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• The Late Poetry of A. Bashlachev: Changes in Performance and New Meanings

  This article investigates variations in a synthetic text manifested in word, sound, and performance. Based on earlier literary studies of the synthetic art phenomenon and its relevant methods, the authors set a theoretical and analytical framework for this research. The object of the study is verbal and ...

• ‘What can be described can happen too…’: describing text semantics as a model structure of transworld relationships

  In this article, I explore the content-related and formal aspects of describing the multidi­mensional semantic organization of a text, particularly, I focus on the possibility of using the apparatus of modal semantics to identify the relationship between sentential complexes. To those ends, I employ the concepts of model, model structure, and centred world. The latter is a system ...

• The Text and Discourse in the Light of Communicative Meaning Formation

  This article analyses differences between the static and dynamic interpretations of the text and discourse. The concept of a communicative action (a semiotic act) is considered as the main distinguishing factor that is crucial for the communicative model of text but is ignored within the language model. The communicative (dynamic) model ...

• The text in the context of the Tartu Semiotic School: problems and prospects

  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,...

• Experiences in translation: the text as a pattern, the pattern as a text

  In this article, we discuss the methodological prospects of using the term ‘pattern’ in the analysis of a literary text. We identify the semantic and categorial field of the term, propose a definition of ‘pattern’ as projected on language material, and correlate the terms ‘pattern’, ‘repetition’, ‘recurrence’, and others. The linguistic ontology of ...

• ‘Reaching out’ beyond the text: philosophical notes

  In this article, I define the concept of text and briefly discuss the related concepts of speech and discourse. I demonstrate how the humanities treat texts and examine the structur­al-semiotic and the hermeneutic approach. Further, I identify both the differences between these approaches and ...

• Textonics: an introduction to electronic philology

  Digital philology studies texts and textuality in electronic networks and the ways of their reading, writing and transformation. Electronic texts are much more fluid and transformable than paper texts and oral utterances. Textonics is a combination of theoretical and practical ...

• A philosophical framework for presenting novelty in a poetic text

  Texts of different eras relate to varying degrees to the question of generating and present­ing novelty. Recent poetry has been undergoing visible changes in poets’ attitudes to demon­strating linguistic novelty in texts. Young poets write texts that ...

• Translation and Discourse Analysis

  ... at revealing patterns of belief and habitual action, as well as social roles and power relations (Critical Discourse Analysis). Since translation can be char­acterised as an act of communication across linguistic and cultural boundaries, with source text and target text representing language in use, concepts and methods of discourse analysis have been found useful for Translation Studies. The paper will provide some examples of such research. Baumgarten, S., 2009. Translating Hitler’s “Mein ...

• Subjective modality of the literary text: ontological status in author’s conception of the world

  A literary text is considered by modern linguistics as a dynamic commu­nicative unit, in connection with which it becomes necessary to study its con­stituents. Subjective modality appears in a literary text as a communicative-semantic category that allows one ...

• Text filiation in S. D. Dovlatov’s fiction (article one)

  This article considers SD Dovlatov’s prose to examine the little-studied intertextual process of filiation. The filial offshoot of a literary text is related to, and separate from, the initial text and is written by the same author. The study presents a ‘working’ definition of filiation and outlines its basic principles — a creative use of clichés, text reduplication, and the employment ...

• Pushkin texts in the description of characters by Dostoevsky and Nabokov

  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 ...

• Text filiation in S. Dovlatov's fiction (article two)

  The author analyses S. D. Dovlatov’s prose and examines the littlestudied intertextual process of filiation. The filial offshoot of a literary text is related to, and separate from, the initial text and is written by the same author. The study presents a ‘working’ definition of filiation and outlines its basic principles — a creative use of clichés, text reduplication, and the employment ...

• On the Pushkin text in the poetry of Perestroika

  This article is devoted to Perestroika poets referring to the Pushkin text as a ‘tuning fork’ in reconfiguring poetics. The study aims to show that, in this case, intertextual connection create a special text-within-a-text. The corpus, intertextual, and compositional methods are used to analyse Pushkin-invoking texts ...

• Synergy character of the category "author" as an object of linguistic interpretation

  The article dwells on the particularities of the author’s speech activity in a fictional text as a part the narrative discourse, the interpretative category of author being discussed in the logics of synergetics. In this synergetic mode, the most characteristic manifestations of the actualization in the text structure of synergetic interaction ...

