DOI: 10.25136/2409-8698.2020.5.32833

Abstract: The subject of this research is the methods of differentiation of neutral units and elements of inherent connotation of stylistic plan, which can be applied in stylistic analysis of literary texts of the Early Modern English period. Attention is focused on the peculiarities of general linguistic processes relevant for the early XVI century, as well as sociolinguistic conditionality of establishment of a literary canon. The author examines the specificity of perception of aureate style and unpoetic style as a system of deviations from the forming norm. The article determines the fundamental criteria of identification of stylistically marked units, as well as category of linguistic units revenant for the stylistic analysis, certain common attributes indicating a potential markedness of the word. The work demonstrates an integration algorithm of the data of diachronic corpora at the semantic and metasemiotic stages of the three-level stylistic analysis of a literary text of the Early Modern English period. The scientific novelty lies in the attempt to develop an algorithm that allows verifying or clarifying the stylistic status of linguistic elements in retrospective by applying to interpretation of lexical units of a play of the Early Modern English period the data of corpus-based linguistics and pragmatics. The author refers to the relevant treatises of the XVI century dedicated to the problem of style and corresponding research, systematizing the data for specification of criteria for stylistic stratification.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0749.2020.5.32957

Abstract: The subject of this research is implementation of the technique of apposition of synonymic units and apposition of morphological variants identified in the fragments of the D. Lyndsay’s play “A Satire of the Three Estates” representing auerate diction. These techniques are viewed in the context of specificity of auerate diction forming in the beginning of the Early Modern English period, as well as from the perspective of general linguistic processes taking place at that time. Based on the examples from D. Lyndsay’s play, the author focuses on possibilities of utilization of the techniques of varying for the development of semantic and metasemiotic potential of the involved linguistic units. The scientific novelty is defined by the fact that the stylistic distinction of literary landmarks of the Early Modern English period, unlike the later works of Elizabethan era, were not subjected to detailed analysis in foreign or Russian research. The selected D. Lyndsey’s play “A Satire of the Three Estates” has also not been analyzed from the perspective of formal characteristics. The article specifies the significant peculiarities of the use of key techniques of varying, which in many instances define the aesthetic affect made by the play, leading to a more profound understanding of the resources of English language through realization of the impact function in historical perspective.