Russian Cultural Discursive Communities in Berlin During Fourth and Fifth Waves of Emigration

This research is devoted to the analysis of contemporary cultural processes in Berlin, influencing the Russian population of the city after the fourth wave of emigration’s beginning and connected with the study of discursive communities. The research method includes the analysis of the communities based on the theory of American linguist John Swales formulated in his work «Genre Analysis: English in academic and scientific settings» as well as on the theory of the strategies of acculturation by John Berry. The relevance of this study is explained by the exacerbation of emigration relations within Europe in general and Germany in particular. In fact, the Russian emigrants can not be included in this conflict, defining themselves not as Berliners. However, despite this, they become its full participants, creating new forms of communities, one of which will be analyzed in this study (this is the so-called "case of the girl, Lisa," the occasion held in Berlin, January, 2016).