CHARACTERISTIC LINGUISTIC PROPERTIES OF WORKS OF V.P. MESHCHERSKY

The paper covers the study of little-known works of V.P. Meshchersky, an author of the XIX century. It is noted that the author himself is understudied for today. The paper enumerates modern scientists whose works are focused on the study of this particular author. The author suggests that the works of V.P. Meshchersky can serve as the model of use of the Aesopian language and various allegories. The current situation in literature and journalism shows that the authors of today have to consider this particular direction in their works. The paper says that the model of text construction of V.P. Meshchersky using various stylistic devices and expressive linguistic means can be useful to contemporary authors. 

The paper considers several publicistic and belletristic works of V.P. Meshchersky and investigates the ways of text construction by the author. As the examples to consider, the novels “Secrets of modern Petersburg”, “Women of St. Petersburg haut monde”, “One of our Bismarcks”, the story “Petya Skuratov”, and the publicistic works “The truth about Serbia” and “My memories” were selected. The author specifies the linguistic devices, which help V.P. Meshchersky to create his works, and lists the expressive means used in his texts. For example, it is determined that V.P. Meshchersky uses various appeals to the reader in order to create a dialogue. The author’s works contain many epithets, comparisons and metaphoric expressions that help to create figurativeness in works, photographic descriptions of nature and characters.