TRAUMATIC MEMORY AND FACT AS THE DOMINANT OF STORYTELLING IN THE HISTORICAL REPORTAGE «SCAB. SPAIN REOPENS WOUNDS» BY KATARZYNA KOBYLYARCHYK

Abstract

The article examines the structural and semantic dominants of storytelling in K. Kobylarczyk’s historical reportage «Scab. Spain reopens wounds» – traumatic memory and fact. A typology of structural elements of storytelling in historical reportage is drawn up: historical facts, author’s interpretation, respondents’ testimonies, and the author’s presence at the scene of historical events. The semantic and structural core of storytelling in historical reportage – historical fact – is defined. It identifies and describes the semantic nodes – traumatic memory and fact. Using the linguistic and stylistic method, the storytelling dominant of traumatic memory is singled out and analysed. It has been found that in historical reporting it is expressed through certain semantic components: rejection, naming, everyday life, taboo, silence, oblivion, as well as through linguistic and stylistic explicants: metaphor, lexemes, and circumlocution. With the help of linguistic and stylistic tools – speaking and speech – the following dominant appears in the storytelling of K. Kobylarczyk’s historical report «Scab. Spain reopens wounds»: historical fact. It has been established that this dominant is explicated in the storytelling of the historical report with the help of extralinguistic factors: the socio-political realities of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, public sentiments related to the exhumation of the victims of the Spanish Civil War. The study uses a typological method to highlight the structural and semantic dominants of storytelling in historical reporting, a linguistic and stylistic method to analyse the dominant traumatic memory, and a descriptive method to analyse the extralinguistic dominant fact. The typological method was applied with the use of visualisation elements. The object of the research is the storytelling of K. Kobylarczyk’s historical report «Scab. Spain reopens wounds». The subject is the linguistic and extralinguistic semantic dominants traumatic memory and fact. In the framework of the result, it is worth emphasising that the outlined semantic dominants are considered in the article from the point of view of structural and semantic nodes and analysed as key components of the storytelling construction of K. Kobylarczyk’s historical report «Scab. Spain reopens wounds».