On the methods of the «worldview integration» in the process of learning Russian as a foreign language

Philosophy

Abstract

The article is devoted to overcoming an incomprehension caused by differences between the Russian language.  The article discusses the issues of overcoming the incomprehension caused by differences between the Russian language worldview and the worldview of foreign students learning Russian (Chinese students in our case). There is a brief analysis of some classical conceptions of mentality — «the general and the automated in individual behavior», which demonstrates «the impersonal content of mind» of any individual (Jacques Le Goff). Some factors that provide interdependence between national mentality and the related system of the natural language are concerned in semiotic and comparative methodologies. The article considers the dialogic (leading to the understanding of mental differences) potential of the actualization of naive worldview elements in the comparison of basic concepts of Russian and Chinese cultures. The author believes that such concepts as «soul», «heart», «sonship» — may be considered not only in their general meanings (direct references) but mostly as the elusive for the foreign language speakers semantic aura created by connotative factors, as thoughthey are implicitly defining — through the language and mentality — relatively constant angles (intentional landmarks) of the attitude of conscience toward the world. It turns out that actualization of the «aura» at lessons of the Russian language can be realized through the immersion of students speaking a different language in a conversation about the similarities and differences of the main concepts that exist in any language and which are the basis of any linguistic reality model.