LETTERED WORDS IN CHINESE LITERATURE OF THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY (BASED ON LU XUN’S WORKS)

Abstract

The article considers lettered words as a special stylistic device of Lu Xun’s works, as well as the periodization of his works, built on the principle of changing the number of used lettered words. The author analyzed the stories included in the collection “Call to Arms”, relating to the second period of the writer’s work, selected lettered words of stories, identified the main lexical categories, grammatical and stylistic functions of the selected vocabulary. The author concluded that the Lu Xun did not use lettered words in order to name objects in a Western way, he endowed them with special functions, invested special meaning in them.