Старославянский язык как моделирующий фактор русской культуры
Old Slavonic language as a modeling factor of Russian culture

Summary/Abstract: The question of the role of the Old Slavonic element in the formation of the Russian literary language today seems to have moved from the category of discussion to the category of obvious ones. And the Old Church Slavonic language is evaluated by modern science as a modeling factor of Russian culture, which played an important role in its spiritual development. The language of the culture of the Middle Ages, its value imperatives turned out to be in many ways consonant with Russian culture, being its kind of "silent heritage". At that time, Fr. P.A. Florensky, who called Cyril and Methodius the spiritual fathers of Russian culture. Speaking about the interaction of Russian culture with the culture of ancient Hellas, he wrote in the article "Trinity-Sergius Lavra and Russia": but about the very spirit of culture. 1 That is why the question of the role of the Old Church Slavonic language in the ethno-cultural system of the Russian language, its influence on the formation of the system of values of the Russian people is extremely important today, especially in connection with the unfolding cultural studies, the search for Christian foundations of Russian culture. Unfortunately, so far it has not attracted serious attention of scientists, whose interest was mainly focused on studying the phonetic, word-formation and grammatical features of Old Church Slavonicisms, assessing their role in the stylistic differentiation of Russian vocabulary, and also on identifying the percentage of Old Church Slavonicisms in the lexical system of the literary language. As for dialects, this issue has not been practically worked out, since for a long time the idea was quite stable that the influence of the Old Church Slavonic language was characteristic only of the literary form of the Russian language.

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