Lomonosov
Philology
Journal

ISSN 0130-0075

ABOUT US

The journal was founded in 1946. Before 1959, it was part of the History and Philology series, later — the Philology and Journalism Bulletin. Since 1965, it has been a standalone series of Moscow University Bulletin, labelled Series 10. Philology before 1976 and Series 9. Philology from 1976 to the present day.

It is one of Russia’s leading periodicals in philology. Publications include articles, submissions and reports, reviews and bibliographical surveys, reports on conferences and round-table discussions within the journal’s scope.

Publication frequency: six times a year; size of each issue: 15 print sheets (240 pages).

The journal is on the List of peer-reviewed academic journals recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission (VAK) that publish key findings of dissertations submitted for the degrees of PhD and Dr.Habil. in philology in the following fields:

10.01.01 — Russian literature, 10.01.02 — Literatures of the peoples of the Russian Federation (indicating the specific literature(s)), 10.01.03 — Foreign literatures (indicating the specific literature), 10.01.08 — Theory of literature. Textual criticism, 10.01.09 — Folklore studies, 10.02.01 — Russian language, 10.02.02 — Languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation (indicating the specific language or language family), 10.02.03 — Slavic languages, 10.02.04 — Germanic languages, 10.02.05 — Romance languages, 10.02.14 — Classical, Byzantine and modern Greek philology, 10.02.19 — Theory of language, 10.02.20 — Comparative, typological and contrastive linguistics, 10.02.21 — Applied and computational linguistics, 10.02.22 — Foreign languages: Europe, Asia, Africa, indigenous languages of the Americas and Australia (indicating the specific language or language family).

The journal is indexed in the Web of Science via RSCI, and included in the system of Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI).

It is indexed by the international information systems Brill, De Gruyter Saur, EBSCOhost, ERIH PLUS, Gale, ProQuest.

Full-text copy of the journal is available online on the e-Library web site. Subscription is required for publications of the current and previous year, open access is granted to those of the preceding years.

Reference to the journal is required in case of republication.

Ethical standards

The Editorial Board of the journal Moscow University Philology Bulletin is guided in its operations by the Russian law on copyright and plagiarism, as well as ethical standards and principles accepted by the international community, including those set out in the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The Editorial Board maintains confidentiality of the personal data and research findings related to the contributions. In the peer review process, the Editorial Board undertakes to prevent conflict of interest and to be guided solely by the criteria of originality, significance and relevance of the research. Moscow University Philology Bulletin is a discussion platform primarily concerned with mainstream trends in Russian and international philological research. We welcome critical reviews of the journal’s publications, contributions over the last ten years representing the schools of thought of the Faculty of Philology, leading linguists and literature researchers of Moscow University.

Only new, previously unpublished contributions are accepted for consideration. The authors should comply with the ethical standards and research regulations. By submitting a manuscript, the authors confirm that it is authentic and independent, no copyright of other natural or legal persons was infringed.

EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor in Chief

Prof. Marina Remneva, Dr.Habil., Head of the Russian Language Department, President of the Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Deputy Editor in Chief for Linguistics

Prof. Irina Kobozeva, Dr.Habil., Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Department, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Deputy Editor in Chief for Literature Studies

Prof. Vasily Tolmachev, Dr.Habil., Head of the Department of the History of Foreign Literatures, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Assistant Editor for Linguistics

Prof. Elena Razlogova, Dr.Habil., Department of French Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Assistant Editor for Literature Studies

Prof. Galina Zykova, Dr.Habil., Department of the History of Modern Russian Literature and the Current Literary Process, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Organising Secretary

Assoc. Prof. Ekaterina Belavina, PhD, Department of French Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Editorial Board members:

Prof. Olga Alexandrova, Dr.Habil., Head of the English Linguistics Department, Deputy Dean for Research, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Assoc. Prof. Alexey Belikov, PhD, Department of Classical Philology, President of the Young Researchers’ Council, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Prof. Tatiana Venediktova, Dr.Habil., Head of the Department of Discourse and Communication Studies, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Prof. Dmitry Ivinsky, Dr.Habil., Department of the History of Russian Literature, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Prof. Andrey Izotov, Dr.Habil., Slavic Philology Department, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Assoc. Prof. Vladimir Korovin, Dr.Habil., Department of the History of Russian Literature, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Prof. Natalia Pakhsaryan, Dr.Habil., Department of the History of Foreign Literatures, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Prof. Elena Petrukhina, Dr.Habil., Russian Language Department, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Prof. Alexey Solopov, Dr.Habil., Head of the Classical Philology Department, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Prof. Sergey Tatevosov, Dr.Habil., Head of the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Department, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD

