Pragmatics of Church Slavonic Language’s Pronouns in Standard Russian

Church Slavonic language had a significant influence on the formation of the Russian literary language. In the oldest monuments of East Slavic writing and in modern texts, various elements of the Church Slavonic language’s system are presented: vocabulary, individual grammatical forms and syntactic constructions. Connotative Slavonicisms were used to create a high-flown style, convey historical color, to express civic ideas, they also served as a means of parody, irony and expression. This article contains information about the pragmatic potential of some word forms of personal pronouns borrowed from the Church Slavonic language: first-person, second-person and the reflexive pronoun. These pronouns have а special literary connotation, so their use is always stylistically motivated. The article uses materials from the National Corpus of the Russian language (historical, newspaper, oral) covering the period from the XII century to the present. The paper also contains information about homonymy of these forms (typical for spontaneous speech), and of the ancient enclitics. When analyzing examples with archaic pronouns, close attention is paid to the contextual environment of word forms and Church Slavonic structures.

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Church Slavonic language, Russian literary language, pronouns, enclitics, reduced forms of pronouns

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GOST	Seregina E., Matveeva O. Pragmatics of Church Slavonic Language’s Pronouns in Standard Russian // Russkaya Rech’ – 2021. – Issue 6 C. 98-111 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/rusrech/s013161170017982-9-1-en (circulation date: 02.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013161170017982-9
MLA	Seregina, Elena E, Matveeva, Olga A "Pragmatics of Church Slavonic Language’s Pronouns in Standard Russian." Russkaya Rech’ 6 (2021):98-111. DOI: 10.31857/S013161170017982-9
APA	Seregina E., Matveeva O. (2021). Pragmatics of Church Slavonic Language’s Pronouns in Standard Russian. Russkaya Rech’ (6), pp.98-111 DOI: 10.31857/S013161170017982-9

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