The article examines the little-studied side of the life of the famous German politician and statesman Friedrich Ebert, his family life and relationships with children. Using mainly published for the first time personal letters of members of the Ebert family, the author describes the main values and virtues that traditionally existed in the German family […]
Suvorova N.V. Russian and Polish Names of the Christian holiday of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Linguoculturological aspect)
The article raises a number of topical issues in modern linguistics related to the comparative study of closely related languages. In the lexical system of each language, the naming of festive dates (georthonyms) occupies an important place. Forming an integral part of the linguistic picture of the world, they make it possible to detect both […]
Paniutina M.N. Users’ participation in dictionary making process with special reference to dictionaries of new generation
The article raises a number of issues related to the professional activities of lexicographers at the present time, who set themselves the task of the most complete satisfaction of the needs and requests of users of reference publications. The concepts of anthropocentrism and the functional approach in lexicography are considered. The most relevant methods of […]
Manik S.A., Smirnova V.L. Contemporary approaches to analysis of complexity of educational text based on data of English textbooks
Nowadays linguistics is actively engaged in the study of text, its features, functions and properties in an interdisciplinary perspective, thus, a special branch of linguistic science has been formed, called “Text Linguistics” or “Text Theory”. The article discusses contemporary approaches in linguistics to the analysis of educational texts, as well as the problem of assessing […]
Grigoryan A.A. Types of sexism in English (Pejoration of women)
In present-day linguistics sexism serves as kind of an “umbrella” term covering and uniting quite a lot of seemingly heterogeneous and contradictory variants (from a covert or even benevolent sexism to overt or blatant one). Despite this multiplicity and variability, all versions of sexism share the idea of the opposite sex discrimination. Scholars have suggested […]
Tikhomirov V.A. Physical genius and atrophy of self-reflection in David Foster Wallace’s “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart”
“How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart”, an essay by an American post-postmodernism writer David Foster Wallace, is formally a review of the autobiography of once a child prodigy in women’s tennis Tracy Austin. However, the text quickly overcomes the initially outlined framework and develops into sharp criticism of sports autobiography as a literary genre. Austin’s […]
Polovinkina O.I., Bychkova K.I. J.M. Coetzee and H.D. Thoreau: the motif of wandering in the novel “Life and Times of Michael K.”
The article analyses the narcissistic nature of J.M. Coetzee’s novel “Life and Times of Michael K.”; the artistic whole in this novel is based upon the principles of metafiction. Emphasizing the peculiarities of Franz Kafka’s and Henry David Thoreau’s style, Coetzee integrates certain motives of their works into his narrative. The article focuses on the […]
Morozova I.V. Women’s world in post-war Louisiana’s “Paradise Lost”: Grace King’s “Balcony Stories”
Distinct regional literary schools were formed after the Civil War in the United States. The so-called “New Orleans School” was the most original among them. Its leaders were women who not only responded to the burning questions of life in the post-war South with its trauma of having lost, but also raised important questions related […]
Martirosian G.E. Literary Afrofuturism in the 21st century Canadian literature (On example of “Dominoes at the Crossroads” by K. Kellough)
The article is devoted to the literary analysis of the story collection “Dominoes at the Crossroads” (2020) by Kaie Kellough as an Afrofuturist artifact of the newest culture of Canada. Afrofuturism itself is considered as a critical method and art movement, which, with the help of documentary and fantasy narratives, is designed to talk about […]
Belova O.E. Speech blunders of Ostrovsky’s heroes in view of the primary speech genres
The author of the article makes an attempt to study works of A.N. Ostrovsky through the lens of primary speech genres (based on M.M. Bakhtin’s and A.D. Stepanov’s research). This research can be conducted in different directions. For example, the author demonstrates exploration of some situations in Ostrovsky’s plays when the characters make certain speech […]
Shilova E.A. Ivanovo Lexicographic School: 25 years in the vanguard of modern Russian and European lexicography
The article is devoted to the history of Ivanovo Lexicographic School and the results of its scientific research. For citation: Shilova E.A. Ivanovo Lexicographic School: 25 years in the vanguard of modern Russian and European lexicography, Ivanovo State University Bulletin. Series: Humanities, 2022, iss. 1, pp. 174—180.
Kiseleva N.K. “The History of Spain” by Alfonso X the Wise: the authority of the monument and the significance of the translation. Book Review: Alfonso X the Wise and the collaborators. The history of Spain, which was compiled by the most noble King Don Alfonso, the son of the noble King Don Fernando and Queen Dona Beatrice. St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2019. Vol. 1. 763 p
The review examines the value of the publication of the commented translation in Russian “The History of Spain” by Alfonso X the Wise. This chronicle — the most important monument of the Spanish medieval epoch of the 13th century — has not been translated into any European language. Certainly, a project to translate such a […]
Kasatkina S.S. University and city: noospheric relationship
The article is devoted to the consideration of the third mission of the university in the context of ideas about noospheric dynamics. The specificity of university subculture in the context of consumer civilization is fixed. An analysis of the interaction between the university and the city in the format of their co-evolution as the most […]
Zaitseva S.A., Smirnov V.A. Value regulators of the “recommender system” in the context of the spread of neural network models
A characteristic feature of the modern conditions of digital transformation of various processes in society is the emergence of not only a huge array of publicly available data intentionally left by users (active digital footprint), but also information about their interaction with various information and communication systems (passive digital footprint). The latter type of digital […]