DEVIANT USUS IN ARTISTIC DISCOURSE AS A REFLECTION OF SOCIO-CULTURAL METAMORPHOSIS OF MODERN SOCIETY

Abstract

The paper studies sociocultural factors which have radically changed the language of modern literature. The transformation of the lexical composition of literary works in the late 20th and early 21st centuries is significantly influenced by the destruction of numerous speech taboos, the total democratization of literary language, the decrease in the number of outstanding writers, the unassuming nature of a modern reader and his or her reluctance to perceive reading as a special kind of intellectual work, as well as the parallel changes in the language of other arts, such as movies and theater productions. Books of such authors as S. Alekseev, E. Limonov, E. Vodolazkin, M. Batyrev, V. Pelevin, T. Cohen, J.-C. Grangé, G. Bishop and J. Sincero have been analyzed to reveal different types of nonstandard lexical units and to identify dominant functions in artistic discourse.