Oxymoron as a cognitive-pragmatic phenomenon in the Оlga Kobylyanska’s artistic discourse

Abstract

Oxymoron as a linguistic phenomenon is characteristic primarily of artistic speech. There are different interpretations of this concept in the linguistic literature. Oxymoron is interpreted as a stylistic figure, a rhetorical form, a means of artistic expression (trope). The purpose of the article is to analyze the oxymoron as a cognitive-pragmatic phenomenon in the artistic discourse of Olga Kobylyanska. The relevance of the article is determined by the need of further in-depth study of Olga Kobylyanskaya idiostyle in order to form a cognitive-pragmatic conception of the writer's artistic discourse. The novelty of scientific research is due to the fact that the oxymoron as a cognitive-pragmatic phenomenon in the artistic discourse of Olga Kobylyanska has not yet been the subject of thorough research. Research methods. In the article as the main general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis are used, as well as linguistic – descriptive, structural and comparative and historical methods. Conclusions. So, an oxymoron as a cognitive phenomenon consists in the implementation of opposite, mutually exclusive relations of linguistic units due to the so-called cognitive dissonance, which determines its pragmatic value for the reader. In the artistic discourse of O. Kobylyanska oxymoronic units of different nature function; oxymoronic relations function at the level of a word combination, a sentence structure on a linguistic unit (composite).