Синтагматика сновидений в русскоязычном сетевом дискурсе
Syntagmatic organization of dreams in Russian-language online discourse

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the syntagmatic patterns of dream narratives in Russian-language internet forums, understanding syntagmas, in a narrow linguistic sense, as minimal binomial units of linear combination and defining syntagmatics as a system of “horizontal” relations between such units within the flow of speech. The methods used include segmenting texts into binominal syntagmas with valence marking of predicates, analyzing the formal and semantic compatibility of key lexemes (verbs of perception, movement, and modality, as well as typical dream images), using these data to identify three modes of syntagmatic organization (fragmentary, linear, and cyclic) depending on the distribution and connectivity of local syntagmas, and describing quantitatively the proportion of each mode and the markers of transition between them. The results suggest that the syntagmatics of dreams in Russian-language online discourse reflects the tension between the inherent fragmentation of dreams and the linearity of narratives and can be described through the interaction of compatibility and valence in stable syntagmatic patterns. Each syntagmatic type assumes specific communicative functions. The proposed classification of syntagmas provides a solid foundation to further explore the mechanisms of narrating the oneiric experience and to identify patterns in the construction of dream narratives.

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