Dialogue between the author and the reader in the modern women's detective story

Abstract

The article discusses the ways and means of ensuring a successful dialogue with the reader in one of the genres of modern fiction that is a detective novel. The main tactics determined by the factor of the addressee are highlighted. It has been established that authors of detective stories actively use substandard vocabulary, even profanity, when describing situations familiar to readers from their own speech experience. Another method of organizing a dialogue with readers is to draw their attention to situations of erroneous use of language units in the speech of characters, in particular, borrowed words. For this purpose, commenting techniques are used — from a direct explanation of the meanings of agnonyms to an appeal to the speech experience of readers. A special way of building a cultural dialogue with the reader is to use precedent phenomena. The choice of precedent phenomena is determined by the reader's expectations and is associated with the desire of the authors of women's detective stories to facilitate dialogue with the reader. Precedent names and statements become a means of social, professional, age characteristics of characters, are used to create a humorous effect in order to entertain the reader. And finally, the most striking technique that the authors of the reviewed texts use to engage readers in a dialogue is a language game. The main means of the language game in the considered novels are the phraseological units of the Russian language, corresponding to the linguistic, communicative and cultural competence of the reader. The language game is based on lexical and syntactic transformations of phraseological units, punning usage, the deployment of phraseological units into a text fragment. The commonality of linguistic and cultural codes of authors and readers makes mass literature as a whole an important area for readers' interests.