DOMINANT PRINCIPLE IN LANGUAGE CONSCIOUSNESS OF A DEVIANT LANGUAGE PERSONALITY

Abstract

The author argues that the cognitive-dominant principle of verbal consciousness is a person’s orientation towards their own knowledge, their structure and content, individually significant elements and values that, to one degree or another, reflect collective knowledge about the world. In the process of life, a person accumulates their own individual experience, which depends on many factors: upbringing, family, education, professional activity, relationships with other people, etc. As a result, a person forms certain dominant concepts, through the prism of which they perceive the world and interact with it. There are 3 types of language personality: conflict, centered and cooperative. Language personality of Billy Milligan (the character of “The Minds of Billy Milligan” by D. Keyes) is heterogeneous, since the consciousness of the character is divided into twenty-four parts and each of the individuals has a unique thinking, perception of the world and communicative behavior. Billy Milligan’s verbal personality, depending on the communicative situation, belongs to both the conflict type and the cooperative type. The concept THREAT is dominant for Billy’s conceptual system. According to the classification of language personalities proposed in the framework of linguopsychology, there are four types of them: metasymbolic, empathic, factual and representative. Language personality of Christopher Boone (the character of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time” by M. Haddon) belongs to the factual type, which is characterized by the accuracy of descriptions, clarity of logical connections between statements, reliance on facts. Due to psychological disorder, contact with the outside world for Christopher is fraught with many dangers, which allows us to speak of the implementation of the concept DANGER as dominant for the conceptual system of the character.