Stylistic load of diminutives in Taras Shevchenko's poetry

Abstract

The article presents the results of a stylistic analysis of diminutives in Taras Shevchenko's poetry. The paper describes parametrization of such concepts as "diminutiveness" and "diminutives ". Derivational transformation of the generic word in the direction of the formation of the diminutive is not accompanied by the modification of its denotative meaning, but in this way, a very substantial emotional and appraisal information is introduced, that is often important like the conceptual one. Besides marking the cute, diminutives also signal the emotions of the speaker, arising as a result of evaluating certain features of the object, as a result of the fact of the personal attitude of the addressee or determined by the situation of speech and in order to create an expressive background. Many emotional and evaluative suffixes add to the semantics of the word a positive author's assessment. The presence of units with diminutive suffixes marks the text as proximity to the conversational language. Diminutive-caress suffixes belong to the tool by which the actualization of the national specificity of the Ukrainian language is carried out representing the category of diminutiveness. It is absolutely logical, that Ukrainians use reduced-cuddling entities in the speech practice as a unit of world poetry inventory. Units of diminutives in T. Shevchenko's poetry are used quite often. This paper shows the inventory of diminutive-lustful suffixes with which the investigated derivatives function. Their performance is determined. It is established, that the lion's share of words of the analyzed type are nouns. The suffix -оньк- / -еньк- form the largest number of them. The suffix -к- is the second largest group with diminutives. The rest of the groups are few. The stylistic effects, which lead to the use of one or another dementia, are found. It is determined that the most frequently used words of the analyzed type embody the functional-semantic, communicative-pragmatic category of intimization.