LEXICAL MEANS OF EXPRESSION OF THE CATEGORY OF EXPRESSIVENESS IN MODERN UKRAINIAN PROSE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of expressive vocabulary that functions in the Ukrainian literary text of the beginning of the 21st century. The category of expressiveness is characterized and the main groups of expressive vocabulary in the literary text are defined. Vulgarism used with the aim of creating outrage and powerful influence on the consciousness of the addressee is considered. Exoticisms, subordinate functions of “mixing” of Ukrainian and foreign lexemes, elimination of borders between languages, actualization of interlinguistic and intercultural interaction are analyzed. It is proven that the addressee demonstrates a desire to communicate with such a reader for whom there are no linguistic boundaries, who easily perceives changes in the language code, knows the main European languages and is able to understand a multilingual narrator. Jargonisms indicating the use of elements of the lexical subsystems of certain social groups and covering criminal, military, youth and urban jargon are analyzed. It is substantiated that in character speech, jargonisms mark the speech, indicating the appropriate social status of the speaker, and in the author’s speech, they are subordinate to the author’s intention and express the category of expressiveness. Dialectisms, in particular lexical ones, are presented as such, which in modern prose mark the author’s speech according to the region where the author comes from or in which the described events take place.