Special Language Research Articles

Developing strategies for conceptual accessibility through multimodal literacy in the English for tourism classroom

Abstract Teaching English for Tourism at university involves both developing specialized language skills and forming knowledgeable professionals capable of appropriate intercultural communication. The distinctive feature of most instances of tourism discourse is the fact that it draws from a range of specialized domains. It mediates the tourist experience and contributes to closing the gap between the home- and the destination’s culture by making culture-specific knowledge and specialized concepts accessible to non-specialists. The article discusses the instructional effects of authentic multimodal materials within task-based project-work carried out with learners at the University of Pisa. The focus is specifically on the communicative strategies used to make specialized terminology or concepts easily understandable for the hearer. This study reports on a multimodal analysis of two sets of videoclips created by the students before and after dedicated instruction based on authentic English L1 clips from documentaries, “docu-tours” and guided tours. It discusses the positive changes observed in the learners’ use of popularization strategies to create conceptual accessibility.

‘A philosopher’s grammar’: Henry Sweet’s ‘general’, ‘universal’, and ‘philosophical grammar’

ABSTRACT Henry Sweet (1845–1912) defined a philosophical grammar (which he referred to as philosophical, general and universal grammar) as a grammar ‘not concerned with the details of one special language or family of languages, but with the general principles that underlie the grammatical phenomena of all languages’ (1892: 3). His philosophical grammar, compared to the comparative philological grammars that dominated the nineteenth century, was not only far more expansive and inclusive, but it also reflected Sweet’s unique integration of practical and theoretical grammars. This paper focuses on Sweet’s philosophical grammar from its introduction in ‘Words, Logic, and Grammar’ (1876) to its role in A New English Grammar (1892) and The History of Language (1900a).

Using Nonword Repetition to Identify Developmental Language Disorder in Monolingual and Bilingual Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Purpose A wealth of studies has assessed the diagnostic value of the nonword repetition task (NWRT) for the detection of developmental language disorder (DLD) in the clinical context of speech and language therapy, first in monolingual children and, more recently, in bilingual children. This review article reviews this literature systematically and conducts a meta-analysis on the discriminative power of this type of task in both populations. Method Three databases were used to select articles based on keyword combinations, which were then reviewed for relevance and methodological rigor based on internationally recognized checklists. From an initial pool of 488 studies, 46 studies were selected for inclusion in the systematic review, and 35 of these studies could be included in a meta-analysis. Results Most of the articles report significant discrimination between children with and without DLD in both monolingual and bilingual contexts, and the meta-analysis shows a large mean effect size. Three factors (age of the child, linguistic status, and language specificity of the task) yielded enough quantitative data for further exploration. Subgroups analysis shows variance in effect sizes, but none of the three factors, neither their interactions, were significant in a metaregression. We discuss how other, less explored factors (e.g., nature of the stimuli, scoring methods) could also contribute to differences in results. Sensitivity and specificity analyses reported in 33 studies confirmed that, despite possible effect size differences, the diagnostic accuracy of the NWRT is generally near thresholds considered to be discriminatory. It generally increases when it is combined with other tasks (e.g., parental questionnaire). Conclusions This review indicates that the NWRT is a promising diagnostic tool to identify children with DLD in monolingual and bilingual contexts with a large mean effect size. However, it seems necessary to choose the precise NWRT materials based on the children's language background and to complement the assessment sessions with other tools in order to ensure diagnosis and to obtain complete language profile of the child. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.15152370.

Sentiment Analysis for Thai Language in Hotel Domain Using Machine Learning Algorithms

