Convention and creativity in the Rossica titles: a corpus-based study

Authors

  • Elena V. BELOGLAZOVA Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg.
  • Natalya K. GENIDZE Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24866/2542-1611/2022-4/104-113

Keywords:

Rossica, corpus, convention, creativity, secondary cultural orientation, heading, interlinguoculturology

Abstract

The paper presents the analysis of the Rossica-T corpus compiled by the authors, which features the headings of authentic English-language books describing Russia. The automatic processing as well as manual tagging of the corpus allowed to identify the specific properties of the discourse under study in terms of conventionality / creativity. In particular, the study revealed three levels of text production in Rossica: (1) 1st level convention, i.e. reproduction of stereotypical genre (text type) feature, (2) author’s creativity and (3) the medial component – 2nd level convention, consisting in reproduction of the typical features of the Rossica discourse.

Author Biographies

  • Elena V. BELOGLAZOVA, Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg.

    - Doctor of Philological Sciences, Head of the Department of English for Professional Communication.

  • Natalya K. GENIDZE, Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics.

    - Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, English Philology and Translation Studies Department.

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Published

28-12-2022

Issue

No. 4 (2022): Oriental Institute Journal

Section

LINGUISTICS

How to Cite

“Convention and creativity in the Rossica titles: a corpus-based study” (2022) Oriental Institute Journal, (4), pp. 104–113. doi:10.24866/2542-1611/2022-4/104-113.