Rhymed Talk and Ideophones: Recovering Extinct Discourse Practices from Russian Realist Fiction

Boris Maslov (1) , Tatiana Nikitina (2)

1 Department of Comparative Literature
2 LACITO - Langues et civilisations à tradition orale

This article presents a case for approaching works of nineteenth-century realist fiction as proto-ethnographic documents that contain unique evidence for reconstructing extinct discourse practices. We focus on two previously undescribed phenomena: improvised rhyming in sparring dialogue, and the use of ideophones in oral storytelling.

Mots clés: reported speech; Realism; ethnography; metapragmatics; rhyme; ideophones

Domaines: Linguistique

Boris Maslov, Tatiana Nikitina. Rhymed Talk and Ideophones: Recovering Extinct Discourse Practices from Russian Realist Fiction. Signs and Society, 2022, 10 (2), pp.169-190. ⟨10.1086/718860⟩. ⟨hal-03679774⟩