FORMATION OF BACHELOR STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCES WHEN STUDYING THE COURSE “SPEECH CULTURE OF A SPEECH PATHOLOGIST” (ON THE MATERIAL OF STYLE DIFFERENTIATION OF LANGUAGE)

Актуальность исследования определяется необходимостью устранения двух видов противоречий в образовательном процессе высшей школы: 1) между уровнем сформированности коммуникативной компетенции выпускников школ и требованиями, предъявляемыми к студентам-бакалаврам; 2) между необходимостью внедрения компетентностного подхода и отсутствием единых представлений о понятийном аппарате новой парадигмы, методических средствах ее обеспечения применительно к разным компетенциям и компетентностям. Цель исследования – разработка методической модели для формирования коммуникативной компетенции студентов-бакалавров при изучении курса «Речевая культура дефектолога» (на материале стилевой дифференциации языка). В основе разрабатываемой компетентностной методической модели – концепция типологизации материала на всех выделяемых уровнях: формальном, содержательном, прагматическом, организационно-технологическом, оценочном и прогностическом. Раскрывается содержание каждого уровня. Применительно к каждому уровню выделяются ведущие формируемые компоненты коммуникативной компетенции: языковой, дискурсивно-стилистический, риторико-прагматический и этикетно-речевой. В результате делается вывод о значимости разработки компетентностной методической модели в расширении педагогического инструментария компетентностного подхода. Отмечается возможность применения данной модели для повышения уровня коммуникативной компетенции студентов не только в ходе преподавания «Речевой культуры дефектолога», но и других дисциплин лингвистического цикла. Указывается, что разработанная модель может способствовать устранению выделенных противоречий образовательного процесса. В итоге намечаются перспективы дальнейших исследований. The author defines the relevance of the study by the need to eliminate two types of contradictions in the educational process of higher education: 1) between the level of formation of the communicative competence of school graduates and the requirements for bachelor students; 2) between the need to introduce a competency-based approach and the lack of shared sense about the conceptual apparatus of the new paradigm, methodological means of its provision in relation to different competences and competencies. The purpose of this study is to develop a methodological model of the formation of bachelor students’ communicative competence while studying the course “Speech culture of a speech pathologist” (based on the material of style differentiation of the language). The basis of the developed competence-based methodological model is the concept of classification of the material at all distinguished levels: formal, substantive, pragmatic, organizational and technological, evaluative and prognostic. The author reveals the content of each level and identifies the leading formed components of communicative competence for each of them: linguistic, discursive and stylistic, rhetorical and pragmatic, etiquette and speech. As a result, the author concludes about the importance of developing a competence-based methodological model in expanding the pedagogical tools of the competence-based approach. The researcher notes the possibility of using this model to increase the level of communicative competence of students not only in the course of teaching “Speech culture of a speech pathologist”, but in other disciplines of the linguistic cycle. The author points out that the developed model can help eliminate the identified contradictions in educational process. In conclusion, the researcher outlines the prospects for further research.

Weak elements in cycles

The diachronic development of Modern Italian pronouns, in particular of the 3pl dative loro ‘to them’ (Cardinaletti 2010; Egerland 2010), could be seen as the first step in a linguistic cycle in which elements become more and more structurally deficient, going from strong XPs, through weak deficient XPs, and finally to clitic X°s. However, historical data from Old Tuscan varieties show that there is much distributional instability and variation which is not easily accommodated in Cardinaletti and Starke’s (1999) tripartite typology. It will be claimed that the diachronic development of dative loro can be captured in terms of a close interaction between the internal structure of pronouns (where reanalysis as upward movement and the Head Preference Principle derive different degrees of structural deficiency), and general rules governing sentence structure.

Cyclical change and problems of projection

In diachronic change, specifiers are reanalysed as heads and heads as higher heads. When the older specifiers and heads are renewed, a linguistic cycle emerges. Explanations provided for these cycles include structural and featural economy (e.g. van Gelderen 2004; 2011). Chomsky’s (2013, 2015) focus on labelling as unconnected to merge makes it possible to see the cycles in another way, namely as resolutions to labelling problems. The Labelling Algorithm (LA) operates after merge is complete, when a syntactic derivation is transferred to the interfaces. When a head and a phrase merge, the LA determines that the head is the label by Minimal Search. Where two phrases merge, the LA cannot find the head and one of the phrases has to either move or share features with the other. This chapter argues that, in addition to Chomsky’s resolutions to labelling paradoxes, reanalysing a phrase as a head also resolves the paradox. It also shows that the third factor principle minimal search is preferable over feature-sharing. The change from phrase to head is frequent, as eight cross-linguistically attested changes show. In addition, in the renewal stage of a cycle, adjuncts are frequently incorporated as arguments showing a preference of set-merge (feature-sharing) over pair-merge.

