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THE STYLISTIC USAGE OF INDECLINABLE PARTS OF SPEECH IN NORAYR ADALYAN’S WRITINGS – 2014-1

Summary

Ruzan H. Virabyan

Stylistic significance, emotionally-expressive coloring of indeclinable parts of speech is quite limited compared to the previous group of parts of speech. However, these parts of speech have a very interesting and peculiar application in writer’s works.
The most typical use of adverbs is the designation of temporal, spatial, qualitative, quantitative, and other signs of action.
Expressive possibilities of prepositions are rather poor. They are reflected in structure of the sentence by their repetition, by means of connection with a particle and its parallel usage.
The role of conjunctions is syntactical and morphological which are expressed both by words and sentences.
Modal words that express the speaker’s attitude to the above, also define the meaning of any part of speech, giving it a distinctive color.
The interjections differ from other parts of speech by their pronunciation, by stress, interjection.
Thus, observation of the stylistic value of Norayr Adalyan’s works shows that parts of speech, such as adverb, conjunction, particles, modal words, interjection also have expressive means and affect the writer’s works with their bright colours.

FROM THE HISTORY OF ARMENIAN SONNET – 2014-1

Summary

Ashkhen Ed. Jrbashyan

This article is an attempt to summarize for the first time the whole sesquicentennial history of Armenian sonnet which is based on the poetic heritage of the most prominent representatives of Armenian literature. Begun with the poetry of Mkhtarists, sonnet passed a unique way, full of ups and downs. While sonnet was one of the most important forms of poetry in Western Armenian literature in postdurian age, Eastern Armenian poetry was indifferent to it till the beginning of the 20th century. The founder of Eastern Armenian sonnet was Vahan Teryan whose traditions were later developed by Eghishe Charents. After some standstill, the sonnet came to life again due to the generation of poets in 70s, especially in H. Edoyan’s poetry.

SATIRE IN MEDIEVAL ARMENIAN LITERATURE – 2014-1

In comparative study with European medieval satire

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Albert A. Makaryan, Ani A. Shahnazaryan

The study of the origin and development of humor in the context of ancient and medieval cultures makes it possible to define, to classify and to interpret the generic system of the comic in European and Armenian literature. The Roman rhetorician Quintilian had already developed a true theory of the humor devoting a whole chapter of his masterwork to the art of provoking laughter and focusing on the genres of humor, parody in the first place. Even though the culture of laughter in Medieval literature was subjected to the pedantic rules of religious and scholastic literature, from the 9th century on, we find visible generic changes in European literature: parody replaces eulogy (such is the poetry of the Vagrants), the Fabliaux and the Schwank come to substitute didactic and moralistic genres). Humour had its distinctive qualities in Armenian Medieval literature: elements of mirth would reveal in sermons, hagiographic works, in the genres of Parsav (criticism in literal translation), Arak (fable) or Zruyts (Tale). The latter were miniature counterparts of European Fabliaux and Scwank. Later, in the 14th-17th centuries humor found its way in comical poetic texts appearing in different Armenian communities.

PRINCE OF PRINCESOF ARMENIA IN THE PERIOD OF THE FIRST BAGRATUNI KINGS – 2014-1

Summary 

Arman S. Yeghiazaryan

After prince of princes of Armenia Ashot Bagratuni was proclaimed king of Armenians and Georgians (887-891), the position of the prince of princes was preserved, but its functions were restricted. For more than 50 years only the members of the royal family with the right to inherit the throne were appointed to the position.
In the reign of the Armenian king Ashot I his son Smbat was appointed to the position of the prince of princes, in the reign of Smbat I – his brothers Shapuh and David and his son Ashot II the Iron (Yerkat), then in the reign of Ashot II his brother Abas and in the reign of Abas – his son Ashot. Afterwards Smbat, Ashot the Iron, Abas and Ashot, son of Abas inherited the Armenian throne. As for Smbat’s brothers, they were appointed as prince of princes because in 897-901 Ashot the Iron, the son and the successor of Smbat I was being held hostage.

