THE INFLUENCE OF THE CITY LINGUISTIC ENVIRONMENT ON THE SPEECH OF PROVINCIAL STUDENTS (BY THE LETTERS OF STUDENT FROM VELIKY USTYUG M. B. VASILYEVA)

Abstract

The material for this article is the letters and diaries of a student of the Philological Faculty of the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute named after A. I. Herzen (1945-1949), addressed to her mother in Veliky Ustyug, Vologda region. Some elements of dialect speech found in these documents are of scientific interest. The aim of the research is to study the linguistic dynamics of letters that has developed under the influence of the linguistic environment of Leningrad. The analysis revealed that 1) the most frequent in the texts are lexical dialectisms; 2) morphological deviations from the literary norm can be regarded as vernaculars; 3) syntactic dialectal features are reflected in the specific models of sentence construction and non-traditional principles of connecting homogeneous sentence members. The letters of 1945-49 reveal the dynamics of their author's speech, which demonstrates a gradual assimilation of the literary norm. In the diaries, the literary norm of speech is formed earlier. This indicates that the texts of the letters are oriented to the addressee, who is a speaker of urban half-dialect, and the texts of the diaries - to the person who knows literary speech.