«Denis, Nevezhde Bich i Strah» (Denis, the Scourge and Dread of the Ignorants): on the Linguistic-stylistic Features of D. I. Fonvizin’s Comedies (To the 275th Anniversary of the Birth)
https://doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2020-81-2-42-49
Abstract
The article discusses the linguistic and stylistic features of D. I. Fonvizin’s comedies «The Brigadier-General» and «The Minor» («Nedorosl‘») in the context of the main trends in the development of literature and the language. The focus is on individual compositional features, the speech characteristics of various characters and ways of expressing the author’s position. The artistic technique of irony, the use of phraseological resources of the language, crossovers between styles and ways of individualizing the speech of heroes are analyzed. The place of lexical and syntactic gallicisms in the language of Fonvizin’s comedies and in the language of the representatives of educated classes of Russian society in the second half of the 18th century is determined.
Keywords
comedy,
satire,
language portrait,
lexicon,
gallicism,
colloquialism,
paroemia,
irony,
paronomasia,
colloquial language
About the Author
D. A. Romanov
Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dmitry A. Romanov, Dr. of Sci. (Philol.), Professor, Department of Russian Language and Literature
125 pr-t Lenina, Tula, 300026, Russia
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Romanov D.A. «Denis, Nevezhde Bich i Strah» (Denis, the Scourge and Dread of the Ignorants): on the Linguistic-stylistic Features of D. I. Fonvizin’s Comedies (To the 275th Anniversary of the Birth). Russian language at school. 2020;81(2):42-49. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2020-81-2-42-49
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