THE CONCEPT OF “FAMILY” IN THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LINGUISTIC PERSONALITY OF MISAIL POLOZNEV (BASED ON THE STORY BY A.P. CHEKHOV “MY LIFE”)

Abstract

The article studies the linguistic personality of the character of a work of art. Using the material of A.P. Chekhov’s story “My Life”, the researchers identify and analyze the means of lexical representation of the concept “family,” which occupies an important place in the picture of the world of the lin- guistic personality of M. Poloznev, which is the purpose of the study. Particular attention is focused on the characteristics of the character’s mental discourse and his speech activity, verbalized by verbal and nominal vocabulary, since the hero’s family determines his social status and worldview, and also influences his choice of his life path. The concept “family” is considered from the standpoint of the linguacultural approach, since along with other fundamental concepts it objectifies the culture of the people to which it belongs. The conclusions reached by the authors of the article substantiate the role of the concept of “family” in the thesaurus of M. Poloznev’s linguistic personality and the structuring of the character’s linguistic picture of the world. The understanding of the methodology for describing the linguistic personality of a character in a literary text is deepened.