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Due to technical reasons, several articles originally intended for the thematic issue “Pragmalinguistics: In Search of Synthesis” (Slovo.ru: Baltic Accent, 2025, No. 2), prepared by the editorial team in collaboration with guest co-editors V. V. Feshchenko, I. V. Zykova, and O. V. Sokolova, have been carried over into the present issue. With this release, we conclude the publication of the thematic cluster. At the same time, we plan to return to this line of research in the coming year and encourage...

... activity]. Leningrad, pp. 24—39 (in Russ.). Stepanov, Yu. S., 1985. V trekhmernom prostranstve yazyka: Semioticheskie problemy lingvistiki, filosofii, iskusstva [In the three-dimensional space of language: Semiotic problems of linguistics, philosophy, art]. Moscow (in Russ.). Vakulenko, N. S., 1990. Metod ierarkhicheskikh triad kak sredstvo obosnovaniya for­mal'nogo podkhoda v prikladnoi lingvistike (na primere kompleksa uchebnykh programm) [The method of hierarchical triads as a means of substantiating ...

This article is a study of literary representations of the text 'Königsberg-Kaliningrad' analysed from the point of view of geopoetics. Based on the descriptions of Königsberg-Kaliningrad in Bolotov's memoirs "Life and adventures of Andrey Bolotov, described by himself for his descendants", Brodsky's poem "Einem alten Architekten in Rom" and the novel "Königsberg" by Buida, the authors explore the sensorial perception of the city by the writers and establish its correlation...

The article invites the reader to contemplate what impedes further development of lan­guage science which is currently in a state of stagnation. This crisis is caused by the inade­quate meth­odology used in linguistic research. It defines the paradigm of so-called ‘normal’ science, which suppresses innovation. The dualistic philosophy of external realism continues to be the epistemo­logical foundation of ‘normal’ linguistics, and neither mainstream cognitive science nor cogni­tive linguistics has...

Lotman, Yu. M., 1974. On the reduction and deployment of sign systems (On the problem of “Freudianism and Semiotic Cultural Studies”). In: Materialy 1-go Vseso­yuz ­ nogo (5-go) simpoziuma po vtorichnym modeliruyushchim sistemam [Materials of the 1st All-Union (5th) Symposium on Secondary Modeling Systems]. Tartu, pp. 100—108 (in Russ.). Lotman, Yu. M., 1977. Kul’tura kak kollektivnyi razum i problema iskusstvennogo razuma [Culture as a collective mind and the problem of artificial intelligence]...

The article suggests a way to overcome two well-known problems of embodied/grounded theory of cognition: the impossibility of strict differentiating modal and amodal symbols, and the difficulty in defining abstract concepts/simulators (abstract lexical meanings). The pro­posed functional approach is based on the dichotomy 'perceptual (external) vs. functional (internal)' that goes back to Ivan Sechenov. These cognitive units are shown to play funda­mentally different roles. The function — the embodied...

The article discusses a possible development of Yuri Lotman’s concept of semiosphere by supplementing it with the idea of semio-poiesis. Analysis of the processes of origination, evo­lution and functioning of the genetic code makes it possible to describe the main mechanisms of these processes. The associations of material phenomena (in this case nucleotides and amino acids) led to the establishment of semiotic links, resulting in mechanisms of information stor­age and transmission, allowing the...

The objective of the present research is to discover and explain a variety of cultural pref­erences within the Russian-speaking community in Israel. We juxtapose veteran immigrants of the ‘1990 wave’ (including children and teenagers who came with their parents, so called 1.5ers) and representatives of the ‘Putin Exodus’ who arrived in the country in 2014—2018. The divergence in preferences and attitudes was revealed thanks to the discourse, semantic and comparative analysis. The research was conducted...

..., Yu. A., 1965. On one model of the semantic theory of information. Problemy kibernetiki [Problems of Cybernetics], 13, pp. 233—240 (in Russ.). Tulchinskii, G. L., 1985. Factors of artistic culture dynamics. Sovetskoe iskusstvoz­nanie [Soviet art history], 19/83, Vol. 2. Moscow, pp. 220—248 (in Russ.). Tulchinskii, G. L., 1986. “New” theories of Truth and “naïve” semantics (On al­ternative theories of truth in modern logical semantics). Voprosy filosofii [Problems of Philosophy],...

Since the sixties of the twentieth century, different algorithms for using poetic texts in the transformation of urban space have emerged. Poetic discourse is being increasingly contextualized in space, whose role in the contemporary cultural system and specific tasks of urbanism has been growing. In the urban context, poetry may acquire different forms — street performances, advertisements, murals and other types of visual poetry. It may turn the city into a venue for a festival of urban poetry...

