Dialectisms in the novella “The Ravine” by S.A. Yesenin

We analyze lexical and semantic originality and part of speech activity of dialect words as one of the stylistic dominants of the S.А. Yesenin’s novella “The Ravine” and as part of his individual creative manner. This study was conducted for the first time. We consider the material using the methods of interpretation, component analysis, as well as structural descriptive and contextual methods. In the course of working with the existing literature on this issue, we discover the lack of material coverage and the absence of dialect vocabulary analysis in the novella “The Ravine” from morphological point of view. We find the thematic, morphological diversity and reveal the manifestation specificity of local words in the author’s and dialogical speech of the work, as well as the functional validity of their application. We prove that the use of local words in novella is caused not only by the idea of novella being a village theme work, but also has a deep cognitive basis. The relevance of the study lies in the fact that conducted research of novella’s dialectal vocabulary allows to complement the knowledge of the specificity of S.A. Yesenin poetics’, his linguistic worldview and the peculiarity of his individual style.

dialectisms, dialectisms’ functions, lexical and semantic word groups, author’s speech, characters’ speech