Methodological aspects of linguoculturological analysis of Chinese character writing

Relevance. Today we are seeing the increased interest to China as a partner in political, trade, and cultural relations. The requirements for specialists who speak this language have increased many times, but the methodology of teaching Chinese character writing at language universities has remained at the level of grammar-translational approach, which cannot meet the current demand of the state and society.

Aim. To identify the sources of linguistic and cultural content of Chinese hieroglyphic signs, to identify the system of creating hieroglyphs. For this purpose, we have set tasks to reveal the conditions for the appearance of hieroglyphs depending on the source of linguistic and cultural content, to analyze the ways of creating hieroglyphs on specific examples, to identify the difficulties of modern analysis of hieroglyphic script.

Methodology. On the basis of a retrospective analysis, the sources of linguistic and cultural content of hieroglyphic signs are identified, with the help of system analysis, the classification of ways to create hieroglyphs is determined, with the help of studying and translating literature and sources, examples confirming the above classification are found.

Scientific novelty / theoretical and / or practical significance. This study allows us to outline ways to solve the problem of the quality of teaching students Chinese character writing. The research contributes to a deeper understanding of such a cultural phenomenon as the hieroglyphic sign. The linguo-culturological approach to the study of characters contributes to a better assimilation of characters by students, which means it raises the level and quality of subsequent communication with native Chinese speakers. The practical significance of this work lies in its focus on improving the linguo-culturological side of linguistic education at the university.

Results. At the search and diagnostic stage the texts of dissertation research, articles published in Russian peer-reviewed scientific journals of the list of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, as well as world scientific journals included in the Scopus database were analyzed. The analysis of the works revealed the insufficiency of research in the field of linguo-culturological approach to teaching Chinese hieroglyphic writing, which allows us to speak about the relevance of the presented work.

Conclusions. This study allows us to outline ways to solve the problem of the quality of teaching Chinese hieroglyphic writing to students using a linguo-culturological approach. A deeper understanding of such a cultural phenomenon as a hieroglyphic sign is revealed. Such a position in relation to the hieroglyph contributes to a better mastering the hieroglyphs by students, which means it raises the level and quality of subsequent communication with native Chinese speakers. This paper outlines ways to create a methodology for teaching Chinese character writing based on a linguo-culturological approach

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