THE TIME CATEGORY IN BUSINESS EPISTOLARY OF THE MANUFACTURER N.A. DEMIDOV
The article considers language means to express the time category in business texts of the second half of the 18th century from the State Archive of the Sverdlovsk Region. In the business epistolary of the Ural factory owner N.A. Demidov objective, real time, reflecting mining activity on the Ural in the XVIII century is presented. As a result of the analysis of business letters it was revealed that the time category is exposed by lexical and grammatical means of language, the use of which is compositional fixed: in the stating part there are the forms of the past and present, in the operative - the form of the future tense. In texts, the time category is characterized by such parameters as linearity, accuracy, uncertainty, and fleeting.