Once again on Dostoyevsky’s Negligence of the Word

Abstract

Referring to the data collected during his work on the Dictionary of Dostoyevsky’s Language, the author substantiates the writer’s conscious use of linguistic means such as repetition, violation of lexical combinability, the use of words of a certain lexico-semantic group, etc., classified by many critics of the writer’s creative work as negligence of the word or a violation of the stylistic norms of the Russian language. The author of the article puts forward some explanations of the motivation behind the use of the aforementioned means and repetitions.

Keywords

• Достоевский
• стиль
• небрежение словом
• словарь языка писателя.