Words tell the Tale: the Motivation behind A. N. Afanas’ev’s Editing of Sources From the Archives of the Russian Geographical Society for his Narodnye russkie skazki
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Abstract
This article is based upon a comparison of source documents, originally drafted by local scribes and submitted to the Russian Geographical Society, with the final, edited, versions of these stories in Afanas’ev’s famous collection. It discusses how Afanas’ev’s editorial work reflected his ideals of Russian language and culture, which were shaped by the intellec- tual values of his time. Afanas’ev ‘nationalized’ the tales by replacing some words of foreign origin with words of Russian origin. He also eliminated Church Slavonic vocabulary in an attempt to popularize and ‘Russify’ the texts, while at the same time adding some regional words to ensure an authentic tone. Paradoxically, Afanas’ev replaced some regionalisms with their Muscovite forms. The descriptions of violence were tempered to enhance the suitability of the material for children. The steps taken conspire to suggest an editorial method designed to promote a modern Russian language and a concept of history and culture.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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