The Role of the Attitude in the Syntax of Artistic Speech (based on the Material of the Satirical Miniature play by V. Ardov “This is What Your References Did...»)

Abstract

The question of the role of the attitude as an explanatory tool in the syntax of belles-lettres is considered. The relevance of the study is due to the following: in the theory of belles-lettres, there is no generally accepted idea of how the syntactic form acquires aesthetic significance. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that the idea of the attitude, which is interpreted differently in the theory of belles-lettres, receives a new impulse for development based on the concept of D. N. Uznadze. Through the prism of the attitude, an analysis of the realizations of the syntactic form of sequential subordination of subordinate predicative constructions in the satirical play-miniature of V. Ardov “This is what your references did ...” has been performed. It is shown that the speech system, in which the uses of this syntactic form are combined, is formed on the basis of their common participation in the embodiment of a satirical attitude, putting them on the background of other syntactic units, inclusion in a syntactic experiment that reflects the dynamics of a satirical collision, performing compositional organizing, visual and suggestive functions. It is noted that when the satirical unit is “connected” to the attitude of the syntactic form of sequential submission in polynomial complex sentences, there is an orientation both to the constructive model and, in particular, to its various violations.

Keywords

• attitude
• syntax
• polynomial compound sentence
• sequential subordination of subordinate predicative constructions
• belles-lettres
• satire