Mutual representations of Russia and the Middle East made by eastern and Russian scientists, politicians, travelers and men of letters

Abstract EN

The present research features the method which we call linguohistoric and which is applied to such narratives as documentary prose – memoirs, biographies, pieces of journalese etc.

It purports to collect background information and meaningful facts from real life narrations, observations, descriptions, judgements, opinions, which inescapably contain human-interest, emotive-evaluative tinges, epithets, metaphoric images.

Facts accentuated by the observer can only be human-interest: if he were not interested, he would not have placed emphasis on these facts.

We believe this background information helps determine the essence of historical phenomena, as well as their causal relationships and interdependencies.

For the linguohistoric method of narrative study we borrow procedures from textology and conceptology (conceptual linguistics), viz.

textological and conceptological analyses.