O. Andreyeva, Y. Yermukan, D.Vyukhina

Karaganda State University named after EA Buketov, Kazakhstan

LINGUAL PERSONALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF POLYLINGUAL EDUCATION

Nowadays is a well-known fact that the language refers not only to linguistic, but to political, social and economic spheres.

Implementation of current political reforms in Kazakhstan applies to all spheres including education and requires the highly qualified specialists, who possess not only professional knowledge, but a foreign language on the same level with the Kazakh and Russian languages. To ensure competitive ability of the country and its citizens – Message of Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev N.A. «New Kazakhstan in the new world» provides a phased implementation of the cultural project «Trinity of Languages», as per this project development of three languages is highly required: Kazakh as a state language, Russian as a language of international communication and English as a language of successful integration into global economy [1]. «Trinity of Languages» idea is especially important for Kazakhstan's citizens since it was formulated and delivered by the Head of the State as the answer to time challenge, as the solution to meet current society demands which is in the process of active integration into the global world.

These conditions bring up the problem of the lingual personality formation and the development of polylingual education. Speaking about the lingual personality, it is necessary to refer to the terminology (concept) of language.

What is a «Language»? As per V.M. Solntsev – Language, is considered as an exclusively complicated pattern, that can be determined from various points of view: a) from the point of its function: language is the means of communication and means of developing, phrasing/verbal communication and expressing of an individual thought; b) from the point of language structure (mechanism): it is a set of symbols and instructions how to use these symbols; c) from the point of language existence: language is a result of social, collective skill such as «creating» some units out of the acoustic substance by associating sounds with some meanings; d) from the semantic point of view: language is a system of signs, – material objects (sounds) endued with property to indicate something beyond its meanings e) from the point of informatics view: language is a code which helps to encrypt semantic information [2, 9-10].

«Lingual personality» issue has been an object of linguists’ interests since ancient times. Language scholars recognized that the term «lingual personality» is not quite accurate as it is attributed to the degree of complexity and the multiple-layer structure of this issue.

Philosophical, sociological and psychological outlooks on the social valuable set of physical and spiritual qualities of the individual are met inside the lingual personality.

«Lingual personality» in linguistics is referred to be «verbal personality», an individual as the native speaker considered from its ability to speech activities – that is the set of physiological qualities of the individual which helps him to generate and receive speech patterns [3, 3].

The scientists distinguish the following key essential characteristics of the lingual personality: linguistic capacity, linguistic consciousness, and communicative needs. The linguistic capacity consists of the following components: phonetic, morphological, syntactic and lexical. The linguistic capacity and communicative needs are the conditions for communication performance. The success of verbal communication depends on the capacity of communicating parties to arrange their verbal and nonverbal behavior according to communication tasks, this refers to communicative competence. The communicative competence performs as a demonstration of linguistic consciousness to choose the means of communication in a specific communicative situation [4, 6].

The lingual personality is the holder of linguistic consciousness. The linguistic consciousness is the image of the world of this or that culture mediated through language. The linguistic consciousness of the personality is delivered through verbal behavior which is determined by a communicative situation, the linguistic and cultural status, social status, ideology, etc.

The linguistic consciousness is «a subjective form of human activity in relation to the objective world, the highest form of nervous activities of the lingual personality, set of psychological and mental systems, and also cognitive abilities of the person» [4, 44].

Lingual personality as a research issue, object of study and as research acceptance can be distinguished from different point of views: 1) from the psycholinguistics point – from psychology of the language and speech; 2) from the lingo-didactic point – from regularities of language study; 3) from language study of fiction.

Thus, the ambiguity of the term is explained by various approaches to the lingual personality as to a research object.

In recent years the scientists are developing an integrated concept of the lingual personality which is tend to be more perspective as it will be able to combine four fundamental properties of language and four linguistic paradigms: language is caused historical, psychological, systemic, socially associated.

Scientific ideas mentioned above-demonstrate that the lingual personality in the context of poly-lingual education it is the poly-cultural multilingual personality who posses with communicative and intellectual needs, capacities and competences which allow personality to perform successfully in the conditions of cross-cultural communication and professional-linguistic activities.

References:

1. Nazarbayev N.A. New Kazakhstan in the new world//The Kazakhstan truth. – № 33 (25278). – 2007. – March 1.

2. Solntsev V.M. Language as structural education. – M., 1970. – 312 p.

3. Bogin G.I. Model of the lingual personality in its relation to kinds of texts. – L., 1984.

4. Tsoi A.S. Anthropocentric lexicography//Russian abroad. – 2008. – №1. – P.43-48.