Dialogue with the reader in the journalism of F. M. Dostoevsky (on the example of the article “The Case of the Dzhunkovskys with their own children”)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is analyze the methods of organizing the author's dialogue with his reader. the journalistic texts of F. M. Dostoevsky, taken from the "Diary of a Writer" for 1876 and 1877 are the material for this article. The article discusses the ideas of the dialogue of M. M. Bakhtin, Yu. M. Lotman and others and explains how the reader enters into communication with the author. In addition, the methods of organizing a dialogue with the reader in the journalism of F. M. Dostoevsky on the topic of child suffering are analyzed: the articles «Berries» (in the case of S. L. Kroneberg) and «A simple but complicated case» (in the case of E. K. Kornilova) are reviewed in detail, the article «The case of the Dzhunkovskys with their own children» is analyzed in detail. On the basis of the communicative analysis, the speech tactics used during Dostoevsky's dialogue with his reader are distinguished: the tactics of opposition, the tactics of concession, the tactics of generalization, and others, as well as different types of dialogical relations (agreement and disagreement), different vectors of the author's attention (the court, the Dzhunkovsky family, the reader) are described and features of autocommunication. In addition, parallels are drawn with Dostoevsky's literary text-the novel ”The Brothers Karamazov”: reflections on the episode about a child's tear are given.