Basic Reporting Verbs as Markers of the Author’s Idiostlyle

This article reveals the peculiarities of idiostyles referring to works by nineteenth-century classical Russian writers (F. M. Dostoevsky, L. N. Tolstoy, A. P. Chekhov, and I. S. Turgenev). Based on intertext inter-style statistical comparison, author aims reveal lexical compatibility some individual particularities using frequent reporting verbs in literary texts belonging same period. The research is methodologically based ideographic approach text analysis which takes into consideration internal correlations existing between paradigmatics syntagmatics. Lexical bigrams (pairs words used one phrase context) are taken as a unit comparative lexicostatistical contextological analysis. Word combinations this type writer different texts, though they not found other authors. only obligatory element bigram word often all question it specific patterns an author’s work with language material (such сказать (‘say’), спросить (‘ask’), ответить (‘answer’), заметить (‘note’) very representative for purpose). So-called “idiostylistic markers” most frequently describe moment speech identified each question. draws conclusions about specificity these stylistic patterns. Author-specific shows that contexts extracted from novels use verb отвечать (‘answer’) prevails involves expression emotions. замечать F. psychological perceptional other. argues говорить (‘say’) introducing direct typical А. Chekhov’s idiostyle where syntactically combined adverbial participles denoting various nonspeech actions drawing reader’s attention particular detail. промолвить (‘utter’) Turgenev’s implicit but semantically important concepts speech, thought, motion.