ECONOMIC FACTOR IN DIARY DISCOURSE: THE TRIGGER OF TEXT FORMATION AND ITS CONTRADICTIONS (DIARY RECORDS OF YEVHEN CHIKALENKO 1925–1929)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17721/folia.philologica/2024/7/8Keywords:
diary discourse, factors of text formation, Yevhen Chikalenko, discourse analysis, text semantics and pragmatics, autocommunicationAbstract
The paper deals with the pragmalinguistic analysis of the diary records of Yevhen Chikalenko, a famous figure of the Ukrainian culture. They reflect his activities during his emigration to Czechoslovakia in the 20s of 20th century. Ye. Chikalenko’s diary is characterized by a number of non-standartized features and should be considered a special case within the framework of diary discourse. The analysis is carried out using the methods developed in previous publications of the author, in particular, such tools as the role model of the text formation subject. The main purpose of the study is to reveal the mechanism by which contradictions arise in the process of text formation. So, the paper includes: 1) a description of the features of diary keeping and atypical strategies for creating a separate record; 2) discussion of the conceptualization’s role in diary keeping suggested by the writer himself; 3) analysis of verbal representation of pragmatic roles of the diary text formation subject in these records (based on the role model). The analysis showed that the process of text formation in this case is accompanied by the emergence of contradictions between the intimate nature of the diary as a text type developed by culture, and the public nature of the information, between auto-addressing and addressing to another. The source of these contradictions was the purpose of keeping records formulated by the writer himself (collecting data for “the history of our revival”). At the same time, the trigger for diary keeping was the economic factor: text creation in this case was considered by the diarist as profit-generating and an object for sale. In addition, the economic factor influenced the subject matter of the recordings, in which a significant place belongs to the statements on the poor financial situation of the diarist, which reflect the autocommunicative component of this diary activity.
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