VERBAL-SEMANTIC LEVEL OF THE LANGUAGE PERSONALITY OF A VOLGA GERMAN (BASED ON MY CHILDREN BY G. YAKHINA)

Abstract

The article describes the verbal-semantic level of the linguistic personality of a Volga German based on the material of G. Yakhina’s novel My Children. The question of the linguistic personality as an object of linguistics continues to remain one of the most pressing, since the linguistic personality in the conditions of intercultural communication, with a certain set of skills require a comprehensive and integrative approach. There is still no single concept of understanding the linguistic personality with theoretical and methodological positions. However, it is obvious that the variety of positions on this linguistic object allows one to refer to various kinds of material: in particular, modern Russian novel. The novel My Children represents relevant and valuable material for study if it is considered from the perspective of the anthropocentric paradigm of linguistics. This is due to the presence in the novel of a large number of linguistic personalities, interesting both in their verbal-semantic component, as well as in their cognitive and pragmatic ones. The relevance of the chosen topic is also motivated by the linguistic personality of the writer Guzel Yakhina herself, who is a bilingual philologist, which cannot but be reflected in the language of her works. In the article, a specific example of the description and analysis of a certain level of a character’s linguistic personality is presented. The material included over 1000 examples of various subsystems and different levels of linguistic units related to the characteristics of the phenomenon of linguistic personality. The main attention in the article is paid to the lexical and syntactic levels of text material, analyzed using the techniques of descriptive, semantic, functional-stylistic methods, as well as the method of stylistic interpretation, etc. The results of the study allow us to speak about the special linguistic personality of the Volga Germans with their own individual characteristics, in which both cultural and social components are clearly manifested, which is obvious when analyzing the verbal-semantic level of the linguistic personality; the conclusion about the possibility and potential of studying other components of linguistic personality in the presented way is substantiated.