Orekhov, B. V. SPECIFIC WORDS AND FRASES OF RUSSIAN CLASSIC WRITERS OF THE 19TH CENTURY: AN ESSAY ON CONTRASTIVE CORPUS STUDY // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2019. No 5 (182). P. 70–75. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2019.354


Linguistics

SPECIFIC WORDS AND FRASES OF RUSSIAN CLASSIC WRITERS OF THE 19TH CENTURY: AN ESSAY ON CONTRASTIVE CORPUS STUDY

Orekhov
B. V. 		National Reearch University Higher School of Economics
Keywords:
author dictionary
lexicography
lexics
Dostoevsky
Turgenev
Goncharov
Leskov
corpus		 Summary: The paper presents the results of a quantitative study that identifies characteristic and specific low-frequency words for prose of Russian classics of the 19th century. Using TF-IDF measure and a large collection of 19th century texts for Turgenev, Goncharov, Leskov, Dostoevsky, words and phrases are calculated that are rarely found or not found in other authors works, but appear several times in prose of the classic writers. This contrastive approach is able to complement the traditional author’s lexicography, to identify the specific features of a particular author’s style against the background of the contemporary language. The specific words and phrases have a foreign language origin or come from the reality contemparary to the writer. Words calculated for Turgenev, Leskov and Dostoevsky correlate well with the peculiarities of the style of these writers. At the same time, the revealed vocabulary of Dostoevsky once again underlines his historical and literary connection with Gogol and provides new data for philological analysis, which can lead to the acquaintance of the author of the “great pentateuch” with the works of P. A. Kropotkin.



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