GENRE-STYLISTIC AND COMMUNICATIVE-PRAGMATIC SPECIFICITY OF THE FRENCH DETECTIVE STORY

Abstract

The conceptual standard of the detective genre is the conceptual system of «murder» – «investigation» – «explanation», which organizes the cognitive structure of the detective story. These concepts unfold in the form of scenarios, causing a phased presentation of events, communicative behavior and discursive self-organization of the detective story characters, where the description of the main characters and events occur only at the beginning of the detective story. The following plot compositions, episodes do not distract the reader’s attention from artistic details and allow you to concentrate on the process of intellectual solution. The main character (a detective) undoubtedly has the form of deductive thinking, his other personal qualities are presented quite schematically. The plot of the detective story is based on the conflict of «good» and «evil», and its invariant scheme is implemented by the invariant system of characters «detective» – «thief»– «victim» and has invariant plot components «crime», «investigation», «solution». The dominant genre feature of the detective story is its structural organization. The core of the story is always the intrigue of intellectual investigation, and the information space around the core performs an attributive function. The detective story always resembles direct communication between the author and the reader at the level of complicity in the search for a solution to the crime, speech interaction between the addressee and the addresser. Since the crime is an antisocial act, the communicative purpose of the detective story is to evaluate events and characters from a moral point of view. It has been found that as a result of the analysis of communicative circumstances, the main meaning-forming text component, the main genre components of the detective text are the motive of communication, communicative means, the communicative space, the content of communication. It is confirmed that linguostylistic means and structural components are aimed at keeping the reader’s attention.