HISTORICAL ESSAY “TWO HUNDRED YEARS TOGETHER” BY A. SOLZHENISTYN AS A WORK OF THE ACADEMIC & PUBLICISTIC SUBSTYLE (ON THE ACADEMIC FEATURES IN THE WORK)

Abstract

This article analyzes the extralinguistic and linguistic features of the scientific style found in the text of a historical essay by A. Solzhenitsyn «Two Hundred Years Together». The author described in detail the linguistic features of scientific style inherent in the text of the historian: vocabulary, word formation, morphology and syntax. The author gives a specification what the academic & publicistic substyle is: subjects to write about, words usage accuracy, reliance on scientific data, and regulatory principle of language material, that make texts written in this substyle very close to academic works. Whereas treatment of the problem in terms of what meaning it has for a society and what social consequences of implementation of a scientific idea will take place, makes such writings close to the publicistic style. The work proves that A. Solzhenistyn’s essay belongs to a mixed substyle, i.e. the academic & publicistic one.