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116 Reviews European medieval archaeology is desirable, especially as the Danish village excavations of Axel Steensberg seem to have been initially inspirational to the Wharram Percy excavators. Wharram Percy deserted medieval village has been developed as an English Heritage site for visitors, as is explained in the book. Located within thirty kilometres of York, it thus provides a rural medieval counterpart to the Jorvik Viking Centre which is the enduring outcome of another outstanding English medieval archaeological excavation. Lynette Olson Department of History University of Sydney Berger, Harry, jr., Revisionary play: studies in the Spenserian dynamics, Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, University of California Press, 1988; paper; pp. 494; R.R.P. US$14.95. In 1957 Harry Berger, Jr. published The allegorical temper, a full-length study of Book II of The Faerie Queene based upon his doctoral dissertation, and in 1968 he edited Spenser: a collection ofcritical essays. Both works have been accorded canonical status within the outstanding corpus of Spenser scholarship which emerged in the 1960s and '70s. Revisionary play is divided into two sections. Thefirstbringstogethereleven critical articles on The Faerie Queene which were originally published between 1961 and 1971 in such prestigious journals as Studies in English literature. Studies in philology, and English literary Renaissance. More specifically, seven of these articles appeared in what was evidendy a burst of intense creativity in the years 1968-69. These essays are reproduced substantially in their original form. The second section consists of seven essays on The Shepheardes Calender, and approximately half of its material appears here in print for the first time, constituting in effect a fulllength , self-contained monograph on this teasing and elusive poem. Here there has been 'revision and integration of work produced during two distinct phases of Berger's career: the earlier work was composed between 1959 and 1968; the later work during 1979-80' (p. 4). Revisionary play is by definition an important book by a Spenserian of great stature. While most Spenser enthusiasts will be familiar with the majority of its component parts, they will nevertheless be grateful for the chance to come to terms with it as a discrete entity. The focus of the attention of the majority of readers will inevitably be Part I, The Faerie Queene (pp. 19-273). The essays are not reprinted in the strict chronological order of theirfirstappearance. Rather, there has been an attempt to shape, control, and chronicle one scholar's evolving response to a great and complex literary artefact by reananging the original tesserae. Reviews 117 Revisionary play exudes an atmosphere of uneasiness which at times verges on agitation. The component parts are propped upright as it were, by a pair of supportive bookends, these being the Introductory Essay by Louis Montrose (pp. 1-16), and Berger's own Afterword (pp. 453-73). Montrose's curious essay, in effect renders the reviewer's task otiose. It is an attempt with Berger's own assistance, to come to terms with the critical stance which the main body of the work historicallyrepresents,and it is at times carping and fretful. Berger, asserts Montrose, has worked with Renaissance poems, plays, paintings, and pitilosophical discourses in order to insist 'that such cultural texts are sites of seriously playful intellectual work — imaginative spaces within which cultural paradigms may be formulated,tested,evaluated, and revised or discarded' in order to affirm 'the status of imaginative forms as modes of ideological production that do not merely reflect social reatity but actively shape it'. Further, Berger's essays over the last decade 'enact [his] coming to terms with both the cunent scholarly literature and the debates on theory and method in several disciplines' (pp. 1-2). In other words, Revisionary play denotes Berger's attempts to assimilate the N e w Historicism, and to make a contribution to it. Both Montrose and Berger represent themselves as reformed and contrite N e w Critics, sometimes comically so: 'I must note the androcentric bias of Berger's language here, a bias he has since acknowledged and repudiated' (p. 2, n. 2). W e must at all costs be Politically Conect. So, in a Paterian and Wildean sense, Berger has found Spenser's world 'a heterocosm...

Looking at its subject from the standpoint of modern discourse analysis, this study deals with problems of style and grammar in Greek and Latin texts. Its aim is to shed light on the interaction between the mechanism of the Greek and Latin languages as interactive tools and the structure of the texts that have come down to us. The interpretive orientation offered differs from most literary studies in its taking linguistic observations as point of departure, and its considering grammar as a positive factor in the interpretive process. It differs from most linguistic studies in the field in demonstrating the importance of linguistic methodology for classical philology in general. The book contains studies of various authors, genres, and text types, preceded by an introductory essay on the role of grammar in philology.

