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DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2022.83.44.003

SEMANTIC AND STYLISTIC ROLE OF REGIONALISMS IN I. KANUKOV’S ESSAY “IN THE OSSETIAN VILLAGE”

Khadasheva, Sabira A.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2022. IIS 44 (83).
Abstract:
The author’s individual writing skill is manifested primarily in the process of intensive
artistic contemplation upon various aspects of social, political and philosophical problems
that reflect the author’s outlook on life while transmitting their thoughts and feelings
evoked by evaluating certain situations. Employing masterfully selected linguistic units
belonging to different stylistic layers of the Russian vocabulary, I. Kanukov demonstrates
good knowledge of the potential of separate words, his ability both to discover some
new dimensions in a word and to find new qualities to a specific contextual situation,
which allows him to scrutinize the important semantic shades in a word, contributing
with great semantic energy to the disclosure of the inherent connection of personal and
social experiences, the author’s own adversities and the destiny of mankind in the historic
process. A vivid illustration of this is the linguistic variety employed by Kanukov in
his Russian-language literary works, special attention being drawn to the lexical units
adopted from the author’s native Ossetian language without any translation, the socalled
“regionalisms”. Such vocabulary is extensively represented in Kanukov’s essay “In
the Ossetian village”. This idea can be supported by the semantic and stylistic analysis
of the text, that allowed the author of the present article to find over 150 regional words
and expressions in the essay. The writer provides definitions to many of them right in
the text, thus facilitating the reader’s perception of the phenomena described in each
case. Thematically the regionalisms are represented by the key words referring primarily
to: national traditions; religion; folklore; national peculiarities of life; national cuisine;
the regionalisms characterizing a person’s social position; phonetic regionalisms that
are semantically equivalent to certain Russian words; regionalisms expressing feelings,
emotions.
Keywords: regionalism, literary text, linguistic means, semantics, borrowings, lexical composition, dictionaries
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