Content and style markers of journalistic discourse in the book “March of the lonely” by S. Dovlatov
https://doi.org/10.26907/2658-3321.2023.6.1.26-35
Keywords:
discourse analysis, artistic discourse, journalistic discourse, discursive heterogeneity, interdiscursivity, discursive markersAbstract
The present article deals with a discourse analysis of the book “March of the Lonely” by S. Dovlatov. Compositionally consisting of 66 text parts – “editor's columns”, is carried out in order to identify the discursive heterogeneity, or interdiscursivity, of the artistic text field, realized through the “dialogue” of artistic and journalistic discourses. The research interest is focused on the identification and systematization of content and style markers perceived as author's “hints” that contribute to a more accurate “identification” different types of discourse (journalistic and artistic) in a single artistic whole by the addressee. In the course of the study, the following markers of journalistic discourse were found: the nature of the addressee, citation and autocitation, ideological interpretation of the events presented, explicitly expressed S. Dovlatov’s position. The author's originality in the book under study is ensured by the free switching of the narrative from the institutionality of journalism, that is, the realization of the writer's intention aimed at the ideological interpretation of the event, to fiction and imagery, explicating irony, comic effect. As a result of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that S. Dovlatov’s artistic method can be qualified as a discursive heterogeneity, which allows whimsically switching the ways of narration with the help of content and stylistic markers of journalistic and artistic discourses.
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