HUMANITARIAN RESEARCHES

Journal of fundamental and applied researches

On the issue of a new trend in standardization of the Russian language (Brazilian coffee (masculine) or Brazilian coffee (neuter)?)

2017. №3, pp. 44-51

Khalidov Aysa I. - Dоctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Chechen State Pedagogical University, 364068, Russia, Grozny, 62 Ave. H. Isayev, halidov_aisa@mail.ru

Innovations in the standardization of the Russian literary language, approved by a well-known order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation № 195 of June 08, 2009, can only be called norm-setting. It is a tendency to devaluate the concept of "literary language", in fact - to destruction of literary (processed, standardized) language. Not only colloquial, but also vernacular variants of pronunciation of grammatical forms are raised to the rank of the literary norm. The assertion that there is a solid scientific basis for these innovations is not convincing, and a vivid example of the weakness or lack of scientific argumentation of double or even triple “norms” of use, for example, of various forms, is the recommendation to use the word "coffee" both in muscular and neuter gender. The rejection of the masculine gender and the recommendation to use coffee only in the neuter gender could be welcomed, but it is difficult to understand how the linguists (if they did participate in the decision-making on the four known dictionaries) could actually classify the indeclinable, not belonging to the category of personal and animate nouns, as bigender or nouns of a common gender, to which they can not belong. If for all that the linguists took part in this (we do not mean the authors of the dictionaries), then, apparently, the desire to please that part of society which, being unable to learn and observe the norms of the literary language, take advantages of the available levers to fit the literary language for their poor speech, prevailed.

Key words: литературный язык, норма, грамматическая норма, грамматический род, двуродовые слова, общий род, родовые варианты

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