Sentiment analysis is one of the most frequently used aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP), which utilizes the polarity classification of reviews expressed at the aspect, sentence or document level. Several businesses and organizations utilize this technique to improve production, as well as employee and service efficiency. However, the users’ reviews in our study were expressed in an unstructured data form, which contained spelling errors, leading to complex classifications for both the users and the machine. To solve the problem, a supervised technique of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms can be applied to the data extraction, where classification polarity can be categorized into a positive, negative or neutral class. In this research, we compared nine ML algorithms to determine the most suitable ML algorithm for creating sentiment polarity classification of customer reviews in Thai, which is a low-resource language. The dataset was collected manually from two online agencies (Agoda.com and Booking.com) utilizing a special Thai language. We employed 11 preprocessing steps to clean and handle the large amount of noise data. Next, the Delta TF-IDF, TF-IDF, N-Gram, and Word2Vec techniques were applied to convert the text reviews into vectors, processed with different ML algorithms, to determine sentiment polarity classification and to make accurate comparisons. All ML algorithms were evaluated for sentiment polarity classification with ten-fold cross-validation, with which to compare the values of recall, precision, F1-score and accuracy. The experiment results show that the Support Vector Machine (SVM) using the Delta TF-IDF technique was the best ML algorithm for polarity classification of hotel reviews in the Thai language with the highest accuracy of 89.96%. The results of this research can be applied as the tool for small and medium-sized enterprises within the field of sentiment analysis of the Thai language in the hotel domain.

Russian as a Foreign Language Teaching in a Higher Educational Establishment of the Republic of Belarus in Conditions of Closely Related Bilingualism

The study relevance is caused by the special language situation in Belarus which is in close attention of modern linguists for several decades. Russian-Belarusian languages interaction is a special type of bilingualism which has specific features due to the common fate of the Belarusian and Russian people, genetic relationship, and language systems kinship. In Belarus the processes of generation and perception of the text in Russian language take place against a special psychological background of the Belarusian language system which creates the effect of the so-called unbalanced bilingualism. As a result one language system comes into contact with another causing interference. A serious problem in Belarus is the spontaneously russified version of the Belarusian language - Trasyanka. The goal of author is to identify the main problems of foreign students language adaptation in conditions of Belarusian-Russian bilingualism. Studying Russian in Belarus foreign students have to deal with texts in the Belarusian language, with colloquial speech and, of course, use words, terms, names in the Belarusian language. The author comes to the conclusion that foreign students do not experience any special communication difficulties from the Belarusian language unfamiliarity. The teacher of Russian as a foreign language, however, has a different, special task - to ensure a harmony among the culture of the language being studied (Russian), the culture of the host country (Belarus) and the national culture of the student.

TAʿLĪM AL-LUGAH AL-ʿARABIYYAH LADA AL-TALĀMĪḎ MIN UṢŪL AL-ʿARAB

Students of Arab origins are children who first know the Arabic language from their families before learning in school. Therefore, their discourse when teaching Arabic is definitely better than other students who are not of Arab descent. The specificity of the discourse language of Arab individuals certainly affects their children in discourse. This is seen in acoustic signs in the speech. The reason is that the phonology of every language in the world has its own characteristics. We can see the characteristics of phonology in language from a variety of phonology in Arabic and other languages. Therefore, the researcher “Teaching Arabic to Student of Arab origins at Anak Sholeh Mandiri Primary School in Banjarmasin (audio study with the Software Praat ). To learn how to teach Arabic language and the characteristics of Students of Arab origins in the Islamic Primary School Anak Sholeh Mandiri in terms of phonetics. The researcher analyzes descriptive kualitatif and the software Praat ready program because it is one of the well-known ready-made program in Amsterdam and the best sound meter tools because it analyzes accurately and completely. The results of this research are: Teaching the Arabic language to Students of Arab origins at the Anak Sholeh Mandiri Islamic Primary School in Banjarmasin is organized into three departments, namely planning, implementation and evaluation. The planning of teaching the Arabic language to students of Arab origins in the Anak Sholeh Mandiri Islamic Elementary School in Banjarmasin is excellent, which consists of: education objectives, teaching materials, teaching activities, teaching methods, their sources and evaluation. And its implementation is very good, because its implementation is appropriate in most of the educational activities that are organized in stages to achieve the educational goals, and stages consisting of opening activities, basic activities and closing activities. As for evaluating it with an excellent degree, because it is evaluated by planning and organizing before the activities, that an evaluation is held four times in the middle, and the evaluation is made appropriate to all skills and is appropriate to the objectives of education and teaching materials. The exercises are varied. And the phonological characteristics of Arab students of Anak Sholeh Mandiri Primary School in Banjarmasin, analyzed by "Software Praat". The researcher writes the conclusion as follows: that the highest degree of the high degree of the vocabulary is the word ممرضة, the highest degree of the high degree of the vocabulary Pitch is the word طبيب, the highest degree of the high degree of intensity of the vocabulary is the word موظف, and that the high degree of duration The vocabulary that students of Arab descent is spoken about 1.500 - 2.110. And a high degree of pitch vocabulary that pupils of Arab origins pronounce around 440 Hz - 500Hz. The intensity of the vocabulary of the vocabulary that the students of Arab origins utter is about 79 dB - 81 dB. The duration of the female student is longer than the male student, the Pitch score of the male student is higher than that of the female student, and the degree of Intensity of the male student is higher than that of the female student. Based on the results of the research, the researcher concluded the research propositions, which are: First: If the alphabetical letters with the accusative or double action movement are either in the beginning or the last of the word, Pitch and Intensity are high. Second: If the alphabets are members of its outlet upper teeth and gums and put the lips rounded the Pitch and Intensity High. Third: If the alphabets are with intensity or with table moves the pitch and intensity are also high.

