ЛЕКСИЧНІ ТА ФРАЗЕОЛОГІЧНІ СИНОНІМИ НА ПОЗНАЧЕННЯ ЕМОЦІЇ СТРАХУ В ПРОЗІ МАРІЇ МАТІОС

Abstract

In the article, based on the study of the language of the prose works by Maria Matios, synonymous series are selected to indicate the emotion of fear. Fear as an emotion and as an existential aspect of being determines the problematic and poetics of the writer’s small (novelistic collection «Nation») and large («SweetDarusya», «Almost never the other way around», «Moskalytsia», «Bukova zemlia») prose of the writer, mainly addressed to the tur-bulent periods in the history of Ukraine. The creative idea of the writer to understand the existence of the nation in the fl ow of history determined the linguistic means of organizing the text. It has been proven that Maria Mathios’s speech is characterized by a high degree of concentration of lexical (noun, adjective, verb, adverb) and phraseological synonymous units to denote the emotion of fear. It has been observed that the synonyms for the emotion of fear, introduced by Maria Mathios, record human experiences at the level of physical sen-sations and much less often at the level of psychological ones. Sometimes, when the author expands the scope of what is described to the size of the community, they can acquire a social focus. Units of the lexical-semantic group «fear» are used by Maria Matios not only in a direct, but also in a metaphorical-fi gurative sense. The study confi rms the scientists’ conclu-sions that synonyms in the language system perform two main functions – clarifi cation and substitution. The sophisticated synonymous series denoting the emotion of fear, observed in the analyzed works, testifi es to Maria Matios’s perfect mastery of literary language reserves on the one hand and vernacular elements on the other. The study of the author’s prose in the specifi ed direction is promising for the systematic study of synonymous relationships of units of the lexical-semantic group «fear» in the works of modern writers.