Речь Брежнева как семиотический объект (на материале выступлений Л.И. Брежнева и анекдотов о нем)
Brezhnev’s Speech as an Object of Semiotics

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the technology of producing the comic effect in a cycle of anecdotes for Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, a general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union until 1983. Out of 106 anecdotes studied, in 82 the language of the main character is turned into parody. These materials are juxtaposed with other cycles of anecdotes. The following situations are studied: Brezhnev as a listener and strategies for recognizing the speech of the others; Brezhnev as a speaker and strategies for producing his speech; semiotic errors of Brezhnev related to identification problem. In the cycle of the anecdotes for Brezhnev, the comic effect is a result of syntactic and semiotic errors as well as of errors in language identification. Brezhnev language errors are not borrowed incidentally from other cycles of anecdotes; rather they form a “system of errors” by which the anecdotes for him are reproduced modeling his speech.

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