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Systematic and fundamental research of contemporary poetic practice requires developing new adequate means of description that will correspond, on the one hand, to the material researched, and on the other, to the current stage in the development of linguistics and other areas of the humanities in general. Research of material in unrelated and typologically dissimilar languages, as Russian and Chinese, opens up new possibilities for the study of contemporary poetic language, for identifying its universal processes and characteristics, that don’t depend on the specifics of a particular language or a national poetic convention. This project involves identification of parallel processes in the language of modern and contemporary Russian and Chinese poetry of the past thirty years and their further description. The focus of the study will include the following aspects of poetic language: (1) a change in text structures compared to previous stages of poetic development; its interaction with the languages of science, philosophy, etc.; (2) appropriation of foreign tradition and poetic texts in intercultural space (interaction between Chinese and Russian poetry; their connection with other poetic traditions); (3) new formats in poetry and the renewal of poetic texts’ forms, as well as the relation between format and subject; (4) the role of visual information in the text and its relationship with the linguistic features of the text. The main objective of the project is to identify the typological similarities between Russian and Chinese poetic languages, the features of modern poetic language, text and thinking, as well as the development of new methods of description and analysis of contemporary poetic texts, which in the future may be used in the analysis of different poetic world practices. The relevance of this research is demonstrated by the ever-increasing number of studies on various aspects of contemporary poetic language, as well as active development of typological research in general. The originality of the research lies in the combination of these approaches and the application of a number of principles developed in linguistic typology to the analysis of poetic language; this approach allows one to determine which parallel processes are reflected in the poetry of structurally different languages. It also consists of comparison of parallel poetic processes in unrelated languages, in the introduction of new data related to the language of poetry in Russian and Chinese, especially the contemporary Russian language material, as well as the Chinese poetry, previously not an object of fundamental linguistic research. For the first time modern and contemporary Chinese and Russian poetic traditions would be regarded as parts of integrated world poetic process. The fundamental nature of the project stems from the fact that the parallel processes in poetic language will be identified on the material of such significant traditions in the world poetic space as Russian and Chinese.