PSYCHOSOCIAL PORTRAIT OF ANDREI SOKOLOV IN THE STORY OF M.A. SHOLOKHOV'S "THE FATE OF A MAN": LINGUISTIC MEANS OF CREATION
The article is devoted to the analysis of the key linguistic means of creating a psychosocial portrait of Andrei Sokolov. Comparative constructions were found in the character's speech make possible to trace the perculiarity of the hero's perception of the world around. Associations which made in the process of comparing certain objects describe Sokolov as a person with a certain mentality and a system of images. The images structure is under unfluence not only personal and psicological, but social aspects. The sociolinguistic component of Sokolov's portrait allows to establish in his image the general, typical features of a soldier, a worker, a commoner. This is aimed to reveal the story idea - of a person as such, whose character has not broken by fate, but only highlighted in various difficult circumstances. The depiction of Andrei Sokolov's psychology includes an appeal to emotive lexis.