Humanities & Social Sciences 3 (2016 9) 646-652 ~ ~ ~ УДК 811.161.1 Semantic Situation and its Representation in the Texts of Different Genres Tatiana V. Tarasenkoa and Enrique F. Quero Gervillab * aSiberian State Aerospace University named after M.F. Reshetnev 31 Krasnoyarsky Rabochy, Krasnoyarsk, 660037, Russia b University of Granada Granada, 18071, Spain Received 19.11.2015, received in revised form 27.11.2015, accepted 24.02.2016 In this paper the authors analyzed the semantic situation and its representation in accordance with the text type, namely, urban folklore texts – anecdotes (jokes) and fi ction. <...> The set of actants depends on text nature realized differently in different types of texts. <...> The most comprehensive representation of the wine drinking situation is found in Russian anecdotes: they feature the quantity and quality of the represented predicates and actants. <...> In the literary text the selection of predicates and wine drinking participants is determined by the author’s intention. <...> Keywords: semantic situation, anecdote (joke), literary text, folklore text, wine drinking situation, semantic syntax. <...> In this paper we decided to consider any situation as a semantic one, namely the situation of wine drinking, refl ecting a fragment of reality from the standpoint of semantic syntax. <...> First of all, we were interested in this representations in the language situation’s and how it functions in texts of different types. “Event” or “situation” in linguistics means: sentence’s denotation (Gak, 1972, p. 349), “a part of reality” (Nikolaeva, 1980, p. 198), “a fragment of the world”, “anything that can be described in a sentence” (Dem’iankov, 1983, p. 324; Dem’iankov, 2004, p. 68), and fi nally, the © Siberian Federal University. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: tvt2004@mail.ru, efquero@gmail.com # 646 # “people’s world in which the man is the main character” (Kon’kov, 2011, p. 87). <...> Proposition and its actantial content are basic elements of any semantic situation (Shmeleva, 1988). <...> As research material the authors chose anecdotes (jokes) and extracts from fi ction, namely from plays by A.P. Chekhov. <...> This choice was made with a special purpose, in order to analyze the similarities and differences of the language <...>