Abstract
The main purpose of the article is to analyse the personal language (idiolect) of Jan Drevnitski - a well-known Belarusian ethnographer, folklorist, great educator and human being from the village of Kutski ( Myadzel district, Minsk region in Belarus). The interviews, fragments of which are presented in the article, were collected over a period of 8 years (2010–2018), I also noted down free discussions with the interlocutor and his thoughts. This made it possible both to present the identity profile of the ethnographer and to characterise his personal language. Among the selected idiolectal aspects were phonetic, lexical, word-forming, morphological and syntactic elements. The analysed interview fragments included in the text present: 1) characteristic articulation, accent and intonation; 2) rich vocabulary: in addition to the Belarusian literary language that Drevnitski used every day, his speech contains dialect words, colloquial words, borrowings from Polish or Russian; 3) word-form peculiarities; 4) interesting grammatical forms, characteristic of the local dialect; 5) specific syntax. Each of the aforementioned elements contributes to an individual, unique language and style, through which a person's personality manifests itself.
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