Diversity of words (new book on the language of N.S. Leskov)

http://dx.doi.org/10.20339/PhS.4-16.111

Nikitin Oleg V.,

Doctor sciebces in Phikikogy, Habil. Professor

Moscow State Regional University

E-mail: kaf-isrl@mgou.ru

The review analyzes a new book on N.S. Leskov, which studied significant for the Russian mentality concepts and features of his idiolect. Attention is drawn to the interest of the researcher to stylistic, cognitive and pragmatic description of N.S. Leskov’s fiction. Figurative elements of the text in the epistolary heritage of the writer are also commented. The work proposes the prospects of development of the topic.

Keywords: the idiolect of the writer, word and image, concept, vocabulary, mental space, style.

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