Semantic aspect of perception of foreign-language text at the non-linguistic departments
N. G. Zarechneva
Tomsk State University, 36 Lenina Ave., Tomsk, Russia, 634050
Keywords: semantics, semantic field, the notions of «sense» and «denotation» (by G. Frege)
Abstract
The article notes that the role of the «Foreign Language» discipline in the modern world at the non-linguistic departments of higher educational institutions is increasing significantly because foreign language communication in the context of global integration is not only an essential component of future professional activity, but also is one of the most relevant professional competences. Another important condition for the professional activity of any professional is to work with the information, including the foreign-language texts which are professionally oriented. Therefore, at present the knowledge of at least one foreign language is vital. Learning a foreign language at the departments of natural sciences and technology has a communicative-oriented and professionally-directed character. However, in the methods of teaching foreign languages there is a fundamental problem of the lack of a developed system (semantic system) which allows forming and expanding the foreign-language thinking of the students. The paper is dedicated to the method of semantic fields as a method of systematization and description of the philosophical processes of getting sense, discovered by N. P. Chupakhin, in teaching foreign languages to the students of non-linguistic departments. The foundations of this method are considered. Applying this approach allows improving the quality of learning the foreign language’s lexical elements by establishing relationships between languages by «semantization» of the foreign language’s vocabulary. The model of semantic fields allows determining dialectic connections of linguistic units and the non-language reality. The semantics can be said to study the semantic form of information, that is, the semantic aspect is the type of information in terms of its meaning, content. The paper also discusses the notions of «sense» and «denotation» as basic notions in the translation theory included in the conceptual apparatus of semantic analysis.
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