RUSSIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE IN THE PETRINE EPOCH (ON THE BASIS OF THE LETTERS OF I.T. POSOSHKOV TO STEPHAN YAVORSKY)

Authors

  • Anna KHIZANTSYAN Yerevan State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46991/FLHE/2018/22.1.167

Keywords:

the Petrine epoch, language of the first third of the XVIII century, command language, live speech, Church Slavonic language, diglossia, bilingualism

Abstract

The paper analyzes the language of three letters from a publicist, public figure of the Petrine epoch I.T. Pososhkov to Metropolitan Stephan Yavorsky. In particular, the morphological, syntactic and lexical features of letters are considered. The main observation made is that the author uses elements of the Church Slavonic language, business (command) language, live speech.

Published

2018-11-12

Issue

Section

Linguistics