anniversary

The article deals with the nature of an anniversary article, a special genre of mass periodicals and journalese literary criticism of the late 19th – early 20th centuries/ The research is based on ample source material in a literary-critical and historical-literary vein. The introduction examines theoretical works devoted to various aspects of this genre, and formulates the research task – to identify additional characteristics and features of publications of this type.

This review was written in response to the publication of a collection of research articles dedicated to Tatiana V. Shmelyova’s anniversary. Therefore, all articles included in the collection “Increment of Meaning” are related to one of the leading Russian studies researchers of our time, her scientific interests and studies, among which are syntax, philology, speech genres, onomastics, media linguistics, history of science, and key words of the present moment.