БАРВОСВІТ ПОЕЗІЇ ВОЛОДИМИРА СОСЮРИ
THE EXUBERANT WORLD OF THE POETRY BY VOLODYMYR SOSIURA

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the functioning specificity of epithet constructions bearing the meaning of color in the linguistic worldview of Volodymyr Sosiura. The author establishes the fact that the attribute as a poly-functional unit of poetical speech, being the marker of the author's style, synthesizes the creative, evaluative-aesthetic and emotional-expressive meaning, accumulates cultural-historical and linguistic-poetic tradition. Moreover the epithets illustrate the tendency to descriptiveness and detailing of the represented subject. They also tend to the aesthetic and psychological description of the speech. The data for study included the lyrics and poems by Volodymyr Sosiura, whose linguistic creativity has reflected something new that has entered colloquial and literary language of 1920th in the XX century. The artistic images of the poetic texts by Volodymyr Sosiura represent a wide color gamut that covers the color names from archetypal (black↔white) basic spectral (blue, red, yellow) secondary (green, purple, orange), and to their additional shades (gold, violet, brown, snow, etc.). The rich repertoire of colour lexemes certifies both poet’s "colour" perception of the reality and the symbolicalness of associations. By figurative features Sosiura’s epithet, influenced by the extraordinary compatibility, is for the most part metaphorical, but by semantic features it has mainly a lyrical or social colouring. In the writer’s poetry colour lexemes perform six functions: descriptive, semantic, situational, emotional-expressive, evaluative, and distinguishing. The prospects of the represented research focus on the further study of the individual style of Volodymyr Sosiura, the determining of language dominants not only at the lexical level, but also at the grammatical, stylistic, and functional ones. The next step of study presupposes the compiling of the "Dictionary of poetic language by Volodymyr Sosiura" that will disclose the potential of the Ukrainian language, in particular in the sphere of its artistic-aesthetic function.

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