ЛІНГВІСТИЧНІ ЕКСПЕРИМЕНТИ Т. ШЕВЧЕНКА, АБО ЗАГАДКА, ЧОМУ РОСІЙСЬКА МОВА ОБРАНА МОВОЮ ПИСЬМЕННИЦЬКОГО ЩОДЕННИКА (до 200-ліття від дня народження письменника)
Т. SHEVCHENKO’S LINGUISTIC EXPERIMENTS, OR PUZZLE WHY RUSSIAN IS CHOSEN AS THE LANGUAGE OF THE WRITER’S DIARY (to the writer’s 200th anniversary)

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article finds out reasons why Т. Shevchenko wrote his diary in Russian. The opinions of scientists and authorial reflections are generalized for the representation of reasons that explain the underlined problem. The authour describes such reasons as: the absence of Ukrainian prose style because of tsar’s prohibitions on the use of Ukrainian; Т. Shevchenko’s disposition to game (including language game), linguistic experiment associated with Shevchenko’s psychotype, his ironic nature, capacity for humor, jokes, game; stay in Russian environment, the desire to speak Russian perfectly (to communicate with Russian-speaking friends, artists, etc.); citizenship of the Russian empire. T. Kosmeda compares Kobzar’s Russian-language lingual activity with М. Gogol’s literary activity.

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