TO THE HISTORY OF STUDY OF ROBERT BURNS’ WORKS LINGUISTIC FEATURES

Abstract

The article deals with understanding the history of linguistic study of Robert Burns’ works in Russia. It is noted that the first articles concerning language and style of Burns’ poetry were published in the late Soviet period (1970-1980s) by N.P. Mikerina, T.I. Vorontsova, A.A. Golikov, T.A. Ledovsky. In the works of N.P. Mikerina, devoted to the study of verbal imagery in English poetry, the works of the Scottish author were used as illustrations, substantiation of theoretical judgments. T.N. Vorontsova’s works, written on the material of Burns’ ballad “John Barley Grain”, were made according to studies of the linguistics of the text. A.A. Golikova and T.A. Ledovskaya’s articles were of the greatest importance, however, the first of them relied mainly on literary concepts, and the second led to controversial conclusions. For all the ambiguity of the researchers’ approaches to the language and style of Burns’ poetry, one can highly appreciate the fact of the appearance of these articles in the press, which testified to an undeniable increase in attention to the linguistic and stylistic features of Burns’ heritage in Russian philological science.