... In: M. Morris, ed. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language . Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cam­bridge University Press, pp. 74—93. Putnam, H., 1967. Psychological Predicates . In: W. H. Capitan and D. D. Merrill, eds. Art, Mind, and Religion . Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 37 — 48. Reicher, M., 2019. Nonexistent objects . In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Available at: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nonexistent-objects/ [Accessed at ...

Urban motifs in Russian poetry have not yet become the subject of comprehensive investigation in terms of the evolution of poetic conceptualization of the world, the frequency, semantics and syntagmatics of the key lexemes — 'gorod' and 'grad'. Meanwhile, the analy­sis of the poetic, ethnic and linguistic picture of the world, closely connected with diachronic lexicology, phraseology and grammar, allows important conclusions concerning the history of the national semiosphere and conceptosphere based...

The paper describes the practice of creating poetic texts on lects that possess a problemat­ic linguistic status. The author proposes using ‘topolect’ as a universal term for such entities, which allows them to be placed in a special category of language systems that occupy an in­termediate level between the standard and the rather homogeneous territorial dialects in a kind of multilingualism that is characterized by the distribution of functions between idioms. The analysis of the poetic tradition...

... und die gezähmte Schrift. Eine Arbeitsübersicht. In R. Jirgl, ed. Land und Beute. Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1996 bis 2006. München: Carl Han­sen Verlag, pp. 92—122. Kleinschmidt, E., 2006. Schreiblektüren. Zur transformativen Poetik H. C. Art­manns. In: E. von Kleinschmidt and W. Schmitz, eds. Sammeln und Lesen . Die Kölner H. S. Artmann- Sammlung Knupfe : . Lektüren . Köln: Universitäts und Stadtbibliothek, pp. 214—237. Magerski, Ch., 2001. Trostlose Landschaft mit Literat....

The article provides an overview of the VI International Scientific Seminar "Hagiog­raphy in the Russian Cultural Space", dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Fedor Dostoev­sky’s birth. The seminar was organized at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University on October 11—12, 2021. The main ideas and key points of the presentations of the plenary and section meetings are explored.

The article explores the specifics of the paremic space of the coronavirus discourse, in which new images of typical situations related to the coronavirus pandemic are formed. The coronavirus narrative affects the use of phraseological units and paroemias, which, despite their stable structure, are subject to various modifications. The aim of this research is to de­termine the ways paroemias are modified by time-reframing, being one of the main discourse strategies. Modifications of phraseological...

... II. Integral'noe opisanie yazyka i sis­temnaya leksikografiya [Selected writings. Volume II. Integral Language Description and Systematic Lexicography]. Moscow (in Russ.). Bogatyrev, P. G., 1971. Voprosy teorii narodnogo iskusstva [Problems of folk art the­ory.]. Мoscow (in Russ.). Bukhshtab, B. Ya., 1989. N. A. Nekrasov. Problemy tvorchestva [N. A. Nekrasov. Problems of his work]. Leningrad (in Russ.). Chukovskii, K. I., 1926. Nekrasov. Stat'i i materialy [Nekrasov. Papers and materi­als]. Leningrad ...

Drawing on Narrative Theory, this article analyses the second French translation of The Brothers Karamazov as a counter-narrative for the novel’s first translation into French. In the mid-1880s, the critic Vogüé blocked the introduction of Dostoevsky’s narrative by predict­ing a clash with the French taste. Taking this warning into account, the first French transla­tors Halpérine-Kaminsky and Morice in 1888 framed the source narrative by means of selec­tive appropriation and repositioning of the...

The article deals with the dynamic interaction of events and narratives. As a result of this interaction, stable links ‘events-narratives’ appear; they influence the formation and transformation of social and cultural processes in society. Event-narrative links form the basis of the system of norms and values of society. The corpus of ‘event-narrative’ links creates be­havioural patterns, serves as a motivator for members of society, a cause and reason for ac­tions and an initiator of terraced events...

... [Accessed 26 July 2021] (in Russ.). Lipavskii, L., 2011. Conversations. In: A. I. Vvedenskii, ed. Vse [Everything]. Mos­cow, pp. 582—661 (in Russ.). Lotman, Yu. M., 1998. The structure of artistic text. In: Yu. M. Lotman, ed. Ob is­kusstve [On art]. Saint-Petersburg, pp. 14—285 (in Russ.). Olesik, A. V., Moiseyeva, L. S., 2014. Repetition functions in addresses. Sotsial'no-eko­nomicheskie yavleniya i protsessy [Social-Economic Phenomena and Processes], 1 (59), pp. 168—171 (in Russ.). Rozhanskii,...

