?
Engagement and constructiveness in online news comments in English and Russian
Text & Talk. 2023. Vol. 43. No. 2. P. 235–262.
Trnavac R., Taboada M.
Abstract: We investigate the relationship between Engagement and constructiveness in online news comments by analyzing the frequency and type of Engagement expressions in a corpus of English and Russian comments, following the Appraisal framework. The comments in question, 10,000 words in each language, are posted in response to opinion articles in the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail and the Russian online news channel RT. In the context of online news comments, users generally characterize constructive comments as posts that intend to create a civil dialogue through remarks that are relevant to the article and not intended to provoke an emotional response. Through quantitative and qualitative analyses, we conclude that the language of constructive comments is more explicitly subjective in both languages. The main difference in the use of Engagement expressions in constructive and non-constructive comments is along the lines of certainty/uncertainty and reliability/unreliability. As for cross-linguistic differences, it seems that English constructive comments place emphasis on the reliability of a commenter’s knowledge while Russian constructive comments employ more modals of necessity, which have a prescriptive function.
Keywords: English languageRussian languagemodalitycommentsconstructivenessepistemic stanceEngagement
Publication based on the results of:
Seleznev M., Луппова А. А., Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института 2026 Т. 18 № 1(57) С. 10–35
The story of the Tower of Babel (Gen 11:1-9) is one of the key episodes in the narratives of the Book of Genesis. In modern scholarship, various—often sharply divergent—datings of this pericope are proposed, as well as different interpretations of its place in the picture of the formation of the biblical text that was put ...
Added: October 9, 2026
Seleznev M., Луппова А. А., Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института 2026 Т. 18 № 2 (58) С. 322–349
Like other narratives in the Book of Genesis, the story of Cain and Abel (Gen 4:1–16) has been studied and commented upon for more than two millennia. However, recent scholarship has introduced significant revisions to traditional interpretations. Over the past five years, several monumental commentaries on Genesis 1–11 have been published, offering new—and sometimes mutually ...
Added: October 9, 2026
Seleznev M., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2026 Vol. 3 No. 86 P. 589–592
The article reconstructs the 'biography' of an alleged (in fact, non-existent) fragment of
4QDeutq said to contain a non-Masoretic reading of Deut 32 : 8. It traces how erroneous
references to the fragment emerged during the preliminary publication of the Scrolls in the
1950s, the scholarly attention this fragment received, its eventual disappearance from Qumran
studies after the official ...
Added: October 9, 2026
Ronko R., Тимофеева В. Д., Индоиранские языки 2026 Т. 2 № 2 С. 117–146
The paper is devoted to the variable number marking in Shughni
nouns and reports the results of corpus and experimental studies. In some languages,
including Shughni, the marking of plural nouns is not compulsory. Many
factors such as animacy, referentiality, morphological and semantic properties,
or syntactic position may determine the presence or absence of number marking.
The corpus study investigates ...
Added: October 8, 2026
Ronko R., Zemicheva S., Труды института русского языка им. В.В. Виноградова 2026 Т. 3 № 49 С. 133–149
In the dialects of the Russian-Belarusian borderland, the verb byt’ ‘to be’ in the present tense is represented by a set of short (e, ё) and full forms (ecть, ёсць, etc.). This article investigates the variability of these forms in the dialect corpus of the village of Spiridonova Buda (Zlynkovskij District, Bryansk Region) and in ...
Added: October 8, 2026
Ronko R., RHEMA. РЕМА 2026 № 1 С. 9–20
In the introductory article to the thematic volume devoted to grammatical research on the speech of several villages, the main linguistic-geographical information about the dialect is presented, along with a description of the key methodological principles for working with the material. The dialects under study belong to the group of the Pskov dialects and border ...
Added: October 8, 2026
Rezvykh P. V., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Философия 2026 Т. 30 № 1 С. 127–143
The issue delivers an analysis of schellingian motives in the later works by A.F. Losev. The author brings information about Losev’s retrospective evaluation of Schelling’s influence on the formation of his own philosophical approach, it’s specific character and it’s grade. The author shows that all the main investigation projects of the later Losev which have ...
