LINGUISTIC PROCEDURAL SUPPORT FOR THE RESEARCH OF THE RUSSIAN FAIRY TALE PLOT

Abstract

The article is devoted to one of the ways of studying the plot of a fairy tale, which was developed as a result of a consistent comprehensive understanding of ideas and concepts in the Russian and French schools of plot composition. The article provides an analytical representation of the concepts of the actant and the actant model, as well as highlights the main stages of the procedure for identifying them from the text. Special attention is paid to the identification and analysis of the verbal expression of the functional and qualitative characteristics of the characters of a fairy tale. Functional characteristics allow us to determine the actant position of the hero in the plot model, and qualitative characteristics help to identify his spiritual traits. In the article, Greimas's methodology is used to correctly identify the plot structure of the Russian folk tale "The Tsar Maiden". To illustrate the research procedure, a fragment of the actant analysis of the fairy tale is given, which presents the procedure of studying a parallel corpus of statements, containing all characteristics and functional messages of one of the characters of the fairy tale. As a result of the semantic analysis of verbal qualitative and functional characteristics, the actant position of the character is determined, which helps to reconstruct the actant model, which is the constructive basis of the tale's plot.