Mental Formulae in the Formation of Linguistic Personality of Ch. Aitmatov

The article is devoted to pragmalinguistic analysis of author’s sayings, mental formulae of Chingiz Aitmatov. Ch. Aitmatov’s mental formulae have been considered in terms of axiological significance exposing author’s philosophical reflections, his world view. In course analyzing the role and place of mental formulae while forming Aitmatov’s idiostyle, an attempt to research author’s sayings through the prism of linguistic personality of the writer is undertaken. There is given a description of proverbial organization of mental formulae, which realizes itself in the form of aphorisms, maxims, sentential.

mental formula, maxim, sentential, aphorism, lingual individual, illocutionary function, pragmatic adjustment