CONTAMINATED SPEECH AS A MARKER OF COMMUNICATION FAILURE IN DIALOGUES OF JACK LONDON’S WORKS

Abstract

This article is concerned with the study of the role of contaminated speech in revealing the relationship between the characters of a work of fiction. The material used for the study is the works of Jack London — “Martin Eden” (1909) and “The Scarlet Plague” (1910). The concept of norm was introduced as the main premise for the study, which was interpreted differently by the participants of the dialogue. In the course of the research, two communicative models associated with different levels of education of the communicants were identified — the dialogue-argument and the dialogue-explanation. When analyzing the examples, the method of binary opposition was used, associated with the opposition of contaminated and non-contaminated speech as marked and unmarked members of the opposition.