Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices
Editor-in-Chief: Uldanai M. Bakhtikireeva, Doctor of Science (Philology), Professor ISSN: 2618-897X (Print) ISSN: 2618-8988 (Online) Founded in 2004. Publication frequency: quarterly PUBLISHER: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University) Open Access: . APC: no article processing charge Peer-Review: double blind. Publication language: Russian, English Indexation: White List, Russian Index of Science Citation, DOAJ, Google Scholar, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, ERIH PLUS, WorldCat, Cyberleninka, Dimensions, ResearchBib, Lens, Research4Life, JournalTOCs, British Library, Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford), Ghent University Library
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The Tendencies in the Sphere of Verb Government in the Chuvash Language: Correlation Between Bilingualism and the Dynamics Usage
The influence of Chuvash-Russian bilingualism on the speech behavior of bilinguals reveals in violations of usage leading to the changes in the grammatical system of the Chuvash language. The special attention is paid to the analysis of changes in the field of syntactic combinability in verb-nominal collocations of the Chuvash language influenced by the dominant Russian language. The topicality is due to the increasing influence of the Russian language grammatical system on the speech peculiarities of the Chuvash speakers who are mainly bilingual. The differences between the Chuvash and Russian languages in the composition of means related to verb government lead to interference phenomena in the verb combinability of the Chuvash language. The aim of this paper is to observe the main tendencies in dynamics both in usage (spoken language, publicistic texts and etc.) and the codified literary language (normative dictionaries). The changes in the rules of verb government in the Chuvash language and preference for certain constructions, both case and postpositional, are studied chronologically from the early ХХ century to the present, special attention is paid to the last few decades. The changes in the structure of some models in verb-nominal word collocations of the Chuvash language, observed throughout this period, represent the change in the way or means of components’ syntactic connection. It is mainly the replacement of the case-forms by the postpositional ones or one form (case or non-case system form) by another one.
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The Category of Voice in the Chuvash Language
In traditional Chuvash linguistics, the voices of a verb have not been recently singled out as a separate inflectional category. The forms expressing such meanings have special features; the main one is the inability of corresponding affixes to combine with all verbs. Thus they are referred to the sphere of word formation. The problem of determining the grammatical status of these forms is relevant because of the necessity to establish the correct composition of grammatical forms and categories of the verb in the Chuvash language. The article deals with a brief history of verb forms’ study with voice meanings in the Chuvash linguistics and they are compared with similar forms in other Turkic languages. According to the author, the application of functional-semantic approach to solve complex grammatical questions, in particularly the content side of language sign is of primary in the light of the development of verb morphology research in modern Russian Turkology. Due to this the grammatical status determination of a form should be considered through the semantic factor. Analyzing the voices it is necessary to establish either the corresponding affix attachment forms a new word or it serves to change the word form. Since the meanings of the voice are stated to convey various subject-object relations, the author concludes that these forms do not form a new word as the action remains unchanged. Consequently, there is a word-formation process and these forms constitute the word-formation category of the verb.
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Markers of Colloquial and Journalistic Functional Styles of the Modern Chuvash Language
The study of the formation and development of functional styles of the Chuvash language is important for understanding the evolution of the literary language. The study of this issue is especially relevant at the present stage, when the Chuvash language is faced with a strong influence of the Russian language, and some changes are being made to the approaches to the study of styles in domestic linguistics. This will allow us to better understand the processes occurring in the modern Chuvash literary language. This study uses the ideas of V.V. Vinogradov, A.I. Gorshkov, N.S. Valgina and other linguists. To date, the most studied part of the functional stylistics of the Chuvash language is the popular scientific style of the Yakovlev period (1871-1917). The purpose of the study is to identify and study the markers that are key elements of the functional styles of the modern Chuvash language using the example of colloquial and journalistic. The article analyzes the linguistic means and techniques used in different styles and identifies their main characteristics at the level of the lexical system, morphological structure and syntactic system. The differences and common features in the composition of linguistic markers of the colloquial and one of the book styles - journalistic at the lexical, morphological and syntactic levels are revealed. The methods of observation, description, compositional and partially content analysis are used. Language markers, as a rule, are illustrated by examples in the Chuvash language with translation into Russian. The results of the study can be useful for linguists in scientific research in the field of stylistics, teachers in the practice of teaching the Chuvash language and all those interested in the issues of functional styles of the Chuvash language.
