Temporal formulas as a way of organizing the legendary narrative about the city of Kitezh

Abstract

The article examines the textual and speech means of forming the category of temporality in the Old Believer monument of the second half of the XVIII century “The Russian Chronicler (Kniga, glagolemaya letopisets)”. The novelty of the research is due to the low degree of study 
of the samples of Slavonic book writing from the point of view of the formation of the temporality category, its conditionality by the communicative-pragmatic attitudes of the author of the text. The analysis of the communicative-pragmatic structure of the artifact allows us to assert that narrative is the leading communicative strategy of the scribe. It is realized in the text through the introduction of stable formulas-syntagmas of temporal semantics peculiar to Old Russian chronicle writing. Two types of formulas were identified: formulas fixing the event and its time on the event line of the 
narrative and formulas allowing the narrator to convey his expressive evaluation.