Reviewed by: Grammaire du bosniaque, croate, monténégrin, serbe by Paul-Louis Thomas, Vladimir Osipov Ronelle Alexander Paul-Louis Thomas and Vladimir Osipov. Grammaire du bosniaque, croate, monténégrin, serbe. Paris, Institut d’études slaves, 2012. 621pp. [Collection de grammaires de l’Institut d’études slaves, 8.] Whatever one’s opinions about the breakup of Yugoslavia, the corresponding breakup of its major language, Serbo-Croatian, has provided linguists specializing in the region with unparalleled opportunities for linguistic and sociolinguistic analysis, with the happy result of a number of detailed, insightful, and valuable linguistic studies. What might seem obvious to the outside layman—that just as the federation we knew as Yugoslavia was replaced by separate named states, so was its common language, Serbo-Croatian, replaced by separate languages bearing the names of these new states (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin)—does not bear up to serious linguistic analysis, since languages cannot be created by political fiat alone. At the same time, Serbo-Croatian was always a polycentric language, with a generally accepted subdivision into variants that correspond roughly to the new “languages.” To what extent, then, can each of these now be treated as a separate language? Does the single language embodying their common core—what used to be called Serbo-Croatian—still exist, and if so, what should it be called? Finally, how can the answers to these questions be put into practical use? One of the first Western scholars to address these questions was Paul-Louis Thomas, who posed the first of them directly in Thomas 1994, whose title reads “Serbo-croate, serbe, croate…, bosniaque, monténégrin: Une, deux…, trois, quatre langues?”, and which I still consider to be one of the best scholarly treatments of the relevant issues. Now Thomas has joined forces with Vladimir Osipov to produce a full-length grammar of what they call “le bosniaque-croate-monténégrin-serbe” (23). The book’s Introduction (23–48), a thoughtful essay addressing the questions posed above, is followed by a full-length, highly detailed reference grammar brimming with examples accompanied by clear, sometimes even elegant, prose commentary. It is a masterful job, a reference [End Page 123] grammar that belongs on the shelf (and in the hands) of everyone with any serious interest in the language(s). The introductory essay is essential, of course, since any book of this sort must set forth its stance at the outset. After a brief but clear survey of the variants (where special care is taken to debunk the popular—but clearly mistaken—equation of Serbian with ekavian and Croatian with ijekavian [32]), the authors isolate four criteria which must be addressed in answering the question of whether we have to do with “une ou plusieurs langues” [one language or several]. With respect to the first two criteria, the structural and the genetic, the answer is clearly that we are dealing with a single linguistic system. This is also the case with the third criterion, that of mutual intelligibility. As proof, the authors cite the obvious absence of bilingual dictionaries or translations. They note, quite correctly, that the several “differential dictionaries” which have appeared are very unsatisfactory due to the fact that actual usage simply cannot be described in black and white terms (40). In other words, we have to do with a single language structurally, historically, and communicatively. It is in the fourth criterion, however, the axiological (or “value- bearing”) that one finds the separation. Here what matters is the symbolic function of identity. The authors point out that each of the national-ethnic groups in question has felt a strong need to articulate an identity which is markedly different from the others, and it follows naturally (for them, anyway) to infer from this that its language is also markedly different from the others. This, the authors claim, is what has led politicians and linguists working with them both to assert that each of the languages is separate and to find various means to highlight this separateness. Examples of such means (well known to anyone with an interest in these topics) are the Croatian move to cleanse its lexicon of perceived Serbisms and to replace...

With 110 million members worldwide, Baptists are surpassed only by Roman Catholic and Orthodox groups as the largest segment of Christians. The term 'Baptist' has its origins with the Anabaptists, the denomination historically linked to the English Separatist movement of the 16th century. Although Baptist churches are located throughout the world, the largest group of Baptists lives in the Southern United States, and the Baptist faith has historically exerted a powerful influence in that region of the country. The A to Z of the Baptists relates the history of the Baptist Church through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important events, doctrines, and the church founders, leaders, and other prominent figures who have made notable contributions. This volume commemorates the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Baptist movement in 1609.

