“THE NIGHTS WERE BRIGHTENING, THE DAYS WERE DARKENING” (CONTRASTS IN THE SPEECH OF LINA KOSTENKO)

Nadiia BOBUKH,
Professor, Dr. Sci. (Philol.), Head of the Department of Ukrainian, Foreign Languages and Translation,
Poltava University of Economics and Trade;
3 Ivanа Bankа St., Poltava 36003, Ukraine;
e-mail: bobukh2017@gmail.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7879-8639

Heading: WORD IN ART WORK
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract
The article examines semantically opposed lexemes recorded in Lina Kostenko’s poetic dictionary. There were characterized the most representative oppositions, semantically opposed components of which are correlated with temporal concepts: day – night, daytime – night, yesterday – tomorrow, yesterday – today, today – tomorrow, yesterday’s – tomorrow’s, etc. The axiologically marked nomenclatures of human feelings productive in the poetess’s language creation are analyzed: love – hate; joy – sadness, longing; happiness – trouble; cheerful – sad; laugh – cry, sob; happy – unhappy, etc. They represent polar feelings, emotions and the state of mind for the lyrical hero.
It was found that entire poetic passages are often built on lexical oppositions, in which a holistic contrasting image is conveyed with the help of partial oppositions.
It is emphasized that a characteristic feature of Lina Kostenko’s idiostyle is the widespread use of oxymoronic syntagms as a means of individualizing the artistic narrative in order to express mental state of the character and the contradictory essence of the described phenomena.
It is emphasized that the expressiveness of linguistic contrast in Lina Kostenko’s poetic vocabulary is enhanced by the following syntactic-stylistic constructions: parcellation, combination of opposites, opposition of opposites, negation of opposites, identification of depicted contrasting phenomena. It is noted that the use of double oppositions in the titles (initial lines) of poems is indicative for Lina Kostenko’s poetic idiolect.
Key words: antithesis, emotive antonymic lexemes, idiolect, individual-authorial metaphor, opposition, oxymoronic syntagm, temporal relations.

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