Chiasm in stylism of scientific and media

Abstract

The article presents a study of the stylistic figure of chiasm in media and scientific speech. The generalized views of researchers on this element of style, mainly poetic speech. An understanding of chiasm is formulated, which emphasizes the need to take into account the identity of the lexical composition of the parts of the chiastic construction, which significantly narrows the range of facts related to chiasm, and the main semantic effect of this figure is the mirroriness of the connected parts. Cases of using chiastic constructions in the heading position (VIRTUAL REALITY AND REAL VIRTUALITY) and in the media text (Yevgeny Yevtushenko was the most Russian poet from Westerners and the most western of Russian poets) are considered. It is shown that the stylistic effect in the first case is intriguing, in the second - an expressive assessment. Cases of using chiasm in the media text are analyzed from the standpoint of semantic syntax; it has been revealed that elements of propositions — actants, predicates, and the position as a whole — are involved in chiasm. Attention is drawn to the fact that chiastic constructions, formally representing a complex sentence, are not polypositive structures, because in them one proposition is fixed in two reflections (We need to kill free time, or it will kill us). The importance of describing chiasm among the expressive means of media stylistics and the style of scientific speech is emphasized.