PERIPHRASES AS A MANIFESTATION OF EVALUATION IN THE POLITICAL AND JOURNALISTIC DISCOURSE OF DMYTRO DONTSOV

Abstract

The basis of modern linguistic research is anthropocentrism, which involves the study of the idiostyle of cultural and political figures. The relevance of the study is motivated by the need to analyse the periphrases of Dontsov's political and journalistic discourse. The article proves that the specificity of periphrases lies in the ability of Dontsov's political language personality to evaluate what is said and create the text expression through these linguistic units. It is established that the study of Dontsov's discourse involves the knowledge of the internal (interlingual) and external (extralingual) factors of the linguistic situation. Interlingual factors involve a description of Dontsov's behavioural patterns (character, traditions, education, psychological characteristics). The extralingual factors are related to the development of the cultural and political component of society. It is illustrated that numerous periphrases refer to the characterisation of people (ruling or subordinate strata), where the strategy of a political language personality is to create an image of war or land. The study presents periphrases referring to Russian cultural or political figures, the realities of the Soviet era, which contain elements of language play and are a synthesis of the author's creativity. It is traced that Dontsov's idiostyle often contains stringing of periphrases that condense information. On the example of Dontsov's discursive practice, it is proved that periphrases reproduce Dontsov's views and are the basis of the socio-political text. The context of the functioning of periphrases as a background for the reproduction of linguistic reality is presented. It is found that all periphrases have an evaluative connotation: to show the realities of the Ukrainian world we have a positive connotation, for the Russian world – a negative one. It is revealed that Dontsov's linguistic worldview is a segment in the study of the vast linguistic worldview of cultural and political figures of the late nineteenth – mid-twentieth centuries. It is proved that Dontsov's idiostyle is saturated with periphrases, which are the result of the interpretation of reality and markers of the mental characteristics of different peoples. It is shown that important aspects of the past can be studied and projected into the future on the basis of periphrases.