автобиографический рассказ

Narratives of traditional folk culture bearers about the war can be regarded as an independent genre variety (subgenre) of autobiographical story, for which personal principle is crucial. Rural residents’ stories about the war are marked by egocentricity which characterizes dialect speech in general. War stories represent stable types of dialect narrative with thematic unity, common semantic and narrative organization, and pragmatic principles. The conceptual basis of war stories is the theme of personal suffering.

The article deals with recent problems of correlation of a speech genre and culture and fits into the context of modern researches in cognitive, dialect genre studies and cognitive dialectology. A key concept for Russian culture “Life”, functioning in dialect autobiographical texts, recorded in Tomsk region from the middle of the 20th century till the present time, is described in the article. These texts are considered as a speech genre. Ideas about life, which do not change or change over time under the influence of certain factors, are identified.