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No 5 (2021)
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LINGUISTIC STUDIES

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Aim. The paper describes the formation and development of the linguistic tradition of making comments to publications with the help of linguistic expertise. Methodology. Within the framework of the textocentric paradigm, the commentary can be studied based on linguistic and extralinguistic factors, as well as on the material of texts commenting on the monuments of Dagestan literature. Results. We have revealed the dependence of the form and content of the commentary as a text on the specific historical reality, on those aesthetic requests that were put forward in a particular period of social life, and on the background knowledge of the addressee. Research implications. The results of the research contribute to the theory of commentary, intertextuality and metatext.
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Aim. The purpose of the paper is to identify the components of the concept of motherland in the consciousness of the students of the Financial University. Methodology. The ranged association experiment is performed. The content of the research represents an analysis of the obtained results with the use of methods of observation, generalization and interpretation of speech reactions. Results. The main components of the lexical concept of motherland in the mass consciousness of the 17-20-year-old students are identified. Research implications. The results of the study contribute to the practice of the conceptual linguistic analysis and show the functioning of the important lexical concept in the mass consciousness of the youth.
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Aim. The purpose is to analyze the common potentialities of the words chosen by the author of the dictionary. Methodology. The research relies on such methods as analysis, synthesis, and interpretation. Results. It is found that the "Dictionary" by A. I. Solzhenitsyn was created mainly on the basis of the V. I. Dal’ s Dictionary, from which, on a subjective basis, words were selected for linguistic expansion in order that archaic or dialect words could be used by writers and to a certain extent be revived. The proposed study examines a group of words with the suffix -ishch-, mainly with the ending -e, sometimes -а, and analyzes the extent to which "revived" words correspond to the developmental tendencies of the language itself, which, as is known, depend little on the will and desire of its carriers. This class is productive in many ways in the Old Russian period, but already in the Old Russian period it becomes unproductive. Most of the words that name an object, a tool of labor in modern Russian refer to book or archaic vocabulary. Due to the inconsistency of some formations with the grammatical laws of the language, that is, contradictions to the historical trends of language development, they cannot replenish the vocabulary of a modern native speaker, but they are able to be elements of artistic speech that form pictorial and aesthetic functions. Research implications. Observations and conclusions can be used in courses on word formation, as well as the study of the writer's creativity.
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Aim. We describe the development of the category of imperfectivity in the historical paradigm with the proto-slavic root *pei- / *poi-, and analyze species oppositions with the participation of the verb poiti and verbs derived from it. Methodology. Use is made of the methods of observation, description, generalization and interpretation of results. Results. The paper analyzes polynomial species correlations, which include imperfect forms produced by different models. The factors that determine the transformation of the original species correlations are revealed. We describe the process of parallel formation of species forms, the result of which is the emergence of similarly sounding, but semantically non-identical, verbs in the historical paradigm with the proto-slavic root *pei- / *poi-. The analysis shows that the development of the category of imperfectivity is one of the most important factors that influenced the formation in the historical paradigm with the proto-slavic root *pei- / *poi-. Research implications. The research contributes to the study of the formation of the verb category of the species in the Russian language. The research results can find application in the university practice of teaching linguistic disciplines.
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Aim. The purpose is to substantiate the status of subjective modality as a style-forming and text-forming category, which is an important component of idiostyle. Methodology. The paper considers the multi-level means of expressing subjective modality in a scientific linguistic text. The research relies on the methods of observation, generalization, and structural-semantic and logical-semantic analysis. Results. Typical modal values characteristic of L. Shcherba’s idiostyle are identified, as well as productive modal operators, with the help of which the communicative intention of the author and creator of a scientific work is realized. Research implications. The results of the study expand the understanding of the functioning of the anthropocentric categories of the Russian language.
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Aim. The purpose is to identify the chronotopic properties of a complex syntactic whole as a linguistic unit and as an integrant/constituent of a text. Methodology. The paper considers specific examples of identifying chronotopic properties of a complex syntactic whole in literary texts of K. G. Paustovsky and M. M. Prishvin. The research relies on the methods of observation, generalization, and interpretation of the results, as well as on a complex level analysis of a complex syntactic whole. Results. It is found that the chronotope shows the architectonics of this language unit and, due to this quality, is its identifier; different levels of the complex syntactic whole chronotope reflect different levels of the chronotope of a literary text. Research implications. The results of the study contribute to the theory of a complex syntactic whole as a linguistic unit that implements an expanded utterance.
