dc.contributor.author

value: Shlyafer, Sofia I.

value: Shikina, Irina B.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Shlyafer S. I., Shikina I. B. Assessment of the composition of adult patients hospitalized in Russian hospitals. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Medicine, 2023, vol. 18, issue 4, pp. 397–406. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu11.2023.405 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article presents an analysis of the distribution of adult patients discharged from medical
organizations providing inpatient care, hospitalized morbidity, and the average length of stay by
disease classes and nosology in Russia for the period from 2016 to 2020. The aim of the work
was to assess the composition of adult patients hospitalized in Russian hospitals over 5 years
(2016–2020). Statistical and analytical research methods were used in the research. The data on
the number of discharged adult patients (18 years and older) from medical organizations providing
inpatient care as well as on the number of bed-days discharged were obtained from the
federal statistical observation form no. 14 “Information on the activities of units of medical organizations
providing inpatient care” for 5 years. The number of discharged adult patients from
hospitals decreased by 15,4 %, the hospitalized morbidity rate decreased from 205,5 to 175,8 per
1000 people of the corresponding age, the average duration of stay in a hospital bed decreased
from 11,7 to 11,0 days. A downward trend in hospitalized morbidity is traced for all classes of
diseases. Since 2020 there is a change in the structure of hospitalized morbidity of adult patients
by disease classes, which can be explained by the pandemic of a new coronavirus infection
COVID-19 and the reprofiling of most hospitals to infectious diseases hospitals.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Medicine;Volume 18; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: adult patient

value: hospital

value: disease class

value: hospitalized morbidity

value: average length of stay in bed


dc.contributor.author

value: Albedil, Margarita F.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Albedil M. F. Ancient Tamil Poetry: Archaic Substratum. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, pp. 649–659. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.402 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
Thе article is a tribute to the memory of the outstanding Russian dravidologist A. M. Dubyansky;
it examines the archaic foundations of ancient Tamil poetry. This poetry is represented
by two poetry collections: “Eight anthologies” and “Ten songs or poems”, which were created
in the 1st–3rd centuries. A. M. Dubyansky explored the mythological and ritual origins of this
poetry, it seems reasonable to reveal in it a deep archaic substratum; this is the purpose of
the article. Thanks to phylogenetic memory, its actualization took place at different times in
different areas of culture and literature, therefore, ancient Tamil poetry is no exception to the
general rule. There are grounds to establish a genetic connection between one of the key terms
of the analyzed poetry, namely, aņańku, denoting various phenomena of the sacred sphere,
with the ancient archetype of integrity, the origins of which date back to deep antiquity. The
ancient Tamil poetic canon also reflected archaic ideas about time-space, the chronotope; they
are significantly different from the historical dictated by the usual for us Newtonian-Cartesian
paradigm. The image of the ancient Tamil god Murugan depicts the mythology of a young
god, who is typologically close to the dying and resurrecting gods of the agricultural cults of
the Old World. However, they left the historical scene, but the cult of Murugan is still popular
in the Dravidian area, this creates opportunities for a deeper study of this mythology. Thus,
the translations and studies of A. M. Dubyansky receive additional source study value and can
be fruitfully used for various kinds of humanitarian research.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: ancient Tamil poetry

value: archaic substratum

value: integrity archetype

value: chronotope

value: young god mythologeme

dc.type

value: Article

format: Adobe PDF


dc.contributor.author

value: Al Tawalbeh, Ahmad Mohammed Nahar

value: Safori, Amjad Omar Ali

value: Mahmoud, Alia Ali Idris

value: Al-Zoubi, Ashraf Faleh Yousef

value: Sharadgah, Tahsin Mohammad Anis Hasan

dc.identifier.citation

value: Al Tawalbeh A. M. N., Safori A. O. A., Mahmoud A. A. I., Al-Zoubi A. F. Y., Sharadga T. M. A. H. Socio-Cultural Peculiarities of the Audience of Online Drama in Bahrain. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, pp. 766–778. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.411

dc.description.abstract

value:
Bahrain’s population is diversified, consisting of both Bahrainis and expats from many nations.
Online dramas often reflect this diversity in terms of the languages used and the portrayal
of cultural identities. Productions may employ a mix of Arabic and English, or they
may incorporate characters from various ethnic origins. Grounded in uses and gratifications
theory this research examines online dramas on web television platforms in Bahrain — one
of the most ecomomically developed country of the Middle East and the Arab Gulf region
with a high index of digital media consumers. Therefore, this study aims to explore social and
cultural peculiarities of usage of online dramas in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Moreover, the
research attempts to examine motivations of different social groups of watching online dramas
on web television platforms. The paper tends to investigate gratifications achieved from
watching online dramas on Netflix. For this goal Netflix platform has been chosen as a pattern
of the most popular web television platforms in the above metioned region. To achieve these
objectives, a cross-sectional online questionnaire was used with self-selection, and convenience
non-probability sampling techniques. A total number of 306 self-selected respondents
from Bahrain was investigated. The overall results showed that within the Banrainean society,
which prefers to watch online dramas via the precised web television platforms, there is no difference
between ritulaized and instrumental motivitations, as well as there is no a significant
difference between process and content gratifications.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Kingdom of Bahrain

value: web television platforms

value: online dramas

value: VOD


dc.contributor.author

value: He, Yudan

dc.identifier.citation

value: He Yudan. Translations and Publications of Russian Sources on the History of Sino-Russian Relations during the Qing Dynasty in China. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, pp. 636–648. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.401 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
At the beginning, the Qing Dynasty maintained a certain level of contacts with countries
around the world. Later, China was closed for a while, but soon found itself forcibly opened.
During this period, foreign missionaries, diplomats, merchants, military men, researchers and
others began to flock to China. They were extremely surprised by life in Qing China, and
therefore recorded everything they saw and heard. The number of their works, which are
stored in libraries, archives, museums or private collections in various countries of the world,
is incredibly large, and they are valuable materials for understanding the history of the Qing Dynasty and China’s foreign relations for almost three centuries. Russian sinology originated
at the beginning of the 18th century, when the Russian Orthodox Mission was founded in
Beijing. The ROM operated in China from 1715 to 1956, while it should be noted that almost
two hundred years of its existence occurred during the Qing Dynasty. In the early period
(1715–1861), it acted as the diplomatic representation of Russia in China, so among the members
of the ROM there were many sinologists who studied the history of the Qing, especially
the history of Sino-Russian relations during the Qing dynasty. The high level of research and
the special view contained in the works is of great importance to us. In this regard, since the
1980s, Chinese scientific institutions and individual scientists have consistently translated important
works of Russian sinologists into Chinese.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was carried out with the financial support of the China Scholarship Council. The article
is an intermediate result of a major project of the State Foundation for Social Sciences — “The End-to-end
History of China: Translation and Research” (18ZDA182) (China).

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: Qing China

value: history of Sino-Russian relations

value: Russian sources

value: translations

value: publications


dc.contributor.author

value: Moiseeva, Anna V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Moiseeva A. V. Lists of Prophets in Persian Poetry: Application, Classification, and Context. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, pp. 714– 730. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.407

dc.description.abstract

value:
Traditionally, medieval Persian poems have an introduction that praises God and the Prophet.
Often the praise is expressed by comparing Muhammad with his predecessors. Usually the
conclusion (often implicit) of such a comparison is that Muhammad has surpassed all the
other prophets in everything and, unlike them, has no imperfection. It is not uncommon for
the description of the mir‘āj to be used as the basis for such a listing. This tradition goes back
to a hadith describing Muhammad’s ascension to the divine throne, where he was greeted in
turn by all his predecessors. The use of the lists of prophets is closely connected with the theme
of the affirmation of monotheism — tawh īd. The literary canon prescribes mentioning this
theme in introductions of various kinds, be it the first chapter of a poem, the first ghazal in a
divan, or the beginning of a separate qasida. The enumeration of the names of the prophets
and the elements of the stories related to them (the miracles they performed, the trials they
faced, or the sins they committed) demonstrate the omnipotence of God and the immutability
of His will, and point to the path that the believer must take to be united with the Absolute. An
analogue and prototype of this technique of Persian poetry are the so-called rows of prophets
found in the Qur’an. The function of such rows is to demonstrate the prophetic succession
from the first man, Adam, to the “Seal of Prophecy”, Muhammad, by presenting the legendary
history of humanity before the advent of Islam.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.subject

value: Persian literature

value: prophets

value: Qur’an

value: list

value: poem

value: introduction

value: canon

value: mir‘aj

value: ‘Attar

value: Nizami

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Yılmaz, Victoria Bilge

dc.identifier.citation

value: Yılmaz V. B. Carnivalesque Reading of Halide Edib Adivar’s The Clown and His Daughter. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, pp. 702–713. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.406

