Russian Philology at Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod in the Light of Modern Strategies of Scholarly Search

Abstract

The article highlights the main scholarly trends in Russian philology, which are being developed by the scholars of the Institute of Philology and Journalism of Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod. In the last 20 years, the Chair of Modern Russian and General Linguistics has been working on a new scholarly research area related to the study of active processes in the modern Russian language. The Chair of Teaching Russian Language in other Language Environments has created and successfully tested a methodology for describing the concepts of Russian culture, which involves identifying a variety of paradigmatic, syntagmatic, derivational relationships of words nominating the concept in direct textual use, as well as analyzing the interpretation of the word in dictionaries. The Chair of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics actively develops cognitive linguistics, linguoculturology, linguopoetics, as well as the theory and practice of carrying out the linguistic expertise. An important component of the scholarly research of members of the Chair of Slavic Philology and Culture is the study of the history of the Russian language, modern Slavic languages, Russian literature of the 19th–21st centuries in its connections with the literature of the Eastern and Western Slavs. At the Chair of Russian Literature, serious research is being carried out in the field of studying A. S. Pushkin, M. Yu. Lermontov, classical and modern Russian lyrics, spiritual poetry, artistic anthropology, folklore and literary local history. The article draws the conclusion that an effective scholarly environment has been created and is actively functioning at Lobachevsky National Research University of Nizhny Novgorod so far, which conduces to further consolidation of contribution of Nizhny Novgorod Russian language scholars to the most prominent areas of modern national humanitarian knowledge.