Essays on Historical Semantics of Russian Early Modern Period

The collective monograph is devoted to problems of the dynamics of lexical meanings in an era when the Russian language is experiencing radical changes due to the Cultural Revolution era of Peter and caused this revolution processes of modernization, secularization and westernization. Created in the XVIII century. new Russian culture demanded institution of new concepts, and this problem is determined by the many changes in the history of individual words. As proposed, the reader monografiisemanticheskaya evolution is treated as part of the history of concepts using that system, which was developed in this area linguocultural studies (in particular, by R. Koselleck and his school). The book is of interest to linguists, philologists, historians and social historians.