Letter from the Editor-in-Chief

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Dear colleagues, our authors and readers!

The theme of this issue of the journal is classic for Russian linguistics – Literary text. Poetry. It echoes the theme of the final issue of 2022 – Literary text. Prose, emphasizing the common – text artistry, and the specifics – its prosaic / poetic nature.

Authors from Moscow, Petrozavodsk, Cherepovets and, of course, Veliky Novgorod have responded to this theme. We have also managed to keep the tradition of uniting university and academic authors in one issue of the journal. This time the academic note is held by Olga Igorevna Severskaya and Anna Sergeevna Kuleva, members of the V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Universities of the North-West – Novgorod, Petrozavodsk, Cherepovets ones – are represented by Vladimir Ivanovich Zaika and Galina Nikolaevna Girzheva, Natalya Viktorovna Patroeva, Elvira Mulkadarovna Askerova and Alina Albertovna Diveeva. It is pleasant to note that Olga Grigorievna Revzina from Lomonosov Moscow State University, one of the authoritative authors in the field of linguistic poetics, has joined the university part of our authors.

The articles of this issue have been grouped into three sections.

The first section "Theory of poetic text" includes articles related to such categories of poetic text as cognition and coherence. The first of them has recently become the subject of interest of linguists studying literary texts. In Olga Grigorievna Revzina's article "Cognitive space of literary text", this problem is discussed in the most general form, while the poetic text is compared with the prose one. And in the article by Olga Igorevna Severskaya, where the term cognitive does not belong to the key ones, it is shown how inferential knowledge is born in a poetic text by the “forces” of paronymic attraction, in the study of which Olga Igorevna has no equal. This new – cognitive – aspect of paronymic attraction opens up new opportunities for studying paronymic attraction as a stylistic device, which, by the way, works not only in poetic, but also in media texts, which indicates its significance and attractiveness for researchers. The category of text coherence, one of the first to be discussed at the first stages of the development of text linguistics, reveals specific means in a poetic text, which are discussed in the article by Vladimir Ivanovich Zaika and Galina Nikolaevna Girzheva, analyzing one text by V. Nabokov and paying attention to the opposite effect of repetition and enjambment. Although coherence seems to be a purely technical parameter of a poetic text, the authors show that each use of them has a semantic effect, it should be read in the context of the poem under discussion, the creativity of its author and, perhaps, the era.

Thus, this article actually begins the second section "Semantics of poetic text". It is interesting that different semantics are discussed in its articles – subjective semantics in the article by Natalya Viktorovna Patroeva and objective one, more precisely related to the natural world, in the study by Anna Sergeevna Kuleva. I see the value of the observations proposed in the articles in the fact that they not only state the presence of certain meanings in poetic texts, their presence and nature is explained by a number of factors that are important for understanding the work of a poet or Russian poetry of a certain era.

In our traditional section "Young voices", there is an article by Alina Diveeva and Elvira Askerova – the youngest authors of the issue, their age allows them to be called without patronymics. The subject of their study is also “young” – the texts of Russian rap. It should be noted that this is not the first time Alina Diveeva has been the author of our journal, and the present article says that she “infects” her students with the study of Russian rap texts.

In terms of the types of study of a poetic text, there is a variety of them in the articles of this issue including an analysis of one poetic text, texts of one author in its evolution and one separate era, and the list of authors studied is interesting – from Baratynsky to Russian rap. All these studies are based directly on observations of texts, and along with this, we see a work based on the analysis of a lexicographic source that is the Dictionary of the Language of the Twentieth Century Russian Poetry, which opens up new perspectives in the study of Russian poetry.

Thus, this issue of the journal presents a series of experiments in the study of a poetic text. I sincerely thank the authors of the issue and reviewers – Doctors of Philology Tatyana Gennadievna Nikitina from Pskov University, and Novgorodians – Vladimir Ivanovich Zaika and Victoria Genrikhovna Didkovskaya.

Until we meet again on the electronic pages of our journal!

T. V. Shmeleva