Pronouns functioning in the objectification of the linguistic personality of M. Poloznev (based on the story by A.P. Chekhov “My Life”)

INTRODUCTION. The anthropological paradigm of modern scientific knowledge actualizes the study of language in close connection with a specific carrier, that is, a linguistic personality. This fact determines the scientific problem of the research, which consists in addressing the study of “linguistic personality” integrative concept in relation to the character of a work of art. The goal of the study is to analyze the functioning of pronouns (indicative words) in the structure of the linguistic personality of a fiction text character.

MATERIALS AND METHODS. The material of the study is the text of A.P. Chekhov’s story “My Life”, based on the analysis of which the study of the linguistic personality of Mikhail Poloznev is carried out. The paper uses continuous sampling, comparison, description, juxtaposition methods as well as the statistical method. The object of the study is indicating words (pronouns), which are studied from their functional load position at all levels of the structure of the linguistic personality of the character. Based on the continuous sampling method, the total number of pronouns (indicative words) in the individual lexicon of M. Poloznev is identified, and their functioning at all levels of the linguistic personality is analyzed.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. The functioning of 90 indicative words (pronouns) with a total of 3603 uses in the individual lexicon of M. Poloznev is analyzed and described, which allowed us to draw a number of conclusions about the specifics of the character’s linguistic personality.

CONCLUSION. Conclusions are formulated that pronouns (indicative words) act as a means of objectifying world-modeling categories in the structure of the character’s linguistic personality, and their syntagmatic connections with conceptually significant units of the individual lexicon form an idea of the world picture of the protagonist.