Added: October 7, 2026
Pershkina A., Slovĕne 2026 Т. 15 № 1 С. 174–192
The article newly presents archival materials from the Directorate of Imperial Theaters relative to the organization of a crocodile exhibition held in St. Petersburg Passage department store in the autumn of 1864, along with newspaper reports on the event. The close analysis of specific articles demonstrates that this exhibition served as the direct inspiration and ...
Added: October 5, 2026
Dezi A., Sesto San Giovanni: Mimesis, 2026.
This book is a metaphysical inquiry into the nature and origin of the manifold. Taking Schelling’s Erlangen lectures of 1820–1821 as its point of departure and hermeneutic horizon, it develops an interpretation of Nomos that transcends its political, juridical, and social determinations. Nomos thereby emerges as the ontological principle of an infinite, variegated multiplicity of ...
Added: October 2, 2026
Файзов Д., М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2026.
Новая книга Д. Файзова пронизана голосами других поэтов. Речь не о расхожей постмодернистской центонности. Это микроинтертекстуальность на уровне конкретных слов и приемов, коллаж осколков чужих голосов, однако таких осколков, которые сохраняют способность отсылать к целому и к тому же вписаны — вклеены на манер аппликации — в узнаваемую интонацию самого поэта. Данил Файзов—поэт, культуртрегер, редактор. ...
Added: October 2, 2026
Vinogradov A., Rodionov O., Travaux et Memoires 2026 Vol. 30 No. 2 P. 1075–1089
This article examines the manuscript tradition of Kallistos Angelikoudes’ Hesychastic consolation, a fluid and complex corpus of thirty Logoi preserved primarily in Vat. gr. 736. The authors survey all known witnesses—including the autograph Barb. gr. 420, the Lond. Arund. 520, and several later copies—and analyze their textual relationships, variant readings, and codicological features. They demonstrate ...
Added: October 1, 2026
Громенко Е. С., Krongauz M., Антропологический форум 2026 № 70 С. 163–183
The paper describes the construction litso takoy-to natsionalnosti ‘a person of such-and-such an ethnicity’ in Russian with its semantic and pragmatic characteristics. The purpose of the study is to trace the appearance of the construction and analyse how it is used and how it is perceived. Three expressions representing this construction are considered in more ...
Added: September 30, 2026
Поцелуев В. А., Ural-Altaic Studies 2026 Vol. 62 No. 3 P. 62–81
In recent years, the researchers working on Uralic languages within Minimalism seem to have built a consensus on how to define the
position of negation in any language with a negative verb. The main and usually the only argument is based on the work [Mitchell 2006].
The argument is as follows: if the negative verb expresses tense, ...
Added: September 30, 2026
Slioussar N., Antropova D., В кн.: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: По материалам ежегодной международной конференции «Диалог». Выпуск 24Issue 24.: M.: Max press, 2026. С. 590–597.
Agreement feature processing is one of the core issues of psycholinguistics. Previous studies mainly focused on number and gender features and obtained controversial results: in some studies, gender was more salient in processing, while in others number was more salient. The studies relied on different languages, used different constructions and different methods. The goal of ...
Added: September 28, 2026
Kalicheva V., Kirina M., , in: Speech and Computer. 28th International Conference, SPECOM 2026, Ohrid, North Macedonia, September 17–18, 2026, Proceedings, Part I.: Springer, 2026. P. 320–337.
The rapid expansion of the online education market has produced large volumes of unstructured data—course reviews containing detailed evaluations of specific educational components. Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) makes it possible to move from a holistic assessment of the educational experience to an analysis of its individual constituents, identifying particular aspects of learning and students’ attitudes ...
Added: September 20, 2026
Tulyakov D., Professional Discourse & Communication 2026 Vol. 8 No. 3 P. 114–130
Although epistemic stance in academic discourse has been extensively researched
in linguistics, relatively little is known about diachronic change and variation in its expression
across disciplines, and still less about the grant proposal abstract, a genre produced under strong
promotional pressure. The present paper addresses this gap by testing whether the widely reported trend towards research “hype” is ...
