SPECIFICS OF DRAMA LANGUAGE BY ILIA ZDANEVICH


2019. № 1 (19), 130-140

V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract:

Drama by Ilia Zdanevich are among the most interesting and enigmatic products of the Russian Futurism. They were written in the special language based on Russian with using of neologisms and zaum words. Complex typographic methods of typesetting are used in the dramas: from multi-tiered words till visual poetry. The tasks of this work include the following: to describe experimental methods of text forming in the dramas; to categorize types of writing in accordance with the structure of drama text; to describe specifics of reading, watching and speaking multi-tiered words; to find historical text sources of multi-tiered words.