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• Silence as Structural Presence: A Theoretical Exploration of Ivan Ikićʹs Film “Oaza” (Oasis) within a Cinematic Framing of Noam Chomsky’s Minimalist Program

  Edit Jakab

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  This study proposes a formal-analytical reading of Ivan Ikić’s Oaza (Oasis) (2020) within an interdisciplinary framework combining film theory and Noam Chomsky’s Minimalist Program. Drawing on core Minimalist concepts – such as the distinction between Phonological Form (PF) and Logical Form (LF), economy of derivation, and the copy theory of movement – the article argues that cinematic silence in Oaza is not absence, but a structurally licensed form of non-externalization. In this sense, silence functions analogously to syntactic traces: elements that lack phonological realization yet remain interpretively active. Focusing on the interrogation scene and the final sequence of the film, the analysis demonstrates how the suspension of speech and the restriction of expressive means shift interpretive responsibility onto the viewer. Meaning emerges not through explicit articulation, but through structured absence and constrained access. The film thus operates as a derivational system in which omission is not a deficit but a condition of interpretation, governed by principles of economy and interface interaction.

• Metaphoricity in the novel Pelagia and Black Monk by Boris Akunin

  Angelika Molnár

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  277

  The paper discusses the tropological game in Boris Akunin's detective novel Pelagia and the Black Monk. The author focuses on the transformation of the main images in this contemporary work. Various periphrases and similes are then studied, as well as the destruction and renewal of redundant tropes, and the generation of new metaphors, particularly those related to color, nature, and zoomorphic images (e.g. the color black, rays). The figurative order of the text of the novel offers such potential correlations that expand the plan of interpretation of the novel in a new and unexpected direction, testifying to a truly postmodern rewriting of lingual, literal, and poetical clichés. A key role in this process is played also by details (see Z. Hajnády).

• The Linguistic Organization of the Visual Text in V. Kamensky’s “Concrete Poems”: An Intermedial Analysis of the Poem The Palace of S.I. Shchukin

  Anna Gik

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  84

  The article is devoted to the analysis of the visual-poetic structure of Vasily Kamensky’s “concrete Poems,” based on the poem The palace of S.I. Shchukin. The study focuses on compositional principles, lexical-grammatical organization, and typographic features of the text within the aesthetic framework of Russian Cubo-Futurism. The application of an intermedial approach makes it possible to identify connections between poetic elements and works of painting from the collection of S.I. Shchukin. The poem is interpreted as a model of museum space, in which the text functions as a system of exhibition zones. The study reveals the dominance of the nominative principle, the reduction of verbal forms, and the synesthetic nature of imagery. It is demonstrated that typography performs a meaning-generating function, shaping the visual-spatial organization of the text.

• The Cultural Heritage of the Ancient Russian City of Yelets

  Tatyana Yudina

  Alexandra Merkulova

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  271

  This article provides scholarly evidence the small historical city of Yelets as a potential cultural heritage site in the context of its socio-cultural significance for the state, society and the local community. The paper overviews the results of a comprehensive sociological study of the issues of the cultural heritage of this ancient Russian city. The issues of the cultural heritage of Yelets is considered from the perspective of internal and external identification processes which transformed it and make it lose its unique urban identity. For the analysis of cultural heritage, the types of identity of the city are identified: historical and cultural, visual and spatial, socio-psychological and communicative spatial. The main factors of the identification processes of the city are analyzed, such as urban identity, history, culture, social interaction and language.