Types and Ratio of Functionally and Stylistically Colored Synonyms from G. Matyukovskiy’s Poetry in the Hill Mari Language

Abstract

The article is devoted to analysis of functional and stylistic coloring of synonyms and their quantitive proportions in the poetry of G. Matyukovskiy in the Hill Mari language. The study identified three main groups of synonyms belonging to different functional styles: colloquial and bookish style synonyms, and commonly used synonyms. Among the synonyms of the colloquial style we revealed components of synonymous series with daily colloquial, low colloquial, and rude colloquial functional stylistic coloring. Some of the synonyms of the bookish style are specified in belonging to a functional style and refer to scientific or belles-letter style. Synonyms of the belles-letter style have poetic, traditional poetic and folk poetic coloring. We give a brief description of functional styles and functional-stylistic colorings that are characteristic to the synonyms in the works by G. Matyukovskiy. The paper contents comparison of number of commonly used and functionally colored synonyms to identify proportions, reflected in the form of tables and charts. We described the language of the author on the basis of quantitative proportions. The data obtained can be used for compiling and adding the synonym dictionary of the Hill Mari language, which is expected to be published.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s7p127