“Two streams of wartime river”: The temporal structure of the war narrative [«ДВА ПОТОКА РЕКИ ВОЕННОГО ВРЕМЕНИ»: ТЕМПОРАЛЬНАЯ СТРУКТУРА НАРРАТИВА О ВОЙНЕ]

The article substantiates the interest in the study of personal history on the material of war narratives in conditions of delayed memories. Such narratives contain a sequence of events, their evaluation, rethinking, reflexion, expressed in the language of mnemonic processes. The main purpose of this study is to demonstrate the language of the mnemonic process of information storage on the material of M. Bogatyr's narrative, which tells about the creation of partisan groups in 1941-1942 near Bryansk, USSR. Thus, the analysis of this narrative allows to conclude that the temporal system of the narrative can be expressed in several ways, namely, words with retrospective semantics, the use of different verb tenses within a single thematic fragment, and also with the help of the semantic contrast “then - now”. As a result, the description of the ways in which the temporal structure of the narrative is organized allows to demonstrate the work of mnemonic processes and to observe its implementation from the perspective of delayed memories. The application of the results and the methods makes it possible to observe the work of mnemonic processes of information storage, loss of information, its absence and recovery in memory in the process of creating a narrative. © 2020 Tambov State University. All rights reserved.