Русские лубки XVII - XVIII вв. как лингвистический источник изучения народной речи (просторечия) того времени

Russian XVII-XVIII century pop-prints (“lubok”) as a source for the studies of a colloquial language of those times

The article is devoted to the studies of Russian colloquial language of XVII-XVIII centuries based upon analysis of lubok texts. All of everyday informal speech of those times can be described as colloquial language. The full scope of it takes the most evident shape in the form of pop-prints, which form “entertaining pages” section under D.I.Rovinskiy classification. The article studies the forms of colloquial language in those prints, based on extensive material examples. The vulgar vocabulary, related to the “material and bodily bottoms”, takes the special position within colloquial vocabulary. The article analyses other forms of those times’ colloquial language: colloquial lexemes, the imperfections in syntactic constructs, irregularity in orthographical and stylistic systems of luboks’ language in XVII-XVIII.