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introduction remarks

As we already marked above, «Rules of Russian spelling and a punctuation» [1956] establish a writing from a capital letter of common nouns in the special stylistic use (item 1.2 of the given research see).

What is «the special stylistic use», in the edition is not explained, but two examples are resulted: the Person and the Native land.

«The directory on spelling and literary editing» [1967],

Concretising operating rules, supposes to allocate with a capital letter a common noun Fatherland. The rule is illustrated by the citation from the Program of Communist party of Soviet Union where the capital letter marks values to which each Soviet person should aspire: the World, Work, Freedom, Equality, the Brotherhood, Happiness.

The fifth edition «the Directory on spelling and literary editing» [1989], left on the eve of scale social and political reorganisation of the state, the Person, the Native land, Fatherland mentions only words. Most likely, in practice of Russian written speech of that time allocation by a capital letter of the words designating communistic values, became irrelevant.

Today the capital letter comes back in political, ideological and art texts.

About the unusual use of a capital letter writes A.I.Dunyov. He notices, that in «pathetic style» [Dunyov 2007: 36] writing are inclined to allocate some common nouns with the big letter, for example: the Person, the Teacher, the Native land. The researcher uses the term
"Function" also fluctuates between two variants of its name: symbolical or ideographic.

As recently the common nouns marked by an initial capital letter, began to meet even more often, it has drawn attention of one more scientist - O.B.Vlasovoj. Occurrence of the big letter in words the Native land, Fatherland, Fatherland, Freedom, Good, Honour, the Teacher, the Master, the Person, according to the researcher, is similar to realisation of psychological function as the marked words designate «the concepts occupying the central position in system of values of the person» [Vlasova 2002: 58].

O.V.Soboleva and O.A.Popova [Soboleva, popova 2018] is considered by features of the use of a capital letter in the modern hand-written text on a material of studies of cadets of military high school. To learn to appreciate Happiness, for the sake of such high word - the Officer - such spelling of a nominal name from the big letter researchers connect with desire to translate a word in «the raised, stylistic register» [in the same place] and classify similar spelling decisions of native speakers as spelling errors.

On the contrary, organizers of the annual educational action «Total dictation» in an instruction for the checking urge not to consider as an error a writing from the big letter of the words having special high sense. As an example the word the Life is resulted.

Leaning against indirect instructions of standard directories and on remarks of separate researchers, we have analysed printing both electronic newspaper and art texts, programs of political parties and have found out, that since time of issue of official "Rules" psychological function of a capital letter has undergone essential changes. The whole groups of lexicon in which the big letter carries out psychological function, and among these words were generated
There are not only nouns, but also adjectives, verbs, adverbs.

On our supervision, irrespective of a thematic or morphological accessory of a word the capital letter in them is connected not only with forming of system of human values, but also rendering aksiologicheskogo influences on the recipient. Therefore, naming after O.B.Vlasovoj function psychological, we mean, that the given function includes and aksiologicheskuju a component.

So, by us it is revealed five lexical sets of words in which the capital letter can carry out psychological function: 1)

imenovanija the concrete person causing unconditional respect thanks to the personal or business qualities, 2) imenovanija, connected with the Great Patriotic War, 3) imenovanija the Native land and Russian world, 4) symbolical words, 5) aktualizmy.

Let's present each group separately.

2.2.2.

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A source: VASILEVA MARGARITA IGOREVNA. NEW FUNCTIONS of the CAPITAL LETTER In MODERN RUSSIAN. The dissertation on competition of a scientific degree of a Cand.Phil.Sci. Tver - 2018. 2018

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