ABOUT THE CLASSIFICATION OF FIGURATIVE ARGOTISMS INCORPORATED IN THE MODERN FRENCH CRIME NOVEL

Abstract

The study of the tropological space is one of the constants of the systematic description of non-conventional vocabulary units. In this work, prepared as part of the approbation of the intermediate results of the study of the argotic component, such elements of the tropological space incorporated into the literary text as one-word tropes, tropological periphrases-riddles, one-word humorisms are analyzed; at the same time, one-word tropes are grouped according to the types of metaphorical transfers underlying them. The results of the study showed that one-word tropes are characterized by high frequency, whereas the use of tropical periphrases-riddles and one-word humorisms is rather sporadic. In addition to representing the components of the tropological space, the article examines the phenomenon of loss of imagery by argotic lexemes and characterizes the main ways of semanticizing argotic lexemes in the literary text. Special attention is paid in the article to the study of the issue of stylistic roles performed by figurative argotisms. The study is based on the material of works of modern French crime novel.