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The Problem of Lexicography of Chuvash Toponyms in the Aspect of Linguistic and Foreign Studies
The paper discusses the scientific, theoretical and practical problems of linguistic and cultural description of Chuvash toponyms. The purpose of the study is to determine the basic principles of lexicographic fixation of Chuvash geographical names with pronounced national and cultural semantics. For the first time, a comprehensive study of the linguistic and cultural potential of regional toponyms has been undertaken, and thematic groups of geographical names have been identified. The article highlights the need for a multidimensional analysis of toponymic systems. The dictionary entries Shupashkar “Cheboksary” and Atə̂l “Volga” are presented as an example. The associative experiment is considered as one of the ways to obtain relevant national and cultural information. The main research methods are the methods of structural and word-formation, linguistic and linguocultural analysis. The author comes to the conclusion that the dictionary entry in the future linguistic dictionary should have the following structure: “Headline word”, sections “Encyclopedic reference”, “In culture”, “In language and speech”. The main criteria for selecting geographical names for the dictionary should be their current representation in the public consciousness and regional value, which are manifested at the linguistic level by the presence of well-known reproducible phrases, the use of a toponym to name objects of other onomastic classes, the use of permanent epithets, the possibility of metaphorical correlation with another well-known place name, the existence of peripheral names, intersection with the biography of famous figures national history and culture.
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Comparative Analysis of Translation of Chuvash Adjectives into Russian and German by the Example of the Poem ‘Narspi’ by K. Ivanov
The paper is devoted to the peculiarities of translating Chuvash adjectives expressing the colour characteristics of objects and phenomena of the poem “Narspi” by K. Ivanov into Russian and German. The purpose of the study is to identify the peculiarities of the translation of the adjectives of the poem “Narspi” into Russian and German on the basis of a comparative analysis. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that for the first time the specifics of the translation of Chuvash adjectives conveying different color characteristics of the poem are being investigated. The study was conducted using the methods of continuous sampling of constructions with adjectives of the poem “Narspi” by K. Ivanov and the method of comparative analysis to identify common and different translation variants. The translation of Chuvash adjectives denoting colors into Russian and German and the techniques of their transmission have not been considered in such detail before. The Chuvash language, a little-spoken language, is compared with Russian and German and studied in more detail thanks to this research analysis. The issues of translating Chuvash works into the languages of other peoples, related to the transfer of the stylistic and national identity of the original, its poetic form, are new material for study. The most common ways of translating Chuvash adjectives into Russian and German are by calculating and selecting equivalents with synonymous meanings.
Copyright (c) 2025 Kuznetsova T.N., Kornilov G.E., Yakovleva G.G. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
From a Phrase to a Complex Sentence: Syntactic Features of Biblionyms in Chuvash and Russian Languages
The paper is devoted to the syntactic characterization of biblionyms (book titles) in the Chuvash and Russian languages. The research material was the titles of works of art of the 20th century, selected using the continuous sampling method. To illustrate and substantiate the theoretical positions, more than 500 biblionyms in Chuvash and Russian literature were examined. The analysis showed that the book titles have a variety of syntactic constructions. They can be word forms, phrases with a subordinate or compositional connection, as well as simple and complex sentences. In these languages, biblionyms are actively used in the form of simple sentences, which can be one-part, two-part (narrative, interrogative, motivational). Of considerable interest are biblionyms, which are complex sentences that are divided into compound, compound, and conjunctionless sentences. In the course of the study of book titles, their comparative analysis was carried out, unique features and general patterns of functioning were identified, quantitative calculations were performed to determine the frequency of use of different syntactic forms of biblionyms. Book titles can be short and concise, consisting of a single word or phrase, or complex, multicomponent constructions. Each of these forms carries certain information about the work, attracts the reader’s attention and forms the primary perception of the text.
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The Issues for Functional-Semantic Correspondences Searching in Religious Discourse Translation from a Foreign Language: The Experience of Chuvash Translations
The paper deals with the issues arising in Christian religious texts when translating from Church Slavonic and Russian into Chuvash. The classification of difficulties to translate types of words and expressions has been given, the methodology of their transfer by means of the recipient language has been proposed. This classification is based on research methods of etymological and contextual analysis adequately taking into account structural and semantic features of the Chuvash language. Possible translation variants have been illustrated by examples from the New and Old Testaments. The translation elements’ examples of Christian-religious discourse into other languages of the Turkic group such as Cuman, Gagauz, Tatar have been given. The article touches upon the linguocultural aspects of translation related to the historical development of a particular ethnic group and its religious and cultural tradition. The approaches proposed in the article can be applied for translating religious and other texts into different languages.
