Pause Fillers Used By Foreigners Speaking Russian

Abstract

The Russian discourse of foreigners has not been studied within structural linguistics; most researchers develop methodological approaches to improve the effectiveness of teaching foreigners. This article presents an analysis of samples of oral Russian discourse of foreign students studying Russian as a foreign language at Kalmyk State University, features of an unprepared discourse are identified. The authors pay attention to the use of pause fillers, which have national characteristics, and accompany the speech process, characterizing the speaker and the level of proficiency in RFL. Pause fillers are used in oral speech regardless of the education level, they are not parasitic words, and can be copied from the speech of native speakers. The relevance of the study of oral Russian discourse of foreigners is due to the need to analyze specific phenomena that occur during the formation of a secondary linguistic personality. The inclusion of pause fillers depends on speaker’s nationality. On the one hand, the use of pause fillers helps a foreigner to cope with stress factors when speaking a foreign language. On the other hand, pause fillers can be copied from the speech of Russian native speakers.