Tomsk rock authors' discourse as a fact of regional linguistic culture: prospects for the study

This article was created as part of the research project "Linguo-cultural originality of regional infosphere: creative linguistic personality" aimed at a complex description of the specifics of the verbal expression of various cultural codes in the discourse of creative linguistic personalities of Tomsk Oblast as representatives of original mental-linguistic locus. When we analyze the discourse of local rock poets we can work with three levels forming regional linguistic culture. The discourse reflects: 1) the sub-cultural (therefore, professional, social etc.) identity of the author; 2) the specifics of the area and the direction of literature, the author's creative method; they form ways and means of expressing cultural meanings in the original language form; 3) factors of regional involvement of the author as a representative of the local community. The purpose of the analysis in this case becomes a description of the rock-text as a concrete fact of the regional linguistic culture of a certain epoch. The linguo-cultural analysis of the song "Kto eto idet po prospektu Lenina?" ("Who's going along Lenin Avenue?") by Victor Shestakov, a punk poet popular in the late 1980s - early 1990s, the leader of the group "Children of Obrub", allows us to classify the considered poetic text, in the broadest sense of the word, as a monument or, at least, as a significant fact of Russian regional linguistic culture of the perestroika period for a variety of reasons. Firstly, modern young readers need an extensive linguo-cultural commentary to this text in order to understand it adequately. Secondly, verbal markers (symbols, images, categories) of the Soviet period in the history and culture of Russia are frequent in the lexical-semantic structure of the text. Thirdly, the text, created by a gifted language personality, is a bright representative of a Siberian punk subculture in its Tomsk version. Created by a history student of Tomsk State University, born and raised in Kazakhstan, representative, on the one hand, of the Soviet intellectuals, on the other, of an informal protest youth movement extremely popular at the turn of the 1990s and not forgotten until now, the text is a clear reflection of the state of the socio-political and historical consciousness of one of the most progressive parts of the regional community of the late Soviet period. Moreover, according to the number of times it was played online, the analyzed composition seems to successfully perform the culture forming function in the modern infosphere even today.

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