Complex Techniques of Dialogicity in Author’s Speech of V. M. Shukshin’s Stories-Essays

Abstract

The problem of the dialogicity as a constitutional principle that organizes the texts of short fiction by V. M. Shukshin is covered. The material of the study are the writer’s stories-essays, which are characterized by intertwining the essay trends and genre characteristics of short stories, anecdote and scenes. The object of the research is the author’s speech; the subject of the research is the complex methods of dialogicity functioning in the speech part of the narrator of short stories-essays. The aim of the work is to analyze complex methods of dialogicity and to determine their role in the author’s speech of stories-essays. The mechanism of dialogicity of V. M. Shukshin’s texts is considered on the basis of the analysis of a separate group of poetic techniques functioning in the author’ speech of short stories-essays. As the methods of the dialogic spectrum proper, the article describes the dialogization and citation, which are structurally and semantically important elements determined by the communicative task of the author. It is established that the functioning of the methods of the dialogic spectrum proper is supported by syntactic-stylistic techniques: parcelling, insertion, lexical repetition. It is shown that the complex functioning of the techniques leads to the formation of polyphony within the speech party of the narrator, as a result of which the monosubject of the narrative, peculiar to the genre form of the essay, is lost. The author proves that within the author’s speech additional narrative links are explicated, immersing the reader in the polyphony of voices, different points of view.

Keywords

• language of v. m. shukshin’s prose
• story-essay
• author’s speech
• dialogue
• methods of text dialogization