Textual construction of a learner's linguistic persona (a case study of Kuzbass university students' essays)

Abstract

This paper seeks to contribute to an understanding of how learner’s linguistic persona can vary ideas in discourse, namely, in an essay, which is seen as a secondary text derived from a piece of fiction. Drawn on the theory of a linguistic persona in discourse and learner’s identity theory, the research establishes the ways by which a native speaker shapes identity in discourse processing. It also focuses on how readers in higher school produce secondary texts (essays) and display their diversely organized linguistic ability. By applying discourse analysis to learner’s personal discourse, the authors also identify two main text generation and text perception strategies: onomasiological and semasiological.