title: Reviews of Russian periodicals in “The Journal of the Ministry of National Education”: Evaluative adjectives in an official government publication
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Ezerinya, Svetlana A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-08-30T11:25:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-08-30T11:25:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Ezerinya, S. A. (2021). Reviews of Russian periodicals in “The Journal of the Ministry of National Education”: Evaluative adjectives in an official government publication. Media Linguistics, 8 (2), 169–179.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu22.2021.206
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33009
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: By the 1830s, the role of literature and journalism in shaping public opinion and promoting
  state ideology was growing in Russia. One of the first attempts of the government to take control of this process was the decision to publish The Journal of the Ministry of Education, with
  a mandatory review of domestic periodicals. The most important communicative purpose
  of the review of texts was to familiarize readers with the most important and well-meaning
  publications of Russian-language periodicals from the point of view of editorial reviewers. The
  inherent evaluative component of these texts is obvious, for the purpose of which all possible
  linguistic means allowed within the official publication were used, a significant role among
  which was assigned to evaluative adjectives and attributive collocations as the most capacious
  and concise characteristics of the described object. The objects of macro-evaluation through
  adjectives were peer-reviewed articles, their authors and periodicals on the whole; relevance,
  quality, educational value, accuracy and usefulness of the publications, their compliance with
  the official views, the author’s style, some individual facts of their content, etc. were subject
  to adjectival micro-evaluation. In the journal’s reviews of Russian periodicals, there are approximately
  100 different-typed evaluative adjectives, including both adjectives of general
  evaluation (otlichnyi, otmennyi, prevoskhodnyi, khoroshii, etc.) and of a partial one. The most
  commonly used of all evaluative adjectives throughout the existence of reviews were the adjectives
  liubopytnyi ‘having cognitive value’ and zamechatel’nyi ‘worthy of attention’, which cover
  almost all sections in the reviews. By the 1860s, the style of writing media-reviews in the journal
  became well established. During this time, individual author’s words and attributive collocations
  almost go out of use and rows of homogeneous attributes become rare. Additionally,
  the range of evaluative adjectives involved is narrowed and impoverished, and they themselves
  get an exclusively neutral stylistic colour, which is specific to the official publication.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The study was performed with the financial support of a grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic
  Research “Russian language in the media space of the 19th century”, no. 20-012-00413/20.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Media Linguistics;Volume 8; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: 19th century Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian periodicals
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: evaluative adjectives
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Reviews of Russian periodicals in “The Journal of the Ministry of National Education”: Evaluative adjectives in an official government publication
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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