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• Cognitive Models of the Concept of “Normality”

  Nava Vanda Sahverdova

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  98

  This study examines the concept of “normality” in contemporary Russian public discourse of recent decades in the context of uncertainty in normative frameworks. In contrast to the previously analysed construction “new normality,” which exhibits a marked and metalinguistic function, “normality” functions primarily as a background cognitive-discursive category, serving as a tool for evaluation and categorization. The data for the study is drawn from the RuTenTen corpus. The methodological framework is based on cognitive-discursive analysis aimed at identifying typical patterns of usage and reconstructing the conceptual structure. The analysis reveals the main cognitive models of the concept of “normality,” including spatial, scalar, processual, and institutional metaphors, as well as models of masking, simulation, and axiological inversion.

• Cultural Policy of Russia and Hungary: Modern Discourse and New Actors

  11 p.

  Olga Szűcs

  Tatyana Yudina

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  400

  The authors of the article argue that contemporary cultural policy discourse is in the focus
  of attention of scientific communities, social and political organizations and government institutions.
  It represents a sort of symbolic struggle and nominations and has necessitated a
  new approach to cultural policy structuring. The article shows that this necessity is demonstrated
  by the development of cooperation between Russia and Hungary in terms of cultural
  sectors and cultural heritage. Expert communities and non-governmental organizations are
  becoming significant elements in the structure of cultural policy subjects. The association
  “For Hungarian-Russian cooperation named after Leo Tolstoy” has become such a key issue.
  The authors of this article attempt to highlight the most essential contemporary issues in
  the sphere of cultural policy in general and in relation of two separate countries – Russia and
  Hungary – through the scientific project “Hygiene of culture”.

• Object – Body – Flashback in “The Seagull” by Michael Mayer

  6 p.

  Natalia Niagolova

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  378

  The article features the transformation mechanisms of Chekhov’s play “The Seagull” in its film adaptation of 2018 by Michael Mayer. The director’s concept activates the opposition “memory – forgetfulness” and this is based on composition-visual reminiscences, i.e. flashbacks. The world of objects and the body discourse in the film complies with that specific film story of nostalgia in which the past is not simply going back to the things the characters were through, but also as a new reading of Chekhov’s intertextuality in the context of Anglo-Saxon cinema culture as well as a stylized memory of the Russian classic writer and his times.

• Grotesque and paradox: Female and male narratives in Victor Erofeyev’s novels

  Tünde Szabó

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  332

  This paper examines the narrative dynamics of two novels by Victor Erofeyev. The female discourse of Russian Beauty is characterized by the vertical dynamics of grotesque, while the discourse of the autobiographical narrator of Good Stalin is characterized by the dynamics of paradox, a horizontal movement between opposing truths. In both novels the Soviet aesthetic canon is undermined through the dynamics of narrative that denies the possibility of a singular truth.

• The artistic interpretation of biographical facts in L. Petrusevskaya's Ninth Volume

  Zsuzsanna Kalafatics

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  342

  The paper deals with the interpenetrability of the boundaries between artistic prose and autobiography and documentary. By analyzing Petrushevskaya's Ninth Volume, the paper examines how the rhetorical tropes of fiction operate in a text that is essentially autobiographical in nature, mixing different genres, and how archetypal, psychological and literary patterns are projected onto the biographical material. The cyclical arrangement of texts belonging to different periods and the blending of different discourses create the figure of a special autobiographical hero reflecting on the work.

• Georgy Adamovich ‘The Beginning of the Story’, ‘From a Clogged Notebook’ - about the Turgenev’s Subtext

  11 p.

  Ludmila Sproge

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  342

  The discourse of ‘Ich-Erzählung’ creates visibility, or an autobiographical narrative,
  where the author narrates the more famous classical texts on the theme of ‘love as strong as
  death’. The narration of stories is based on the principle of the repeatability of individual
  thematic units built on similarities and contrasts. The text that is being created does not translate into an autonomous story about Maria Leopoldovna, but it exposes the technique of reminiscence poetics. Quotes and auto-quotes form or create a peculiar language of the major art,
  where the names of Turgenev and Tolstoy are markers of the story. Turgenev’s subtext is
  connected with the way meaning is constructed in the story, which is told about love that has
  never come true but is remembered all one’s my life.

