Changing points of view as a device in the texts of oral tradition. On the issue of the observer in folklore
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2022-4-201-215
Abstract
The problem of the relationship between the narrator and the observer in the text has traditionally been considered in relation to the material of fiction. Analysis of folklore texts shows that the observer as a text category has a universal character. This position is also quite relevant for the texts of the oral tradition, and the most diverse genres. The article examines the position of the observer in mythological narratives (in the modern and archaic narrative tradition), in spells and in lyric song on the example of the use of grammatical forms of the 1st person in these texts. The focus of attention is such a feature of the observer in the text as the movement of his position, that is, the switching of this function between the subjects. The linguistic means used to express the observer’s position in folklore texts is the grammatical forms of the 1st person. The subject of observation can change throughout the text, while the expression of the observer’s position by the forms of the 1st person is carried out throughout the entire text, and this becomes possible by switching grammatical modes.
Supporting agencies: The research has been fulfilled within the project of Russian State University for the Humanities “Mythological-ritual and discursive practices in the context of living traditions” (competition “Project research teams of the RSUH”).
About the Author
V. A. Chervaneva
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Victoria A. Chervaneva,Cand. of Sci. (Philology), associate professor
bld. 6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047
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Chervaneva V.A. Changing points of view as a device in the texts of oral tradition. On the issue of the observer in folklore. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2022;(4(2)):201-215. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2022-4-201-215
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