N. Gogol and A. Chekhov. Two officersand two generals

Abstract

The article presents the experience of studying the text as a persuasive program. The
choiceobjects of research due to the possibility of comparing the methods of exposurethe author on the
reader, including perlocutionary influence (humor). Also takenexperience in analyzing narrative methods.The research of reference, creative andreceptive competences of the text in order to study the illocutionary effect of the author onthe reader, the functions of metatext characters. The study of perlocutionimplemented in the aspect of the structure of the comic and explications of laughter culture.
Analysis algorithm: author’s representation, communicative-speech behaviorheroes, the meaning of
what happened to the heroes, the writers’ interpretation of their death, typology andoriginality of foreign
generals – allowed to establish the presence of the author and hisexposure, images fictional as genuine.
The subject of analysis was the types of rhetorical modalities – knowledge, understanding,beliefs. It is
proved that they, in combination with allusions, create an iconicdiscursiveness. A study of the rhetorical
nature of laughter revealed a comic aspectduality, showed the value of non-verbal communication of
the hero with the world.
The specificity of the narrative of Gogol and Chekhov – as a motivated alienation – reveals an allusion todeath and the role of physiological markers. The pervasive program is also analyzed withpositions of laughter culture and Orthodox-axiological reflection.The use of non-rhetorical (discourse) and
structural approaches allowedto establish a connection between the two events of the text and the types
of rhetorical modalities.The role of rhetorical modalities as sources of an exclusive iconicdiscursiveness.
The generality and differences of the perlocutionary influence of writers onthe reader. The connection of two events with the narrative nature of the text is established, whenmetatext characters are active
subjects of the plot and perform the functionnarrative discourse.