DYNAMICS OF THE ESTATE SUPERTEXT FUNCTIONING
 IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE:
 SEMANTICS, SYNTACTICS, PRAGMATICS

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study the diachronic aspects of the supertext functioning as a semiosphere on the example of the estate supertext in Russian literature. Each fragment of the estate semiosphere, due to its iconic nature, is organized
 in accordance with the semiosis levels: semantics (a myth, a system of oppositions, motives and toposes), syntactics (linear connections between semantics
 components) and pragmatics (a communication system in the text, a subjective structure). In the iconic organization of the supertext, semantics refers to the paradigm
 level and composes an invariant system of values, which ensures the integrity of the supertext and the meaning continuity. The semantic components are concretized at the syntactic level in different contexts (the context of syntagma,
 the context of the author’s work, the historical context) and the plots (a consistent connection of motives and images). Out-of-text and in-text communications are reflected at the level of pragmatics (an author’s dialogue with tradition,
 various forms of quotations, involvement in aesthetic polemics of the era, inter-semiotic translation into different literary languages. Thus, syntactics and pragmatics refer to peripheral fragments that belong to the semiotic field of the estate text and they are primarily subject to changes in the diachronic development of the supertext. This semiotic model can become a universal one for studying the dynamic aspects of large supertext (overtext) formations/