The year of 2023 started with some major events. First, we successfully rebranded The Bulletin as SibScript. Second, this year, our journal celebrates its 25th anniversary. The Bulletin of Kemerovo State University appeared in the fall of 1999. For 25 years, it has remained a reliable source of up-to-date content and a front-rank platform for cutting-edge research. Our goal remains the same: we popularize relevant research results and scientific achievements in the fields of history, psychology, and philology.

This issue brings together scientific research that reflects different aspects of reality perception, i.e., through the prism of language, culture, mental representations, and emotional states. When combined, these methods of comprehension result in interdisciplinary studies in such areas as lexicology, discourse, cognitive science, and literary criticism. Interdisciplinary approaches make it possible to study the language of emotions, the national and cultural specifics of the language, the philosophy and history of the language, the linguistic ecology, the language of art, etc.

The basic categories of cognitive linguistics reflect the national and cultural specificity of the language, the category of concept being one of them. The concept is a complex mental formation that reflects the diverse process of human cognition and cannot be described in one aspect. Cultural linguistics sees it as a clot of culture in the human mind (Yu. S. Stepanov); psycholinguistics defines it as scenarios and images of the world in the human psyche; linguists believe that concepts structure and store the knowledge about reality verbalized in language, etc. As a result, concept studies are on the border between language and thought, perception and cognition. This interdisciplinary aspect fuels the scientific interest in concept studies.

Emotive linguistics focuses on the verbalization of emotions; it has recently become a very popular research trend in linguistics. Emotive linguistics relies on the fact that language is inseparable from the speakers, their emotions, and the ways they interact with the world. This is the main principle of anthropocentrism, which is at the very core of modern linguistics. For instance, one of our authors proposes to single out classes of human emotional experiences that still remain unrecognized by contemporary classifications.

This issue also presents an innovative ecolinguistic project: a computer application that helps patients with aphasia. Ecolinguistics embodies the very idea of scientific search for new approaches to language learning, where language is a marker of interaction between man, society, and nature.

Such innovative research reports are accompanied by more traditional studies in the history of language and the language of art that retain a great practical importance.

This issue also introduces some reports presented at the International Scientific and Educational Forum of Philological Science and Education in Kuzbass (Sept.23 – Oct.25, 2022). The Forum included a qualification course, a scientific conference with two platforms, and numerous workshops. The event welcomed participants from thirty universities in Russia, CIS countries, China, Turkey, and other ones. The list of honored lecturers included S. V. Ionova, N. A. Mishankina, Yu. V. Kobenko, M. Debrenn, L. O. Butakova, N. D. Golev, E. V. Erofeeva, A. V. Kolmogorova and many others. The most topical issues of modern linguistics were presented in the manuscripts submitted by Ch. Wang, E. V. Erofeeva, I. A. Obukhova, A. V. Kolmogorova, S. A. Lyamzina, and I. R. Gimazdinov. We also express our deepest gratitude to the Chairman of the Forum, Professor Andrey G. Fomin, PhD, Department of Translation Studies and Linguistics.

We thank all our authors for submitted publications and invite philologists to publish their research results in SibScript.