Moriakina I. Linguistic Personality in J.Galsworthy's Fiction: Cognitive and Pragmatic Perspectives (а Study of the Forsytian Cycle)

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Thesis for the degree of Candidate of Sciences (CSc)

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0405U002130

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  • 10.02.04 - Германські мови

13-05-2005

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Д 26.054.02

Essay

The dissertation focuses on the study of the English collective linguistic personality at the end of the 19th - the beginning of the 20th century as it is depicted by J.Galswarthy in his Forsyte series. Its characterisation brings together national, social, and individual peculiarities in the speakers' cognitive and communicative activities. Dominant values and world conceptions of the Еnglish as well as the specific fragments of knowledge pertaining to the representatives of different speech subcultures portrayed by J.Galsworthy are revealed through the analysis of the metaphoric images they used. Communicative and pragmatic features of characters' discourse are determined by the repertory of their speech strategies and tactics. The differences identified in the speech stereotypes of different social groups prove the tendency for the growing likeness between male and female types of speech which is most obvious in the youth's discourse.

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