Comic provocation and provocation by comedianism: two sides of one communicative and pragmatic phenomenon

The study of comedy in a communicative and pragmatic aspect, in particular its correlation with one of the varieties of speech influence — provocation, is relevant, since these two phenomena are similar in functional terms (both speech phenomena are based on the expected and unexpected), they are based on the unpredictability of illocution, they are based on an axiological parameter. The purpose of the research underlying the article was to study provocative communication based on comedy or causing comedy in the fiction of V. Shukshin and S. Dovlatov, who use provocation as one of the means of creating comedy. We have identified the emotional and semantic dominants of communicative provocation in the authors' texts. By means of a conversational and linguopragmatic analysis of the functioning of linguistic signs in the speech of the provocateur and the addressee (victim of provocation), their interaction in the act of communication, the plot-forming function of provocation (it is proposed to call it comic provocation) in the stories of V. Shukshin and the culminating (this type is called provocation by us comic) microdialogues in S. Dovlatov's prose is revealed. There are similarities and differences in the parameters of 1) the main tactics used by the provocateurs (irony, discredit and provocative question are similar), 2) the reactions of their victims (hyperreaction and hyporeaction), 3) the completeness of the provocation (in the works of V. Shukshin it is present; in S. Dovlatov, the assessment of the completeness of the provocation is submitted to the reader). In addition, special types of provocation were found in the works of S. Dovlatov — auto-provocation and unintentional provocation.