Cycling through diachrony

The notion of ‘linguistic cycle’ has long been recognized as being relevant to the description of many processes of language change. This introduction deals with different phenomena of cyclical change, making clear that while grammaticalization is one area where cyclical change can be found, it is not the only one. The chapter provides an overview of the theoretical literature about cyclical change, with particular emphasis on a diachronic generative approach. It contextualizes the chapters in this volume against the background of this literature, and groups them into more theoretical and more empirical contributions, addressing cyclical changes in both the nominal and the clausal domains.

Cycles in Language Change

The notion of ‘linguistic cycle’ has long been recognized as being relevant to the descriptions of many processes of language change. In a process known as grammaticalization, a given linguistic form loses its lexical meaning as well as some of its phonological content, and then gradually weakens, until it ultimately vanishes. This process of change becomes cyclic when the grammaticalized form is replaced by an innovative item, which can develop along exactly the same pathway. This volume unites thirteen chapters which address aspects of cyclical change from a wide variety of empirical perspectives. Couched in the generative framework, the contributions to this book bear witness to the rapidly growing interest among Chomskyan syntacticians in the phenomenon of grammaticalization. Topics touched upon include, but are not limited to, the diachrony of negation (in the context of, but also beyond, Jespersen’s Cycle), the syntax of determiners and pronominal clitics, the internal structure of wh-words and logical operators, cyclical changes in argument structure, and the relationship between morphology and syntax. One conclusion that transpires is that the correlation between cyclical change and grammaticalization—though undeniable—is perhaps less strong than sometimes assumed. Given its emphasis on empirical data description and theoretical analysis, Cycles in Language Change will be of interest to historical linguists working in formal and usage-based frameworks, and more broadly to scholars interested in language variation and change.

Passive se in Romanian and Spanish: A subject cycle

In this article, we discuss passive se constructions in Romanian and Spanish. We argue that there is a projected implicit external argument in passive se constructions in both languages based on an available inalienable possession interpretation of body parts. These constructions, however, differ from each other in one important way: Romanian passive se allows a ‘by’-phrase, while Spanish passive se shows severe restrictions. Moreover, we illustrate that in Old Spanish, passive se freely allowed ‘by’-phrases. Thus, Modern Romanian reflects an earlier stage of Spanish. We propose a linguistic cycle to explain these differences, where Spanish and Romanian are at different stages of that cycle. The approach offers an explanation for a general pattern within Romance, where ‘by’-phrases are initially grammatical with passive se, but then become ungrammatical over time, a pattern to date that has not yet been explained. It also offers a thereotical account for why some languages do not develop passive se constructions.

Complementizer agreement in eastern Wisconsin: (Central) Franconian features in an American heritage language community

The present study shows that Wisconsin Heritage German licenses complementizer agreement for second person singular, with inflectional affixes developed through the reanalysis of phonetically-derived hiatus effects. Most frequently attested in speakers with direct ancestry to Franconian-speaking regions, this phenomenon is restricted to second person singular, consistent with the input varieties at time of immigration. Analyzed diachronically, complementizer agreement is shown to progress through a linguistic cycle involving the reanalysis and subsequent compensatory reinforcement of subject pronouns, with Wisconsin Heritage German exhibiting the earliest stage of this cycle.

Sociolinguistic typology in North East India: A tale of two branches

Long-standing ideas about the “linguistic cycle” hold that languages naturally shift from analytic to synthetic morphological patterns and then from synthetic back to analytic in a long-term cyclic pattern. But the demonstrable history of actual languages shows dramatic differences in their tendencies to shift in either direction, and there are well-known examples of language families which preserve complexity or analyticity over millennia. We see the same thing within Tibeto-Burman, where some branches are highly synthetic and others analytic. Examining the history of a representative language from each of two TB branches in Northeast India, analytic Boro (Boro-Garo) and synthetic Lai (Kuki-Chin), suggests a possible sociolinguistic explanation for these tendencies. Trudgill and others have suggested that the tendency to develop and maintain strongly analytic grammatical patterns is associated with “exoteric” languages spoken by large populations, and regularly used to communicate with outsiders, while the development and maintenance of morphological complexity is characteristic of “esoteric” languages spoken by small communities and used only to communicate with other native speakers. This paper presents Boro-Garo and Kuki-Chin as exemplifying these tendencies.