SOME STRATEGIES OF PLACING PUNCTUATION MARKS IN GRAFFITI-TEXTS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of graffiti. The researchers have focused on the punctuation marks that scriptwriters (people creating graffiti) use. The work is based on about three hundred graffiti-texts. All the material is analyzed according to the rules and punctuation norms of the Russian language. All the data are processed in a uniform way, and allows to identify the understanding among scriptwriters of punctuation marks and analyze their strategies for dividing texts. The researchers use the method worked out by K.I. Belousov to create graphic and semantic model that shows an alternative structure of the semantic proximity in the objects under consideration, which is based on the maximum manifestation indicators of a particular factor. The manner of writing is revealed in certain strategies of graphic and speech behavior, chosen by the author. In these strategies there appeared an individual set of graphic skills peculiar to the graffiti creators. The paper distinguishes 7 types of writing in producing the texts. All texts are divided into two groups according to the type of scriptwriters writing. The first group includes authors whose texts are characterized by the normative use of punctuation marks. Creators of the graffiti belonging to the second group either ignore the marks at all, or make up their own rules for dividing texts.