ЯЗЫКОВАЯ ИГРА В ПОВЕСТИ СЕРГЕЯ ДОВЛАТОВА «РЕМЕСЛО»

The article discusses the phenomenon of language game as Sergei Dovlatov’s artistic style individual feature. Using of different types of language game is an essential characteristic of Sergei Dovlatov’sidiostyle. The article performs the comparative analysis of Sergei Dovlatov’s soviet and emigrant periods of creative activity. In accordance with the classification of the language game from the point of semiotics semantic, syntactic and mixed language game are distinguished. All of the types of language game may be observed in the story "Remeslo". But their pragmatical parts and quantity in the story vary depending on the period of the author’s creative activity. As well examples of pragmatic language game in Sergei Dovlatov’s creativity (basing on the story "Remeslo") are analyzed and their parts in the idiostyle are determined. The principal functions of language game in Sergei Dovlatov’s artistic style of different periods are determined and compared