dc.description.abstract

value:
Halide Edib Adıvar (1884–1964), prominent and revolutionary Turkish writer, wrote her novel
The Clown and His Daughter in 1935 in English. With a colourful story of Rabia’s psychological,
social, and physical development, Adıvar undertakes a meticulous re-examination of the
social categories of her native land during an empire’s rapid moving into a state of a republic.
This study will claim that Adıvar’s novel The Clown and His Daughter is a purely carnivalesque
piece of work if analysed in terms of Bakhtin’s concept of the carnival. Mikhail Bakhtin rests
the importance of the carnival sense of the world upon the transcending of every possible
barrier between all living creatures in the universe. The theory of the carnival is infused with
the atmosphere of freedom, excessiveness, challenge, rebirth, and bodily priorities. In a carnivalistic
world, where a king can become a slave, an old woman can die while giving birth
to a baby, or a man can unite with the whole world while consuming food. Bakhtin discusses
such images under the term of the grotesque — an image of the bodies that constantly change
from one form into another. Adıvar’s novel, in the same vein, focuses on the underlying unity
between genders, communities, religions, races and human beings and animals. The setting
and the characters in Adıvar’s novel can be recognised as carnivalistic because of their eccentricity,
tendency to subvert social norms, and the urge to be able to feel the unity with the
whole world. This study will conclude that Adıvar’s aim in writing this novel was to reveal the
fundamental principle of a Turkish society — its social wealth that is indelibly marked by its
endless varieties, differences, and fluctuating reality.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: Halide Edib Adıvar

value: The Clown and His Daughter

value: Bakhtin

value: carnivalesque


dc.contributor.author

value: Sokolov, Oleg A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Sokolov O. A. Sentiment Analysis of the Image of the Franks (ifranj) in the Arabic Folk Epic Sīrat D ˍāt al-Himma. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, pp. 741–749. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.409

dc.description.abstract

value:
The method of sentiment analysis opens up great prospects for historical and anthropological
research, primarily for studying the problems of the construct of the image of the Other. To
test this method on the material of the Arabic language, I chose the Arabic folk epics as they
are a conflux of the cultural memory of Arab population of Levant and Egypt, insufficiently
investigated from the point of view of historical anthropology. The narratives of the Arabic
folk epics combine an ancient Arabian tribal folklore, as well as fabulous and legendary stories
of ancient Semitic and Persian origin, in addition to the chronicles from different periods of
the history of Islam. The epic Sīrat Dˍ āt al-Himma (“The Life of Ḏāt al-Himma”) was taken as
an example to analyze the contexts about the Franks in this type of sources, and to conceptualize
the patterns of creating the emotive image of the Frank-Crusader. The main patterns of
creating the image of the Other in the epic are the opposition of the followers of the true and
heretical faiths, the attribution of deviant and bestial behavior to the Franks, and the depiction
of them as carriers of demonic superpowers. The tropes and stylistic devices of metaphor,
epithet and hyperbole, used in these cases, are joined to evoke laughter, fear and hatred of the
Franks at the same time in the listener of the folk epics, making comic relief one of the most
recurrently used techniques as it usually involves all abovementioned emotions.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research was supported by Russian Science Foundation (project no. 22-28-01046, https://rscf.
ru/en/project/22-28-01046/). I am also grateful to dr. Natalia Kizhaeva for processing the source text using
the CAMeL Tools (Python) algorithm.

dc.language.iso

value: en

value: sentiment analysis

value: Arabic folk epic

value: image of the Other

value: Arab history

value: Crusades


dc.contributor.author

value: Hasanov, Elnur Latif oglu

dc.identifier.citation

value: Hasanov E. L. Academic Issues of Research of Historic-Cultural Heritage of Medieval Ganja. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, pp. 731– 740. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.408

dc.description.abstract

value:
Historic-cultural heritage of Ganja city belongings to such thinkers of Azerbaijan as Nizami
Ganjavi, Mahsati Ganjavi, Siti Ganjavi, Raziya Ganjavi, Mirza Shafi Vazeh and others. In this
research work were studied the teaching of different sciences in Ganja during Middle Ages
period, the services of prominent scientists, thinkers and teachers of that period, who worked
in madrasa and used rich libraries. In particular, given the importance of the city as a sociopolitical,
economic, scientific and cultural center during this historical epoch. By the way,
during this historical period Ganja as an important political and cultural center was visited by
famous scholars of this period, as well as important historical information about their teaching
and scientific activities have been studied for many years. In scientific article on the basis
of available scientific sources, historical documents, written sources, are considered the merits
and patronage of national statehood, which played an exceptional role in the development
of the traditions of our national statehood, in the formation of prominent figures in science
and culture. Also in this study, based on historical and ethnographic sources, have been determined
the significance of the scientific, literary and cultural development of Ganja in the
revival of the characteristic features of the Renaissance period.

value: Middle ages

value: Azerbaijan

value: Ganja city

value: cultural heritage

value: historical study

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Baldanmaksarova, Elizaveta E.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Baldanmaksarova E. E. Image of the Jungar Galdan-Boshoktu-Khan in the Novel “An Eagle Soaring in the Sky” by Mongolian Writer B. Dogmid. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, pp. 660–672. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.403 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article, based on the historical novel “An Eagle Soaring in the Sky” (2021) by the modern
Mongolian writer Balzhirin Dogmid (1945), examines the life and work of the Oirat-Mongolian
Galdan-Boshoktu-khan (1644–1697), a major political figure of the 17th century, the ruler of
Dzungar Khanate. The modern need to realize, to better comprehend the scale of the political
and international events of the 17th century in Central and East Asia, which are based on the relationship
between Dzungaria, Qing China, Tibet and disparate Mongolian principalities, which
led to total dependence on the Manchu Qing dynasty, excites many creative minds in Mongolia
today. B. Dogmid, referring in his novel to one of the brightest charismatic rulers of Mongolia
in the second half of the 17th century, tells about the main directions of the “Mongolian policy”
of Galdan Boshoktu Khan, focusing on the personal human qualities of his hero. The desire of
Galdan-Boshoktu to unite the Mongols under the auspices of the Oirats was based on the policy
of the Oirat aristocrats, pursued by them since the fall of the Yuan Empire (1368) and the formation
of the Oirat Union (Durvan Oirat, 15th–16th centuries). Interest in history, which rapidly
increased by the nineties of the 20th century in Mongolian society, is not weakening even today.
Moreover, the nature of this interest is changing, and the genre of the historical novel itself,
which tells about one of the difficult periods of Mongolian history, about the life and work of an
outstanding personality like Galdan-Boshoktu-Khan in evolutionary formation, in dynamics,
in situations, as a rule, confusing and conflict relations with others (with Southern Mongolia,
Eastern Turkestan, Qing China, Tibet, Russia) also change accordingly.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: Mongolian literature

value: historical novel

value: 17th century

value: Galdan-Boshoktu-Khan

value: Dzungaria

value: Mongolia

value: Tibet

value: Qing Empire


dc.contributor.author

value: Valeev, Ramil M.

value: Valeeva, Roza Z.

value: Bertuol, Natalia Matilda

dc.identifier.citation

value: Valeev R. M., Valeeva R. Z., Bertuol N. M. “The last manuscript, discovered and researched by Mr. Erdmann, is not known in Europe at all” (Chr. D. Frähn): Orientalist Franz Erdmann at Kazan University and His Heritage (1818–1845). Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, pp. 750–765. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.410