• Modality in the system of text categories of Old Russian written records: on the formulation of the problem

  This article considers the functional-semantic category of modality in the system of such text categories as microtext, macrotext, and metatext. The author describes the integrative function of modality in the construction of semantic hierarchy of Old Russian texts, as well as the functional role of complex syntactic constructions in the system ...

• The mutual similarity of meanings and structures in a literary text

  This paper discusses a discourse grounding strategy that has not been described before. It is shown that the fragments of a literary text that are perceived as impressive, aphoristic, etc., tend to have a set of recurrent features. Firstly, in such fragments, there often is mutual re­flectedness of meanings (it emerges in metaphors, similes, parallelisms, or juxtapositions of contradictory ...

• Understanding scientific texts on the basis of modelling semantic links: theoretical foundations of the conception

  The paper explores linguistic, methodological and psycholinguistic aspects of scientific text modelling. These aspects relate to text units, intratexual links and elements of the model. The article also examines text forming functions of the sentence. 1. Анохин П. К. Теория функциональной системы // Успехи ...

• Hybrid texts as a form of interaction between avant-garde artistic and political discourses

  This paper explores hybrid texts as a special type of text that forms within ‘inter-discourse interaction’ and relates to the ‘convergence of discourses’. The analysis focuses on the interaction between avant-garde art and political discourses, which have been in close ...

• Modal particles, their function and meaning in the texts of the «St. Petersburg Vedomosti» newspaper (late 18th — mid19th centuries)

  The author explores the function and role of modal particles in the texts of the St. Petersburg Vedomosti newspaper. Modal particles are describes as a means of representing the position of the author of newspaper texts, and speaking broadly, and a means of expressing subjective modality. Modal particles accentuate modal ...

• Characteristics of communicative-textual functions of complex proper-tense German sentences

  The article analyses complex proper-tense sentences from the point of view of their role in the text generating process. The article describes the system-formation function of this kind of sentences. The author identifies certain types of derivatory symmetry / asymmetry of the described type of sentences, being the main scenarios of the text generating ...

• Cognitive and speech characteristics of an author of a mnemonic text

  The focus of the article is on various aspects of the creative identity of an author of a mnemonic text represented by the concept of cognitive and communicative subject. The features of the author’s cognitive, communicative, discursive, and linguistic identities are described and the ways of their representation are shown in the case of the memoirs ...

• On the problem of cultural reference of proverbs (the Russian proverbs with images of clothing)

  ... Russian mentality. 1. Abakumova, O. B., 2012. Poslovitsy v yazyke, soznanii i kommunikatsii [Proverbs in the language, consciousness and communication]. St. Petersburg. 2. Arnol'd, I. V., 1978. The value of strong position for interpretng a literary text. Inostrannye yazyki v shkole [Foreign languages at school], 4, pp. 23—31. 3. Arutyunova, N. D., 1982. Linguistic problems of reference. In: N. D. Arutyunova, ed. Novoe v zarubezhnoi lingvistike. [New in foreign linguistics]. Moscow, pp. 5—40....

• The role of discourse in modern linguistics

  This article considers discourse as a category giving a new perspective on the text. The author analyses various concepts of discourse, which were developed over the last decades within the cognitive, constructivist-poststru-cturalist, and neo-rhetorical approaches. Despite being based on different methodological principles, the ...

• Images of Paradise in the Russian Poetry of the End of the 20th Century

  ... Bozhestvennaya komediya [The Divine Comedy]. Moscow (in Russ.). Dragomoshchenko, A., 2011. Tavtologiya: stikhotvoreniya, esse [Tautology. Poems, essays]. Moscow (in Russ.). Zhdanov, I., 2006. Vozdukh i veter. Sochineniya i fotografii [Air and wind. Texts and photos]. Moscow (in Russ.). Iskrenko, N., 1993. Vishnevyi sad prodan? [The Cherry Orchard sold?]. Available at: http://www.vavilon.ru/texts/iskrenko2-4.html [Accessed 21 December 2017] (in Russ.). Iskrenko, N., 1993. Menee dvuh yablok [Less ...

• On the metalinguistic functions of a natural language in literary texts

  This article considers the relevant linguistic problem of metalinguistic potential of a natural language and its functions in a literary text in the case of the Russian language. The Russian language and natural languages in general act as a universal cognitive model capable of describing different codes presented in literary texts 1. Бороздина Г. В. Психология ...

