The World of Animals in the Memoirs of V. A. Morozov: Touches to the Portrait of a Linguistic Personality

The article continues the study of the linguistic personality of the resident of the Vologda region V.A. Morozov based on his handwritten memoirs. The article focuses on the verbalization of animal images: the composition of animal vocabulary in the author's handwritten archive is identified and described, the functions of its use in various parts of the archive are identified, and the images of animals created by the naive writer on the pages of his memoirs are examined. As comparative materials, studies of animal vocabulary in northern Russian dialects, descriptions of the specifics of the autobiographical discourse of naive writers, as well as previously published works based on the handwritten archive of V.A. Morozov are used. As a result, a conclusion is made that the linguistic personality of the informant is a transitional personality (a native of a village - a resident of a provincial town) and clearly manifests its regional identity in relation to the North-West of the European part of Russia. The author of the memoirs also shows himself to be a professional (an agricultural worker, a Soviet employee in the trade and supply sector) and a creative linguistic personality, in whose speech practice animal vocabulary serves as a means of expressing vivid verbal images, both those associated with the folklore tradition of the region and those representing the individual authorial principle.