МОВНІ ЗАСОБИ ВИРАЖЕННЯ СУБ'ЄКТИВНО-ІРОНІЧНОЇ МОДАЛЬНОСТІ В ПРОЗІ ВАСИЛЯ СЛАПЧУКА

Relevance of the research of verbal means of humor in modern linguistics
is determined by the fact that realization of this phenomenon in fiction reflects not only the
originality of the stylistic system of the national language, linguistic and ethnographic information,
but also the individuality of the author’s worldview. From this point of view, the linguistic means of
representing the author’s idiostyle of Vasyl Slapchuk’s prose must be examined.
The purpose of the article is to identify and describe the linguistic expressive means of subjective-
evaluative ironic modality of Vasyl Slapchuk’s prose. The study conducts an analysis of the
linguistic means of creating subjective-evaluative ironic modality of the writer’s prose, especially in
the novels «Wild flowers», «Autumn behind the cheek», «Blind Rain», «Between the Worlds and
the Shining of the Lights», «Cage for the sky», «Snow woman».
The linguistic expressive means of situational irony, especially lexical-stylistic, logical-semantic
and syntactic-stylistic ones, as well as expressive means of associative irony are investigated
and described. Subjective-evaluative ironic modality of Vasyl Slapchuk’s prose is illustrated by
such means as ironic comparisons and metaphors, antiphrasis, word games, parcellation, phraseologisms,
and also dialogical citation.