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Phonetic particularities of the language of the early 17th-century Mongol chronicle Erdeni tunumal neretü sudur
Authors:   Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rykin Pavel O.
Published: February 2023

This paper is the first ever study providing a detailed analytical overview of some phonetic particularities of the “History of Altan Khan” (Mo. Erdeni tunumal neretü sudur), a unique Mongolian manuscript of the early 17th century presently kept at the library of the Inner Mongolia Academy of Social Sciences (Hohhot). The author presents an analysis of the following phonetic features attested in the language of the monument: rounding harmony and its violations, vowel height assimilation, prebreaking of *i, development of contracted long vowels, elision of non-initial syllable vowels, and vowel epenthesis in non-initial syllables. The language system of the chronicle may be identified as belonging to a transitional stage between Preclassical and early Classical periods in the development of Written Mongol and is considered to be a vivid example of a mixture of linguistic archaisms and innovations typical for the documents of the transitional stage. It contains both archaic (occasional lack of rounding harmony) and clearly innovative features (development of contracted long vowels, elision of non-initial syllable vowels). Also, some vocalic developments may be considered as early Common Mongolic innovations dating back from at least the early Post-Proto-Mongolic if not the Proto-Mongolic period (development of rounding harmony, vowel height assimilation, prebreaking of *i, vowel epenthesis in non-initial syllables). The sound system of the chronicle is quite similar to the language of Sino-Mongolian glossaries of the turn of the 16th-17th centuries and Written Mongol documents of the Preclassical and early Classical periods.
The phoneme /h/ in Kyeongsang Korean
Authors:   Novosibirsk State University, Shamrin Anton S.
Published: February 2023

The special nature of the phoneme /h/ in Kyungsang Korean is studied, with the aim to identify the main adjustments of Kyungsang Korean, lettered by the symbol ㅎ. Study materials were isolated words forms of the Kyungsang Korean with the sound [h]. In the intervocalic position and after the consonants, the allophones of the phoneme /h/ were found to be usually realized as aspiration of the prepositive consonant and postpositive vowel. No realizations of the phoneme /h/ in the final position and before any consonant were found. In the initial position (74 % of all cases), the phoneme /h/ is realized as a laryngeal fricative sound [h]. In 10 % word forms, it occurs as a velar fricative sound [x]. In 6 % of all cases, we found a palatalized hushing or a whistling sound [ʃб] or [sб] in preposition to front vowels such as [ү] or [і]. In preposition to back narrow vowels, such as [u] or [ɯ], the phoneme /h/ is realized as a bilabial sound [φ] or a dentolabial sound [f] in 10 % of all cases. In the intervocalic position, the phoneme /h/ is realized as a voiced allophone. Usually, in the intervocalic position, the phoneme /h/ is realized as a voiced laryngeal sound [ɦ] or a voiced velar sound [ɣ] (in preposition to vowels like [a], [o], or [e]). In preposition to back vowels like [ɯ], it is realized as a dentolabial voiced fricative sound [v]. Thus, the pronunciation of the phoneme /h/ was found to depend on the postpositive vowel.
Associative grammar and meaning (on the example of nouns)
Authors:   Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Shaposhnikova Irina V.
Published: February 2023

Using the associative-verbal profiles of several abstract nouns, the author examines the interpenetration of lexical and grammatical semantics, the contribution of inflectional paradigms to the semantic accentuations in the structure of the psycholinguistic meanings of these lexemes. The work was carried out on the materials of associative-verbal databases covering the period from 1988 till 2021. The structural features of the Russian language determine the specifics of lexical and grammatical semantics clustering in the formation of accentuation vectors in the Russian language personality’s (RLP) image of the world. The semantic richness of case meanings of the nouns in the Russian language, the absence of any restrictions on the associative behavior of this part of speech, the variety of word-formation patterns in different groups of abstract nouns make them particularly attractive objects for research. Semantic shades of psychological meanings are activated in a specific way with the network grammatical paradigmatics under the pressure of the culture-bound experience and intentionality of the studied speech community. The construction of the associative-verbal profiles of the lexico-morphological paradigms allows us to evaluate not only the productivity of particular lexical and grammatical units with reference to the entire lexical system or individual classes of words but also their psychological relevance with reference to the motivation of the language personality (the general structure of its sociocommunicative attitudes). A further profound study of associative grammar, given its dynamics, may contribute to overcoming the difficulties in formalizing associative links to optimize the computer technologies supporting human work with verbal materials.
Ethnocultural identity of the Buryats in oral folk prose
Authors:   Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tsybikova Badma-Khanda B.
Published: February 2023

