The Konstantinovo Dialect in the Poetic Works of Sergey Yesenin as an Attempt to Create a Literary Micro-Language

Aim. The aim of the research is to determine the peculiarities of the language of the poetic works of Sergey Yesenin. The specificity lies in the connection of the literary language  with phonetic, accentological and grammatical dialectal phenomena, in the use of dialectal word-formation models in texts not related to the “village”  theme and in attempts to create poems  written entirely with the dialect’s  use.

Methodology.   The  paper covers specific examples of  dialectal phonetic, accentological   and grammatical  phenomena  present  in  poetic  texts of Sergey Yesenin  in  connection   with the search for a new poetic  language  in  the Russian  literature of the beginning  of the XX century. Methods of  observation,   comparison, generalization   and  interpretation   are  employed   in   the  research. Materials of a field research of the dialect of the village of Kontantinovo, Rybnovo Raion, Ryazan Region are used in the analysis of literary texts.

Results. Poetic  texts indicate the poet’s  fluency in literary language  and the dialect of his native village of Konstantinovo, Rybnovo Raion, Ryazan Region. The presence of a significant number of works created using the dialect and some works  entirely written in the dialect indicates  that Sergey  Yesenin  (like Nikolai Klyuev) attempted  to create a new poetic language  in which we can find features of a literary microlanguage due to the presence of a significant dialect component.

Research  implications. The research  summarizes  considerable  material on the studied problem.  Its results can be used in university special courses  on Russian dialectology,  philological analysis of texts, and studies of the language of literary works.

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