This article aimed to assert the idea of value-definiteness of discourse semantics. Utterances and discourse based on the values of communicants or their ideas about values are here referred to as value-marked. The authors applied the value-activity system approach to the study of speech communication within the framework of the study on discourse semantics. The research is based on English and Russian utterances, in which the values of communicants are actualized explicitly. It was established that utterances of this type have a special property: they enable discourse semantics to replace the communicants’ ideas about values. A detailed examination of the functioning of corresponding verbal units in speech communication allowed us to determine them as a special type of units and such discourse as a special kind of discourse, requiring further research. According to the authors, the mechanism of functioning of values in discourse reality is realized through sign programs for actualizing values in the speaker’s consciousness. These values, in turn, form the basis for creating sign programs for understanding, interpreting, and motivating the recipient’s behaviour. The authors come to the conclusion that the analysis of semantics of value-marked utterances can greatly contribute to the understanding of the nature and functions of discourse, as it allows us to prove the semiotic idea of symbolic substitution of the speaker’s and the recipient’s ideas about values in a value-marked discourse. The latter is essential for studying the principles and propositions of discourse linguistics and substantiating the functioning of axiolinguistic mechanisms in discourse reality.

Сборник включает материалы XX Международной научно-практической конференции «Русское культурное пространство: язык -ментальность -понимание» (Москва, МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова, Институт русского языка и культуры, 2020). В докладах участников конференции рассматривались философские, культурологические и лингвистические аспекты межкультурной коммуникации, а также вопросы методики преподавания русского языка как неродного и иностранного в поликультурной аудитории.Издание адресовано преподавателям русского языка как иностранного, аспирантам, студентам, а также специалистам в сфере межкультурной коммуникации, теории и истории культуры.Ключевые слова: русский язык как иностранный, русская литература, русская культура, межкультурная коммуникация, диалог культур.УДК 81 ББК 81

The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology for the improvement of intercultural communicative competence for future translators studying German after English. The paper analyzes modern European documents on language education where communicative competence is determined through its inextricable link with plurilingual and pluricultural competencies. The authors propose methods for the formation of intercultural competence and clarify the goals of intercultural training of future translators. The paper concludes that in the practice of teaching German after English, one should adhere to the principles of learning a second foreign language based on materials that reflect the cultural realities of the country of the target language; taking into account the experience of students’ interaction with native speakers; motivating students’ interest in learning German after English; stimulating cognitive activity through solving conceptional and communicative tasks that simulate intercultural communication; using professionally-oriented assignments.