The experience of creating a typological and individual synchronous speech portrait of a participant in the Great Patriotic War

the subject of this article is the speech behavior of the participants of the Great Patriotic War, recorded in personal correspondence. The purpose of the work is to compile a speech portrait of a front – line soldier based on the analysis of letters addressed to relatives and friends during the period of hostilities. The research methodology combines the methods of functional pragmalinguistics and lexico-conceptual-semantic analysis, thereby providing a comprehensive study of idiolect features. The analysis of the corpus of letters, which was formed by random sampling from the same type of collections, included segmentation of texts into pragmemes classified by types of evaluability. The results of the study showed the predominance of speech inaccuracy among possible options for evaluability in statements. At the same time, the analysis of evaluative pragmemes revealed individual strategies of the authors aimed at expressing personal feelings. The lexical-conceptual-semantic analysis confirmed the individuality of the speech presentation of general concepts, as well as the presence of unique, original ideas. The study showed how, in conditions of psychological trauma, linguistic means form a polyphonic text, balancing information content and emotional impact.

pragmalinguistics, pragmemes, pragmatic analysis, lexical-conceptual-semantic analysis, speech presentation, speech image, the Great Patriotic War, letters of soldiers, speech image, concept