Open AccessRUSSIAN ADVERSATIVE CONJUNCTION «ZATO» (“BUT”) AND AXIOLOGICAL STYLISTICS (ON THE MATERIAL OF M.A. SHOLOKHOV’S NOVELS)
Author(s) -
Сигал Кирилл Яковлевич
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vestnik udmurtskogo universiteta. istoriâ i filologiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-2454
pISSN - 2412-9534
DOI - 10.35634/2412-9534-2020-30-2-212-220
Subject(s) - conjunction (astronomy) , stylistics , semantics (computer science) , linguistics , literature , art , philosophy , computer science , physics , astrophysics , programming language
The article focuses on the Russian adversative conjunction «zato» (“but”) as an axiological marker and its stylistically significant use in M.A. Sholokhov’s novels «And quiet flows the Don» and «Virgin soil upturned». The article also puts forward the concept of «axiological stylistics». It is noted that axiological stylistics describes the techniques which facilitate the participation of evaluation linguistic units in the expression of certain expressive intentions. It is shown that in M.A. Sholokhov’s novels «And quiet flows the Don» and «Virgin soil upturned» the adversative conjunction «zato» (“but”) is used as a polysemous function word, and the most productive semantics of compensation involves switching of evaluation both from «-» to «+» and from «+» to «-», although the first evaluation model prevails. Based on this semantics alone, the adversative conjunction «zato» (“but”) participates in the creation of six techniques of axiological stylistics.