Language personality of Bauyrzhan Momyshuly as a phenomenon: national character and military-patriotic views

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of the language personality of
the great Soviet officer, a participant of the Great Patriotic War Baurzhan Momyshuly. On the
material of military prose and the autobiographical story “Our Family” the originality of the
author’s idiolect B. Momyshuly as a significant historical figure is revealed. Particular attention
is given to the reconstruction of the national linguistic personality as well as the manifestation of
the national character in the writer’s works. The authors give examples that illustrate the national
color and identity of the nomadic people through memories of their native land, childhood, folk
philosophy of ancestors and associative images. Moreover, the article examines the patterns of
the use of linguistic means and stylistic presentation in documentary sources: lectures, speeches,
letters that reveal a soldier’s outlook on the psychology of the Great Patriotic War