DISCURSIVE POTENTIAL OF PARATEXTUAL ELEMENTS OF DRAMA (BASED ON RUSSIAN PLAYS OF THE LATE 20TH CENTURY)

The communicative-cognitive space of drama is based on dramatic discourse. The work is devoted to the consideration of the potential of dramatic remarks, which are involved in the formation of dramatic discourse as elements of paratext. The variety of remarks, a large list of their functions and tasks in various text situations determine their significant role in the formation of dramatic discourse. This study provides our classification of dramatic remarks. It is based on the communicative tasks of remarks, the degree of their prevalence, and focuses on the values of communication theory, the theory of speech communication. The complexity of the dramatic discourse lies, among other things, in the fact that the consciousness of the recipient (reader) of the play separately “processes” paratextual elements and remarks, realizing the specifics of the genre. This is what helps the reader to appreciate the conventionality and theatricality of the dramatic text in the process of its participation in the discourse of the drama. The discursive potential of the paratextual elements of dramatic discourse is the higher, the more complex the organization of the paratext, the more diverse the palette of its elements.