Linguistic personality in fiction in English on the example of a teenager in the story by J. Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"

Vendina Oksana, Eliseeva Yuliya, Ukhanova Ekaterina, Fileshi Irina

The present stage of development of linguistics is characterized by anthropocentric paradigm of scientific researches which are conducted within psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, linguoculturology, etc. Article deals with the one of the basic concepts of the anthropocentric scientific paradigm – linguistic personality. Linguistic personality and its structure is widely discussed in linguistic literature. As many researchers note, the model of a linguistic personality is not a constant, it is open and available for further additions, elaboration and specification. The author of the article highlights the problem of a linguistic personality in the literary discourse. The aim of the research is to study the semantic, stylistic, pragmatic and cognitive speech characteristics of an American teenager based on the story of the American writer J. Salinger “The Catcher in the Rye”. The relevance of our research lies not only in the fact that nowadays the linguistic personality of an American teenager is poorly studied and represents a wide field for research. It is important to study the linguistic personality of any literary text because this kind of a linguistic personality is a necessary basis for representing a linguistic personality in a wide context.

Keywords:literary discourse, anthropocentric paradigm, linguistic personality, teenager, “The Catcher in the Rye”.