Article

Name: Pragmatics of A. S. Pushkin’s Epistolary: A Special View of Etiquette and Politeness

Authors: Arina G. Zhukova, Olga I. Severskaya

Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, Moscow, Russian Federation; Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract:

The article presents a model of the pragmaticon of the “epistolary” linguistic personality of A. S. Pushkin, reflected in the assessments of letters, correspondence, addressees and in the language of writing. With the help of corpus tools, the compositional elements of letters and the choice of etiquette formulas, their genre features, speech modeling of images of the addressee and addressee, non-verbal elements of correspondence are studied, evaluative epithets characterizing the letter are considered, the principles of epistolary politeness are determined. The authors pay special attention to the correlation between Pushkin’s “epistolary code” and the norms of correspondence reflected in the Letter Books of 1822 and 1877, and see the influence of A. S. Pushkin on the development of epistolary styles, genres and norms in the democratization of official style, the distinction between external and internal business correspondence and friendly letters on business, in the semantic development of epistolary terminology.

Keywords: letters of A. S. Pushkin, pragmaticon of linguistic personality, pragmatics of written communication, epistolary norm, politeness in correspondence, corpus study

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