Homo peregrinator: the author's image and the image of Russia in “The Russian journal” by Lewis Carroll (1867)

This article is devoted to the psycholinguistic study of the dominants and their “traces” in the consciousness of Homo peregrinator, a travelling person, - Lewis Carroll, the author of “The Russian Journal” (1867), which he kept during his trip to Russia. The dominants (A. A. Ukhtomsky), which are values of the motivational level of linguistic personality (Yu. N. Karaulov), leave “traces” in the thesaurus. The “traces” are investigated through three aspects of the thesaurus level: dissimilation, anisotropy (Yu. N. Karaulov) and emotion as an expression of the sensation of linguistic personality at the linguistic-cognitive, or thesaurus, level. The Lewis Carroll’s mission in Russia, his goodwill and respect were a determining factor in dealing with a surrounding unfamiliar reality. The author’s value dominant, correlated with the motivational level of the linguistic personality, contrasts with one of the other European and English authors’ travel notes.