About Predication in the Texts by V. Astafiev (Based on the Material of the Story “Trophy Cannon”)
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5008-2024-3-8-15
Abstract
Aim. The study of the colloquial verbs as a means of predication, characterizing such an idiosyncratic feature of V. Astafiev’s texts as “cruel realism”.
Methodology. From the text of V. Astafiev’s short story “Trophy Cannon”, verb words, that belong to colloquial vocabulary, were purposefully selected. An important feature of the idiostyle for the author is revealed with their help. It is connected with the use of the stylistic potential and connotative halo of these units: the creation of truthful pages of prose about the war, outlined with “brutal realism”. The methods of analysis used are the description of the semantics of verbal vocabulary with the involvement of lexicographic sources, elements of component analysis, interpretation, contextual and stylistic analysis.
Results. The study showed V. Astafyev’s fidelity to the principle of truthful, unvarnished and retouched depiction of war, a psychologically subtle, philosophically meaningful reflection of the characters and behavior of people in conditions of military life – the special existence. It is shown, that not only in the famous novel “Cursed and Killed”, but also in the story “Trophy Cannon”, published in the magazine “Znamya” in 2001, at the end of his life, such an idiosyncratic feature as “cruel realism” remains inherent in the writer’s prose – the constant of works about the war with Nazi Germany.
Research implications. The study confirms the importance of studying the means of predication to characterize the idiosyncrasies of the writer, to identify / confirm its constants; the results can be used in the study of creativity, language and style of V. Astafiev, in university courses of stylistics and lexicology as illustrative material.
About the Author
V. V. Ledeneva
Federal State University of Education
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Valentina V. Ledeneva – Dr. Sci. (Philological Sciences), Prof., Prof., Department of Modern Russian named after Prof. P. A. Lekant; Academician of International Teacher’s Training Academy Of Science
ul. Very Voloshinoi 24, Mytishchi 141014, Moscow Region
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