FEATURES OF THE COMMUNICATIVE STYLE OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORKS (BASED ON MAYE MUSK’S NOVEL «A WOMAN MAKES A PLAN»)

Abstract

Summary. The article is devoted to the study of communicative style markers in May Musk’s autobiographical work “A woman makes a plan”. The works of leading scientists who investigate the concept of linguistic personality and its typology; provided investigations of language personality; the concept of communicative style and its features in autobiographical works; linguistic stylistic means that express emotionality and expressiveness, which are the main feature of communicative style, are analyzed in the article. Special attention has been paid to the following communicative style markers as repetition, which are used to attract the attention of a reader and emphasize the most important information; syntactic anaphora, which enhances the emotional effect of speech; syntactic epiphora, highlights key information; syntactic parallelism, which is often combined with anaphora, antithesis or chiasm and strengthens the pragmatic effect of the statement; cleft sentences that have an emotional impact on a reader and reveals author’s inner world, beliefs and principles; parcellation, the purpose of which is to convey various emotions and fill the text with dynamism; conditional clauses, which are often based on antithesis and provoke the reader to think; rhetorical questions, hypophores and exclamatory sentences that can convey a wide range of emotions; inserted structures that contain emotional and expressive coloring; simple, short and incomplete sentences that add dynamism and emotional load to the sentence; exclamations that can express joy, admiration, irritation, contempt, despair, which indicate the author’s communicative style, expressive and frank presentation of the material. As it has been determined the following markers of communicative style are the most frequently used in the May Musk’s autobiographical work “A woman makes a plan”: repetition, namely syntactic anaphora, syntactic epiphora, parallelism, chiasm, which make up 25% of all markers of emotionality. Inserted constructions make up 15%, rhetorical questions 13% – and rhetorical exclamations – 12%. of the total bulk of communicative style markers. Less frequently used are simple and incomplete sentences, which account for 11%, conditional sentences, which make up 7%, and cleft sentences – 6%. Stylistic devices such as parcellation (6%), inversion (3%), hypophora (2%) and exclamations (1%) make up the smallest part of the total amount of markers of communicative style. The results of the research are supported by the examples and a chart.