SPECIFIC FEATERS OF REPRESENTATIVES OF COMPARISONS IN MODERN WOMEN’S PROSE (BASED ON M.L. STEPNOVA’S LITERARY WORKS)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of comparison in modern women’s prose. The paper describes comparative constructions in Russian language. The authors research different approaches concerning this phenomena, and also specify the definition of term comparison according to the article’s objective. The examples of comparison on various grounds are thoroughly considered. This paper understands comparison as a syntactically divided language unit. It has comparative semantics and consists of an object, an image, and a basis for comparison. This unit is formalized by specific formal means expressing comparative meaning (lexical, derivative, morphological, and syntactic). The comparison is one of the figurative means of the language. They help to achieve a more complicated understanding of literature. The comparison is embodied through a variety of comparative constructions based on a logical model of comparison. The style of each author is reflected not only in the unique images of his comparisons, but also in their scope, construction, functioning. Comparisons can become one of the characteristic, recognizable features of a writer. The analysis of the artistic language of M.L. Stepnova shows she has a big variety of methods and techniques to express a comparison. The author uses zoonyms, anthroponyms, and phytonyms to bring out the comparison. The representatives of comparison are often people or objects, for example they may be proper names, the appearance of a person, nouns pointing to a person by a certain sign: social status, position held, profession, etc.

Keywords

• comparison
• comparative constructions
• comparative
• representative of comparison
• image of comparison
• subject of comparison
• modern female prose