SPEECH PORTRAIT OF KUSHANA FROM HAYAO MIYAZAKI ANIME “NAUSICAA FROM THE VALLEY OF THE WIND”

Abstract

The article reveals a problem of studying the speech portrait of a character in a work of art. The undoubted fact is that age, gender, psychological, social, ethno-cultural and linguistic aspects of the personality are reflected in the speech portrait. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of the speech portrait of one of the main female characters Kushana in the animated film “Nausicaa from the valley of the wind” by Hayao Miyazaki. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that the language of the anime hero is considered for the first time in the aspect of identifying the linguocultural characteristics of the character. As a result of the study, it can be argued that the speech portrait of Kushana allows us to characterize the character as a military leader, an antagonist of the leader of the Nausicaa people. Kushana’s speech is characterized by the use of masculine final particles, imperative mood, exclamatory sentences, the absence of interjections and expressive vocabulary.