Bondarenko I. Russian-Japaness language correlations in the XVIII c. (Historico-linguistic research).

The thisis is devoted to problem of the first interlanguage contacts.The dissertation studies the rise and development of Russian-Japanese language correlations of the XVIII cetntery, which were formed by Japanese sailors, who accidentally visited the territory of the Far East Russia.The first bilingual dictionaries, phrase-boors and grammar books, compiled by these sailors, which were used by Russians for the study of Japanese and by Japaneses for the study of Russian, were the beginning of Russian-Japanese linguistic correlations codification - linguistic and didactic system definition of the two languages.The sources reflected not only idiolects of their authors (knowledge of the Russian and Japanes languages by some bilinguals, competence of Japanese sailors in different kinds of speech activity, their individual vocabuularys ets.), but also the Russian and Japanese languages of the historical epoch, the linguistic situation in these two countries in XVIII c. on the whole.The new methods of retrosp ective reseach of bilingual's idiolects, elaborated by the author of the thesis, criteria of individual's importance in the formation of language contacts between the two nations, together with the methods of analysis of language material created by these bilinguls, cfn be used for complex analysis of the initial stage of any interlanguage contacts, which cfn be provtd by some documents - dictionaries, phrase-books, grammar descriptions, ets.