Oh my god, you’re my little pavlik! (on the forms and roles of spelling in artistic text)

Abstract

Traditionally two forms of language are distinguished – spoken and written ones. Both forms of a language have many specific characteristics but also some common features and points of contact. The article presents and comments rich and varied alternatives within lexical orthography (differences between big and small initial letters), morphological orthography (using defect endings) and syntactic orthography (the absence of punctuation marks) as well as the examples of their functional usage in a literary text (the above mentioned forms of orthography can be combined in various ways).