Prof. Antonella Amatuzzi, PhD (Italy, University of Turin)

Prof. Jean-Louis Backès (Université de Paris IV , France)

Prof. Alexander Verlinsky, Dr.Habil (Russia, Saint Petersburg State University)

Prof. Valery Demyankov, Dr.Habil (Russia, Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

Prof. Olga Inkova-Manzotti, Dr.Habil (Switzerland, University of Geneva)

Prof. Vadim Polonsky, Dr.Habil (Russia, Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

Prof. Ivan Rovdo, Dr.Habil (Belarusian State University, Faculty of Philology)

Prof. Vyacheslav Terkulov, PhD (DNR, Donetsk National University)

Assoc. Prof. Mladen Uhlik, PhD (Slovenia, University of Ljubljana)

FOR OUR CONTRIBUTORS

GOST R 7.0.7–2021..

Contributions can be made in Russian or English.

All the contributions proposed for publication are to be sent by e-mail: edit@philol.msu.ru or submitted to the Editorial Board on a CD (and, optionally, as a hard copy); a manuscript can also be sent to the Editorial Board by regular mail.

Only the manuscripts complying with the Formatting guidelines for the articles submitted to the Editorial Board of Moscow University Philology Bulletin are accepted for review, otherwise the contributions remain unaddressed.

Formatting samples:

Manuscript formatting sample for the Articles section (in Russian)

Manuscript formatting sample for the Articles section (in English)

Manuscript formatting sample for the Reviews section

Manuscript formatting sample for the Academic Life section

Manuscript formatting sample for the Anniversaries section

Manuscript formatting sample for the In Memoriam section

Formatting guide:

— Contributions should be submitted as *.doc, *.docx or *.rtf files.

— Contributions should have the following maximum length (characters with spaces plus the number of paragraphs, including data in Russian and English, reference lists and information about the author(s)) by section: Articles: 20,000–25,000, Reviews: 8,000, Academic Life: 12,000, Anniversaries: 3,000. In some cases, contributions exceeding this limit can be accepted (solely by the decision of the Editorial Board).

— 12-point Times New Roman font, one-and-a-half spacing.

— All additional fonts, charts and figures (only as *.tiff) should be sent as separate files. Fonts are to be embedded in the PDF files.

Review process:

— All contributions are single-blind peer-reviewed. The Editorial Board may choose to accept the manuscript for publication, reject it or request revision. The author is informed of this decision in writing within two months of the manuscript submission.

— Should the manuscript receive a positive review, reviewers’ comments and recommendations are sent to the author and, upon the required revision, the text is sent to the executive editor to be published in the next issue of the journal. As a rule, it takes at least 3 months to publish the issue on the web site of e-Library in the electronic form from the moment its contents are approved, and at least 6 months to print a hard copy (without extending the established term of the current issue’s delivery to subscribers, in accordance with the schedule of Moscow University Press and the catalogue of the Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications).

Since January 2018, Moscow University Press approves issues for publication only if there is a complete and signed agreement with each author (or co-authors). When the manuscript is accepted for publication, the author (or co-authors) should download a sample license agreement with one author or several co-authors from the web site, complete 1 copy, print it out, sign it (by the author or co-authors), scan it, send it to: karpuhina@msupress.com, and dispatch the hard copy by regular mail to: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow University Press; 1 Leninskie Gory Bldg. 15, Moscow, 119991, Russia; Attn: Deputy Director E.Karpukhina (phone: +7 (495) 939 1062). If the license agreement is not available, the contribution can be removed from the current issue and be treated as manuscripts in editor’s hand until the documents are received and further issues are approved.

Authors are not charged for publication. No royalties or fees are paid. The Editorial Board does not carry out delivery and distribution of the printed copies (including author’s copies). If you wish to purchase a copy of the journal, please contact Moscow University Press: https://msupress.com/about/kontakty/ (the sales office is open Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 18.00; phone: +7 (495) 939 3323; e-mail: zakaz@msupress.com).

Contents, abstracts and key words of the articles published in the past two years