Considering the issue of the authorship of the memoirs written by the ghost writer from the perspective of the linguostylistics

The literary direction of the memorial and autobiographical prose is considered. The identification of the authorship of the memoirs, written by the ghost writer, is discussed. The comparative analysis of the elements of the author’s individual style in the linguostylistic, semantic and contextual, structural and designing aspects reveals the situation of the “language substitution” of the author's personality. It is substantiated the cogency of the influence of the personality of author-writer on the linguistic and psycholinguistic portrait of the author-employer.