Great and mighty norms of the Russian language

Modern Russian is not as modern as many people think. Its formation began at the time of the great Russian poet AS Pushkin, and during this rather impressive period its structure and sounding changed only in particular, without violating the common traditional foundations.

And yet the norms of the Russian language have undergone some changes and have taken shape in the system of modern linguistics. It is impossible to talk about the category of correctness of speech, not relying on language norms. Normalization is an indispensable guarantee of the correct literary language. Of course, illiterate speech is not a crime, unlike ignorance of the rules of the road, for example. However, it is very difficult to imagine a country in which one fine morning would decide to give up language norms. For someone, of course, this day will be a great holiday, but most probably will arrange a rally on the occasion. A reasonable person understands that the norms of the Russian language are on guard of common unity and mutual understanding.

The norms of the modern Russian literary language cover oral and written speech. They are due to a number of factors: the laws of language development, cultural traditions of society. Norms regulate the speech behavior of people, they reflect the historical aspects of language and are used not only in literary masterpieces, but also by everyone who considers himself an educated person.

The norm of the Russian language is a model that reflects the actual period of development of a literary language, but at the same time includes the past and even the future, being a part of it. The norm is necessary for the infinite connection of generations. It transmits information through the intelligible code, carries out the main function of the language - the cultural one.

However, it is worth going directly to the norms. For sure, many remember them from school. It can not be said that their list or content has radically changed during this time. You can make sure of this by opening any tutorial on the Russian language.

Norms of the Russian language

• Orthoepic norms define competent pronunciation.
• Lexical regulate the correctness of the choice of a word in accordance with its meaning and general context. Special technical explanatory dictionaries and reference books will help you to get rid of doubts.
• Grammar regulates the rules of education, word changes, and the construction of proposals. The word-formation norms of the Russian language are included in the grammatical structure along with morphological and syntactic ones.
• Stylistic determine the correctness of the use of the language unit in accordance with the stylistics of the content.
• Orthographic includes a number of rules for writing words.
• Punctuation regulate the use of punctuation marks.
• Intonation and stress rates refer to special norms of oral speech. Here, some sources add an orthoepic norm.

No matter how "threatening" the language norms may sound, their study can be turned into an exciting game-journey through the vast and mighty expanses. And their knowledge will make it possible to remove the label of the ignorant from themselves and hang the order of the connoisseur of the Russian literary language.