Предисловие как паратекст: (на материале наследия Н. И. Новикова)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the preface genre as a paratext. The author considers the "histori-cal" media discourse (socio-political orientation) in order to identify discursive means. The analysis focuses on the prefaces to the publications of the Russian educator of the 18th century N.I. Novikov: to «Drevnyaya rossijskaya vifliotika», «Drevnyaya rossijskaya idrografiya», «Skifskaya istoriya». The urgency of the study is derived from the importance of re-search of the historical dynamics of the genre and stylistic structure of journalistic texts, since the historical retrospect demonstrates obvious changes in the genre field and genre canons, architectonics and composition, semantic structure and denotative dominants, and rhetorical and stylistic arrangement of such works. In order to identify different methods of exer-cising verbal manipulation of the reader, the author uses a combination of methods: traditional descriptive, semantico-stylistic, cognitive, and communicative-pragmatic analysis.

В статье рассматривается исторический публицистический дискурс на примере предисловия к изданиям русского просветителя XVIII в. Н. И. Новикова.