EPIGRAM AS ABUSIVE TYPE OF ENIGMATIC TEXT

Journal Title: Мова - Year 2014, Vol 0, Issue 22

Abstract

An epigram is a scantily explored object in linguistic literature. Genre of epigram as the special type of satiric humorous work is examined mainly in study of literature works (М. L. Gasparov, E. V. Novikovа, L. I. Timofeev, etc.). The analysis of its text structure and sign originality in this research is dictated by a necessity to fill in a blank in scientific illumination of epigram as the special genre form, disposing the impressive arsenal of enigmatic of language means. The aim of work is to prove belonging of epigram to the special (abusive) type of text. Actuality of our research is related to the presence of nonuniqueness definition of the term of «enigmatic». Its use is in a wide value, as ´anything enigmatic, doubtful, unknown, stimulating curiosity, an allegory or hint´, allows to extend an idea about the types of work, based on enigmatic text. Likeness of epigram with the riddle (by classic enigmatic text) shows the single definition formulated on the basis of the educed identical specific signs: small literary genre with a variant or obligatory anthropocentric constituent, the aim of which is evaluation attribution, realized by means of adequate of enigmatic language means.

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Tatiana F. SHUMARINA

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Tatiana F. SHUMARINA (2014). EPIGRAM AS ABUSIVE TYPE OF ENIGMATIC TEXT. Мова, 0(22), 103-107. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-433324