eprintid: 34411 rev_number: 18 eprint_status: archive userid: 8918 dir: disk0/00/03/44/11 datestamp: 2022-08-15 20:27:31 lastmod: 2022-08-15 20:36:28 status_changed: 2022-08-15 20:27:31 type: article metadata_visibility: show title: Speech characteristics of a literary text personage at semantic level language: english abstract: The article outlines the verbal-semantic level of the linguistic personality of Dorian Gray in the novel “The Picturet of Dorian Gray” written by Oscar Wilde. The level aims to study the usage of verbal categories such as words, grammatical, associative, semantic-syntactic structures, lexical and syntax patterns. When analyzing linguistic personality, it is necessary to determine and record vivid features in the language of literary characters. Proper names the author uses in the fiction have tight connection with certain associations concerning characters of the novel (Lord Henry). The language personality of Dorian Gray is characterized by the frequently used exclamations, the use of imperative forms, superlative adjectives and expressive adverbs, the usage of personal pronoun ‘I’, the usage of modal ‘must’ creators_name: Дячук, Н. В. creators_name: Білюк, І. Л. ispublished: pub subjects: P1 divisions: sch_ela full_text_status: public date: 2022-06-21 date_type: published publication: Закарпатські філологічні студії volume: 23 number: 1 publisher: Ужгородський національний університет pagerange: 122-125 refereed: TRUE issn: 2663-4880 citation: Дячук, Н. В., Білюк, І. Л. (2022) Speech characteristics of a literary text personage at semantic level. Закарпатські філологічні студії, 23 (1). с. 122-125. ISSN 2663-4880 document_url: http://eprints.zu.edu.ua/34411/1/23_1_2022.pdf