Abstract
The article deals with the study of linguo-stylistic means of the comic category representation at the lexico-semantic level. Modern English prose is characterized by a specific comic modality, which is a characteristic feature of the author’s individual style. The leading means of the lexico-semantic level, that contribute to the realization of the comic effect in belles-letters texts, have been analyzed. The material of research is the English-language prose works of small forms by the most prominent writers, such as: K. Barry, K. Vonnegut, R. Carver and R. Dahl. The aforementioned authors use hyperbolization, which is introduced by means of similes, indefinite pronouns, nouns formed from numerals (in the process of numeralization), temporal and spatial adverbs, a set of lexical units with negative colouring, adjectives in the superlative degree of comparison, modal verbs in the negative form, emphatic constructions.
Highlights
The comic is the category of philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, literary criticism and linguistics, which characterizes the objects and phenomena of reality with a greater or lesser degree of ridicule
We consider the analysis of linguistic verbalization and exteriorization of the comic due to expressive means and stylistic devices of a certain level to be the linguistic basis for the interpretation of belles-letters text/discourse
Hyperbole can be expressed by typified means, such as: indefinite pronouns; nouns formed from numerals; temporal and spatial adverbs (always, ever, 47 (2021) 4 never, forever, everywhere)
Summary
The comic is the category of philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, literary criticism and linguistics, which characterizes the objects and phenomena of reality with a greater or lesser degree of ridicule. They have been trying to study the nature of the comic; to single out its types; to describe forms; to highlight genres; to give reasons for various theories of the comic and laughter; to describe the mechanisms of the comic production and perception In this case, we consider the analysis of linguistic verbalization and exteriorization of the comic due to expressive means and stylistic devices of a certain level to be the linguistic basis for the interpretation of belles-letters text/discourse. 47 (2021) 4 linguistics, linguistic poetics, linguo-cultural studies, linguistic pragmatics; and in terms of various angles, including a lexico-semantic one) (see (Shvachko, 2012; Sannikov, 1999; Karasik, 1999; Kalyta, 2013; Kyrychenko, 2015; Nazarenko, Nesterenko, 2020; Zhuhai, Materynska, 2020; Ferré, 2014; McCarthy, Carter, 2004) for more details). To achieve the general aim of the study and solve specific problems, the following methods and techniques have been used, namely: a quantitative analysis, a contextual analysis, a semantic and stylistic one
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