Language Personality of Korney Chukovsky: the Emotive-Evaluative Worldview Modeling
Referring to the emotional-evaluative human activity allows to reconstruct the multidimensional model of language personality which includes the basic parameters of human emotional state and determines the evaluation activity. The emotive-evaluative word is connected with a complex mechanism of intellectual and emotional exploration of the world and the rating system, preferences and desires of a speaker are reflected in the hierarchical system of heterogeneous lexical meaning of a word. The object of linguistic description in the article is K.I. Chukovsky language personality realized in the diary discourse. It is concluded that in the diary text lexical organization the features of language personality are apparent qualifying the world with a certain degree of rigor and explicitness, involving all the diverse shades of value scales, with the understanding that the real object of evaluation and emotional relationship is complex, multifaceted and is represented as a complex combination of emotive-evaluative meanings characterizing the diary’s author thesaurus. I.e. the subject of evaluation and emotional state has a high degree of cognitivity, extracts plenty of grounds for emotive-evaluative reaction in the assessment. Besides, the author of the diary is characterized by the high degree of emotionality which is regularly verbalized in emotive-evaluative discourse and significantly determines the language personality axiological activity.