COMMUNICATIVE-COGNITIVE POTENTIAL OF SPECIFIC TEXT ELEMENTS IN RUSSIAN ABSURD DRAMA OF LATE 20TH CENTURY
The article is devoted to the identifi cation of communicative and cognitive potential of specifi c text elements in the Russian absurd drama of the twentieth century, involved in the formation of the absurd: <i>the fragmentary repetition, insert elements, intertextual inclusions, metatext elements, fragments, describing the involvement of the audience in the action on stage. </i>The study suggests that in the process of creating such texts the author implements a specifi c communicative speech strategy, using for that appropriate tactics. Consequently, communicative and cognitive potential of the considered text elements is signifi cant and is effectively used in the authors discursive practice