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The head of the hypotheses department. On words and dictionaries of Mikhail Epstein

The article discusses the scholarly work of the renowned essayist and literary and cultural critic M. Epstein. Analyzing his Projective Dictionary of Humanistic Disciplines [Proektivniy slovar gumanitarnykh nauk] (2017), and parts of Encyclopaedia of Youth [Entsiklopediya yunosti] (co-authored by S. Iourienen, 2018), the author examines Epstein’s strategy for coining terms as well as the methodological assumptions at its core. The latter include, in particular, the assumption about a direct connection between scholarly knowledge and language, and the idea of language as a passive and ahistorical element. Epstein’s approach appears to be a peculiar fusion of scholarship and mythologism, and risky innovation and archaic methodological elements — an approach that is predetermined by Epstein’s adherence to the intellectual tradition that he himself defined as essayism, borrowing the term from R. Musil. The article is also concerned with the evolution of this intellectual trend, characterized by the absence of distinct genre boundaries, mythologism, and the claim to ‘superdisciplinarity.’

Hara Tanzan and the Japanese Buddhist Discovery of “Experience”

Abstract This paper explores the role of Hara Tanzan 原坦山 (1819–1892) in the transformation of Buddhism into an “experiential religion” during the Meiji period. Scholars such as Sharf have argued that this transformation is due to Western influence on figures such as DT Suzuki. Japanese language scholarship has instead shown that in the early 1900s, the notion of Buddhism as experiential religion was already widespread, considering Tanzan as a predecessor of this discourse. I argue that Tanzan was among the first to discover the importance of “experience” in the confrontation with science, yet interpreted it as an empirical standard for both religious and scientific knowledge. However, Tanzan did not yet establish the separation of science and religion characteristic of the modern understanding of both terms. I conclude that Tanzan was one starting point in a dialectic that is integral to the indigenous genealogy of “religious experience” in Japan.

The Language of Scholarship: Synthesis of the Literature.

The purpose of this article is to educate nurses and nursing students on the meaning and location of scholarly literature. Select resources are identified to assist with identifying high-quality evidence-based publications, which is a vital competency to enhance scholarship for evidence-based practice in professional nursing practice.

A return to sources: the folk life legacy of Eric R. Cregeen

ABSTRACT Eric R. Cregeen (1921–83) was described in 2005 by the Historiographer Royal of Scotland as ‘a social scientist of the highest order … a very fine historian and a very fine anthropologist … far in advance of this time … no one since has put the two disciplines together so effectively to illuminate the life of the Highlands.’ (Professor T. C. Smout, University of St Andrew’s). This paper gives a short biography of Cregeen’s life and follows his career that earned him the highest acclaim among scholars of folklore, folklife and language, as well as social, economic and oral history. Benefitting from training from the Irish Folklore Commission, and fieldwork experience in the Manx Museum, he moved to Scotland in 1954. Cregeen devoted the rest of his life to documenting traditions of the West Highlands, leaving a legacy of recordings and journals which now provide a rich resource for further research.

Stancetaking and heritage language production: the untold stories of spoken Spanish among third-generation “receptive” bilinguals

ABSTRACT This article extends two conversations in the heritage language (HL) scholarship: 1) the need to strengthen the linguistic self-confidence among receptive bilinguals (who are typically associated with beginning-level HL students); 2) the need for more critical explorations of receptive bilinguals’ self-reported, albeit minimal, spoken Spanish in non-educational settings. This study approaches the relationship between linguistic self-confidence and spoken Spanish by examining the metalanguaging small stories of third-generation Mexican-American adults who do not identify as Spanish speakers, although they have studied Spanish formally and do claim strong comprehension skills. This case study of productive Spanish among “receptive” bilinguals specifically addresses the meta-sociolinguistic stances that study consultants take toward their bilingualism in stories that depict their current engagement with Spanish as adults. Findings indicate that the consultants, in navigating the research interview context, view nonparticipation and strong comprehension as the normative characteristics of their Spanish abilities. However, in other narrated contexts, they resource power and agency from their other social roles to position themselves as ideologically authentic Spanish speakers, though these interactions are unpredictable and infrequent in their emergence. Pedagogical implications for accentuating receptive bilinguals’ positive experiences speaking Spanish and for scrutinizing moments when they are reluctant to speak are addressed.

