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Взрослый язык детской литературы оттепели
In the framework of the 1953 critical discussion about honesty in children’s literature from 1953—1954, a dramatic popularization of writers’ communities occurred, the reason for which was the style of literary writing. In this article, a quantitative statistical analysis of the works by participants of this discussion is undertaken: supporters of the Thaw’s aesthetic program and their opponents, who defended the existing canons of socialist realist writing for children. An analysis of the distribution of lexical, grammatical, and syntactical characteristics shows that the Thaw style is characterized by less frequent mentions of emotion and more attention toward negative emotions, and it is more semantically abstract and has more syntactically complex language.