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article presents a brief overview of the main milestones in the biography of Fyodor Ivanovich
Erdmann, also known as Friedrich Franz Ludwig Erdmann (1795–1862). The authors
pay special attention to the main stages of his pedagogical and scholarly pursuits at Kazan
University (1818–1845). After Chr. D. Frähn (1782–1851), Erdmann became the second visiting
German professor of Oriental literature at the university and one of the last students of the
famous German orientalist O. G. Tychsen (1734–1815). In 1819, at the age of 24, F. I. Erdmann
moved to Kazan, Russia. During the first half of the 19th century, the invitation of representatives
of European universities and various peoples of the Russian Empire to the city became an
important academic and humanistic tradition that contributed to the development of Oriental
studies at Kazan University. Following his dismissal from the university on May 11, 1845, Professor
F. I. Erdmann was appointed Director of schools in Olonets region on February 7, 1847.
Two months later, on April 8, 1847, Erdmann was transferred to the post of Director of schools
in Novgorod region, a post which he held until his dismissal from service on August 20, 1855.
Upon his death on November 14, 1862, the academic was buried in Kazan.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This paper has been supported by the Kazan Federal University Strategic Academic Leadership
Program.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.subject

value: Oriental studies

value: orientalist

value: legacy

value: biography

value: Chr. D. Frähn

value: F. I. Erdmann

value: Franz Ludwig Erdmann


dc.contributor.author

value: Akhmedov, Vladimir M.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Akhmedov V. M. Arab-Iranian Relations in Context of the Syrian Crisis. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, pp. 779–789. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.412

dc.description.abstract

value:
Since the early 2000s, Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) has been providing active policy in Middle
East. The Syrian crisis challenged Iran’s positions in the region. In 2013–2014, the “imminent”
collapse of Alawite power in Syria could affect Iran’s national security. In 2015 after the
involvement of Russia’s Aerospace Forces (RAF) in Syria, Moscow-Tehran coordinated efforts
played a decisive role in achieving al-Assad’s victory and reasserting regime’s influence across
Syria. Tehran achieved all its primary goals in Syria and secured its long-term interests in the
Middle East. The group of influential factors determined Iranian policy in Syria and other
Middle Eastern countries. These factors derived form historical legacy, political background
of Arab-Iranian relations, the presence of identically typical groups of population in the targeted
countries, Tehran’s ability to change the regional power balance in its favor. The Syrian
conflict presented an exclusive example from Iranian typical behavioral crisis model (e. g.,
low numbers of IRGC ground forces mostly in an advise-and-assist capacity). Meanwhile,
Iranian policy in Syria affected Tehran’s relations with key regional, international players in
the region. New developments in Iran Israeli conflict complicated situation in the region and
created potential threats for lunching a new war on the Middle East. The main research’s goal
shaped by study of the new developments in Iran’s Mideast politics and Iranian military operation
in Syria regards Arab-Iran historical legacy. The above-mentioned questions shape the
urgency of presented research paper that investigates most of advanced statements and proves
forwarded conclusions. An appropriate theoretical framework for this study was provided by
the constructivist approach combined with comparative methodology. The last decade has
witnessed several studies about the Syrian crisis. Meanwhile the important details of evolution
of Iran’s politics in the Syrian conflict and Tehran’s military operations in other Mideast countries
call for more comprehensive examining. In view of this the article defined by its novelty
and based on sources in Arabic and Persian languages. An author tries to predict transformations in Iran’s Middle Eastern politics in view of further political developments in the region
and Syria, as well.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: Iran

value: Syrian crisis

value: Middle East

value: Shiites militias

value: Israel

value: Arabs

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Hassan, Luma Mutter

dc.identifier.citation

value: Hassan L. M. Global and Local Challenges Facing Syria and Russia in the Light of the Resolution of the Syrian Crisis. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, pp. 790–799. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.413

dc.description.abstract

value:
Since the outbreak of the Syrian uprising in March, 2013, the United States of America and
the European Union have exerted various pressures on the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad’s
regime to step him down from power, but all their efforts were in vain due to the supporting
stance of both Russia and China to al-Assad through the use of veto power to block several
international resolutions. The significance of the current paper lies in the fact it tackles those
challenges facing Arab region, particularly Syria, in addition to the Russian position supporting
Syria. The aim of the present paper is to adopt an analytical background of the Russian position
regarding the Syrian crisis and the political as well as the strategic dimensions for such a
move on the regional and international levels. The research comprises three sections in addition
to an introduction and a conclusion. Section one investigates the reasons behind the Syrian
crisis and the Russian interests in the region; Section two tackles is devoted to the Russian
position towards the crisis, while the third section studies the Russian military intervention
in Syria. From this perspective, we find that Russia seeks to ensure its influence over Syrian
politics after a peaceful settlement. It aims to safeguard its strategic interests, restore its position,
and end its international isolation, presenting itself as a major power on the global stage.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.subject

value: conflicts in the Middle East

value: the Syrian crisis

value: Bashar al-Assad

value: Russia’s foreign policy in the Middle East


dc.contributor.author

value: Strelkova, Guzel V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Strelkova G. V. Creations of Ch. S. Guleri and His Role in the Formation of a Small Narrative Form in Hindi Literature. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, pp. 673–686. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.404 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The genre form of the story appeared in Hindi literature relatively late, in the first decades of
the twentieth century. The formation and development of the short story genre in Hindi literature
of the twentieth century attracts the attention of researchers both in India and abroad. In
this regard, it is important to consider the work of Chandradhar Sharma Guleri, the author of
one of the first stories written in Hindi. Together with famous writers Jayashankar Prasad and
Premchand, Geleri is considered one of the founders of modern Hindi literature. He wrote
mostly short stories. It is noteworthy that some sources drastically reduce their number, mentioning
only three stories, although there are almost 20 of them. The writer’s stories attracted
the attention of literary critics, who highly appreciated them. Some of Guleri’s stories have
been translated into foreign languages, including Russian. The article examines one of the
early stories of Ch. Sh. Guleri “She said”, in which the readers see almost the entire short life
of the main character, from childhood to his heroic death. The article focuses on the content,
characteristics of the artistic and stylistic features of this story, briefly examines its adaptation,
and also characterizes a kind of literary continuation — the story of the famous Hindi writer
Shailesh Matiani “She didn’t say”, which takes place during the Indo-Chinese conflict. Guleri’s
story was translated into Russian in the 1950s, when Soviet-Indian relations began to develop
actively.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: Guleri

value: Hindi story

value: stylistic and lexical features


dc.contributor.author

value: Hambardzumyan, Naira

value: Parsadanyan, Siranush

dc.identifier.citation

value: Hambardzumyan N. V., Parsadanyan S. O. The Sociology of Female Characters in the Novels of Western Armenian Female Authors in the Late 19th Century. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, pp. 687–701. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.405

dc.description.abstract

value:
The aim of the research is to reveal the sociology of building women characters (their vocabulary)
in the novels of two Armenian female authors, namely novelist-publicist Srbuhi Tyusab
and novelist-poet Sipil, who lived and worked in the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople in particular,
in the second half of the 19th century. The problem of the study is the literary-sociological
and linguistic generalizations of female characters’ vocabulary in Srbuhi Tyusab’s novel “Araksia
or the Governess” and Sipil’s “A Girl’s Heart” from the perspectives of comparative analysis of linguistic
features, vocabulary and semantic commonalities of the texts. A comparative analysis of
female characters in the novels “Araksia or the Governess” (1887) by Tyusab and “A Girl’s Heart”
(1891) by Sipil, has been attempted from the perspectives of literary and sociological studies. The
actuality of the study lies in its interdisciplinarity, according to which the material was analyzed
in the context of mutual connections between literary studies, linguistics, social and computer
sciences with the application of the methods of literary and linguistic comparison, sociological
statistics, as well as the graph-based semantic representation method. This kind of study has
been attempted for the first time. It is important and actual not only in terms of interdisciplinarity,
but also in terms of the analysis of women’s issues in Armenian Studies.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The work was supported by the Science Committee of RA, within the framework of Research project
No 2IT-6B118.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 4

value: Srbuhi Tyusab

value: Sipil

value: action characteristics

value: portrait characteristics

value: female characters

value: sociology

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Pak, Natalia V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Pak N. V. Some fragments from the writings by Cyril of Scythopolis in the extensive edition of the Life of Makarij of Kaljazin. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (4): 716–738. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.404 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article is devoted to the problem of borrowings from authoritarian writings in the original
works of Russian hagiographers. The material of the study is the Extensive edition of the
Life of Makarij of Kaljazin, compiled around 1547 by an anonymous Russian hagiographer,
who belongs to the literary circle of metropolitan Makarij. The study solves some source-study
problems, in particular establishment of literary sources of additions to the Extensive edition
and definition of a specific version of the translated text used by Russian author in his work,
as well as analysis of changes in the source when including borrowings in the text. The most
significant result is discovery of the borrowings from the Life of Euthymius the Great (BHG
648) and the Praise of Euthymius the Great and Sabas the Sanctified (lost in Greek); both of
these works were written by Cyril of Scythopolis, the famous Byzantine hagiographer of the
6th century. Russian hagiographer uses the Life of Euthymius the Great in the version of the
text prepared by Nil Sorsky, which was the very modern in creation of the Life of Makarij of
Kaljazin. In his choice of a literary model and source, Russian author is not original and follows
the long literary tradition. But the combination of the old version of any text (the Praise
of Euthymius and Sabas) and the modern version of any text (the Life of Euthymius), devoted
to the same saint, seems to be an important novelty in the technique of Russian hagiographers.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 20; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: Russian hagiography

