Study of language representation of thesaurus substyle of public language personality in media discourse

The paper is written in the sphere of communicative stylistics of a text. The present stage of this scientific school is connected with elaboration of cognitive aspects of study of language personality's idiostyle. The general structure of the idiostyle model of a language personality includes cognitive, cultural and speech and communicative styles in accordance with author's conception. As one of the substyles of the cognitive style a thesaurus substyle is examined. This substyle is singled out along with mental-psychological, intellectual, epistemic substyles, which reflect different aspects of speech motor human activity. Thesaurus substyle of language personality is understood by the author's manifestations of the concept sphere, which were reflected in its discourse. These manifestations include key concepts, thematic preferences, scale and character of world knowledge typical for a person, variety and originality provided by these associations. The research is done on the material of L.M. Mlechin's interview in the program ''Special Opinion'' of ''Echo of Moscow'' radio station. Relying on Yu.N. Karaulov's, A.A. Zalevskaya's and other works we offer a procedure of the analysis of some peculiarities of thesaurus substyle of language personality subject to genre and stylistic specificity of its discursive practice. The procedure of the research includes the following stages: 1) detection of dominating themes and semantic areas connected with them on the basis of analysis of thematic paradigms existing in the discourse of language personality and meanings they actualize; 2) analysis of dates, events, persons presented in the discourse of language personality as a reflection of scale and character of person's world knowledge and peculiarities of their associative activity; 3) study of precedent texts (aphorisms, catchwords, proverbs and sayings) reflected in the discourse of language personality, which personify fragments of intertextual thesaurus; 4) detection of generalized statements, which reflect different stereotypes; maxims of individual author's character representing the idea of personality; 5) identification of key concepts verbalized in the discourse of language personality on the basis of modeling of its associative and semantic fields. The study of fragments of language personality's thesaurus of famous journalist, publicist and writer L.M. Mlechin, which is reflected in media discourse of a definite genre and stylistic orientation (interview) on the basis of the created procedure allows to judge about the scale and width of information thesaurus of this language personality (by the reported themes, ideas, using of precedent texts which belong to different areas of cultural capital; actualization of concepts related to the central part of the concept sphere), about the depth of thesaurus (by presence of concrete information about dates, events, persons, usage of euphemisms: character and variety of associations verbalized in the discourse).

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