Some features of the linguistic personality of John of Kronstadt as a teacher

Article examines the distinguishing features of the linguistic personality of St. John of Kronstadt as a religion teacher. The author considers various points of view of domestic and foreign scientists on the concepts of the linguistic personality and discourse. A linguistic, cognitive, and pragmatic analysis of St. John of Kronstadt's texts is carried out. The analysis reveals the distinguishing features at the lexical, syntactic, and stylistic levels, as well as the presence of expressive means and tropes. It is concluded that the idiodiscourse of St. John of Kronstadt is dominated by common vocabulary, pedagogical and linguistic terms, Orthodox words and expressions, sublime vocabulary, which reflects the divine, sacred, supreme experience of the holy Hierarch, anthroponyms, Latinisms, synonyms and antonyms. In the treatises of St. John of Kronstadt there are narrative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences. A special layer in the pedagogical texts of St. John of Kronstadt is formed by verbal participles and homogeneous parts of the sentence, among which homogeneous predicates and objects are prevalent. In the structure of the cognitive level of St. John's linguistic personality the authors single out the concept of a teacher that includes the personality of a catechist, his functions and moralizing conversations with students. In the structure of the pragmatic level of St. John's linguistic personality there are phatic, informative, evaluative, and effecting needs. The texts of St. John emphasize the importance of conformity of life and teaching with Christ and the Church. They underline the educational significance of prayer, worship and communion, the importance of the living spiritual word as the main means of teaching