LEXICO-SEMANTIC FIGURATIVE MEANS OF CREATING HUMOR IN THE STORIES OF N. NOSOV

Abstract

The article presents a close linguistic analysis of the lexical- semantic means of creating humor in children’s literature. The material for analysis in this work is texts from the book of N.Nosov “Knock-knock-knock”. It is noted that linguistic means correlated with the lexical-semantic organization of the language are used to create verbal humor, including the semantic-stylistic nuance of the words’ meaning; lexical repetition, increasing the tension of speech; metaphors (linguistic and individual author’s); epithets; antonymic contrasts; polysemy; paronomasia; euphemism of the phrase; characterization of proper names and figurative phraseological unites of colloquial coloring. In the variety of linguistic means, there are normal (universal) proper linguistic means, stylistically marked and fixed by the stylistics as language tropes, as well as individually-author’s (occasional) stylistically not marked in the language system, which, however, according to the author’sintention in the context, properties of stylistic devices, that create verbal humor or affect the humorous effect of a phrase, dialogue, fragment and plot.