LANGUAGE MEANS AND TEXT TACTICS USED TO CREATE IMAGE OF STALIN’S HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS

Abstract

The article studies the linguistic means and textual tactics of creating the image of Stalin’s high-rise buildings in the monographs by N.A. Kuleshov and A.I. Pozdnev “High-Rise Buildings of Moscow” (1954) and A.A. Vaskin “Stalin’s Skyscrapers: from the Palace of Soviets to Tall Buildings” (2009). Through specific linguistic means and tactical methods of text construction used by the authors, two views on the high-rise buildings of the Stalin’s serving in office and the historical context of their construction are revealed: one of the views belongs to the contemporaries of construction, who had the task to designate the cultural and political significance of monumental buildings erected in Moscow, the second one is related to the position of a modern researcher. The research is carried out within the framework of the communicative-functional approach; the four-stage scheme of text analysis developed by G.A. Zolotova and the model of text interpretation by K.A. Dolinin are taken as a basis.