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Перифраза: объем и содержание понятия
Periphrasis: scope and content of concept

Author(s): Marina Sikorska
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: periphrasis; Ludmila Ulickaya; novel Sonechka

Summary/Abstract: The article studies the scope and the content of the concept of periphrasis on the basis of a modern Russian novel Sonechka written by Ludmila Ulickaya, in which the phenomenon is often used. The basic and the secondary criteria of periphrasis were revealed by general analysis of dictionary definitions and by comparing them with other stylistic devices of language and speech.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: XVII
  • Page Range: 149-157
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian