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  • ‘Cognitive Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication’

    • Full-time
    • 4 years
    • RU
    • 1,2 year - 250 000 RUB | 3,4 year - 250 000 RUB
  • Entrance exams

    • Foreign language (English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese)
    • Russian Language

Program description

We live in an era of global profession change. Very few universities offer educational programs which prepare the younger generation for new specialties.

Financial University offers a number of fundamental solutions for training specialists of a new concentration. The field of study “Linguistics", the concentration “Cognitive Linguistics and Intercultural Communication", trains business linguists with expertise in economics, business, and finance, who can masterfully formulate key values and business messages in the main documents of the company:

  • Business correspondence;
  • Financial reports;
  • Relations with the government and investors;
  • Contracts, agreements;
  • Memoranda;
  • Annual reports;
  • Speeches of top specialists at investment forums and meetings of the boards of directors.

The University trains specialists capable of ensuring the international activities of the department at the top management level. This includes speechwriting, copywriting, translations of documents of special significance, documents on relations with key investors, the government, reports of public enterprises, etc.

Program managers

Klimova Irina Iosifovna

  • PhD in Philology, Associate Professor,
  • Professor, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication of the Faculty of International Economic Relations.
  • Prof. Klimova authored numerous scientific papers on cognitive linguistics, intercultural communication and methods of teaching foreign languages in higher education, published in highly rated journals of international databases Scopus and Web of Science.
  • Repeatedly awarded the diploma of the All-Russian Book Award “Golden Fund" in the nomination “Recognized leader" and twice awarded the diploma of the same award in the nomination “Discovery of the Year".
  • Winner of the Methodological Excellence Awards “Methodical Olympus".
  • Awarded a diploma of the National Research Tomsk State University “Best Practices of Using Online Courses in the Educational Process", discipline “Intercultural Business Communication".
  • Has Certificates of Honor and Gratitude of the Rector of the Financial University, the Minister Finance of the Russian Federation, Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Head of the Treasury of the Russian Federation, Central Union of Consumer Cooperatives of the Russian Federation.

Konurbaev Marklen Erikovich

  • Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Faculty of Philology of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
  • Academic Supervisor of the Department of Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication of the Faculty of International Economic Relations.
  • Founder of the first International Competition of Simultaneous and Consecutive Interpreters COSINES Pi, which is held annually with the participation of outstanding linguists and personal translators of presidents of countries and heads of large industrial enterprises .
  • Consultant of the Expert RA Rating Agency and the Moscow bureau of the leading British weekly “The Economist".
  • Authored more than 150 publications on stylistics, phonetics, translation studies, philosophy of language, phenomenology, business English, etc.

Upon completion of the program, graduates will be able to

  • Carry out pedagogical activities for designing and implementing basic general education programs in the field of teaching foreign languages and cultures in educational institutions of preschool, primary general, basic and secondary general education, secondary professional education, and additional education;
  • Act as an intermediary between representatives of their own and foreign-language culture in general and professional spheres of communication;
  • Carry out linguistic and linguistic-cultural analysis of texts of various styles in synchronic and diachronic aspects;
  • Independently determine research tasks aimed at solving fundamental problems in the field of theory and history of language;
  • Creatively apply basic linguistic knowledge.

Key disciplines of the concentration

Cognitive Science. Modern Theories

Students study the processes performed by the brain: perception (visual, auditory, tactile), planning for the future, memory, attention, language. Students obtain knowledge about the basic methods and theoretical positions of modern cognitive science. Computer models  are used to study the functioning of the human brain.   

Cognitive Linguistics

Students study, on the one hand, the latest developments in linguistic research and the place of cognitive linguistics in the history of linguistics and, on the other hand, the complex of cognitive sciences. They study a wide range of cognitive research in linguistics, the basic concepts and fundamental scientific works of the founders of cognitive linguistics, the current state of this science, as well as the prospects for its development.

Logic, Proposition and Typology of Texts

Our students study theoretical and methodological approaches to formulating, analyzing and solving logical communication problems in the context of linguistics. They also study logical forms and techniques of presentation, causes of speech logic violations, rules of logical construction of texts, types of logical errors, types of argumentation, formal and logical methods of editorial analysis of speech components, etc.

Speech Workshop of Business Intercultural Communication

The basics of the theory of intercultural communication used in the study of the interaction of representatives of various national and organizational cultures. Identification of distinctive characteristics of national business communication models, their comparison and interpretation. Development of thinking skills within the framework of multiculturalism, recognition of the diverse cultural values in the era of globalization.

Linguistics of the Countries of the Second Foreign Language

The study of culture, geography, state structure, foreign and domestic policy of the country of the studied language. The study of the national-specific background of the functioning of this language, as well as the process of language modification in history.

Linguistics of the Countries of the Main Foreign Language

The study of the historical development of the countries of the main language being studied, their traditions and culture. The study of the development of national languages and their regional varieties, as well as issues of communicative codes.

Theory and Practice of Intercultural Communication

The study of intercultural communication as a special type of communication. A detailed examination of the typology of communicative failures when communicating with representatives of various socio-cultural communities, the search for ways to eliminate these failures. The study of the most important aspects of the interaction of language and culture, the features of cultural information storage by units belonging to different levels of the language system.

Cultural Studies

The study of the main functions of culture, its role in the transformation of the natural world, the importance of culture for the development of human society and the formation of the personality of each person. Formation of cultural thinking skills. Historical sequence of culture that influenced the formation of humanistic values of modern civilization.

Hermeneutics and Text Interpretation

Hermeneutics as a theory of interpretation of signs and understanding of meanings. Interpretation methods literature and art texts. The relations of hermeneutics with philological schools, historical and theoretical poetics. Analysis of the problem of translation, understanding of the “foreign” word, the interpenetrability of different cultures.

Career

The potential list of professions in the current market is unlimited, since a number of popular specialties are undergoing constant changes, but the nature of competencies remains virtually unchanged and needs only a small adjustment, which we carry out at the Financial University.

Upon completing training in this concentration, you will be able to work as:

  • analyst, linguist;
  • business editor, linguist;
  • business translator;
  • speechwriter;
  • journalist of business publications;
  • advisor to the head.

These professions are in demand in the following organizations:

  • consulting and law firms;
  • marketing agencies;
  • administrations of enterprises and organizations;
  • investment companies;
  • translation agencies;
  • editorial offices of magazines and newspapers;
  • PR agencies;
  • ministries and departments dealing with international communications.

Unique advantages of the program

You will receive unique knowledge combining the main concentration of the Financial University and the expertise of our key business linguists with many years of experience working directly in business.

In the XXI century, education fostered the creation of new interdisciplinary, interprofessional platforms working on the principles of the digital economy. Financial University offers you a new professional direction, developed by our team on the basis of an accurate and in-depth analysis of the market. We train specialists who are in demand on the job market, receive high salaries, and have rapid career growth.