The paper examines the ethnocultural identity as manifested in the oral prose of the Buryats of Inner Mongolia of China. The nomadic way of life of the Aryats contributed to a simple, uncomplicated, and practical character of everyday life and a diet consisting of meat and dairy products. A distinctive feature of the oral prose of the Buryats of Inner Mongolia is the presence of narratives with mythological ideas about characters of heavenly origin, controlling everyday life, and possible scenarios of human destiny. The verbal prose of the Chinese Buryats is syncretistic in its cult-religious preferences: Buddhist religious foundations prevail, and at the same time, shamanistic views and elements of ancient mythological consciousness are preserved. Verbal and figurative formulas regulate the norms of human behavior: what can or cannot be done. Oral didactic stories are the most expressive in this regard. The presence and use of a rather significant layer of Russian words mastered and preserved by the first generation of migrants and used today by modern representatives of the Buryat enclave serve as the most striking ethnomarker distinguishing them from other ethnic communities in the multinational sociocultural space of China. The analysis of the oral folk prose material revealed the specificity of the ethnocultural landscape based on the peculiarities of economic and household activities and sociocultural traditions that conditioned the mental attitudes of the ethnos.
Polypredicative causal constructions in the Altai language (in literary and academic texts)
Authors:   Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ozonova Aiiana A.
Published: February 2023

The structural and semantic types of causal polypredicative constructions of the Altai language and their functioning in artistic and scientific texts are considered. The study material includes artistic works of famous Altai writers and scientific monographs of researchers of folklore and literature in the Altai language. Compared to other conditionality relations, causal relations in the Altai language are expressed by the widest variety of means, including monofinite and bifinite polypredicative constructions. In total, 23 models of causal polypredicative constructions have been identified, with 11 models found in scientific texts. With all the multiplicity of causal indicators, the basic coding tools are constructions with general causal semantics. In literary texts, in oral speech, such construction is a participial construction with a causal-purpose postposition učun ‘because of, for’, in scientific texts - a construction with the causal union neniŋ učun deze ‘because of.’ Depending on the actualization of the semantics of cause or effect, two semantic blocks are distinguished: causal and investigative. Causal constructions are divided into proper causal and non-causal constructions. The actual causal constructions represent real relations that objectively exist regardless of the subject of the action. They include constructions with general causal semantics that can be neutral or complicated by positive or negative evaluative semantics. Non-causal constructions include alternative motivation, emotional and physical response to a stimulus, with the meaning of sanctions and with an inferential meaning. Special attention is paid to constructions conveying mainly temporary, conditional, target, explanatory relations, and only sometimes causal relations.
Language personalityof suicident: linguodiscursive markers of ambivalence and demonstrability
Authors:   Tomsk Polytechnic University, Volkova Tatyana F. , Orlova Olga V. ,   Tomsk State Pedagogical University
Published: February 2023

The analysis of the texts of different genres, published on the personal page of the user of the social network Vkontakte, with 48 posts and extended dialogues considered, allowed identifying and describing the linguodiscursive signs of ambivalence and demonstrability as the dominant manifestations of the language personality of the suicidal person. These signs were determined at the level of intentional organization of discourse and specificity of the composition and configuration of figurative-expressive means. The comprehensive analysis methodology involved compiling a fragmentary speech portrait of language personality and linguodiscursive, including intensional, stylistic, and contextual analyses. Intentional analysis revealed a complex set of contradictory emotions and feelings, assessments and attitudes. The linguistic personality under study can be characterized by a developed imagination, non-standard and paradoxical semantic articulations and comparisons, combined with uncommon linguistic and creative abilities. Figurative means (metaphor and comparison, hyperbole, rhyme, and rhythmization in the prose text, oxymoron, playing around with antonyms and polysemes) most fully reflect the inner world of the person: an emotional state of confusion, upheaval, desolation, total despair, rejection of oneself, others, and the world, feeling of tragedy, and meaninglessness of existence. The linguodiscursive level reveals the juxtaposition of cognitive and communicative contradictory intentions, vocabulary and idiomatics of social degradation, the abundance of semantic and stylistic contrasts, aphoristic and puns writing style, language experiments, and games.
The book review: Masaru Kanetani. Causation and Reasoning Constructions. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. xii + 196. (Constructional Approaches to Language, 25). ISBN 9789027202468
Authors:   Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Zaika Natalia M.
Published: February 2023

The monograph under review is devoted to polypredicative causal constructions in English, their distribution and grammatical features, as well as to the constructional analysis of two causal expressions: just because (of) X doesn’t mean Y construction and because Х construction. Central to the work are the properties of causal constructions and reasoning constructions (cf. It is raining because the streets are wet), where the speaker concludes that it is raining from the premise contained in the subordinate clause. It turns out that causal and reasoning constructions in English differ in a number of aspects, such as the position of the clause, the possibility of nominalization, clefting, etc. Another important conclusion of the work is that while particularizers (especially, particularly) can focalize both causal and reasoning constructions, exclusives (just, only) can combine only with causal constructions. The typological parameters analyzed in the monograph can be used in studying different languages.
The history of literature as a scientific problem. Book review: А history of Ural literature. 19th century: in 2 vols. Prof. E. K. Sozina (Ed.). Moscow, LRC Publishing House, 2020
Authors:   Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Pecherskaya Tatyana I.
Published: February 2023

