The purpose of this article is to introduce into scientific circulation one of the documents related to the history of the Old Believer colony in the Masurian Lakes in Poland. The field studies were ...conducted between 2011–2013, during the implementa-tion of the grant “Slavica a bizantyjskie dziedzictwo. Multimedialny katalog zabytków piśmiennictwa staroobrzędowców zamieszkałych w Polsce jako narzędzie odtwarzania fenomenów ginących kultur”. One of the families of hereditary old rituals presented a hand-written draft to researchers. Upon closer examination, it turned out that the manu-script was a separate sheet which, among other records, contains fragments of the five works of Archimandrite Paul (Prussia). Thus, it can be argued that in the middle of the 1930s, the identity of the former head of the monastery of the Life-Giving Trinity in Voinovo was still known to local residents and the Orthodox Church conducted anti-schism propaganda in the region with the help of his ideas.
This article is part of a general study of the book collection of the former Fedoseevsky Holy Trinity and Saviour Monastery, located in Voinovo (currently Poland, formerly East Prussia). The author ...of the article presents a description of the content and style characterization of the open letters addressed from the Old-Believers publisher and writer Konstantin Golubov to a collaborator of the printing house Free Russian Press in London, the famous Russian poet, historian and political activist N. P. Ogarev. The letters were published in the third book of the religious-philosophical journal “Truth” (1868), which was published by Golubev in his own Slavic Press in Johannisburg (currently Pisz).
This article is part of a general study of the book collection of the former Fedoseevsky Holy Trinity and Saviour Monastery, located in Voinovo (currently Poland, formerly East Prussia). The author ...of the article presents a description of the content and style characterization of the open letters addressed from the Old-Believers publisher and writer Konstantin Golubov to a collaborator of the printing house Free Russian Press in London, the famous Russian poet, historian and political activist N. P. Ogarev. The letters were published in the third book of the religious-philosophical journal “Truth” (1868), which was published by Golubev in his own Slavic Press in Johannisburg (currently Pisz).
Until today, the Russian of Old Believers’ prints and manuscripts has not been subject to research in linguistic studies. The written language under investigation here, as seen in hand-written ...notebooks or books printed illegally, is based on the urban variant of the Russian colloquial language. Old Church Slavonic elements are prominent in the analyzed texts, which might be the result of teaching the skills of reading and writing from Old Church Slavonic primers (azbukas) and from the Church Slavonic Psalter and Horologion (Book of Hours). This feature of the analyzed texts refers not only to paraliturgical scripts (used to pray at home) but also to polemic and didactic writings, as well as texts aimed to be read aloud or sung, such as spiritual poems. Fragments of texts in Old Church Slavonic are mainly quotations or reminiscences from the Holy Scripture and writings of the Church Fathers, taken from early polemic texts. The fragments also refer to the everyday reality of the Orthodox Church life. The paper presents analyses of texts such as: “Wiecznaja Pravda” by Avvakum Komissarov, Sinodik, Skitskoje pokajanije, Czin ispowiedaniju, as well as calendars and spiritual guides.
Until today, the Russian of Old Believers’ prints and manuscripts has not been
subject to research in linguistic studies. The written language under investigation here, as seen in hand-written ...notebooks or books printed illegally, is based on the urban variant of the Russian colloquial language. Old Church Slavonic elements are prominent in the analyzed texts, which might be the result of teaching the skills of reading and writing from Old Church Slavonic primers (azbukas) and from the Church Slavonic Psalter and Horologion (Book of Hours). This feature of the analyzed texts refers not only to paraliturgical scripts (used to pray at home) but also to polemic and didactic writings, as well as texts aimed to be read aloud or sung, such as spiritual poems. Fragments of texts in Old Church Slavonic are mainly quotations or reminiscences from the Holy Scripture and writings of the Church Fathers, taken from early polemic texts. The fragments also refer to the everyday reality of the Orthodox Church life. The paper presents analyses of texts such as: “Wiecznaja Pravda” by Avvakum Komissarov, Sinodik, Skitskoje pokajanije, Czin ispowiedaniju, as well as calendars and spiritual guides.
The article discusses some problems of the sacrament of penance, connected to the system of values, contained in the text of hand written document called ‘A Rite of Confession’ from the collection of ...library of the nunnery of the Holy Trinity and the Savior in Wojnowo (Poland). Because the Old Believers did not recognize the jurisdiction of state authorities, considering the authorities as the embodiment of the Antichrist, all aspects of social life of the Old Believer’s community were governed by the provisions of ancient Byzantine canon law from No-mocanon and by traditional norms of ethics. The penalty for each offense was determined by confessor and could be defined by dint of the text of ‘A Rite of Confession’. The author discusses the legitimacy of using the modern approach to describing the value system with respect to historical texts.
The subject of the article is the use of language and linguistic aspects of social behavior within the protest discourses that took place after the results of the presidential elections in Belarus ...were falsified in August 2020. The author considers the concept of protest discourse, referring to scientific literature and comparing its interpretation by various researchers. The analysis of around 500 posters, chosen from the corpus of a first month of Belarusian numerous and various protesting activities, is focused on both rhetoric and language means of protesting communicative actions, namely on lexical nomination and code switching, wordplay and structural modifications, neologisms, paronomasia, irony, graphic operations and others, which, in the format of peaceful demonstrations (on behand of the demonstrators) actualizes the features of carnivalization and the acratic type of discourse.
The article is the first attempt at characterizing journalistic Old Believers’ texts from the 19th century from the linguistic perspective. The research focused on the works of Konstantin Golubov ...published in the years 1864–1866 in the journal ‘Istina’. The academic problem consists here in the fact that the Russian language of modern Old Believers’ texts is not generally extensively analyzed. Additionally, because of the specificity of these texts, this language cannot be analyzed in line with modern stylistic criteria. At first glance, it seems obvious that they were written in an informal variety of Russian. What is more, it is necessary to refer to Old Church Slavonic elements which determine the specificity of these texts, as well as analyzing borrowings from the literary Russian language.
The subject of the article is the use of language and linguistic aspects of social behavior within the protest discourses that took place after the results of the presidential elections in Belarus ...were falsified in August 2020. The author considers the concept of protest discourse, referring to scientific literature and comparing its interpretation by various researchers. The analysis of around 500 posters, chosen from the corpus of a first month of Belarusian numerous and various protesting activities, is focused on both rhetoric and language means of protesting communicative actions, namely on lexical nomination and code switching, wordplay and structural modifications, neologisms, paronomasia, irony, graphic operations and others, which, in the format of peaceful demonstrations (on behand of the demonstrators) actualizes the features of carnivalization and the acratic type of discourse.
In protest discourses the problem of using aesthetic and artistic elements lies in the centre of attention. The authors draw empirical material from the Belarusian protest movement, especially the ...anti-government protests of 2020. In the current study the problem of the use of aesthetic elements in protest discourses is considered in two aspects: 1) in the aspect of artistic activism, i.e. the involvement of artists in resistance activities; 2) in terms of the use of aesthetic speech acts in various forms of protest activity, i.e. as a special rhetorical tool with emphatic and persuasive function, but also as a means of expression with the satisfying function. As a result of this dichotomy, the article is divided into two parts. The authors point out that even though public art is not developed in Belarus (e.g. in the field of visual arts), aesthetic creativity is a very characteristic feature of both street poster discourses and forms of protest in the Internet.
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