value: Cyril of Scythopolis

value: Euthymius the Great

value: Sabas the Sanctified

value: Makarij of Kaljazin


dc.contributor.author

value: Myznikova, Yanina V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Myznikova Ya. V. Features of microtoponymy of the Ulyanovsk trans-Volga Region in the aspect of language contacts. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (4): 699–715. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.403 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The purpose of the study is to describe the microtoponymy of the Ulyanovsk Trans-Volga
region. This territory includes the left-bank part of the modern Ulyanovsk region, that is,
the land between the Kuibyshev reservoir and the Bolshoi Cheremshan river. The microtoponyms
are analyzed in terms of their etymology. The material for this work was extracted
from records of interviews with dialect speakers from the villages of the left-bank districts
in the Ulyanovsk region. We have identified different types of place names in each thematic
group. The names can be motivated by appellative vocabulary, anthroponyms, natural objects
as well as appellatives. Most of the microtoponyms of the Ulyanovsk Trans-Volga region have
Russian etymology. In this group of toponyms, there are not lots of substrate units. There are
many more borrowings among the names of large rivers in this polyethnic region. However,
even among the microtoponyms we can find the results of language contacts. First of all, we
can point out borrowings from Turkic languages. These are such examples, as Kaibela, Kurdyum,
Chertany, Caraculy. Among the microtoponyms we also find loanwords of Finno-Ugric
origin. These are mainly borrowings from the Mordovian languages: Pesha, Pochkarikha, Kurmysh,
Mary, Kokshay. Some loaned toponyms were transformed on the Russian basis and
framed with Russian formants.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was supported by a grant from KalmSU within the framework of the scientific project
“Russian linguistic and cultural space of the Caspian Sea and adjacent regions in the mirror of the worldview,
lexicography, onomastics, translation and multilingual education”.

dc.subject

value: language contacts

value: Russian dialects

value: Turkic languages

value: Finno-Ugric languages

value: microtoponymy


dc.contributor.author

value: Ivanov, Andrey V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Ivanov A. V. The term tire (dash) in historical-linguistic and lexicographic retrospective. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (4): 684–698. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.402 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the study of the Russian term tire (‘dash’) and its parallel names in
historiographical, etymological, semantic, functional and lexicographic aspects. The research
is based on textual and lexicographic sources dating from the 18th to the 20th century, that allow
us to establish the chronology of the term semantics and appearance of its parallel names.
The purpose of the article is to clarify and systematize historiographical and etymological
information about the term tire, to perform the historical-linguistic analysis of its semantics
and functions, starting with the appearance of the first Russian grammars containing elements
of a scientific approach to the coverage of linguistic facts. The article uses methods of
historical-linguistic, definitional, etymological, semantic and lexicographic analysis. The dash
in the function of the sign replacing the omitted parts of the utterance is found in Russian
grammatical sources as early as the mid-1840s, but this sign itself does not yet have a name in
this period. The terminological nomination tire, which is understood as a punctuation mark,
presumably appears for the first time in 1802 in A German Grammar of I. Geym. The first lexicographic
recording of the term is fixed in A Pocket book for lovers of reading Russian books…
by I. Renovans and is dated 1837, however, in this case it is only about fixing the plan of term
expression, but not the plan of its content, since Renovans understands the hyphen as a dash.
The plan of term expression and the plan of its content begin to be unambiguously correlated
in lexicographic sources, apparently, only in 1863, when in the dictionaries of K. Reif and
V. Dahl, the dash in the functional-semantic aspect ceases to be associated with the outwardly
similar hyphen. In scientific and theoretical sources, however, confusion continues to take
place. The synonymous series including various names of the dash (molchanka as a silence
sign, small line, stop sign, line, thought-separating sign) is formed in the period from 1786 to
1831. The term dvoynoye tire (‘double dash’), judging by the results of the study, first occurs in
1902 in the work by A. Pridik, and not in 1955, as previously thought.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: dash

value: double dash

value: term

value: historiography of the term

value: historical-linguistic analysis

dc.title

value: Article

filename: 9-4-2023+для+сайта-26-40+Иванов+Андрей.pdf


dc.contributor.author

value: Penkova, Yana A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Penkova Ya. A. Inchoative verbs in constructions with infinitives in 16th‒17th century Russian sources: Searching for the difference. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (4): 739–767. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.405 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article focuses on the study of differences between phase verbs in constructions with infinitive
clause in the 16th‒17th century Russian writing. The verbs under discussion are: načati,
počati, jati, učati, and stati, as well as the verb byti, which does not belong to phase ones, but
competes with them in the simple future tense form. The study is limited to the constructions
with auxiliary verbs in the perfective present tense form, i. e., those that refer to the future.
The data was collected from the Middle Russian subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus.
Contexts from the corpus are classified according to the following parameters: auxiliariness,
infinitive, agency/non-agency and telicity/atelicity/punctivity of the predicate in the infinitive
form, aspectual semantics of the construction (phasal, iterative, habitual, general factual,
durative-continuative meanings), the type of the clause in question, the date and the title of
the source, its register and genre. It was found that each periphrastic construction has a unique
set of properties associated with the paradigmatic limitations of the auxiliary verb, tendency
to occur in a certain clause type, register and genre. The constructions are sensitive to various
semantic features of infinitive and aspectual semantics of the context. It is argued that
constructions with the verb učnu are less associated with the expression of inchoativity since
they are attested in the contexts uncommon for inchoative verbs. Two distinct clusters of periphrastic
constructions are distinguished: older constructions with the verbs načnu, počnu and
imu and newer ones with the verbs učnu, stanu and budu.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was financially supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project 20–18–00206 “Distributive-
quantitative analysis of semantic changes based on large diachronic corpora”.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 20; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: phasal verbs

value: aspectual semantics

value: future tense

value: periphrastic constructions

value: history of Russian language


dc.contributor.author

value: Generalova, Elena V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Generalova E. V. To the origins of historical phraseography: Stable compound complexes in “Materials for the dictionary of the Old Russian language” by I. I. Sreznevsky. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (4): 662–683. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.401 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the scientific heritage of I. I. Sreznevsky in connection with actively
developing now historical phraseology and historical phraseography, the urgent problem of
which is creation of the phraseological dictionaries of the language of pre-national period. The
purpose of the paper is to study the retrospective of Russian and Slavonic historical phraseography,
so it deals with the systematical and full research of stable compound complexes that
have become the subject of description in Sreznevsky’s “Materials for the Dictionary of Old
Russian language”, techniques and methods of their lexicographic interpretation, as well as the
theoretical position of Sreznevsky as a lexicographer and one of founders of Russian phraseology.
It is concluded that in the history of lexicography a bright representative of Petersburg
Philological school Sreznevsky not only created the first historical dictionary of Old Russian
texts, but also put the base of historical phraseography, since his dictionary is the first
experience of describing the diachronic state of phraseology. The study of stable complexes
presented in Sreznevsky’s dictionary, fulfiled with methods of phraseological identification,
component, grammatical and lexicographic definitions analysis within general historical and
systematic approaches, showed variety of linguistic material: idiomatics, traditional formulas,
equivalents of Greek words, stable prepositional combinations, complex terms and names,
compound proper names, proverbial expressions. Their interpretation outlines principles of
lexicographic description of stable combinations in a historic dictionary and identifies important
controversial issues (phraseology selection and explanation, the combination of linguistic
and encyclopedic approaches, the representation of variability and synonymy of phraseology,
the place of phraseology in a dictionary entry, etc.).

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 23-28-
00038 “The origins of Russian phraseology: a project for a differentiated historical dictionary of phraseological
units of the Russian language of the 16th–17th centuries”, https://rscf.ru/project/23-28-00038.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

value: phraseology

value: historical phraseography

value: historical dictionary

value: I. I. Sreznevsky

value: stable combination


dc.contributor.author

value: Rudnev, Dmitriy V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Rudnev D. V. Means of expressing imperativeness in the statutes of the era of Catherine II. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (4): 768–787. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.406 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
In the language of documents of the reign of Catherine II, the genre of statute, which was
rare after the death of Peter I, became noticeably more active. There were created numerous
statutes that dealt with various aspects of Russian life (maritime and military affairs, administration,
legal proceedings, education, etc.) and were an important tool for the modernization
and Europeanization of Russian state. The texts of statutes are of interest for studying not only
how the authorities saw the desired structure of a certain sphere of public life, but also how
relations between the participants (subjects of law) in these spheres should be built. In this
regard, of particular interest is the imperative vocabulary of the statutes, which linguistically
embodies the methods of legal regulation. The article describes and analyzes the means of
expressing imperativeness in the two most important statutes of the era of Catherine II — in
the “Constitution for the Administration of governorates of the Russian empire” (1775) and
the “Discipline (Police) Regulations” (1782). The revealed imperative models are classified
according to the ways of expression and of conceptualizing the imperative meaning and are
compared with the models in the statutes of the previous era. Based on the comparison, the
productivity of imperative models is revealed, and in the absence of models in the past, the
sources of their appearance in the Russian language.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The reported study was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), the projects no.
20-012-00338 “The system of imperative means in the Russian official language of the XVIII century”.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: Russian language of the 18th century

