Communicative passport of literary hero

Abstract

The article presents material about the «communicative passport», which is a set of information about social status, level of education, culture, upbringing, development of emotional intelligence, etc., which each communicator reports to others people during conversation. It is clarified, which practical significance has the ability to «read» information from the communicative passport for the successful organization of the communication process and what role in its formation plays the analysis of communicative behavior not only real people, but heroes from works of art, too.The purpose of the article is to create the communicative passport of one of the literary heroes of O. Dermansky’s «Wonderful Monster» trilogy – The Wonderful Monster – by analyzing his communicative behavior and communicative, sociometric, psychological, speech-rhetorical, socio-interactive, linguistic, national-cultural components of the chosen character’s image.The following research methods were used in the work: linguistic observation and description of language phenomena; method of decoding an artistic text; analysis, synthesis, and pragmatic and transactional analysis.The analysis of the communicative passport showed that the character of the Wonderful Monster is an extrovert in communication, mostly occupies a strong communicative position. He speaks Ukrainian well, uses many phraseologisms in his speech. During communication, Chu plays the role of listener (an addressee) and communicator (a sender). He is able to interest the interlocutor, maintain a conversation about any topic, willingly talks about his hobbies, has a rich vocabulary, which confirms his mobile communicative type. Cooperation and partnership are the dominant models of interpersonal interaction, which is clearly traced in the equality of interlocutors, the desire to help, support, achieving a common communicative goal. The character uses such types of speech acts as representatives, directives, expressives.Prospects for further research are associated with the creation of communicative passports of other literary heroes of Olexandr Dermansky, what will reveal the features of the writer’s idiosyncrasy and help to master the skills of professional analysis of communication, which are especially necessary in language teacher’s vocational training and work.