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Nikitin, O. V. LINGUISTIC PERSONALITY OF ACADEMICIAN V. M. ALPATOV: CELEBRATING HIS 80TH ANNIVERSARY. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2025;47(5):8–14. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2025.1194
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LINGUISTIC PERSONALITY OF ACADEMICIAN V. M. ALPATOV: CELEBRATING HIS 80TH ANNIVERSARY
| Nikitin O. V. | Federal State University of Education |
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Keywords: V. M. Alpatov linguistic personality scientific school history of linguistics autobiographical nature linguistic memoires text stylistics |
Summary: The article analyzes the linguistic personality of Academician V. M. Alpatov (born in 1945), a prominent
Russian orientalist and linguist. The author uses reliable facts to reconstruct the atmosphere in which the scholar’s views
were formed. The article focuses on the specific features of his scientific methodology, main professional interests, the
unique characteristics of his scientific style, and the encyclopedic nature of his knowledge, which distinguishes him
from the researchers of the XXI century. Alpatov paid particular attention to the complex problems of historiography of linguistics, particularly to the personalities of linguists and orientalists. It is pointed out that he was one of the first researchers to study Marrism and the “Slavists Case” in the context of the tragic events of Soviet science in the 1930s. The article examines Alpatov’s autobiographical book The Life of a Linguist (2023) in terms of genre and stylistics
as a specific scientific text, with a particular focus on factual reliability, attention to dates and events, keen interest in
the achievements in linguistics, and polemic nature of individual storylines. The author of the article also refers to his personal reminiscences of his interaction with V. M. Alpatov. Based on this, a conclusion is made about the specifics of Alpatov’s scientific school and its reception in the philological imagination of the time. |
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