LANGUAGE, MEDIA, AND DIALOGUE: REPRESENTATIVE FROM YANKA KUPALA STATE UNIVERSITY OF GRODNO SPEAKS AT INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL CONFERENCE IN MOGILEV

A.A. Kuleshov Mogilev State University hosted the 2nd International Educational Conference, "The Russian Language in the Context of Multiculturalism".

The conference addressed a range of topics, including modern paradigms for teaching English as a foreign language, challenges of intercultural communication in the teaching of Russian as a foreign language, the role of the Russian language in a multi-ethnic society, issues of interlingual interference and the ecology of the linguistic environment, cultural dialogue in a multilingual setting and Russian literature within the global cultural and educational landscape.

The event brought together academic centers from six countries: Belarus, Russia, Azerbaijan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Italy, and Cuba.

Tatsiana Sivava, an associate professor in the Department of Journalism, presented a paper titled "Color-Based Periphrasis as a Means of Representing Temporal Meanings". Her presentation explored the specific characteristics and formation of periphrastic expressions involving color terms that convey temporal meanings, as found in Russian-language Belarusian media texts.

A collection of academic papers based on the conference proceedings will be published. It will be made available via open access through the Russian Science Electronic Library (elibrary.ru) and indexed in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI).