SPEECH PORTRAIT OF THE MAIN CHARACTER OF THE NOVEL “INSIDE MR. ENDERBY” BY ANTHONY BURGESS
The authors of the article studied the speech portrait of the main character of the novel “Inside Mr. Enderby” by Anthony Burgess. The authors studied the speech characteristics of the character, formed as a result of the analysis of the speech behavior of a literary hero. The purpose of the study is to identify the linguistic means of creating a speech characteristic and to determine the manner of speech behavior that allows us to understand the characteristic features of this character of a work of art. The linguistic material selected by the author to describe the literary hero as a language personality was analyzed. The study showed that the lexical features of the main character’s speech are due to a different ratio of vocabulary categories. In addition, an important place in the article is occupied by the author’s personality, which allows the reader to compare him with the lyrical hero and to understand the inner world of the main character. Etiquette words were identified as one of the means indicating a high level of communicative competence of the lyrical hero. The authors concluded that the analyzed character appears in the framework of the study as a full-fledged linguistic personality with its own individual speech characteristics and able to organize communicative communication in order to achieve the necessary practical result. The mitigative style of his communicative behavior allows us to conclude that Enderby is a mitigative personality.