FIGURES OF SPEECH FUNCTIONING IN THE LINGUO-PRAGMATIC DIMENSION

Abstract

The article observes issues of the figures of speech functioning in theory of trope studies. In the philosophical and philological scientific space, there are no unified criteria of selection, classification, and gradation of tropes, their differences from some other figures of speech and modes that involve figurative language. In the linguo-pragmatic dimension, the phenomenon of trope combinations, such as metaphor-simile, metaphor-symbol, metaphor-hyperbole, etc., inherent in literary discourse, appears; as a result of functional-semantic relations of concordance or contradiction such combinations between components, new linguistic and stylistic connotations arise, extended metaphorical expressions are formed, which can cover fragments of the text, and in the poetry - a whole poem. Discourse analysis involves the possibility of taking into account the vertical context that links the linearly non-intersecting means of image formation. Contextually determined shifts in the combination of two or more figurative means manifest themselves in the phenomena of coordination and opposition of the expressive meanings; as a result, complex metaphor, figurative units are forming, revealing the levels and ways of thinking, the varieties of individual author style creation.