PECULIARITIES OF CHINESE WORDS FUNCTIONING IN BORIS YULSKY’S STORIES

Abstract

Boris Yulsky is one of the brightest representatives of the Russian literature of the Harbin emigration. The artistic originality of his works is determined, in particular, by the phenomenon of representing Chinese culture in а Russian-language text. Chinese words are the characteristic linguistic means of this representation. The article clarifies meanings and etymology of these words, analyzes mechanism of their including in the Russian literary text, shows its dependence on the author’s narrative strategy. The conclusion about the functional heterogeneity of the units under consideration is substantiated: some of them function in the text as exoticisms, while others – as a regionally mastered vocabulary. The results of the study are important not only for a more accurate and deeper understanding of Yulsky’s stories and for the analysis of his idiostyle. They are also important for the study of the language and style of other literary texts of the eastern branch of the Russian emigration, because the coexistence of elements of different ethnic cultures in them is the norm.