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Conceptual Opposition FRIENDSHIP - ENMITY in the Chuvash and Russian Linguocultures
The paper is devoted to the study of the binary opposition FRIENDSHIP - ENMITY in the Chuvash and Russian pictures of the world and the identification of national-cultural features and ways of its representation at the cognitive-discursive level. The purpose of the study is to examine the specifics of the implementation of the concepts under study from the perspective of universal and nationally determined features. The material for the study was proverbs and sayings, selected using a continuous sampling from specialized sources. The following methods were also used in the work: the method of conceptual analysis, the comparative method, the elements of contextual analysis designed to determine the linguistic content of the concepts of FRIENDSHIP - ENMITY. The study revealed that the lexemes “friendship” and “enmity” are part of the main semantic oppositions with a universal code for various languages of the world. The concepts under study have substantial features of the national and international linguistic mentality of peoples, are a reflection of universal human attitudes, and have various angles of verbal characterization. The role of friendship and hostility in people’s lives is defined as socially significant, occupying an important place in the system of cultural values of the Russian and Chuvash peoples.
Copyright (c) 2025 Borisova L.V., Ivanova A.M., Chueva E.V. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Chuvash Ethnoblogging as a Communicative Phenomenon: Bilingual and Transcultural Aspects
The paper is devoted to identifying the distinctive communicative behavior of Chuvash ethnically oriented bloggers, prominent actors in the modern media space who spread Chuvash ethnocultural content on their social media pages and build positioning around ethnic self-determination. The speech activity of bloggers is considered from the perspective of the theory of translinguality and is evaluated as a set of transcultural practices. The purpose of the study is to determine the uniqueness of the communicative practices of Chuvash ethnobloggers in the sociolinguistic aspect. The empirical basis consists of the channels of the three media managers in the Telegram messenger. The methods of included observation and content analysis based on the ideas of Internet and media linguistics, theories of artistic bilingualism and transculturation were used in the research. The posts published by bloggers from January 2024 to February 2025 were selected using a continuous sampling method. The results of the study showed that Chuvash ethnoblogging as a communicative phenomenon is characterized by transcultural specificity with a set of variable bilinguals. The Russian-Chuvash bilingual communication practices of the considered authors of the Telegram channels are formed on two levels: the messenger interface and a separate post. Focusing on a mass audience, bloggers run pages mainly in Russian, using the Chuvash language accentuated, often interspersed with individual words and expressions for the purpose of ethnocultural self-presentation and, accordingly, ethnomarketing content.
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Evolution of the Author’s Picture of the World According to the Model ‘Self / Other’ in the Works of Chuvash Writers of the Post-Revolutionary Period
The relevance of this study increases in the context of the steady strengthening of the multicultural space in the modern world and the strengthening of the role of intercultural dialogue in it. In the process of searching for optimal forms of dialogue between different cultures, the artistic and verbal experience of national minorities (alias, ‘инородцы’ - inorodtsy) during the formative years of Soviet Russia is very useful. We are interested in the author’s picture of the world of writers in the prism of ethnic self-identification, their search for ways of further existence of the nation in the context of changing reality. The purpose of this article is to identify the author’s pictures of the world in their diversity and evolution. The material used is the works of talented Chuvash writers, which were composed (published, revised or staged) in 1917-1924. The borderline state of several sciences studying man and his culture is described. Literary, psychological and ethnological approaches are used. Comparative analysis with its focus on identifying the singular and unique prevails.
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The Phenomenon of Author’s Genre Definition in the Work of Playwright Nikolai Terentyev
The paper considers the artistic features and genre originality of Nikolai Terentyev’s dramaturgy, which took an active part in updating the genre paradigm of Chuvash drama in the second half of the twentieth century. The uniqueness of N. Terentyev’s artistic world in his work is reflected in his search for new genre forms. Genre uncertainty, heterogeneous genre features in one work make it necessary to consider the problem of the genre nature of the writer’s plays and talk about their inherent intraspecific syncretism, which first of all manifested itself in the author’s genre definitions. Their analysis in the work of N. Terentyev showed that most often they are in the position of a subtitle and, along with other elements, are part of the work. Their formation takes place within the framework of certain artistic tasks and under the influence of various genre processes: synthesis of genres, reinterpretation of traditional ones, their transformation, etc.
