THE CONSTANT FORMULAS OF ADDRESS IN THE TEXTS OF I. TURGENEV’S LETTERS TO N. TURGENEV

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of etiquette formulas of greeting and farewell, which became constants of address in the I. Turgenev’s letters to his native uncle - N. Turgenev. The author of the article relies on the prevailing ideas in science about the importance of private letter in the process of interpersonal communication, which is demonstrated in a scientific review. The epistolary genre is an actual area of stylistic research related to the category of the author’s linguistic personality; related to the idea of the role of the speaker/writer’s intention in expressing the emotional relationship with language resources within the framework of the You-category. The category is characteristic of the anthropocentrism as the methodological basis of the research. The constant formulas of the address are revealed with the method of continuous targeted sampling and are considered in connection with the process of phraseologization as a subject of research, the purpose of which is to analyze their stylistic and communicative-pragmatic role in the texts of these letters. It was concluded that the constant formulas of address demonstrate certain features of the writer’s evolving idiostyle and reflect changes in the development of the linguistic and psychological personality of I. Turgenev.