Spech Partrait of a Literary Character

Skliar Serhiy

Conference abstract: SPEECH PORTRAYAL OF A LITERARY CHARACTER

This research deals with investigation research of stylistic devices and expressive means of a language, the reasonable and contextually predefined  use of which allows to realize more expressive and deeper presentation of an artistic work’s content, to depict artistic characters. A portrait of a personage is one of the main means of character’s image creation and can be investigated as part of the problem that helps the study the communication as a whole. The study of a concept "speech portrait" is historically begun with a phonetic portrait, the important methods of its description that were developed in a middle 60th ХХ  century. The relevance of the investigation is caused by several causes. Speech portrait of a character is one of the main means of image creation and can be regarded as a particular issue, the study of which could greatly contribute to the study of stylistic and linguistic techniques of various authors.

The project is based on the descriptions of such phenomenon as a speech portrayal. The main purpose of the project is to explain a portrait as an artistic genre of discourse, its typology and functions and, on the other hand, investigation the methods of verbally-artistic portrait creation. The choice of verbal-artistic portrait as a special object of investigation is also caused by the insufficient development of the theory of portrayal of a literary character. It is also shown the analysis of Sherlock Holmes’s speech portrait, investigating the main elements that contribute to the creation of speech portrait: the interconnection of language of a personage and its character; the difference from the language of the other personages;  expressions in the language of social, local professional belonging; the view of the world reflection in the language;  the evolution of personage’s language  in combination with the evolution of a character.