value: history of Russian official language

value: imperativeness

value: statutes

value: Catherine II

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Kulikova, Valentina A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kulikova V. A. Non-usual feminitives in media discourse: An active process. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (4): 838–857. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.410 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The active process of non-usual feminitives’ creation and its distribution in modern media
discourse is studied. The object of the study is feminitive neologisms with the suffix -к-
(авторка ‘female author’, блогерка ‘female blogger’, редакторка ‘female editor’, режиссерка
‘female director’, etc.) in media discourse. The material of the study is a self-assembled corpus
of non-usual feminitives in the media. The corpus, compiled using the keyword search technique
and marked manually, contains 699 contexts. The source of the material are electronic
media of various ideological and thematic orientations, with the wide audience and important
place in the modern media discourse. Identified feminitives were analyzed with the method
of structural-semantic, word-formation analysis, contexts were studied using discursive, pragmatic,
metapragmatic analysis. The active word-formation process is analyzed in a complex
way from a structural, semantic, pragmatic, sociolinguistic point of view, which motivates
the novelty of the study. The functioning of non-usual feminitives in media texts (both in the
author’s speech and in interviewees’ direct speech) indicates the presence of an active process
of feminitives’ distribution in the media discourse, previously recorded mainly in informal
Internet communication. As a result of the analysis, the semantics of frequent non-usual feminitives was studied. The features of feminitives’ functioning in various media were revealed
in correlation with its ideological and thematic orientation, characteristics of the target audience.
In a pragmatic aspect, the main functions of non-usual feminitives in media texts were
analyzed: nominative, stylistic functions, functions of identification and self-identification,
the function of an object of metalinguistic reflection.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 20; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: feminitive

value: word-formation

value: modern Russian language

value: active processes

value: media discourse


dc.contributor.author

value: Chernova, Daria A.

value: Bakhturina, Polina V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Chernova D. A., Bakhturina P. V. Method of print exposure assessment: Application in psycholinguistics and adaptation for the Russian language. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (4): 872–887. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.412 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
Exposure to print represents the amount of time one devotes to reading. Print exposure is an
essential measure of individual differences in research on language processing: it affects word
recognition, reading speed, reading comprehension, oculomotor activity during the reading
etc. An objective tool to assess the level print exposure is demanded in psycholinguistics and
neurolinguistics. There are subjective methods to estimate print exposure like reading diaries
and questionnaires, but they are based on introspection which makes the estimation inaccurate
and exaggerating. So an objective tool — Author Recognition Test is considered to be
more effective. It was first developed for English by K. Stanovich and R. West, who suggested
a design based on the signal detection theory. This test provides a relative measure reflecting
individual differences in print exposure. The first English version of Author Recognition Test
cannot be representative for other languages and cultures, so it has to be adapted — Chinese,
Korean, Dutch, German versions have been developed recently. In this article we present the
Russian version of Author Recognition Test. The test shows high reliability. Author Recognition
Test score shows a significant correlation with vocabulary size, spelling skills, and text
comprehension skill. To sum up, this study is the first to develop a Russian version of Author
Recognition Test. We show that Russian native speakers’ level of print exposure measured by
this tool is correlated to some offline reading-related tasks.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was supported by Russian Science Foundation grant no. 21-78-00064 “Psycholinguistic
mechanisms of reading and individual differences in readers: the role of reading experience and related
language competencies (based on the Russian language)”.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 20; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: print exposure

value: vocabulary

value: spelling skills

value: text comprehension

value: individual differences in reading

dc.title

filename: 9-4-2023+для+сайта-214-229+Чернова,+Бахтурина.pdf


dc.contributor.author

value: Polunov, Alexander Yu.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Polunov A. Yu. Content aspects of all-Russian civil identity: Problems and development prospects. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2023, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 610–618. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2023.407 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article examines the current status and of the evolution of the national civic consciousness
in modern Russia. Author asserts that this form of identity is based on fairly strong social
foundations. Among them are the widespread usage of Russian language which unifies different
ethnic groups, stability in the sphere of interfaith relations, and the notion inherent to the majority
of citizens that there is no ground for serious inter-ethnic conflicts in the country. At the same
time, the development of a national consciousness engenders a number of problems. This
form of identity is understood primarily as loyalty to the state. Its deeper spiritual and value
foundations have not been sufficiently developed. The feeling of belonging to the all-Russian
community is being experienced often mainly at the emotional level, its cognitive component is
not clearly expressed. This is due to a number of factors, in particular, the lack of a generally
recognized historical narrative in Russia, shared by the entire society. The key events of national
history that determined the course of the country’s development still evoke various, sometimes
opposing assessments. At the same time, there is an acute demand in society for strengthening
national unity, the search for ideological principles that unite all citizens of Russia. This request is
expressed, in particular, in a high assessment of the Soviet past, when the society had the clearly
defined goals and guidelines for the country’s development. Such sentiments are characteristic of the population of Russia as whole and of its separate regions. Noting that the ideological
evolution of society is far from always accessible to external regulation, the author at the same
time emphasizes that state and public leaders, the academic and expert community should make
a feasible contribution to solving the problems facing the country.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 19; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: all-Russian civic identity

value: Russian nation

value: historical narrative

value: spiritual and value foundations

value: consolidation factors

value: ethnic conflicts

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Zaznaev, Oleg I.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Zaznaev O. I. Forms of government and ethnic conflicts: The problem of interconnection and its solution in political science. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2023, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 600–609. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2023.406 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
Prevention and ethnic conflicts resolution is an urgent task both at the level of theory and
political practice. To solve it, institutional measures are used, including the design of a form
of government. The purpose of the article is to determine the state of study of the problem of
the relationship between forms of government and ethnic conflicts, mainly in contemporary foreign political science. The author proceeds from the idea that the form of government
as an institutional structure affects the emergence, flow, and termination of ethnic conflicts,
but at the same time it should be considered as one of the variables along with the electoral
system and form of government. The article notes the contradictory nature of the theoretical
positions of supporters of different approaches — consociationalism centripetalism and
power-dividing approach. The most common point of view that a parliamentary system is
more suitable for a multi-ethnic society is criticized. The author emphasizes the importance
of conscious design of forms of government, aimed at abandoning the “pure” presidential
and parliamentary systems and the creation of atypical institutions, which are given some
attention in the article. Empirical studies using statistical methods have been carried out in
recent years to identify the relationship between forms of government and ethnic conflicts.
The author evaluates them and introduces the reader to the results of his own research using
correlation and regression analysis. He concludes that the hypothesis about the influence
of the form of government on ethnic conflicts requires further empirical testing on a large
array of cases over a long period of time. At the end of the article, an analysis is given of the
main methodological problems that researchers face when conducting a comparative study
of ethnic conflicts and their relationship with political institutions. The author concludes that
the problem of the relationship between forms of government and ethnic conflicts has not yet
been resolved in political science.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The article was prepared on the basis of a paper presented by the author on May 26, 2023 at
the plenary session of the All-Russian Scientific Conference with international participation “Ethnopolitics
in the Contemporary Global World” held at the Faculty of Political Science, St. Petersburg
State University.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: ethnic conflict

value: form of government

value: presidential system

value: parliamentary system

value: semi-presidential system


dc.contributor.author

value: Kurochkin, Aleksandr V.

value: Morozova, Svetlana S.

value: Emelyanov, Sergey V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kurochkin A. V., Morozova S. S., Emelyanov S. V. The Russian system of civil education in the conditions of digital transformations and new geopolitical challenges. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2023, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 539–547. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2023.402 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The current digital revolution has already led to a significant transformation of the content, methods,
forms and intensity of civic participation in the socio-political life of almost all states of the world.
Modern information and communication technologies have influenced the forms and mechanisms
for the implementation of public policy in general, have transformed the process of political communication,
creating a new virtual dimension of the public sphere. Obviously, the changes that have
taken place require citizens to master new competencies that will allow them to effectively interact
both with each other and with government institutions within the framework of a new social and
political reality. Therefore, the problem of forming a new, civic competence is one of the key ones in
the context of the current process of digitalization of politics and management. The relevance of the
issues under study is determined, on the one hand, by the extraordinary acceleration of the pace of
development and transformation of all spheres of society, which, in turn, dictates the need to create
tools to speed up and simplify the process of adaptation, both for each specific individual and
socially political institutions, to a rapidly changing reality, and on the other hand, the task of preserving
and strengthening the existing political system of the Russian Federation and the foundations
of the constitutional order, which is of particular importance in the context of ongoing information
wars, the spread of fakes, including the activities of state authorities and state structures, global
problems (such as turbulence in world politics, the COVID-19 pandemic, terrorism, climate change,
lack of natural resources) and local (unemployment, separatism, poverty), as well as a number of
other dangers and threats that continue to face modern states. This article is aimed at forming the
conceptual foundations for optimizing the system of Russian civic education in the face of new
challenges and risks. The authors pay special attention to the theoretical understanding of the «civic
education» concept, identifying its features and functional characteristics. Based on a comparative
approach, the authors analyze the scientific literature that touches upon the issues of civic participation,
education, forms and methods of its improvement in modern conditions. In conclusion, the
authors turn to concrete examples and formulate recommendations for the successful formation of
a conceptual model for optimizing the Russian system of civic education.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research was carried out at the expense of a grant from the Russian Science Foundation
(project no. 22-78-10049 “The State and the citizen in the new digital reality”).

