Review of the Book: Solodovnikova N. G., Sorokina E. A. Emotive Linguoecology of Modern and Ancient Texts. Volgograd: Peremena, 2021. 270 p.

Abstract

The publication presents a review of Ntalia Solodovnikova’s and Elena Sorokina’s monographic research Emotivnaya lingvoekologiya sovremennykh i drevnikh tekstov [Emotive Linguoecology of Contemporary and Ancient Texts] (Volgograd: Peremena, 2021, ISBN 978-5-9935-0436-0). The book is written in the tradition of the Volgograd school of emotivity, whose founder was Victor Shakhovsky (1939–2022) — a significant Russian linguist, doctor of philological sciences, professor, and recipient of the title of Merited Activist of Science of the Russian Federation, whose works are widely known both in Russia and outside of it. Besides the students who attended Professor Shakhovsky’s courses from 1969, under his guidance over thirty dissertations for the degree of Candidate of Arts and fourteen dissertations for the degree of Doctor of Arts have been defended. Among Shakhovsky’s post-graduate students was one of the authors of this monograph – Natalia Solodovnikova, as well as the author of this review. The interest towards Solodovnikova’s and Sorokina’s monographic research is stipulated by the passing of emotiveness beyond the confines of philological studies proper into the spheres of music and the visual arts.

Keywords: Victor Shakhovsky, Russian linguistics, Volgograd school of emotiveness, Volgograd State Pedagogical University