Metagame. Awakening by D. Sugralinov: Laughing Word and Its Functions
Cмеховое слово и его функции в романе Д. С. Сугралинова «Мета-игра. Пробуждение»
Baktybayeva A.T.
2025Kalmyk Scientific Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences
Oriental Studies
2025#18Issue 61341 - 1351 pp.
Goals. With due regard of the existing worldview and aesthetic theories, the article examines D. Sugralinov’s Metagame. Awakening for an analysis into its laughing word and the latter’s functions at various levels. In Kazakhstani literary and academic discourse, the article is first to comprehensively analyze functions of laughing word in a narrative by a modern Kazakhstani author. Methods. The comparative historical, typological, sociocultural methods and that of holistic analysis have proved instrumental in revealing sources for the emergence of laughing word’s motif, determining its character (whether constant or episodic), identifying its aesthetic and semantic functions in fiction text structures. Results. The paper examines laughing word as integral to the theory of laughter culture rooted in M. Bakhtin’s studies, and understands the former as a universal means of artistic modeling of reality. This is a complicated artistic and aesthetic pattern that includes such techniques of expressing the comic as irony, mockery, smiles, giggles, etc. The philological analysis has revealed that, firstly, laughing word in the literary text acts not simply as a comic element but also as a universal means of shaping the protagonist and author’s world image, expressing features inherent to playful and ironic consciousness of an individual in the digital age. Secondly, the forms of laughing word’s manifestation — smiles, irony, sarcasm and mockery — prove elements that fulfill portraying, landscape, speech and psychological functions. Thirdly, laughing word reveals the inner world of the protagonist — Matvey Kolesnikov, a nineteen-year-old boy who has until recently suffered from cerebral palsy. So, his self-irony and critical perceptions of reality reflect the specific nature of his lateral thinking. In D. Sugralinov’s novel, laughing word takes carnival-like, festive forms. It shapes a unique world image in which the comic is not always funny but rather becomes a means of philosophical understanding of life.
comic , laughing word , LitRPG novel , seriousness
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Kazakh American University
Ogarev National Research Mordovia State University
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