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Aim. Using the text of the autobiographical narrative “Without choice” by L. Borodin, we identify the cognitive dominants of the idiostyle that are integrated into the processes of text generation and the system of language means. Methodology. We reconstruct the mental and linguistic stereotypes of the author’s consciousness, which determine the features of the writer’s idiostyle. The research relies on the descriptive method, the method of analyzing dictionary definitions, and the methods of contextual and conceptual analysis. Results. The analysis shows that the cognitive dominants of the idiostyle in the text are mentally determined by the constants of the author’s linguistic personality, reflecting the need for the spiritual revival of Russia at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries, the acquisition of the values of Christian culture and faith in God. The concept of “faith” is represented mainly by the religious vocabulary of the Russian language. The linguistic and cultural potential of these words is associated with their contextual reinterpretation, which is a contamination of traditional and religious content and the content of culturally connoted vocabulary, nominated as ideologemes of the twentieth century. The reflection of the processes of conceptual integration of the results of discursive and stereotypical activity of many subjects in the text is presented as one of the distinctive stylistic and textual features of the author’s speech, his communicative space. The compositional forms used by the author are subject to the dynamics of the development of complex conceptual structures that represent various types of cultural information, which determines the intertextuality of the author’s narrative - a significant number of precedent names of the Russian religious philosophy. Research implications. The obtained research results can be used in the theory of text, the theory of speech genres, the description of the linguistic picture of the human world and the processes of its change. The materials can be used in university special courses dedicated to the study of the writer’s language.

LITERARY STUDIES

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Aim. On the basis of the essay “In the Taiga” we acquaint the reader with the work of the travel writer A. V. Eliseev (1858-1895) and identify the main problem-thematic and artistic constants of his natural history prose. Methodology. Use is made of the tools of typological, cultural-historical, and immanent methods of analysis of a literary text, as well as of the method of “slow reading”. The essay is analyzed from the point of view of themes and problems, as well as historical, cultural and biographical culture-specific items reflected in its content. The convergence of the essay with natural philosophy literature of the turn of the XIX-XX centuries is traced. Results. The analysis of the essay “In the taiga” testifies to the original artistic manner of A. V. Eliseev. The paper shows that the semantic dominants of the essay include the problems of the relationship between “civilization and nature”, the integrity of the natural world, and “natural man”. The structure of the work reveals three compositional and thematic elements: landscape, hunting, and portrait of an indigenous person. For each element, a historical-literary tradition is designated: landscape ekphrasis, animalistic literature, hunting story, and ethnographic portrait; the typology of the image of the Far Eastern indigenous person in the Russian literature at the turn of the century is traced (V. K. Arsenyev, M. M. Prishvin). The analysis demonstrates that the style of the essay is characterized by a combination of documentary-subject, pictorial and symbolic-generalizing elements. The analysis makes it possible to express the idea of the genre syncretism of the essay, combining the traditions of natural philosophical prose, hunting story, ethnographic essay portrait, and lyrical and philosophical essay. Research implications. The material introduced in the paper enriches the research in the field of essay prose, regional studies, and natural philosophical prose. The theoretical significance of the study is the expansion of the idea of the potential richness of essay poetics. The presentation of the work of A. V. Eliseev can serve as an impetus for the monographic study of the writer’s work. The practical significance of the research is the possibility of including historical and literary information about the work of A. V. Eliseev in textbooks on regional (Far Eastern) literature, as well as in reference books and manuals on literature of the turn of the XIX-XX centuries.
