EXPRESSIVE WAYS OF REPORTING OTHER PERSONS’ SPEECH IN THE MARI LANGUAGE

Galina L. Sokolova¹, Anna L. Kolyago²*

¹Assos. Prof., Mari State University, Russia, askgalinasokol@mail.ru
²Assos. Prof., Mari State University, Russia, kolyago@yandex.ru
*Corresponding Author

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of expressive ways of reporting other persons’ speech by stylistically and expressively marked complex sentences in the Mari language, which belongs to the Finno-Ugric group of the Ural family of languages and has a relatively young written tradition. Other persons’ speech in the modern communicative space serves as a means of obtaining information and transmitting a kind of experience. Actual examples from works of the Mari literature are involved as sources in the study. The analysis of other persons’ speech in the modern Mari language shows that the use of other persons’ speech in the Mari literary works gives it an expressive assessment of colloquialism and performs characterological functions. It is noteworthy that the words of the author and intonation, reflected in the punctuation marks, are the syntactic center of the statement in reporting of other persons’ speech.

Keywords:  other persons’ speech, stylistics, syntax, Mari language, literary speech