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Emotions and attitudes in present day Russian through the prism of new words: Cultural semantics of zhest’ and related concepts
Russian Journal of Linguistics. 2022. Vol. 26. No. 4. P. 970–994.
Contemporary Russian lexicon is characterized by rapid change which involves borrowings, the use of new words and expressions as well as the emergence of new meanings from the existing word forms. The paper considers the development of the colloquial use of the word žest’ (from žest’ ‘tin’ – a type of metal) and the increase of use of the words žestkij ‘hard/tough/firm’ and žestko ‘firmly/toughly’ as an example of ‘internal’ language processes. Žest’ belongs to the domain of colloquial speech and youth slang, but it is also infiltrating other types of discourse. Žestkij and žestko are shown to be prevalent in the political discourse as a sign of power. The paper analyses the semantics of the words and establishes cultural links between the meaning of the words and broader cultural themes. It uses the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) as a method of semantic analysis relying on data from the Russian National Corpus. Despite belonging to different types of discourse, the words are shown to be closely connected conceptually and the cultural prominence of the concept is emphasized.
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 ...
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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, ...
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Государственный университет просвещения, 2026.
Настоящее издание представляет собой коллективный труд, посвящённый юбилеям основателей-руководителей научных школ лингвистического факультета Государственного университета просвещения Максименко Ольги Ивановны, доктора филологических наук, профессора, профессора кафедры теории языка, англистики и прикладной лингвистики, Председателя
диссертационного совета 72.2.020.05 и Хухуни Георгия Теймуразовича, доктора филологических
наук, профессора, профессора кафедры теории языка, англистики и прикладной лингвистики.
Цель издания – обобщение современных достижений в ...
Added: September 29, 2026
Zevakhina N., Щипкова А. А., Chinkova A., Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2025 No. 2 P. 105–122
This paper presents experimental evidence for the over-specification (redundant use) of Thai postnominal
numerals in referential communication. The first experiment reveals high rates of over-specification
in oral responses that include Thai postnominal and Russian prenominal numerals tested in a contrastive
multi-number visual context. The second experiment demonstrates lower but still relatively high
rates of over-specification in written responses that ...
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Вилинбахова Е. Л., Zevakhina N., Terra Linguistica 2025 Т. 16 № 3 С. 13–30
Настоящая работа посвящена исследованию употреблений испанского глагола resultar ‘оказываться’ в рамках эвиденциального подхода и подхода возникновения нового знания, представленных в литературе. Согласно первому подходу, глагол resultar передает
инферентивное значение: субъект оценки делает умозаключение на основании наблюдаемых
результатов. Сторонники второго подхода считают основным компонентом семантики глагола
возникновение нового знания, а инферентивное значение объясняется воздействием других
элементов контекста. В работе каждый ...
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Zevakhina N., Пономарева П., Краснощёкова С., Acta linguistica Petropolitana 2025 Vol. 21 No. 2 P. 270–286
The paper reports on an experimental study that reveals a difference
between two types of under-informative utterances with the quantifier “nekotoryj”
(‘some’) in Russian. The experiment was conducted as an inference task based on [Geurts,
Pouscoulous 2009; Val Tiel et al. 2016] with some modifications. The experiment
showed that both types of utterances more often have inference-based interpretations
rather than ...
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Zevakhina N., Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2026 No. 3 P. 54–70
The paper demonstrates that the Russian particle mol exhibits a combination of properties associated
with direct, indirect, and free indirect discourse (FID). First, mol-clauses license shiftable linguistic
items (adverbial indexicals, expressive speech acts, imperatives, evaluative lexical items) not
only in FID, as typically assumed for such linguistic items, but also in indirect discourse. Second,
first- and second-person pronouns in ...
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Tsigeman-Gorenko E., Sivov A., Mararitsa L. et al., Psychology in Russia: State of the Art 2026 Vol. 19 No. 1 P. 32 – 55
Background. The inconsistent evidence regarding nostalgia’s affective outcomes suggests that its effects may not be uniform, but contingent on individual characteristics, a possibility that has received limited empirical attention.
Objective. To examine how induced nostalgia influences positive and negative affect, while accounting for age, gender, and overall well-being.
Design. A sample of 122 participants (balanced by gender ...
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Bursov K., Slioussar N., Kokhova M. et al., Brain and Language 2026 Vol. 275 Article 105719
Previous EEG studies demonstrated ample evidence for a major influence of morphological regularity on inflectional processing. However, regularity effects may be attributed to different properties of inflectional classes: to type frequency, to productivity, or to defaultness (assumed only in some models). In many languages, these factors cannot be teased apart, but it is possible in ...
