The Role of Mixed Forms of Non-Author’s Speech in the Novel by E. Aypin "The Mother of God in Bloody Snow"

Abstract

The article discusses mixed forms non-author’s speech, as well as it reveals their role in the novel of a Khanty writer E. Aypin The Mother of God in the Bloody Snows. Having conducted the analysis, the author comes to the conclusion that in the novel’s narration some mixed forms of speech appear through the interaction of indirect, thematic, direct and reported speech. In the process of combination, violations of graphic, structural-semantic and stylistic norms of each form of speech are observed. Mixed forms of non-author’s speech in E. Aypin’s novel are a dominant compositional-speech unit that integrates the author’s speech peculiarities and characters’ speech properties into a single semantic and stylistic whole. These forms of speech are considered as a peculiar stylistic feature of the writer that underlies the construction of a complex image of the narrator and a peculiar model of the world reflecting national principles of the Khanty people worldview. The principle of spiritual unity can be noticed in the blurred boundaries between the subject-speech spheres of the author and a positive character. The principle of irreconcilable conflict with the «alien» world, violating the original harmony of nature, man and the human race, is seen in the mixed forms constructions of non-author’s speech and speech interference of a negative character.