Remarque in fairy tale and non-fairy tale text: the problem of speech genre
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-5294-2024-7-2-10-25
Abstract
The article raises the problem of the speech-genre status of remarks, by which the narrator accompanies his or her narration. The question of the boundaries of these elements and their relations with the folklore text (fairy tale and non-fairy tale prose), on the basis of which they arise and exist, is investigated. The principal differences between commentary in a fairy tale and in a mythological story and the reasons for these differences are revealed. It is established that the key parameter distinguishing the text of folktale narrative and commentary is the image of the author, as the change of the status of the subject of speech changes the genre. It is also important that each type of subject is correlated with a certain chronotope corresponding to it as a constitutive feature of the subject of speech.
The problem of the relationship of the narrator’s remarks with the narrative text is discussed using the methodology of speech genre theory. It is proposed to consider the narrator’s commentary as an element (microgenre) of the macro-genre “interview/conversation”, breaking through into the folklore text (secondary genre). The speech deictic mode inherent to colloquial speech and, accordingly, to the macrogenre “conversation” manifests itself in the narrator’s remarks, which immediately marks the speaker’s “exit” from the fairy-tale text into a real communicative situation, whereas in the case of mythological stories it is imperceptible due to the similarity of the modality and deixis of these texts with the speech substratum.
About the Author
V. A. Chervaneva
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Victoria A. Chervaneva, Cand. of Sci. (Philology), associate professor
Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, Russia, 125047
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Chervaneva V.A. Remarque in fairy tale and non-fairy tale text: the problem of speech genre. Folklore: Structure, Typology, Semiotics. 2024;7(2):10-25. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-5294-2024-7-2-10-25
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