Letters o and ё after hushing sounds: codification criteria and modern edition of the rule (from materials of the academic description of russian spelling)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of creating a complete and consistent rule about writing o/e after hushing sounds, which not only corresponds to codified language material, but also is the basis for a systematic assessment of both normal deviations in spellings and various dictionary fixations of new words. Using the example of this rule, the general theoretical issues of combining in the spelling rules the reflective side, corresponding to the language essence of the phenomena, and the conditional one, which makes it possible to adequately assimilate and use the writing norms, are considered. The article provides an analysis of different approaches to the description of the spelling, defines modern language factors that affect the choice of spelling. The new version of the rule proposed as a result takes into account all the material included in the academic Russian Spelling Dictionary. The rule also takes into account the factors that are already formed and are still emerging, which are active in this area of writing. All this provides a reasonable approach to codification of new words and control over the points of interaction of multidirectional factors. Moreover, the rule also contains a purely formal clause that does not require any language categories, which is effective for the automatic implementation of the rule in writing.