ЯЗЫКОВЫЕ СРЕДСТВА СКАЗОВОГО ПОВЕСТВОВАНИЯ В РАССКАЗЕ А. Ф. ПИСЕМСКОГО «ИСТОРИЯ О ПЕТУХЕ»

Abstract

The article presents a philological analysis of the system of linguistic means that determine the stylistic distinctness of the story by Alexei Feofilaktovich Pisemsky «The tale of the rooster» (1865). The purpose of the study is to identify the structural, semantic and pragmatic properties of the textual key elements that create a speech portrait of the narrator, dialogize his story and provide the semantic integrity of the narrative. The study of linguistic techniques and means of stylization of the colloquial speech in a tale is based on the peculiarities of the subject-speech organization in a work of fiction: the convergence of the first person narrator’s speech and the storyteller’s speech, forming a two-voiced narration; a variety of artistic dialogues that reproduce the folk speech of peasants and district police officers. The pragmatic potential of the analyzed linguistic units is manifested in their active influence on the composition and content organization of the fairy tale narration. The article also examines the key metaphorical images created by the lexico-phraseological and syntactic means. A careful consideration in the analysis is also given to hyperbolic comparative patterns and gradation series, which are expressive characteristics of events and characters’ actions. The fictional dialogues are analyzed in detail, revealing the main conflict of the fairy tale narration: the clash of a greedy and hypocritical police officer with the village peasants who seek to avoid the discontent of the authorities at any cost. The key semantic elements combine separate compositional parts of the story into a common narrative space and enhance the dynamics of the action. Dialogization of the narrative monologue is carried out by including the direct speech of the characters and the active interaction of the subject-speech plans of the narrator and the primary storyteller. The comic undertone in a fairy tale narration is created by textual repetitions of different types, parallel syntactic constructions and gradation series, contextual synonymy and antonymy, evaluative vocabulary and phraseology, which forms the emotiveness of a literary text and conveys the irony of the narrator in relation to the events depicted, as well as the changing feelings and moods of a hypocritical police official. As a result of the study of the linguistic features in the story by A. F. Pisemsky «The tale of the rooster», the author of the article brings into focus a system of speech means and stylization techniques that determine the peculiarities of the tale narration and have a high pragmatic potential, as well as explicate the conceptual content of the text and ensure its structural and semantic integrity.