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Representation of the Mystical (N. Petrovskaya) and the Magical (J. Cortazar) in Fiction
Modern Chuvash literature is distinguished by its ideological, thematic and genre-stylistic richness. Many of the artistic trends of Chuvash prose most clearly manifested themselves in the late 20th - early 21st centuries. The relevance of this study is associated with the need to study the poetics of mysticism as one of the modern trends of Chuvash prose in the context of world artistic trends - magical realism, taking into account their aesthetic connections and differences. Artistic and mystical works in Russian (including Chuvash) literature very often represent a synthesis of Orthodox-religious and national-folklore motifs, images, and themes. Meanwhile, such mysticism in its poetics is very close to magical realism, which originated in Latin American literature. Taking these features into account, the aim of this study was to identify aesthetic parallels between the works of Chuvash mystical prose and magical realism. In accordance with the purpose, the main tasks of the work are formulated: to study the theoretical issues of the poetics of the mystical and magical; to determine the genre and stylistic features of the work of the writers under study; to identify the main elements of the commonality of Chuvash artistic mysticism and magical realism. The works of the Chuvash author Nelli Petrovskaya and the Argentine author Julio Cortazar were selected as research material. The main research methods are comparative-historical and contrastive analysis of works of art. As a result of the study, they came to the conclusion that the mystical and magical in fiction manifest themselves as something inexplicable, miraculous, otherworldly, while the plot of the story is based on real life. Their distinctive feature is that in mystical works religious ideas and symbols are expressed more vividly, while in magical realism the mythological worldview of the people is expressed more vividly. However, it also contains religious symbols.
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The Expression of the ‘Chuvash world’ in the Works of Efrem Elliev
The research examines the peculiarities of the work of the Chuvash writer Efrem Elliev (1907-1942), in which the national principle is very clearly manifested, despite the socialist realism that was forming throughout the country at that time. The purpose of this article is to analyze the expression of the “Chuvash world” in the writer’s works. From this point of view, such a study is being conducted for the first time in Chuvash literary criticism. The research material includes prose and dramatic works, as well as critical articles and diary entries by E. Elliev. Historical-cultural, biographical, descriptive and problem-thematic methods are applied. As a result of studying the writer’s works, it was revealed that in them he sought to reflect the psychology and philosophy of his native people; he reflected on the national character, worldview, and the peculiarities of artistry in the era of socialist realism. The paper substantiates that the work of this author combines in an unusual way such a national feature of thinking as ytarlăh (allegorical, metaphorical) and an open rejection of stereotyping and schematism, which emerged in the 1930s.
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Poetics of Free Verse in the Works of Stanislav Sadur
The paper examines the features of the poetics of free verse of the modern Chuvash poet Stanislav Sadur. The purpose of the study is to determine the specifics of S. Sadur’s free verse. The relevance of the work is caused by the desire to characterize the features of the development of modern Chuvash poetry. The results showed that S. Sadur’s free verse is distinguished by brevity of form, visualization, the presence of a verbal picture, elements of folklore, sound harmony, expression of philosophical meaning, and features of existentialism. The works are similar to an expanded metaphor, built on the type of comparison, figurative-aphoristic expression of meaning, listing or comparison of homogeneous images, experiences. Brevity and originality of form require concentration of thought, capacious expressive means. S. Sadur continues the traditions of free verse developed in Chuvash poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. We consider the poet’s creative searches as an expression of the author’s picture of the world, formed under the influence of Chuvash folklore, the traditions of Chuvash and world poetry, and life experience.
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The Volga-Kama Stage of the History of Chuvash Music: Sources and Methods of Reconstruction
The paper discusses the main features of the musical culture of the ancestors of the Chuvash people at the Volga-Kama stage of its history - the third of the four largest ethnogenetic stages, identified on the basis of the study of the migrations of its Bulgar-speaking ancestors. It is indicated that, in the absence of written and other data on the music of that era, it is possible to reconstruct its main features with the help of comparative-historical and historical-typological studies of the oral musical and poetic heritage of the Chuvash in comparison with the data on the music of related or contacted peoples of that era. Thanks to the research of historians, the idea was established that the Turkic-speaking ancestors of the Chuvash at this stage reached a high level of social organization, housekeeping and musical culture. The significant influence of the musical culture of the Turkic Bulgars on the musical system of the songs of the ancient Magyars, noted in the sources, testifies to the depth of its foundations. Well-preserved forms of pentatonic scale, structural regularities of quantitative rhythmics and plot composition of ritual folk song lyrics of the Chuvash, in the author’s opinion, testify that at the third stage under consideration there were still known intonation and structural foundations of vocal music, as well as musical instruments inherited from previous stages and developed in new conditions. According to historical science, the third ethnogenetic stage of the history of the Chuvash people was the time of formation and crystallization of the main features of the Chuvash people. It is concluded that among them are the properties of the Chuvash musical and poetic system revealed with the help of comparative-historical and historical-typological methods. Adapted to the spatial and temporal conditions of the Volga-Kamya, the music of the Chuvash continues to live.
