The communicative approach to the analysis of poetic text (a case study of Vysotsky's early lyrics)

The article is aimed at analyzing poems by V. Vysotsky written in the early period of his work from the perspective of communicative grammar. According to G. A. Zolotova's opinion, speech is based on five communicative registers: reproductive, informative, generative, voluntive and reactive. Communicative registers express the speaker's attitude to the semantic content of the utterance and to the addressee. With the help of the communicative method, we can understand the inner structure of the text. However, it is important to mention that the borders between communicative registers are conditional. In the article, the question of the lyrical hero in the works of V. Vysotsky is tackled. Many of his poems of that period were written under the influence of the thieves' folklore and the peculiarities of the lyrical hero are connected with it. Moreover, early lyrics by V. Vysotsky are mostly narrative. Narrativity and dialogueness are the intrinsic traits of his poetry. In narrative poems, the reproductive register is widely used. The voluntive and reactive registers are actively used in Vysotsky's poems because dialogues play a great role in these texts. The characteristic features of the texts under study are elliptical structures, interjectional verbs and interjectional phraseological units.