The article analyses the impact of digital technologies on storytelling. By creating new information streams of personalised stories with open storylines in the virtual media envi­ronment, the author shares the process of writing a story with other participants in the digital world. The interaction between the author and the audience is transformed under the influ­ence of the hypertext system of cross-references. Each participant in this creative process acts not only as a co-creator, but also as...

The article is based on a chapter from the author’s book Russian Formalism: A Metapo­etics (1984). It deals with the poetics of Roman Jakobson formulated during his stay in Prague from 1920 to 1938 and treats this subject from an epistemological perspective outlining three incompatible scholarly/artistic trends which informed it: Husserlian Phenomenology, Saus­surian linguistics and Russian Futurism. From Husserl, Jakobson borrowed the concept of “expression” (Ausdruck) — the sign whose self-sameness...

..., 331(6014), pp. 176—182. Minchenkov, A., 2019. Translating a Scientific Text into English: Cognitive Per­spective. The Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes, 7(1), pp. 71—84. Monk, S., 1944. A Grace Beyond the Reach of Art. Journal of the History of Ideas, 5 (2), pp. 131—150. Olohan, M. and Salama-Carr, M., 2011. Translating Science. The Translator, 17(2), pp. 179—188. Parks, G., 2004. The Translation of Philosophical Texts. International Journal of Translation,...

... Istoriya odnogo goroda. Gospoda Golovlevy. Skazki [Saltykov-Shchedrin M. E. The history of one city. The Golovlyovs. Fairy tales]. Leningrad, pp. 3—30 (in Russ.). Bushmin, A. S., 1976. Saltykov-Shchedrin. Iskusstvo satiry [Saltykov-Shchedrin. The Art of Satire]. Moscow (in Russ.). Efimov, A. I., 1953. Yazyk satiry Saltykova-Shchedrina [The language of satire by Saltykov-Shchedrin]. Moscow (in Russ.). El'sberg, Ya. E., 1953. Saltykov-Shchedrin: Zhizn' i tvorchestvo [Saltykov-Shchedrin: Life and ...

Rapid development of concepts in modern sociology leads to the emergence of a large number of neological terms. Currently, the academic language of Russian sociology sees an active expansion of foreign language terminology and translated terms reflecting changes in the English-language social picture of the world. However, the lack of consistency in intra-lingual and inter-lingual translation of new terms may complicate the understanding of this terminology by representatives of multilingual academic...

The article offers an overview of the development of translation history during the past decade. It focuses on recent debates, research areas and methodological avenues in translation history with special emphasis on interdisciplinarity. Driven by a move away from a Euro-centric view of translation, researchers have become interested in producing connected and comparative histories of translation. The dialogue with the general field of history has led to the adoption of new methods and forms of analysis...

The classic work of Roman Jakobson,“The Newest Russian Poetry. Sketch One. Ap­proaches to Khlebnikov”, is invariably referred to in the works on the history of structuralism, formalism and the history of the methodology of humanities. This article aims to address sev­eral questions: what are the epistemological attitudes of Jakobson and how are they imple­mented in his work? Can this 'disorganised' and 'sketchy' text be interpreted in context of the future attitudes of the scholar? The avant-garde...

The global spread of English as a lingua franca (ELF) has caused a fundamental change to translation and interpreting (T&I). Translation and interpreting used to revolve around bilingual mediation between native speakers and native listeners. In interpreting, in particu­lar, more often than not, source speeches are now produced by non-native English speakers. The impact of this development has the potential to uproot our traditional understanding of T&I. This article sets out to describe how ELF...

.... Photo images in I. Zhdanov's poetry. Kul'tura i tekst [Cul­ture and text], 2 (37), pp. 88—96 (in Russ.). Ukhtomskii, A. A., 2020. Dominanta [Dominant]. St. Petersburg, 448 p. (in Russ.). Uspenskii, B. A., 1995. Semiotika iskusstva [Semiotics of Art]. Moscow, 360 p. (in Russ.). Veselova, N. A., Orlitskii, Yu. B, 1998. Notes on the Heading. Arion [Arion], 1. Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20190521095525/http://magazines.russ .ru/arion/1998/1/vesel114-p.html [Accessed 20 April 2021] ...