THE EFFECTIVENESS AND THE PROBLEMS FACED IN THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN A SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSROOM IN MALAYSIA

This qualitative case study investigated the effectiveness of lesson delivery and sequence of content and learning expectations of two English Language attached to a special education (Integration programme) school in Petaling Jaya. Malaysia. It also focused on the teaching and learning problems encountered in the particular classrooms. This study brings broader understanding of strategies for effective teaching of English in a special education classroom in Malaysia. The rationale for the study stems from the need to gain greater perspective of the teaching of English learners in a special education classroom. Results reflect analysis of classroom observation, face to face interview with two English Language and document review. Emerging from the data are some effective teaching strategies and profound problems that special education English Language teachers can add to their repertoire.
 
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VARIATION OF RIAU MALAY LANGUAGE IN ROKAN HILIR REGENCY

ABSTRACTLanguage variation is the study of those features of language that differ systematically as compare different groups of speaker or the same speaker in different situation. As a multicultural country, Indonesia has so much variety of language. In addition to the official language, Indonesian people also have regional languages in each region. Rokan Hilir is one of them. Rokan Hilir, where the majority of the population is Malay, has a special regional language, namely the Malay language. This descriptive qualitative study identifies the variation of Riau Malay language in Rokan Hilir Regency review by analyze realizations of variation Riau Malay language in Rokan Hilir Regency. To understand the Realization of variation Riau Malay language in Rokan Hilir observation and interview were used in this study. The result indicates that realization of language variation were found there, phonology that is found as the most kinds of realization of language variation for about 21 times appearing or (53.8 %). Followed by Lexical 16 times or 41.1%, then grammar only found 2 times or 5.1% Keywords: Language Variation, Riau Malay Language, Rokan Hilir

Formal Verification of ST Programs using CSP

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are embedded devices that are widely used in industrial control systems. PLC programs are written in special languages that are defined in the IEC 61131-3 standard, which includes two textual and three graphical programming languages. Structured text (ST) language is one of IEC 61131-3 standards, which is a high-level text language similar to PASCAL language. ST language features the following advantages: freely programming style, compact structure and strong data processing capabilities. Using ST language can be more convenient to realize the complex control programs. In this paper, we research and discuss formal verification of PLC program based on ST language, and show the conversion rules from ST language to the formal modeling language named CSP# (short for Communicating Sequential Programs). Finally, a case study is presented to demonstrate the procedure that PLC programs written in ST language are translated into CSP#, consequently, and the result of verification is given using the Process Analysis Toolkit (PAT).

The Qur’anic story between the duality of science and religion, a theoretical study in the directions of understanding and opposition.

After the doctoral thesis of Muhammad Ahmad Khalaf Allah, which caused an uproar in the academic and religious circles alike, and from that moment, questions began to circulate about the Qur’anic text and its special language. Equal between the two languages. The dialectic of science and religion was the most prominent dialectic after that thesis, and did not pay attention to the discrepancy in the fields of science and religion, and those interested in the issue of graphic differentiation between the language of science, which is concerned with the interpretation of phenomena after their existence, and the language of the Holy Qur’an, which is concerned with the origin of existence and emergence, as it is concerned with building and educating the human being. And his education, while we see science that he is concerned with facilitating life from outside the person, not inside him. Hence, the Qur’anic stories were the most prominent field, and the thickest material for the duality of science and religion, as some of the modernists after Muhammad Ahmad Khalaf Allah indicated the conflict of Qur’anic stories with the constants of history, paleontology, geography and astronomy, which the research tried to answer. alkalimat almiftahia(alqsst alqrany- thnayyt aleilm waldiyn - atts alfahm waltaearud)

