Семантико-стилістичні функції контрастивів у художніх текстах Івана Нечуя-Левицького

Abstract

The article researches semantic and stylistic functions of antonymous lexemes in I. Nechui-Levytskyi’s artistic works, one of the greatest masters of artistic stories (on material of the story „Above the Black sea”). As a result of the research carried out it is established that by means of oppositions I. Nechui-Levytskyi expresses love of positive characters (Victor Komashko, Nadiia Murashkova) to their land, native people, faith in the best future and shows hypocrisy, cruelty and despotism of negative heroes (Selabros, Fesenko). An author also uses lexical oppositions for creation of contrasting descriptions of characters, in particular Sani and Nadi. Their contrasting goes through the whole work. The productivity of antonymic lexemes which characterize appearance of characters, their mental conditions, emotions, feelings is identified. The contrasting mental condition of characters is underlined by oxymoron syntagms, grounded on the use emotional and evaluative lexemes. Constructions with a negative particle not are selected. These constructions characterize I. Nechui-Levytskyi’s artistic works and have semantic and stylistic functions in the story, underline contrasting actions and states of characters, bring emotional expressiveness to the text. The analysis of the actual material discovered that lexical antonyms in I. Nechui-Levytskyi’s story “Above the Black sea” were the productive means of describing polar characters, underlining their contrasting actions and states, as well as they were the elements of describing landscape.