The review presents a two-volume fundamental academic study: “А History of Ural literature. 19th century” prepared by the Ural scientific institutes: Institute of History and Archeology (Yekaterinburg), Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Komi Scientific Center (Syktyvkar), Udmurt Institute of History, Language and Literature (Izhevsk). This study presents a complete history of the literature of the Urals of the period in question not only today but also for many decades to come. An interesting and innovative concept of building the history of regional literature with its theoretical foundations and practical implementation was applied. An overview of the chapters devoted to ethnic, cultural, and literary geolocations of the “Big Urals” (Bashkir, Komi, Udmurt literature), as well as sections devoted to Russian literature and travelogues, is provided. An important part of the concept is the analysis of the literary process in its stadial development. Of great interest are the ideas of the authors about the specifics of literature remote from the center and approaches to the “second-row” literature determining the peculiarity of regional culture. Also, a number of positive points are identified that are the result of the remoteness from the mainstream of “big” Russian literature.
Features of functioning of one epithet in Yakut and Altai epic texts
Authors:   North-Eastern Federal University, Koryakina Raisa V.
Published: February 2023

This paper examines the “metallic” epithets in the Yakut Olonkho and Altai kai chӧrchӧk in a comparative aspect in order to reveal the parallels and specific features of the functioning of these epithets in the epic of peoples related in the historical past. The following methods were used: contextual analysis, analysis of dictionary definitions, quantitative methods, and the inductive method, which allows generalizing the results of applying all the methods. The comparative study revealed many similarities. In both epics, metal epithets in the structure are radical, derived from the lexeme denoting the name of the metal. In a denotative meaning, they characterize objects by the material from which they are made. The choice of specific metallic epithets as contextual synonyms in the structure of the epic formula is due to the phenomenon of vowel harmony inherent in most Turkic languages. The genetic community of the Yakut and Altai peoples probably explains the similar features of the metallic epithets. Also, the differences have been established: according to the frequency of using the epithets formed from the nominations of precious metals, the ancient Yakuts preferred silver, and the Altai people preferred gold. The differences and peculiarities of functioning of “metal” epithets in the Yakut and Altai epic texts can be explained by the stage difference in the development of the epic texts compared.
“Failed life” by Dmitry Grigorovich: towards the pragmatics of the fictional text
Authors:   Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Kozlov Alexei E. ,   Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University
Published: February 2023

In the early 1850s, political processes made the fiction of the journal “Otechestvennye Zapiski” change towards a compromise and numerous agreements between the author, the publisher, and the censor. One example is the story “Failures” (later “Failed life”) by Dmitry Grigorovich, which combines the techniques and ideas of the stories of Nikolai Gogol (“Portrait”) and Fyodor Dostoevsky (“Poor people,” “Weak heart,” “White nights”). In Russian literary criticism, this story is regarded as secondary and imitative, studied mainly in the context of other stories about artists projected onto the everyday life of the drawing classes of the Academy of Arts. This paper shows that while being the key view, such an interpretation cannot be the only one. When discovering a new talent, his ascent and death, one can see the scenario realized by many contemporaries of Grigorovich, notably by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Later, Grigorovich revised the story by changing idioms and narration style to give it a new title: “Failed life.” The revision pragmatics is obvious: “Failures” are more local, marking an episode or a chain of a person’s life (or a set of situations in the fiction plot). “Failed Life” echoes a global catastrophe, with its traces clearly seen in the text of “Literary memoirs” and the writer’s later epistolary. This paper has been prepared for the 200th anniversary of Grigorovich, whose literary heritage still requires commentary and research reflection. The appendix provides a letter from Dmitry Grigorovich addressed to Andrew Kraevsky, the publisher of “Otechestvennye zapiski”.
Self-parody in the works of Vsevolod Ivanov
Authors:   A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Papkova Elena A.
Published: February 2023

