V.F. DUKHOVSKAYA’S MEMORIES: GENRE AND LINGUISTIC FEATURES

Abstract

The book “From my Memories” by V.F. Dukhovskaya is an example of a special text type – a mnemonic text, the author is in the center of the memory of. The memoirs of V.F. Dukhovskaya are interesting not only from the history point of view, but also from a linguistic and cultural aspect: the text of the memoirs contains linguistic representations of the epoch, the specifics of the author’s worldview and the ethnocultural specifics of the context of the region described in the book. The object of the study is chapters of the book devoted to the Far East of the Russian Empire, as well as chapters describing the author’s travels through Asian cities. The subject of the work was the genre and linguistic features of the text-memoirs of V.F. Dukhovskaya. The article describes the main genre characteristics of the text, reveals the gender specificity of memories. The linguistic analysis of the text is performed on the basis of two plans of memories: content-factual and content-conceptual. In the content-factual plan of the narrative, the main linguistic means of representing the exact events of the author’s life are described: toponyms, exotic vocabulary, anthroponyms, dates. The content-conceptual narrative plan contains linguistic ways of representing the author’s worldview, her assessment of reality, people around her, and the linguistic field of the author’s identity. The general position of V.F. Dukhovskaya is characterized by a high level of his and ethnocentrism, which is reflected in the system of assessments of her status and other people, including nationality. As a result of the analysis, a conclusion is made about the genre specifics of women’s diary entries from the era of the Russian Empire. The research has a high level of practical significance – the results can be used in the practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language. The text of memoirs is defined as a means of forming socio-cultural and intercultural competencies.