Added: August 30, 2026
Tiskin D., Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии 2026 No. 24 P. 656–665
Despite a lot of interest for the factors influencing the choice of pronoun (reflexive or personal) with an antecedent in Russian, the role of the anaphotic relation—coreference or semantic binding—has been understudied, including disagreements as to the acceptability of particular data points. To clarify things, I employ large corpora (Araneum and GICR) to study the ...
Added: July 19, 2026
М.: Институт русского языка им. В.В. Виноградова РАН, 2026.
Сборник тезисов Пятнадцатых Шмелёвских чтений (К 100-летию со дня рождения академика Дмитрия Николаевича Шмелева) Жизнь слова: Научное наследие академика Д. Н. Шмелева в контексте современности. Охватывает разные аспекты современной русистики: от исторической лексикологии до современных трансформаций прагматики и семантики слов. ...
Added: June 23, 2026
Skripka N., Russian linguistics 2026 Vol. 50 Article 11
This paper presents the first in-depth corpus-based study of a previously overlooked syntactic variation in Russian: the competition between juxtapositional (Nominative) and possessive-like (Genitive) encoding of the second noun (the term) in specificational constructions (e.g., ponjatie čest’ (notion.NOM honor.NOM) vs. ponjatie česti (notion.NOMhonor.GEN) ‘the notion of honor’). While typological research has established cross-linguistic preferences for one encoding strategy over another, intralinguistic variation ...
Added: May 18, 2026
Prokofieva K., В кн.: Японский язык в вузе: актуальные проблемы преподавания. Сборник научных работ. Материалы Второго международного форума «Языки и культуры Восточной Азии в образовательном пространстве» (МГПУ, 23–26 апреля 2025). Выпуск 30Вып. 30: Сборник научных работ. Материалы Второго международного форума.: Языки народов мира, 2025. С. 325–333.
When teaching Japanese as a foreign language, it is customary to explain grammatical markers that convey the meanings of wish and invitation to joint action separately from each other. Meanwhile, comparing these markers for a more accurate understanding of the speaker's intentions, as well as the variability of the context of their use, can be ...
Added: April 26, 2026
Tiskin D., М.: Издательская группа URSS, 2026.
Предлагаемая книга представляет собой введение в формальную семантику — раздел языкознания, в котором посредством построения математически строгих моделей исследуется, как предложения приобретают значение и способность передавать информацию в зависимости от своей структуры и значений составляющих их слов. Классические теоретические идеи Г. Фреге, Д. Льюиса, Д. Каплана и др. излагаются современным языком, а при разработке нотации акцент сделан на том, ...
Added: March 17, 2026
Глазкова А. В., Смаль И. В., Lyashevskaya O. et al., Доклады Российской академии наук. Математика, информатика, процессы управления (ранее - Доклады Академии Наук. Математика) 2025 Т. 527 С. 146–155
This paper presents a study on the effectiveness of discriminative methods for abbreviation lemmatization in Russian texts. Unlike generative approaches, discriminative models select the optimal lemma from a fixed set of candidates, eliminating the risk of generating grammatically incorrect word forms. For the first time in Russian language processing, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of ...
Added: March 10, 2026
Afanasev I., Glazkova A., Lyashevskaya O. et al., , in: Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing (Slavic NLP 2025).: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025. P. 157–170.
Pre-trained language models have significantly advanced natural language processing (NLP), particularly in analyzing languages with complex morphological structures. This study addresses lemmatization for the Russian language, the errors in which can critically affect the performance of information retrieval, question answering, and other tasks. We present the results of experiments on generative lemmatization using pre-trained language ...
Added: March 10, 2026
Glazkova A., Lyashevskaya O., Morozov D. et al., Journal of Mathematical Sciences 2025 Vol. 546 P. 32–47
This paper addresses the task of lemmatizing abbreviations in the Russian language. Abbreviation lemmatization is particularly challenging, as it involves not only transforming a word into its normal form but also correctly expanding the abbreviation. We explore two approaches to this task, both leveraging large pretrained language models. The first approach is generative, where the ...
Added: March 10, 2026