The paper considers self-parody as a kind of self-reflection in the works of Vsevolod Ivanov in the 1910s-1920s. The most striking and well-known self-parody example is the image of the Chinese Shin-Bin-Wu in the adventurous novel “Iprit” that comically reinterprets one of the plot twists and the same type of character in the famous story about the Civil War “Bronepoezd 14-69”. The origins of the self-parody are not due to external reasons: the social order for the “Krasny Pinkerton,” communication between Ivanov, as a member of the “Serapionov Brothers” group, and theorists and practitioners of literary parody. Ivanov’s self-parody is conditioned by internal sources. The works of the 1910s reveal the young writer’s tendency to embody the main topics and motifs of his work almost simultaneously in tragic and comic variants. It is suggested that the writer’s self-parodies of 1918s-1919s originate from his awareness of the illusory nature of his aspirations and ideals and the impossibility of their realization. Also, a parody autobiography of 1922, in the spirit of “The Three Musketeers,” interpreting the tragic events of the Civil War in Siberia, self-parodies of the 1920s (the peasant revolution, the “secret secrets” of the human soul, the ideals of the “hearth-house” and the “mother and comforter of sorrows” destroyed during the revolutionary period) are assumed to be the author’s attempt to renounce some facts of his real or artistic biography, his desire to internally confirm for himself the correctness of his new path in life and art.
Poetry and didactics: about Victor Sosnora’s poem “Longing for the Motherland”
Authors:   Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Loshchilov Igor E.
Published: February 2023

The paper analyzes the poem by the poet Viktor Sosnora “Longing for the Motherland,” part of the book “The Ides of March” (1983). The title and one line directly refer to the poem of the same name by Marina Tsvetaeva. It is shown that Tsvetaeva’s name is a key for interpreting the poem. The poem metonymically refers to her versioning laboratory in the interpretation of Andrei Bely, who singled out and analyzed the specifics of the choriamb as the metrical dominant of the book in his review of the collection “Separation.” This analysis focuses on the manifestation of the choriambic sound and the system of deviations from the four-syllable meter, unusual in Russian poetry, making the poem sound like a song. The first couplet only potentially contains the choriamb, and the reader has to return to the beginning of the poem after reaching the end for the end-to-end choriambic sound to occur, compared by Bely with Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. This study describes deep and non-obvious phonetic consonances and rolls and indicates thematic echoes with individual poems and motifs of Tsvetaeva’s poetry. It is noted how the poet shows the reader the main principle of the text’s metrical division by using two hyphens that seem pretentious at first sight. It is shown that the poem is an independent and self-sufficient poetic work, a score for its performance, and a tutorial with which to teach the reader to hear the sound of choriamb, uncommon for Russian poetry.
The intonation of interrogativeness vs incompleteness in the interfered Russian speech of the Evenks
Authors:   Amur State University, Karacheva Olga B.
Published: February 2023

Given the strong influence of the Russian language on the endangered Evenki language, studying the interfered Russian speech of the Evenks is of a great relevance. The present study is experimental phonetic research of melodic contour features in the Russian speech of the Evenks. The aim was to compare the intonation of interrogativeness and incompleteness in Russian and Evenki to identify universal and specific features. Also, the focus was on considering the melodic features of general questions and affirmative statements with the intonation of incompleteness in the Russian speech of Evenki speakers at the suprasegmental level. Evenki intonation accent results from the two systems’ contact. The comparative analysis of the melodic contour of structures in question in the Russian and Evenki languages enabled us to determine the field of potential interference. Experimental phonetic experiments revealed the universal nature of the nuclear tone realization by inclination in general questions and affirmations with the intonation of incompleteness. Affirmative statements were found to be realized at a lower level compared to general questions. The Evenki intonation system influence can be seen in the ascending movement of the pitch from the beginning of the segment and up to the nuclear tone in questions, which is different in the Russian language. Of declinational character is the movement of the tone on the pre-scale and scale in affirmative statements. The main manifestations of the Evenki language interference are considered the smaller range of segments, the less steepness and the step-like nature of pitch changes.
Phrasal affixation in derivation in the Evenki language
Authors:   Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rudnitskaya Elena L.
Published: February 2023

The paper considers cases of derivation in Evenki from verbs to nouns and from nouns to adjectives when the derivative preserves syntactic properties of the base stem (particularly the information on syntactic dependents). The examples of such derivatives are deverbal nouns and denominal adjectives with certain derivation affixes. Nouns preserve the verbal property of subcategorization (they govern a direct accusative object), and adjectives preserve the nominal property of attaching an attributive word: a noun (an appositive), an adjective, a participle, a numeral. The syntactic analysis of such phrases differs from their derivation analysis. In terms of syntax, the base stem and its direct object (or attribute) form one constituent: [[NP/AP + N/VBASE] + NMLZ], reflecting subcategorial and combinatory features of the base stem. The derivation affix in the syntactic representation is attached to the whole constituent, suggesting the construction with a phrasal affix. Such analysis relies on the notion of group flection or phrasal affixation. The phrasal affixation in inflection has been investigated in detail in typologically diverse languages. However, much fewer works are devoted to phrasal affixation in word formation. Evenki language specialists either did not report this phenomenon or mentioned it without giving an explanatory account. The sources of our examples are different: oral stories, newspaper articles, archives, and examples from grammars and other studies in Evenki. These data illustrate the transition of constructions with a deverbal noun and an accusative object from the class of productive (mid-20th century) to the class of idiomatic ones (21st century).
Adverbial modifier of time in the Nanai and Orok languages: structural and semantic aspect
Authors:   Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ozolinya Larisa V.
Published: February 2023