TERJEMAHAN AL-’ISTICĀRAH AL-TAMTHīLIYYAH DALAM HADIS RASULULLAH S.A.W

The translation is a process of copying information contained in the source text into the recipient's source as description, interpretation, and explanation. The field of translation has undergone a drastic process of modernization in line with the development of science and technology. Studies related to the translation of hadith are still insufficient. Furthermore, the development of language is constantly changing according to current changes and society's need for hadith which is becoming more prominent due to the increasing religious awareness. In addition, the position of the hadith of the Prophet SAW, which is jawamic al-kalim has a special and distinctive language feature that requires expertise in the translation of its meaning. This study will attempt to analyze the translation of al-’Isticārah al-Tamthīliyyah in some selected hadiths from the book Riyāḍ al- Ṣāliḥīn by using the method of textual study. Among the purpose of the analysis is to take a closer look at the translation methodology of al-’Isticārah al-Tamthīliyyah used by the translator of the book Riyāḍ al- Ṣāliḥīn published by JAKIM. The findings of this study can be concluded that the translator translates the content of the hadiths studied based on the text outwardly without emphasizing the metaphorical aspect of al-’Isticārah al-Tamthīliyyah and the purpose of the parable is made. It can be categorized as a literal translation. In this case, the author believes that the translation of al-’Isticārah al-Tamthīliyyah of the source language to the target language, especially Arabic to Malay necessary to explain the meaning of the balaghah to explain the purpose of the parable is made so that the readers of the translation be able to understand the implied meaning clearly. The explanation can be used as a footnote on each relevant translation. In addition, the translator's understanding of the elements of metaphor in the original culture is an important factor in producing a quality translation. It is hoped that the findings of this study will contribute to the development of hadith translation in Malaysia and help readers of the translation of the book Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn in understanding the meaning of hadith clearly.

The Metaphorical Interpretation of English and Chinese Body-part Idioms Based on Relevance Theory

As a special language coding way and language phenomenon, metaphor is an important form when humans use language in communication. However, metaphorical mappings are not arbitrary. They are based on our physical experience of the world around us. Idioms are the crystallization of human language and culture and play an important role in human communication. The idiomatic meaning is not simply the sum of the lexical meanings, but often the metaphorical meaning extended from the literal meaning. The paper is based on the relevance theory proposed by Sperber and Wilson (1995), adopts the methods of comparative analysis and text analysis, and takes the idioms of “body metaphor” contained in English and Chinese as the main research object to explore the following questions: 1. What is the interpretation model of the “body-part metaphors” in idioms? 2. In English and Chinese idioms, what are the similarities and differences in the use and interpretation of body-part metaphors? Firstly, the idioms of body-part metaphor are classified based on their projection types, then analyzing the projection methods of each type. Finally, through the new reasoning model guided by relevance theory to analyze the reasoning process of body-part metaphor in English and Chinese idioms, exploring the importance of cognitive context in the interpretation of body-part idioms.

Development of the NMR Lexical Representational Competence (NMR-LRC) Instrument As a Formative Assessment of Lexical Ability in 1H NMR Spectroscopy

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra are among the most common visualizations used by chemists in both academic and industrial settings, where they serve as both representations of submicroscopic entities and tools that support social discourse. The ability to use words to communicate about features within NMR spectra is thus an essential aspect of chemists’ representational competence. Collectively, these words constitute a highly specialized language specific to this technique. To adequately prepare chemists, the undergraduate curriculum must therefore cultivate students’ ability to use this lexicon. We developed the NMR Lexical Representational Competence (NMR-LRC) instrument, a formative assessment to measure students’ ability and perceived ability to use words to communicate the identification, analysis, and interpretation of features within 1H NMR spectra. Following development, we administered the NMR-LRC in Spring 2020 to a total of N = 678 second-semester organic chemistry students at a large Midwestern university. We analyzed the responses using the Rasch model to collect statistical evidence of validity and reliability, and we used cluster analysis to evaluate whether the instrument could detect the Dunning–Kruger effect (i.e., students’ illusions of competence). Supporting evidence of response process, content, and associative validity was also collected. The results suggest that data obtained from the NMR-LRC can be interpreted as a measure of students’ lexical representational competence and associated perceived competence in 1H NMR spectroscopy and that the NMR-LRC can detect students’ illusions of such competence. Results further suggest that instructors can use the NMR-LRC to formatively assess their students’ lexical ability and associated perceived ability following instruction, allowing instructors to provide feedback that promotes students’ competence and perceived competence.

