scholarly journals Semantics and the functional potential of prefixal verbs derived from names of the ethnos in 19th century Russian language

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-290
Author(s):  
Olga A. Starovoitova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Functional Potential

scholarly journals Vom historischen Erbe zur selbstbestimmten Sprach(en)politik? Literarische Mehrsprachigkeit in Litauen und Lettland

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Natalia Blum-Barth
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Historical Legacy ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Russian Language

From Historical Legacy to Self-Determined Language(s) Policy? Literary Multilingualism in Lithuania and Latvia. The first part of this article looks at Soviet language(s) policy. Two further parts discuss language(s) policy and literary multilingualism in Lithuania and Latvia. The aim is not to provide a differentiated investigation, but to show similarities and differences as well as tendencies in the language(s) politics of the two states from the 19th century to the present in the mirror of literature and to explain them using case studies. In the fourth, concluding part, literary translation is highlighted as one of the formats for implementing multilingualism outside the text with particular focus on the consultative function of the Russian language.

scholarly journals Sootechestvenniki (compatriots) in the 19th century: semantic profile based on the data of the National Corpus of the Russian language

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 72-84
Author(s):  
S. T. Zolyan
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
National Corpus

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, collective and elevated, and the other gravitates to ethnicity since it is used to refer to Russians. With the strengthening of state institutions in Russia, the first meaning was bound to dominate and it did at the beginning of the 19th century. However, one should speak not about the synthesis, but rather about the discordance of the two meanings. In the 19th century, another meaning developed in the semantic struc­ture of the word: ethnic Russians living abroad. Gradually, the word acquired new evaluative meanings, while negative connotations still prevailed. The basic oppositions (we — they, here — there, ours — alien) interacted in an ambiguous way, substituting each other. A variety of hy­brid “compatriots” arose: we are there, they are here, etc. The heterogeneity of the seman­tics of the word reflects collisions within society, which faced a tragic internal split in the 20th century.

scholarly journals Corpus-based methods in stylistic studies: reshitel’nyi/reshitel’no in Fedor Dostoevskii’s individual style

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 400-416
Author(s):  
Ekaterina V. Sharapova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Lexical Item ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Lexical Function ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Individual Style ◽  
National Corpus

The article discusses the idiolectic features of the adjective reshitel’nyi and the adverb reshitel’no in Fedor Dostoevskii’s writing style. Conceived as one lexical item, reshitel’nyi and reshitel’no have a semantic structure that includes three blocks of meanings: quality/mode of action; discursive meaning; intensity (corresponding to the lexical function Magn). The dictionary definitions suggest that all of them were common to reshitel’nyi/reshitel’no in Russian language of the 19th century. Ноwever, a corpus-based study shows that reshitel’nyi/reshitel’no in discursive or intensifying use is one of Dostoevskii’s idiolectic patterns. The study comprises 1219 contexts from Dostoevskii’s five great novels and from Leo Tolstoy’s, Mikhail Saltykov Shchedrin’s, Ivan Turgenev’s and Ivan Goncharov’s literary texts accessible in the Russian National Corpus. The analysis reveals the closeness of intensification tо discursive meanings up to nondistinction. Almost half of the contexts extracted from Dostoevsky’s texts are discursive or intensifying uses of reshitel’nyi/reshitel’no. This share is much smaller for the texts of other authors (12%, 22%, 15% and 14% respectively). The article considers some types of contexts and constructions that refer to discursive or intensifying uses of reshitel’nyi/reshitel’no in Dostoesvskii’s literary texts.

scholarly journals Criminal Liability for the Misappropriation of Authorship from 1830s to Early 20th Century

Teisė ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 83-103
Author(s):  
Ramunė Žiedė
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Early 20Th Century

This article analyzes the development of criminal liability for the misappropriation of authorship in Lithuania in the period of application of the legal acts of Tsarist Russia from the 1830s until the restoration of Lithuania’s independence in early 20th century. Norms of different periods are being compared with each other, the oldest criminal norm for the misappropriation of authorship is sought and identified. The appendices of the article also present the citation of the norms of misappropriation of authorship in the original (19th century Russian) language and its translation into Lithuanian, as well as a graph depicting norms of misappropriation of authorship, established in different legal acts, their correlation at different times, and the content of the norms in force with each other.

scholarly journals The noun visilka: a semantic portrait and a sys­tem of multiple meanings (based on police search documentation of the second half of the 19th century)

