Linguistic features of Evgenia Nekrasova's idiostyle

Abstract

The article describes such features of E. Nekrasova's idiostyle as cumulation, semantic oppositions and special lexical features of postmodernism. Postmodernism is closely connected with history and culture; it shows protest against established traditional moral and social norms, having the signs of culture an ironic subtext, eclecticism. In the story “Sestromam” there are elements of the poetics of a cumulative fairy tale, which is especially evident in its structure and numerous repetitions of key phrases throughout the text. Semantic oppositions in E. Nekrasova's stories help to contrast the personalities of the main characters and follow the dynamics. Oppositions are personal and social, spiritual and physical. At the same time, the characters who are “beautiful” and “folding” in the oppositions at the bodily semantic level, in most cases are “stupid” and “hostile” at the spiritual and ethical levels. Fairy-tale sayings, songs-conspiracies in the stories attribute them to the prose of post-folklore. E. Nekrasova's language is difficult, it is replete with occasionalisms, the most frequent are formed by fusion and derivation. There are a lot of comparisons, metaphors, periphrases, ellipses and alogisms. Lexical and syntactic repetitions affect the reader emotionally, and precedent phenomena turn the text into a riddle. E. Nekrasova's idiostyle is distinguished, on the one hand, by entertainment, colorfulness, irony, on the other – by deep philosophy.