Vered, V. T. IMPERSONAL CONSTRUCTIONS AS A RELECTION OF LINGUSTIC WORDVIEW. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2025;47(7):77–82. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2025.1236


Theoretical, Applied and Comparative Linguistics

IMPERSONAL CONSTRUCTIONS AS A RELECTION OF LINGUSTIC WORDVIEW

Vered
V. T. 		Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba
Keywords:
impersonality
linguistic worldview
functional grammar
semantics
pragmatics
comparative linguistics		 Summary: The article explores the intralingual and interlingual (translingual) communicative potential of Russian impersonal constructions. The relevance of the topic is conditioned by the following: a large portion of cognitive research in the field focuses on lexical meaning and semantic relations between words, with little research done to evaluate grammatical phenomena as a means of reflecting the worldview. The article focuses on the functional and semantic features of the category of impersonality in the Russian language. Russian impersonal sentences are com- pared and contrasted with their English equivalents (selected from Ivan Turgenev’s works translated from Russian by Constance Garnett and included into the book Dream Tales and Prose Poems). A hypothesis is formulated and proved that the communicative core of impersonality is formed by impersonal constructions in which a predicate is expressed by personal verbs in an impersonal form or impersonal reflexive verbs with the postfix -sya corresponding to similar active verbs without postfixes. The presence of such structures indicates the communicative needs to conceal the sub- ject of the action and describe the situation as arbitrary, self-developing, and dominating the subject, in which the latter is not directly involved and acts exclusively as a recipient. Being translated into English, most Russian impersonal constructions are replaced by English constructions with personal verbs, which leads to a reduction of meaning, and the semantics of impersonality may only be partially recreated by lexical means. A conclusion is drawn that Russian impersonal constructions play a major role in the conceptualization of reality and the creation of cultural codes that are most significant for native speakers at the given point of historical development.



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