ABOUT TEXT MARKERS OF THE RUSSIAN VERNACULAR VOCABULARY OF XVIII CENTURY (BASED ON THE COMEDY BY YA. B. KNYAZHNIN “THE BRAGGART”)

Abstract

. The article analyzes the possibilities of using a text in the process of determining the stylistic status of a word from a historically remote era. The study is conducted with regard to the Russian vernacular of the XVIII century. The relevance of addressing this issue is due to the inconsistency of the reflection of reduced coloration of words in the lexicographic sources of the century, the lack of a clear differentiation between reduced vocabulary and words denoting everyday realities. The appeal to the text of the comedy shows the possibilities of the text to demonstrate the presence of a reduced character of the word against the background of its use as a certain organized structural and semantic unit. It has been revealed that such textual indicators as the genre of the work, the author’s attitude towards broadcasting negative character characteristics, the vivid evaluative lexeme (mostly negative), as well as the relationship with the types of morphemic and semantic derivation preferred in the vernacular word formation system may indicate that the word is either already included in the system of vernacular means, or shows a tendency to transition to this category.