the late Roman world. In contrast to previous research, this study proposes a new approach based on an analysis of the information available on book circulation in Ammianus’ time. This analysis shows that the audience of the Res Gestae was most likely socially diverse.