What are statements? Russian statements. Great sayings

Each of us speaks and puts thoughts in verbal form. But for some reason, not everything that we say becomes quoted. Most often they repeat the phrases of famous people who for some reason crashed into people's memory. What are statements and how to make your even the most ordinary thought become a winged expression transmitted from mouth to mouth? Let's try to find out.

Theory of times

According to the definition, a sentence is a separate sentence, correct from the point of view of grammar, which is perceived exclusively in conjugation with its meaning and is true or false. The last quality of an utterance is determined based on its correspondence to reality. If you go into psychology and analyze different types of statements, you can find information about their different types based on the structure. For example, statements-negations that contradict each other; Statements, conditions, connected with the words "if something" and so on; I-statements (I think), you-statements (you're wrong) and the like; Some other categories.

Theory Two

But, probably, all these questions of dry theory are not too relevant for the topic, what are statements in the sense of the literary and, if it is possible to say, universal. More often we understand by this word a certain thought, an assertion pronounced by an authoritative person, perceived as certainly true. Yes, not all replicas of well-known and not very personal persons can be considered citations. So where is the line between a meaningless phrase and a truly great statement?

Where from?

Analyzing the mechanism for the formation of quotations is not easy, does not matter, whether Russian statements are or not. At first glance, everything is clear: from the context one separate phrase stands out, either existing independently, or changing its meaning without a certain environment, repeats itself many times and, having already fixed in the memory of people, becomes a quote. And sometimes this consolidation is not even required - it is enough just to separate the idea from the context. For example, well-known Russian statements are by no means always familiar to absolutely everyone: there are remarks that cause an automatic response because of their fame ("Feel not in your ..." will be easily supplemented with the word "plate"), while others will cause difficulty and At the most erudite ("Who loves the rain ..." the correct ending "rains and fire"). That is, there is a kind of gradation. But regardless of whether the quotes are known or not, there is always something catchy in them.

Great and mighty

Statements about the Russian language - this is a whole layer of Russian-language phrases. It's easier to call someone who did not say anything about the great and mighty (which, by the way, was also one of the utterances). Let's begin to collect statements, perhaps, from the classics.

Kuprin, for example, said that the Russian language in skilled hands and experienced lips is beautiful, singing, expressive, flexible, obedient, cute and capacious. And is it possible to disagree with him? In its sounding, our native speech really stands out among European languages, differing even from related Slavic ones. The system of synonyms and antonyms in it is enormous - one word can be replaced by almost a dozen others, if it is originally Russian, of course, and they are so multifunctional that they are amazing: the same word, depending on the context, can have completely different meanings . Well, how can I disagree with such an assessment?

Great and mighty from the side

I would like to quote more statements about the Russian language of those who are familiar with our culture only by hearsay, that is, it is not its bearer. Friedrich Engels, one of the founders of the overwhelming Marxism, compared his native German and Russian, and in favor of the latter, believing that he has all the properties of German, but does not have his rudeness. Indeed, in their grammatical system, Russian and German are very similar - the same changes in the endings of nouns depending on the case, the variability of the verb forms and many other qualities that are alien to the other European. I would like to end this section with the words of Jared Leto, the same idol of youth as once Engels: "The Russian language should be respected, not played with it." Again, we can not but agree: it is in the literary form, revered and cherished, that our language is revealed in all its beauty.

All variety of language

And what do they say about other dialects? What other well-known statements about the language exist?

Homer once in his words embodied the basic principle of the existence of mankind: "What word will you say - this and you will hear," that is, he perceives language as a means of communication, rather than a specific dialect or adverb. S. Lets warns: "Speak cleverly: the enemy eavesdrops," that is, here we are talking about language as a means of demonstrating one's intellect, prestige, if one may say so, awareness on certain issues. "Well expressed thought sounds clever in all languages" - D. Dryden believed, perceiving the language already as a distinctive sign of the people, emphasizing his originality. That is, we can safely say that the great statements on the language are not fixed only on one aspect of it, they try to cover as many values as possible. How multifaceted and vast the language itself, so many-sided opinions about it.

Statements from the people

How to understand what statements are, if to them it is possible to include almost any phrase that has any meaning at all? And why are "statements", though not "Tales", with a capital letter, to emphasize the importance, the phrases of precisely known personalities become, can ordinary people not say something that could well remain in human memory? I would like to cite as examples of the statement about the Russian man and his way of life from "Russian Radio" - those who understand these simple people the best. What is worth one thing only: "Quietly go - less Russian", simultaneously referring to the proverb, and to Gogol's "What Russian does not like fast driving". Continuing the theme of the play of words, one can not help recalling "The fisherman hates the fisherman for sure" - there is still in our nature, albeit generous and friendly, this competition. Well, which has become canonical "Stop the Earth, I'll Go" - how often you want to shout these simple words, but still we all clench our teeth and continue to make our way "through thorns to the stars," as Seneca said.

Truth or lie

Based on the interpretation of what such statements are, we realized: they can consider any sentence with its meaning, which is true or false. But at the same time, for some reason, almost all the quotations we subconsciously perceive as an exclusive truth, even beyond doubt. For example, the hero of one of the cult Soviet movies believed that we forgot how to do stupid things, and at the same time we stopped climbing to the windows of our beloved women. But is this statement true? Yes, maybe the part about stupid things is fair, but is it possible to relate the desire to climb windows with stupidity? It turns out that part of the phrase should be perceived as a lie, while the other will remain true? Hegel believed that only contradictions, especially taken to the extreme, become mobile, so that the choice between the truth and the lie of the utterance is another choice for each person, which must be done independently, rather than relying on the opinion of the majority.

It does not matter whether the Russians are speaking out or not, they are dedicated to language, exact sciences or at all to some abstract topics. The main thing is to understand: each of us is free to choose what he considers a worthy and interesting statement, and that does not represent any value for him.