POLISH SAILOR'S WORLDVIEW IN THE MARINE DISCOURCE OF ZYGMUNT BATKO

Abstract

This article is devoted to the specificity of the worldview, which represents the thesaurus of the Polish sailor’s language identity. The object of the analysis is the novel „Tender Oceans” („Łaskawe oceany”) by Zygmunt Batko where he describes his own work experience at sea. The purpose of the article is to clarify the specifics of the conceptual framework of a person as a representative of a certain social and professional group. The main methods and research techniques are as follows: the linguistic-cultural method including the three-level structure of the language personality proposed by Yu. N. Karaulov. There were defined oppositions that form a lingua-cognitive level in the identity’s structure of the Polish seaman that are represented in the text: „sea wolf„ / fake sailor, sea / land, life / death. Using verbal and semantic means, the writer evaluates seafarers as representatives of social and professional activities. In the marine discourse, both typical and the author's individual signs are interacted. They are regularly implemented in the professional activity of seamen; prove the creative approach to the interpretation of the professional language picture of the world. There is a positive attitude towards the seaman's language identity, which is aimed at drawing attention of young readers of this profession. The prospect of the research is to create an invariant model of a seaman’s language identity.