THE CAMPAIGN OF ASSYRIAN KING SARGON II ON URARTU AND THE HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT ARMENIA – 2014-1

Part I. Тhе rout of king Sargon II՚s campaign to Urartu in 714 B. C.

Summary

Aleksan H. Hakobyan

The detailed analysis of the texts of king Sargon II about his campaign east and north in 714 B. C. allows us to correct or clarify the route of the Assyrian troops in several cases. In particular, the small kingdoms Andia and Zikirtu mentioned between the countries Manna and Urartu are actually localized not to the east of Lake Urmia, but to the south and south-west of it; Zikirtu corresponds to medieval province Mahkertu (bordering Greater Armenia) in the river basin Barazgir, and Andia corresponds to “country Parsua” of early Urartian texts (on the southhern shore of Lake Urmia – “Great Sea of the East”), with the city Meišta / Misi.

THE LINGUISTIC SIGN AND ITS EXTRALINGUISTIC SYNONYM – 2014-1

Siranush G. Hovhannisyan

Summary

The article focuses on the connection between the objective reality, inner world of a person and linguistic system of signs. It presents how a person starts to recognize the real world, how a sensual world comes into existence in a person. Accordingly, we differentiate three types of human existence – perceptional, intellectual and physical. It is shown how the outer world is reflected in the inner world of a person and how it is designated. It is underlined that the part of a person’s existence which becomes complete due to perceptional existence is mainly designated by means of nonlinguistic signs. A linguistic sign is conditional when it has the mission of naming a big and continually growing feeling. Such an emotional experience may be designated also by a motivated sign, which will not be a linguistic sign any more. All the linguistic signs have only one nonlinguistic synonym – silence. Thus, we can conclude that on the one hand the continuously growing feeling can be estranged by adjusting to the corresponding linguistic sign and on the other hand it can be estranged by the one and only nonlinguistic synonym – silence. In the last case the appointer of the linguistic segment being estranged is quite reasonable.

FROM AMBIVALENT PAST TO HISTORY – 2014-1

Text, Narrative, Interpretation

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Albert A. Stepanyan
The paper deals with the fundamental aspects of historical study and writing. The focus of them makes the personality of the historian being involved in cultural texts of the present and past. His dialogue with the «voices» of different epochs is one of the main components of historical reflection. In its turn, it motivates the scope and essence of the «questioning» of the past and opening the way to overpassing the imaginative ambiguity of the past and memory. This makes the real start of historical investigation comprising the activity of the historian from the verification of historical facts to their clustering in textual and narrative units. Only in this consequence, the interpretation of single events and large historical blocks are possible. They open the content and essence of history. And the historian gains ability of answering the fundamental questions of his investigation formulated far back by Herodotus – how, when, and why?

IRONY OF PARADOX OF HISTORY – 2014-1

According to the tale­novel by Mkrtich Sargsyan “Nazar the Brave”

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Sergey A. Aghajanyan
This article is the third one in a series of studies devoted to the phenomenon of artistic embodiment of the image “Nazar the Brave.” In this article it comes to a fairy tale-novel of Mkrtich Sargsyan “Nazar the Brave” (1980). The author has combined the main observations that were in scientific papers of philological bias and added his own comments. Cultural aspect of the study was used in order to comment on the material comprising the circumstances, the idea of creating an allegorical novel, caused especially by the Soviet experience

SACRAL DREAM OF ZAVARYAN – 2013-4

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Gevorg S. Khudinyan
The article is subject to review the main phases of proposal and prosecution by Simon Zavaryan concerning the idea – principle of nation’s moral rebirth. It is shown that the idea was proposed at two levels: first, implantation of heroic idea and creation of honest, courageous and militant moral image of Armenian by propaganda and hard work within their party and second, the nation’s moral rebirth idea–principle’s application in the name of healthy and vibrant nation’s formation embodying the moral qualities of the Armenian people.

It is scientifically proven that Zavaryan’s dream of the nation’s moral revival, which represented fully developed and at the same time strong individual, basing upon altruism, has not been implemented in a politically unstable period of the 20th century and remained at the level of ideological minority, who founded the Armenian statehood. The paper presents the features of Armenians as Zavaryan outlined them, which could be exemplary in our time.