PHONETIC, LEXICAL, GRAMMATICAL, COGNITIVE, AND PRAGMATIC LEVELS OF THE LINGUISTIC PERSONALITY (BASED ON THE INTERVIEW FROM THE AUTHOR’S MULTIMEDIA CORPUS)

Abstract

The paper focuses on the analysis of the means of representation of the informant’s linguistic personality at phonetic, lexical, grammatical, cognitive, and pragmatic levels in the oral discourse. The material of the study is a transcript of an audio recording of one interview from the author’s multimedia corpus “Everyone has their own war”. The interview was recorded in the Ukrainian language in one of the most emotionally, psychologically, and physically difficult moments of the informant’s life. Despite a certain limitation of language material, the peculiarities of the speech manifestations of the linguistic personality of the informant, a twenty-nine age widow (a woman and a mother), are representative since she describes her life and the life of her family after the full-scale invasion on February 24 and until May 2022. The analysis of the informant’s linguistic personality shows that the verbal and semantic specificity is determined by the volume of lexical items, the peculiarities of nominating speech objects and the choice of means for their characteristic, as well as the style of speech. The informant’s speech is characterized by violations of literary norms: it is full of adapted and unadapted lexical and morphological units of the Russian language, and improper pronunciation of words, which in general correlates with her cultural and educational level. The informant’s vocabulary is pragmatically functional and determined by the level of education, social status, type of employment and living conditions. It clearly reflects the essence and content of  the linguistic personality. The vocabulary of the everyday sphere prevails, onyms (toponyms, anthroponyms, ergonyms) and a small amount of military lexicon are also registered. Emotional and evaluative interjections with a positive or negative assessment are representatives of the emotional, functional, and semantic sphere of the informant’s speech. The connotative coloration is provided, in particular, by the verbal characterization of the occupiers, which includes ethnonymic nicknames, including those based on appearance, language, and behaviour. In terms of content and values, the discursive activity of the informant, represented by referential semantic elements, is determined by extralinguistic factors and it correlates with universal values. The motivational and pragmatic aspect of linguistic personality is grounded on the desire to speak out, and includes life or situational goals, which are reflected in the discourse. It is manifested, in particular, in the manner of speech, in the choice of markers used to organize and control the discursive coherence. The analysis of the pragmatic markers included their functions, the specifics of their use and frequency.