Chemical reactivity from local temperature

Chemical Reactions In recent years, density functional theory (DFT) has become truly accurate, with uncertainties comparable to typical uncertainties in many experiments. This should be leading to a complete transformation of chemistry but so far it has not. DFT calculations yield results that cannot be used directly because they must be translated into a special language to point out their chemical relevance. Although chemical reactions are too numerous to count, there are only a limited number of reactivity principles that could be applicable in general. Guo et al. show that the concept of local temperature from the context of conceptual DFT can be used to predict regioselectivity for nucleophilic and electrophilic attacks and to develop the corresponding descriptors of chemical reactivity. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 12 , 5623 (2021).

The functions of heraldic symbols in the English fiction

The article considers the main functions performed by heraldic symbols due to their verbalization in blazons as descriptions of coats of arms by a specific set of language constructs. Heraldic symbols as the quintessence of culture are analyzed in the communicative-functional aspect. There are some special characteristics of heraldic symbolic units, namely, their multifunctional orientation, the possibility of multiple interpretations, the presence of a nomination mechanism, and others. The mediative and mnemonic functions of symbols, taken from the works of Lotman, are manifested in the heraldic symbols of fiction as one of the mechanisms of cultural memory, therefore, the symbol is a mediator of the semiosis spheres. The list of functions is supplemented by the consideration of the social dimension, because heraldic symbols are potentiated in the society, therefore, the essence of the identification-integrative and adaptive-regulatory functions of heraldic symbolism is revealed. The concepts of multimodal imagery and synesthesia effect, which are embodied in the interaction of verbal and nonverbal symbols, are involved in the analysis of the blazons on the material of English fiction. The theme of symbols functioning is supplemented by the classification of the main functions and subfunctions proposed by the author. The focus of the study is also the identification function, resulting in an emphasis on the role of a special heraldic language in the expression of the personality. Taking into account the types of coats of arms, the article considers the coding function in the punning and allusive coats of arms, as well as in the heraldic lexemes borrowed from other languages. The cross-cutting idea of the article is revealed through the interpretation of heraldic symbols in their functioning in the works of English fiction and poetry and summarized in the definition of the symbol not only as a linguistic unit, but also as a semiotic phenomenon of culture.

ESP Research Directions: Enduring and Emerging Lines of Inquiry

This paper identifies major strands of research interest in the ESP literature. Specifically, the review aims to highlight mainstay topics that have characterised research in this area as well as topics that are emerging in this field, or that have received rather limited research interest to date. Linguistic inquiry has been a major thrust of research endeavor, and this has largely been driven by the needs of ESP teachers for linguistic descriptions of specialist language use to inform the development of pedagogical descriptions of academic, workplace or professional English for use in instruction. The ESP literature is also rich in case studies of teaching that report practices in one setting. The review identifies a number of topics, such as learning ESP, ESP teaching practices across settings and ESP teacher education needs, which have received scant research interest. It is suggested that these are emerging avenues for research.

A Review of Recent Work in Transfer Learning and Domain Adaptation for Natural Language Processing of Electronic Health Records.

SummaryObjectives: We survey recent work in biomedical NLP on building more adaptable or generalizable models, with a focus on work dealing with electronic health record (EHR) texts, to better understand recent trends in this area and identify opportunities for future research. Methods: We searched PubMed, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) anthology, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) proceedings, and Google Scholar for the years 2018-2020. We reviewed abstracts to identify the most relevant and impactful work, and manually extracted data points from each of these papers to characterize the types of methods and tasks that were studied, in which clinical domains, and current state-of-the-art results. Results: The ubiquity of pre-trained transformers in clinical NLP research has contributed to an increase in domain adaptation and generalization-focused work that uses these models as the key component. Most recently, work has started to train biomedical transformers and to extend the fine-tuning process with additional domain adaptation techniques. We also highlight recent research in cross-lingual adaptation, as a special case of adaptation. Conclusions: While pre-trained transformer models have led to some large performance improvements, general domain pre-training does not always transfer adequately to the clinical domain due to its highly specialized language. There is also much work to be done in showing that the gains obtained by pre-trained transformers are beneficial in real world use cases. The amount of work in domain adaptation and transfer learning is limited by dataset availability and creating datasets for new domains is challenging. The growing body of research in languages other than English is encouraging, and more collaboration between researchers across the language divide would likely accelerate progress in non-English clinical NLP.

