Self-identification: direct, indirect explicit and indirect implicit description of the identity of the speaker

It has been typical for linguistics in recent years to search its aspects in the study of identity and issues related to (self) identification, studied in sociology, philosophy, psychology, cultural and other humanities fields. At the same time it is clear that in the rapidly emerging area of the research, there are gaps and lack of uniformity of terminology. This can partly be explained by the complexity, multi-dimensionality of the phenomenon of identity and self-identification . As a result of this ambiguity, the question of the possibility of understanding the subject's own identity is a matter of dispute. Thus, the researcher E. Balint believes that the experience of identity can not be expressed in language / speech [Balint, 1991]. It appears, however, that "the desire for solidarity with group ideals", marked E. Erickson, the founder of the theory of identity, can be expressed by all available means and ways, including language. Linguists have to define the role of language / speech in the process of self-identification as an integral part of the identity. As the result of the analyses of different essays on various linguistic aspects of the identity the latter was defined as follows: identity is a conscious or unconscious verbal and nonverbal marking of individuality, i.e., membership, desire for belonging or not of the speaking subject to any group / category, any class / level / type of people. Complex and in-depth experience of identity can manifest itself or, according to some scholars, is designed with a wide variety of ways - non-verbal and verbal, unwitting or deliberate symbolic actions: the choice of clothing, hairstyles, accessories, facial expressions and gestures, the use of certain vocabulary (even all language resources), marking the speaker's affiliation to a particular environment. Self-identification as verbal labeling of social identity is a complex structure that includes, in addition to various forms of identity, a description of the identity of the speaker, who can use direct, indirect and implicit methods. A description of the speaker's identity is a special kind of self-identification process, which can be called reflexive self-identity. Self-identification as a description of the identity is a nominative strategy of reckoning a person to a group / category, a class / level. The strategy of identity is closely linked with the communicative strategy of self-presentation, but it is not equal to it. In speech, in some specific discourses the description of identity is applied to all its other manifestations and, constructing and / or reconstructing identity is defined as a beacon in its recognition of the recipient.

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