Time and space of a lifes way in dialect speech (on the material ofautobiographical stories)

The article is devoted to consideration of realization of categories of time and space in the speechgenre of the autobiographical story. The research is done on the material of the Middle Ob dialects. Thematerial of analysis is 111 written autobiographical texts, reflecting oral speech of dialects speakers.The speech genre of the autobiographical story is a story about life. The life's way of a human firstof all is movement in time and space. M.M. Bakhtin called the unity and interdependence of time andspace "chronotop". The scientist observed that chronotop formed genre and genre types.The peculiarity of the chronotop of the autobiographical story is the reality of time and space reflectedin texts. Autobiography is a peculiar journey in time and space.The study of time and space categories realization shows that signs of time and space exist inevery sentence. The time category is realized at the lexical, morphological language levels with verb'stense forms, demonstrative pronouns, numerals, nouns with temporal meaning (year, week, month,seasons), names of holidays, artefacts of one or another epoch, syntactical constructions such as "then /now".The space category is realized at the morphological (demonstrative pronouns, verbs with themeaning of moving, nouns, syntactical (constructions "to live in", "to be in", "born in", etc.), lexical(toponyms, words with meaning of place, etc.) levels.All reports about the events, the life (except the modern, the present period of life) of people are inthe mental space of their memory, which is in the space of people's lives. It is one of the peculiaritiesof realization of time and space in the speech genre of the autobiographical story.The laws of the speech genre of the autobiographical story suppose constant appealing to thesetwo categories.Time and space are interdependent in the speech genre, the person finds, identifies him-/herself inthe world with them. These categories are real. The person exists at the same time in his/her own timeand space and in the "big" time and space, the connection of the private and the common history isobserved in stories. The peculiarities are also conditioned by the type of communication: the personwhen telling his/her story lives through his/her life once more, thus overlapping the time and spacestrata.

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