Lexico-semantic groups of dialectisms in N.V. Gogol's story "The Night Before Christmas"

This article presents a detailed analysis of the dialect vocabulary found in N.V. Gogol's story "The Night Before Christmas" from the cycle "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka." It highlights the ideological and artistic functions of the dialect in the text based on specific examples, provides a classification of dialectical words, and contains a number of theoretical judgments about the language of the writer's works and his contribution to the subsequent development of Russian literature. During the research process, two main functions of dialectical words in the structure of N.V. Gogol's literary texts were identified: characterological and nominative.