Aspects of the theatre critic linguistic personality analysis

The aim of the study is to identify the features of the linguistic personality of a theater critic (based on critical publications by V. Ya. Wulf). The article examines the components of V. Ya. Wulf’s speech portrait that reflect his thinking and perception of reality, interpreted through the prism of his publications about the theater and theater actors. The examples of using stylistic means, expressive-colored linguistic units via which V. Ya. Wulf expresses his assessments and his critical attitude to the subject of publications are analyzed. The scientific novelty of the work consists in the fact that it is the first one to comprehend the peculiarities of the embodiment of V. Ya. Wulf’s linguistic personality through a system of evaluative and expressive-colored means by which the author – the theater critic – assesses the subject of criticism and characterizes the reality. The study demonstrates that the linguistic personality of the theater critic is expressed, first of all, through evaluative linguistic means, such as stylistic devices, expressively charged units. They allow V. Ya. Vulf not only to formulate critical remarks regarding the theatrical phenomena to which the publications are devoted, but also – thanks to them – to express the author’s assessment of socio-political processes and the history of the country. Furthermore, an attempt to comprehensively perceive the features of V. Ya. Vulf’s “standard” attitudes towards reality is also made.