Humanities & Social Sciences 9 (2016 9) 2223-2230 ~ ~ ~ УДК 81᾿221 Russian Folklore as a Poetics of Inference: (based on material from the fairytale by Leonid Filatov “Fedot the Musketeer, a Brave Lad”) Innara A. Guseinovaa and William C. Brumfieldb * * 38 Ostozhenka Str., Moscow, 119034, Russia b Received 14.05.2016, received in revised form 07.07.2016, accepted 20.08.2016 The present article examines Russian folklore from the position of dynamic linguistics at the intersection of semiotic and discourse theories. <...> Russian folklore is treated as a semiotic code facilitating the unfolding of discourse in time and space, simultaneously ensuring the transmission of cultural and literary traditions and the consolidation of various ethno-social entities. <...> Our analysis of the poetics of inference is conducted on the basis of material from the contemporary Russian tale, replete with ambiguity that can be understood through the emotional and intellectual efforts of the reader. <...> Knowledge of the global context, of historical facts and realia provide the reader with the possibility, on the one hand, to delve into folklore traditions, and, on the other hand, to grasp the spiritual and material culture of the Russian people – the bearer of the folkloric element. <...> Keywords: folklore, dynamic linguistics, poetics of inference, tale, genre, historic event, poetic word, stereotype, value judgment. <...> Russian “folk wisdom”) was introduced into a Moscow State Linguistic University Tulane University New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Innara A. Guseinova and William C. Brumfield. <...> It is commonly accepted that this concept embraces a people’s spiritual as well as material culture, including folk crafts such as wood carving, blacksmithing, embroidery, weaving, etc., as well as dances, music, beliefs and rituals that are familiar to and observed by the majority of the members of an ethnosocial group. <...> Folkloric works can encompass folk poetry, choral song, family legend, work song, ritual song, mythological story, incantation, the tale, the epic, religious verse, historical song, ditties, etc. <...> We will now examine how Leonid succeeded – with the aid Alekseevich Filatov2 of which lingual resources – in using folklore motifs as a base for creating the tale ““Fedot the Musketeer, a Brave Lad”.3 We will note first of all <...>