EFFECTIVE METHODS OF STRUCTURAL AND SEMANTIC TRANSFORMATIONS OF ANIMAL PROVERBS IN THE ENGLISH PROSE

Abstract

The aim of this work is to study the effective structural and semantic transformations of English animal proverbs in the context. This goal determined the choice of the research source which is represented by the works of English-speaking authors of the XX century, who use modified proverbs with a zoonym component in the fiction. The relevance of this research is due to the fact that the analyzed proverbs being the age-old folk wisdom will never lose their relevance and value. Word masters tend to transform animal proverbs creating the impression of something unusual, bright and unexpected to achieve a certain pragmatic effect. The article analyzes such productive methods of the proverbs occasional modification as ellipsis and replacement of proverb components in different speech situations.