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 19; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: civic education

value: digitalization

value: life-long learning

value: civic competence

value: digital skills

value: civic values


dc.contributor.author

value: Kiose, Maria I.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kiose M. I. Intra-discursive linguistic creativity: Identification algorithm. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (4): 803–823. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.408 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The study develops the algorithm of identifying intra-discursive linguistic creativity which
results from subdiscourse variance. We hypothesize that its degree can be identified if we
consider the parametric values of linguistic creativity in the subdiscourse types described
by macroparameters. In case they manifest atypical values in the discourse samples, we can
identify these samples as having a higher degree of intra-discursive linguistic creativity. The
algorithm is tested in four modern children’s novels which demonstrate the same macroparameters,
“communicative event type (communication between an adult and an older child)”,
“narrative component (Orientation and Complicating Action)”, “genre (realistic novel). In the
samples, their degree of manifestation varies: “communicative event type” appears as first or
third-person narration, in “narrative component” Orientation and Complicating Action succeed
or Orientation prevails, “genre” demonstrates either higher or lower manifestations of
humor. The algorithm involves four steps: detecting the relevant parameters of linguistic creativity
manifested by macroparameters, parametric annotating of novels for the presence of
their linguistic markers, establishing activity and binary contingencies of parameter values,
establishing contingencies between the samples and identifying significant differences. The
study shows that three parameters — register shifts, stylistic tropes and parallel structures —
contribute to valid identification of intra-discursive linguistic creativity in the discourse of
children’s literature. Correlation analysis held to establish binary parameter contingency values
helps establish the manifestations of humor (high contingency values of phonological
parameters and lexical tropes), Orientation component prevailing (decreased contingency
values), third-person narration with more explicit author’s position (atypical contingencies).

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research is financially supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 19-18-00040,
and is carried out in the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 20; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: intra-discursive linguistic creativity

value: children’s literature

value: subdiscourse

value: discourse profile

value: parametric analysis

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Zharkynbekova, Sholpan K.

value: Anichshenko, Olga A.

value: Loginova, Мaria V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Zharkynbekova Sh. K., Anishchenko O. A., Loginova M. V. The linguistic and cultural type of the kazakhstani student through the prism of narrative. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (4): 788–802. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.407 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article presents the analysis of narrative texts, which represent the linguocultural type
kazakhstani student. The interest to this research stems from the necessity of developing the
algorithm for narrative analysis from the linguocultural point of view, as well as the reasonability of addressing such a social group as the student which is so important for researchers
in different linguocultural communities It is proved that through the narrative dimension a
rather rich set of figurative characteristics of a student can be revealed, since in the sequence
of events a student’s verbal and non-verbal behaviour is realised, his/her speech portrait is
formed, the environment under the influence of which a student is, the student’s appearance
is drawn, which becomes recognisable and typical. The authors tried to identify the goals, motives,
attitudes, interests and intensities, which, acting as the most significant, are actualized
in the minds of students in modern Kazakhstan, through the narrative picture of the student’s
world. The research corpus was textual fragments from publicist texts of Kazakhstani media,
containing events of students’ life, as well as essays and texts of students from the Internet. The
applied narrative analysis allowed the authors to identify situational motives and attitudes of
linguocultural type student, implemented in the narrative text, thanks to which some common
and distinctive features of the representatives of modern Kazakh youth are highlighted.
In the conclusion it is shown that the study of linguistic personality in the narratological aspect
opens up new possibilities for modelling generalized personality.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This research has been funded by the Science Committee of the Ministry of Science and Higher
Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan as part of a scientific project “Mechanisms for the formation of
the collective identity of Kazakh youth: sociolinguistic and discursive approaches” (Grant no. AP14869030).

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: narrative

value: student’s linguistic personality

value: linguocultural type

value: figurative characteristics

filename: 9-4-2023+для+сайта-130-144+Жаркынбекова,+Анищенко,+Логинова.pdf


dc.contributor.author

value: Avksentev, Viktor A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Avksentev V. A. Politicized ethnicity as an institutional obstacle to the strengthening of the All-Russian identity in the North Caucasus. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2023, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 587–599. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2023.405 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article analyzes the phenomenon of politicized ethnicity in the North Caucasus, its influence
on ethno-political processes and ways to reduce the risk-generating impact of this phenomenon on
the ethno-political sphere of the region are proposed. The article summarizes the results of a series
of studies conducted in the North Caucasus in 2018–2023: event analysis of the ethno-political
situation, analysis of positive practices, mass and expert surveys, content analysis of the media,
websites of national-cultural associations, blogosphere, content analysis of normative documents,
content and discourse analysis of publications of North Caucasian historians. It is shown that the
main factors in the politicization of ethnicity in the North Caucasus region are “hyperethnicity” and
the institutionalization of ethnicity in the form of “national republics”, as well as the ethno-territorial
problems and claims caused by these phenomena, and the “memory paradigm” that has developed
in the region. It is concluded that it is necessary to strengthen the all-Russian vector of the regional
identity policy, and for this purpose a “revision” of the legislative framework in the federal subjects
in the North Caucasus is required. Since at the present stage it is impossible and impractical to
abandon the institution of republics, it is important to gradually introduce into the public opinion the
principle of territoriality, and not titular ethnicity, as the basis of the republics in Russian Federation. It
is relevant to change the humanitarian agenda of the North Caucasus, which can go in two directions:
the reorientation of public consciousness to the problems of modernization of the region and the
integration of the humanitarian space of the “Big South” — the North Caucasus and Southern federal
districts. The reformatting of the “memory paradigm” can be achieved by expanding the historical
panorama through positively oriented constructions of the historical past, as well as changing the
scientific priorities of humanitarian research with an emphasis on topics related to the centuries-old
experience of living together of peoples of different cultures. The materials of the article can be used
in the preparation of a new Strategy of the state national policy of the Russian Federation.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The article was prepared as a part of the Program for Basic and Applied Research “Ethno-cultural
Diversity of the Russian Society and the Strengthening of the All-Russian Identity” (2023-2025), SSC
RAS state assignment for 2023, registration # 123111700015-8.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 19; Issue 4

value: ethnic identity

value: all-Russian identity

value: politicized ethnicity

value: identity politics

value: North Caucasus


dc.contributor.author

value: Sokolov, Alexandr V.

value: Frolov, Alexandr A.

value: Isaeva, Elena A.

value: Grebenko, Egor D.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Sokolov A. V., Frolov A. A., Isaeva E. A., Grebenko E. D. Student associations and communities: Formats and results of activities (on the example consortium of universities “Upper Volga — the territory of innovation”). Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2023, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 524–538. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2023.401 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article reveals the features of the functioning of student associations and organizations in the
context of modern socio-political reality. The purpose of the study is to identify the perception of
students of public associations, their formats and the results of their activities. The empirical basis
of the study is the data obtained during a series focus group interviews and expert interviews.
The main research platform is the consortium of universities “Upper Volga — the territory of innovation”.
The main value-orientation attitudes of modern youth and students, their attitudes to
citizenship, power and the social structure of modern society are revealed in the theoretical part
of the paper. In the study itself, the actual situation was revealed both in the youth and student
associations themselves, and the specifics of their interaction with students and the educational
institution as a whole. Thus, in the course of the study, it was found that the awareness and involvement
of students in the activities of youth associations remains at a low level. In turn, the
broadcast topics and formats of the work of these organizations do not fully reflect the needs
and preferences of modern students, which forms a certain distance between active and inactive
students. The results of the study suggest that communication with students through university
associations and organizations can be difficult and ineffective.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was carried out with the financial support of the Ministry of Education and Science
of the Russian Federation within the framework of the state task for the research of YarSU under the
project no. FENZ-2022-0001 “The potential of youth public organizations for the consolidation of
Russian students in the interests of the country’s development”.

value: students

value: university

value: Internet

value: public association

value: motivation

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Klimova, Margarita A.

value: Viklova, Anna V.

