The letter as a component of correspondence in M. Kudryashov’s short story Storm of Letters

Abstract

Many researchers have noted the dialogic structure of the epistolary text. This article analyzes the linguistic realization of constitutive and regulative rules of dialogue-correspondence in Mari writer M. Kudryashov’s short story «Serysh Poran» (Storm of letters), which is compositionally constructed as alternating exchange of letters between main characters. The analysis revealed that modeling of reality is particularly vivid in the correspondence having been described in the short story. The reader learns much about the characters and about the story as a whole from the letters of the characters. Letters are distinguished by the high frequency of forms of address and sentences expressing different emotions and feelings.