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-95
Author(s):  
Ksenia R. Russu ◽  
Yulia A. Melnik
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
Portraiture Methodology ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Irkutsk Region ◽  
The 19Th Century

his 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 century. The study of the lexeme visilka was conducted in ac­cordance with the lexicographic portraiture methodology (proposed by Apresyan and Mayorov) and the principles of linguistic study of source texts. A comprehensive analysis of the lexical distribution of the noun visilka determined the necessity of abstract or concrete-abstract vector locatives, which expanded the lexical meaning of this lexeme in the business texts of the second half of the 19th century. The authors identified the main semantic features of the noun visilka (the dominance of the archiseme — 'process', the existence of the differen­tial semes 'result', 'actions of people involved in a police search'). Further research is aimed at examining business writings from Western and Eastern Siberia, which belong to a different genre and a different time period. Further research will be based on the texts from the Nation­al Corpus of the Russian language, the Uppsala and Tyubinsk corpuses, the database of the Russian press Integrum and Open Corpus.

scholarly journals Western Travellers in the Caucasus. Georgia’s Highways and Byways: Hotels, Inns & Taverns in the 19th Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-62
Author(s):  
Nina Taylor-Terlecka
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Travel Accounts

Drawing on a wide range of French, English and Russian-language printed source material, the paper deals with the travel accounts of Western visitors to Georgia and the Caucasus in the nineteenth century. Focusing on the everyday practical experience of travel, it outlines the birth of the hotel trade in Tbilisi. After c. 1850, with the building of a railroad, “civilizational” standards began to improve, and over the years Tbilisi hotels were described as being as “good as any European establishment”.Under the heading of provincial travel, the paper addresses the issue of general supplies, provisions and self-catering, modes of transportation, the state of the roads, and the network of postal-stations, whose erratic services were supplemented by the omnipresent, albeit highly unreliable, wayside inn or dukhan. Coming to the Caucasus and Georgia on specific assignments (diplomatic, political, military, commercial, or scholarly) the authors of travelogues bring their prior expectations, nurtured by ancient myths, ancient literature, and a study of earlier travel accounts, with which they engage in textual dialogue. In their sundry reflections and musings they seldom fail to enthuse on the tourist potential of Georgia in particular, and the Caucasus more generally. 

scholarly journals Rangifer and human interests

Rangifer ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 153 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Human Interest ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century

This article reviews biological and anthropological literatute on wild and tame Rangifer to demonstrate the powerful effect that this species has had on the imaginations of biologists, social scientists and local hunters. Through identifying a general 'human interest' in Rangifer, the author argues that there is great potential for these three communities to work together. To demonstrate this idea, the paper reviews several examples of successful and unsuccessful 'alliances' between local peoples and both natural and social scientists which have had a fundamental impact upon the history of these sciences. The paper examines recent theorerical models which suggest that human action is a major factor in the behaviour and ecology of the animals. The paper also analyses the ideas of many indigenous people for whom there is no categorical difference between semi-domesticated, semi-sedentary and migratory Rangifer through comparison with many 'anomalous' texts in English and Russian language wildlife biology. By reviewing the history of scholarly interest in Rangifer, the author argues that contemporary models of Rangifer behaviour and identity could be 'revitalised' and 'recalibrated' through the establishment of that dialogue between scientists and local peoples which so characterised the 19th century. Such a dialogue, it is argued, would help mediate many of the political conflicts now appearing in those districts where Rangifer migrate.

scholarly journals Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy in the book “Russian novel” by E.-M. de Vogüé

Rhema ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
V. Trykov
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Leo Tolstoy ◽  
Russian Novel ◽  
French Writer ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Russian Language

The article describes a problem of the reception of the shape of Leo Tolstoy by the French writer E.-M. de Vogüé (1848–1910), whose book “Russian Novel” (“Le roman russe”) (1886) never fully been translated into the Russian language, the influence of “neomisticism” and his interpretation of cultural situation in Europe at the end of the 19th century on the interpretation of the personality and creativity of the great Russian writer, revealed the ambiguity and contradictoriness of the assessment, which gives Vogüé to Tolstoy’s worldview.

scholarly journals NAMING UNITS OF MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION: LINGUISTIC AND CULTUROLOGICAL ASPECT (Based on Regional Sources of the Late 19th Century – the First Half of the 20th Century)

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-65
Author(s):  
O.Yu. Vasilyeva ◽  
M.V. Komarova
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Siberian Region ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Regional Sources ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
National Corpus

In the article the naming units denoting means of transportation are considered in the framework of the linguoculturological approach, which allowed to identify the specifics of the formation of both the regional nominative fund and national thinking in a certain epoch in the development of Russian literary language, which is facilitated by the comparative characteristics of an occasional word usage with the data of the National Corpus of the Russian language. Lexical-semantic, historical-etymological, word-forming and functional features of the analysed language units are revealed. The material for the study was texts of different genres, created and published on the territory of the Siberian region in the late 19th century — the first half of the 20th century.

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