124 SHOFAR Fall 1993 Vol. 12, No. 1 ment) each committed to the regeneration of Jewish life in France. By focusing on the ideology of the regenerateurs, their educational theories and institutions, and their program for religious reform and a modern rabbinate, Berkovitz makes the case that mainstream FrenchJewish leaders were committed to the unity and solidarity of the Jewish people while simultaneously viewing France as their patrie; to the importance of Hebrew, while simultaneously viewing French as their language; to the importance of Jewish knowledge while promoting excellence in general French education. In short, they were committed to the creation of the "unprecedented and unequalled symbiosis of two mutually enriching civilizations" (p. 251). That many French wanted anything but in no way invalidated the regenerateurs' program. Jay Berkowitz deserves our gratitude for a sensitive and intelligent portrait of the French Jewish Community of the nineteenth century. He has shown that the repercussions of emancipation were complex and defy the simplistic labeling to which they have frequently been subject. Jay M. Harris Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Harvard University The Sephardim in the Ottoman Empire, by Avignor Levy. Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, in cooperation with the Institute of Turkish Studies, Washington, DC, 1992. 196 pp. $19.95 (c). Professor Levy opens his book with a description of how the Jews of the Ottoman Empire celebrated the 400th anniversary of the formal expulsion ofJews from Spain by praising their experience in the eastern Mediterranean compared to that of their coreligionists under Christian rule. The laudatory themes expressed by Ottoman Jews a hundred years ago also end the book. Enclosed between the references to the events of a century ago is a sweeping overview of the history of the Jews of the Ottoman Empire. With the memory of the multiple celebrations of 1992 and the SOOth anniversary still fresh, although not mentioned in the book under review, it is appropriate that a book devoted to the history of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire appear. Unfortunately, there are a number of problems with this book for those unfamiliar with the history of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire. Book Reviews 125 The first problem is the title of the work. Although it is given as "The Sephardim in the Ottoman Empire," the work is really an overview of the history of all the Jewish communities in territories held by the Ottoman sultans from the fourteenth century to 1923. There are places where Levy, a distinguished scholar of nineteenth-century Ottoman history and a member of the Brandeis University faculty, deals specifically with Sephardim and their domination ofOttomanJewish society, e.g., p. 60ff, but they are not the .sole or even primary focus of his study, which includes all the Jewish communities. Unfortunately, the title could not be changed to "The Jews of the Ottoman Empire" since this is the title of a forthcoming collection of essays edited by Professor Levy. In fact, the book under review "was originally written to serve as the introductory essay in the collaborative work and it is reprinted there with some necessary changes" (p. xiv). It is not clear for whom this book was written. The first chapter on the Jewish settlement in the Ottoman Empire illustrates this issue. The paragraph on the Salonika Jewish community is a concise, clear overview accessible to readers new to the history of the Ottoman Jewish communities . The more detailed discussion on the Istanbul community with its Romaniot, Ashkenazi, Italian, Hungarian, Sephardic, and other Jewish households reflects Levy's mastery of the sources, but readers with less background might find some of the statistics confuSing. At other times the chapter titles imply certain chronological boundaries that are not always followed. Chapter two, under the heading of "The Ottoman-Jewish Symbiosis in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries," includes material on Jews in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On the other hand, chapter three entitled "The Structure of the Jewish Community," includes material on the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries which could have gone in the previous chapter. The negative tone of the preceding remarks must be balanced with the many positive elements in the book. Levy's treatment of the role...

The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Baptists expands upon the first edition with an updated chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important events, doctrines, and the church founders, leaders, and other prominent figures who have made notable contributions. This volume commemorates the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Baptist movement in 1609.

In just 100 years, air and space exploration has progressed from a 12-second, 120-foot flight by two brothers to a 30-year sustained flight, now 7 billion miles from Earth, traveling at 300,000 mph. Drawing on the extensive collection of the National Air and Space Museum and personal collections, this full-colour book chronicles the most significant accomplishments in aerospace history over the past 100 years. In timeline fashion, you'll read brief excerpts from hundreds of news articles reporting on significant accomplishments in flight. Through brief introductory essays, you will learn what made each decade of flight most significant. Concluding essays look at what lies ahead. The book was commissioned in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Powered Flight.