Special issue on spoken language in time and across time: introduction

The idea of this special issue onSpoken language in time and across timeemerged at an international symposium on this topic that we organised at Lund University on 20 September 2019. The purpose of the symposium was to celebrate important past and present achievements of spoken language research as well as past and present corpora available for such research. Some speakers reported on academic and technical advances from the past, while others offered information about state-of-the-art research on spoken language and spoken corpus compilation. Our idea with the symposium was also to bring together early career scholars, somewhat more senior scholars as well as senior scholars – the latter actually active when interest in spoken language and spoken corpus compilation was in its infancy. The type of spoken corpora in focus extended from the world's first publicly available, machine-readable spoken corpus,The London–Lund Corpus of Spoken English(Svartvik 1990), nowadays referred to as LLC–1, through to the spoken parts ofThe British National Corpora(BNC) from 1994 (BNC Consortium 2007) and 2014 (Loveet al.2017),The Diachronic Corpus of Present-Day Spoken English(DCPSE) consisting of LLC–1 and the British component ofThe International Corpus of English(ICE–GB),Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English(SBCSAE) (Du Boiset al.2000–5),The Corpus of Contemporary American English(COCA) (Davies 2008–) and finally the most recent one,The London–Lund Corpus 2(LLC–2) (Põldvere, Johansson & Paradis 2021a). The symposium thus covered approximately half a century of data from publicly available corpora compiled for multipurpose use by the academic community for research on spoken English in different contexts.

«Я красивый, хозяйственный, заботливый, люблю ее, что еще надо?»: Антропологическое описание брачной стратегии

The article is considered some gender aspects of marriage practices modern urban family. The work is based on the materials of the field research of young Perm families in the 2016–2020, using semi-formal interview and case-studies. The appeal to qualitative methods is conditional upon the study’s specifics — the aspiration to get a lot of information about gender demonstration of at various stages of the marriage strategy. The result of research was the reconstruction of the evolution of relationships and gender identifications of 13 young families. This article founds on the narrative of informants about the main stages of the development of their relationship, which ended with the conclusion of marriage. In the process of analyzing narratives, it turned out that informants falsify practices. They relationship similar to the game with specific signs (special body language, etc.). In this game, the man is given a dominant role; he represents the “macho” image. The woman represents the image of a “small girl”. However, in real life, the leading role is played by a woman. She has higher status positions: the higher education, the senior position, large income. The inequality of respondents is highlighted by the difference in age and an experience of socialization. He is a resident citizen; she has grown up in a village. According to the author, the status inequality of informants, as well as the discrepancy between their public presentations and real images, were updated and emphasized by the mother-in-law. She spoke out against the wedding, because she wanted a more “profitable match” for her son: equal in age and without the experience of past long-term relationships.

THE ROLE OF THE SOCIOCULTURAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE FORMATION OF A CULTURAL DIALOGUE IN THE STRUCTURE OF A LANGUAGE PERSONALITY

The article is devoted to the issues of the formation of a special language personality type, which is defined through the collaboration of cultures in its structure. The originality of the language personality is based on the interaction of different types of speech culture and different national cultures. The article studies sociocultural factors that can lead to a dialogue of cultures in the structure of a language personality. These factors can be common for the whole society and for an individual. The example of a language personality, in the structure of which there is a dialogue of speech cultures, is Maxim Gorky, a writer who is known for a creative attitude to the word. The dialogue of different national cultures is a mark of originality of the language personality of a modern rock poet Boris Grebenshchikov. It influenced his poetic language. The quality of assimilation of different cultures is realized at the level of meanings of a polysemous word, while either the meanings of the word refer to different cultures, or connotations, related to a particular culture, stick to the major meaning of the word.