On The Peculiarities of O. E. Mandelstam’s Idiostyle: Perusing the Poet’s Prose
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5008-2025-6-41-49
Abstract
Aim. To identify and characterize the idiostyle features that can be observed in O. E. Mandelstam’s autobiographical prose texts about his travels through Armenia.
Methodology. The study utilized targeted sampling, descriptive-analytical methods, conceptual methods, comparative analysis, linguocultural methods, and dictionary definitions.
Results. The lexical and linguistic features of the author’s autobiographical prose are analyzed. Through the study of his journalistic and autobiographical works and research on the author’s language and
style, key features of O. E. Mandelstam’s idiostyle were identified – the use of Armenian cultural imag
ery and the exotic lexemes that embody them to convey the travel theme and express attitudes toward
seen things.
Research implications. The materials of the article and the obtained results can be used in both the
study of the idiostyle and idiolect of O. E. Mandelstam and in teaching the linguistic disciplines such as
“Stylistics of the Russian language” and “Language of Fiction.”
About the Author
V. A. Galstyan
Federal State University of Education
Россия
Россия
Vergine A. Galstyan – Postgraduate Student, Department of Modern Russian Language named after Prof. P. A. Lekant
Moscow
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