Functional and Expressive Potential of Emotive Interjections in a Text Dialogue (Based on the Material of V. M. Shukshin’s Stories)

Aim.  To conduct the analysis of functional parameters and communicative properties of interjections as expressivizers of communicative reactions represented in a text dialogue. To define, describe, and systematize the functions of emotive interjections in the individualization of characters’ images in the semantic space of the author’s text.

Methodology. The  research base of the work was developed by means of functional and descriptive methods used to analyze the functions of emotive interjections in a text dialogue, to describe the features of expressivization by interjections of communicative reactions of subjects, systematization of modus-expressive meanings actualized by interjections, as well as differentiation of semantic shades in the communicative field of the author’s text. 

Results.  The  paper analyzes the features of the functioning of emotive interjections in the expressivization of dialogue, establishes the communicative functions of these interjections in the semantic space of the author’s text, clarifies the functional parameters of emotive interjections as representatives of emotional and psychological subject reactions. It is proved that emotive interjections in the dialogues of a literary text manifest themselves as multifunctional speech amplifiers, words used by the artist to individualize the images of characters in the text evaluation zone. The functional and communicative-pragmatic properties of emotive interjections as means of expressing the subject’s personal opinion through the representation of multilayered psychological reactions are determined. The aspects of the speaker’s speech impact on the addressee in a text dialogue with the help of emotive interjections are analyzed.

Research implications.  The  theoretical and practical significance is based on the generalization of theoretical and practical data obtained during the study of the stated scientific problem. One of the vectors of the development of the functional and expressive resource of linguistic means in text dialogues is investigated on the basis of identifying and systematizing the functional parameters of interjections in the semantic space of a literary text when individualizing the images of characters through the communicative reactions expressivized by them. The proposed way of analyzing the stated research problem is theoretically justified and practically tested: from establishing the communicative and pragmatic functions of emotive interjections in a text dialogue to analyzing the specifics of functioning of the considered linguistic means as vivid expressivizers of the literary text semantic space.

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