The self/other conceptual binary in the persian lingua-cultural area

In the article the particularities of lingual representation of the SELF / OTHER binary in the Persian lingua-cultural area on the basis of the Persian phraseological fund are researched and interpreted within the terms of cultural codes

Cognitive Mechanisms of Communicative Behaviour of Representatives of Various Linguistic Cultures of the East

Communicative behaviour is primarily based on the understanding of the ways a person interacts with other members of society and how much this reflects the cultural component of the communication process. This also includes the structure of discourse, which affects the communicative content of communication. The relevance of studying the specifics of organising discourse by representatives of oriental linguistic cultures is conditioned by the need to understand the deep cognitive mechanisms of their communicative behaviour in the context of the ever-increasing globalisation of the modern world. The novelty of the study is that it analyses some key factors that have a direct impact on the formation of communicative behaviour of carriers of the eastern mentality. The paper presents some deep aspects of the formation of a communicative culture in the traditions of the East, the study of which is of particular interest in the context of the growing need for successful intercultural communication. Communicative behaviour is analysed in the context of the correlation of language and culture, language and national mentality, language and consciousness. The practical significance of the study is determined by the need to form a global communicative space and structure the worldview aspect of intercultural interaction

OSTRACODA OF THE BAIKAL LAKE

Investigated have been Ostracoda and Arthropoda of the Baikal lake with a view to revealing its species composition, distribution, zoogeography and origin. The results of the performed investigations essentially add the present information, namely, 118 new endemic taxons - 2/5 of the total composition have been described. For the first time, the distribution of the Ostracoda in the lake has been studied, its affined connections with the modern and fossil fauna and the possible origin in the Baikal lake have been considered in the light of the common peculiarities of its fauna.Available from VNTIC / VNTIC - Scientific & Technical Information Centre of RussiaSIGLERURussian Federatio

Freshwater ostracodes in Quaternary permafrost deposits from the Siberian Arctic

Ostracode analysis was carried out on samples from ice-rich permafrost deposits obtained on the BykovskyPeninsula (Laptev Sea).A composite pro file was investigated that covers most of a 38-m thick permafrostsequence and corresponds to the last ca.60 kyr of the Late Quaternary.The ostracode assemblages aresimilar to those known from European Quaternary lake deposits during cold stages.The ostracode habitatswere small,shallow,cold,oligotrophic pools located in low centred ice wedge polygons or in small ther-mokarst depressions.In total,15 taxa,representing 7 genera,were identi fied from 65 samples.The studiedsection is subdivided into six ostracode zones that correspond to Late Quaternary climatic and environ-mental stadial-interstadial variations established by other paleoenvironmental proxies:(1)cold and dryZyrianian stadial (58 53 kyr BP);(2)warm and dry Karginian interstadial (48 34 kyr BP);(3)transitionfrom the Karginian interstadial to the cold and dry Sartanian stadial (34 21 kyr BP);(4)transition fromthe Sartanian stadial to the warm and dry Late Pleistocene period,the Allerød (21 14 kyr BP);(5)transition from the Allerød to the warm and wet Middle Holocene (14 7 kyr BP);and (6)cool and wetLate Holocene (ca.3 kyr BP).The abundance and diversity of the ostracodes will be used as an additionalbioindicator for paleoenvironmental reconstructions of the Siberian Arctic