The peculiarities of the tale manner in the story “The Summer of the
Lord” by I.S. Shmelev, which reveal themselves as relying on oral and socially definite
speech, are examined in the article. The features of popular language which are manifested
in the tale narration at all levels of language – in phonetics, lexis, word formation,
morphology – are the object of analysis in the article. The study of the language of
the story is carried out from the practical viewpoint of a Russian language teacher.
Keywords
tale; popular language; lexis; phonetics; word formation; morphology.
