Sententia as a language marker of discursive personality of the author

The article deals with the problems of sententia as the author’s sayings, characterized by brevity, semantic capacity and reinterpretation. The sententia is also considered as a small form of a text, a component of an individual author’s and conceptual picture of the world, as a cultural model that translates the most conceptually significant information. The analysis of author’s sententia, their distinction signs, from the standpoint of author’s modality and intentionality revealed the following signs: a) stylistic marking, manifested in the convergence of stylistic devices; b) an entity that can be taken out of context as an independent judgment and used in other texts; c) national-cultural specifics verbalizing linguistic concepts, certain knowledge of the world, emphasizing figurative and value components containing culturally significant information; d) intertextuality, characterized by a double reference correlation due to the interaction of two texts.