• Singularity of Novel Discourse in Dostoevsky's The Idiot

  Géza Horváth

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  237

  The article examines Dostoevsky's novel discourse as a singular unity in the novel The Idiot. This discourse is dominated by the principle of indeterminacy, and the category of subjectivity is closely connected with the novel model of singularity. The aim of the article is to understand the principles of discursive unity organization in the novel on the level of its basic metaphors. These basic metaphors are "point" and "line".

• Linguistic Means of Constructing “Own” and “Other” in B. Akunin’s Novel "The Diamond Chariot"

  Nava-Vanda Sahverdova

  Alina Urazbekova

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  269

  The article discusses the ways of linguistic construction of the concepts of “own” and “other” in B. Akunin's novel The Diamond Chariot. The methodological basis of the study is cognitive discursive analysis. The protagonist of the novel arrives in Japan and meets with new realities, objects, places, social organization of life. In this process, we observe the contact of two cultures – the Japanese and European-Russian. Japanese appears in the novel in a wide layer of Japanese vocabulary, which is introduced into the text in a variety of ways (translation in the text, translation in a footnote, explanation, repetition with translation, the use of a foreign word in a typical context).The process of cognition of a foreign culture is accompanied by constant assessments through the prism of one's, previously learned experience. Evaluation is a structural characteristic of the construction of one's “own” and “others'” and reflects the dynamic nature of the process of acquaintance with a foreign culture. Other way stoembed foreign words in the text – using the structure of the concept – are also presented in the article. The experience of the meeting of two cultures also appears in the linguistic form in the communication of multilingual heroes of the novel among themselves, the characteristics of this discourse of strangers are described (interspersed in English, as well as interspersed in English and Japanese, written in Cyrillic).

• The Function of the „Author’s Mask” in “The Soul of a Patriot or Various Epistles to Ferfichkin” by Yevgeni Popov

  Annamária Vass

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  348

  Playing with the author’s figure is not a new device in Postmodernism. One may refer to “Either/Or” by Søren Kierkegaard or “The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin” by Alexander Pushkin, or “The Fiery Angel” by Valery Bryusov. At the same time the foreword of “The soul of a patriot or Various epistles to Ferfichkin” proves that in Postmodernism this game is taken to the next level. The author who abandoned their fictional space and renounced theirauthorial role during Modernism returns and re-takes their formal place. However, he does not do it seriously but hiding behind the mask of the author – says Malmgren, introducing the term of the author’s maskinto literary discourse. In this analysis I state that Popov, using the author’s mask, turns the traditional interpretationof the author’s role inside out.  I conclude that, on the one hand, the author’s mask ridicules the concept by which the author’s biography is the key to his work. On the other hand, it makes fun of Vinogradov’s view, according to which there is always an abstract author hiding in the text who carries its real meaning. I come to the conclusion, that Popov uses this narrative technique to emphasise that it is impossible to look at a literary work as an arsenal of ultimate truths and statements. 

• Linguistic Analysis of the Development of the Term “Greenwashing” Through the Prism of Variology

  Krisztina K. Kovács

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  68

  This article examines the variability of the ecological neologism “greenwashing.” Based on an analysis of the media context and various corpus platforms, the main types of variability (graphic, morphological, and syntactic) are revealed. Semantic variability is also presented depending on the context. Particular attention is paid to the process of determinologization in the context of the mediatization of scientific knowledge.

• Coping with Trauma: Minority Art Practices in the Context of the New Sensuality of Metamodernism

  7 p.

  Andrei Chukurov

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  408

  The information age has provided new opportunities for the institutionalization and functioning of various subcultural movements including those uniting people by offering them an alternative mental state. The proposed material is analyzed as an example of these associations. The article provides a brief analysis of the historical dynamics of the study of minority art practices and of their role and significance at present. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of Art Brut. Today minority art practices find their new meaning also in the context of the new sensuality of metamodernism, which is based on co-creation. We believe that the
  discourse of outsider art fosters a tolerant consciousness, raising issues of stigma, norm, deviation and internal liberation.