STYLISTIC SPECIFICITY OF EXPRESSIVELY MARKED LEXEMES IN O. ZABUZHKO’S PUBLICISTIC COLLECTION «AND AGAIN I GET INTO THE TANK...»

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the stylistic parameters of emotionally-expressive lexical units in O. Zabuzhko’s collection «And again I get into the tank...». In particular, the publication draws attention to the multidimensional nature of the precedent cohesionym, namely the title of the collection under analysis. The stylistic resources are examined according to nine out of the ten traditional groups of expressives: 1) names of feelings and their derived derivatives; 2) words denoting the emotional evaluation of the phenomena of reality; 3) lexemes with an expressive component of connotative meaning; 4) lexical units with expressive-synonymic semantics; 5) solemn (ceremonial) words; 6) stylistically lowered categories of lexical means; 7) words with expressively or emotionally marked derivational means; 8) poetisms; 9) expressive interjections. Among the analyzed lexical material, only the group of child speech words was not attested. Describing the vicissitudes not only of national history – particularly the Russian-Ukrainian war – but also of the global information confrontation, O. Zabuzhko employs the entire palette of expressives listed above in order to maximize the impact on the reader’s psycho-emotional sphere. The writer uses names of the highest degrees of psychological states to enhance the expressiveness of messages, as well as verbs derived from nouns denoting a person’s feelings, which perform value-based ranking of intensive gradations of the process. Her idiostyle is characterized by evaluative adjectives, stylistic devices and tropes, words that acquire expressivity when used in a figurative meaning, emotionally-expressive derivatives with meliorative and pejorative suffixes. To denote complex evaluations and emotions, O. Zabuzhko resorts to creating composite adjectives, which serve as epithets. In her publicistic writings, the author uses solemn vocabulary to express respect, astonishment, admiration for the grandeur of events, etc. Christian biblical-sacral lexical formulas, originally characteristic of the confessional style, acquire new emotionally victorious and optimistic meanings. Some of these words are employed to convey ironic, disdainful, or sarcastic attitudes. Lexical means belonging to the lowest moral and ethical strata also serve this purpose. Emotional interjections are used sporadically. The expressives that richly abound in O. Zabuzhko’s publicistic works reflect the writer’s individual worldview and artistic mastery, her distinctive idiostyle within which new emotional meanings and stylistic shades of the author’s reflections on complex and relevant issues of the present are realized.