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The current study deals with the Foreign Language Training for university students seeking the Master Degree in International Relations. The research focuses on the efficient organization of Foreign Language for Specific Purposes (FLSP), including ESP, course regarding the professional competence: meeting specific needs of the program stakeholders, designing it for adult learners of intermediate or advanced levels, etc. The aim of the course participants’ training is to apply a foreign language in professional work situations. The learners are expected to get new knowledge and experience through integrated education that includes more than one subject and tends to be more effective. This article offers the theoretical and practical support for FLSP practitioners researching, designing courses and providing materials for learners of the Master programs in International Relations and related professional areas. The support includes problem-based training to develop students’ professional competence. The training focuses on the insights from designing an FLSP course for such students, the analysis of their future job responsibilities, the stakeholders’ needs, as well as the FLSP literature on integrated education approaches review, the Master study programs and Qualification Requirements.

The article defines and classifies English Spycraft professionalisms (ESP) as lexical units denoting main espionage concepts. It establishes that, because of inconsistency with the ‗terminology' requirements (basically, lack of exact definitions, abundance of synonyms, and connotation colourings), these lexical units can be placed only under ‗professionalisms' category. They include vocabulary with various degrees of formality: from official to very colloquial. The article also provides detailed ESP morphological and semantic analyses. Morphology demonstrates the three basic groups of ESP building means: compounding (formation of ESP complex phrases with several words of different parts of speech), affixation (using prefixes and suffixes), and abbreviation (shortening of Spycraft words and phrases of different kinds). Semantics finds out metaphor and metonymy as conversion means of ESP formation. The most frequently occurring metaphors across ESP are those of personification, process, container, time, animation and orientation. Metonymy is used among the ESP to figuratively name facts from espionage activity. All the ESP linguistic peculiarities are clearly illustrated by a large number of up-to-date examples derived from various English language open access resources. These examples were carefully singled out and collected as a research vocabulary corpus to be entered into the dictionary being prepared for the publication in the nearest future.

The epistolary dialogue between Winston Churchill and his mother, Lady Randolph, is a polyphonic unity, incorporating letters carrying “coded” messages which serve for different functions: communication exchanges, autocommunication and mutual reception while reflecting a bond between both correspondents. The article presents a new approach to the concept of mutual reception between epistolary communicators, based on the conducted research of the epistolary dialogues between the son (Winston Churchill) and his mother. The concept of mutual reception is determined here as an ability to “tune” into an emotional wavelength of the epistolary communicator in order to build mutual communication links for keeping the epistolary dialogue flowing. It is argued that the epistolary text represents an intertextual unity, constituting a part of a communication system – an epistolary dialogue, involving interplay between two individuals and creating their mutual epistolary space with the metalanguage to understand which and to discover means for conveying mutual reception is the objective, pursued in this research. The study of Winston Churchill’s unique style of epistolary writing will contribute to future research on related issues.