CLARIFYING FUNCTIONS OF PARENTHETIC CONSTRUCTIONS IN LITERARY TEXT

Abstract

M. A. Aldanov, A. Bely, I. A. Bunin, E. I. Zamyatin, I. A. Ilf and E. P. Petrov, V. V. Nabokov, M. A. Osorgin, B. A. Pilnyak, M. I. Tsvetaeva) and texts of the contemporary Russian literature of the recent decades (works of E. G. Vodolazkin, B.Kenzheyev, A. A. Matveeva, I. F. Sakhnovsky, T. Solomatina, L. E. Ulitskaya). The article analyzes the basic trends of studying parenthetic constructions (in terms of gender linguistics, delinearisation of speech, link of parenthetic constructions to the main content of the utterance, chronotopos organization, peculiarities of their use in texts representing certain genres and literary movements). The article points out the most typical functions of parenthetic constructions with regard to clarifying information, addresses the question of their correlation with different text levels, and defines their role in the general structure of a literary text. It is noted that such constructions specify the concept presented in the scope of the main context by referring to its form or kind or emphasizing its most important notional component. The following functional types of parenthetic constructions can be distinguished in terms of way of clarification: constructions expressing direct explication, explication via component enumeration, explication by exemplification, explication via component exclusion, explication via informative extension, explication-accentuation via component repetition.