Substandard linguopragmatic characteristics in the discursive fictional space of the early 21st century

Abstract

The article examines the linguo-pragmatic characteristics and function features of the substandard level vocabulary units in the fictional discourse of the early 21^st century. The substandard units of the language include slang and jargon from the prison camp and thieves’ jargon, as well as the jargon of military and youth groups. We analyze the discursive fictional space taking into account the ambivalence of the discourse concept and its characterization in terms of the cognitive approach, the semiotic and communicative-pragmatic approach, the sociolinguistic, cultural and psycholinguistic approaches. By discourse, we mean a multidimensional linguistic phenomenon that combines linguistic and speech practices, discourse activities and the text as the product of this activity. The study of the Russian-speaking discursive fictional space in the early 21^st century is based on the idea that its essence is associated with the understanding of a linguistic (discursive) personality of a communicative event, which is actualized by speech consciousness as an associative-figurative part of communication reflected in the text. Among the main functions of substandard units in the discursive Russian fictional space of the early 21^st century, the article highlights the following: expressing part of the modern society axiological values; reflecting social and ethnic stereotypes; representing the polycode, associated with intertextual categories of a literary text, and the cognitive and cumulative functions characteristic of the characters’ speech individualization.