Ordinary Metalanguage Consciousness of Students from Germany Studying at the Russian University

Abstract

As a theoretical basis of the proposed work, it is accepted in naive linguistics comprehension that the area of human consciousness, accomplishing a function of the language reflector, has a multi-level structure. Unlike similar works concerning everyday reception of language, an attempt to shift the research focus from phenomena lying on the surface level of everyday metalanguage consciousness and accessible to an outside observer via text implementation in speech to the phenomena of a deeper level is made in this article. Hidden displays of metalanguage reflection collected by a special interview with the Germanspeaking foreign citizens studying in one of the Russian universities are analyzed and classified in this article.