• Language specificity of Franz Kafka’s non-fiction texts

  The characteristic features of non-fictional texts by F. Kafka are studied on the material of the author’s diaristic and epistolary texts, which manifest his linguistic personality. The epistolary texts are analysed in reference to the addressee and their relationship with the author. Special ...

• Lexical explicators of the modality of necessity in the Old and New Testament (the Synodal translation into Russian)

  ... modality of necessity. I consider the use of lexical modifiers of the modality of necessity in the Old and New Testament. The aims of this study are to identify similarities and differences in the use of lexemes explicating the microfield in the biblical texts and to produce a comparative analysis of modal meanings of objective-subjective and objective necessity expressed through relevant lexemes. Another objective is to assess the influence of the meanings of necessity on the semantic orientation of ...

• On the Dual Role of the Translator of Poetry and the Division of Roles

  ... roles and functions of a translator of poetry. The study identifies certain components of the process, within which a translator acts simultaneously as a transmitter of the original culture, a mediator between the reader and the author of the source text, a co-author, a linguistic innovator, a poet, and a linguist. The two latter roles are crucial for translating poetry. Translators of poetry create ‘their own’ texts. It is obvious that they cannot distance themselves completely from their poetic ...

• Evaluation of a work of art in journalistic texts: E. Vodolazkin’s novel Lavr

  The author analyses the process of evaluating works of art in media texts and highlights the main stages of this process. The author proposes a methodology for analyzing speech forms of journalistic representation of a work of art based on the achievements of modern Russian intentional stylistics. Using examples of literary ...

• Non-verbal elements of a film text in the semiosis of power

  Contemporary communication is witnessing an increasing role of visual elements. The development of cinema as a special sign system has contributed to this trend. Scholars agree on the definition of the film text as a unique type of text comprising both verbal and non-verbal elements. Film adaptations are an instance of intersemiotic translation. Today, television series are growing in popularity. This article studies various classifications of film text ...

• The space "in the text"/"between texts"/"as a text" of Russian avant-gardism

  This article considers the space as a means of the trans(de)formation of the material structure of the text in the analytical poetics of Russian avant-gardism. The author claims that, in Russian avant-gardism, the space acquires the function of a semantic operator. 1.  Бурлюк   Д., Бурлюк   Н. Стихотворения. СПб., 2002....

• Anagrammatic structures in the semiotic aspect

  This article considers the functional features and deep cognitive foundations of ana¬grammatic structures in verbal texts. The traditional perspective on the phenomenon is defined as a general sign-based one: anagrammatic structures are examined in music and mathematics. It is concluded that anagrams are special cognitive universals; anagrammatic structures are possible ...

• The problem of correlation of space and texts in A. Eppel’s short story On a dark warm night

  This article focuses on the interaction between space and text in A. Eppel’s short stories. The correlation between the fictional and text spaces at the level of lexis is analysed on the basis of the short story On a dark warm night. The author proves the isomorphism of the plot and the reading process. ...

• Subject development and pragmatic focusing in a scientific text

  This article provides a general characterization of the pragmatic focusing, determines the role of the theme of the scientific text and its influence on the distribution of certain foci through its structure. As an illustration for the indicated statements, it proposes the linguistic analysis of the original German sources. 1. Богданова О.   А. Цвето- и светообозначения ...

• The functioning of performatives in the texts of documents: The case of appeal letters

  This article deals with the functional and semantic features of performative verbs in the texts of documents. Performatives are defined as significant structure and content components of text solving the pragmatic task of establishing the contact between the addresser and addressee. The author identifies the communicative and pragmatic features ...

• On the function of biblical anthroponyms David and Goliath in poetic texts of A. I. Polezhaeva and V. Ya. Bryusova

  The author studies lexical dominants of the vocabulary of precedent biblical anthroponyms David and Goliath in the biblical texts and poetic texts based on the Bible. It is shown that the precedent name in the poetic text becomes a means of expressing the author’s assessment of the depicted. Changes are revealed in the semantics of images resulting from the author’s individual ...

• Translation of sociolect texts

  ... fundamental issue of variability within a language and aims at studying the specific fragment of the Russian language of the XXth centu­ry — Soviet camp sociolect within the frameworks of contrastive sociolectology. Sociolect nature of the source text is viewed as one of the factors increasing the degree of text untranslatability. The author dwells on the nature of adaptation interventions, which a trans­lator needs to perform to render the specificity of the Soviet camp social dialect in English....

