THE CONCEPT OF “LANGUAGE PERSONALITY” IN LINGUISTIC AND EXTRALINGUISTIC RESEARCH

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the presentation of a multi-aspect, multi-dimensional and multi-sided understanding of the term “language personality” in linguistic (theory of communicative grammar of the Russian language) and extralinguistic (linguodidactic, sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, linguocognitive, linguoculturological and psycholinguoculturological) studies, as well as the history of its (i.e., the term “language personality”) origin. The article highlights the main scientific approaches to the study of the problem of language personality: linguistic, linguistic-cognitive, linguistic-cultural, sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and psycho-linguistic-cultural approaches. The novelty of the work is that this term was first considered and described from different linguistic and extralinguistic points of view. The author suggests that when analyzing a language personality, it is necessary to take into account its linguistic, cultural, sociological, pragmatic and cognitive components. All the data presented in the term are relevant for the development of a new theory of language personality and for the development of linguodidactics, sociolinguistics, personality psycholinguistics, linguoculturology, cognitive linguistics and psycholinguoculturology.