Abstract

The article examines peculiarities of using parentheses in V.V. Nabokov's lyrics and prose. The author characterizes the main directions of analysing parentheses in modern linguistics (analysis from the functional point of view, taking into account the genre specificity of the work in the aspect of communicative registers of speech, from the point of view of dialogue organization of the text, as a way of actualizing information in literary text, as a marker of actualizing irony, as a means of implementing the category of chronotope, as a means of organizing the metatextual structure of the work, as a syntactic construction and syntactic process, as a means of stylizing the literary text). The article determines the most characteristic functions of parentheses in the texts of the author, the connection of parentheses with various text levels, their role in the overall structure of the artistic text. Not only the most typical, but also the unique functions of parentheses in V. V. Nabokov's poetry and prose are described in detail. The author highlights the main aspects of language game in the framework of parentheses, as well as the means of interaction between the pa-rentheses and the main context in V. V. Nabokov's poetry and prose. The main functional features of the parentheses are determined in terms of the interaction of various informative and subject-speech plans of the text, intertextual rela-tions, as well as in terms of forming the spatial and temporal structure of the work. The analysis carried out in this study identifies the most typical functions of parentheses in V. V. Nabokov's works: switching (and combining) different tem-poral plans of the work, modeling communication between the narrator and the reader (organizing a conversational game with the reader), motivating the artistic image, detailing, forming comparisons, and conveying evaluative infor-mation.

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