EXPRESSIVE LOVE VOCABULARY IN THE LETTERS OF TATIANA AND ONEGIN

Abstract

The crucial aspect of constructing a fictional text lies in identifying linguistic clichés and speech patterns that reflect the speaker’s thinking, behaviour, and cultural background. This is particularly important when exploring the love theme description in A.S. Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin” and examining expressive and semantic speech mechanisms. The research aims to consider the techniques of using expressive language units of love context in the letters of the novel “Eugene Onegin”. The research offers novel insights into the extensive use of love vocabulary and illogical thematic organization in Onegin’s letter, providing a contrasting expressive context and character portrayal. It highlights the absence of letter etiquette and explores the significance of love letters in fiction. To achieve the research objectives, various methods, such as descriptive, content analysis, and comparative approaches, were employed. The research findings highlighted that comprehending linguistic clichés and speech standards, specifically their semantics and expressive nature, is essential for readers to grasp and fully immerse themselves in the depicted reality within the text. The love lexicon of the textual letters of the characters in A.S. Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin” is no longer one of the elements reproduced and quoted in the text, but has become an important structural tool for describing the theme of love in the fiction text. The significance of the linguistic organization of the fragments representing the letters of Tatiana and Onegin is noted by Pushkin already at the level of the way they are included in the overall text. These ways include the introduction of the letters by a separate title, provided that neither chapters nor stanzas of the novel have titles, as well as the presence of special segments of text in the lyrical digressions, indicating a certain singularity of the letters. In addition, it has been determined that in the novel the synthesis of love vocabulary and expression has been developed in a linguistic-genre context of a higher level: the novel is permeated with the properties of lyrical poetry. In the composition of the text, such properties have found a clear form in the two most representative speech genres: in the love letter and the author’s multi-thematic and multidimensional reflections on love in the lyrical digressions. The practical significance lies in the use of the research results by scholars, as well as specialists in the field of linguistics and literary studies.

Keywords

• artistic text
• epistolary text
• language cliches
• semantics