• Subjective modality as a way of expressing author’s intentions in the first printed Russian newspaper “Vedomosti” of the times of Peter the Great

  The article examines the potential of the subjective modality as a tool to implement the author’s intentions in the texts of the first Russian printed newspaper «The Vedomosti». The article reveals a significant role of the subjective-modal meanings built over the objective modality through a number of expressive tools (modality units, parenthetical words and structures,...

• Hierarchic representation of the category of “memory” units in German autobiographical texts

  The article describes the lexical representation of the category «memory» in the text. Special attention is paid to the hierarchical organization of lexical units with the “memory” seme in autobiographical texts by German authors. 1.  Fontane Th. Meine Kinderjahre. Frankfurt a/M., 1983. 2.  Kästner E. Als ich ein kleiner ...

• Linguistic Means of achieving coherence in the regional certify­cation documentation in the middle of the 18th century

  ... means of cohesion in documents of general char­acter. The research material is the mid-18th century certificates and passports kept in the «Ataman of Michailovskaya Stanitsa» Fund of the Volgograd Re­gional State Archive. It is established that the texts of certificates and pass­ports are different in their choice of cohesion means in the text. The certificates are characterized by a specific means of cohesion — the repetition of the names of the responsible persons in the initial and final paragraphs ...

• The modal potential of a newspaper text: The case of Moskovskiye vedomosty of the post-reform period of the second half of the 20th century

  This article considers the category of language modality as a means to implement the author’s intentions in a newspaper text. The modal meanings indicative of the author’s attitude to the message and the means of its expression are identified. The interaction between objective and subjective modal meanings is described for newspaper texts of the second half of the 19th ...

• The intertexteme as an instrument in the past — pre­sent — future dialogical space of urbanism practices: an intersemiotic ana­ly­sis of graffiti and inscriptions in Gdansk and Kaliningrad

  ... with signs of various semiotic systems and employs cultural meanings and conventions expressed in both verbal and graphic forms. The recognizability of intertextemes in both authentic and modified forms contributes to the at­tractivity of the urban text and its dialogical nature. Arutyunova, N. D., 1990. Diskurs. In: V. N. Yartsev, ed. Lingvisticheskiy entsiklope­diche­skiy slovar' [Linguistic Encyclopedic Dictionary]. Moscow. pp. 136—137 (in Russ.). Bakhtin, M. M., 1986. Estetika slovesnogo ...

• The functional determination of speech aspects of a document

  This article examines speech aspects of a strategic planning document — the Development Concept — and identifies factors determining its specifics. The text of the Concept is analysed using the communicative-genre approach, often employed in recent research works. This approach produces an integrated picture that takes into account parameters affected by both linguistic and extralinguistic factors. The ...

• The multi-language coding and anagrammatic foundations of the “Venice text” in Yu. Buida’s short story “All the floating by”

  This article examines the use of a multi-language anagrammatic code in Yu. Buida’s works. The authors identify the anagrammatic foundations of the “Venice text” in the shorty story “All the floating by” from the collection The Prussian Bride. It is shown that the core of the system is the anagrammatic variation of the words Венеция / невеста и море / amor / mors. The matrimonial ...

• The title and text in M. Lomonosov’s spiritual “Meditation”

  The title and text of Lomonosov’s spiritual Meditation is considered within the system of an integrated context of meanings. The role of the title is identified through its connection with the structural and semantic framework of the poetic plot. 1. Даль В....

• From a city to the myth (Yu. Buida’s Königsberg)

  This article analyses Yu. Buida’s novel Königsberg as a fragment of the Königsberg text in Russian literature. It is shown that the mythological image of Königsberg/Kaliningrad is based on the moving border between the documentary and the fictional, history and narration, whereas the discursive structure of the text simulates the transformation ...

• Frame approach to analysing the semantisation of the biblical quasi-anthroponym prodigal son in the language of Russian poetry

  This article describes ways to semanticise the biblical quasi-anthroponym ‘prodigal son’ in a poetic text, using the frame approach as a means of cognitive modelling and description. This approach helps to identify and characterise meaning construction mechanisms in a prec­edent onomastic sign, which conveys the conceptual meanings of the biblical text....

• Repetition as a means to convey irony in a literary text (based on Gogol’s works and their translation into German)

  Irony is considered as a means to express an author's implicit judgement in a literary text. The article describes the use of repetition as a syntactic and textual means to express irony in N. V. Gogol's works and their translations into German. A comparative analysis is carried out to estimate the equivalence of repetition translations ...