Military personnel in the genre of anecdote: on the example of the image of an ensign

O. P. Fesenko
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O. P. Fesenko: Omsk State Transport University, Omsk, Russian Federation

Russian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2023, vol. 17, issue 2, 82-90

Abstract: The article presents the results of linguistic analysis of the functioning of the image of an ensign in the genre of modern Russian anecdote. 100 anecdotes extracted by continuous sampling for the query “anecdotes about an ensign” in the Yandex search engine were analyzed. The article makes a brief digression into the history of the military rank “ensign” since understanding its place in the armed forces of different eras allows us to explain the set of features that the hero demonstrates in the genre of anecdote. Using the example of studying the texts of anecdotes , the following are formulated: 1) the main characterological features of an ensign (on the one hand – cunning, lazy, stupid, preferring to fawn before his superiors, striving to command and unnecessarily follow the requirements of the statutes, on the other – possessing healthy army humor, resourceful); 2) the circle of characters with whom he interacts (mainly military ones i.e. privates, colonels, captains, majors, recruits, etc.); 3) the range of topics discussed within the genre (problems of discipline, the expediency of individual orders of the command of the military leadership, the desire for ostentatious cleanliness and subordination, etc.) and 4) the specifics of the linguistic embodiment of the image of an ensign (the use of invectives, colloquial, vernacular vocabulary, and jargon). With the general negative modality of the image, he is very attractive, thanks to the military ingenuity and humor, which allows exposing the problems of the military-professional sphere at the level of self-irony.

Keywords: anecdote; ensign; the image of ensign; military-professional sphere; comedy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.57015/issn1998-5320.2023.17.2.8

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