LINGUO-COGNITIVE INTERPRETATION OF HYPERBOLIC AND QUASI-HYPERBOLIC COMBINATIONS

Vitalii Kononenko
Doctor of Philology, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Head of the Department of General and German Linguistics, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University
57 Shevchenko St., Ivano-Frankivsk 76018, Ukraine
E-mail: kzm@pnu.edu.ua

Heading: Researches
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract: The article deals with linguo-cognitive characteristics of artistic hyperbolization and its place in the system of figurative means of the Ukrainian language. Hyperbole has been represented from the point of view of logico-semantic classification, taking into consideration extra lingual factors, by setting the reference correlation features on the associative and sensual basis with reliance on evaluative connotation. Analysis of possible approaches to implementation of contextual distinction of hyperbole and other tropes has been carried out, with connotation of existing transitional forms such as metaphors-hyperboles, similes-hyperboles, epithets-hyperboles. Language and aesthetic techniques of hyperbole inclusion into text by means of attributive, predicative and comparative structures, constructions with quantitative indicators, descriptive words that is by intensifying particles, standardized causative constructions have been described. Ways of artistic hyperbolization and quasi-hyperbolization differentiation, aesthetic functions of hyperbole in image creation and its everyday conversational realization have been identified. Attention has been paid to hidden motivation of hyperbolization in a great many phraseological units; the conclusion is that hyperbolization doesn’t influence its meanings. In hyperbolic meaning evaluation subjective factors of individual author’s perception are taken into account. However, hyperbolic comprehension is objectified on the basis of cognition principles.

Keywords: an artistic text, a hyperbole, hyperbolization, a quasi-hyperbole, a referent, an attribute, a predicate, a figure of speech, a metaphor, a simile, a symbol, an epithet, discourse words, causation.

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