Brutman's vocabulary

Abstract

The article presents the results of observations on a series of publications by the Novgorod journalist, editor of the independent newspaper “Novaya Novgorodskaya Gazeta” Sergei Brutman, all of which were published in the first decade of the 21st century. The goal is to reveal their genre nature, taking into account scientific ideas about newspaper genres, trends in their transformations, including the strengthening of personal content and essayization of newspaper texts, which, as the history of the issue shows, is discussed by researchers of media trends. The relevance of the problem arises from the need to have systematic data on the genre transformation of post-Soviet newspaper texts, especially in the regional press. The proposed genre interpretation of two sections, built as a dictionary, is methodologically based on the idea of genre compaction, as a result of which a media text can include fragments of different genre quality, which creates its multi-genre nature, while within one text the qualities of genres of both media and other spheres, in particular, artistic and scientific ones, are combined. As a result, a detailed analysis of one of the texts of each section, as well as the involvement of materials from other texts, allows us to conclude that the studied sections are characterized by personal content and autobiography. The texts of the first section are qualified as a memoir genre, and the texts of the second one — as poly-genre texts, within which reportage, a short story of a moment, and essayistic reflections coexist; therefore, the texts are distinguished by their collage, montage, and multi-layered meaning. For their perception in the genre aspect, it is essential that the sections are built with a focus on the scientific genre of the dictionary, which is marked by their names, and also that they correspond to the genres of the newspaper and the book in which they are reproduced.