"Time with Dislocated Joints" (on Literary Ideologemes in Yu. Polyakov's Prose)
The principles and means for embodiment the writer's idea to outline ideology of the epoch in the literary text are the subject of research. Recognizing the need to combine the literary and linguistic analysis of the literary prose, the author of article analyzes language forms from the point of view of the peculiarities of conveying the ideological content by them. Ideologemes in the well-known modern writer Yu. Polyakov's prose are considered to be “the minimized meanings”, markers, reference points by which the reader can form an opinion on the “spirit of the age”, described in works, and at the same time understand the writer's sarcastic interpretation of the events of the epoch. The author focuses on the means like the way of semantic actualization, the repetition of negative pronouns and particles, filling the text with abbreviations. It is emphasized that abbreviations in the novels by Yu. Polyakov have not only the nominative function, but expose an essence of dominating ideology, express a condition of inspirituality. According to the author, the abbreviation process is revealed in the novels as a morbid speech mutation caused by the epoch. The peculiarities of Yu. Polyakov's image of the epoch ideological component are compared with typical methods and features of the literary narration which are found in the works by V. Dyogtev, V. Shukshin, M. Saltykov-Schedrin.