In 1924, as the Mexican government was clamping down on politically militant muralists, David Alfaro Siqueiros declared that if their mural commissions were canceled, artists would “exchange the walls of public buildings for the pages of [El Machete],” an illustrated newspaper launched by the Syndicate of Workers, Painters, and Writers. This beautifully illustrated catalog for an exhibition co-organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) and the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio shows that printmaking became a key medium for a broad array of artists who linked art to populist politics in revolutionary Mexico. Drawing on the collections of the aforementioned museums, the catalog showcases artists like Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco, and Diego Rivera, as well as lesser-known figures like Emilio Amero and others not known for their work in printmaking like Dr. Atl (Gerardo Murillo). The volume is weaker in contextualizing artists less interested in politics, who instead worked in a variety of print techniques to make art that was shaped more by artistic and aesthetic experimentation.In the first chapter, Lyle W. Williams, curator of prints and drawings at the McNay, provides a historical overview from the introduction of the first press in the New World in Mexico City in 1539 through the 1940s and the waning of antifascist printmaking collectives like the Taller de Gráfica Popular. Following Williams’s introductory essay, Innis Howe Shoemaker, senior curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the PMA, tells the story of the Weyhe Gallery in New York, an important early promoter of Orozco, Rivera, and Rufino Tamayo. Shoemaker offers a fascinating history of the interest in Mexican art among New York dealers such as Weyhe’s director Carl Zigrosser. In New York, Mexican artists mastered a variety of techniques, and figures like Zigrosser promoted their work to American collectors. In 1940 Zigrosser became the print curator at the PMA. His personal collection of Mexican prints became the basis of the PMA collection. The third lead essay, by James Wechsler, offers a thorough overview of the relationship between printmaking and radical politics, emphasizing the artists of the LEAR (League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists) and the Taller de Gráfica Popular.The volume also includes shorter chapters by these authors and by John Ittmann, who co-curated the show for the PMA, on particular artists and themes like “Mexicanidad,” “Foreign Artists in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s,” the Open Air Schools, and Surrealist currents. Again, the featured artists are drawn from those represented in the museums’ collections. Thus important artists are overlooked, such as Jean Charlot, who led the revival of the woodcut in the 1920s, and others. Certainly the bibliography on José Guadalupe Posada is large, but the discussion of him and his peers is overly brief. Other early pioneers are also shortchanged, such as the modernista Julio Ruelas (1870 – 1907), a turn-of-the-century illustrator and engraver. This reinforces the idea that graphics in Mexico were necessarily politicized. A closer, more rigorous look at Ruelas’s complicated images would have provided a more comprehensive picture of modern printmaking in Mexico. To his credit, Williams mentions Ruelas, but he describes Ruelas as a “modernist” (p. 7), when in fact he was the Mexican paragon of modernismo, Rubén Darío’s literary movement, which in visual terms combined symbolist, decadent, and art nouveau tendencies. Modernismo is an important chapter in Mexican art history and thus warrants more careful attention. As for Rufino Tamayo, he receives a discrete chapter, but it is the PMA collection rather than his broader contribution to printmaking that drives the essay, which focuses on Tamayo’s earliest series of woodcuts. Rendered in a naive style, they depict paradigmatic Mexican peasants; however, a recent catalogue raisonné of Tamayo’s prints shows that his real contribution to the graphic arts came later. An expert’s perspective from within the field of Mexican art history would have sharpened both the essays and the curatorial vision. Nevertheless, the volume has substantial merits and is a welcome contribution for a nonexpert audience or for teaching.The PMA’s interest in Mexican art dates to the 1930s. In 1932, the museum received Diego Rivera’s retrospective from MoMA. In 1934 it hosted a chronological exhibition, Mexican Art, and in 1943 it organized an important survey of contemporary Mexican painting called Mexican Art Today (p. viii). In 2006, the museum co-organized a major exhibition of Latin American colonial art. This year it hosts an exhibition on Frida Kahlo in honor of the 100th anniversary of her birth, as well as a smaller but important exhibition on Juan Soriano (1920 – 2006), an important midcentury painter known little outside of Mexico. This volume underscores the museum’s commitment to the art of Mexico.

