URBAN MARKERS OF MODERN UKRAINIAN DRAMA DISCOURSE

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyse verbal markers presenting the content of urban space in author’s theatrical remarks, character’s speech, definition of informative dominants prevailing in the texts of modern Ukrainian Drama. The object of this study is description of urban space in theatrical notes & verbal reflections connected with life in the city & groups of characters.The material of the research is the texts of Ukrainian drama of the end of 20th – the beginning of the 21st century. Methodical background is elements of descriptive, contextual methods & discourse-analy- sis. In the course of the study there were received such results: two ways of description of urban space in theatrical notes were found out: external & internal. Descriptions of streets & parks are the ways of external approach in presenting of urban space; descriptions of dwellings, offices & other establishments are the ways of internal approach in its presenting. Reconstructions of external urban space are outlined mostly with marks of negative connotation (preservation of two walls, the clock with empty face), and internal — addition to the description of the heroes characteristics (On the loggia of Antony there is a chair and the table with an ashtray on it. On the loggia of Petrovich there is also a chair and a table, but with the heap of newspapers and binoculars on it). Verbal reflections of the characters recreate various interpretations : as the space for implementing of dreams, ideas, projects; as contradiction to the nature; as space being traumatic but as one presenting recollections of personal life. Conclusions: urban space is represented in the texts of modern Ukrainian dramaturgy by various levels of markers: in the author’s remarks and in character reflections.