“STARIK, TY GENIJ!” (“OLD MAN, YOU ARE A GENIUS!”). ABOUT ONE LANGUAGE MEANS OF EXPRESSING APPROVAL
The article is devoted to the sociolinguistic, pragmatic and etiquette aspects of the Russian literary and colloquial speech cliché “Old man, you are a genius!” found in documentary sources of the late 20th - early 21st centuries (memoirs, interviews, etc.). The study was carried out on the material of the Russian National Corpus (RNC), the electronic corpus of diaries Prozhito.org and the Internet. The results of a quantitative and qualitative sociolinguistic and pragmatic analysis of the contexts of the RNC, related to the assessment of creative achievements and containing a) the informal address starik “old man” and b) the whole cliché, are presented. The social (professional and gender) marking of the selected object is described.