ENHANCING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS OF FUTURE LANGUAGE SCHOLARS IN PEDAGOGICAL COURSES

The paper reports on the results of critical thinking enhancement during the training of future language scholars in a Comparative Pedagogy course. 61 future language scholars from Poland and Ukraine took part in the research. The mixed research was based on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of students’ responses regarding critical thinking enhancement after completing the course. Informal interviews and diagnostic tests were used. For the verification of results, we applied Fisher's Exact Variance Test (F-test). The results show that most respondents (91%) enhanced their skills and abilities in critical thinking: differentiating information (76%), categorising information (62%), comparing information (85%), estimating information (87%), analysing and synthesising information (91%). The findings of this study support the idea that students’ critical thinking skills can be successfully developed in pedagogical courses.

When political institutions use sociolinguistic concepts

Abstract In this essay, David Karlander examines what happens when concepts developed by scholars of language circulate and become embedded in policies and law. In exploring how the distinction between a “language” and a “dialect” became encoded in the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML), Karlander examines the consequences when applied to the status and state support of minority languages in Sweden. What counts as a language, he demonstrates, is not simply an “academic” matter. When sociolinguistics enters the public arena, it has the potential to affect the political and social standing of real communities.

Contextual authority in Al-Semalali's Linguistic Justifications in his explanations of Nadm il-Majradiah on Sentences

The importance of this research stems from the principle of interest in the heritage of the Arabic language, especially in the late ages, which was a link between the outstanding masterpieces of clasical literature with the eleventh century AH. The essence of the attention is based on two prominent scholars, the first is Imam Ibn al-Majradi, known for his great efforts in language and for his poem Nadhm ul-Mijradiyah. The second is (Ybork) or (Ibork) nicknamed Al-Semalali, who explained this poem with extensive commentaries that help the reader to understand what is meant by the original text. This paper, therefore, is an attempt to shed light on the linguistic thinking of that era, through examining this work and to attract the attention to the western countries of the Arab Homelend, to encourage researchers, to do further studies related to the scholars of Arabic language.

The Family Novel (and Its Curious Disappearance)

AbstractWhat is a family novel? Russian literary scholars—who use the term frequently—claim that it is originally an English genre, yet in English scholarship the term has virtually disappeared. This article recovers the lost history of the family novel, tracing two separate strands: usage of the term and form/content of the novels. The genre began in England with Richardsonian domestic fiction and spread to Russia, where it evolved along different lines, shaped by the different social and political context. In England, the fate of the term turns out to be tied up with the fate of women writers in the nineteenth century, and then with the rise of feminist studies in the late twentieth that, in validating the importance of the domestic sphere, caused family novel to be superseded by domestic fiction. In Russia, by contrast, the great family novels of the nineteenth century were not associated with women or the domestic sphere, nor—as it turns out—were they considered to be family novels at the time they were written. Only in twentieth-century scholarship, as the original meaning of the term was lost, did they become family novels. In recovering the lost history of the term, this article illustrates the way later ideology and theoretical emphases that shape the language of scholarship ultimately reshape our understanding of the past.

Translations, research and reception of Solzhenitsyn’s works in China

In the centre of this research is the problem of translation, study and reception of Solzhenitsyn’s works in the People’s Republic of China. A Chinese scholar of Slavic languages and literature, the author points out that Solzhenitsyn studies in China would be understandably interrupted for political reasons only to be resumed later, due to the growing interest in the writer’s works. Starting from 1963, there have been two distinct lines of study: Solzhenitsyn’s biography and his literary legacy. The first topic mainly attracts Chinese writers, historians, cultural scholars, philosophers, and professional critics; they present the readers with biographical facts in the context of the history of Soviet labour camps, dissident movement, etc. The second topic has specialists in Russian studies and foreign literature exploring the eternal topics in Solzhenitsyn’s works as well as his innovative techniques. According to the author, contemporary Chinese literary criticism is concerned with the latter area of research, while reception of Solzhenitsyn’s works is changing from negative to positive.

Rating L2 speaker comprehensibility on monologic vs. interactive tasks

Abstract Second language (L2) scholars generally agree that pronunciation development should prioritize understandable over nativelike speech. However, which linguistic features enable understanding lacks clarity. While monologic research indicates a combined effect of segmental and suprasegmental measures, interactive research has emphasized a segmental focus. The current study takes a step in addressing this divide by applying a monologic methodology to interactive speech. 20 L2 English learners completed one interactive and three monologic tasks. 36 native listeners rated each speaker per task for comprehensibility. I additionally coded all utterances for a series of phonological and fluency measures. Surprisingly, segmental and suprasegmental measures had minimal impact on listerners’ ratings. Instead, ratings for the two more linguistically-constrained monologic tasks demonstrated stronger associations with fluency measures than the less-constrained monologic and interactive tasks. This finding is likely an effect of (a) increased cognitive task demands placed on speakers, and (b) listener familiarity with L2 English speech.

