Article

Name: Modal Particles and Interjections in Fyodor M. Dostoevsky’s Works of Fiction: Lexicographic Representation

Authors: Igor V. Ruzhitsky

Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract:

The article discusses the possibility of creating the “Dictionary of modal particles and interjections of Dostoevsky”. It is impossible not to pay attention to the frequent and peculiar use of discursive words in Dostoevsky’s texts, primarily in the works of fiction, this is, beyond any doubt, one of the features of the author’s idiostyle. The article covers the following issues: the intentions of the widespread use of discursive units in the works of the writer’s fiction; the functions of modal particles and interjections – contact-forming, regulatory, reasoning function, creation of a certain emotional back-ground, revelation of artistic image, etc., the connection of their functioning with reflection and presupposition; the problem of forming the word list of the “Dictionary of modal particles and interjections of Dostoevsky”; the system of the lexicographic parameters underlying such a dictionary and others. As lexico-graphic material, examples of various sections of dictionary entries bа, -kа, hm, -с, ah, ved’ are given.

Keywords: Dostoevsky’s language, idioglossary, dictionary of discursive words, dictionary entry parameters, modal particles, interjections

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