Cultural Preferences of the Author as Means of Linguistic Self-Presentation in Autobiographical Prose (on the Material of the Diaries by E. Grishkovets)
The article deals with the investigation of means of linguistic self-presentation in autobiographical prose of at the boundary of the XXth-XXIst centuries. The concept of self-presentation is analysed from the point of view of linguistics. The analysis of evaluative statements with the case names which refer to the sphere of the author’s cultural preferences is presented. A suggestion is made that the use in the text of case names accompanied by evaluative statements is one of numerous means of linguistic self-presentation of the author. The characteristics of implicit and explicit evaluative statements are given, the latter are analysed from the point of view of «object - means». The results of the analysis are presented in the table.