RECENT APPROACHES FOR ENHANCING THE VOCABULARY OF ESL LEARNERS

Lexical knowledge is a significant and vital component of any language scholarship. This piece of investigation emphasizes how the recent approach enhancing and enriching the level of the vocabulary of ESL learners. There are several methods, approaches, techniques, and instructions for teaching and learning vocabulary. But only a few approaches focus on developing and improving the vocabulary level of ESL learners. Lexis plays an important role in language acquisition, mainly for ESL learners. Obtaining a higher word knowledge – can support these learners to share their ideas and messages effectively and efficiently. However, teaching and learning lexis is not an easy task. ESL learners can be benefited and improved their level of vocabulary through the approach. This paper shows how various approaches play an important role in making ESL learners master Vocabulary.

Rhetoric of Hadith: Descriptive and Analytical study: بلاغةُ الحديث النَّبوي الشريف: دراسةٌ وصفيةٌ تحليليةٌ

The Prophetic Hadith is a crucial and important source for grammatical and rhetorical studies in language. It was always considered a valuable source of guidance and remains to be one of the major reference points for scholars in language because the prophet May peace and blessings be upon him was one of the most linguistically talented individuals in his clarity, and grammatical use. Furthermore، he was experienced in understanding of pragmatic and syntax use of the Arabic language. All these qualities and the authenticity of the Hadiths make is second most important text after the holy Quran This study showed the Prophet’s (peace be upon him) rhetoric and linguistic knowledge were among the most prominent signs of his magnificence and grace. Also, It confirms his undeniable prophet- hood as he, (peace be upon him), possessed mastery of the spoken language, unattainable wisdom, truthful speech, straight path, and infinite miracle. Allah the Almighty said: “Nor does he speak out of desire. It is naught but revelation that is revealed.” And Allah the Almighty also said: “The faithful spirit has defended with it. Upon your heart that you may be of the warners. In Plain Arabic Language.” This study addressed the linguistic and terminological meaning of rhetoric and explained the reasons for the eloquence of the Hadith and the beauty if use of language without and additions or unnecessary use of words, as well as the superior ability to inspire visual responses via the use of similarity, repetition, interrogation, metaphor, dialogue, suspense and all the skills performed by the Prophet's Hadith according to the nature of the situation, and the context all whilst taking into account the case the listeners through the choice of words and phrases appropriate to their minds to elicit clear understanding and persuasion. All these points were supported by evidence from the Hadith to confirm and strengthen this study.

امام خطابیؒ کی غریب الحدیث

Imam Khattabi is considered as a glorious scholar of the fourth century.He has written several books in various scholarly traditions. One of them an important book is "Ghareeb ul Hadith".In this, he has not only interpreted the difficult words but also referred to as Ayaat, Ahadith and verses etc.Then, he also described the jurisprudential commandments existed in these Ayaat and Ahadith. Furthermore, in many places, hadith terms, legal maxims and wisdom of law are also part of this book.This book also holds a significant correlation with knowledge of Imam Khattabi's teachers because he mentioned the ahadith and sayings of scholars with his own chain. Due to these qualities of this book, not only did the scholars of language use it, but also magnificent mohaddiseen, jurists, explainers and researchers have also quoted it in their own books. Of course, it will not be unwise to say that like previous scholars and mohaddiseen this book is also important and need for today's scholars.

On languages on islands

ABSTRACT Islands as specific research sites in their own right have been given little direct attention by linguists. The physical segregation, distinctness, and isolation of islands from mainland and continental environments may provide scholars of language with distinct and robust sets of singular and combined case studies for examining the role of islandness in any appreciation of language. Whether distinct and particular sociolinguistic and typological phenomena can be attributable to islands and their islandness and vice versa remains unexplored. This position article considers the possibility of there being anything particular and peculiar about languages spoken on islands as compared to languages spoken on mainlands and continents. It arose out of a workshop titled ‘Exploring island languages’ held at Aarhus University, Denmark on 30 April 2018. The main question posed was: Is there anything special socially, linguistically, grammatically, and typologically about the languages of islands? If so, is it possible to talk about such a thing as an island language?

