VSE-TAKI AS A MARKER OF MONOLOGICAL DISCOURSE CONTRADICTION

Abstract

Background. The research was carried out within the project «Oral history of Irkutsk and technologies oral history in an interdisciplinary perspective». An analysis of the array of in-depth interviews obtained during the implementation of the project reveals a significant number of fragments reflecting the internal conflict of the speaker’s ideas about some fragment of the real world, which is in the center of his attention at a certain moment of speech. A current issue is to identify linguistic and discourse markers that objectify the presence of this conflict. One of these markers is vse-taki to which the article is devoted.
 The purpose of the work is to clarify the idea of the status of this unit, its semantic, pragmatic and functional features, based on the understanding of the existing lexicographic tradition and the analysis of empirical material.
 The material of the research is the data of traditional explanatory dictionaries and the Active dictionary of the Russian language, as well as examples of contextual use of vse-taki, extracted from the RNC. Methods and techniques of definitional, structural-semantic, contextual and corpus analysis are used.
 The results of the research showed that vse-taki should be qualified as a particle which is used (a) as a marker of the opposition of the existing state of affairs to a hypothetical, but more standard one; (b) as a marker of the reason for the implementation of one of the two alternatives; (c) as a marker of the speaker’s emotional reaction to the coincidence of fragments of the mental and real world.
 The field of practical implications of the results is theoretical semantics and discourse analysis (including in social research). The results can be used in semantics, pragmatics, discourse theory university courses.