In the Tungus-Manchu languages, the adverbial modifiers of time tend to be expressed by case forms of the noun, postposition constructions, by possessive constructions with active participles-nouns in case forms or verbal names of complex semantics (concessive, simulnanive), and by adverbs of time, reflexive-possessive adverbial participles. The semantics of adverbial modifiers of time: (duration (when) - a certain time interval, an indefinite-long time interval, the amount of time (how much time, how long), frequency, repetitiveness of actions (how many times), are expressed by case forms of nouns or adverbs of time. This semantics is determined by: 1) verb-predicate semantics; 2) aspectual characteristics of the verb-predicate defining the time boundaries, the time characteristics of the action; 3) structural and morphological characteristics of units expressing the adverbial modifiers of time. While being noted in Orok, the case forms of the accusative and directive-dative cases as a tense circumstance have no formal correspondences in the Tungus-Manchu languages. The functional features of using case forms are due to the differences in the structure of case systems (the Nanai language having 7 cases, the Orok language having 10, the languages of the northern group having up to 12 cases) and the discrepancy in the semantics of case word forms. Possessive constructions with a concessive and a simulnanive in the function of the adverbial modifiers of time in a simple sentence, semantically equivalent to the Russian temporal clauses, are special means of expressing temporal semantics in the Nanai and Orok languages, with no correspondences in the Russian language.
Variable case marking of possessive nominal phrases in the direct object position in Tuvan
Authors:   Aldan Maadyr National Museum of the Republic of Tuva, Ondar Choigan G. ,   Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Published: February 2023

Considering the phenomenon of differential object marking of the direct object in possessive nominal phrases (NPs) has revealed two varieties of differential case marking in the Tuvan language: of the direct object and of the possessor. Thus, it was interesting to check the correlation between the factors influencing variation in both cases. The choice in favor of the genitive marking of the possessor is found to be determined by definiteness, animacy of the referent of some NPs, the linear remoteness of the possessive construction components, and additional definitions. Genitive marking of a possessor with an indefinite or non-referential status is due to the sentence information structure. The same set of factors is relevant for choosing accusative direct object labeling. Thus, the obligatory accusative marking of possessive NPs with a genitive possessor in the position of a direct object is associated with the same factors in the structure of relations between components that determined the choice of the genitive form of the possessor. Accusative marking of the direct object of possessive NPs without a genitive is determined by the definiteness of the possessor, the presence of identifying definitions, the presupposition of the singularity of the referent, the sentence information structure, with different communicative status of the object and the predicate. Possessive NPs without a genitive in the direct object position are used in the nominative: if their referent has an indefinite or non-referential status, they are in the utterance rheme with a contact arrange-ment to the control verb and have no other determinants.
Objective and subjective factors for variability in interpreting the law text in specialized legal literature and in everyday consciousness of language speakers
Authors:   Kemerovo State University, Kim Lidia G.
Published: February 2023

The paper discusses the problem of the professional and common interpretation of the legal text, determining the relation of these notions, the difference between their subjects, goals, features, and results. Article 272 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation was chosen as a material for the study, with its content being the subject of interpretations by the professional community and ordinary citizens. Comparing the comments on this article in the works of lawyers and polemics in the professional community has allowed establishing the variability of interpretations and identifying the factors of variability. It has been found that, in the professional community, a legal text is inevitably characterized by a variety of interpretations, resulting from various factors. The common interpretation results were obtained by means of a linguistic interpretation experiment. The analysis of the experimental results has revealed that ordinary native speakers perceive the content of the original legal text ambiguously. Everyday interpretation proves to produce interpretative texts reflecting semantic-pragmatic versions as a realization of semantic-pragmatic meanings of the text of the law. Both legal professionals and ordinary citizens have been found to have ambiguous interpretations, which is due to objective and subjective factors. On the one hand, the variability of legal text interpretations is determined by the peculiarities of language wordings and the terminology used. On the other hand, there is also the qualitative diversity of types of language personality or the speakers of ordinary consciousness.
Metaphorical features of the concepts FISH and 鱼 in Russian and Chinese worldviews on the material of dictionaries
Authors:   Novosibirsk State University, Berendeeva Maria S. , Luo Wei ,   Novosibirsk State University
Published: February 2023

