THE WAYS OF EXPRESSING SELF-ASSESSMENT OF LANGUAGE PERSONALITY (BASED ON M. PLISETSKAYA’S MEMOIR “I, MAYA PLISETSKAYA”)

Abstract

In the article the researcher analyzes the emotional-evaluative discourse in the memoir text of M. Plisetskaya. To reconstruct and model a language personality, the researcher pays attention to the emotive-evaluative discourse, which contains different levels of structure of a language personality and reflects its emotional-evaluative activity. Self-assessment reflects to a large extent the correlation of the value orientations of the society and the speaking individual, in addition, the self-assessment statement is a method of verbalizing the most important aspects of a person’s value picture of world: it not only manifests the individual’s thoughts about himself, but also his attitude towards the others. There are two types of statements presented in the material: direct and indirect, both implement different strategies for expressing self-assessment, which characterize the communicative-pragmatic strategies of the language personality. Analyzing the selected fragments, the paper shows the main ways of expressing self-assessment, especially the positive assessment for moral qualities and professionalism. The obtained conclusions help approach the reconstruction of the axiological world picture of the language personality.