The article draws on text analysis within the methodological framework of modern genology to examine the ways in which a given text can be matched within various subclasses of a broadly defined genre. A passage chosen on the basis of its theme is placed within the class of travelogues, and then assigned to one of its subclasses/genres. The latter usually represent a spectrum from the more germane to the more peripheral. The nature of the relations between the forms thematizing travel are then determined by means of criteria which refer to various categories and facets of the text. The narration of 'Going to Babadag' combines the characteristic features of a number of genres, eg. a (travel) report, memoirs, (travel) diary, (travel) essay, (travel) guide. At the same time the features of any of those genres are subject to modification. In effect, we experience an author who creates his singular image by an unconventional approach to the typology of text structures, though, it should be made clear, without questioning the overall system of genres or redefining their markers. In 'Going to Babadag' he explores the potential of individual genres, their range, and their capacity to accommodate heterogeneous elements.
The authoress analyses the relations between the categories of genre and of style on three different planes: (1) individual style - functional style (language variety); (2)individual style - genre style (pattern); (3) individual style - specific text. The above mentioned contexts allow to present the issues connected with the study of the individual style, which could inspire the contemporary genology.
The authoress discusses the problem of the axiological marking of the determinants of informality, analyzed in the article as a stylistic category (simultaneously treating the style as an anthropological-cultural category). She is interested in positive valorization of colloquialism in the discourse that belongs to the so-called high culture, carried out from the point of view of an intellectual, a scientist and an artist. The evidence of positive valorization is found in the texts of contemporary humanities: philosophy, linguistics, anthropology of culture, theory of literature, literary criticism and contemporary literature and art. The found examples of valorization portray its varied shades, which are influenced by the context: philosophy looks for the sense of human existence in daily causal activities, literary criticism discovers the source of aesthetic contemplation in the everyday living, literature and art attempt to notice the signs of authenticity of our existence in the trivial pictures of ordinary nature and colloquial language. Besides, the scientific discourse positively evaluates the common-sense knowledge and the 'colloquial' attitude towards the world. In the texts of the present day humanities, such parameters of colloquialism as closeness, privacy, individuality, symmetrical ness of the interlocutors' status, advantage of co-operation over competition are also positively assessed. Axiologically positive marking of the determinants of colloquialism enables many of them to penetrate the scientific discourse, shaping the new forms of the expression of the subjectivity and forming the relationship with the reader.
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