Keyword: «artistic speech»

The article is dedicated to the questions of the literary works influence on the process of artistic speech development of senior preschool children. The author singles out the components and works out the model of artistic speech development of senior preschool children.

To carry out a lexical analysis of a writer’s idiostyle, it is necessary to identify certain word groups in his or her works and examine how these groups were selected and how they are used by the author. Colorisms are truly indicative in this case. This paper focuses on a multifold analysis of colorisms that could be made using six parameters. The author uses the terms ‘colorism’, ‘true colorism’, and ‘quasi colorism’. The analysis of colorisms clarifies an author’s idiostyle and psychology as well as the poetics of his or her works.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the linguistic features of «The Tales of Frol Skobeev» in order to find out the author’s status, to characterize the speech basis of the story. The story is a recording of a text originally created as an oral narration, expressed by means of vernacular. The story was created under the influence of book-writing tradition and business speech of the era, but its basis had the vernacular nature, which in the early 18th century began to be formed as a functional variety of the Russian national language.