A Literacy Narrative in Legal Discourse of Russia

The paper elucidates the role of a literacy narrative in the construction and content of domestic legal discourse. On the basis of communicative methodology, the author examines the value aspects of the impact of the fiction on the consciousness and behavior of subjects of law and the construction of legal reality. An analysis of the literacy narrative as a collection of works of fiction having existence in a certain space-time continuum made it possible to conclude that the literary narrative is both a specific form of knowledge of legal reality and a means of influencing human consciousness and behavior in the process of legal socialization. Of all the sociocultural paradigms that mediate a person’s perception of the essence of law, not only in the legal, but also in the social sense, it is fiction that occupies the most significant place. Being a form of collective consciousness, a literary work in the process of legal communication broadcasts information about value attitudes, the implementation of which will make it possible to give the addressee’s legal behavior a purposeful character and ensure its identification with the community of which he is a member. The images of law and legal reality formed in domestic works of art are an explication of legal archetypes and broadcast the primacy of the value component of legal reality over the normative.

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