LANGUAGE PERSONALITY OF NELSON MANDELA THROUGH THE LENS OF ECOLINGUISTICS AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
Journal Title: Закарпатські філологічні студії - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
The article advances the peculiarities of language personality development within polyethnic and multilingual environment. Such environment causes transformations in personality’s outlook as well as changes in the structure of its ethnic identity that are caused by second language. The article also covers how these changes affect the system of the “other” language. Language situation in South Africa in general and peculiarities of development of South African English as a state language in particular serve as grounds for the given research. The current state of the South African variant of English is analyzed through the text of Nelson Mandela’s individual writing style in his autobiography “Long Walk to Freedom”. The multiple origin of the culturally marked lexis found in the text of N. Mandela’s autobiography helps to identify his multiple ethnicity. Language as a complex, evolutionary megasystem built of the principles of hierarchy undergoes changes at all its levels. The changes take place due to peculiarities of the environment with its cultural and historical features. An array of factors among which language contact situations define character and dynamics of language change. Cumulative nature and flexibility of language system make it possible for a language to absorb culturally marked lexis from the “other” language. Such state of things is predetermined by the fact that language exists in deep connection with the environment represented by the society; language serves as a tool for reality objectivation and reflects personality’s inner world. Personality creates his/her own picture of the world through learning the language, using it in everyday life, and socializing; thus, personality absorbs the elements of national culture through culturally marked lexis.
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С. О. Клочко
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