«Речевые закрепки» в восточнославянских этиологических легендах: конструктивные и смысловые функции
“Speech Endings” in East Slavic Etiological Legends: Constructive and Semantic Functions

Summary/Abstract: A special role in any etiological plot is assigned to the final episode, which sums up the process of creation or transformation of a natural or cultural object. Accordingly, the endings acquire a special role in the structure of etiological texts. The function of endings is to present the result of the creative process as vividly, convincingly and cogently as possible, to answer the question about the properties, qualities or purpose of any element of the surrounding reality and record the “fact of etiology.” This article presents an analysis of the structure and functions of “speech endings” (i.e. final episodes expressed by direct speech of characters) in etiological texts. The material comprises the legends of the Eastern Slavs recorded in the 19th — 21st centuries and extracted from published and archival sources. In the structure of the etiological plot, “speech ending” sums up the plot (records the creation or transformation of an object) and at the same time marks the beginning of the next stage of the object’s existence in its new quality (with new properties). The final replica unfolds the future “program” of being and indicates the circumstances of the relationship of the transformed object with the surrounding world, also containing moral and evaluative maxims

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