Рефлексивность частного письма как разновидности эго-текстов
Reflexivity of Private Letters as a Variety of Ego-Texts

Summary/Abstract: Among the pressing problems of modern linguistics, there is the clarification of differential signs of ego-texts (diaries, letters, memoirs, etc.) and the study of the linguistic means of objectification of self in these texts. The purpose of this work was to find out how reflexivity, as one of the essential attributes of ego-texts, is manifested in private letters. The material of the study was a complied set of letters of the Russian intelligentsia of the 19th and 20th centuries. It was demonstrated that reflexivity is one of the main categories inherent in the texts of private letters, along with the dialogic nature to which it relates in line with the principle of complementarity along the line of “addresser – addressee” communication. The studied epistolary work conveys different types of reflection: personal, communicative, intellectual, cooperative, linguistic. Reflexivity is manifested in epistolary texts by such linguistic means as the use of personal and possessive pronouns in the first person, the use of reflexive pronouns, the inclusion in the text of statements that implement the ‘self-presentation’ speech genre; a widespread use of emotive vocabulary; reproduction of some properties of internal speech by means of syntactic stylistics.

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