ALLUSIVE ELEMENTS IN JULIAN FELLOWES’S PAST IMPERFECT AND AMOR TOWLES’S RULES OF CIVILITY (SOCIOLINGUISTIC AND COMPARATIVE APPROACHES)
https://doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2019-3-19-74-82
Abstract
In the focus of the article are allusive elements (allusions and quotations) in two novels − Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes (Great Britain) and Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (USA) which are studied from sociolinguistic and comparative points of view in order to determine correlation between allusive elements used in the text and social status of an author/personage, common “core” of allusions in both novels and culturally specific types of allusive elements serving as signs of identity. Both contemporary writers have classical education at the best universities and socially belong to the classes depicted in their novels. On the material of two novels it has been revealed that allusive elements are proper to upper class speech, and literature abounding in allusions is aimed at the reader of the same social background. There were singled out different types of allusions common for both British and American novels and culturally specific allusive elements signaling the identity of the speaker. The comparative study allows one to see historical background underpinning culturally specific varieties of allusions as well as the results of sweeping processes of globalization.
About the Author
T. A. Ivushkina
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ivushkina Tatiana Aleksandrovna − Doctor of Philology, Professor, Professor at English Department №3
76, Prospect Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119454
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Ivushkina T.A. ALLUSIVE ELEMENTS IN JULIAN FELLOWES’S PAST IMPERFECT AND AMOR TOWLES’S RULES OF CIVILITY (SOCIOLINGUISTIC AND COMPARATIVE APPROACHES). Linguistics & Polyglot Studies. 2019;19(3):74-82. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2019-3-19-74-82
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