Author’s name:
Yang Xinyue – Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Abstract:
This article examines the functioning of imperative forms and their interaction with stage directions in the dialogues of Mikhail Bulgakov’s plays Batum, Flight, Ivan Vasilievich, and The Cabal of Hypocrites (Molière). As an important verbal category, the imperative mood has long attracted con-siderable attention in linguistic research. In dramatic works, the communicative intention of the imperative is realized through stage directions, which reveal implicit meanings and the sociopsychological relationships between the characters. However, the functional and grammatical characteristics of the linguistic elements occurring in stage directions have not yet been sufficiently investigated. The present study therefore focuses on the structural-semantic features of imperative forms in dialogue, as well as on a classification of stage directions according to their functional orientation (modal-emotional, kinetic, and structural-compositional). The methodological framework combines several linguistic methods, including descriptive analysis, structural-semantic analysis, contextual analysis, and textual analysis. The study contributes to a deeper understanding of the interaction between the verbal and nonverbal components of dramatic texts and also has practical value for the stage interpretation of Bulgakov’s plays by illuminating the nuances of character behavior conveyed through stage directions
| Section | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2022-58-2-76-87 |
| Downloads | 3 |
| Key words | predicate; action; pointing; the agent; the observer; the observed; perception |