STYLISTIC FIGURES AS A WAY OF EXPRESSING EMOTIONS IN NEWSPAPER AND PUBLICIST TEXT

Abstract

The given article highlights the stylistic figures of the syntactic level, which are the expression of emotions in the newspaper and publicist texts. The study was based on the texts of interviews, speeches, statements and debates of the leading British politicians (David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Gordon Brown). Emotional states in the analyzed texts are verbalized using stylistic figures that enhance speech expressiveness and increase its emotionality with the help of special syntactic constructions. Among stylistic figures we single out nominative sentences, detachment, rhetorical questions, syntactic parallelism, antithesis, emphasis and repetition, which have their own peculiarities of use in the studied texts. In most cases stylistic figures express negative emotions (anxiety, anger, discontent, indignation, contempt, irritation) Stylistic figures of the syntactic level are a characteristic feature of newspaper and publicist texts, since it is important for the speaker to organize and build his utterance correctly in order not only to convey his own emotional states, but also cause an appropriate reaction from the addressee, to convince the addressee of the correctness of the statements, ideas, suggestions, etc. Another feature is convergence, that is, the use of different stylistic figures in one speech context, their "stringing" one on top of the other, their addition. So, for example, parallel constructions can form both parts of a sentence and separate sentences, they can be used with various lexical repetitions, as well as antithesis, detachment. At the same time, the antithesis can be based on common lexical antonyms, contextual antonyms and syntactic parallelism.

Keywords

• емоція
• стилістична фігура
• номінативне речення
• парцеляція
• риторичні питання
• синтаксичний паралелізм
• антитеза
• емфаза
• повтор