Editorial Introduction: Testing our Horizons

Editorial Introduction:Testing our Horizons Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau (bio), Li-Hsin Hsu (bio), and Eliza Richards (bio) These tested Our Horizon -Then disappearedAs Birds before achievingA Latitude. (Fr934) Although Dickinson claimed to see "New-Englandly," her localized perspective has not impeded the broad and varied reception of her "letter to the world." However, because Dickinson is an American author, because the United States is historically a center for Dickinson scholarship, and because English is a dominant language globally, excellent scholarship in other languages does not gain the recognition or carry the impact and influence that it merits. As Domhnall Mitchell and others have noted, interest in Dickinson's writing continues to grow in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and other parts of the world. Major translation projects have been undertaken recently, for example, in Brazil, China, Spain, Mexico, Japan, and Taiwan.1 Indeed, global interest in Dickinson's work has surpassed scholarly communication networks, which tend to be restricted by national and linguistic boundaries. For that reason, this special issue of the Emily Dickinson Journal, "International Dickinson: Scholarship in English Translation," seeks to promote scholarly dialogue across languages and cultures. It indicates the international diversity of Dickinson studies by presenting scholarly work published in other languages now translated for the first time into English. We include abstracts as well as essay-length translations of peer-reviewed work published in China, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Taiwan, and Spain. To [End Page ix] highlight the work of younger scholars, we feature abstracts of Ph.D. dissertations recently defended in Germany, Spain, India, and Mexico. (With the exception of Rocío Saucedo Dimas' work, these dissertations were written in English.) The first-ever digital Annual Meeting of the Emily Dickinson International Society in August 2020 was exceptionally diverse in terms of international participation; it is our hope that this special issue will continue to broaden the available range of scholarly perspectives on Dickinson in English and to promote opportunities for discussion and collaboration across national and linguistic boundaries by making the work of scholars publishing in other languages available to a wider readership through translation into English. Several of our contributors reflect on the linguistic, cultural, and even ontological challenges that translation poses, as well as the way the act of translation changes how we approach Dickinson's writings. For María-Milagros Rivera Garretas, who translated Dickinson's poems into Spanish, translating female writing is an experience of embodiment that amounts to "becoming intimate" with the text, in a continuum of experience which allows the female translator a particular closeness with Dickinson's writing. Mexican scholar Juan Carlos Calvillo challenges the frequently "alleged untranslatability" of poetry and proposes a method to evaluate the many translations of Dickinson's works into Spanish; he aims to provide "stable criteria" that will afford a means of determining the ways in which translations fall short. Paul S. Derrick, summarizing his work with Nicolás Estevez and Francisca González Arias, offers insight into the themes and techniques that emerge in their annotated translation of fascicles nine and ten and assesses the role of these fascicles within Dickinson's poetic corpus. Min-Hua Wu translates a classic 1961 essay by Yu Kwang-chung, whose highly influential translation of Emily Dickinson's poems into Chinese aims at optimal fidelity with the source text. Yu's introduction to his translation, "A Bee Gatecrashing Eternity," contextualizes Dickinson's poetry within a Euro-American literary tradition and introduces her work to readers in Taiwan and Hong Kong; his work, however, was not available in China in the 1960s and 70s, largely for political reasons. Cuihua Xu translates twenty-two early letters from Dickinson to Abiah Root into Chinese and explores their role in the development of Dickinson's unique poetic voice through a study of the way themes like death, religion, and life choices discussed in these letters later blossom in her poetry. Other contributions provide insights into the formal and rhetorical aspects of Dickinson's poetic writing: Enikő Bollobás' book about Dickinson's poetry testifies to the popularity of the Amherst writer in Hungary and focuses on [End Page x] Dickinson's daring experiments with poetic form. Bollob...

