LANGUAGE MEANS OF EXPRESSION OF THE SOCIAL STATUS OF CHARACTERS IN THE WORKS OF ANTON CHEKHOV
Journal Title: Мова - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 29
Abstract
In this article, the author continued to consider the problem of the dependence of human speech on person’s social status, increasing the aspect basis of social status. The purpose of the work is to identify and analyze the language means of expressing Chekhov not only professional, but also class, career, property and cultural status. The material of the study was such stories of the writer: «Thick and thin» (1883) and «Surgery» (1884). Thus, the object of study are the means of the language, capable of expressing the social status of the character artistically, the subject of research is the skill of Anton Chekhov in depicting the class, career, property, professional and cultural status of a person by language means. In this work, the descriptive method is combined with the historical-descriptive method, as well as with the methods of multifactorial, semantic and sociolinguistic analysis. As a result of this research, it was found that the language means which Anton Chekhov used to express the character’s social status are aimed at creating a status contrast. Conclusions. The antonymous pairs of common words and special thematic groups, the names and surnames of characters, etiquette, clichés, everyday details, the socially colored speech formulas based on the grammatical features are linguistic means of expressing the characters’ social status. Mutual lowering of the status of socially contrasting characters and the combination of non-verbal and verbal means as artistic ways of representing social status contribute to the expression of the characters’ relevant status characteristics.
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Svetlana Ie. STEPANOVA
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- DOI 10.18524/2307-4558.2018.29.139384
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