Folklore model and its realizations in a Soviet text (the case of the song “It's been a long time since I've been in Donbass…”)

Abstract

The article contains a comparative analysis of the Soviet song “It's been a long time since I've been in Donbass…” and actor S. Lukyanov's memoirs, on which the song is presumably based. A full-scale analysis of the text includes not only uncovering its structure, but also a systemic description of all the important language stereotypes it contains. The texts, which derive from common structural folkloric model, differ to a considerable extent in their semantics and are interpreted be an addressee in different ways, depending on the context. Semantic analysis of the description of the heroine reveals different language stereotypes in Lukyanov's memoirs and in the song. In the frst case, she is presented as an old woman with an unhappy fate, in the second case she is a dignifed aged woman who found her own place in life independently of the one who had abandoned her.