Semantic and functional features of words of address in the ornamental literary prose monologue

The article reveals the structural, semantic and functional features of one of the regular speech forms of oral dialogue - words of address in the ornamental literary prose monologue. A review of the available works showed that the analysis of words of address is limited to determining their subject types and identifying their language functions in dialogical speech or in lyric poetry. Terms of addresses in the literary prose monologue, in particular ornamental, have not been analyzed, which justifies the relevance of this study. The communicative features and the originality of the syntactic structure of the language of ornamentalists’ works have remained practically unexplored; the semantic and functional potential of words of address used in the language of ornamental texts has not been comprehensively analyzed. This also determines and justifies the relevance of this topic. The aim of the study is to establish the semantic and functional status of words of address in the russian monological ornamental artistic-prose speech of the first third of the twentieth century. The material of the study is the evidence obtained by continuous sampling from works of writers of the first third of the 20th century - the brightest representatives of ornamentalism - A. Bely’s Petersburg, K. Fedin’s Cities and Years, Yu. Tynyanov’s Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, V. Nabokov’s Gift. The objectives of the study are: 1) to identify subject types of address words in the ornamental literary prose monologue; 2) to describe the semantic and functional features of address words in the literary prose monologue in horizontal and vertical sections of the literary whole; 3) to determine the specifics of the individual author’s use of address words in literary speech and to identify the general features of these words’ functioning in the language of ornamental prose. The work used descriptive-analytical, distributive, syntagmatic research methods. The choice of these methods was determined by the object and focus of the study. The object of the research is address words in the linguistic structure of ornamental prose. The focus is the semantic and functional features of these words in the ornamental literary prose monologue. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that the material of Russian fiction of the first third of the twentieth century, which has not yet been examined, is comprehensively analyzed to determine the communicative-pragmatic characteristics of address words, taking into account the horizontal and vertical sections of each investigated literary text. In addition, subjective forms of fiction have been compared according to the nature of the use of the language units in question. Peculiarities of individual authorial use of address words in various types of narration, changes and enrichment of the semantic and functional potential of the words are revealed, linguopoetic features of increments in the meaning and functions of address words focused on updating the means of language expressiveness are described. The author declares no conflicts of interests.

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