The linguistic personality of Dmitry Yavornitsky in the aspect of psycholinguistics
Abstract
The article is dedicated to actual problems of the linguistic personality in modern linguistics. It reveals the scientific content of the notion of linguistic personality as an object of linguistic research, which includes mental, social, ethnic, and other components of the discourse.
The object of the research is the linguistic personality of Dmytro Yavornytsky – an outstanding scientist, social and cultural activist, writer, historian, folklorist, and lexicographer.
The article explores language means, which determine the artistic individuality of D. Yavornytsky. Author’s worldview and values found their expression in the language of his works.
The analysis of literary texts revealed that D. Yavornytsky aestheticized the folk spoken element. The writer widely uses everyday vocabulary, designating the realia of folk life, which alongside with the stylistically marked vocabulary of various degree of expressiveness displays the linguistic colouring of the epoch. In addition, the colloquial vocabulary is used as an expressive element.
The work features the analysis of phraseological units of D. Yavornytsky’s literary texts – both traditional and modified by author. In is noted that the choice of phraseological units is determined by the subject matter of the creation. D. Yavornytsky was the adherent of ethnography, which is the reason for prevailing of fixed phrases from the colloquial language in his works.
The national character of D. Yavornytsky’s works is reflected in the means of folk songs – an expressive feature of writer’s idiostyle. Proverbs, sayings, ubiquitous epithets, metaphors, similes, and other stylistic figures are means of stylization of folk-poetic narration. One of the brightest figurative units of D. Yavornytsky’s idiostyle, which is inseparably connected with ideological and thematic focus, is simile.
The article features the research of individual constants of the worldview, values of the writer, and means of their linguistic expression. The most semantically and aesthetically significant words of his linguistic picture of the world are Cossack, steppe, song, Dnipro, Ukraine, Khortytsya, Baida, soul, heart.
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