Functional analysis of the linguistic reflection in Evgeny Vodolazkin’s “Justification of the Island”
... methodology that combines functional, interpretive and receptive types of analysis, allowed us to come to some conclusions. According to the main one, reflexive as a meta-statement about any element of a literary text (word, phrase, sentence, subtext) is a regulative, i.e a component of the text, guiding the process of the reader’s reception. In Vodolazkin’s novel “Justification of the Island” reflexives are regulators of a special kind, since they bring linguodidactic information into the text ...
