I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

adverb, prepositional-case form, grammatical synonymy, speech etiquette, cliché

The article focuses on the specifics of Russian speech formulas represented by prepositional-case constructions expressing relations and emotions (with respect, with gratitude, with enthusiasm). The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that, although prepositional-case forms have traditionally been studied in the field of grammar and lexicology, their systemic opposition to cognate adverbs in terms of grammatical synonymy and pragmatic choice has remained unexplored. The aim is to identify the pragma-semantic grounds for the entrenchment of the prepositional-case model in etiquette cliches and the nature of its correlation with adverbial synonyms. The material comprises examples from written correspondence (emails) and corpus data, analyzed using semantic, pragmasemantic, transformational, and contextual analysis methods. The results show that in closing formulas of letters and a number of official stereotypical expressions, the substitution of prepositional phrases with adverbs leads to stylistic dissonance. The advantages of using prepositional phrases over adverbs are identified. It is argued that the entrenchment of these particular grammatical means is a result of pragmatic convention, rather than strictly predetermined by the language system.

Golubeva, Viktoria Konstantinovna – Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of Russian Language, Belarusian State University, Minsk, Republic of Belarus, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7597-4956, victdove@gmail.com