STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INDIVIDUAL AUTHOR’S WORD USE (ON THE MATERIAL OF O. MANDELSTAM’S POEMS)

Abstract

The objective of the article is to use the method of statistical analysis to characterize the O. Mandelstam’s idiostyle. The article discusses two main themes of the poet’s creative works “Antiquity” and “Christianity” on the material of four collections or cycles of to different time: “Stone”, “Tristia”, “Poems of 1921-1925”, “Voronezh Poems”. Statistical analysis has revealed the peculiarities of the semantic-stylistic system of the writer, with an emphasis on non-obvious or less obvious features and tendencies of the author’s use of words. The conclusions obtained in the article clarify the problem of the periodization of Mandelstam’s work.