Аннотация:The article comprises attitudinal meaning as one of the constituents of Chekhov’s language worldview and its expressional means in the writer’s individual style.
Assessment, a base anthropocentric category, performs as an agent organising value-conscious worldview, whereas values are the basis of building the worldview. Attitudinal position of the speaker is expressed in accordance with canons intrinsic to the respective epoch. So, generalised value system can be deduced. It is due to this factor that the reconstruction of writers’ view pictures is interesting for researchers of varied cultures.
Cognitive-discursive potential of assessment is revealed through interaction of lexical units with the context, particularly with the nearest environment. Attitudinal utterance and the context have reciprocal impact. From the language point of view, the structure of assessment is represented by the following elements: the subject of assessment, the object of assessment and the evaluative predicate. The subject of the evaluative structure is considered to be a person, a part of a society or the whole society, whose point of view the assessment is implemented from. The subject performs the assessment on the basis of its worldview picture scale and the corresponding stereotypes.
The assessment representation manner and the peculiarities of the assessment units functioning have been unravelled by means of Chekhov’s letters text analysis. The analysis of assessment means has been implemented. Language means of expressing assessment in the writer’s personal style have been described. The analysis of assessment means has demonstrated that the objective assessment operates alongside with the subjective one, frequently the author’s one, either of which is of great value for the reconstruction of the author’s worldview picture. Within the framework of the research, only separate personal assessment modes have been represented. In prospect, it will be interesting to present other personal items of assessment, e.g. sublimated and rationalistic ones.