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The Evolution of the ‘National’ Concept in the Painting of Chuvashian Artists of Twentieth Century
Today, the publicʼs interest in national history, understanding of the identity and value of traditional artistic heritage is becoming one of the main catalysts in the development of the fine arts of Chuvashia. In addressing issues of cultural identity, artists expressed themselves very vividly and variously in the second half of the twentieth century, by the end of which the concept of “national art” had received a clear content. It is based on the entire material layer of culture, as well as the spiritual and aesthetic values of the ethnic group, formed over the centuries. The article examines the forms and evolution of the national component in the professional art of Chuvashia of the twentieth century, the degree of its presence in the work of the republicʼs painters in different periods of history. Using the works of the most prominent artists as an example, the author analyzes the processes of formation of a new concept of Chuvash painting, the beginnings of which were found in the late 1950s and 1960s in the paintings of P.G. Kiparisov, Yu.A. Zaitsev and R.M. Ermolaeva. But the work of A.I. Mittov (1932-1971), who worked in the 1960s, is now recognized as a genuine expression of the “Chuvash world”, a conscious search for the national language of art. His pictorial and graphic heritage testifies to the birth of a new art in form and content. Artists appeared next, looking for their own ways of mastering the spiritual heritage of the Chuvash people. Thus, in the works of V.P. Petrov (Praski Vitti) and S.N. Mikhailov (Yukhtar), the value and figurative equivalents of the concept of “national” are born from a whole complex of worldviews and aesthetic canons. Having originated in the 1920s, the professional art of Chuvashia acquired the high qualities of the Soviet realistic school by the middle of the century. But it was only in the second half of it that the pronounced features of the national character were determined. An analysis of the works of Chuvash artists created in the last decades of the twentieth century allows us to assert a high degree of presence of a national component in them.
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Representation of the Bride’s Image in Paintings by Chuvash Artists
The image of the bride in world painting is the embodiment of youth and beauty. Reflecting the trends of the time and national ideals of femininity, the artists created a number of outstanding works. Chuvash painters, trying to express their national identity, often sought inspiration in the image of Narspi, the heroine of Konstantin Ivanov’s poem of the same name. In its development, the image of the Chuvash bride has always met the spiritual and aesthetic needs of society. He received a vivid embodiment in the paintings of Moisei Spiridonov, the founder of professional art in the republic. The relevance of the research is caused by a great interest in traditional culture and the search for national identity. In Chuvash art, the wedding ceremony gave a variety of subjects and new artistic forms. The representation of the image of the bride in the works of masters of different times contains the possibility of the most expressive embodiment of the traditions of the native people, as well as the beauty of the national costume. The material for the study was paintings by masters of the twentieth century, as the most adequately embodied folk ritual traditions. The comparative analysis of artistic and stylistic features became its methodological basis. The purpose of this article is to review and analyze works devoted to one of the key subjects of the wedding ceremony - the moment when the bride waits for the groom. This image makes it possible to reveal the deep character of the Chuvash people, their worldview and the meanings of existence. In this perspective, the chosen topic was considered in art history for the first time. The author highlights the most characteristic works of Chuvash artists who embodied the richness of the artistic image through the portrait of the bride.
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The Great Patriotic War in the Lives and Works of Composers and Musicologists of Chuvashia
The vicissitudes of the trials of the Great Patriotic War affected the fate of many figures of artistic culture of Chuvashia. Military themes were reflected in the music of Chuvash composers of the 20th century in a variety of ways. In this regard, the relevance of addressing the work and biographies of Chuvash musicians is obvious. The purpose of the paper is to identify and analyze works related to military themes in national music. The objectives of the research include consideration of the figurative, thematic and genre features of existing compositions, characterization of their musical and expressive means, clarification of biographical information about the authors-veterans. During the war years, the genre of mass song was popular, designed to support the patriotic spirit of the people and unite them in the fight against the enemy. Later, the tragic realities of the war found their meaning in operatic and symphonic compositions of a lyrical and dramatic nature. Members of the Union of Composers of Chuvashia, A.V. Aslamas, F.S. Vasiliev, A.M. Tokarev, and T.I. Fandeev, who fought at the front, most often addressed this topics. The oldest Chuvash musicologist, veteran Yu.A. Ilyukhin, made a huge contribution to the systematization of data on participants in military battles. The main research method in this article is source-based, the work covers a wide variety of works: scientific sources, archival materials, music editions and manuscripts, publications from periodicals. Factual, problem-chronological and analytical methods allowed us to summarize the results of the material under study. For the first time, the article brings together many facts that are not widely accessible to the general reader and examines them in the context of the presented topic.
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Interview with Yuri Nikolaevich Isaev (on the 95th Anniversary of the Chuvash State Institute of Humanities)
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