value: Overnikova, Daria A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Klimova M. A., Viklova A. V., Overnikova D. A. Processing frequently misspelled words (А study based on an English learner corpus). Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (4): 824–837. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.409 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article presents an experimental study of the influence of the frequency of spelling errors
in a word on its representation in mental lexicon. The hypothesis that frequently misspelled
words cause difficulties in reading even if they are written correctly has been proved for native
speakers of Russian and English. This paper aims to check the hypothesis on the basis of
the learner corpus REALEC (Russian Error-Annotated Learner English Corpus), comprising
texts by Russian L1 learners of English. The most frequently misspelled words collected from
the corpus were used for the experiment that consisted in recognising correct and incorrect spellings. We analysed the influence of the following factors: the frequency of spelling errors
in a word, its frequency in the corpus, entropy (the measure reflecting the amount of effort
needed to choose between the variants of spelling), type of error. The results demonstrate the
significance of entropy and frequency in the corpus, which corresponds to the findings of previous
studies. A particular error type, substitution, has been found to be significant. Its special
role corresponds both to the greatest difficulties this error type caused during the experiment
and the results of previous research into written speech production of L2 English speakers,
according to which substitution was considered the most frequent error type. The lower significance
of the frequency of errors factor in comparison with the corresponding studies of
L1 English can be explained by differences in language environments, in which learners of
English are less exposed to incorrect spellings.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was carried out within the framework of the research project of the HSE University “Development
of models of learning a second language in the framework of existing theories using methods for
automating experiments based on the materials of the REALEC corpus and other educational buildings”.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 20; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: word processing

value: spelling errors

value: mental lexicon

value: learner corpus

dc.title

filename: 9-4-2023+для+сайта-166-179+Климова,+Виклова.,+Оверникова.pdf


dc.contributor.author

value: Moskovkin, Leonid V.

value: Kovrizhkina, Daria G.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Moskovkin L. V, Kovrizhkina D. G. The Russian language in the narratives of two generations of Russian-German bilinguals. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (4): 858–871. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.411 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article deals with the sociolinguistic features of Russian speech by 20 families of Russian-
German bilinguals living in Germany. The informants were adult bilinguals aged 35–50 who
moved to this country in the 1990s–2010s and their children aged 10–15 who were born in
Germany or arrived there at an early age. The relevance of the study is due to the importance of
studying the state of the Russian language in the families of Russian compatriots living abroad,
its preservation and development. The purpose of the study is to determine which subsystems
of the Russian national language are spoken by family members of Russian-German bilinguals.
Research materials are transcripts of audio recordings of stories based on pictures from
M. Mayer’s book “Frog, where are you?” Four groups of families in relation to the normativity
of Russian speech in narratives are identified. The interpretation of the use of Russian language
subsystems in each group from the standpoint of sociolinguistics is given. It has been
established that the mean of communication in 25 % of families is the literary language, and in
75 % of families is the vernacular. Examples of language attrition in families using vernacular in communication are described. It is concluded that the literary language in the study groups
is not subject to the attrition, that has not only sociolinguistic, but also linguodidactic significance,
because it indicates the need to teach it to the children of compatriots as an important
factor in preserving the Russian language in the diaspora.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 21-48-04401
“Russian language in Germany: intergenerational changes”).

dc.subject

value: Russian language

value: Germany

value: Russian-German bilinguals

value: literary language

value: vernacular

filename: 9-4-2023+для+сайта-200-213+Московкин,+Коврижкина.pdf


dc.contributor.author

value: Say, Sergey S.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Say S. S. Nominal causal constructions: Causal chains and syncretism. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (4): 906–924. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.414

dc.description.abstract

value:
Nominal causal constructions can involve dedicated markers (we arrived late because of
John) or syncretic markers that can also convey concrete meanings, such as source (die from
alcohol), goal, path, instrument/comitative, etc. So far, these patterns of syncretism have been
systematically analyzed only for a few European languages. Based on a grammar survey of a
world-wide variety sample of 65 languages, I assembled an annotated dataset of 113 nominal
causal constructions. My goal was to explore whether patterns of syncretism correlate with
specific types of causal meanings. The dataset provides evidence showing that such correlation
does exist. In particular, syncretic markers that normally denote instruments or locations
favour contexts where the caused event is simultaneous with the causing event (tremble with
fear), while syncretic markers that normally denote endoints of motion favour contexts where
the causing event is associated with future-oriented components in the causal chain. Overall,
nominal causes tend to be construed in terms of simpler cognitive schemas, and the use of
respective markers iconically reflects the structure of the relevant causal chains. By contrast,
dedicated causal markers favour the meaning of indirect causation that involves speaker’s
subjective reasoning. Typologically, dedicated markers are less frequent than syncretic markers.
In individual languages, they are often of secondary origin and diachronically unstable. Thus,
typologically and cognitively, dedicated causal markers are peripheral for the causal semantic
domain, despite the fact that they are important for the European logic-oriented linguistic
tradition.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant “Causal Constructions in World
Languages: Semantics and Typology” (supervisor V. S. Khrakovsky, grant no. 18-18-00472).

dc.language.iso

value: en

value: causal constructions

value: typology

value: case

value: syncretism

value: cognitive linguistics

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Janić, Aleksandra A.

value: Veličković, Marta V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Janić A. A., Veličković M. V. The association networks of select recent nominal anglicisms and their Serbian language equivalents. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (4): 888–905. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.413

dc.description.abstract

value:
This study aims to compare the association networks of 40 pairs of recent nominal anglicisms
and their Serbian equivalents among 100 philology students by using a word association test.
The results of the qualitative and quantitative analyses of the associative responses indicated
that different, yet related, parts of the respondents’ mental lexicon are activated as a reaction to
the stimuli. We concluded that there were strong tendencies for the complete acceptance of the
selected recent anglicisms into the existing Serbian lexicon, as illustrated by the encyclopedic
knowledge evident in the responses; that Serbian equivalents were the most frequent responses
to the recent anglicisms; that responses which reflect clear linguacultural elements indicated
a greater influence of the local culture; and that the recent anglicisms were less prone to
superordinate and subordinate responses. In sum, our respondents, all L1 Serbian speakers,
did not equally accept all 40 of the recent anglicisms compared to their Serbian equivalents,
which in this study represent the norm. The acceptance of the selected recent anglicisms into
the Serbian lexical system cannot be reduced solely to the criterion of necessity; instead, we
propose that their scalar presentation be implemented in future research.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This research was funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, Structuring Concept Generation
with the Help of Metaphor, Analogy and Schematicity — SCHEMAS (Grant no. 7715934), and supported
by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovations of the Republic of Serbia (Contract
no. 451-03-47/2023-01/200165).

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 20; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: word associations

value: associative networks

value: semantic relations

value: nominal anglicisms

value: the Serbian language

value: L1 Serbian speakers

dc.title

filename: 9-4-2023+для+сайта-230-245+Янич,+Величкович.pdf


dc.contributor.author

value: Tolochin, Igor V.

value: Kurkina, Arina S.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Тоlochin I. V., Kurkina A. S. The fluid meaning of femininity in modern contexts: Demure, celebratory, assertive. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (4): 925–941. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.415

dc.description.abstract

value:
The paper presents the analysis of the use of the noun femininity in a sample of 700 contexts
drawn from four English language corpora: COCA, COHA, BNC, NOW, spanning the
period of the last three decades. Femininity is disambiguated as a polysemic word with its
senses reflecting the evolutionary trends in the perception of female gender in contemporary
culture. Sense 1 represents the traditional attitude to femininity. Sense 2 reflects the trend to
disconnect the meaning of the word from the patriarchal perspective and still preserve all the
traditional positive features of the word as they appear in its Sense 1. Sense 3 is defined on the
basis of contexts that assert the radical change of the perspective and of the salient features
of the word. The findings demonstrate how language responds and adapts to societal changes
brought about by feminist activism. The paper provides a critical analysis of dictionary entries
for femininity in Merriam-Webster, LEXICO, and Longman Dictionary of Contemporary
English, revealing the insufficient nature of treating femininity as a monosemic word as well
as contradictions and inconsistencies in the entries themselves. Ample illustrative material
from the language corpora is provided to explain the nature of each of the senses of femininity
in modern English.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.subject

value: corpus

value: context

value: polysemy

value: feminism

value: dictionary

value: gender

filename: 9-4-2023+для+сайта-267-283+Толочин,+Куркина.pdf


dc.contributor.author

value: Chernichkin, Dmitry A.