..., 2013. Verbal-visual intertextuality: how do multisemiotic texts dialogue? Bakhtiniana, Rev. Estud. Discurso, 8(2). Available at: http://www.scielo.br/ scielo.php?pid=S2176-45732013000200011&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en Serres, M., 2008/2013. L’Art des ponts . Homo pontifex . Paris: Le Pommier. Sherlock P. and Bradshaw, P., 2017. Festivals dominated by male acts, study shows, as Glastonbury begins. BBC News , June 22. Available at: http://www.bbc.co . uk/news/uk-england-40273193 Steiner, ...

This article is devoted to one of the important aspects of studying the Russian business language of the second half of the 19th century — the formation of the lexical meaning of the noun visilka (exile, expulsion), typical of the police procedure documentation of the time. The author discovered business texts of this type in the funds of the State Archive of the Tyumen region, the State Archive of the Omsk region, and the State Archive of the Irkutsk region. All texts date back to the late 19th...

The article discusses the role of the syntactic level of the organisation of a poetic text in the formation of a model of literary communication. The research aims to identify the role of syntactic structures in the construction of lyric discourse and to explore the poetic function of grammar units in the text. The author employs the principles and techniques of linguopoetic analysis and the methodology of constructing a communicative act, which was developed in the works of Vinogradov, Shcherba...

This article analyzes the Swedish translation of the short story Continuidad de los parques, written by the Argentine author Julio Cortázar and translated into Swedish by the translator Jan Sjögren. This short story is an excellent piece of metafiction as it plays with the re­lationship between a fictional reader and the real reader. By creating an aesthetic illusion, Cor­tázar leaves the reader in a tense state with a number of unanswered questions during the rea­ding of the text. The analysis shows...

The article considers the interpretation of the concept “people” by the Constitutional Democratic Party supporters. This concept is of fundamental importance for the analysis of Cadet ideology. The concept “people” was of great political value for the Cadet party. The author correlates this concept with such notions relevant for the Party as society, nation, and nationality. The author examines the relations of “people” with the authorities, the state, the Cadet Party, the Parliament, and humanity...

In his novels, Dostoevsky refers to the Pushkin text to describe characters. For Dostoev­sky, Pushkin is an ethical and aesthetic touchstone; the writer’s voice is consonant with that of the poet’s persona. In some cases, the Pushkin text is embedded in religious discourse (the parable of the prodigal son). In interpreting the Pushkin text, Dostoevsky’s characters present and disclose themselves. The ‘dreamer’ from ‘White Nights’ invokes the Pushkin text to con­vey the values of his own. In her peculiar...

The author explores the perception of the characteristic traits of Russian people that was widespread among military intellectuals and their associates — publishers, authors and sub­scribers of the journal “1812” at the end of the 19th — the beginning of the 20th centuries. The same group of military historians, academics and popularizers initiated the foundation of the Museum of 1812 and the Borodino panorama, painted by F. A. Roubaud for the 100th anni­versary of the Patriotic War of 1812. On the...

This article considers the depiction of the church procession to examine the literary inter­pretation of time and eternity in Alexander Pushkin’s historical drama Boris Godunov and Ivan Shmeleff’s novel The Year of the Lord. The two texts share fundamental similarities in literary images. The church procession is portrayed as a manifestation of eternity in the tan­gible reality of this world. Despite their common temporal nature, images in Boris Godunov and The Year of the Lord differ in terms of...

The article analyses the emotive aspect of the production and perception of the speech act of threat and the specificity of the perception of this act by a modern native speaker of Rus­sian. The act of threat is an instrument of influence exerted on the listener. Its effectiveness depends on the strength of the negative emotions of anxiety, fear, etc. initiated in the listener. At the same time, the production of threatening statements is often associated with the speak­er's emotional state, which...

This article deals with Andrey Bolotov’s official employment status during his time in Königsberg (April 1758 — March 1762). The work considers the historiographic tradition originating from Bolotov’s memoirs, the Königsberg pages of which were written more than 30 years after the events described. Bolotov’s memoirs are compared with his correspondence of the time and the archival materials of the Russian administration of East Prussia during the Seven Years’ War. It is concluded that Bolotov’s status...

The paper presents a statistical study of the use of variant forms of Russian personal names. It is shown that Russian names can be divided into two classes: names with full and short forms contrast with names that only have one neutrally used form. For names that have a distinct short form, the frequencies of full and short forms can relate to each other in differ­ent ways. This depends on various factors, such as the length of the full name and the gender of its owner: for longer names and female...

