CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PORTRAIT OF BILLY MILLIGAN’S MULTIPLE PERSONALITY EVOLUTION
Journal Title: Одеський лінгвістичний вісник - Year 2018, Vol 11, Issue
Abstract
The article sets out to provide the results of the conceptual investigation of the notion of the multiple personality portrait and the process of the conceptual sphere formation on its subconscious, mental and psychological levels being based on the investigation of the linguistic means of expressing the characteristics of the protagonist and his alter-egos by means of the English language. The relevance of the work is caused by the considerable attention currently paid to the ways of human cognitive activity verbal representation in English-language fine literature along with peculiarities of its translation into modern the Ukrainian language, because this aspect is still questionable and remains to be one of the most difficult tasks in the translator`s work from English to Ukrainian in particular. Linguistic and conceptual features of the multiple personality representation in the fine literature were thoroughly examined in the novel “The Minds of Billy Milligan” by Daniel Keyes whose works were awarded with two of the most prestigious prizes in the spheres of English scientific prose. The research showed that psychological portrait of Billy Milligan`s (the protagonist of the novel) multiple personality can be studied only as a complex image because it involved 23 completely different alter-ego with split conceptual sphere in each of it. Every new personality had their own name, look, age, character, manner of speech, behavior, IQ level and also particular role to play in Milligan`s body. Depending on their function, stage of development and core personality`s self-improvement level, every new concept was represented in the English language with the help of different linguistic and stylistic means. While making investigations it was determined that the process of verbal representation and further translation of the multiple personality`s conceptual sphere is extremely difficult, because it requires not only constant and in-depth study of linguistic units, but also thorough analysis on the psychological and subconscious levels.
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Alla Golovnia
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