value: Krivenko, Anastasia I.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Chernichkin D. A., Krivenko A. I. Media image of Russia in Kazakh Telegram channels. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2023, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 565–586. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2023.404 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the assessment of the current media image of Russia in the
Telegram channels of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The data sources were information published
in Kazakhstani Telegram channels (posts and comments) from 2016 to 2023 and selected
according to predetermined criteria. In total, during the specified period, 8333 posts and
35339 comments were recorded for the given markers, which were subjected to further analysis.
The information content of Kazakh Telegram channels is overwhelmingly devoted to the review of
political events, law, as well as bilateral economic cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia.
Against the background of strong information pressure on Russia from the Western media, the
coverage of the media image of Russia in the sphere of trade and economic cooperation by
the Kazakh media is in line with traditional cooperation, interaction and good neighborliness.
However, starting from 2020, the negative information agenda in Kazakhstani Telegram channels
has been demonstrating a steady growth. In particular, the largest increase in negative materials
was recorded in 2022 as a reaction to two major events: the January spontaneous protests in the
Republic of Kazakhstan (the entry of the CSTO troops into the country by the Russian leadership) and a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (and, accordingly, the migration of
some citizens Russia to the territory of Kazakhstan). Moreover, the negative attitude is directed
not to the Russians, as to the civic identity living in this territory, but to the ethnic Russians,
as responsible for the current foreign policy events. The growth of a negative assessment of
Russia in the Kazakhstani online space may also negatively affect the change in the trend in the
perception of Russia among the Kazakhstani population from “own”, towards “other”, or even
“enemy”. A gradual change in foreign policy guidelines (growth of trade relations with China,
rapprochement with the US and the UK) will only accelerate this trend.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was carried out by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation no. 23-28-01230 “The
formation of anti-Russian sentiment in the media environment of the Republic of Kazakhstan as part
of the Caspian frontier”.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 19; Issue 4

value: Russia

value: Kazakhstan

value: Russians

value: media image

value: Telegram

value: sentiment analysis

value: big data

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Poliakova, Natalia V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Poliakova N. V. The strategy of “pol’shchizna” in the ethno-confessional context: Sociocultural and political aspects (on the example of Belarus). Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2023, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 619–633. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2023.408 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The author makes an attempt, based on the work of modern domestic and foreign researchers,
to give a systematic description of the strategy of “pol’shchizna”, to determine the specifics of
its use in the modern Belarusian ethno-confessional context, as well to reveal the role of this
strategy at the beginning of the XXI century. This strategy is considered as a long-term system
of indirect actions, primarily of a humanitarian plan, which are designed to solve the tasks of the “eastern policy” of the modern Polish state in the format of a comprehensive promotion of
“Polishness”. The article traces the design of the concept of “pol’shchizna”, identifies the goalsetting
ideological characteristics and cultural and historical prerequisites of this strategy, and
also examines the main directions and the most successful practices of its implementation in the
ethno-confessional context of modern Belarus. It is concluded that in Belarus in the 1990s — the
first decades of the 21st century, a pro-Polish-oriented part of the population was formed, which in
many ways became a support for further manipulative actions already in political terms, which was
clearly shown by the events around the presidential campaign of 2020. It is argued that referring
to the specific experience of implementing this political strategy is useful in modern conditions
from the point of view of evaluating the effectiveness of the project of the Union State of Russia
and Belarus, as well as developing Russia’s own strategy in relation to this region.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
Work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (grant No 24-28-01309), https://rscf.
ru/project/24-28-01309/.

dc.subject

value: strategy of pol’shchizna

value: ethno-confessional context

value: eastern politics

value: Poland

value: Belarus


dc.contributor.author

value: Shabaev, Yuri P.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Shabaev Yu. P. Demographic “catastrophe” of the Russian Finno-Ugric peoples: Social and political motivation for the drift of identities. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2023, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 634–647. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2023.409 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The results of the 2021 population census showed a sharp and significant decrease in the
number of Finno-Ugric peoples in Russia. For example, the number of Karelians decreased by
46.7 %, Komi-Permyaks — by 41 %, Mordovians — by 35 % (in 1939, the number of Mordovians
was 1375 thousand people, in 2021 — 484 thousand). Between the 2002 and 2010 censuses
there was also a large-scale decline in the number of Finno-Ugric peoples, which allowed some
local ethnic activists to talk about a “demographic catastrophe”, “extinction of peoples”. The idea
of “extinction” began to be actively exploited at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s and became the
basis for the formation of ethno-national movements, the programs of which were built on the
concept of “the revival of peoples”. In Komi, the Committee for the Revival of the Komi People
was created, in Mordovia, the society “Velmena” (“Revival”) arose. The leaders of ethnic and
ethno-political organizations strove to act not only as culturetragers, but also as moral censors
not only for their own ethnic groups, but also for regional communities as a whole. But their
mission failed, because ethnic entrepreneurs not only failed to become leaders of public opinion
in the regions inhabited by the Finno-Ugric peoples, but turned out to be incapable of developing
effective programs for ethno-cultural development, which was shown by the results of the census.
In addition, the census showed that the transformation of the Finno-Ugric ethnic groups from
agrarian to urban ethnic groups leads to an obvious strengthening of the processes of individual
integration into the host urban communities, in which the Russians are the dominant group, and
the Russian language dominates in all spheres of communication.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 19; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: Finno-Ugrians

value: demography

value: identity

value: assimilation

value: ethnopolitics


dc.contributor.author

value: Ignatjeva, Olga A.

value: Khomyakov, Dmitry O.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Ignatjeva O. A., Khomyakov D. O. Discourse analysis of modern practices of strategies to justify the technological sovereignty of Russia. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2023, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 548–564. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2023.403 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The formation of a policy of technological sovereignty is one of the most relevant and leading
trends in Russian public policy in 2022. It has its origins in discursive practices and is
gradually realized in social reality in the form of specific measures to build technological and
industrial sovereignty in certain industries. The policy of technological sovereignty is inextricably
linked to the preservation of national sovereignty, so the definition of the hegemonic
content of this concept in Russian political discourse cannot be overestimated. Today in the
discursive field there are three main strategies for justifying the policy of technological sovereignty:
civilizational, economic and technocratic. Thus, the civilizational character is defined
by us if the speech refers to the discourse of technological sovereignty policy underlying by
national security and national sovereignty concepts, economic — if the idea that technology
allows to have an economic advantage and develop the economy prevailed, technocratic —
if the discourse of self-sufficiency and security of a particular industry, often justified by
examples of import substitution policy from 2014. The purpose of this work is to identify
the main strategies for substantiating the policy of technological sovereignty of Russia by
analyzing the discourses of influential politicians and technocrats. The study was conducted
using N. Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis methodology. In the course of the analysis
politicians’ and experts’ speeches were classified according to the strategies of justifying the
policy of technological sovereignty, taking into account the speaker’s position, justification
concepts and speech tropes.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
Executed as part of the grant “Evidence-based Policies of Technological Sovereignty and Trust:
Exploring Public Justification Strategies”, received as a result of a competition for research projects
in social and political sciences conducted by the Expert Institute for Social Research (EISR) together
with the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

dc.subject

value: technological sovereignty

value: technological independence

value: import substitution

value: political discourse

value: economic discourse

value: technocratic discourse

value: discursive practices

value: evidence-based policy

value: justification strategy

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Grishin, Nikolai V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Grishin N. V. Identity politics in urban agglomerations: A review of modern scientific literature. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2023, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 648–662. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2023.410 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article is the first review of scientific literature in the field of studying the identity politics
in agglomerations. The main achievements, trends, topics, problems and prospects for the
development of research field are identified. The review covers scientific publications in Russian
and foreign science, starting from the first works in this field of study at the turn of the 20th–
21st centuries. The consequences of the use of many terms to designate agglomerations in
English-speaking science are characterized. The features of the formation and development of
the research agenda in the field of studying the identity policy of agglomerations are revealed.
Attempts to reveal the identity of residents with agglomerations in empirical studies of European
scientists are characterized. The opinions of leading scientists on the influence on the degree of
identity with agglomerations of such factors as the size of the agglomeration and the degree of
centralization of the agglomeration are presented. The methodological influence of the “city-region”
approach on the peculiarities of considering conflicts between the identity of agglomerations and
both urban and regional identities is characterized. The main results of research by European
scientists on differences in the degree of identity with the agglomeration between the inhabitants
of certain territorial zones, primarily the metropolitan core and periphery, are presented. The
results of studies of the role of government and business actors in the constructing the identity
of agglomerations are systematized. Since almost all major scientific publications in this field are
produced by specialists in the field of regional studies and urban studies, but not by specialists in
the study of identity issues, the emerging theoretical problems of identity politics are left without
due attention.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was carried out at the St. Petersburg State University with the financial support of the
Russian Science Foundation within the framework of the research project no. 23-28-00933 “Identity
Politics in Russian Agglomerations in the Context of International Experience”.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 19; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: identity politics

value: agglomeration identity

value: urban agglomerations

value: metropolitan area

value: metropolitan identity

value: identity construction