The history of the creation of Andrei T. Bolotov’s memoirs has been little studied. In par­ticular, the stages of his work on this text are not entirely clear. This article is an attempt to shed light on one aspect of this problem. Bolotov’s personal fund (No. 349) in the Archives and manuscripts section of the State Historical Museum contain a manuscript of Bolotov’s memoirs entitled “Part 2”. It differs significantly in its essential characteristics (paper, de­sign, size, composition, title, division...

Using the method of corpus analysis, this article explores the history of the Russian hon­orific gospoda and related forms of address: damy i gospoda, gospoda-tovarischi, and other noun-noun and adjective-noun collocations (gospoda publika uvažaemye gospoda). It draws on examples from literature to demonstrate that although, contrary to popular belief, the honorific damy i gospoda is not a neologism of the end of the 20th century, it was mar­ginal to pre-revolutionary speech. It is also shown that...

The author considers the evolution of the concept “people” in the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, Samuel Pufendorf and Benedict Spinoza. The political thought of Europe in the 17th century demonstrates a conscious turn from the medieval scholastic tradition of thinking about people and power. Politics begins to be thought of as a complex of human ac­tions aimed at achieving certain human goals. This, in turn, leads to the rationalisation of politics and, as a consequence, to the rejection...

Translation of philosophical texts is a special challenge because of specific philosophical idiom and conceptual complexity of the narrative. It is not surprising that such translations are often accompanied by commentaries where the translator steps out of the shadows to justi­fy the translational decisions. This kind of supplementary text called the “translational peritext” is under study in this paper aiming to reveal the cognitive effort the translation process involves, and to explore the author-translator-reader...

... of reflection of Russian society in the first half of the 19th century. Kul’tura i obrazovaniye: nauchno-informatsionnyy zhurnal vuzov kul’tury i iskusstv [Culture and education: scientific and information journal of universities of culture and arts], 2 (25), pp. 31—38 (in Russ.). Freeze, G., 2016. “To understand the Church means to understand people…” (In­terview). Gosudarstvo, religiia, tserkov’ v Rossii i za rubezhom [State, religion, church in Russia and abroad], 34 (4), pp. 242—250 ...

.... S. Pushkina [Vestnik of A. S. Pushkin Leningrad State University], 3, pp. 102—110 (in Russ.). Mankovskaya, N. B., 2003. Simulacre. In: V. V. Bychkov, ed. Leksikon nonklassiki. Khudozhestvenno-esteticheskaya kul'tura XX veka [Lexicon nonclassics. Art and aesthetic culture of the XX century]. Moscow (in Russ.). Popov, D. A., 2016. Humanities and postmodern challenge. Izvestiya Saratovskogo universiteta. Ser.: Filosofiya. Psikhologiya. Pedagogika [Izvestiya Saratov University. Vol.: Philosophy. ...

The concept “sootechestvenniki” is one of the key tools for self-description of society; it is an instrument for drawing borderlines between “we” and “they”. The article describes the development of the meaning of this word since its coinage. The word appeared in the 18th cen­tury as a merger of the Old Slavic and Old Russian ‘otechestvo’ (fatherland, understood as one’s place of origin) and the French ‘compatriot’. This merger resulted in the formation of two new prototypical meanings: one is civic...

In this article, I consider the philosophy of the Book in the context of reflections on her­meneutics in the works of the 18th-century Königsbergian thinker Johann Georg Hamann. Hamann’s bibliocentric hermeneutics treats the ‘philosophy of the Book’ as the question as to whether the experience of truth as such is possible. In the light of his hermeneutics, the fate of ontology is a function of the quality of reading since its dialogical nature directly determines a person’s special hermeneutic responsibility...

... Maciejczak, Z., Murale jako nośniki pamięci w przestrzeni miejskiej. Studium przypad­ku warszawskiego osiedla Muranów. Available at: http://www.otwarta.org/wp-content/ uploads/2016/06/Esej-ZM.pdf [Accessed 11 July 2019]. Niżyńska, A., 2011. Street art jako alternatywna forma debaty publicznej w przestrzeni miejskiej. Warsaw. Szalewska, K., 2017. Urbanalia: miasto i jego teksty: humanistyczne studia miejskie. Gdansk. Szpociński, A., 2014. Nośniki pamięci, miejsca pamięci. Sensus Historiae, 17 ...

In this article, I discuss problems associated with the emergence and development of the concept of text, which is central to the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School (TMS). The first prob­lem is the interrelation between statics and dynamics. From the perspective of classical struc­turalism, the language system is a static entity. The generation of a text, however, is a dy­namic process. Therefore, language should contain the possibility of dynamics. The TMS of­fered a twofold solution to this dilemma....