Стилистика акцентных вариантов в современном русском языке

Abstract

Russian word stress is an suprasegmental phenomenon, which can distinct stylistic word variants. The word stress distinguishes literary language from slang, professional jargon or other nonstandard Russian language. Democratisation of the Russian society after 1991 affected the language and its accentual system. Over the past thirty years, there has been a dramatic simplification of the accentual system. The main tendency caused by the intralinguistic rule of analogy is the unification of accent paradigms. However, these rapid changes in spoken language are having a serious effect on Russian literary language which is not prevented from rapid changes by any unified standarisation. Furthermore, a lack of unified standard and increasing tendency to use wrong accent variants may be a result of extralinguistic factors and far too little attention has been paid to sociolinguistic aspect of language evolution. The study showed that perfect unified standard language and unified pronunciation is unnecessary for an average Russian language speaker. Linguistic correctness, being also a part of a mindset, is just a linguistic category in Russian society, unnecessary to achieve the purpose of communication.