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Zhukova V., Ekaterina Rakhilina, Akhapkina Y., Zeitschrift fur Slawistik 2026 Vol. 71 No. 2 P. 259–284
This study examines the most numerous type of construction presented in the Russian Constructicon, namely intensifiers. We studied intensifiers in the context of comparative constructions of inequality like Х bol’še Y‘X is bigger than Y’ –> Х gorazdo bol’še Y‘X is much bigger than Y’. Comparative constructions and intensifiers are usually studied separately since they ...
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Goddard C., Gladkova A., Ye Z., , in: The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture.: Routledge, 2026. Ch. 7 P. 95–110.
The term ‘ethnopragmatics’ designates an approach to language in use that sees culture as playing a central explanatory role. It is a reconceptualization of the approach to ‘cross‑cultural pragmatics’ inaugurated by Anna Wierzbicka’s (2003 [1991]) ground‑breaking volume of this name. Ethnopragmatics involves a threefold alignment of objectives, methodological tools, and evidence base (Goddard 2006). The ...
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Gladkova A., , in: The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 2nd ed.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2026.
This article treats grammar as inseparable from semantics and pragmatics. On the basis of existing studies, it demonstrates that it is possible to identify cultural information or meaning embedded in grammatical structures. Connections between grammar, culture, and society are studied in an emerging area of linguistics known as Ethnosyntax. The term “ethnosyntax” was coined by ...
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Diachkova M., Lelik V., Dorofeeva S. et al., Language Resources and Evaluation 2026 Vol. 60 Article 68
This article presents the Russian Language-Monolingual corpus (RusLan-M, v.1.0), a longitudinal multimedia collection of early child speech from two Russian-speaking monolingual children: Tosya (ages 0;10–3;10, 246 recordings) and Yasha (ages 1;04–3;00, 42 recordings). The corpus consists of approximately 41 h (2,454 min.) of video recordings and 35,386 child utterances, available with transcriptions in the CHAT ...
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Britov I., Tyumeneva E., Glazunova S., , in: Ngoại giao, biên phiên dịch và hợp tác quốc tế của Việt Nam trong kỷ nguyên mới.: Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản Đại học quốc gia Hà Nội, 2026. P. 417–427.
The article analyzes the Russian experience in writing textbooks on translation from Vietnamese into Russian and from Russian into Vietnamese. On the basis of five textbooks written in Russia over the past thirty years, forms and methods of teaching both oral and written translation are revealed. A comparative description of each of the presented textbooks ...
Added: August 11, 2026
Vigoda-Gadot E., Levitats Z., Styrin E. M., Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 2026 P. 1–23
Governance is rapidly digitising, yet how citizens’ emotions towards algorithmic policy decision-making relate to their trust in governance institutions remains understudied. Drawing on the affect-as-information model, we argue that emotions constitute a distinct input into institutional trust judgements, operating both directly and by conditioning the weight of cognitive evaluations. We test this argument with a ...
Added: August 7, 2026
Kharlamova D. S., Journal of the European Second Language Association 2026 Vol. 10 No. 1 P. 1–16
Formulaic language may help language learners in second language (L2) acquisition. However, interference with the first language (L1) can also cause errors in L2 production. The present paper explores the possibilities of detecting L1 Russian interference errors connected with phraseologisms in English learner texts with a fine-tuned Transformer-based neural network. Across a dataset of 3,600 ...
Added: August 6, 2026
Zubov V., Вопросы лексикографии 2026 № 40 С. 64–86
The article addresses the problem of selecting and systematizing data for the study of pronunciation variation in contemporary Russian and proposes a solution in the form of a specialized database of codified equivalent pronunciation variants (e.g., simmétriya / simmetríya “symmetry”). The article presents a methodology for identifying, selecting, and organizing such variants into a database. ...
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Vorchik A., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This work is devoted to a theoretical explanation of the Easterlin paradox, according to which long-term economic growth does not make average level of people's happiness increasing. By happiness, we mean the intensity of emotions people experience while comparing their new income with its expected value, or the target income with its original value. In the first case, ...
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Dvoynikova A., Karpov A., , in: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологииВып. 22.: М.: Изд-во РГГУ, 2023. P. 51–61.
This article describes solutions to several problems: CMU-MOSEI database preprocessing to improve data quality and bimodal multitask classification of emotions and sentiment. With the help of experimental studies, representative features for acoustic and linguistic information are identified among pretrained neural networks with Transformer architecture. The most representative features for the analysis of emotions and sentiments ...
Added: April 25, 2026