Alexander von Humboldt Handbuch: Leben — Werk — Wirkung ed. by Ottmar Ette

MLR, .,   overview detailing the archival situation and the general literature about Opitz, as well as offering a history of the various editions of Opitz’s work, ending with the most reliable and recent edition, the Kritische Ausgabe, begun by George SchulzBehrend in the late s; this edition publishes Opitz’s work in chronological order, based on Opitz’s first editions and ending in . Jörg Robert finishes the Schulz-Behrend edition by remaining loyal to his predessor’s editorial principles. In addition to the printed volumes there will be a digital edition, so that Opitz’s German and Latin texts and letters will finally be available in a reliable edition. B A S Alexander von Humboldt Handbuch: Leben — Werk — Wirkung. Ed. by O E. Stuttgart: Metzler. .  pp. €.. ISBN ––––. e image of Alexander von Humboldt we have inherited from the Age of Irony is marked by Daniel Kehlmann’s novel Die Vermessung der Welt (). In order to fashion himself as a witty meta-reflexive voice, the narrator invents a Humboldt character that has little in common with the historical model who was born two hundred and fiy years ago. He thus turns his character into a caricature of all the Prussian virtues that Humboldt in fact thoroughly abhorred and consistently tried to run away from. Far from being a narrow-minded empiricist, Humboldt, influenced by Kant, Goethe, and the Jena circle, was much more concerned with comparative analysis, the exploration of interdependencies, and methodological self-reflection. Far from lashing out at the world condescendingly or chauvinistically , he was in fact famed for his conviviality, his unprecedented respect for indigenous cultures, and his unwavering support of human rights. And while he may not have lacked in self-confidence, he was certainly not a grumpy lone wolf single-mindedly scanning the world for new taxa and data to further his reputation; rather, he was, first and foremost, an innovative team player who revolutionized the methodology, management, and popularization of science. An aesthetics of irony may have lost some of its lustre in a time of ‘fake news’. e publication of an Alexander von Humboldt handbook is, therefore, a welcome opportunity to provide a summary of Humboldt research and set the record straight. is new Metzler Handbuch showcases the considerable additions scientific, historical , cultural, and aesthetic research have made, over the course of the past three decades, to our understanding of this polymath. e editor, Ottmar Ette, is a scholar of Romance languages and has brought a fresh perspective to Humboldt. He has emphasized the importance of writing practices, polyglossia, and intermedia aesthetics for Humboldt’s approach to science; he has consistently foregrounded the aspect of jouissance in his empiricist and documentary practices; and he has presented him as a proto-ecologist whose ability to wed an empiricist paradigm to the self-reflection of scientific culture (and thus to an ethics of life sciences) speaks particularly powerfully to us today. It sounds as if Ette wants to create not only a role model for reunified Germany, but for the fractured legacy of the Enlightenment, liberal democracy, and cosmopolitanism at large. Humboldt will never meet these  Reviews expectations—nor will he ever heal the wounds inflicted by the ‘two cultures’ war between the sciences and the humanities. But that is beside the point. Ette’s reading of Humboldt’s cultural and aesthetic practices as an ‘unvollendetes Projekt einer anderen Moderne’ (p. ) helps us to understand our current predicaments. His versatility in doing so is infectious, and clearly many of the collaborators he has enlisted for this project have contracted the virus. e handbook sets itself the aim of uncovering the ‘verschüttete Traditionslinien’ (p. vii) of Humboldt scholarship that have been eclipsed by scientific paradigms decoupled from the transcendental and self-reflexive context from which the combinatory , comparative, and proto-ecological endeavour called Humboldtian Science emerged. It foregrounds the constitutive role that knowledge as cultural practice, epistemes of nature as interdependency—‘Alles ist Wechselwirkung’—and aesthetic practices play in such a science (Alexander von Humboldt, Das Buch der Begegnungen : Menschen, Kulturen, Geschichten aus den amerikanischen Reisetagebüchern, ed. and trans. by Ottmar Ette...