Previous articleNext article FreeFrom the EditorStephanie L. BudinStephanie L. Budin Search for more articles by this author Full TextPDF Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreGreetings, Readers!I trust that you are all at home, at least as I type these words in late April. I hope that you are well, although I take nothing for granted. I at least like to think that the arrival of this issue brings some joy and an intellectual spark to your daily routine, whatever that has become. My comment about “rain of frogs” last issue now seems rather naïve, really…In much, much happier news, welcome to the first of two Special Topics issues on twenty-five years of excavations at Çatalhöyük, guest edited by Dr. Ian Hodder of Stanford University, whose introductory essay is the first article herein. Looking at this collection of articles, it is extraordinary to consider how far archaeology has come since its earliest days. This year is the 100th anniversary of Alan Wace’s excavations at Mycenae, who began digging there on St. George’s Day 1920 (that’s 23 April for those of us outside the UK—Wace was a Cambridge man himself). His technique was generally considered to be much superior to that of his predecessor in the field Heinrich Schliemann, who went at Troy with considerable enthusiasm and a bulldozer before turning to the realm of Agamemnon. Even so, so much archaeology of the day was focused on finery. Gold, lapis lazuli, fine ivory carvings—all the markers of “high” civilization. Fine, painted ceramics were collected with reverence; common wares and cooking pots were neglected, as were, often, bones. It is even said that Sir Arthur Evans, excavating Knossos, tossed out a bunch of scrap pottery sherds that, in better informed retrospect, turned out to be the first findings of Linear A. I doubt anyone at the time was looking for latrines (except for personal use).Basically, we were looking for treasures. Pretty things to put into museums to remind ourselves of the past glories to which we are the heirs.Jump ahead one hundred years. We have full chronologies based on pottery, cylinder seals, stratigraphy, dendrochronology, and radiocarbon dating (all still in flux). We look for new sites to dig using satellites and ground penetrating radar. Field surveys are accompanied by drones (I’m sure many student archaeologists doing field surveys already felt like drones); much digging is accomplished by spade rather than shovel, and all of it gets the sieving treatment and flotation so that not a single seed might be lost. We moved down the social scale from palaces and temples to homes and stables, from fineries to ovens and spindle whorls. We considered the actual, daily-life people who populated the empires and kingdoms of interest, literally studying their bones. We developed and applied theories to understand what we were looking at, especially as we came to problematize basic conceptions of worldview. It occurred to us that one half of those ancient populations was female (still working on that one).Nowhere are these developments more critical than for the study of the Paleo–Neolithic periods (when we often don’t even get the pottery), and the past twenty-five years at Çatalhöyük show what can happen when archaeologists apply Best Available Technology to their work. In this issue, in addition to the basics such as stratigraphy and artifact, we are presented with matters isotopic, sedimentological, and geochemical; Electrical Resistivity Tomography; taskscapes, seasonality, and the analysis of “negative” space; as well as good old fashioned taphonomy and hard-core physical anthropology. This issue reveals the tools and techniques now available to wrest the most data from millennia-old finds, as well as what can be learned about ancient people and how they lived. The latrines will appear in the next issue. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Near Eastern Archaeology Volume 83, Number 2June 2020 A journal of the American Schools of Oriental Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/709854 Views: 160 Copyright 2020 American Schools of Oriental Research Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Drawing on revealing new research, this richly informative volume is the definitive concise introduction to the crisis that took the world to the brink of nuclear war. Cuban Missile Crisis: The Essential Reference Guide captures the historical context, the minute-by-minute drama, and the profound repercussions of the “Missiles of October” confrontation that brought the very real threat of nuclear attack to the United States’ doorstep. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the crisis, it takes full advantage of recently opened Soviet archives as well as interviews with key Russian, Cuban, and U.S. officials to explore the event as it played out in Moscow, Havana, Washington, and other locations around the world. Cuban Missile Crisis contains an introductory essay by the author and alphabetically organized reference entries contributed by leading Cold War researchers. The book also includes an exceptionally comprehensive bibliography. Together, these resources give readers everything they need to understand the escalating tensions that led to the crisis as well as the intense diplomacy that resolved it, including new information about the back-channel negotiations between Robert Kennedy and Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin.

