STUDYING THE LANGUAGE OF “A JOURNEY BEYOND THE THREE SEAS” BY A. NIKITIN IN CLASSES IN THE DISCIPLINE “HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE”

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the language of “A Journey Beyond the Three Seas” by A. Nikitin in classes at a university in the discipline “History of the Russian Literary Language”. One of the written monuments of the Moscow period is analyzed - “A Journey Beyond the Three Seas” by Afanasy Nikitin. It is shown that using examples from the text you can learn more about both Russian history, reflected in the monument, and about India. Linguistic innovation has been revealed: the work of Afanasy Nikitin does not correspond to the norms of the book-Slavic type of language and is based primarily on the colloquial speech of the Great Russian people. This is manifested in the predominance of words with East Slavic phonetic features over Church Slavonicisms, the use of colloquial syntactic constructions, and the reflection of changes in grammatical structure in the text. It is noted that, along with Old Russian colloquial and vernacular words, Nikitin uses Turkic, Persian, and Arabic vocabulary acquired during the trip. It is characteristic that he resorts to foreign language vocabulary even when he expresses his innermost thoughts about the Russian land, about love for his homeland and condemns the injustice of Russian nobles. It is emphasized that the distinctive feature of the style of “A Journey Beyond the Three Seas” is its laconicism, accuracy and strict factuality. In addition, interactive forms, methods and technologies of teaching are considered, providing for joint creative activity of the teacher and students while studying the language of A. Nikitin’s work “A Journey Beyond the Three Seas” in the classroom.