This study focuses on the ichthyological vocabulary of the Russian and Chinese languages, based on a vivid image, a metaphor. The aims were to determine the volume of the nominative fields of the concepts FISH and 鱼, to identify metaphorical lexemes-representatives, and to carry out a comparative study of metaphorical models representing the ideas about fish in Russian and Chinese linguocultures. Russian and Chinese explanatory and phraseological dictionaries served as the material. In both languages, metaphors with the target area “fish” have been found to be constructed in the same way and to be based on the likeness of a fish to a person, an animal, or an instrument in terms of external similarity. However, each linguo-culture has culturally specific metaphorical models with source area “fish” and unique symbolic features of the concepts FISH and 鱼. For example, the Russian linguistic picture of the world involves a productive metaphorical model revealing the likeness of a person to a fish, originating from the negatively assessed external similarity. The Chinese linguistic picture of the world proved to have a model showing the likeness of a country or army to a fish organism according to an internal structure. In addition, many symbolic features reflected in dictionaries have been found in the structure of the Chinese concept 鱼, with those features drawing on both historical and contemporary ideas.
Book review: Gorbunova L. I., Petrova N. A. Vocabulary of the Russian language in the light of the categorization of the objective world: monograph. Irkutsk: Publishing house of the Irkutsk State University, 2020. 1 electronic opt. disc. ISBN 978-5-9624-1886-5
Authors:   Irkutsk State University, Ryabova Svetlana G.
Published: February 2023

The work by Gorbunova L. I., Petrova N. A. focuses on the theoretical problems of categorization and its cognitive origin. The results of the world categorization are stated to be represented in the lexis. This monograph regards a word that does not always reflect cognitively significant information as a linguistic unit. Polysemant and synonymous series are treated as linguistic categories, with extra-linguistic and linguistic basis specified. The perceptual and experimental signs of the nominated situations are determined. The conclusion is drawn about the necessity of systematizing classifiers. Also, emphasis is placed on the importance of distinguishing and describing the linguistic, cognitive, and extra-linguistic factors defining the role of the lexis not only for nomination processes but also for studying objects and situations, allowing the lexicographic description of various thesaurus dictionaries to be elaborated.
Ritual poetry of the Khakass in the materials of N. F. Katanov (to the 160th anniversary of his birth)
Authors:   Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Mindibekova Valentina V.
Published: February 2023

The paper describes the main milestones of expedition and research activities of N. F. Katanov (1862-1922) and his contribution to the collection and study of folklore material. With most of N. F. Katanov’s scientific works and field materials still unpublished, this work aims to attract the attention of researchers to the material of the outstanding scholar. A more extensive study and publication of N. F. Katanov’s works will contribute to the preservation of the unique folklore tradition of the Turkic-speaking peoples of Southern Siberia and expand the range of research based on the scientist's folklore materials. Ritual poetry reflecting religious and mythological ideas of the people is the least studied genre of the Khakass folklore. The paper analyzes the texts of the late 19th century, recorded by N. F. Katanov (1878-1892) and published in the “Samples of folk literature of the Turkic tribes”. The Khakass ritual poetry is considered as a part of the folklore heritage collection of the first Khakass scholar. N. F. Katanov collected a wealth of material on ritual poetry from the Kachin, Kyzyl, Sagai, and Shors. Of great value are records of ceremonial folklore with full ethnographic descriptions of rituals, attributes used in rituals, actions performed by shamans, and their incantations addressed to deities and spirits-masters of localities. The scholar was especially interested in a rite as a complex interaction of word and action, ritual and verbal text. Also, N. F. Katanov recorded and left to descendants a rich fund of records of shamanic folklore.
The traditionalism of the Old Believers
Authors:   Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Gurianova Natalia S.
Published: February 2023

The paper considers the problem of the Russian population’s traditionalism in the 17th - 18th centuries. Opponents of the church reform started by Patriarch Nikon declared themselves the guardians of the traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church. Attention is drawn to the fact that the direction of the Old Believers’ search for arguments for their viewpoint on innovations was determined by their opponents’ claims that all changes to the new books had been made after comparing them with ancient Greek and Russian manuscripts. The defenders of the Old Rites undertook enormous efforts to find the text fragments from authoritative sources that could testify to the discrepancies between new liturgical texts and ancient manuscripts or old-printed books. They interpreted all the innovations as a departure from tradition and deviations from the true faith. In the 18th century, when formulating the ideology of communities, the leaders relied on this description of the Russian Church traditions perceived by the Old Believers as an actual practice violated by the reformers. The historical scheme of including single communities in universal Christian history made it possible to recognize the community as the only place in the world where the true faith is preserved despite the reign of the Antichrist. A conclusion is made that this approach formed the peculiarity of the traditionalism of the Old Believers: they moved to a conscious description of their community as a continuation of the Russian Church traditions.
Russian ibsenism and the “women’s question”: the heroines of H. Ibsen in the critical and literary reception of N. M. Minsky and D. S. Merezhkovsky
Authors:   A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Andreichuk Kseniia R.
Published: February 2023