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Set high on a ridge in historic parkland less than five miles from Trafalgar Square, Kenwood is London's favourite country house. Remodelled by Robert Adam in the 18th century, in 1928 it became the home of the Iveagh Bequest, a superb collection of old master paintings donated by Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh. The collection includes Rembrandt's most celebrated self-portrait, one of only five Vermeers in Britain, Gainsborough's Countess Howe, and classic works by Reynolds, Romney, Lawrence, and Turner. This book is published to mark the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Iveagh Bequest and is the first new catalogue of the collection to be produced in 50 years. It discusses each work, revealing details about the portrait subjects, the social circumstances of each commission, and the way that art met the ambitions of artists, patrons, sitters, and collectors. There are also two introductory essays that provide historical background for the house and for the collecting goals of Lord Iveagh.

The paper deals with problems and process of preparation of the “Luhansk Region” volume as part of the unique encyclopedic project “The History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR” in 26 volumes. The study is based on the documents of the central Ukrainian archives. The author focuses on the fact that due to the coordinated professional work of the regional executors of the project, the volume was prepared in a very short terms compared with the overwhelming majority of the volumes on other Ukrainian regions. After all, starting from 1967 to 1968 only 5 from the 26 volumes (that were planned according to the “On the publication of the history of cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR” Decree of the Central Committee of the Ukr. SSR Communist Party on the May 29, 1962) were published. In addition, the publication of all the volumes had to be devoted to the 50th anniversary of the “Great October” (November, 7, 1967). It is worth emphasizing that initially the Main editorial board of the project did not considered the “Luhansk Region” volume to be among first volumes to be published. However, in the preparatory process, the order and timing of the publication of volumes differed from the planned due to various objective and subjective reasons, and the last book of the Ukrainian-language version of the project, namely the “Crimean Region” volume was published in 1974 only. The author on the example of the Luhansk volume creation has showed the character of that reasons. They were uncovered at the meetings of the “History of cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR” Main editorial board and of the “History of cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR” department of the Institute of History of the Ukr. SSR Academy of Sciences during discussions on various stages of the volume creation and scientific problems regarding the writing of texts. The positive role of the State Archives of the Luhansk region’s and the regional editorial board’s management in its preparation has been highlighted. The difficulty to create both the introductory article and essays about the settlements of the region was that it was formed from the territories that had been previously parts of other regional entities. Therefore, the authors not only studied a large number of literature, including the pre-revolutionary, but worked a lot in various Ukrainian and Russian archives to collect information. It happened due to the organizational support and promotion of the regional party Committee that seriously attributed to the intensive and successful process of the volume preparation.

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The article is devoted to the professional translingual personality of Dr. of Philology, Professor Z.K. Temirgazina who is a creative and ever-developing professional linguist and researcher. A short survey of her scientific research activities, the review of her main works, to speak about finally - the research school of linguistics help give evidence of her truly active and multidimensional work in the direction from monolingualism towards real translingualism which are both revealed in theoretical and applied planes. Its obvious that in the professional sphere a linguist being a translingual scholar is able to understand better and deeper his own creative translingual self and entity, choosing as an object of the studies various languages involving in his professional competence. Simultaneously the article observes the innovative theoretical contribution of Prof. Z.K. Temirgazina to the studies of evaluation as a linguistic category as well as the studies in semantic syntax, the theory of speech activity, and linguistic gender studies. To sum up, there is surveyed the leading role of Prof. Z.K. Temirgazina to create the Kazakhstan linguo-axiological research school carried out during the latest two decades. Together with theoretical developments, the scholar pays much attention to the applied linguistic tasks, in particular, it concerns implementation and adaptation of polylingual; education at Kazakhstan secondary schools, and development of grammar literacy of schoolchildren by means of the Russian language.