Egocentric particulars in poetry: a corpus-based discourse analysis of the russian particle мол

The article proposes a corpus analysis of the Russian particle мол as one of the discourse markers used in a variety of speech practices — from everyday speech to literary discourses. The aim of the study is to find out how the xeno-marker мол functions in literary discourse against the background of its usage in ordinary speech and other types of speech. The study mainly explores poetic discourse as the most experimental and linguo-creative of literary discourses from the point of view of the language norm and usage. The methodology of the study is a corpus-based discourse analysis of pragmatic units. This study uses the resources of the Russian National Corpus, as well as our own corpus of contemporary Russophone poetic discourse. The analysis of the xeno-marker мол in various subcorpora of the Russian language showed a higher frequency of its use in literary discourse compared to corpora of non-literary texts and other types of speech. Calculations demonstrate that the use of the particle мол has not died out either in modern colloquial speech or in recent literary discourse. The obtained data confirm the hypothesis about the increased role of linguopragmatic tools in contemporary poetic discourse compared to poetic texts of previous periods. At the same time, in poetic discourse, the use of xeno-markers, although frequent, is not as conventional as in other discourses. Examples of the unconventional use of the particle in poetry of the 20th — 21st centuries show its greater freedom of collocation, as well as the ability to resemantize. In poetic texts, the creation of ambiguity can be deliberately used, in which the word мол can be interpreted in several ways at once. For poetic discourse, especially contemporary one, the fragility of the boundaries between the self and the other turns out to be a productive way of generating meaning and text and — with the help of discourse markers — a means of actualizing the creative potential of linguistic pragmatics.