The paper shows that the new ideal of the relationship between men and woman, discussed in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, was inspired by H. Ibsen although Russian critics refused to see the “great Norwegian” as a supporter of the practical side of the women’s movement. The Silver Age identified Ibsen’s heroines as examples of two opposing ideals of femininity: “eternally feminine” meekness on the one hand, and feminine independence and courage to violate social norms on the other. Russian authors often credited their own ideas to Ibsen, justifying their aesthetic-philosophical conceptions in terms of his work. This study considers the dilemma of perception of Ibsen's heroines as symbols and subjects of free will. The Russian reception of H. Ibsen’s female images is analyzed in the works of E. A. Koltonovskaya, G. V. Plekhanov, A. V. Lunacharsky, Z. N. Gippius, A. A. Blok, L. N. Andreev, I. F. Annensky, V. V. Rozanov and papers of N. M. Minsky and D. S. Merezhkovsky. K. R. Andreichuk compares the plays “Hedda Gabler” by H. Ibsen and “Alma” by N. M. Minsky, for the first time pointing out the connection between the dramas “The Thunderstorm Is Over” by D. S. Merezhkovsky and “A Doll’s House” by H. Ibsen. N. M. Minsky finds Ibsen’s love of self to be the main theme, while for D. S. Merezhkovsky, it is a new, mystical marriage.
The story “Childhood” by L. N. Tolstoy as a pretext of “Luvers’s Childhood” by B. Pasternak
Authors:   Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Abramova Ksenia V.
Published: February 2023

The theme of childhood, being of particular importance in the 20th century, was influenced by the tradition of describing the child’s worldview in the stories of growing up in the 19th century. This work considers the story “Childhood” written by L. N. Tolstoy as a pretext to another story “Luvers’s Childhood” by B. Pasternak. We analyze the echoes that arise between two stories. The method of defamiliarization (ostranenie) causes the world of childhood to be transformed into a world filled with things that exist in the space of memory and therefore undergo transformations. Although being almost imperceptible in Tolstoy’s story, this transformation of things in Pasternak’s story results in an enormous number of associations growing out of each image. While indicating the difference in using defamiliarization approach in the 19th and 20th centuries, we argue that the impressionistic perception caused by this method is already present in Leo Tolstoy’s text. Also, the analysis covers the theme of memories and the associated motifs of the border and its crossing and the themes of sleeping and awakening, vision through dreams. These themes and motifs arising in the story of growing up suggest the authors to have introduced borderline situations and states into the narrative. Such a tradition in the Russian story of childhood, already having been presented in Tolstoy’s “Childhood”, was preserved in the works of the 20th century.
Russian and English literary traditions and the poetics of comic elements in the “English” stories of Evgeny Zamyatin
Authors:   Tomsk State University (Tomsk, Russian Federation), Bystrenkov Dmitry L.
Published: February 2023

The paper aims to show how the Russian and English literary traditions influenced the way of creating satirical and ironic text by analyzing the poetics of the comic elements in the stories “Ostrovityane” (The Islanders) and “Lovets chelovekov” (The Fisher of Men) by Evgeny Zamyatin. The analysis has revealed the dystopian text in world literature to be closely related to humor, with this relation being particularly apparent in the English stories of Evgeny Zamyatin, the latter having interconnections with the literature of nonsense. It is for this reason that a dystopian text, representing an anti-genre (with humor, irony, and parody in the foreground), can be considered a reaction to a utopian one, or it can be regarded as a unique phenomenon, not restricted to the negation of the utopian tradition. The latter case highlights the problems of human nature, the propensity to move along a spiral trajectory, according to which forward movement occurs not without destroying the old foundations and returning to something even more ancient, forgotten. This movement is seen to be infinite, there being no way to stop at one point and create something perfect, unchanging and finite. The problem of the humor in Zamyatin’s work has an obvious research perspective. Future research is expected to extend knowledge of early 20th-century Russian-English literary connections and develop an understanding of the English literature influence (in particular, nonsense) on the mature work of the Russian writer and the formation of a dystopia of the 20th century as a genre.
The author in the structure of the text of the “Siberian Epistles” of Ignatius (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Authors:   Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Panich Tamara V.
Published: February 2023