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Aim. We consider the problems and artistic originality of “The Story of Unrequited Love” in M. Gorky’s cycle of “Stories of 1922-1924”, which occupies an important place in the writer’s worldview and creative biography. Methodology. To reveal the topic, use is made of historical-literary ideological and biographical factors; a comparative-analytical method; and methods of a holistic analysis of the artistic unity of content and form, based on a detailed examination of the subject organization of the text, the poetics of images, previously unknown letters of M. Gorky and other documents. These methods allows one to more accurately identify the artistic meanings of the work and the author’s position encrypted in the stylistic manner of “objective writing”, which is necessary in the work on the large final story “The Life of Klim Samgin”. Results. The analysis of the story and peculiarities of revealing the characters of the heroes from the so-called cultural environment allows one to clarify the nature of M. Gorky’s fears regarding the future of the country in the conditions of undeveloped socialist ethics, culture of feeling and reason and to substantiate the need to study the work in universities, as well as in the senior classes of lyceums and colleges. The performed analysis makes it possible to identify both the value criteria of the author’s perception of the masculine and feminine principles in views on the art of theater, and moral and ethical principles in such categories as love, loyalty, jealousy, and an active attitude to life. Research implications. The results of the study contribute to the understanding of the artistic world of M. Gorky in the early 1920s and open the prospect for a new reading of this and other works of the writer of the Soviet period as well as for the intensification of their study in universities, lyceums and colleges.
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Aim. The aim of this work is to investigate the features of a satirical image of Hitler created by Timur Vermesh and to determine the tasks that the author of the novel set for himself by creating this image. Methodology. Use is made of the cultural-historical method, systematic approach, and cultural analysis to examine the image of Hitler in Timur Vermesh’s novel “Look who’s back” in the context of metairony. Results. It is found that the author uses metairony, endowing Hitler with the archetypal features of Wotan and immersing him in modern German reality in order to satirically depict modern German society and warn the society against false confidence that it will be able to prevent the arrival of a new Fuhrer. Research implications. The results of the study can be used in the framework of general lectures on the history of foreign literature, optional classes on actual German-language prose.
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Aim. The purpose is to analyze the main toponym in Elena Chizhova’s novels -the image of a Leningrad flat - and its system-forming role in the narrative. Methodology. The paper examines specific examples of the manifestation of the archetypal pattern of a house (Leningrad flat) in E. Chizhova’s novels. The research relies on the methods of generalization, literary interpretation, and analysis. The concept of archetype in its practical application to the literary analysis of a modern literary text is considered. Results. The role of the archetype of a Leningrad flat in the structural and semantic layer of discourse is revealed Research implication. The results of the research help structure and generalize the knowledge concerning the elements of the Leningrad / St. Petersburg texts. The analysis of elements of Elena Chizhova’s novels can be of help in the study of the texts of modern writers.
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Aim. The purpose is to analyze three eulogies in tribute to Grigory Potemkin (one sermon by Amvrosii Serebrennikov and two sermons by Moisei Gumilevskii), which form a series of threnodic works. Methodology. An artistic analysis is performed, the composition of sermons and leading motifs are described, and links with the culture, literature and oratory of the XVIII century are shown. Results. The series of eulogies in tribute to Grigory Potemkin are connected with the peculiarities of the prince’s funeral rite, which had three main geographical points - Jassy, Nikolaev and Kherson. Sermons are the examples of moral and practical eloquence: They have clear language, small volume and simple structure. Emotions are the basis of the works: Crying prevails in Amvrosii’s speech, while condolences to orphaned cities and bright sorrow dominate in Moisei’s works. The eulogies fix the ideal posthumous image of Potemkin - the son of the Fatherland, the servant of the monarch and the founder of cities. Research implications. The reviewed eulogies have never been an object of a separate analysis. The results of the study can complement the knowledge of the late 18th century oratory prose and illustrate the development of funeral speech.
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Aim. This paper is devoted to the problem of studying the phenomenon of “poet’s prose”, which combines the characteristic features traditional for prose and poetry. The purpose of the study is to identify the lyrical component in the prose works of P.N. Chernykh-Yakutsky on the example of the story “Scary medicine”. Methodology. The paper uses a systematic and holistic approach to the study of a work of art, as well as historical-literary and comparative research methods. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that we consider for the first time the story “Scary medicine” to identify the specific characteristics of a special type of artistic speech, called “poet’s prose”. Results. It is found that the lyrical component in P.N. Chernykh-Yakutsky’s prose manifests itself not only in compositional terms, but forms a complex of artistic techniques and stylistic figures, where the use of anaphors, metaphors, epithets, comparisons, and rhymed passages saturate the prose work. Research implications. The research results contribute to the Yakut literary criticism and are significant for the study of the creative heritage of the poet P.N. Chernykh-Yakutsky in the historical and literary aspect.

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