Abstract
Firs-person narratives involve constructing of self, conceptualization of reality, analysis of one’s personal experience, and moral implications. Folkloristic methods help discover all these implications by underlining textual parallels, speech genres, formulas, motifs, etc. The article explores the mechanisms that help to form the image of Aesopian language in interviews with urban dwellers of different generations. Each interview corresponds to reality in a complex and indirect way. For instance, the article gives examples of anecdotes and anecdote-like stories, comical and didactic stories about communicative gaps, and formulas, such as “Sofia Vlasievna, the name for Soviet regime”, used in interviews, but also in press and literature. Basing on the material of interviews, we can explore not so much the practices of Aesopian language in late Soviet time, but the complex of motifs that form the image of this phenomena. It is important for the worldview of both those who lived in late Soviet times and the younger generation – those who were children at that time.
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