The paper is devoted to the study of the author’s beginning in the text of the “Siberian Epistles” written at the end of the 17th century by the famous church figure, writer, and publicist Ignatius (Rimsky-Korsakov). Of great importance is the image of the author manifesting itself in the structure and semantic field of the text in different situations. The fragments containing elements of Ignatius’ autobiography play a special role in its construction. The facts of personal life described and introduced into the epistolary discourse add new touches to his image and reveal his author’s position towards the events depicted and the people acting in them, thus expressing the author’s presence in the text. The writer includes the dialogues, where he acts as a participant, into the composition structure of the “Siberian Epistles”, often using the personal pronoun “I” as a method of author’s self-presentation. Sometimes he acts both as a narrator and a character inside the main text (listener, participant in the dialogue). The methods and ways of organizing the text used by Ignatius testify to his creative courage, his understanding of the significance of the writer’s word, the power of its impact on the reader. In general, the strategy chosen by the author of the “Siberian Epistles” allowed him to express most powerfully his individuality, author’s self-consciousness and helped in revealing the idea and goal that he set for himself when starting to create the “Siberian Epistles.”
Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the works of Boris Poplavsky
Authors:   Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Mamatov Gleb M.
Published: February 2023

The paper is devoted to studying the images of 18th-century German composers Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the works of Boris Poplavsky, including diaries, articles, poems, and prose. It was found that the image of Bach was transformed, starting from the articles of the early 1930s to the final work “About substantiality of personality”. In early works, Bach is a symbol of Apollonian art, perfect and harmonious, but cold-blooded towards man. However, in the final work, the music of the German Baroque composer is a symbol of “Pan, who resurrected in Christ” and embodies harmony and integrity of the Universe. The image of Mozart shows other connotations. He is a Dionysian artist, understood in terms of sensuality, “playing on the low and sweet” nature of man. This nature principle of Mozart, which Poplavsky names “sweet melodiousness”, is considered necessary for the formation of the creator, his initiation. This is related to Boris Poplavsky’s conception of the spirit of music, according to which an artist must die and sacrifice himself to the sacred spirit of music. For this reason, Mozart in Poplavsky’s conception of music has a mortal origin. In prose (novel “Apollon Bezobrazov”) and poems, the motive of Mozart’s “Requiem” arises, connected with apocalyptical themes and harmony of the world. This paper compares Poplavsky’s views and works with the concepts of his modernist predecessors and proves that the poet created original myths about musicians based on the traditions of modernity but acquiring uniqueness due to aesthetic principles.
Precedent Phenomena in “Tomskaya Pisanitsa Park, Kemerovo” crown of sonnets by Andy Croft
Authors:   Kemerovo State University, Prokhorova Larisa P.
Published: February 2023

The paper considers the poetic work of the English poet Andy Croft “Tomskaya Pisanitsa Park, Kemerovo” created under the impression of visiting the museum-reserve of the same name. The crown of sonnets written in English in the form of Onegin stanza shows numerous references to national-specific and universal precedent phenomena functioning on formal, content, and language levels of the text. This work is of relevance due to the importance of studying the problem of precedent phenomena functioning in poetic discourse in general and in the poet’s idiostyle in particular. The analysis of the phenomenon of precedence in various aspects is performed by consistently considering the transformation of the solid poetic form of the crown of sonnets as a manifestation of precedence at the architectonics level. The key thesis of the study is that the poet’s orientation towards including the precedent-setting phenomena is based on two main factors: 1) the desire to understand the new cultural environment by comparing its phenomena with the phenomena of his native or world culture; 2) the intention to create a peculiar encyclopedia of human civilization with its cultural and historical layers. The complex analysis of the poem revealed the peculiarities of the realization and functional role of precedent phenomena. This study deals with general problems of text theory and culture studies. However, the perspectives of further analysis of precedent phenomena are to investigate the new spheres of precedent phenomena functioning and cultural memory aspect in poetic discourse.
Functions of author’s legends and traditions in the novel by A. V. Ivanov “The Rebellion’s Gold”
Authors:   Kemerovo State University, Kalashnikova Anna L.
Published: February 2023

The novels of Alexei Ivanov are a noticeable phenomenon in modern Russian literary life and attract the attention of literary critics. An important role in the artistic structure of the novel “The Rebellion’s Gold” is played by folklore-mythological elements, which are the original author’s system of pseudo-folklore texts created according to the model of traditional oral folk art. The focus of our attention is the functional significance of legends and traditions, manifold on the pages of the novel by A. Ivanov. It was revealed that the author’s legends and traditions in “The Rebellion’s Gold” are distinguished by polyfunctionality. On the one hand, they are used as a means of assessing and characterizing the characters, playing the role of “folk truth,” a moral landmark with which the actions of the characters of the novel are measured. On the other hand, they are used in the process of plot formation, ensuring the dynamics of events. The most important function of the author’s “folklore” in the novel is the world-modeling. With the help of folklore texts, the novel chronotope is saturated with magical elements that are relevant in modern neorealist works. At the same time, the author’s mythology goes beyond the limits of the artistic text and transfers its world-modeling properties to the real geographical space of the Urals, which undergoes remifologization. Thus, the author’s pseudo-folklore text turns into a way of reconstructing ancient meanings and creating a new national identity in a modern cultural situation.