Editorial

Abstract

There are some ephemeral events in 2015 that are very significant to those who study language from a dialogical perspective. Among them, we immediately highlight Mikhaïl M. Bakhtin's and Valentin N. Voloshinov's birthday. These two renowned thinkers of the Circle were born in 1895 and if alive would be celebrating their 120 th birthday. We should also call attention to the publication of the first Russian edition of some important works: Rabelais and his World (Творчество франсуа Рабле и народная культура средневековья и ренессанса), published in 1965 (50 years ago); Questions of Literature and Aesthetics (Вопросы литературы и эстетики: исследования разных лет), the collection of classical essays, such as The Problem of Content, Material, and Form in Verbal Art (Проблема содержания, материала и формы в словесном), Discourse in the Novel (Слово в романе), From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse (Из предыстории романного слова), Epic and Novel: Toward a Methodology for the Study of the Novel (Эпос и роман (О методологии исследования романа)), 1 Rabelais and Gogol: The Art of Discourse and the Popular Culture of Laughter (Рабле и Гоголь (Искусство слова и народная смеховая культура)), 2 published in 1975 (40 years ago); On Mayakovsky, 3 published in 1995 (20 years ago) under the title of Sketch for an Article on V. V. Mayakovisky in Dialog. Karnaval. Khronotop [Dialogue. Carnival. Chronotope] by V. V. Kójonov (Наброскам к статье о Маяковском). In 1975, precisely 40 years ago, M. M. Bakhtin died in Moscow. These events provide the backdrop for Bakhtiniana's present issue [10 (2)]. As we recognize that the members of the Circle were committed to discussing language 1 TN. The essays Epic and Novel, From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse, and Discourse in the Novel were published in The Dialogic Imagination (BAKHTIN, M. The Dialogic Imagination.