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    Russian Second-Language Textbooks and Identity in the Universe of Discourse

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    This book provides an overview of the modifications and interaction of the Second-Language Learning discursive formation and the Identity discursive formation over four centuries of Russian history. It proposes an explanatory model in which small-scale linguistic detail is combined harmoniously with larger-scale language units in order to illuminate matters of cultural importance in their linguistic guise. Hallmark of its interdisciplinary scope is the isomorphic interpretation of image and text. Compositionally, interdisciplinarity pours into a nonlinear narrative; this narrative follows a spiral, redefining on a higher level and in a different setting distinctions, which were first discovered on a lower level with the theoretical devices of other disciplines. The lower coil of the helix accommodates the complementary argumentations of anthropology and lexical semantics; the higher one brings the conclusions to the plane of discourse analysis and semiotic

    Russian Second-Language Textbooks and Identity in the Universe of Discourse

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    This book provides an overview of the modifications and interaction of the Second-Language Learning discursive formation and the Identity discursive formation over four centuries of Russian history. It proposes an explanatory model in which small-scale linguistic detail is combined harmoniously with larger-scale language units in order to illuminate matters of cultural importance in their linguistic guise. Hallmark of its interdisciplinary scope is the isomorphic interpretation of image and text. Compositionally, interdisciplinarity pours into a nonlinear narrative; this narrative follows a spiral, redefining on a higher level and in a different setting distinctions, which were first discovered on a lower level with the theoretical devices of other disciplines. The lower coil of the helix accommodates the complementary argumentations of anthropology and lexical semantics; the higher one brings the conclusions to the plane of discourse analysis and semiotic

    On libraries, databases and the advancement of knowledge in the field of language history

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    Recalling her past conversations with G.K. Venediktov, a leading specialist in 19th-century standard Bulgarian, the author reflects on the correlation between the methodology of linguistic research and its outcomes. The recollections pertain mainly to the Moscow stage of the author's life (1981–1992). It was a time of transition from the Soviet to the post-Soviet era in Russian history, when computers were just entering researchers’ daily routine, and when one had to sign up in advance to get access for a certain short time slot to one of the institute’s computers. Back then, there was a state monopoly on copying technology, scholars wrote their papers by hand or on typewriters, and then copied the final drafts on the office computer, using first 5.25-inch and later 3.5-inch floppy disks, and the text editor Chi-Writer for MS-DOS with encoding for Cyrillic KOI-8. Researchers spent a large portion of their time reading in libraries and checking data in index card collections, handwritten by several generations of scholars. The academic Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies was first located in a two-story mansion, built in 1860 in 30a Trubnikovskii Pereulok and after 1990 it moved to the building of the Academy of Sciences on 32а Leninskii Prospekt. The advent of the Internet, e-mail, cell phones, digital cameras, and the national corpora of the Slavic languages was not far off, which, together with the mass employment of personal computers, was to lead later to a revolution in the methodology of philological research that no one yet foresaw
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