Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the gender specificity of the language personality of Catherine the Second through the study of the lexical and grammatical features of her texts. The novelty of the study consists in studying the linguistic personality of a politician in a diachronic aspect and in describing the features of the linguistic personality of Catherine II through the prism of her gender specificity. The reconstruction of the main personality features of Catherine II through comprehensive, multilevel analysis of language tools allows us to identify the psychological, pragmatic, cognitive, gender aspects of the speech behavior of the Russian Empress, the specifics of her linguistic picture of the world due to bio-socio-psychological personality data and ideological and thematic originality of her works of various genres. A study of the texts of Catherine the Second showed that the empress depicts her feelings, feelings, emotions figuratively, trying to emphasize and artistically highlight the meaning of a word depending on her communicative situation. It was proved that the empress’s gender also determines the fact that in the works of Catherine II of any genre a large number of lexical and semantic groups of words (nouns, adjectives, verbs) of feelings, perception and mental state are represented. One of the main signs of the author’s gender affiliation is the usage of a large number of metaphors, epithets, vivid comparisons and personifications, etc. The study revealed that the most important trend in female speech behavior is “increased emotionality and the desire to evaluate the activities of others”.
Highlights
From the end of the 20th – beginning of the 21st centuries in linguistics, there has been a steady increase in interest in the personal aspect of language learning
The reconstruction of the main personality features of Catherine II through comprehensive, multilevel analysis of language tools allows us to identify the psychological, pragmatic, cognitive, gender aspects of the speech behavior of the Russian Empress, the specifics of her linguistic picture of the world due to bio-sociopsychological personality data and ideological and thematic originality of her works of various genres
The novelty of our study is to describe the features of the linguistic personality of Catherine II through the prism of her gender specificity
Summary
From the end of the 20th – beginning of the 21st centuries in linguistics, there has been a steady increase in interest in the personal aspect of language learning. Researchers focus on the analysis of the process of interaction and mutual influence of a representative of a particular society and language, which he uses both in his professional and everyday activities In this regard, the general trend of modern linguistics is the transition to anthropological linguistics, including an increased interest in problems of a national or ethnic nature, to the features and characteristics of the worldview of a particular person and people as a whole. He defines a linguistic personality as “a set of human abilities and characteristics that condition the creation and perception of speech works (texts) by him, which differ with: a) the degree of structural and linguistic complexity, b) the depth and accuracy of the reflection of reality, c) a certain target orientation” The reconstruction of the main personality traits of Catherine II through a comprehensive, multilevel analysis of language tools allows us to identify the psychological, pragmatic, cognitive, gender aspects of the speech behavior of the Russian Empress, the specifics of her linguistic picture of the world, due to bio-socio-psychological personality data and ideological and thematic originality of her works of various genres
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