Professional Intercultural Communication of an Elite Language Personality in the Aspect of Describing Subjective-Modal Tonality (Based on the Material of an Autobiographical Narrative of the Soviet period)

This article focuses on the professional intercultural communication practiced by renowned German scholar V.G. Admoni. The aim of the study is a hermeneutic-narratological analysis of the means of explicating the holistic subjective-modal tonality associated with the evaluative judgments of the protagonist of the autobiographical narrative regarding his participation in a foreign scientific event and communication with European colleagues. The scientific novelty of the study's results is determined by the interpretation of the subjective modality of the narrative as a holistic axiological coloring “dispersed” throughout the autobiographical narrative. Furthermore, the approach to V.G. Admoni's autobiography as a work created by an elite linguistic personality is innovative. An analysis of empirical material revealed dominant, axiologically marked overtones of meaning that constitute the subjective-modal tonality of the autobiographical narrative of an elite linguistic personality of the Soviet period. These overtones include humanism, recognition of a colleague's ability to correct his worldview, and the impressions of a Soviet scholar on a foreign assignment. These components of the subjective-modal tonality are manifested in V.G. Admoni's narrative through epithets with emotional-evaluative connotations and syntactic expressive devices (repetition, parentheses, sentence parcellation). The application of the hermeneutic-narratological interpretation of autobiography used in this article to research on factual and fictional narratology appears promising.

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