Texts, Manuscripts, Versions, Canon

Texts, Manuscripts, Versions, Canon Christopher T. Begg and Andrew W. Litke 975. [Roman and Jewish Translations] Sean A. Adams, "Translating Texts: Contrasting Roman and Jewish Depictions of Literary Translations," Scholastic Culture, 147-67 [see #1543]. In conclusion, we find similarities and differences between Roman and Jewish depictions of literary translation. In particular, the importance of the source text, the direction of translation, and the intended purpose of the new work are key determiners of the nature of the translation undertaken by the translator. A majority of the differences in these regards were a result of differences in power dynamics vis-à-vis Greek culture. The political dominance of the Romans afforded them the ability to take liberties with the text and [End Page 326] to bring the wealth of the Greek literary heritage into the Latin world. In contrast, Jewish translators did not translate Greek texts into Hebrew or Aramaic, presumably because Jews in Egypt already had access to those texts. Rather, Jewish translators rendered their own ethnicity's works into Greek with a high fidelity to the nature and structure of the original. One of the key findings of my article is the recognition of the diversity of translation perspectives in antiquity, which, I argue, fall primarily along the lines of power. Engagement with another group's literature engenders hierarchical and cultural negotiation: It is not a benign act. By contrasting Roman and Jewish translation practices, one can identify distinctive elements and demonstrate how individuals from diverse but interacting cultures may differ in the ways in which they engage in the scholarly practice of translation. Future studies, I would argue, need to take this idea into account when considering both translation acts and depictions of translations. In the case of the Letter of Aristeas, the presentation of translation in terms of scholarly language is a strategic move on the part of the author in which he makes a statement regarding both the translated text and the people who made it. [Adapted from author's conclusion, pp. 166-67] 976. [Targum Onqelos; Targum Jonathan] Philip S. Alexander, "The Aramaic Bible in the East," AS 17 (2019) 39-66. In this article, A. argues that while the Bible existed in both Hebrew and Aramaic versions among the Jewish communities in the east, it was the Aramaic Bible, namely Targum Onqelos and Targum Jonathan, that functioned as their Bible and helped shape the religious identity of these diverse communities. A. discusses the use of Aramaic in biblical quotations on incantation bowls, and addresses the question of knowledge of the Targumim to the Writings after the Gaonic era. Finally, since, as A. points out, systematic study of Scripture was not a central part of the curriculum in eastern Batei Midrash, this made Onqelos and Jonathan that much more important for the people's understanding of the Bible. 977. [Canon; Isaiah] Joseph Blenkinsopp, "The Formation of the Hebrew Bible Canon: Isaiah as a Test Case," Essays on the Book of lsaiah, 1-11 [see #1428]. I propose to take as my point of departure a brief consideration of four "moments" in the pre-canonical process: Josephus, ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus), Chronicles, and Deuteronomy with associated writings. (p. 1) The compilation of the Latter Prophets may have gone through several phases, including perhaps a Deuteronomistic phase, before it reached its final configuration during the obscure century of Ptolemaic rule. It was at that time, the early Hellenistic period, that books began to be produced with explicit attributions, resembling more closely our idea of a book. In the absence of external information, our only recourse is scrutiny of the prophetic books themselves. The Book of Isaiah reflects the characteristic features of the canon of the Hebrew-Aramaic Bible in general: it can be read as a canon in nuce. One of these features is the juxtaposition within a canonical collection of different and ideologically incompatible points of view. We saw that the inclusion of Deuteronomistic narrative in Isaiah sets up an understanding of the prophetic role different from that of the prophet as social conscience of the society and preacher of reform and moral regeneration. The Isaian biographical tradition in the later...

Борис Исакович Татаринцев: научное наследие ученого

This article analyzes the results of many years of scientific works of the famous scientist, Turkologist, a eminent scholars of the Tuvan language, a specialist of exceptionally deep knowledge and erudition, doctor of Philology, Professor Boris IsakovichTatarintsev, who would have turned 80 years old in 2019. The purpose of the study is to examine the scientific heritage of the scientist, which gave a new impetus to the study of Tuvinian studies and Turkology in General. Materials. The work is based on the results of many years of scientific works by Boris IsakovichTatarintsev, which are highly appreciated by scientists as a certain milestone in the development of not only Tuvan linguistics, but also the entire Russian Turkology. Results. Boris Isakovich, born in a family of employees, went from school teacher to doctor of science, Professor, head of the dictionary sector, chief researcher of the language and script section of the Tuva Institute of Humanities and applied social and economic research. B. I. Tatarintsev published more than 150 scientific works. All his scientific activity is focused on the history of the Tuvan language, borrowed vocabulary. For more than three decades, B. I. Tatarintsev was engaged in issues of Tuvan etymology, semasiology, terminology, toponymy, ethnonymy from the point of view of their origin. Boris Isakovich participated in the development and editing of the dictionary, was the author of the dictionary, Preface and numerous dictionaries. In addition, he was actively engaged in Tuvan throat singing “Hөөmej”. On this issue, he published not only articles,but also books. His merit in the training of scientists andhighly qualifiedscience teachers in the philological direction in Tuva is great. The study of the main problems of lexicology and etymology, developed by B. I. Tatarintsev, continued by modern domestic and foreign scientists.