RUSSIAN ONOMASTICS IN THE "LANGUAGE AND CULTURE" COURSE FOR THE PHILOLOGICAL FOREIGN STUDENTS
The article focuses on the problems of formation the skills of lingual-cultural analysis of Russian onomastics semantics in the «language and culture» course for the philological foreign students. Training the skills of analysis of national and cultural components of Russian anthroponyms, toponyms, zoonyms semantics has been considered. The system of learning Russian anthroponyms, their origin and adequate using in intercultural communication has been proposed. The acquaintance with the methods of extraction of national-cultural information of toponyms extends the intercultural competence of foreign students. The names of animals and their sounds can be used for describing people. Mastering this information and skills of lingual-cultural appraising and using zoonyms bring the communicative competence of foreign students closer to the one of the Russian language native speakers.