The article considers surzhiks speech as a means of characterization in Les Podervyanskiy's play «The Tale of the Turnip, or Huli Is Not Clear?». The concept play of surzhik with reliance on the work of modern Ukrainian linguists is characterized and the separationof the concept of idiostyle as a determining principle of analysis of the literary text issubstantiated. The division of surzhik into «strong» and «easy», and into «Ukrainian»and «Russian» with the correlation of both typologies is presented. The role of surzhikin the literary speech of Les Podervyanskiy’s dramatic works has been clarified. Theopposition of codified speech and uncodified speech as the realization of the nationallanguage in the literary postmodernist text is considered.
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