S. 도블라토프의 소설 『교도소』에 나타난 사회적 방언의 언어문화적 함의 연구

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The novel 'The Prison' with the subtitle 'The Diary of a Jailer' is an autobiographical novel written by the S. Dovlatov, which is based on his experience in the military as a guard in a prison in the Republic of Komi. Slangs an Argo in ‘The prison’ are major elements in this work. Doblatov gave special significance to the language of ‘The prison’. According to Dovlatov, ‘the language of the prison is the main decorations of its horrible circumstances. It exists for minimal practical uses. The prison language is not a means of communication, but a purpose by itself. Prison language is expressive, pictorial, virtuosic, creative, artistic and even aesthetic.’ We draw attentions to the fact that how certain language acts as aesthetic decoration, not for communication in specific language circumstance. This study examines the social and cultural significance of social dialects (slangs, argo) of ‘The prison’ and connotations of thier uses in the closed language space. By tracking the linguistic, cultural and pragmatic meanings of social dialects, this paper illuminates how colloquial discourse and non-normative language interact at the boundary of normative literary language. This research investigates the characteristics of prison language, which is “crafty, descriptive, pictorial, decorative and fashionable (Зона, с. 86-87),” by considering the linguistic and cultural implications of these social dialects(slangs, argo) in interaction with the normative literary language.

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