Professors Journal.
Series: Russian language and literature.
№ 2 (22) 2025

Contents

«20 Years Later: Evolution of Modern Russian Preposition Studies (Some Lessons of One Scholarly Dispute)»

• Lyubov Pavlovna Klobukova — Corresponding Member of The Russian Academy of Education, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Honorary Professor and Head of Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University. E-mail: klobukov@list.ru
• Ekaterina Nikolaevna Vinogradova — PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Lomonosv Moscow State University. E-mail: ekaterinavin@mail.ru

The article discusses relevant to contemporary grammatical lexicography outcomes of a scholarly discussion held during the conference «The Grammar of the Slavic Preposition: Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches» at Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2003. It examines the core principles proposed by M.V. Vsevolodova and her colleagues in the early 21st century for an objective and comprehensive linguistic description of the functional-grammatical field of Russian prepositional units (prepositions and their functional equivalents — «prepositional-type means»). The article presents a multifaceted model for the «lexicographic profiling» of prepositional units and discusses the scientific results achieved through its application. It also highlights the significance of the publication «Materials for a Dictionary of Russian Prepositions and Prepositional-Type Means», edited by M.V. Vsevolodova, for the advancement of Russian grammatical lexicography.

Key words: preposition, functional-grammatical field of preposition, preposition-like units, grammar dictionaries, lexicographic portrait of a word.

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«Many People make monkeys in the Zoo», or The Main Types of Errors in Russian Spoken Speech

• Irina Ivanovna Baklanova — Doctor of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor, National Research Nuclear University (MEPhI). E-mail: ibaklanova@yandex.ru

The purpose of the article is to describe the types of frequently occurring errors in modern spontaneous Russian speech and to explain the reasons for their occurrence. The material for the description was recordings of speeches of radio hosts and guests made over the last decade (about 1000 sentences). It has been shown that speech errors cover a limited number of areas of the language system and are unevenly distributed over these areas. The observations made are topical because they inform not only about the speech skills of native speakers, but also about the cultural state of the modern society.

Key words: speech errors, linguistic personality, heterogeneous linguistic community, evolution of grammatical categories, norm.

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«The Memoirist as an Unreliable Narrator. (At the Example of the Memoirs on A.P. Chekhov)»

• Viktor Sergeevich Zaitsev — PhD in Culturology, Deputy Head of Department «Anton Chekhov House-Museum», Vladimir Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature. E-mail: vik.zaytsev2014@yandex.ru

The memoirs on A.P. Chekhov traditionally used by researchers as a reliable source of many facts on life and work of the writer. Meanwhile, an appeal to studies on the specifics of the neurophysiology of human memory makes possible to conduct critical analysis of a source study that based on the essential shortcomings of all memoirs stemming from key features of the way the human brain works. This kind of analysis allows us to draw an analogy between any memoirist and an «unreliable narrator» as a literary device. Thus, any memoir text about A.P. Chekhov must be perceived as potentially falsified until the opposite is proven. On the one hand, this point of view will save the academia from permanent non-constructive discussions about the authenticity of certain memoirs, on the other hand, it will allow researchers to create a scientific biography of A.P. Chekhov.

Key words: A.P. Chekhov, Chekhovian studies, memoirs, unreliable narrator, source study.

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«From the History of Soviet Epigram (Z. Paperny’s Marginalia in the Book «323 Epigrams»)»

• Vladimir Borisovich Kataev — Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of the History of Russian Literature, Lomonosov Moscow State University. E-mail: kataev2003@yandex.ru

The paper shows that the predominantly oral, quasi-folklore mode of transmission characteristic of epigrams leads to loose attribution: in oral tradition, the best rhymed jokes or political verses are sometimes attributed not to their authors but to other people. In his marginal notes to a copy of the collection «323 Epigrams», a 1988 edition by E.G. Etkind, Z.S. Paperny corrected the text and indicated the authorship of some pieces. These marginalia can be viewed as one of the primary sources for the future history of the epigram genre in the Soviet era.

Key words: Soviet era epigrams, folklore character, marginalia.

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«Linguodidactics: Emergence, Development, Prospects»

• Leonid Viktorovich Moskovkin — Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Saint Petersburg State University. E-mail: moskovkin.leonid@yandex.ru

The article provides an overview of the evolution of linguodidactics as a direction of scientific research. The prerequisites for the emergence of linguodidactics are considered, among which the discrepancy between didactics and theories of teaching foreign languages and the tendency towards unification of teaching the Russian language in national schools are noted. Linguodidactics is described as a general theory of language teaching, as well as its other interpretations: linguodidactics as the science of the linguistic foundations of language teaching, as the science of language acquisition and proficiency, as a synonym for theory of teaching language, as a theoretical section of this theory. It is suggested that in the future the term «linguodidactics» will be used as a synonym for the term «teaching methodology».

Key words: linguodidactics, didactics, theory of teaching languages, linguistics, psychology.

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«Reception of Biblical Images in the Russian Song Tradition: a Linguodidactic Aspect»

• Aleksandra Andreevna Zhukova — PhD in Philology, Lecturer, Lomonosov Moscow State University. E-mail: alix_zhukova@mail.ru
• Ekaterina Vladimirovna Potemkina — PhD in Pedagogy, Senior Lecturer, Lomonosov Moscow State University. E-mail: kpisareva@yandex.ru

The work is devoted to the consideration of the concept of GOD in a foreign audience of a philological profile. In the course of the study, the authors relied on principles developed in cognitive linguodidactics. The results of the study became the basis for the lesson in the manual «Concepts of the Russian song tradition: from romance to rap». We have analyzed the images of Christ and his disciples that are constant in Russian culture. We also described the Christological motifs characteristic of the Russian song tradition based on the material of the songs. In order to form the cognitive level of the linguistic personality of foreign students, the associative field ‘Christ’ is explicated and a fragment of the linguistic picture of the world associated with the concept of GOD is reconstructed.

Key words: concept, auditory literature, song, Christian myth, biblical images, Christ, cognitive linguodidactics.