Polyphony, evidentiality, mirativity as semantic features. Case study of Raskolni-kov’s monologue from «Crime and Punishment» by F.M. Dostoyevsky translated into French

Abstract

The article deals with contrasting polyphony in literature and the same notion in lin-guistics. As exemplified by the Russian fiction in F.M. Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, the present study reveals that the polyphonic character of the text can be also treated as evi-dentiality and/or reactional response combined with mirativity. In order to compare the capaci-ty of expressions of the mentioned categories, a translation of the text extract is being bal-anced against Dostoyevsky’s original text.