The concept "Great Patriotic War" in the person-centered discursive practices of the ordinary person

The article describes speech forms that verbalize The Great Patriotic War concept set in the Soviet political discourse. It analyzes the specific use of these forms in the person-centered discursive practice of the ordinary person. The study employs the sociolinguistic approach. On its basis the Soviet political discourse is seen as a communicative sphere of institutional interaction of subjects. The sphere forms a special discursive world picture, value-oriented on the intentions of the struggle for power. The concept of the Great Patriotic War is nationally and culturally significant. It is expressed in specific forms of speech. Person-centered discourse is seen as a sphere of extra-institutional interaction of ordinary people. They use these forms of speech on the basis of their experience with the Soviet political discourse, which is an outside social authority for them. In these forms of speech, values of the Soviet political discourse fix high emotional pathos axiologically oriented against the common enemy. In person-centered discourse the pathos becomes a basis for the active use of these forms by the ordinary person. The person in this case realizes the intentions of not only the legitimation of the significant institutional content, raising the status of their own words, but also personal emotional sublimation. In contrast to the speech forms the Soviet political discourse uses to verbalize other politically relevant concepts, the analyzed speech forms are always used while maintaining the evaluation position of the source: political discourse dominates in shaping the personal position of the ordinary person on the verbal level.

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